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: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B727D284AD0; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:35:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CD0D8284AB2; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:35:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120716203542.CD0D8284AB2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:35:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.164 sign of the times & realisations in Lausanne X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 164. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (18) Subject: a sign of the times [2] From: Claire Clivaz (19) Subject: Digital Humanities started in Switzerland --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:10:27 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a sign of the times Whoever may be at the top of the list or struggling for first place in the contest for the honour of being known as the Evil Empire, it's notable that "Digital Humanities" appeared about 2 hours ago as one of six "Faculty Summit Breakout Sessions" at the Microsoft Faculty Summit 2012 in Seattle (research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/fs2012/). Whether this in itself is a cause for celebration or lament I leave for others to decide. But it is a sign of the times and of opportunities with which to run. Evidence of some running follows. Imagine! My thanks to Professor Simeon Simoff (School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Western Sydney) for the intelligence, direct from Richmond, Washington. 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: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:20:59 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Digital Humanities started in Switzerland Dear list, Digital Humanities are now officially present in Switzerland. The first Swiss DH chair has been open in Lausanne by the EPFL (Swiss Polytechnical school), within a DH laboratory under the direction of the prof. Frederic Kaplan (http://www.rts.ch/info/sciences-tech/4139907-frederic-kaplan-a-la-tete-de s-humanites-digitales-de-l-epfl.html). The University of Lausanne has open a PhD student position in DH for 5 years since August 2012, in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (supervisor: prof. Dominique Vinck). The University of Bern offers a 4 years job of assistant professor in DH since February 2013 (Faculty of Arts and Humanities: http://www.jobs.unibe.ch/detail.asp?ID3D5255&KatID3D11; the application is open until the 1st September 2012). Last but not least, the Swiss team is looking forward to welcome the DH 2014 in Lausanne, according the recent decision of the ADHO steering committee. For the Swiss team: Claire Clivaz _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 20:38:41 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 7B5BB284CC1; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:38:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1513F284CAB; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:38:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120716203834.1513F284CAB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:38:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.165 studentship at Lausanne; job in Cambridge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 165. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Claire Clivaz (41) Subject: PhD Student job in Lausanne (CH) [2] From: rupert.gatti@openbookpublishers.com (82) Subject: OBP development and job --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:37:47 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: PhD Student job in Lausanne (CH) Dear all, Here is an French announcement for a 5 years PhD student job at the University of Lausanne (CH): the PhD will focuse on DH and sociology, on the direction of Prof. Dominique Vinck. The PhD can be written in English, French or German. The deadline is short: do not hesitate to apply. Kind greetings, Claire Clivaz Faculté des sciences sociales et politiques L'institut des sciences sociales met au concours un poste d’ Assistante diplômée ou Assistant diplômé dans le domaine des humanités digitales Entrée en fonction: 01.08.2012 Durée du contrat : 1 année. Ce contrat peut être renouvelé 2x 2ans. La durée maximale totale est de 5 ans. Taux d'activité : 80 à 100% Lieu de travail : Lausanne, Suisse Profil souhaité : -- Master en sciences sociales ou titre équivalent. -- Bonne connaissance de base des études sociales des sciences et techniques (science and technology studies) -- Intérêt pour les méthodes (qualitatives et quantitatives) en sciences sociales -- Projet d'élaborer une thèse en sociologie des sciences et des techniques portant sur la conception d'outils numériques dans le domaine des activités digitales (social shopping of digital tools). -- MaEEtrise du français et de l'anglais -- Soucieuse de promouvoir une représentation équitable des femmes et des hommes parmi son personnel, l'Université encourage les candidatures féminines. Description des tâches : 50% du taux d'activité sera dédié à la réalisation d'une thèse de doctorat 50% du taux d'activité sera consacré au soutien des tâches d'enseignement et de recherche à commencer, mais sans exclusive, par l'enseignement de méthodologie de 1ère année. Dossier de candidature : Votre candidature, contenant une lettre de motivation, votre CV, vos notes du Master, et un énoncé concis de votre projet de thèse est à adresser par e-mail à : secretariatiss@unil.ch Pour tout renseignement complémentaire contacter Dominique Joye: dominique.joye@unil.ch --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:17:46 +0100 From: rupert.gatti@openbookpublishers.com Subject: OBP development and job Open Book Publishers is expanding rapidly and we are now looking for an energetic, intelligent and IT savvy person - ideally with a research background - to lead our development program. This is a really exciting position for somebody interested in pushing forward the open access and digital publishing agendas - and we would really appreciate your help spreading the word about it, or for any recommendations for people we might contact. More details about the job are at http://www.openbookpublishers.com/page/news and copied below for your info. Many thanks for any you help you can give us on this. Best wishes Rupert Business Development and Technical Support Manager Company Information Open Book Publishers is a non-profit and Open Access academic publisher of high quality and rigorously peer reviewed research in the humanities and social sciences. Founded by Cambridge academics 3 years ago, we now have over twenty titles by some of the world’s most respected scholars, including Nobel laureate Amartya Sen (Harvard), Caroline Humphrey (Cambridge), Lionel Gossman (Princeton) and Ariel Rubinstein (NYU and Hebrew University). All our titles are available to read online for free in their entirety. Access to our free digital editions is growing rapidly, with over 30,000 distinct users from 127 countries collectively viewing over 400,000 pages during June 2012 alone. Our titles are also available in traditional hardback and paperback editions together with digital and e-book editions, all of which retail at low prices from our own website and through major retail outlets internationally. We are spearheading innovative production, distribution and retailing techniques and have been involved in the launches of several important new international Open Access publishing initiatives such as the Directory of Open Access Books, Unglue.it, and OpenEdition. Cambridge based, we have a small number of highly motivated staff, all with post-graduate qualifications and academic backgrounds. Job Description This is an exciting time to be involved in Academic publishing and Open Book Publishers (OBP) is at the vanguard of changes in the industry. Having established a strong reputation for the academic quality of our publications, our commitment to ensuring free access to their publications, and our willingness to introduce innovative publication methods and practices, OBP is now looking to expand the scale and range of its operations. The Business Development and Technical Support Manager will be responsible for implementing, refining and extending OBP’s ambitious development program, as well as identifying and developing new Open Access publishing opportunities and partnerships as they emerge. S/he will also have responsibility for the management of all the non-academic components of the company, which include: maintaining and developing OBP’s website, digital products and social network presence; managing the sales, revenue generation, marketing and distribution of titles; creating and updating usage statistics and altmetrics; overseeing accounting, employment, legal and business reporting activities; and providing technical and IT support to the Academic Editors. Starting Date: September 2012, or as soon as possible thereafter. Location: Cambridge, UK. Salary: In the range of £25-35,000 pa - depending on experience and qualifications. Person specification The position will be particularly suitable for a person with good IT skills and experience in web and software development, possessing an entrepreneurial spirit and a drive to reform academic publishing. It would be desirable for the candidate to have completed a graduate research degree such as a PhD or MPhil. Experience in areas such as Digital Humanities, Digital Publishing or Open Source software development would also be an advantage. Applications and Closing Date Applicants are requested to submit a CV and covering letter by email to Rupert Gatti (rupert.gatti@openbookpublishers.com). Interviews for this position will commence on 30 July, and the position will stay open until an appointment is made. Further Details Please contact Rupert Gatti (rupert.gatti@openbookpublishers.com, tel: +44 (0)1223 339929) with any questions or for further information about this position. -- Dr. Rupert Gatti Director Open Book Publishers www.openbookpublishers.com See our latest catalogue at https://www.openbookpublishers.com/shopimages/LatestCatalogue.pdf _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 17 20:33:31 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 286BF285987; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:33:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EACAD28596A; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:33:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120717203318.EACAD28596A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:33:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.167 publications: D-Lib for July/August; The Fourth Paradigm X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 167. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Bonnie Wilson (42) Subject: The July/August 2012 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available [2] From: Willard McCarty (20) Subject: The Fourth Paradigm --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:49:19 +0100 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The July/August 2012 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Greetings: The July/August 2012 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue is devoted to a single topic: making more effective use of traditional scientific publications. The eight articles this month have their origin at the 1st International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications, held during JCDL 2012. The topics range from automatic metadata extraction for individual articles to automatically characterizing collections to automatic browsing hierarchy creation to innovative visualization techniques for navigating collections. Knoth, Zdrahal, and Juffinger, who organized the workshop, provide a guide to the articles in the Guest Editorial. In addition, this issue contains three brief items 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 Tapestries Called Sheldon collection. D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, England http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/ The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the July/August 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 06:30:01 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: The Fourth Paradigm Of interest to people here will be a new book, published and provided online by Microsoft Research: Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley and Kristin Tolle, The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery (2009, research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/default.aspx). The term "fourth paradigm" refers to computer scientist Jim Gray's proposal that in addition to theory, experiment and simulation as ways of doing science should be added data-intensive research. Of particular interest here will be section IV of the book, on Scholarly Communication, the first essay in which is Clifford Lynch's, on construction of the scientific record, followed by Paul Ginsparg's, "Text in a data-centric world". 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 18 00:39:06 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 4B50028536E; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:39:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F233428535D; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:38:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120718003855.F233428535D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:38:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.168 NB: anxieties, possibilities, challenges X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 168. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:31:13 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: anxieties, possibilities, challenges To those who have not yet read (or heard) Andrew Prescott's lecture, "Making the Digital Human: Anxieties, Possibilities, Challenges", published in his blog Digital Riffs (digitalriffs.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/making-digital-human-anxieties.html), with the appended comments by Gabriel Bodard and Paul Caton, let me suggest -- I'd insist, if doing so would be more effective -- that it be put at the top of your reading list. And let me go on to suggest (insist) that the several turns in his argument be met with vigorous discussion. For nothing I have read recently does more to poke at the tender spots of our young(ish) field and to point to some pieties and transcendental virtues that need to be argued thoughtfully, not just intoned -- argued for and against until they can lift the heaviest weights of scholarly gravitas -- if what we love is to survive in a form we will still be able to love. That this lecture follows hard upon the recent event hosted by Manfred Thaller at Cologne, the papers of which have just appeared in Historical Social Research / Historisch Sozialforschung under the title "Controversies around the Digital Humanities" (hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/zeitschriften/id=23&count=1&recno=1&ausgabe=6950), is a *very* good sign for the times. More, I say, of this, less of the buzzwords and bandwagons. 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 Jul 18 21:31:42 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 A5C3228538F; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:31:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2BC7D285382; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:31:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120718213127.2BC7D285382@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:31:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.169 postdocs at Alberta, Galway X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 169. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (20) Subject: Two Positions Posted for Post-Doc Researchers with DRI at NationalUniversity of Ireland Galway [2] From: Susan Brown (68) Subject: postdoc at Alberta --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:13:45 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Two Positions Posted for Post-Doc Researchers with DRI at National University of Ireland Galway Tá iarratais á lorg ó iarrthóirí cáilithe do phost conartha dhá bhliain mar Thaighdeoir Iardhochtúireachta (Cartlannaí Digiteach), agus do phost conartha trí bliana mar Thaighdeoir Iardhochtúireachta (Innealtóir Bogearraí), i réimse an chartlannaithe dhigitigh, in Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh. Beidh an té a cheapfar páirteach i bhforbairt Taisclann Dhigiteach na hÉireann (Digital Repository of Ireland - DRI) agus beidh an obair á déanamh in Ionad an Acadaimh, Carna, agus i gcampas na hOllscoile, Gaillimh. Tá tuilleadh eolais faoin Acadamh anseo (www.nuigalway.ie/acadamh) agus faoi Thaisclann Dhigiteach na hÉireann anseo (www.dri.ie http://www.dri.ie/ ). Tá tuilleadh eolais faoi na poist sna cáipéisí iniata agus ag www.nuigalway.ie/about-us/jobs. Chun iarratas a dhéanamh: Seoltar iarratais (i.e. litir chlúdaigh, CV agus sonraí teagmhála do bheirt mholtóirí) i bhformáid Word nó PDF amháin chuig seathrun.otuairisg@oegaillimh.ie . Is féidir sonraí an phoist a phlé go neamhfhoirmiúil ach ríomhphost a sheoladh chuig Seathrún Ó Tuairisg (seathrun.otuairisg@oegaillimh.ie). Tuarastal: €38,286 - €43,393 in aghaidh na bliana. (Cuirfear rialacha polasaithe pá na h-earnála poiblí i bhfeidhm d’iontrálaithe nua.) Dáta Tosaithe: 17 Meán Fómhair 2012 Dáta Deiridh d’iarratais: 5:00pm 10 Lúnasa 2012. Applicants are invited from suitably qualified candidates for two full-time fixed term positions as a Postdoctoral Researcher (Software Engineer) for 3 years, and a Postdoctoral Researcher (Digital Archivist) for 2 years, in Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, National University of Ireland, Galway. Successful applicants will participate in the development of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), and the work will be based in Ionad an Acadaimh, Carna and at the main NUI Galway campus in Galway. More information about these positions (in Irish) can be found here www.nuigalway.ie/about-us/jobs http://www.nuigalway.ie/about-us/jobs . Applicants should send (in MS Word or DPF only) a cover letter, a CV and contact details for two referees to seathrun.otuairisg@oegaillimh.ie . Informal enquiries concerning the posts may be made to Seathrún Ó Tuairisg (seathrun.otuairisg@oegaillimh.ie) . Salary : €38,286 - €43,393, Public Sector Pay Policy Rules pertaining to new entrants will apply. Start Date: 17th September 2012. Closing Date for receipt of applications is 5:00pm, 10th August, 2012. --- 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: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:55:44 -0400 From: Susan Brown Subject: postdoc at Alberta The Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project and the Text Mining and Visualization project, funded by a Major Collaborative Research Initiative grant and a Standard Research Grant, respectively, from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), seek a post-doctoral fellow in Text Mining, Modelling, and Prototyping, with expertise in Data Modeling and Digital Humanities. This position is based in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, in partnership with the Orlando Project and the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC). The successful candidate is anticipated to work closely with team members at U Alberta, U Toronto, Acadia U, U Saskatchewan, U Western Ontario, U Guelph, U Victoria, and beyond, and will be co-supervised by Text Mining and Visualization PI Susan Brown and INKE PI Ray Siemens. The postdoctoral fellow will work with conceptual data models and new forms of knowledge expression developed or under development by INKE and CWRC, collaborating with INKE92s Modelling and Prototyping team and others, consulting with project stakeholders and potential stakeholders, and liaising with other INKE researchers located in North America and the UK. The successful candidate will have skills and aptitudes in humanities-oriented research and data modelling, including training or demonstrated experience working with the Resource Description Framework and/or other conceptual modelling approaches. Organizational skills are essential. Interest and aptitude in research planning and management would be an asset, as would knowledge of data visualization tools (e.g., VTK, D3, or Gephi). The ability to work in concert with our existing team is a critical requirement. Experience with leveraging semantic markup for text mining, visualization, and interoperability would be an asset. Examples of technologies employed in the partner projects include: XML, XSL, XSLT, XHTML, and TEIP5 encoding; XQuery; eXist XML databases; JavaScript; and Ruby on Rails. Experience in some or all of these technologies would be an asset, but is not a requirement. Hands-on aptitude with--as distinct from merely interest in--digital tools is required. Our current team members pride themselves on a passionate interest in both the humanities and their computational engagement. Our ideal candidate is someone with similar passions who can introduce the team to new ideas and provide new perspectives on existing digital humanities issues. The salary for this position is competitive in the Canadian context, and is governed in part by SSHRC practices. Applications comprising a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three referees may be sent electronically to Susan Brown at susan/dot/brown/at/ualberta/dot/ca. The contract can begin as early as 1 September 2012; it is for a one-year term, with the possibility of renewal. Interviews may be conducted via Skype or in person, at DH2012 (Hamburg), in Edmonton, or other venues as feasible. Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled. NOTE: If you happen to be at DH2012 right now, feel free to ping Susan Brown to meet up informally to learn more of the position. ___________ Susan Brown Director, Orlando Project; Project Leader, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory Professor English and Film Studies, School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 Canada 780-492-7803, 519-824-4120 x53266 susan{dot}brown{at}ualberta{dot}ca sbrown{dot}uoguelph{dot}ca20 Visiting Professor, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5 http://orlando.cambridge.org http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO http://www.cwrc.ca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 18 21:33:24 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 5C0D42853E8; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:33:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E0DD32853D8; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:33:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120718213317.E0DD32853D8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:33:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.170 events: modelling sources X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 170. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:53:52 +0100 From: Gabriel Bodard Subject: seminar: Modelling primary sources of multi-testimonial textual transmissions Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2012 Friday July 20th at 16:30 Room G37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Paolo Monella (Centro Linceo, Roma) In the Tower of Babel: Modelling primary sources of multi-testimonial textual transmissions ALL WELCOME This talk aims at discussing a model for digital scholarly editions of texts with a multi-testimonial textual tradition where, for each witness, two layers of digital representation are formally and explicitly distinct, though interrelated: A. The graphical representation of the text of that witness, mirroring its specific encoding system (alphabet, capitalisation, punctuation, word boundaries, scribal abbreviations, page space arrangement etc.); B. The text of that witness in an 'uniform' digital encoding, necessary to make the representations of the text of different witnesses digitally comparable. The talk will also explore how TEI P5 can address the theoretical modelling issues involved. 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 Thu Jul 19 20:26:28 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 B742A2855DA; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:26:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4C5792855C8; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:26:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120719202620.4C5792855C8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:26:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.171 research programmer's job at MITH X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 171. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:07:30 +0200 From: Jennifer Guiliano Subject: MITH @UMD Hiring a Research Programmer Join the team at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland. We are seeking an *experienced research programmer* who will provide technical expertise for research projects in the digital humanities. The Research Programmer will work with senior MITH staff to develop new methods and tools for the exploration and curation of digital materials. The successful candidate will be responsible for research, development, deployment, support and management of software for enabling the analysis of cultural heritage collections on a large scale, and for the integration, implementation, and maintenance of software for digital humanities projects under the leadership of the Assistant Director for Research and Development. Software development activities encompass all phases of software development lifecycle, including implementation of interfaces to other software systems and development of user interfaces for the tools developed by MITH. Jointly supported by the University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities and the University Libraries, MITH engages in collaborative, interdisciplinary work at the intersection of technology and humanistic inquiry. MITH specializes in text and image analytics for cultural heritage collections, data curation, digital preservation, linked data applications, and data publishing. The research programmer will be encouraged to advance a relevant research agenda of their own and to participate in MITH’s ongoing research into the areas of technology listed above. Duties: Coordinating and implementing software applications and services (70%) - Define project scope, goals and deliverables. Develop project plans and associated communications documents. Build and implement software applications. - Schedule, and monitor project timelines and milestones using appropriate project management tools. Representing MITH’s technical interests at conferences, workshops, and meetings and in collaboration with internal stakeholders and external organizations (10%) Personal research time used for professional development and R&D work (20%) Required Qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Humanities, Digital Humanities, or a related field - at least 2 years programming experience - Experience and Knowledge of source code/version control software and open source documentation standards - Familiarity with digital humanities trends/developments. - Demonstrated initiative and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously - Excellent organizational, analytical, time management and communication (oral and written) skills - Able to work in a team-driven design and development process but with clear ability to motivate and manage oneself - Experience in selecting the appropriate development environment for the task Preferred Qualifications: - We will prefer candidates who can demonstrate engagement in open source projects, communities, and related development fora (e.g. GitHub, StackOverflow, etc.) - Demonstrated experience working with dynamic content in template-driven web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Drupal, etc. - Excellent knowledge of JavaScript, including frameworks and techniques - Experience with data manipulation and analysis using tools such as Ruby, Python, Scala, R, or MATLAB - Experience with building large-scale distributed applications and architectures using Java or JVM languages preferred - Experience with XML technologies (validation schemes, XSLT, eXist, Cocoon, etc.) The Research Programmer is a full-time, 12-month staff position at the University. Salary is commensurate with experience, ranging from $64,000 to $76,000. The University also offers a competitive benefits package. To apply, please upload a letter of application, CV, examples of code/projects (or URLs to accessible repositories) and contact information for three references to jobs@umd.edu. For best consideration, apply by close of business on *August 12, 2012*. The University of Maryland is an equal opportunity institution with respect to both education and employment. The university does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, or handicap in admission, or access to, or treatment or employment in, its programs and activities as required by federal (Title VI, Title IX, Section 504) and state laws and regulations. Women and Minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. More Sharing ServicesShare Share on printPrint Share on emailEmail -- 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 Thu Jul 19 20:34:34 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 6BBC7285774; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:34:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 857EB28575A; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:34:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120719203426.857EB28575A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:34:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.172 fundamental research question? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 172. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:44:44 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: What does it mean, a fundamental research question? Dear all, Scholars reluctant to the DH scholarship often say: "OK... you build tools, you are able to deal with a huge amount of data, and what? What is the purpose? What do you get as new ideas, results?". As far as I can see today, I guess that "fundamental research questions" are coming very often at a second time in the DH approach, by nature one can say, as I will argue. With a lot of various scholars, I am also frustrated to see so often "fundamental research questions" apparently omitted. For example, I was this afternoon to a DH short paper here in Hamburg on "Experiments in Digital Philosophy" by Lou Bernard. The paper did not offer a word about a fundamental question in philosophy, but only questions regarding TEI encoding of texts and new ways to observe the academic production. Such a phenomenon occurs often in the DH papers. Why? In May, an Harvard Magazine article clearly explained that "Scholars traditionally begin projects by figuring out what the good research questions are in a given field, and connecting with others interested in the same topics; they then gather and organize data; then analyze it; and finally, disseminate their findings through teaching or publication. Scholarship in a digital environment raises questions about every aspect of this process. For example, in gathering and organizing data" (http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/05/the-humanities-digitized). Digital Humanities are Humanities *made with the fingers*, the Latin *digitus*. Scholars have begun with a *Homo Faber* step in the DH scholarship, by literaly *making* them. I am not arguing that it is good or not: it is the present situation. We are facing now a lot, a lot of diverse tools, particularly in the field of history, timelines and cartography representations, but we have got also a lot of diverse tools to analyze textuality. But - at a certain point - that's logical. Indeed, as the example developed this morning by Debbie Rabina and Anthony Cocciolo in their paper shows, user research and user interaction can preceed and lead to theory and Humanities Content research (http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/conference/programme/abstracts/uncoverin g-lost-histories-through-geostoryteller-a-digital-geohumanities-project/). That's the point: Humanities made with the fingers - "Digital" Humanities - open next to the research on the content and to reconsider then the produced tools again. Opinions? Ideas? What do you answer to colleagues arguing that there is no *fundamental research question* in DH? Claire Clivaz, Lausanne (http://cclivaz.wordpress.com) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 19 20:36:22 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 648F62857E5; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:36:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1548F2857C9; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:36:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120719203616.1548F2857C9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:36:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.173 publication: digital library development X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 173. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:21:23 +0100 From: James Williams Subject: User Studies for Digital Library Development User Studies for Digital Library Development Milena Dobreva, Andy O'Dwyer and Pierluigi Feliciati, editors User Studies for Digital Library Development captures a global cross-section of leading voices and provides a clear and coherent overview of the user studies domain and user issues in digital libraries. As the information environment becomes increasingly electronic, digital libraries have proliferated, but the focus has often been on innovations in technology and not the user. Although user needs have become a popular concept, in practice the users are rarely consulted in the development of services. Research and analysis of users is essential to fine-tune the content and approach of digital libraries to the diverging requirements and expectations of incredibly varied communities and to ensure libraries are effective, accessible and sustainable in the long term. Key topics include: * what is the place of user studies in digital libraries and what are the basic user study methods? * explaining user-centric studies, information behaviour and user experience studies * exploring user-study methods such as surveys, questionnaires, expert evaluation methods, eye tracking, deep log analysis, personae and ethnographic studies * critical issues around user studies such as evaluation of digital libraries, digital preservation, social media, the shift to mobile devices and ethics * user studies in specific types of institutions: libraries, archives, museums, audiovisual collections and art collections * the most popular questions and what to do next. Table of contents: http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/downloads/file/dobreva-toc.pdf Sample chapter: http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/downloads/file/dobreva-ch1.pdf More information: http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=7654 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 19 20:47:16 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 727D8285977; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:47:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 69BB3285968; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:47:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120719204708.69BB3285968@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:47:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.174 an observation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 174. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:46:01 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: an observation Allow me to observe, while DH2012 bubbles energetically on the other side of the world, the completeness of this (Downunder) morning's postings: a question exactly of the kind Humanist was designed to foster; a job advertisement; and an announcement of a new book in the field. The only missing kind of item (an event) is too busy happening to be represented, but in time, I trust, we'll get aftermaths of it. In case you have not noticed, the website for DH2012 (http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/) is being frequently updated and contains some live feeds as well as fast-breaking news. Am I correct in thinking that attendance has exceeded all previous conferences in the field? 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 Jul 20 23:20:41 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 15D502846A0; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:20:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 91BFD28467E; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:20:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120720232026.91BFD28467E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:20:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.175 fundamental research questions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 175. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (45) Subject: fundamental research questions? [2] From: Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh (27) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.172 fundamental research question? [3] From: Paul Fishwick (86) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.172 fundamental research question? [4] From: Alan Corre (6) Subject: What does it mean, a fundamental research question? Humanist 26:172 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:59:03 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: fundamental research questions? I can think of two responses to Claire Clivaz's posting yesterday, in Humanist 26.172, on fundamental research questions, specifically on the lack of them, in digital humanities research. One is that in some if not many cases the research question, and so the research, is primarily if not entirely what a traditional researcher brings to his or her collaboration with someone from the digital humanities. In other words, the lack of such questions in the digital humanities points to the passivity of the field when it exists only in response to a request for help. In other words, this lack is a symptom of a service-orientated activity. Servants, we know, have no significant life of their own. Hence Manfred Thaller's recently asked question, at the event in Cologne, what about *our* agenda? My second response is that the privileging of a research question (which as director of a PhD programme I enforce all the time) is a symptom of a disease of our time, namely to accept without much thought a formula for what research is that in fact does not represent fairly the kind of research most important to the humanities and the sciences. I think that if one looks carefully and closely at the history of research in any field, one finds that *research* often begins and for a long time proceeds without anything as explicit as a question in mind -- or at least not a question that would be acceptable to the director of a PhD programme such as mine. I would guess that the question with which one begins, if there is anything as explicitly articulated, is not the question retrospectively constructed after the fact. The behaviours of complex systems cannot, after all, be predicted! My second response is not, please note, intended to counter the first. I think both of them are symptoms of something we had better work on curing while we can. One way to begin would be by reading accounts of research lives, e.g. published by the (American) National Academies Press (http://www.nap.edu/topics.php?topic=292) and by the American Council of Learned Societies, in the Charles Homer Haskins Prize lecture series (http://www.acls.org/pubs/haskins/). This is one reason, I think, why Julianne Nyhan's Hidden Histories project for the digital humanities (first fruits of which are soon to be published) is so important. 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/ On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 172. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:44:44 +0200 > From: Claire Clivaz > Subject: What does it mean, a fundamental research question? > > > Dear all, > > Scholars reluctant to the DH scholarship often say: "OK... you build > tools, you are able to deal with a huge amount of data, and what? What > is the purpose? What do you get as new ideas, results?". As far as I > can see today, I guess that "fundamental research questions" are > coming very often at a second time in the DH approach, by nature one can > say, as I will argue. > > With a lot of various scholars, I am also frustrated to see so often > "fundamental research questions" apparently omitted. For example, I > was this afternoon to a DH short paper here in Hamburg on "Experiments > in Digital Philosophy" by Lou Bernard. The paper did not offer a word > about a fundamental question in philosophy, but only questions regarding > TEI encoding of texts and new ways to observe the academic production. > Such a phenomenon occurs often in the DH papers. Why? > > In May, an Harvard Magazine article clearly explained that "Scholars > traditionally begin projects by figuring out what the good research > questions are in a given field, and connecting with others interested in > the same topics; they then gather and organize data; then analyze it; > and finally, disseminate their findings through teaching or publication. > Scholarship in a digital environment raises questions about every aspect > of this process. For example, in gathering and organizing data" > (http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/05/the-humanities-digitized). > > Digital Humanities are Humanities *made with the fingers*, the Latin > *digitus*. Scholars have begun with a *Homo Faber* step in the > DH scholarship, by literaly *making* them. I am not arguing that it > is good or not: it is the present situation. We are facing now a lot, a > lot of diverse tools, particularly in the field of history, timelines > and cartography representations, but we have got also a lot of diverse > tools to analyze textuality. But - at a certain point - that's logical. > Indeed, as the example developed this morning by Debbie Rabina and > Anthony Cocciolo in their paper shows, user research and user > interaction can preceed and lead to theory and Humanities Content > research > (http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/conference/programme/abstracts/uncoverin > g-lost-histories-through-geostoryteller-a-digital-geohumanities-project/). > > > That's the point: Humanities made with the fingers - "Digital" > Humanities - open next to the research on the content and to reconsider > then the produced tools again. > > Opinions? Ideas? What do you answer to colleagues arguing that there is > no *fundamental research question* in DH? > > Claire Clivaz, Lausanne (http://cclivaz.wordpress.com) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:00:09 +0100 From: Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.172 fundamental research question? In-Reply-To: <20120719203426.857EB28575A@woodward.joyent.us> 2012-07-19 (my time zone) Dear Claire (copied to all readers) I am in sympathy with your point of view. You have already answered your own question: > Harvard Magazine article clearly explained that "Scholars > traditionally begin projects by figuring out what the good research > questions are in a given field, and connecting with others interested in > the same topics; they then gather and organize data; then analyze it; > and finally, disseminate their findings through teaching or publication. I mean to say: much of the "Digital Humanities stuff" is what we did in the early days of Computer Science (circa 1979), speaking from my own experience! :) BUT today, Google is Queen! Many folks in DH waste a lot of time... (err... my strictly very very biased personal view)! I mean to say they are at the punch card level of reality, just now! Digitization of anything is but a means to an end! And the end is, of course, to begin to ask the "right" questions! If I know *nothing*, yet, about the Mathematical works of Euler, and want to find out, how shall I do it? Wolfram Alpha already offers much in this field (in English). What does it offer in Swiss French? or in Bulgarian, or Turkish? If I continue in this vain I shall have lost my beauty sleep! :) Mícheál PS: too tired to check my own stuff! :) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:07:21 -0400 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.172 fundamental research question? In-Reply-To: <20120719203426.857EB28575A@woodward.joyent.us> Claire surfaces a few points that I was investigating two days ago with a colleague in our digital humanities center. What is the research question in some DH initiatives? I share some of Claire's frustration here, but maybe the solution is in how one can anticipate and envision next generation humanities research. As pointed out in the quoted Harvard Magazine article, the concept of digital humanities may shift or expand the notion of scholarship and the types of questions that are asked. For example, in the fields of art or engineering, environments or products (referred to as "tools" by those who may not work in those areas) can also be scholarly products. Creating a new semantic web repository, a new virtual flythrough of Queen Meresankh's chapel, and a novel type of building or bridge are all valid types of scholarship in areas such as the arts, engineering, and the archival side of DH. This leads to some interesting points to ponder: * Not all scholarship need result in "writing"* Areas such as engineering might suggest new pathways of humanist scholarship * Working in archival methods is scholarly research (in case that was in question) Perhaps DH is an evolutionary process to expand the sphere of the humanities to where there is not one cookie-cutter approach to doing research. -p --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:57:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Alan Corre Subject: What does it mean, a fundamental research question? Humanist 26:172 In-Reply-To: <1981999458.210252.1342744602819.JavaMail.root@mail12.pantherlink.uwm.edu> Professor Clivaz asks about fundamental research questions. Anthony Kenny in his book The Computation of Style (Oxford, 1982)--long out of print--discussed various ways in which statistical methods could be used to study style. At that time it was quite tedious to use these methods. In my book Icon Programming for Humanists, I showed how Kenny's suggestions could be automated by the computer, which was little used for humanistic research in 1982. This book has now been republished in an updated edition which includes a discussion of TEI, and also Unicode, both of which have come about since the first edition was published. Icon is an ideal language for dealing with texts, since it was invented by Ralph Griswold with strings in the forefront of his mind, and should be seriously considered for use by humanists. It has many built-in functions which are very relevant to text processing. But even if you use some other language, I feel that my book gives useful food for thought in answer to Professor Clivaz's problem. The book is available in hard copy from the publisher, Goal-Directed Press, PO Box 8452 Moscow, ID 83843 or you can download a free copy in PDF format from http://unicon.org/books/humanist.pdf Alan D. Corré _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 20 23:25:00 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 CC315284723; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:24:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 454C828470A; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:24:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120720232451.454C828470A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:24:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.176 include new TAPoR? contents for new Companion? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 176. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Kirsten C. Uszkalo (42) Subject: TAPoR 2.0 Relaunched: Looking for Scholars to Include Resource onSyllabi [2] From: Susan Schreibman (20) Subject: 2nd edition of the Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:48:52 -0600 From: Kirsten C. Uszkalo Subject: TAPoR 2.0 Relaunched: Looking for Scholars to Include Resource onSyllabi Dear Colleagues, I am writing today to call your attention to some happy news! You may have heard by now that TAPoR 2.0 was officially re-launched this year at Congress to a very warm reception; and has been getting buzz even now at DH! We've streamlined the site considerably, re-imaging the interface, removing seldom used functionality, and added functionality which we believe will be of great interest to you, your colleagues, and your students. We have added the ability to rate, evaluate, and comment on tools. TAPoR 2.0 is a platform finding, accessing, and using tools, both inside the classroom and at the desk. It is also an excellent way to showcase the tools you are excited about. We are keen on getting the word out on the relaunch out to those who can benefit by using the tools we point to and advertising their own on the site. In this vein, we are very much hoping you might contact us and send in a list of tools you would like included. Please send a note to Kirsten C Uszkalo (kirsten@uszkalo.com) with a list of your own tools you would like included, along with some "how to" information, and the url. Let me know who you envision to be your core user group, and how you would rank your tool in terms of "introductory" or "advanced" or somewhere in between. As we are keen to make sure your student can leverage TAPoR 2.0, please feel free to write to me to let me know what you might need to see that TAPoR 2.0 ends up on your syllabi. Moreover, you know some people you think could benefit from hearing from us, please do let me know, and please feel free to spread the news with great enthusiasm amongst your own networks. Thanks, Kirsten Project Lead: Usability | TAPoR Project | http://tapor.ca ___ Dr. Kirsten C. Uszkalo - Project Lead | Witches in Early Modern England Project | http://witching.org - Editor | Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies in the Preternatural | http://preternature.org - Project Lead: Usability | TAPoR Project | http://tapor.ca - E-Lab Scholar | Athabasca University || CIRCA Scholar | University of Alberta "Sure this woman is no witch, for she speaks many good words, which the witches could not" --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:16:35 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: 2nd edition of the Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities Colleagues -- Many of you will be aware that the editors of the Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities have begun work on a second edition. Would you take a few moments to give us your thoughts on what chapters should be included in this new edition. To see what chapters were included in the first edition browse to http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/ Please go to: http://www.allourideas.org/bcdh2 to add your ideas. It should only take a few moments and your feedback will be essential to the process. with all best wishes Susan Schreibman Ray Siemens John Unsworth -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Long Room Hub Associate Professor in Digital Humanities School of English Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland email: susan.schreibman@tcd.ie phone: +353 1 896 3694 fax: +353 1 671 7114 check out the new MPhil in Digital Humanities at TCD http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digital-humanities/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 20 23:33:19 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 2B3BB2849A5; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:33:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3709F284966; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:33:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120720233309.3709F284966@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:33:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.177 events: electronic ensemble; Making of the Humanities; iConference X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 177. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Bod, Rens" (4) Subject: Call for Participation: The Making of the Humanities III, Rome, 1-3November [2] From: Shawn Day (136) Subject: Submissions for iConference 2013 [3] From: David Ogborn (42) Subject: TES - special session on participatory electronic ensemble performance --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:21:39 +0000 From: "Bod, Rens" Subject: Call for Participation: The Making of the Humanities III, Rome, 1-3November Dear humanists, The preliminary program of The Making of the Humanities III (Rome, 1-3 November) is now online -- see http://makingofthehumanitiesiii.blogspot.com/ Best regards, Rens Bod --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:15:13 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Submissions for iConference 2013 FYI: Now Accepting Submissions: iConference 2013 Fort Worth, Texas, February 12-15, 2013 http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/2013index/ We are now accepting submissions for iConference 2013, our eighth annual gathering of scholars, researchers, and professionals who share an interest in the critical information issues of contemporary society. In keeping with our ongoing effort to push the boundaries of information scholarship, we have added several new areas of participation this year. In addition to the usual peer-reviewed papers, posters, alternative events, and workshops, this year’s submission options includes Notes, a Research Paper Development Roundtable, a Social Media Expo, and a Doctoral Dissertation Competition. Authors and organizers can now submit materials using our secure submissions website: https://www.conftool.pro/iConference13/. The official proceedings will be published in the open access Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS). All submitting authors must provide basic information and agree to the IDEALS Deposit Agreement: Non-Exclusive Distribution and Preservation License. iConference 2013 takes place February 12-15, 2013, in Fort Worth Texas, and is hosted by the College of Information at the University of North Texas. The presenting sponsor is Microsoft Research. The conference theme is Scholarship in Action: Data, Innovation, Wisdom. The iConference series is presented by the iSchools Caucus (www.ischools.org http://www.ischools.org/ ), a growing association of Schools, Faculties and Colleges in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Affiliation with the iSchools is not required to participate—all information scholars and practitioners are invited. SUBMISSION INFORMATION The following describe the details for each of the submissions along with deadlines. * Papers: Results of completed original research, maximum 6,000 words (not counting references). Papers will be refereed in a double-blind process. Submissions will be in PDF format. Visit the Papers webpage for more information on formatting: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/papers/ Submission deadline: September 3, 2012. Notification: Early November. Final version due: December 3, 2012. * Notes: Reports of early and partial results, maximum 2,500 words (not counting references). Notes will be refereed in a double-blind process. Submissions will be in PDF format. Visit the Notes webpage for more information on formatting: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/notes/ 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, maximum 1,500 words (not including references), 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). Abstract submissions will be in PDF format. Completed Posters will be presented at the iConference. Visit the Posters webpage for more information: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/posters/ 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. Submission will be in PDF format, and additional submission guidelines are provided on the website. Visit the Workshops webpage for more information: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/workshops/ 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. Submission will be in PDF format, and additional submission guidelines are provided on the website. Visit the Alternative Events webpage for more information: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/alternative_events/ 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. Visit the Roundtable webpage for detailed submission and other information: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/research/ 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 * Doctoral Dissertation Competition: As a way of recognizing the outstanding work being done at iSchools, the iCaucus has instituted a Doctoral Dissertation Competition, with awards to be given out at iConference 2013. The Coordinating Committee will accept one nomination from each member iSchool, and will select up to two best dissertations. The winning nomination(s) will receive a cash prize of $2,500.00 US. Applicants should have successfully defended the doctoral dissertation and completed the doctoral degree (including all final revisions, if any, and all final paper work) within the academic year from July 1, 2011 to June 30 2012. The dissertation research can be on any topic in the information field, broadly defined, and use any methodology. Visit the Doctoral Dissertation Award webpage for more information: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/dissertation/ Submission deadline: September 15, 2012 * Conference Home: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/2013index/ * Submission Site: https://www.conftool.pro/iConference13/ * Past Proceedings: http://www.ischools.org/site/conference/ * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IConference * Twitter: http://twitter.com/iConf Learn more at: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/2013index/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:37:52 -0400 From: David Ogborn Subject: TES - special session on participatory electronic ensemble performance Dear friends, For the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2012 (Aug 15-18 2012) I am again curating a special session on participatory electronic ensemble performance (PEEP) - such as laptop orchestras, live coding groups, telematic improvisation sessions, and other collective electroacoustic forms. I am writing to you now to invite proposals for compositions, instruments, experiments and other activities that might be included in the session. I see this taking shape in an "unconference" kind of way where I will endeavour to include as many of the submitted ideas as possible, taking into account the available time, human and technical resources. The laptop orchestra I direct at McMaster University (the Cybernetic Orchestra) will be at the session ready to perform with selected materials (i.e. we'll be devoting our remaining rehearsals in July and August to preparing for the session). The orchestra is willing to try anything. Live coding with ChucK is the orchestra's core strength - with pockets within the orchestra developing strong skills with MaxMSP and SuperCollider. But I repeat: we are willing to try anything! Feel free to make proposals involving other performers at the symposium, symposium attendees, and the general public also. So85 if you are involved with participatory electronic ensemble performance in any form (or know people who are) - please consider sending me (or encouraging someone else to send me) a proposal. Proposals should be sent to me at ogbornd@mcmaster.ca in plain-text email. Thanks in advance for forwarding this - I look forward to hearing from many of you! Deadline for proposals: Tuesday 31 July 2012 Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium: 15-18 August 2012 Participatory Electronic Ensemble Performance Session: 2-4 PM on Saturday 18 August 2012 Yours truly, David Ogborn The Cybernetic Orchestra -- http://esp.mcmaster.ca TES 2012 -- http://cec.sonus.ca/events/TES/2012 and http://www.naisa.ca/soundtravels/symposium.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. David Ogborn, Assistant Professor Communication Studies & Multimedia Director, Cybernetic Orchestra & ESP Studio McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada ogbornd --at-- mcmaster.ca http://davidogborn.net _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 21 22:45:27 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 34CC9285ACC; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:45:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E7068285AB6; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:45:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120721224514.E7068285AB6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:45:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.179 fundamental research questions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 179. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org From: Humanist Discussion Group Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 178. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 08:59:23 +0200 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.175 fundamental research questions In-Reply-To: <20120720232026.91BFD28467E@woodward.joyent.us> In thinking about how to identify, or articulate, a fundamental research question in DH I would find it very helpful to see examples of what we consider to be fundamental research questions in "traditional humanities" disciplines. I ask this question partly to get at the idea of "fundamental" which seems to distinguish a set of questions that are more widely shared than, or that lie at the root of, the individual questions that motivate the work of individual researchers. What makes a question "fundamental" rather than simply "exceptionally consequential or urgent"? I also ask this in all earnestness because (at the risk of appearing to have been raised by wolves) my own graduate training did not (at any point that I can remember) identify any such questions or suggest that we (English Literature PhD students) should do so. But I think this was at least partly because of recent bitterness of disagreement within my department at the time about what those questions might be--I think there was a sort of reluctance to tread on that terrain. I really would be grateful to see any examples people feel are especially long-standing questions that have motivated research in specific humanities disciplines for a long time, or of questions that have emerged more recently and been widely understood to be new and compelling. I don't think we would arrive at a sense of the fundamental questions in DH by simply adding "…in the digital era" to such questions, but it would help me calibrate my sense of what is being asked for. All best wishes as I prepare to enter the public transportation river on my way home from what has been a very enjoyable and rewarding conference in Hamburg-- Julia Flanders Brown University On Jul 21, 2012, at 1:20 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 175. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Willard McCarty (45) > Subject: fundamental research questions? > > [2] From: Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh (27) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.172 fundamental research question? > > [3] From: Paul Fishwick (86) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.172 fundamental research question? > > [4] From: Alan Corre (6) > Subject: What does it mean, a fundamental research question? Humanist > 26:172 > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:59:03 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: fundamental research questions? > > > I can think of two responses to Claire Clivaz's posting yesterday, in > Humanist 26.172, on fundamental research questions, specifically on the > lack of them, in digital humanities research. > > One is that in some if not many cases the research question, and so the > research, is primarily if not entirely what a traditional researcher > brings to his or her collaboration with someone from the digital > humanities. In other words, the lack of such questions in the digital > humanities points to the passivity of the field when it exists only in > response to a request for help. In other words, this lack is a symptom > of a service-orientated activity. Servants, we know, have no significant > life of their own. Hence Manfred Thaller's recently asked question, at > the event in Cologne, what about *our* agenda? > > My second response is that the privileging of a research question (which > as director of a PhD programme I enforce all the time) is a symptom of a > disease of our time, namely to accept without much thought a formula for > what research is that in fact does not represent fairly the kind of > research most important to the humanities and the sciences. I think > that if one looks carefully and closely at the history of research in > any field, one finds that *research* often begins and for a long time > proceeds without anything as explicit as a question in mind -- or at > least not a question that would be acceptable to the director of a PhD > programme such as mine. I would guess that the question with which > one begins, if there is anything as explicitly articulated, is not the > question retrospectively constructed after the fact. The behaviours > of complex systems cannot, after all, be predicted! > > My second response is not, please note, intended to counter the > first. I think both of them are symptoms of something we had better work > on curing while we can. One way to begin would be by reading accounts > of research lives, e.g. published by the (American) National Academies > Press (http://www.nap.edu/topics.php?topic=292) and by the American > Council of Learned Societies, in the Charles Homer Haskins Prize > lecture series (http://www.acls.org/pubs/haskins/). This is one reason, > I think, why Julianne Nyhan's Hidden Histories project for the digital > humanities (first fruits of which are soon to be published) is so > important. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 21 22:46:49 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 84900285B5E; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:46:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3124E285B4A; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:46:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120721224644.3124E285B4A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:46:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.180 on 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="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. 180. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 21:15:49 +0100 From: "Spence, Paul" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 26.174 an observation In-Reply-To: <20120719204708.69BB3285968@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, All I do not know if the attendance at DH2012 was the highest ever, but it was certainly the highest in recent years - well over 500 in the end. The submission rate was also extremely high (393 in total) across all strands (long papers, short papers, posters, panels, pre-conference workshops and tutorials, but thanks to some masterful management by our conference hosts in Hamburg, led by Jan Christoph Meister, we were able to keep acceptance rate at or slightly above recent levels. I have just returned from Hamburg full of enthusiasm for the wonderful reception we received, and for the quality of the presentations (please excuse my clear bias here), which fully lived up to the conference theme of 'Digital Diversity: Cultures, languages and methods'. I will leave it to others to report on the new regional and national initiatives which emerged at the conference, but the DH community is clearly developing in new and exciting ways, and it is particularly exciting to see non-Anglophone groups develop a stronger presence on the international DH stage. For those of you who were not able to attend, you may like to know that videos of the keynotes and lectures will soon be posted to the conference website (many are already there). Please see the following links on the conference website for more information: General information http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/ Conference programme (including links to videos): http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/conference/programme/ If you weren't there or didn't follow the live stream, I particularly recommend you look out for the keynote speeches by Professor Claudine Moulin and Professor Masahiro Shimoda, both outstanding in their own way. There was also extensive tweeting on #dh2012 and a student assistants' blog at http://digitalhumanities2012.wordpress.com/ All the best Paul Spence ---------------------------------------- Paul Spence Senior Lecturer Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL paul.spence@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/research/index.aspx > -----Original Message----- > From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist- > bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion > Group > Sent: 19 July 2012 21:47 > To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > Subject: [Humanist] 26.174 an observation > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 174. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:46:01 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: an observation > > Allow me to observe, while DH2012 bubbles energetically on the other side > of the world, the completeness of this (Downunder) morning's > postings: a question exactly of the kind Humanist was designed to foster; a > job advertisement; and an announcement of a new book in the field. The > only missing kind of item (an event) is too busy happening to be > represented, but in time, I trust, we'll get aftermaths of it. In case you have > not noticed, the website for DH2012 > (http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/) is being frequently updated and > contains some live feeds as well as fast-breaking news. Am I correct in > thinking that attendance has exceeded all previous conferences in the field? > > 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 22 20:15:34 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 4DEDF284649; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:15:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C8BE7284635; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:15:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120722201523.C8BE7284635@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:15:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.181 fundamental research questions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 181. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (36) Subject: fundamental research questions [2] From: Claire Clivaz (193) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.179 fundamental research questions [3] From: Ashley Reed (264) Subject: Re: fundamental research questions --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 09:07:59 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: fundamental research questions In response to Julia's question on fundamental research questions in the humanities as a whole, I would guess that these are mostly ex post facto, i.e. that they arise from an historical view of research. If research is research, i.e. into the unknown, then how can the fundamental nature of it be known otherwise? In the case of my own PhD dissertation, on the relationships between biblical and Greco-Roman classical traditions and Milton's Paradise Lost, I could only have formulated the research question during the last stages of writing. I had no idea what they could be when I started. In everything I've written subsequently I've discovered the research question while writing the response to it. In the case of the PhD in Digital Humanities programme, the demand for a single, well articulated research question that has a chance one day of touching on the fundamental is a practical one. In the 4 years allotted to the research-only doctoral degree in the U.K. the student does not have time to wander. The best way we know to give him or her a good chance of completing is to require specific focus from the beginning. But there is no requirement that the question to which the dissertation is in the end actually a response be the same as the question with which he or she began. Questions change, deepen, develop. So, I think, the way to answer Claire's question and Julia's is to look at completed works. When we assemble such works for our field and look at them, which of them have gone after fundamental questions in the digital humanities? And that leads to yet another question: do constructed scholarly resources, infrastructures and standards *themselves* address questions at all? Is the problem here that we are asking for the wrong thing, or asking for the right thing too soon? 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: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:46:29 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.179 fundamental research questions In-Reply-To: <20120721224514.E7068285AB6@woodward.joyent.us> Dear all, Thank you for your ideas! Somebody of the journal "Stunlaw, a critical review of politics, arts and technology" added this answer on my blog (http://cclivaz.wordpress.com): Stunlaw says: "I am not convinced that the etymology of digital as 'fingers' helps understand what digital humanities *is* or could be.Certainly it is the use of computational concepts, ideas, methods and tools that are crucially important. They also change the humanities from 'fingers' to informating or processing. This clearly also transforms the humanities and what it is to be a humanities scholar". I wrote in response: "'Computer' designates a cerebral concept. With the iphone/ipad culture, we are acting again with our fingers in the digital culture, and it is a very important turning point. Robert Darnton pointed to that also in "The Case for Books", by evoking the German word "Fingerspitzengefül". Darton: 'we find our way through the world by means of a sensory disposition that the Germans call Fingerspitzengefül. If you were trained to guide a pen with your finger index, look at the way young people use their thumbs on mobile phones, and you will see how technology penetrates a new generation, body and soul'". The German concept of "to feel/experiment with the top of the fingers" (Fingerspitzengefül) fits particularly well to illustrate the turning-point of the screens that one "touches". Let's think to bodies related to computers and filmed... Let's think of so much examples where bodies and computers are interconnected. The digital culture is definitively not a disembodied culture, but rather a culture of the "augmented body", something like that. ... last but not least, I totally agree with Julia Flanders and Paul Spence: DH 2012 was amazing! Thank you so much to the Hamburg team... Claire Clivaz --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:37:41 -0400 From: Ashley Reed Subject: Re: fundamental research questions In-Reply-To: Hi Julia, I like your idea of seeking out "fundamental" questions in the traditional humanities to help guide our discussion of such questions in the digital humanities. In the field of literary studies (I, too, am being trained in a literature department) the first question that came to my mind was, "what is the relationship between the author and his/her work?" or, more broadly, "what is the status of the author?" From Matthew Arnold's "best that has been thought and said" to Wimsatt and Beardsley's authorial fallacy and intentional fallacy, to Barthes' "Death of the Author" and Foucault's "What is an Author?" this seems to be the question that guides much literary theory and criticism. Even schools of thought that reject the notion of an independently-acting author are generally concerned, not with doing away with the notion of authorship, but with relocating or redistributing it--in the reader's mind, for instance, or in the anxieties of the larger culture, or in the material and economic conditions of production and publication. Thus the status of the author would seem to be a '"fundamental question" in the field of literary studies. As you suggest, adding "in the digital era"--"what is the relationship between the author and his/her work in the digital era?" or "what is the status of the author in the digital era?"--doesn't help much with our search for fundamental questions in the digital humanities; these still seem like literary critical questions (and legitimate, interesting ones at that). But does the "author question" have an analogue in the digital humanities: "what counts as 'data'?" perhaps? Best, Ashley Reed Project Manager, William Blake Archive Department of English and Comparative Literature UNC Chapel Hill _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 22 20:16:58 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 A61212846D3; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:16:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 076002846C1; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:16:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120722201652.076002846C1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:16:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.182 volunteers for MarineLives? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 182. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 09:29:06 +0100 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: MarineLives - Call for Project Volunteers Recruiting volunteer project experts, project facilitators and project associates for MarineLives, a project using collaborative transcription, linkage and enrichment of High Court of Admiralty primary manuscripts, 1650-1669. MarineLives is an innovative academic project for the collaborative transcription, linkage and enrichment of primary manuscripts, which were originated in the High Court of Admiralty, London, 1650-1669. The end product will be a publicly and freely available online academic edition. The project is being conducted with the support of The National Archives, Kew, and will work collaboratively on high quality digital images for a complete volume of the court's records, selected from the period 1650-1669. The C17th High Court of Admiralty in London dealt with a range of maritime and commercial issues, including ship seizures during times of war, and wage disputes involving ships' crews, captains, owners, and freighters. The court's records provide a rich source of commercial, material and social history, as well as a source of maritime detail. They cover English, Scottish, Irish, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Flemish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Genoese, Tuscan, Venetian, and Ottoman merchants, mariners, ships and trade. We are now seeking academics to join us as part-time volunteer project experts and project facilitators (twenty to fifty hours commitment between August and December 2012). Project induction and training will be provided in August 2012, with full project kick-off in early September 2012. Current team members include postgraduates and academics at the University of Cambridge and King's College, London. Project associates, who are asked to volunteer fifty hours of research time between September and December 2012, will be drawn from interested postgraduates, graduates, school students, and amateur local and maritime historians, both within and outside the United Kingdom. Volunteers for all three roles (project expert, project facilitator, and project associate) are welcome from both within and outside the United Kingdom. We have a particular interest in recruiting English speaking project volunteers from Barbados, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey. This project offers participants an opportunity to acquire and deepen their digital editorial, project management, semantic markup and data mining skills. Please contact the project team (collaborate@marinelives.org), if you would like further information, or access the project website (www.marinelives.org) -- 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 Sun Jul 22 20:20:43 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 D38B1284788; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:20:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 114A0284773; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:20:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120722202031.114A0284773@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:20:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.183 Busa Award 2013 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 183. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Matthew Jockers (12) Subject: 2013 Busa Award Announced [2] From: John Levin (8) Subject: Congratulations --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 01:37:55 +0000 From: Matthew Jockers Subject: 2013 Busa Award Announced Dear Humanists: I was very pleased to serve as the Chair of the Busa Award committee this cycle, and though I am disappointed that I was unable to travel to Hamburg this year to make this announcement in person, I’m delighted with the end result. I am also delighted that the award will be given at the 2013 conference hosted by the University of Nebraska. I will certainly not miss next year’s meeting! The winner of the 2013 Busa Award is a man of legendary kindness and generosity. His contributions to the growth and prominence of Digital Humanities will be familiar to us all. He is a gentleman, a scholar, a philosopher, and a long time fighter for the cause. He is, by one colleague’s accounting, the “Obi-Wan Kenobi” of Digital Humanities. I must concur that “the force” is strong with this one. Please join me in congratulating Willard McCarty on his selection for the 2013 Busa Award. We all look forward to hearing from him in 2013 at our meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska (http://dh2013.unl.edu/). -- Matthew Jockers Assistant Professor Department of English 325 Andrews Hall University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588 www.matthewjockers.net --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:43:42 +0100 From: John Levin Subject: Congratulations Congratulations to Willard McCarty, who, so Twitter tells me, has won the Busa Award for 2013! Thoroughly deserved for many, many reasons. John Levin -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://mappingpetersburg.org/ http://twitter.com/anterotesis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 23 20:07:46 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 014CA285240; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:07:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 73E44285232; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:07:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120723200734.73E44285232@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:07:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.184 fundamental research questions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 184. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Smith (32) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.181 fundamental research questions [2] From: Claire Clivaz (27) Subject: History of authorship and fundamental question in HD [3] From: Jascha Kessler (70) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.181 fundamental research questions [4] From: Stan Ruecker (232) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.181 fundamental research questions [5] From: "Mason, Steve" (147) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.180 on DH2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:53:42 -0400 From: James Smith Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.181 fundamental research questions In-Reply-To: <20120722201523.C8BE7284635@woodward.joyent.us> The following are some of the questions I've been wrestling with. Since they aren't tied to any particular set of cultural artifacts, they might qualify as fundamental. To what extent are the digital humanities seeking an underlying pattern to the world? Where do the digital humanities sit on the spectrum of Plato vs. Aristotle? As someone with a physics background, I tend to be a platonist. I see the platonic ideal as fundamental, so for me, fundamental research has shades of Plato in it. I think computers push us in that direction since we try to find the patterns that we can apply to many problems instead of trying to find a unique computational approach for each problem regardless of how similar the problem might be to others we've already seen. To what extent are the digital humanities future thinking? Are the digital humanities trying to preserve what we've already built, or are they trying to preserve what we will be building? What's the digital equivalent of acid free paper? If we think of the larger world of electronic culture outside of the digital humanities, what are we doing that will help us access that larger, non-academic culture in fifty or a hundred years? If we aren't doing anything now, what will we study then? How are we informing web standards and programming platforms so that we can ensure that today's electronic works of art will be seen by future generations? People are producing more than PDFs, movies, and images. What are digital libraries doing to capture works that are essentially interactive presentations of mutating databases? I think the humanities have a lot to bring to the table in these areas. What social structures last for generations? How have we dealt with non-digital culture in the past? How do we ensure transmission of non-digital culture? How does this apply to the digital world? No answers, but lots of questions. -- James Smith Software Architect, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:07:50 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: History of authorship and fundamental question in HD In-Reply-To: <20120722201523.C8BE7284635@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Ashley, Of course the question of the authorship is not specific to the DH research, but the digital culture provokes an amount of transformations in the understanding of that question. The first discussions around the digital culture in Lausanne (CH) happened in 2009 around the history of authorship. My colleague Jerome Meizoz - who worked with Bourdieu in sociology of the French literature - published in 2007 his essay on the «literary posture» of the authors. He was considering it as efficient only in modernity. In working together, we noticed that his theory of the literary postures was efficient already in Antiquity (I am a New Testament scholar), and that the digital culture was allowing us to consider the history of authorship in its continuities and discontinuities. Meizoz explains this shift in his theory in his second volume (2011), and he prepares now a meeting on the figures of authorship through centuries in Lausanne (20-21 June 2013; http://www.unil.ch/fdi/page88711.html#2). For all scholars working on «texts» and «writing», the authorship and its history is one of the most hot questions in the DH, I think. From the DH culture, we are able to reconsider all the previous products of the printed «Humanities». With some French speaking colleagues, we have begun to speak about «les Humanités délivrées» as a possible title of a future meeting. In French, this double sense expression means that Humanities «out of the book» (dé-livrées) are «free Humanities», Humanities liberated («délivrées»). I am more and more convinced that DH allow the Humanities to be delivered, out of the cover of the book. Les Humanités délivrées. Claire Clivaz --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:39:10 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.181 fundamental research questions In-Reply-To: <20120722201523.C8BE7284635@woodward.joyent.us> Willard offers his own graduate experience as an instance, perhaps, of serendipity. Wander first, and find the true Isle of Serendip. But the question first bruited puzzles me. In my own case, I was asked to propose a research topic in 1952 by the assigned Chair of my committee, a genial professor I liked, who seemed to have read just about everything; yet when I spent a semester in his class, I could tell very soon that he grasped very little about any author of book he discussed, let alone understood. It was clear as a Very rocket light burst to me, even at 22. I suggested that I was interested in 20th century primitivism, which is what nagged at the edge of my mind...7 years after Berlin fell. [I shant go into the gulf between Stalin's USSR "marxism" and Hitler's German Nazism.] The man suggested I look into Roy Campell's poems. I read through him and the available biography, and returned to him a week later to say, No good researching or writing on Campbell. Why so? Because Campbell is himself a Primitive, whereas his poems are gaudy Georgian work. Somehow I lit on major late work no longer in print: D H Lawrence's THE PLUMED SERPENT. One had of course read all the popular favored preceding novels, and some other rare ones like THE LOST GIRL, which like the PS were in Special Collections as rare. I soon found that there existed but one! Dissertation in the US, from Harvard, but it turned out a fine bibliographical investigation, without a shred or wisp of commentary on the writings of this man, whom I ranked as #2 in Modern English prose writings, after, of course an utterly different master, James Joyce. One mocking and sardonic book existed then, William York Tindall's D H LAWRENCE AND SUSAN HIS COW. The mockery was of course aimed at DHL's excursion into what in the 60s was the Communalisms after the Beats. My director suggested the one tome on Primitivism, which began, say with Diogenes and came up through Thoreau, both exemplars of "Hard" Primitivism. It had not the least note or glance at what I was to define in my work as MODERN PRIMITIVISM, following DHL's quite clearly prophetical immersion into the social chaos of the 20th Century, novels, essays, short stories and this tremendously foresighted bomb, the Mexican fall into a quasi-Fascist, quasi-Nazi totalitarianism, only in the name of a few Aztec gods, the Aztecs, like the Incas, having long ago been theocratic conquering totalitarians. [No wonder Cortez was forwarded, like Pizarro, by subjected tribes towards the capitals of both empires, the Mordors of their age.] Lawrence in short had commenced his work in 1924, and foreseen the Fascists [he knew Italy very well indeed], and Hitler, not to be noticed much until 1932, 2 years after DHL was dead. He dispatched his MS to Secker from Veracruz in 1925-6, and actually wrote from that port at the same time to Huxley to tell him about it, and to say, I have finished with and abandoned the idea of the *Führerprinzip. *[His very word!] In brief, until I had an object, that novel and author, I had no research subject. The work took me well into the history and sociology of the period from 1918 on. Where was any "fundamental" to be found? In point of fact, when I returned from New York to Ann Arbor for my committee to be run through the mill on the book, I found that all those folks, most of them entering their later 40s and early 50s, and good social friends, had not the least glimmer of a clue to the Modern Primitivism I was proposing as a general guiding conception to understanding those times. It was for me a rather strange two hours, mocking and excoriating those academics, as if they had been asleep all through the 1930s, and grasped neither dynamics of Modern Primitivism nor the sources of the terrible years of WW II. I had thought that "He who runs may read." It turned out that they were learned zeds. My best senior friends, too! As for the Humanities, Digitized or not, I will let my definition of a fundamental research topic, meaning exploration of the unknown? as I thought to establish MP in 1954 in a mere Dissertation, rest without offering my single sentence ... for I would hope Willard's myrmidons will be able to divine it for themselves, rather yourselves, colleagues in quests and questionings... Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:33:47 -0500 From: Stan Ruecker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.181 fundamental research questions In-Reply-To: <20120722201523.C8BE7284635@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Willard, I have been giving some thought to the idea of research questions, fundamental or otherwise, for some years now, and I think the DH community has a plethora of good ones. I do take seriously the caution expressed by Julia and you and others that there is a discourse around research questions that might not be entirely useful or appropriate in all fields. However, I also recognize that funding agencies and PhD programs and publications in many venues like to see them articulated where possible. So my approach to this thread has been to review some of the questions we’ve explicitly raised over the past 10 years on some of the research projects where I’ve been privileged to be a member. I have been a co-author with roughly 120 different people in that time, so this list of 93 questions represents the thinking of a relatively large number of researchers. The felicity of the phrasing of the questions does vary quite widely, so please excuse the clumsier ones. 1. How can we provide humanities scholars with access to textmining tools? 2. What can we redeploy from experiments in the history of the book to enhance the affordances of online reading environments? 3. In what ways can we interactively visualize comparative search results within and between texts? 4. Given that we are interested in Ramsay’s idea of “reading machines” that can support scholarly interpretation, what might those machines look like and do? 5. What is a productive overview of XML-encoded material, and how can it be supported with tools to produce a reading machine? 6. How can Appleton’s ideas of prospect combine with Gibson’s ideas of affordances to strengthen the design of human-computer interfaces for access and use of digital scholarly heritage materials? 7. How is metadata used by people in rich-prospect browsing environments? 8. What processes increase the success of collaborative writing of best-practice documents by industrial safety communities of practice? 9. How can we produce better human-machine interfaces to support decision support systems in multi-modal industries? 10. How can we interactively visualize dependencies in curricula? 11. How can we visualize repetition in text? 12. How can we use text itself as the basis for humanities visualizations? 13. Can an interactive visualization help to support conversation? 14. In what ways can we productively model conversation in 3D? 15. How can we supplement existing grid-based visualizations of plot with experimental 3D visualizations? 16. What is the role of the aesthetic in experimental interface design? 17. Can information glyphs encourage collaborative writing? 18. How can a multitouch environment support collaborative reading of a variora edition? 19. How does a prototype make an argument? 20. How can we support the process of chaining through bibliographies based on a seed article? 21. Can we experimentally interrogate assertions about the influence of citation format on the reading experience? 22. Can we develop interactive visualizations of citations to enhance the value of bibliographies at the end of monographs? 23. How can we provide embedded text analysis features that work alongside data rather than requiring that users bring their data to the text analysis environment? 24. Can certain formal properties of digital photos be associated with location? 25. Do these properties create meaningful patterns in combination with related text, such as image titles or folksonomic tagging? 26. Is it possible to observe within the algorithmic patterns some new or surprising cultural phenomena only recognizable at this scale? 27. How does the topical organization of research articles in the information science domain compare to the reference-based organization of the same articles? 28. To what extent have the disciplinary silos of citation in information science changed over the past fifteen years? 29. How have citation and topical relationships patterns for articles in the three interdisciplinary topics changed over the past fifteen years? 30. For our three interdisciplinary topics (i.e. online trust, textmining, and web services), is the topical organization of research articles more tightly clustered than the reference-based organization? 31. Could the organizational affiliation of the authors explain the reference-based clustering? (i.e. does each reference-based cluster contain articles authored by researchers from a distinct discipline?) 32. What are the state of the art analysis methods and visualizations that will best represent and communicate the patterns in our data (i.e. the three interdisciplinary topics)? 33. What visualization techniques can be identified that suit the objects and objectives for researchers working in computer-assisted qualitative data analysis? 34. How should the existing Mandala Browser prototype be revised to accommodate the additional text-related features necessary for qualitative researchers? 35. To what extent should the visualization features be modified according to different forms of qualitative data or different approaches to analysis? 36. What are the communicational possibilities of interaction histories? 37. What can we learn from the comparative evaluation of digital and print editions of the same works? 38. What means can we devise of communicating insights into our research into human-computer interfaces? 39. How can we support a more phenomenological approach to the visualization of time than is provided by a conventional timeline? 40. What visualization techniques can be identified that allow us to model conflicting reports of historical events, as well as changes in memory or speculation over time? 41. What subset of these visual techniques are appropriate for use by scholars in literary and historical research? 42. How are people’s current approaches to using digital timelines limited by the available interface approaches, and can alternative visualization alternatives reduce such limits? 43. How should visualization strategies for conflicting witnesses and changes in memory or speculation be adapted depending on the nature of the data being presented? 44. What DH tools are out there being used? 45. When given a choice, what DH tools do people choose? 46. How are researchers using the DH tools out there? 47. Can a recommendation engine suggest DH tools for different needs? 48. Which web frameworks are being used by digital humanities projects? 49. What are the technical challenges of building customized modules for various web frameworks? 50. How will users interact with tools when those are embedded in different types of content (e.g. journal articles, text collections, library databases, blogs, etc.)? 51. How can analytic tools be presented in staged levels of complexity for different types of users? 52. How can we compare designs of experimental systems that do not share the same affordances? 53. What kinds of associations can be automatically generated based on the Orlando textbase, and how does the kind of association influence the types of scholarly questions that can be addressed? 54. What visualization techniques related to patterns of association can be identified that suit the data objects and research objectives in the digital humanities and also seem intuitive to humanities scholars? 55. How can interface strategies that allow users to search for patterns of association be adapted to account for the types of associations being browsed? 56. How can we use multilingual thesauri to support query enhancement? 57. What design and visualization techniques can be employed to develop an interface which provides seamless support for query formulation, thesaurus browsing and result viewing? 58. What elements and features of a thesaurus can be incorporated into the design of the interface? 59. What multilingual features can be designed to offer a flexible way for users to switch between and among the languages through interaction with a thesaurus? 60. What visualization techniques can be employed specifically to combine the use of a thesaurus and multilingual features in the design of an interface? 61. How do humanities and social science scholars and researchers evaluate such an interface as a tool for cross-cultural and cross-lingual studies? 62. If we think of the printed script on one hand and the full production of a play on the other, what roles can digital systems serve in the middle? 63. What common factors are required in order to transfer the prototype for Watching the Script to other domains? 64. How can the Simulated Environment for Theatre (SET) support archival activities? 65. What can we learn from the design of SET about the ontology of text in plays? 66. What is the rationale for abstraction in avatar design? 67. How can the design process be used to encourage a research discourse of exploration? 68. What are the health-related information behaviours of caregivers, parents, patients, and other individuals who require information to manage their own or others’ health-care needs? 69. What sources do these individuals use to solve their health-related information needs? What roles do the internet and other computer-based resources play in their health information activities? 70. What visually-based design models work best for lay end-users? What health information would individuals like to access via visually-based interfaces? What search features suit their needs? 71. How do individuals’ information needs and design requirements match (or not match) existing system designs and existing results of information retrieval studies? How can participatory, qualitative research approaches that use inclusive, user-centred principles, guide the design of interfaces? 72. How is colour associated with recollections of emotion in children? 73. What role is played by family members in recollections of dream emotion in children? 74. What are the affordances of Stonehenge and how can they be interpreted? 75. What features of domestic landscapes correlate to impressions of civility? 76. How do students and repeat offenders differ in their sequencing of cartoon images for good and bad outcomes, and what do those differences imply? 77. Can the visually patterned alphabet developed by Nelson and Frascara support learning of the alphabet by Chinese children? 78. What are the useful topics to cover in an interdisciplinary research project charter? 79. How can structured surfaces support workflows in DH? 80. What improvements to strategies in design management can increase the competitiveness of small product development companies? 81. How does the constructivist benchmarking method of design testing need to be modified for cases without regulatory requirements governing the use of the information? 82. What design lessons for human-computer interfaces can we learn from Mendeleyev’s periodic table of the elements? 83. Can we produce a meta-level taxonomy of XML tags, based on the kinds of information they contain? 84. How does design sketching differ in pedagogical and practical terms from artistic sketching? 85. How can we visualize process? 86. What are some of the implications of body theory for design research? 87. Can we successfully crowdsource semantic encoding? 88. How do we visualize a million links? 89. Can we support logfile analysis with video reconstruction? 90. What can we learn about the international DH community from the Day of DH blogs? 91. How can we support online networking for pre-existing social groups? 92. How does folksonomic tagging of blog posts differ from automated semantic tagging? 93. How does the development of various forms of private language support intimacy across distance in correspondence? In reading over this list, my partner Susan Liepert points out the following: “Some of these questions are closer to the core practice of humanities than others. Some are more clearly social science, fine arts, design, and so on. Some of these questions are nested within each other. Some follow each other in sequence, with each subsequent question relying on information gathered from the previous one. Some cover enormous amounts of territory, while others are extremely focused. In what ways might these be called fundamental? Is a question fundamental because it is a large question that contains many component questions? Is it fundamental because it is the initiating question in a long chain of linked questions? Is it fundamental because it addresses more directly issues that are central to the disciplinarity of digital humanities (i.e. is it more about DH than it is about design or engineering or health)? One would hope that it is not simply a matter of scholarly precedence. One wouldn’t like to think that a question is less fundamental because it builds on the work of previous scholars like Ramsay or Unsworth or Moretti. We would not like, I think, to do anything to discourage a community of inquiry among past or present or future scholars. If you can’t be fundamental using Ramsay, then that is a disservice to everyone who might be interested in helping his ideas to hit the road running.” I hope this is useful. If not, by all means please just set it aside. as ever, Stan Ruecker Associate Professor IIT Institute of Design --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 07:15:30 +0100 From: "Mason, Steve" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.180 on DH2012 In-Reply-To: <20120721224644.3124E285B4A@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Colleagues: May a long-time lurker weigh in on the question of the question? A colleague has asked us to consider what constitute 'fundamental' questions in trad-hum first, thence in DH. Following is my -- perhaps blazingly obvious -- reflection. The issue is important to me because the need for questions is not self-evident, and I think not understood by many university administrators, for example, who seem to view courses and lectures as things merely packaged and 'delivered' (and double or triple-markable by those who did not share the course or its questions). Knowledge is assumed to be transferable, as though there could be knowledge without a knower -- a questioner. General. It seems to me that the primacy of the question is a condition of trad-hum, in both classical and postmodern perspective. I'm a historian and come to this via Droysen, Vico, Collingwood, and Momigliano, in turn looking back to Bacon and Kant. But the idea, familiar to everyone, is basically that evidence doesn't speak for itself. It only becomes evidence in response to a question. As we all know, historia means first of all inquiry, research into something, investigation. The past itself can't change, but history changes -- only -- because of new questions. (Even new discoveries do not declare their meaning, that is to say; they too must be interrogated every which way to yield up meanings that we may use.) Example 1. In Mediterranean towns, children grow up playing at sites with pillars and old inscriptions, using them as goalposts and backstops. Christian Europe re-used ancient remains for church construction or even as stables or refuse areas. Those remains don't call out to people and tell them what they should know. They respond only to the questions of some investigator who knows their languages and something of the conditions in which they were produced, who cares, and who wants to interrogate them because of a question. Example 2. Even in natural science (as far as I know), the stuff is always there around us. What we are learning when we study 'it' does not, of course, change the stuff. What we change is our thinking about the stuff. And we change our thinking by asking new questions. To be sure, this is not a merely linear process, from question (out of a vacuum) to investigation and answer. We wouldn't know to ask our question unless we had already experienced the stuff in some way, along with other people's questions and answers about it. So there is always a dialectical relationship between our inquiring mind and the evidence. But still it is our question, with all the baggage behind it, that orders (in a hypothetical framework) the chaos of being, the potential evidence before us. Or so it seems to me, very roughly. Ordinary Applications. Doesn't the primacy of the question run through everything we do? 1. A student says 'I'd like to write about Hammurabi [or Augustus or Queen Helena].' We ask, 'OK, what about them? What's your question?' We do this because students often come with the notion that, because of their heretofore tiny exposure to these fields, the facts are just sitting there, to be found in library books and Wikipedia articles. They expect to assemble these 'data', written by different individuals in different contexts and responding to different questions, in a way they think will look coherent and please us. We want them, rather, to think about an approach, an issue, a question that will give their paper intelligibility. 2. With PhD students in particular it becomes a hazard, as they progress in their writing, that they want to include all sorts of fascinating things they have discovered in byways relating to their research. Draft chapters meander and swell. 'What is the question that you are seeking to answer?' we might well ask, as a discipline for constructing and representing an inquiry into something. 3. We construct courses, consciously or unconsciously, according to questions. Asked to teach a course on any subject (in my case Roman civilisation, Christian origins, ancient Judaism), we face the perennial problem of deciding on an angle, which is nothing other than a set of questions, with consequences for what is included as relevant. Shall we ask about women and families, laws, political structures, political careers, the army, provincial administration, popular culture, the economy, religion, philosophies, great individuals, etc.? And once we choose those questions we face many others: How best to tackle this area pedagogically, with what questions? It's not possible simply to teach 'the world of X'. There's nothing fascistic about making such authoritative decisions, however. We also expect students -- in book reviews, term papers, etc. -- to formulate and pursue their own questions. And in general I'm sure that most of us what to cultivate inquiring minds and move students away from the impossible notion that they are empty vessels waiting to receive 'knowledge'. 4. When we ask them to read, we encourage them to do that actively, not in the passive, 'past-your-eyes' mode that seems more instinctive (I'll place this book before my eyes and see what it tells me). But to read actively is to ask questions: What's the book about? Where does it fit in a larger conversation? What's the author arguing or trying to contribute? How do the several chapters serve the project? What is the argument of each chapter? How is evidence used? What are the scope, assumptions, possible oversights? Fundamental questions. I'm not sure what this phrase was intended to mean, but one can imagine possibilities. I suppose that every field in humanities has fundamental problems of method. In history, some of these concern the very nature of the historical enterprise. What does it mean to know the human past? What sorts of things can we hope to know, and how? Is history a matter of knowing, actually -- or of insightful story-telling, scenario-creation, statistical probability judgements, or something else? Is it safest to direct our attention to social systems, quantitative data, and general patterns, rules, laws, types of social interactions, in which (unknowable) individuals or their intentions can have little role? Or do events move forward also or usually because of extraordinary individuals? If the latter, may history also legitimately focus on individual biography, and especially thought? Or do economic-material circumstances render all individual thought trivial? Does it make a difference whether one is dealing with the modern past (perhaps the only past worth talking about with any claim to responsibility) and the ancient? There are many more (problems of subject and object, history as narrative or as argument….) But a fundamental question might be understood more simply as the base question framing a particular investigation, no? Perhaps we might distinguish between problems (as above) and questions, the latter being more hopeful of 'answers'? I don't know. But a question driving an investigation is fundamental in the sense that it creates the possibility of knowing, selects relevant phenomena and converts them into evidence for the thing being investigated, and provides the criteria of relevance. And we can ask an endless number of questions about the same material. The question-set (a) What does Tacitus mean in describing the Jews before the destruction of the temple (Hist. 5), and how does this section fit in his larger narrative with respect to structure, recurring themes, language? is very different from (b) What might his account prompt us to ask about the actual destruction of the temple, and are there parallels and overlaps with other evidence that might encourage us to propose hypotheses about those events? The question driving an inquiry is fundamental to the inquiry, of course, delimiting scope and criteria. Digital Humanities. As to how this applies to digital humanities, I'm not sure of the original issues or how they emerged. But it seems to me that here as elsewhere we work by question-and-answer, even if unconsciously. Willard observes that much of what we do proceeds without research questions, and he is surely right in the sense that we do much of our day-to-day work -- reading, scholarly entanglements -- without consciously structuring it around questions. But doesn't a project, digital or otherwise, even a conference, spring from an implicit question? In my areas, the PHI, TLG, and Perseus projects look very different from each other because the underlying problems they address, which set the criteria of relevance as well as the look and feel, are different. Certainly, when I use their overwhelming volumes of data I can do so only with a question in mind (even if the search generates new questions). It is the question that makes it possible to discover truly new things, never before discussed, with this evidence that may have been familiar (in rolls and books) for 2000 years. For example, one can discover in 30 seconds with PHI that Pliny the Elder uses the phrase in toto orbe 19 times in his works, whereas no other author, and cognates of mirus (amazing) some 760 times. Why does it matter? Well, these turn up in his description of the Essenes, which has often been thought to have been borrowed wholesale from a source. Clearly (because of several other such examples too), it wasn't. Point: the data don't tell us this. We need to ask the question, and it's a question that can only be answered with digital databases and intelligent search tools. I suspect that this is all too obvious for words, in which case I apologise, and anyway I'll return to silent lurking. All the best, steve ___________________________ Professor Steve MasonSchool of Divinity, History and Philosophy King's College, University of Aberdeen Aberdeen AB24 3UB, United Kingdom +44 (0) 01224 273039 steve.mason@abdn.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 Jul 25 22:10:39 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 46FDE2869FE; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:10:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 60C282869F1; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:10:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120725221029.60C282869F1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:10:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.185 fundamental research questions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 185. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" (61) Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 26.184 fundamental research questions [2] From: Frédéric Clavert (32) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.181 fundamental research questions --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:18:34 -0400 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 26.184 fundamental research questions In-Reply-To: <20120723200734.73E44285232@woodward.joyent.us> dear claire (if i may): this re your posting today: your designation "les humanites delivrees" with regard to its double meaning re "out of the book" or "delivered outside of the book" or "freed from the book" could also mean what is happening in many countries re dissertations in the humanities and credit and valuation of a book publication: for example in belgium where a humanities dissertation is no book any more but minimum five articles which must be published in thomson reuters ISI indexed journals or in taiwan where an article not published in an ISI indexed journal means nothing, etc.; all this is not necessarily a good thing, methinks, because a book in the humanities is a different animal and long&deep insight necessitates a book; pls don't misunderstand me: i am all in favor of online publishing (in fact, i publish since 1999 one of the very few humanities online journals anywhere that is ISI indexed) but the move away from books -- in the humanities -- is in many ways "dumbing down"… this is of course not the case in the sciences or medicine which is yet another animal all the best, steven steven totosy de zepetnek phd professor http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosycv *editor, clcweb: comparative literature and culture http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/ clcweb@purdue.edu *series editor, purdue books in comparative cultural studies http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/seriespurdueccs & http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/comparative-cultural-studies 8 sunset road, winchester, massachusetts 01890 usa totosysteven@purdue.edu 1-781-729-1680 On Jul 23, 2012, at 4:07 pm, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 184. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > [2] From: Claire Clivaz (27) > Subject: History of authorship and fundamental question in HD > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:07:50 +0200 > From: Claire Clivaz > Subject: History of authorship and fundamental question in HD > In-Reply-To: <20120722201523.C8BE7284635@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Dear Ashley, > > Of course the question of the authorship is not specific to the DH research, > but the digital culture provokes an amount of transformations in the > understanding of that question. > > The first discussions around the digital culture in Lausanne (CH) happened > in 2009 around the history of authorship. My colleague Jerome Meizoz - who > worked with Bourdieu in sociology of the French literature - published in > 2007 his essay on the «literary posture» of the authors. He was > considering it as efficient only in modernity. In working together, we > noticed that his theory of the literary postures was efficient already in > Antiquity (I am a New Testament scholar), and that the digital culture was > allowing us to consider the history of authorship in its continuities and > discontinuities. Meizoz explains this shift in his theory in his second > volume (2011), and he prepares now a meeting on the figures of authorship > through centuries in Lausanne (20-21 June 2013; > http://www.unil.ch/fdi/page88711.html#2). > > For all scholars working on «texts» and «writing», the authorship and > its history is one of the most hot questions in the DH, I think. From the DH > culture, we are able to reconsider all the previous products of the printed > «Humanities». With some French speaking colleagues, we have begun to speak > about «les Humanités délivrées» as a possible title of a future > meeting. In French, this double sense expression means that Humanities «out > of the book» (dé-livrées) are «free Humanities», Humanities liberated > («délivrées»). > > I am more and more convinced that DH allow the Humanities to be delivered, > out of the cover of the book. Les Humanités délivrées. > > Claire Clivaz > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:38:19 +0200 From: Frédéric Clavert Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.181 fundamental research questions In-Reply-To: <20120722201523.C8BE7284635@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Humanists, I tried to answer Claire's interrogation on DH "big" research question on my blog (http://www.clavert.net/) in French. To make it short: concerning history, I think that Digital Humanities are widening even further the big historiographic trend of the XXth century, which was the extension of the historical domain: from a history dominated by politics, Historians (for instance with the French Annales school) extended their research to social history, economic history, climate history... to everything, in fact, and even to a more clever political history. The main point here, is that starting from the interwar period, everything could become a historical subject and everything could become a historical primary source. Digital Humanities can now help historians to widen this perspective. In this aspect, Lauren Klein's paper at DH 2012 was exemplar, as she's using network analysis and visualization to write the history of the unnamed (ie slaves). See: Klein, L. F. (2012). Social Network Analysis and Visualization in “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson.” *Digital Humanities 2012*. Presented at the Digital Humanities 2012. Retrieved from http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/conference/programme/abstracts/social-network-analysis-and-visualization-in-the-papers-of-thomas-jefferson/ . But there is another question that is important. In some parts of contemporary history, Digital Humanities are just a question of survival. If you consider the most recent parts of history, sources from the 1990's will start to be available in 8 years. So, progressively, starting in 2020, historians will have to deal with a huge amount of born-digital primary sources. If historians don't want to become silent, stilfled by their sources, they have to be prepared. And it is not the case yet. Best, Frédéric Clavert -- Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe - http://www.cvce.eu/ 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 25 22:17:02 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 E0F18286B30; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:17:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C9819286B1A; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:16:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120725221653.C9819286B1A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:16:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.186 film on new tech for the humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 186. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:20:50 +0000 From: "Soering, Sibylle" Subject: short film on new technology in the humanities Since May 2012, TextGrid (www.textgrid.de http://www.textgrid.de/ ), a Virtual Research Environment for the arts and humanities, has been available in v2.0 for scholars for the collaborative creation and use of digital research data, as well for long-term data curation. The potential of VREs, as well as the various ways scholars are working with them, is demonstrated in a short film recently produced by TextGrid called "Virtual Research Worlds: New Technology in the Humanities", which is now available for download on YouTube: English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjO9epVZHa0 German: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRBYR9OA45Q Produced with the generous financial support of the D-Grid GmbH as well as with the versatile contribution by TextGrid and DARIAH colleagues and by the Göttingen State and University Library staff, the film addresses a general public, aiming at communicating a complex field of research in an easily understandable manner. Feedback and comments are welcome! The TextGrid team _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 25 22:18:39 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 6A132286B8C; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:18:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5D548286B81; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:18:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120725221832.5D548286B81@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:18:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.187 events: Virtual Heritage 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. 187. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:19:41 +0100 From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" Subject: V-MusT Virtual Heritage School, 10-20 September 2012, London, UK In-Reply-To: <8FA20D11E657004198AA3EC2D12120B859914B0A8D@KCL-MAIL03.kclad.ds.kcl.ac.uk> This message was originally submitted by anna.bentkowska@KCL.AC.UK to the humanist list at LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU. If you simply forward it back to the list, using a mail command that generates "Resent-" fields (ask your local user support or consult the documentation of your mail program if in doubt), it will be distributed and the explanations you are now reading will be removed automatically. If on the other hand you edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will have to remove this paragraph manually. Finally, you should be able to contact the author of this message by using the normal "reply" function of your mail program. ----------------- Message requiring your approval (32 lines) ------------------ *** V-MusT UK Summer School *** Places still available *** 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 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 Thu Jul 26 23:20:25 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 421C628672B; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:20:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F37F5286713; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:20:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120726232018.F37F5286713@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:20:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.188 fundamental research questions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 188. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:12:16 +0100 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.185 fundamental research questions In-Reply-To: <20120725221029.60C282869F1@woodward.joyent.us> > > for example in belgium where a humanities dissertation is no book any more but minimum five articles which must be published in thomson reuters ISI indexed journals > > all the best, steven Given the Thomson-Reuters bias towards English-language publications, I find that depressing on very many levels. 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 Jul 26 23:22:11 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 427CB2867D5; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:22:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8DE7E2867B9; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:22:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120726232203.8DE7E2867B9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:22:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.189 readers and machines X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 189. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:45:48 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: designing ways of being No doubt the finely produced TextGrid film, "Virtual Research Worlds", announced in Humanist 26.186, will be useful in attracting students and helping to explain the digital humanities. But I wonder: what are we saying when we say that a human being can read 4,000 books in a lifetime and then zoom on to show machines of amazing capacity doing their work? Isn't it a category error to equate the act of reading with the action of fetching and processing? Isn't reading more than the physical operation of handling a book in the way a reader does? When reading is reduced to physical handling of a codex, it then becomes possible to compare a lifetime handling of books to fetching and processing of the incomparably greater amount of data that a machine can handle. And so the human reader comes out looking rather inferior. It would then seem only a matter of time until the machine encroaches even more on the human than it already has when one thinks in this way. Why have the reader at all? Why the mimetic logic of replacement? Why are we driven to assert, for example, that close reading is out, distant reading in? Why must the availability of a million books drive us to argue that slow reading of a single book is, well, no longer cool? Why must we cripple ourselves by presuming that humans have no other capacities than our marvellous machinery can augment? (I think these are very interesting questions to be asking, not just rhetorical flourishes of an exasperated cane-thumper!) 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 26 23:25:37 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 3030B286858; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:25:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ED4A828683D; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:24:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120726232447.ED4A828683D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:24:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.190 job at OII, Oxford; studentship at Lausanne X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 190. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Claire Clivaz (8) Subject: 5 years PhD student position in Lausanne (CH) [2] From: "Deegan, Marilyn" (21) Subject: New position at the OII researching big data --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:52:19 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: 5 years PhD student position in Lausanne (CH) Dear List, A 5 years PhD student position is open at the University of Lausanne (CH), Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, prof. Dominique Vinck. The job requires 50% of time to work for the professor (notably teaching) and offers 50% for the PhD. The PhD will focus on Digital Humanities from the social sciences point of view; it can be written in English, French or German. The required profile is a candidate with a master in sociology and with experiment in or interest for Digital Humanities. Deadline for application: 16 August. Job starts on the 1.10.2012. More information here: https://applicationsw.unil.ch/adminpub/?MIval=PoIntHome&TypelC=811&PoId=2684 Claire Clivaz --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:24:11 +0100 From: "Deegan, Marilyn" Subject: New position at the OII researching big data Please forward this new opening to any students or colleagues who may be interested. http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/newpositions/ Job title: Researcher Vacancy: 103705 Grade and salary: Grade 7 (£29,249-35,938 p.a.) Hours: Full time Contract type: Fixed-term (20 months from 1 October 2012) Reporting to: Eric T. Meyer Research topic: Accessing and Using Big Data to Advance Social Science Knowledge Funding partners: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation We are looking for a full-time Researcher to work on the newly funded project, "Accessing and Using Big Data to Advance Social Science Knowledge". The project will use mixed methods to follow 'big data' from its public and private origins through open and closed pathways into the social sciences, and document and shape the ways they are being accessed and used to create new knowledge about the social world and the behaviour of human beings. This will be done primarily through five case studies, interviews of approximately 125 participants, and observations of data scientists in their workplaces. Applicants should hold a PhD in information science, sociology, anthropology, political science, internet studies, or related disciplines, have a strong interest in the social aspects of online technologies and proven experience in qualitative and quantitative research. The successful candidate will work with a multidisciplinary team of researchers, and will be able to take a lead in project management, data collection and analysis, and the dissemination of results. This position is available from 1st October 2012 for 20 months. The closing date for applications is 12:00 BST on Wednesday 22 August 2012 and only applications received before then can be considered. Details of how to apply are online at http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/newpositions/ Eric T. Meyer Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford eric.meyer@oii.ox.ac.uk Web: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=120 SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=912385 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 26 23:25:57 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 2BB0F286887; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:25:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D1E8528686C; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:25:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120726232550.D1E8528686C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:25:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.191 uppercaselessness X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 191. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 02:28:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Alan Corre Subject: a comment prompted by steven totosy de zepetnek's uppercaseless contribution In-Reply-To: <1316603556.7035.1343286973001.JavaMail.root@mail12.pantherlink.uwm.edu> steven: i wish i had your courage to eschew almost totally the upper case. in my years of study of hebrew and arabic i never saw any problem in not having an upper case. but of course hebrew has five rather useless "final" letters, (english has a remnant in the "Rx" of medical prescriptions) and arabic has a complicated alphabet, really being a cursive, so humans seem determined to punish themselves. the opportunity was lost when people realized that computers could handle strings, and the upper case was chosen for initial use. this was a mistake because caps look like SHOUTING, but those folk never realized how important strings would become in the digital world. when ASCII effectively pushed out FIELDATA, and a double set of the alphabet came in, upper and lower, the battle was lost, if indeed it was ever fought. interesting to speculate what might have happened if the early developments had been among speakers of a language with diacritical marks which english happily lacks. alan _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 26 23:27:14 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 137A2286909; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:27:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4C97D2868DE; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:27:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120726232706.4C97D2868DE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:27:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.192 automating debate X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 192. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:27:29 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: automating debate It would be good to have here any experiences members of Humanist have had with rbutr ("rebutter", http://rbutr.com/), which advertises itself thus: > Critical Thinking and the Internet > > How do you decide what you do and do not believe on the internet? > How do you know when the 'facts' being presented are actually facts and > aren't just made up? Or when the eloquent arguments are brilliant logic > rather than just clever trickery? > > rbutr provides us with a very simple method to improve our ability > to critically analyse articles online; it takes us to another > article which has already analysed it for us so that we can > assess both articles in light of these contrasting views. With > both opposing perspectives presented to us, we are much better > positioned to make an informed assessment, rather than a singular > assessment from one biased and persuasive perspective. This would appear to be a form of crowd-sourcing. 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 Jul 27 23:49:23 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 10055286603; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:49:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B211C2865F4; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:49:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120727234915.B211C2865F4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:49:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.193 readers and machines X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 193. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 07:57:05 -0400 From: Darby Orcutt Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.189 readers and machines In-Reply-To: <20120726232203.8DE7E2867B9@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, You are certainly not just cane-thumping! Asking such questions, and thus problematizing the current narrative is vital. I see the recent "logic of replacement" as continuous with the presumptions made at other historical moments of proliferating adoption of new technologies. In an earlier period, the machine threatened (rhetorically and actually) to replace the factory worker; now, even we humanists are imperiled. Analogically, I think of how advances in scientific understanding of animal intelligence have displaced our formerly entrenched notions of what makes us as humans unique in the world. I think we may be in the very early days of machine intelligence likewise challenging our presumptions, and already forcing us to articulate in ways we have not had to spell out previously just what it is that makes a human different than a computer. Thanks for the food for thought. Best, Darby Darby Orcutt Assistant Head Collection Management North Carolina State University Libraries Box 7111 Raleigh, NC 27695-7111 USA 919/ 513-0364 919/ 513-1108 fax dcorcutt@ncsu.edu On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 189. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:45:48 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: designing ways of being > > > No doubt the finely produced TextGrid film, "Virtual Research Worlds", > announced in Humanist 26.186, will be useful in attracting students and > helping to explain the digital humanities. But I wonder: what are we saying > when we say that a human being can read 4,000 books in a lifetime and then > zoom on to show machines of amazing capacity doing their work? Isn't it a > category error to equate the act of reading with the action of fetching and > processing? Isn't reading more than the physical operation of handling a > book in the way a reader does? When reading is reduced to physical handling > of a codex, it then becomes possible to compare a lifetime handling of books > to fetching and processing of the incomparably greater amount of data that a > machine can handle. And so the human reader comes out looking rather > inferior. It would then seem only a matter of time until the machine > encroaches even more on the human than it already has when one thinks in > this way. Why have the reader at all? > > Why the mimetic logic of replacement? Why are we driven to assert, for > example, that close reading is out, distant reading in? Why must the > availability of a million books drive us to argue that slow reading of a > single book is, well, no longer cool? Why must we cripple ourselves by > presuming that humans have no other capacities than our marvellous machinery > can augment? (I think these are very interesting questions to be asking, > not just rhetorical flourishes of an exasperated cane-thumper!) > > 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 27 23:51:32 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 75E90286699; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:51:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5617C286685; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:51:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120727235122.5617C286685@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:51:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.194 fundamental research questions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 194. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" (24) Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 26.188 fundamental research questions [2] From: Richard Lewis (36) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.172 fundamental research question? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:21:18 -0400 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 26.188 fundamental research questions In-Reply-To: <20120726232018.F37F5286713@woodward.joyent.us> dear daniel: indeed! however, the fact remains and my colleagues at ghent university have tried everything to no avail to get away from the requirement that humanities scholars have to publish -- to get any credit -- in no other but ISI indexed journals and phd students are reeling under the must of publishing articles in ISI indexed journals to get their phd-s (instead of writing a dissertation!); the sorry state of affairs is such that the situation is getting to be policy in not only belgium but in most other countries in europe, e.g., spain, portugal, all of the nordics, etc.; best, steven totosy On Jul 26, 2012, at 7:20 pm, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 188. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:12:16 +0100 > From: Daniel Allington > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.185 fundamental research questions > In-Reply-To: <20120725221029.60C282869F1@woodward.joyent.us> > > >> >> for example in belgium where a humanities dissertation is no book any more but minimum five articles which must be published in thomson reuters ISI indexed journals >> >> all the best, steven > > Given the Thomson-Reuters bias towards English-language publications, I find that depressing on very many levels. > > Daniel > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:07:06 +0100 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.172 fundamental research question? In-Reply-To: <20120719203426.857EB28575A@woodward.joyent.us> At Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:44:44 +0200 Claire Clivaz wrote: > Digital Humanities are Humanities *made with the fingers*, the Latin > *digitus*. That's not really true. "Digital" is just the current popular adjective prepended to things and practices to make clear that computing machinery (and sometimes more specific applications thereof such as, very commonly, the Web) is going to be involved. In the past this adjective has been "eletronic" and "computational". I expect that "digital" will eventually become dated and unpopular. The etyomology of "digital" in this usage is its connotation of number and counting. Its meaning can, of course, be traced back to fingers through their application as a counting aid, but that is really a red herring in "digital humanities". In computer science, digital also has strong connotations of discrete, referring to the use of atomic, indivisible numerical values in computations. It's sometimes considered an antonym of "analogue" although in fact "continous" would be more appropriate. Analogue computation really refers to computing machinery in which electrical circuits are constructed for modelling particular real-world phenomena (compare this to the universal Turing machine and the stored program computer); the circuit is an analogue of the phenomena under study. In digital computers, it's the program that (potentially) functions as a model. 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 Jul 27 23:53:32 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 3A9EF286709; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:53:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 697AC2866F5; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:53:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120727235324.697AC2866F5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:53:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.195 uppercaselessness X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 195. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" (21) Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 26.191 uppercaselessness [2] From: Norman Gray (21) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.191 uppercaselessness --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:26:08 -0400 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 26.191 uppercaselessness In-Reply-To: <20120726232550.D1E8528686C@woodward.joyent.us> well, while i use all lower case in whateve languages i speak and write in on email, i do not do so, of course, anywhere else! as to diacritics: i like such whether in french, german, hungarian, etc., and it appears slowly but surely such are getting into the digital even in newspapers (although when one uses an english-based computer one can do them only if one switches the keyboard and that is too much trouble for me); best, steven totosy On Jul 26, 2012, at 7:25 pm, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 191. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 02:28:17 -0500 (CDT) > From: Alan Corre > Subject: a comment prompted by steven totosy de zepetnek's uppercaseless contribution > In-Reply-To: <1316603556.7035.1343286973001.JavaMail.root@mail12.pantherlink.uwm.edu> > > steven: > > i wish i had your courage to eschew almost totally the upper case. in my years of study of hebrew and arabic i never saw any problem in not having an upper case. but of course hebrew has five rather useless "final" letters, (english has a remnant in the "Rx" of medical prescriptions) and arabic has a complicated alphabet, really being a cursive, so humans seem determined to punish themselves. > > the opportunity was lost when people realized that computers could handle strings, and the upper case was chosen for initial use. this was a mistake because caps look like SHOUTING, but those folk never realized how important strings would become in the digital world. when ASCII effectively pushed out FIELDATA, and a double set of the alphabet came in, upper and lower, the battle was lost, if indeed it was ever fought. interesting to speculate what might have happened if the early developments had been among speakers of a language with diacritical marks which english happily lacks. > > alan --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:50:28 +0100 From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.191 uppercaselessness In-Reply-To: <20120726232550.D1E8528686C@woodward.joyent.us> Greetings, On 2012 Jul 27, at 00:25, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 02:28:17 -0500 (CDT) > From: Alan Corre > Subject: a comment prompted by steven totosy de zepetnek's uppercaseless contribution [...] > the opportunity was lost when people realized that computers could handle strings, and the upper case was chosen for initial use. this was a mistake because caps look like SHOUTING, but those folk never realized how important strings would become in the digital world. when ASCII effectively pushed out FIELDATA, and a double set of the alphabet came in, upper and lower, the battle was lost, if indeed it was ever fought. I don't know, but I strongly suspect that the underlying reason was that, from the point when computers became commercial until the necessity finally in the course of the 70s, programs were largely handwritten on 'coding sheets', and then secretary-typed up onto punch cards before loading onto the machine.. The need for these sheets to be legible would strongly push everyone towards block capitals, and so indirectly create the expectation that 'programs are written in capitals'. That expectation took a long time to disappear, and many people still expect to see Fortran or COBOL programs typed in capitals (in the sense they feel mildly vexed otherwise), although the compilers have long been able to accept both upper- and lower-case letters as input. That's not the only atavism of punched cards. The cards were generally 80 columns wide (because the coding sheets were, or vice versa?), and this led to the language Fortran being designed with particular significance to particular columns in the program source code; this is a practice which is bizarre and irritating to anyone writing Fortran in a now-conventional way, and though very few Fortran compilers still impose this restriction, it's not unusual to see programmers and their (programming) editors automatically respecting it. A lot of the world's astronomical data is first written into 'FITS' files. This is an image format which, though the format was developed while punched cards had essentially disappeared, still has 80-character 'records' throughout it. If you open up a shell/terminal/console on your computer, it'll probably be 80 characters wide. Of course, 80 characters is a fairly natural line width (most printed texts average something like that number of characters per line), but the rigidity of that particular number has a technical lineage that stretches back to when writing neatly was an important programming skill. ---- Separately, ASCII isn't just the two cases of letters. If you look at your keyboard, nearly all of the characters engraved there, with only a few exception, are there because they're in ASCII. Hands up anyone who had heard of 'backslash' before they found it in a crevice of their keyboard, and would you have thought it obviously necessary to have _three_ different types of brackets within ready reach? There are millions of characters defined in Unicode, including a rich assortment of punctuation characters , but sitting in front of my keyboard I'm having difficulty thinking of any of them, and the ones which I find when I look at http://unicode.org/charts/#symbols or http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf just look ... weird. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 28 21:12:33 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 5EA3B2861DE; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:12:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5DECB2861C5; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:12:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120728211222.5DECB2861C5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:12:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.196 uppercaselessness & machines of loving grace X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 196. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (14) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.195 uppercaselessness [2] From: Willard McCarty (29) Subject: machines of loving grace --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:44:11 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.195 uppercaselessness In-Reply-To: <20120727235324.697AC2866F5@woodward.joyent.us> The story I heard on the origin of all CAPS text for early computing was that IBM made the decision because they couldn't have both upper/lower case available and reasoned that executives of companies would prefer to see their names in all capitals over lower case. Given that business computing was outside of scientific calculation, the most important revenue source for sale of computers, this makes sense. IBM also originated the abbreviation convention of dropping as many interior vowels from words as needed to shorten them to fit variable and file naming conventions (remember 8.3 file names) in programs and on the early online systems. What I always thought was the greatest missed opportunity for text processing was not to have separated the many uses of . into distinct characters. Oh how nice it would be if abbreviation periods were a separate character from sentence periods and decimal points. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 07:09:31 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: machines of loving grace In-Reply-To: <20120727235324.697AC2866F5@woodward.joyent.us> Some here, those of my vintage, may recall Richard Brautigan's poem, "All watched over by machines of loving grace". But rather than quote it here I will refer everyone to a 3-part television documentary for the BBC by that title, made by Adam Curtis and released last year. It tells one of many possible histories of computing, starting with the intellectual milieu that Ayn Rand did so much to create. Curtis traces the equilibrium theory in ecology to cybernetics and so provides yet another instance of a technological idea shaping biological theory that was then used as inspiration for the technology, and so forth and so on. Well worth finding and watching. One assertion in that documentary that I've run into elsewhere is that the flashing lights on mainframe computers were put there for public relations purposes, to make the big hulks seem, I suppose, scientific and impressive at the same time. I would very much like to know if anyone here is aware of reliable documentation on that point. As a young computer operator, however, I and my mates would often look for obvious repetitive patters in the flashing of the lights for a sign that the machine was in a "loop", i.e. caught in a cycle of instructions without exit. If so, we'd kill the program and restart. So whatever the original intention of the lights they did serve a practical purpose. 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 31 15:10:38 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 84B692869D2; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:10:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C52782869C2; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:10:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120731151027.C52782869C2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:10:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.197 flashing lights X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 197. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Norman Gray (21) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.196 uppercaselessness & machines of loving grace [2] From: "joe raben" (2) Subject: Flashing lights on early computers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:38:22 +0100 From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.196 uppercaselessness & machines of loving grace In-Reply-To: <20120728211222.5DECB2861C5@woodward.joyent.us> Greetings. On 2012 Jul 28, at 22:12, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 07:09:31 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: machines of loving grace > In-Reply-To: <20120727235324.697AC2866F5@woodward.joyent.us> [...] > One assertion in that documentary that I've run into elsewhere is that > the flashing lights on mainframe computers were put there for public > relations purposes, to make the big hulks seem, I suppose, scientific > and impressive at the same time. I would very much like to know if > anyone here is aware of reliable documentation on that point. No reliable documentation, as such, but the Connection Machines [1] famously had all-black front panels which had red lights representing the state of the nodes in the machine. It seems, though [2], that these had little real connection with the state of the machine, and were instead for a range of purposes including being Cool (an important attribute at Thinking Machines, it seems, during its short but beautiful life). It's a tangential point, but Cray clearly also cared about the (intimidating?) aesthetics of their machines. A supercomputer should _look_ super, dammit, and Crays do look to be dolled up in the hardware analogue of primary-coloured lycra and a mask (hmm: I'm thinking of Spiderman, here, not Kiss). Best wishes, Norman [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation [2] http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Thinking-Machines.aspx?pg=3#194568 -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:28:57 -0400 From: "joe raben" Subject: Flashing lights on early computers In-Reply-To: <20120728211222.5DECB2861C5@woodward.joyent.us> When I saw the Eniac in the spring of 1946, its operation was indicated by columns of ten flashlight bulbs, which lit up in vertical sequence. As one column was complete, it went dark and a single bulb to its left was lit. This simple addition went on slowly enough for a human to observe it. Whether these lights were the progenitors of others on later computers I cannot tell. What I recall most vividly was being told that the machine was a whiz at arithmetic; had there been a hint of its verbal capabilities, I might not have waited until 1962 to investigate further. Joe Raben _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 31 15:11:37 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 E6062286A76; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:11:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 80308286A62; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:11:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120731151129.80308286A62@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:11:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.198 the use of . X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 198. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:04:02 +0100 From: Virginia Knight Subject: Fwd: [Humanist] 26.196 uppercaselessness & machines of loving grace In-Reply-To: <20120728211222.5DECB2861C5@woodward.joyent.us> One use of . has been given its own character entity, the ellipsis of three dots: it can be rendered in HTML by &# followed by 133 or & followed by 'ellip'. But it hasn't really caught on. Virginia Knight -- 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/ -------- Original Message -------- What I always thought was the greatest missed opportunity for text processing was not to have separated the many uses of . into distinct characters. Oh how nice it would be if abbreviation periods were a separate character from sentence periods and decimal points. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 31 15:12:21 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 E7285286AC1; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:12:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9BC65286AAC; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:12:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120731151214.9BC65286AAC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:12:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.199 fundamental research questions 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. 199. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:26:33 +0200 From: "Nicoline van der Sijs" Subject: fundamental research questions Dear colleagues, With some hesitation I react on the discussion on DH research questions. However, maybe this is of some interest to you. Last year I was asked by the Meertens Institute (working together with a great number of other Dutch research institutes and universities) to make an inventory of fundamental research questions for diachronic research into the humanities (history, linguistics, literary theory). I have consulted ca. 150 researchers in the Netherlands and Flanders on their ideas, and what kind of corpus and tools they need to make their research possible. This did not lead to a couple of common fundamental questions. However, on the basis of the shared common typology of the hundreds of research questions mentioned, I could write a request for subsidy for: Nederlab - Laboratory for research on the patterns of change in the Dutch language and culture. Nederlab's goal is to enable scholars in the humanities to find answers to new, longitudinal research questions. For this purpose Nederlab aims at setting up a user-friendly tool-enriched web interface, allowing researchers to simultaneously search and analyse the digital historical texts made available by scientific libraries and institutions, at text and metadata level. In June this year we heard that this project is granted 3,4 million euro. I hereby attach a pdf of the application (without the appendices); if this doesn't reach you, you can find the text at: http://www.diachronie.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45&Itemid=20 (scroll to 1 november 2011, and open the file Aanvraag Nederlab.) If you have any questions or suggestions on the Nederlab project, do not hesitate to contact me. We will start January 2013. Best regards, Nicoline van der Sijs *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1343557740_2012-07-29_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_6256.2.pdf ------------------------------------ dr. Nicoline van der Sijs Schaepmanplein 20, 2314 EH Leiden, 071-5238986 Dit bericht is totstandgekomen via spraakherkenning _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 31 15:13:07 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 370CA286B3B; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:13:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 53B74286B30; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:13:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120731151301.53B74286B30@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:13:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.200 support for Amicus Brief? 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. 200. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 13:28:58 +0000 From: Matthew Jockers Subject: Support for Amicus Brief in Authors Guild v. Google Humanists: A few weeks ago, Matthew Sag, Jason Schultz and I filed an amicus brief (see http://ssrn.com/abstract=2102542) on behalf of Researchers in the Digital Humanities and Law Professors in Authors Guild v. Hathitrust. That brief included endorsement from ACH and a number of individual researchers. We are preparing to file a very similar brief in Authors Guild v. Google next week and are seeking further support within the larger DH community. Our argument is that mass digitization of books for text-mining purposes is a form of mass intermediate copying that enables socially beneficial nonexpressive and non-infringing uses without directly harming any markets for expressive uses of the works themselves. We urge the court to recognize that text-mining and the digitization that enables it constitutes a nonexpressive use that should be found to be fair use. If you would like your name added to the list of signers, please email Matthew Sag (matthewsag@gmail.com) and me (mjockers@unl.edu) with your Name, Title, and Institution by Tuesday July 31, 2012. A draft of the brief is attached for your consideration. Thanks! Matt -- Matthew L. Jockers Assistant Professor of English Fellow, Center for Digital Humanities Research 325 Andrews Hall University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588 www.matthewjockers.net _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 31 15:14:04 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 85823286B9F; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:14:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 990AA286B7F; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:13:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120731151359.990AA286B7F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:13:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.201 events: Digital Classicist Seminar, Berlin X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 201. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:08:03 +0200 From: Matteo Romanello Subject: CFP: Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin 2012/2013 Dear All, Please find below the Call for Papers of the newly established Digital Classicist Seminar Series in Berlin. With the usual apologies for cross posting. Best regards, Matteo Romanello on behalf of the organising committee ------ (German version below) We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the newly established Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin [1], which will run for the first time in the Winter Term 2012. This initiative, inspired by and connected to London92s Digital Classicist Work in Progress Seminar [2], is organised in association with the German Archaeological Institute and the Excellence Cluster TOPOI. We invite submissions on research which employ digital methods, resources or technologies in an innovative way in order to enable increased understanding of the ancient world at large. Abstracts, either in English or in German, of 300-500 words max. (bibliographic references excluded) should be uploaded by midnight MET on September 14, 2012 using the special submission form [3]. Themes may include digital text, linguistics technology, image processing and visualisation, linked data and semantic web, open access, spatial and network analysis, serious gaming and any other digital or quantitative methods. We welcome seminar proposals addressing the application of these methods to individual projects, and particularly contributions which show how the digital component can lead to crossing disciplinary boundaries and answer new research questions. Seminar content should be of interest both to classicists, ancient historians or archaeologists, as well as information scientists and digital humanists, with an academic research agenda relevant to at least one of these fields. Seminars will run fortnightly on Tuesday evenings (17:00-18:30) starting in October 2012 in the TOPOI Building Dahlem [4], hosted by the Excellence Cluster TOPOI. The full programme will be finalised and announced in late September. It is planned to grant an allowance to speakers for travelling and accommodation costs. Further details will be available once the program is finalised. [1] http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/ [2] http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/ [3] http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/submit [4] http://www.topoi.org/buildings/ ----- Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin 2012/2013: Call for Papers Das neu gegründete Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin [1], das erstmals im Wintersemester 2012/13 stattfinden wird, freut sich den Call for Papers bekannt zu geben. Diese Seminarreihe orientiert sich an dem Digital Classicist Work in Progress Seminar [2] in London und wird unter anderem von dem Deutschen Archäologischen Institut und dem Excellenzcluster TOPOI und in Berlin veranstaltet. Sie sind herzlich dazu eingeladen, Vorschläge zu Beiträgen einzureichen, welche die innovative Anwendung moderner digitaler Methoden, Ressourcen und Techniken in den Altertumswissenschaften thematisieren. Vorschläge in deutscher oder englischer Sprache im Umfang von 300-500 Wörtern (ohne bibliographische Angaben) können bis 14. September 2012 über die unten genannte Webseite hochgeladen werden [3]. Die Vorträge können folgende Themenbereich adressieren: digitale Texte, sprachwissenschaftliche Technologien, Bildverarbeitung und Visualisierung, Linked Data und Semantic Web, Open Access, Raum- und Netzwerk-Analyse und andere digitale oder statistische Methoden. Besonders werden dabei Vorschläge begründet, aus denen hervorgeht, wie dank der Anwendung digitaler Methoden fachübergreifende Fragen beantwortet werden können. Die im Seminar präsentierten Inhalten sollten sowohl Philologen, Historiker und Archäologen als auch Informationswissenschaftler und andere Geisteswissenschaftler mit Interesse an den genannten Fragestellungen ansprechen. Die Seminare werden alle 14 Tage dienstagabends um 17.00 - 18.30 Uhr im Hörsaal des TOPOI-Hauses in Berlin-Dahlem stattfinden [4]. Das vollständige Programm wird Ende September bekannt gegeben. Es ist geplant, Vortragende bei der Finanzierung der Reise- und Unterkunftskosten zu unterstützen. Nähere Details hierzu werden bei Veröffentlichung des Programm mitgeteilt. [1] http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/ [2] http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/ [3] http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/submit [4] http://www.topoi.org/buildings/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 1 16:42:48 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 C40EC285779; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 16:42:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5B0BD28576C; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 16:42:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120801164241.5B0BD28576C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 16:42:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.202 flashing lights and silent hoovers X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 202. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:58:57 -0400 From: Matthew Bernius Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.197 flashing lights In-Reply-To: <20120731151027.C52782869C2@woodward.joyent.us> This reminds me about a similar story that comes up in talks on design affordances being made to budding designers. Sooner or later someone tells the story about how one of the major home appliance manufacturers, during the mid century (usually the 50's) created a silent vacuum cleaner only to have it rejected by customers. The reason given is that despite its cleaning ability (which according to the story, matched that of it's noisy brethren), people wanted to hear the noise of the engine to be sure that the vacuum cleaner was working. Whether or not the story is apocryphal, the popularity of the fable (and its related moral) is worth exploring -- in particular how it leads to a sort of design thinking that, I suspect, has contributed to the wide number of skeuomorphs that currently make up much of the consumer digital experience. ----------------------------- Matthew Bernius PhD Student | Cultural Anthropology | Cornell University | http://anthropology.cornell.edu mBernius@gMail.com | http://www.mattbernius.com | @mattBernius My calendar: http://bit.ly/hNWEII On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > No reliable documentation, as such, but the Connection Machines [1] > famously had all-black front panels which had red lights representing the > state of the nodes in the machine. It seems, though [2], that these had > little real connection with the state of the machine, and were instead for > a range of purposes including being Cool (an important attribute at > Thinking Machines, it seems, during its short but beautiful life). > > It's a tangential point, but Cray clearly also cared about the > (intimidating?) aesthetics of their machines. A supercomputer should > _look_ super, dammit, and Crays do look to be dolled up in the hardware > analogue of primary-coloured lycra and a mask (hmm: I'm thinking of > Spiderman, here, not Kiss). > > Best wishes, > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 1 16:43:43 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 0C4C1285807; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 16:43:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E95E72857E7; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 16:43:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120801164337.E95E72857E7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 16:43:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.203 Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 203. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:37:12 -0700 From: Willard McCarty Subject: The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking Bard Graduate Center Presents The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking September 21, 2012 to January 27, 2013 EXHIBITION EXPLORES THE ROLE OF IMAGES IN SCIENTIFIC THINKING FEATURING NEVER BEFORE EXHIBITED WORKS ON PAPER AND OBJECTS INCLUDING DYNAMIC BLACK AND WHITE DRAWINGS, COMPUTER PRINT-OUTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND COMPUTER-GENERATED FILMS Focusing primarily on the work of one of the most notable mathematicians of the twentieth century, The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking explores the role of images in the development of what has become known as fractal geometry and chaos theory. Nina Samuel, a visiting assistant professor at the BGC, is the curator. Samuel, who received her PhD in art history from the Humboldt University of Berlin, is also an associate member of Das Technische Bild in Germany and a former member of the Swiss national research program eikones/NCRR Iconic Criticism. For thousands of years, Western thought assumed that fundamental geometry consisted of regular, ideal forms, such as cubes, spheres, and cones, with straight or evenly curved faces and edges. Benoît Mandelbrot (1924–2010), however, explored mathematics as he saw it— in all its untidiness and irregularity, devoting himself to the study, for example, of the forms of the coastlines of real islands, with all their unpredictable inlets, creeks, and furrows. At his death in 2010, Mandelbrot left a mass of idiosyncratically organized drawings, computer print-outs, films, manuscript scribbles, objects, and Polaroids in his office in Cambridge, Massachusetts— an extraordinary trove to which Mandelbrot’s wife, Aliette, generously allowed Professor Samuel access. “To explore it was like wandering through the mathematician’s brain,” said Samuel. “It was like witnessing the ephemeral traces of his very thought processes. Selections from these materials form the core of the exhibition. Sketches from Mandelbrot's contemporaries—the French mathematician Adrien Douady and the German biochemist Otto E. Rössler— will also be publicly exhibited for the first time. The work of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology meteorologist Edward N. Lorenz, a pioneer of chaos theory, will be represented by loans from the Library of Congress. The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking is accompanied by a fully-illustrated book published with Yale University Press. Drawing new connections between the material world and that of mathematical ideas, the publication offers not only a rare glimpse at the artifactual terrain and graphic methodologies of Benoît Mandelbrot and his contemporaries but also investigates the role of scientific imagery in visual thinking across diverse disciplines. For more information and images, contact barnhart@bgc.bard.edu; 212-501-3074. -- 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 Aug 1 16:47:12 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 E5B992858DD; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 16:47:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 045972858C3; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 16:47:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120801164706.045972858C3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 16:47:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.204 events: sociology of religion; comparative literature X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 204. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" (19) Subject: cfp: American Comparative Literature Conference 2013 [2] From: Andrew Prescott (48) Subject: cfp: Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:02:33 -0400 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: cfp: American Comparative Literature Conference 2013 Call for papers: American Comparative Literature Association annual conference, University of Toronto, 4-7 April 2013 http://www.acla.org/acla2013/. Abstracts of papers are invited to Steven Totosy de Zepetnek by 31 December 2012 at totosysteven@purdue.edu for the panel "New Media and Publishing in the Humanities." Debates about publishing in online journals and the publishing of books online instead of print or in print-on-demand suggest that both scholarship and the situation of academic publishers are changing rapidly. Papers can be overviews of the current situation of digital publishing in the humanities in the U.S. and world wide and about specific issues such as the relevance of the "impact factor" in the humanities, aspects of "digital humanities," digital preservation and archival, the valuation of scholarship published online with regard to tenure and promotion, the reading and teaching of scholarship in print versus online, the current move towards courseware online in open access, etc. Selected and peer-reviewed papers of the panel are planned to be published in the peer-reviewed online journal CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Thomson Reuters ISI indexed). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:30:11 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: cfp: Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion In-Reply-To: *Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion* *16th November 2012, Enterprise Centre, University of Derby* ** Organised by the Centre for Society, Religion & Belief (SRB), Derby: http://www.derby.ac.uk/health/social-care/research-groups/society-religion-and-belief-research-group Funded by Digital Social Research (DSR): http://www.digitalsocialresearch.net/wordpress/ http://www.digitalsocialresearch.net/wordpress/ Within an era of a growing reliance on digital technologies to instantly and effectively express our values, allegiances, and multi-faceted identities, the interest in digital research methodologies among Sociologists of Religion comes as no surprise (e.g. Bunt 2009; Cantoni and Zyga 2007; Contractor 2012 and Ostrowski 2006; Taylor 2003). However the methodological challenges associated with such research have been given significantly less attention. What are the epistemological underpinnings and rationale for the use ‘digital’ methodologies? What ethical dilemmas do sociologists face, including while protecting participants’ interests in digital contexts that are often perceived as anonymised and therefore ‘safe’? Implementing such ‘digital’ research also leads to practical challenges such as mismatched expectations of IT skills, limited access to specialized tools, project management and remote management of research processes. Hosted by the Centre for Society, Religion, and Belief at the University of Derby and funded by Digital Social Research, this conference will bring together scholars to critically evaluate the uses, impacts, challenges and future of *Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion*. We envisage that the conference will lead to an edited textbook and are currently in discussion with key publishers. For the purpose of the conference and textbook, digital research is broadly defined as research that either works _within digital contexts_ or which _uses either online or offline digital tools_. Abstracts for papers that focus on one, or more, of the following themes are invited: 1. Epistemological Positioning 2. Ethical Dilemmas 3. Implementation & Practical Challenges 4. Wider impacts beyond Academia Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words, as well as the title of the paper, name of the presenter, institutional affiliation, and contact details to Dr Sariya Contractor (s.contractor@derby.ac.uk ) and Dr. Suha Shakkour (s.shakkour@derby.ac.uk ) _by 5pm on Tuesday 28th August, 2012_. Shortlisted participants will be notified by 11th September 2012 and will be expected to submit summary papers (1000 words) by 1st November 2012 for circulation prior to the conference. A registration fee of £30 will apply for all speakers and delegates. A few travel bursaries are available for post-graduate students. Further details about the registration process will be circulated by mid-August.2012. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Aug 2 13:27:05 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 6AC2E2853F5; Thu, 2 Aug 2012 13:27:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F25652853E2; Thu, 2 Aug 2012 13:26:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120802132658.F25652853E2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 13:26:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.205 PhD studentship in literary quality X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 205. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 14:31:16 +0200 From: Karina van Dalen Subject: PhD vacancy Literary Quality PhD vacancy Literary Quality The project The Riddle of Literary Quality (http://literaryquality.huygens.knaw.nl/) has a vacancy for a PhD student. The PhD we are looking for will be working on the research into and the analysis of the low-level features that will be selected for analysis. He/she will combine knowledge of existing research into literary quality with new empirical approaches as developed in the area of digital/computational humanities. Some of the qualifications needed for applicants are a Master in Literary Studies or a closely related field, and affinity with (computational) linguistics and empirical research, knowledge of Dutch, English, and possibly also of Frisian, and affinity with information technology and willing to learn basic programming skills. The detailed description can be found at http://www.huygens.knaw.nl/wp-content/bestanden/2011/03/Vacancy-literary-quality-July2012.pdf Karina van Dalen-OskamHuygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands / University of Amsterdam 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 Fri Aug 3 14:23:17 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 D19D2285EC9; Fri, 3 Aug 2012 14:23:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 35D23285EB7; Fri, 3 Aug 2012 14:23:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120803142306.35D23285EB7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 14:23:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.206 jobs: Project Manager at Lausanne; PhD studentship at Bozen-Bolzano X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 206. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alessandro Artale (69) Subject: Call for funded PhD positions at KRDB Centre, Free Univ. Bolzano,Italy - Deadline Aug. 31, 2012 [2] From: Claire Clivaz (16) Subject: Project Manager for the Database BiBIL --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 19:26:48 +0100 From: Alessandro Artale Subject: Call for funded PhD positions at KRDB Centre, Free Univ. Bolzano,Italy - Deadline Aug. 31, 2012 In-Reply-To: CALL FOR PhD POSITIONS - DEADLINE August 31, 2012 Fully funded PhD positions at the KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/ Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy =============================================================== The Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) offers regular openings for studentships for its PhD program. The PhD programme has been running since 2004/2005. Since 2011/2012 there has also been a European programme (EPCL) which provides a joint qualification. *** PhD positions with studentship are offered by the KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data. *** The 2012/2013 PhD call is now open and the deadline to apply is: ****** 31.August.2012 ****** Up-to-date information about how to apply for the PhD program and the studentship - including deadlines, number of positions and necessary documents - can be found in the university PhD web pages: - http://www.unibz.it/en/public/research/phd/prospectivePhdstudents.html - http://www.unibz.it/en/inf/progs/phdcs/default.html The grant amounts to 51,000 Euro over the three years of the PhD. Substantial extra funding is available for participation in international conferences, schools and workshops. The faculty of Computer Science and its PhD program are entirely based on the English language. RESEARCH TOPICS The KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data (http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/) of the Faculty of Computer Science invites applicants to the PhD program to get in touch with the research group (see CONTACT PERSON below), in order to have a better understanding of the possible research activities in which perspective students may be involved. Relevant research topics in the centre are the following: * Computational Logic and Deductive Databases * Computational Logic and Constraint Programming * Description Logics and Ontology Languages * Conceptual Data Modelling and Ontology Design * Ontology Based Data Access * Query Answering in Distributed Environments * Intelligent Access to Web Resources * Semistructured Data Management * Temporal Logics and Temporal Databases * Knowledge-based techniques for Service Access and Composition * Knowledge-based techniques for Business Processing * Evolution and Update of Knowledge Bases * Data Quality and Completeness * Modelling and Accessing Imcomplete Data Other research topics are listed in the personal web pages of the members of the KRDB Centre, see: http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/staff.php The research activities in the KRDB research centre require good knowledge of Logic and of Foundations of Databases, and some knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and of Knowledge Representation. Good knowledge of English is also preferred. EUROPEAN PhD PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC (EPCL) The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano participates through the KRDB Research Centre to the European PhD Program in Computational Logic (EPCL) http://www.epcl-study.eu/ Students that are admitted for a PhD position at the KRDB Research Centre may apply to join EPCL. The admission to EPCL is decided by a Joint Commission consisting of representatives of the EPCL partner universities. THE KRDB CENTRE -- http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/index.php CONTACT To get in contact with the KRDB Research Centre, send an email to Dr. Alessandro Artale . To get in touch with the current PhD students see: --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 09:35:06 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Project Manager for the Database BiBIL In-Reply-To: Dear all, The Swiss-French Institute for Biblical Studies, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Lausanne (CH) opens a position in Project Manager for the Database BiBIL at 80%. The deadline for applications is September, 30, 2012; the beginning date is negotiable. All details of the applications can be found on the website: https://recruitingapp-2644.umantis.com/Vacancies/299/Description/3?Redirec t3Dtrue&customer3D2644 Please feel free to communicate this advertisement within your institution, and to other academic institutions. For any further information, please contact Professor Christophe Nihan (Christophe.Nihan@unil.ch), the Director of the Swiss-French Institute for Biblical Studies. Claire Clivaz _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Aug 3 14:24:22 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 C6A54285F36; Fri, 3 Aug 2012 14:24:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4A7FC285F22; Fri, 3 Aug 2012 14:24:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120803142413.4A7FC285F22@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 14:24:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.207 events: Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange 2012 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 207. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 10:55:34 -0500 From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: MIREX 2012: Open for Submissions Dear Colleagues: The 2012 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) submission system is now open! IMPORTANT DATES: We have two sets of deadlines for submissions. We have to stagger the deadlines because of runtime and human evaluation considerations. Tasks with a 20 August 2012 deadline: Audio Classification (Train/Test) Tasks Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval Symbolic Melodic Similarity Tasks with a 27 August 2012 deadline: All remaining MIREX 2012 tasks. Nota Bene: In the past we have been rather flexible about deadlines. This year, however, we simply do not have the time flexibility, sorry. Please, please, please, let's start getting those submissions made. The sooner we have the code, the sooner we can start running the evaluations. PS: If you have a slower running algorithm, help us help you by getting your code in ASAP. Please do pay attention to runtime limits. CONTACT INFORMATION: The EvalFest mailing list, , is our primary point of communication. For personal questions, please contact the MIREX 2012 Team at . BACKGROUND INFORMATION: http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2012:Main_Page More information about each MIREX 2012 task can be found at the above URL. SUBMISSION STARTING POINT: http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/MIREX_2012_Submission_Instructions Please follow the instructions carefully. It is important that you read (and understand) the submission instructions from top to bottom. Cheers, J. Stephen Downie on behalf of the MIREX 2012 Team -- ********************************************************** "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 Sat Aug 4 14:19:35 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 67B802865CC; Sat, 4 Aug 2012 14:19:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0E1812865B7; Sat, 4 Aug 2012 14:19:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120804141931.0E1812865B7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 14:19:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.208 events: just-in-time sociology; XML X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 208. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Frederic Kaplan (73) Subject: Just-in-time sociology 2012 [2] From: Peter Flynn (16) Subject: XML Summer School, Oxford --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 18:42:07 +0200 From: Frederic Kaplan Subject: Just-in-time sociology 2012 Dear colleagues, The Just-in-time Sociology workshop call for paper is now on-line (http://jitso.org/jitso-2012/). You can already signal your intention to submit an article by writing an email to contact@jitso.org. Best regards, Frederic Kaplan. --- Professor in Digital Humanities, EPFL ---------- JITSO 2012 First international workshop on Just-in-time Sociology http://jitso.org/jitso-2012/ 4th December 2012. EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (Just before Soc-info 2012) No attendance fee. JITSO 2012 will gather the most significant international researchers that try to understand social phenomena as they unfold, mining their digital traces. We would like to present studies focusing on large-scale social movements ("Arabic Spring Revolutions", London riots, electoral campaigns, big controversies) as well as studies investigating new everyday social dynamics (analyses of photographic flux on Facebook, social dynamics in on-line games, etc.). The aim of the workshop is to draw a global map of the tools, methods and first results of this emerging field. One session will be dedicated to the presentation of data mining tools for analyzing streams of texts and images. JITSO 2012 will be organized through an experimental open and public reviewing process, using WordPress as a central platform for publishing and reviewer articles and for designing the structure of the workshop itself. Contribution types JITSO 2012 welcome two types of (short) contributions - Research notes (max 2000 words) discussing briefly a particular research case or an on-going project. - Tool presentations (max 1000 words) showing (possibly with a video/pictures) the relevant use of a tool for Just-in-time sociology. With the choice of these two short formats, we encourage submissions from a broad audience of researchers, covering most of the emerging topics of just-in-time sociology. After the workshop, a selection of these research notes will be developed in 2013 into full acamedic articles, published in a special issue of an international journal. Submission and reviewing process All submission will be submitted as WordPress Posts on jitso.org. We encourage inclusion of animations, video in the article. References can be added at the end of submission or directly as URL links. The whole reviewing process will be made public. Process 1. Signal your intention to submit an article by writing an email to contact@jitso.org. Add a short note explaining you research background and current research topic. Deadline : 10 September 2012 2. The editor send you an invitation to become contributor on the jitso.org platform. 3. Write your article in the wordpress interface. Send a mail to contact@jitso.org when it is ready to be published. Deadline : 24 Septembre 2012 4. The editor assigns to your article three referees that will write public comments about your article. The article is published on the jitso.org website with the mention "under discussion". Referees publish their comments within two weeks and then discuss with the authors. 5. Based on the discussion, the authors modify their article. Once they find it is ready, they send a mail to contact@jitso.org stating that their article is ready for the Program Committee discussion. Deadline : 29 October 2012 6. Program Committee Discussion : The purpose of the program committee discussion is to decide about the program of JITSO 2012. This discussion is restricted to the members of the PC but, for transparency, it will take the form of recorded video discussion using a tool like Google + HangOut. The video discussion with be recorded and posted on thejitso.org website. Following the discussion, the official program will be announced. 7. Workshop day : The workshop will take place at EPFL in Lausanne. Some contributors and attendants could also follow it remotely. All presentations will be recorded and posted on the jitso.org website. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 18:23:57 +0100 From: Peter Flynn Subject: XML Summer School, Oxford Gentlemen, The XML Summer School has been running in Oxford for over a decade (http://xml.summerschool.com). Several past attendees have been from publishing, academic, and specifically Humanities backgrounds (including Julianne Nyhan). Each year we redevelop the curriculum to reflect changes in the technology as well as changes in the demands of people who use it. Would KCL -- specifically the School or your Department -- be interested in becoming a Sponsor of the Summer School? The rich mix of backgrounds among the attendees means a wide exposure to sponsors' organisations: City University London and Loughborough University as well as MarkLogic and oXygen are already benefitting from this. The Course Director, Dr Lauren Wood, or the Founder, Prof John Chelsom, would be happy to answer any questions you might have. Regards Peter Flynn _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Aug 4 14:20:24 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 C1D392866A3; Sat, 4 Aug 2012 14:20:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5435C28668F; Sat, 4 Aug 2012 14:20:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120804142018.5435C28668F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 14:20:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.209 what *is* a digital edition? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 209. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:40:33 -0700 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Fwd: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Euripides Scholia, or: what makes a digitaledition digital? [From time to time I pass on messages from Digital Classicist (http://www.digitalclassicist.org/) without signalling their origins in that group. Following is yet another worthy posting that has already provoked some comment, but rather than keep sending these on I direct the attention of all those interested in the question (what, after all, *is* a "digital edition"?) to the discussion there. --WM] Dear all, I have checked out the interesting scholarly edition "Euripides Scholia" online, by D. Mastronarde. Very usefully, he exposes the rationale (both philological and digital) of his edition in http://euripidesscholia.org/EurSchStructure.html I'll mention here a couple of passages of that page and then ask a question on the digital nature of that important edition. Mastronarde writes: "I have preferred to list the witnesses as XXaXbTYGrZZaZm and to enter the note ‘s.l.’ in the position segment". (About the position of scholia, like 'interlinear' etc.). More interestingly and explicitly, later on - in the same page - Mastronarde writes: "The apparatus criticus is an area in which I have decided not to use the TEI mechanisms for apparatus criticus readings and variants, because in a project of this kind it seems to me that it would involve an unjustifiably large overhead of markup. I believe the information familiar to those who know how to read the apparatus criticus of a classical text can be provided in textual segments. This does mean that one will not be able to take my XML document and process it to produce a text that reflects the textual choices and errors of a particular witness, which probably would be possible with a more elaborate markup of readings and witnesses with pointers to specific words in the text. Such a project would require more personnel and a much larger budget, and I don’t think the benefit would be worth the cost". The main point here is that, as Mastronard says, this editions is meant to be "read" (in fact the user can choose among different 'views' including different layers of textual materials), and would require further processing to become a "real" digital scholarly edition, handling variants and witnesses automatically. In other words, the modelling behind this online edition mirrors a traditional print edition of scholia, rather than representing the textual variance with a digital paradigm. The choice of the electronic form, as explained in http://euripidesscholia.org/EurSchGoals.html (Project Goals: "Other goals of this project are related to exploiting the possibilities of a digital format"), is mostly due to Open Access and expandibility reasons. The latter reasons are highly admirable in themselves (and I most certainly support Open Access and believe in modularity and interoperability). My question, however, is: may this excellent philological work be also defined a *digital* scholarly edition? Some interesting reflections I may recall right now on when an edition qualifies as 'digital' are: 1) Robinson, P. (2006), Electronic Textual Editing: The Canterbury Tales and other Medieval Texts, in Lou Burnard; Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe & John Unsworth, ed., 'Electronic Textual Editing', Modern Language Association of America http://www.tei-c.org/About/Archive_new/ETE/Preview/robinson.xml 2) Bodard, G. & Garcés, J. (2009), Open Source Critical Editions: A Rationale, in Marilyn Deegan & Kathryn Sutherland, ed., 'Text Editing, Print, and the Digital World', Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 83-98; 3) The work of Patrick Sahle: check out http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ahz26/ What do you digital classicists think? Best, Paolo _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Aug 5 14:15:47 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 419A3284C84; Sun, 5 Aug 2012 14:15:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8035E284C6C; Sun, 5 Aug 2012 14:15:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120805141538.8035E284C6C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 14:15:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.210 events: digital scholarly editions & large-scale text collections X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 210. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 15:00:01 +0200 From: Karina van Dalen Subject: CFP NeDiMAH (1) expert meeting and (2) workshop 1. EXPERT MEETING on Digital Scholarly Editions The working group on Digital Scholarly Editions of the European Research Network NeDiMAH (Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities, http://www.nedimah.eu) is organising an Experts’ Seminar on Wednesday, 21 November 2012 at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands in The Hague. The seminar is being held in conjunction with the 9th conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, ‘Editing Fundamentals: Historical and Literary Paradigms in Source Editing’, 22-24 November 2012 in Amsterdam (http://www.textualscholarship.eu/conference-2012.html). The NeDiMAH working group on Digital Scholarly Editions seeks to promote the use of existing digital technologies in the production of scholarly editions, bringing together experts from a wide variety of disciplines and time-periods to establish the state of the art and recommend a set of best practices in order to ensure maximum interoperability and long-term preservation of, and access to, digital data. In particular, the topics which will be addressed at the seminar are: • Theory: What is a digital edition? What is its purpose, and who are the intended users? What, in short, is the nature of the digital editorial endeavour? • Production: What are the various stages in the production of a digital edition? Standards for digital imaging and basic text encoding are now fairly well established, but there remain several fundamental issues yet to be resolved, such as how one can best deal with documenting and representing textual variation and the basic question of editing the text as opposed to editing the document (i.e. the text in situ). To what extent are collaborative/distributed editions the way forward? Proposals of not more than 500 words are invited by the 10th of September (to mjd@hum.ku.dk or elena.pierazzo@kcl.ac.uk). Please note that for this seminar we are particularly interested in methodological and theoretical contributions, rather than project reports. Speakers will be allotted 15 minutes for their presentations followed by 10 minutes of discussion. The seminar will close with a general round-table discussion. We are able to reimburse, up to a certain amount, people coming from one of the NeDiMAH contributing countries; please let us known if you want to be considered for this. Matthew Driscoll and Elena Pierazzo 2. WORKSHOP Using Large-Scale Text Collections for Research The NeDiMAH working group Using Large-Scale Text Collections for Research also hosts a workshop on Wednesday 21 November 2012 and also at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, in The Hague, The Netherlands/ The workshop Using Large-Scale Text Collections for Research: Status and Needs will be used to inventorize the availability of text corpora for researchers from different disciplines in the participating countries and languages. How large are the available corpora? For what purposes were they created? What kinds of mark-up do they contain? And which tools are available to help mining the corpora? What is missing in both texts and tools to make the corpus also useful for other research disciplines than the one it was originally created for? The first part of the day-long workshop will be used for an introductory paper by the group leader, followed by short papers of the participants sketching the situation in their country and language(s) and the needs of their own specific research discipline. The rest of the day will be dedicated to discussions about the topics addressed during the first parts: what are the shared positive points in the different countries/languages/disciplines? Is there an overlap in the different needs that were expressed? What can we learn from each other? Where can we push the developments further through a shared approach? Abstracts are invited before 10 September and can be sent to karina.van.dalen@huygens.knaw.nl Details about the abstract and about reimbursement possibilities can be found at http://drupal.p164224.webspaceconfig.de/workgroups/using-large-scale-text-collections-research Karina van Dalen-Oskam _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Aug 6 14:38:44 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 51755286301; Mon, 6 Aug 2012 14:38:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F3C842862C7; Mon, 6 Aug 2012 14:38:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120806143832.F3C842862C7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 14:38:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.211 events: community informatics; digital tools & technologies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 211. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Peter Stadler (42) Subject: Edirom-Summer-School 2012 Registration open [2] From: Philipp Budka (11) Subject: Connecting Canadians: Investigations in Community Informatics --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 09:50:46 +0200 From: Peter Stadler Subject: Edirom-Summer-School 2012 Registration open Dear colleagues, As already announced, the third Edirom-Summer-School on digital tools and technologies in the humanities is to take place ** September 24 to 28, 2012 at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Germany** Registration is open at: http://www.edirom.de/summerschool2012 With a total of 13 classes it is our biggest summer school to date - not least because of your great interest over the past years. Starting with basic introductions to TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), MEI (Music Encoding Initiative) and Edirom-Tools we continue with courses on Edirom-Customization, introduction to eXist-db, XPath and regular expressions, as well as XSLT. We are very excited to welcome external tutors for the first time this year. Daniel Kurzawe and Tibor Kálmán (both GWDG, Göttingen, Germany) from DARIAH-DE will hold an "introduction to sustainable handling of research data", Axel Teich Geertinger (DCM, Copenhagen) teaches "MerMEId Metadata Editor and Repository for MEI Data", and Raffaele Viglianti (King's College, London) will teach "Encoding Text and Music" and "An introduction to ODD". This also has an impact on teaching language and we are happy to anounce three classes in english, being: - Encoding Text and Music (Sept 27) - Manuscript Encoding and Digital Editions based on MEI (Sept 27 to 28) - An introduction to ODD (Sept 28) Attendance is open to everyone and we will only charge a mere €5.00 contribution for refreshments for each half day of attendance. Registration deadline is due August 31, 2012. On low registration numbers we reserve the right to merge or cancel classes. The Edirom-Summer-School team is looking forward to your attendance at Paderborn. For further information visit http://www.edirom.de/summerschool2012. With best wishes from your organisation team, Peter Stadler and Benjamin W. Bohl -- *********************************************************** Edirom - Projekt "Digitale Musikedition" Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar Detmold/Paderborn Gartenstraße 20 D – 32756 Detmold Tel. +49 (0) 5231 / 975-665 Fax: +49 (0) 5231 / 975-668 http://www.edirom.de *********************************************************** --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 08:33:39 +0100 From: Philipp Budka Subject: Connecting Canadians: Investigations in Community Informatics Connecting Canadians: Investigations in Community Informatics represents the work of the Community Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN), the largest national and international research effort to examine the burgeoning field of community informatics, a cross-disciplinary approach to the mobilization of information and communications technologies (ICT) for community change. ... With free book and chapter downloads: http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120193 Best, Philipp -- Philipp Budka philbu@gmx.net Dreyhausenstraße 18/7 A-1140 Wien, Austria http://www.philbu.net _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 7 13:36:37 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 8BA74287E2D; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:36:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8685F287E22; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:36:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120807133630.8685F287E22@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:36:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.212 translation and elit? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 212. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 14:41:34 -0400 From: Lee Skallerup Bessette Subject: Translation and elit I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for resources/links dealing with the issue of translation and elit. I've tweeted the request and heard about a conference that took place in Paris this June dealing with this very issue, but couldn't find any information beyond the initial call for papers. I've scoured Translation Studies (US) and TTR (Canada) but have come up empty-handed. Perhaps there are more resources dealing with this issue in Europe. Thanks everyone. The wisdom of this crowd never ceases to amaze me. Sincerely, Lee Skallerup Bessette, PhD _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 7 13:37:20 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 B96D4287E67; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:37:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ADD33287E55; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:37:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120807133714.ADD33287E55@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:37:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.213 Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 37.2 (June 2012) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 213. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:05:52 -0700 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 37.2 (June 2012) Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 37.2 (June 2012) www.isr-journal.org 1. The Posthuman: Without It, Nothing Else is Possible Harpham, Geoffrey Galt PP. 101-112(12) 2. The Heavens are Telling: Memetic- Calvinian Readings of a Haydn Chord Progression Jan, Steven PP. 113-130(18) 3. Cognitive Function of Music. Part I Perlovsky, Leonid PP. 131-144(14) 4. Drawing, Etching, and Experiment in Christopher Wren's Figure of the Brain Flis, Nathan PP. 145-160(16) 5. Ecosystem Management Research: Clarifying the Concept of Interdisciplinary Work Botey, Anna Pujadas; Garvin, Theresa; Szostak, Rick PP. 161-178(18) 6. When Physicists Invade Economics Schinckus, Christophe PP. 179-186(8) 7. On Generalized Tian Ji's Horse Racing Strategy Shu, Jian-Jun PP. 187-193(7) 8. Reviews PP. 194-200(7) -- 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 Aug 7 13:38:58 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 442AA287EC1; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:38:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 840B5287EB8; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:38:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120807133853.840B5287EB8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:38:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.214 versions of texts: two projects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 214. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Andrew Prescott (48) Subject: Othello Arrayed in Translations: Version Variation Visualization Project News [2] From: Stephen Ross (21) Subject: The Modernist Versions Project: news and thanks --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 20:42:32 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Othello Arrayed in Translations: Version Variation Visualization Project News In-Reply-To: <9F7FA2E0294A934CA0CD9E97BD580F8411B6D7CD@CCS-EXCHANGE1.brynmill.swan.ac.uk> > Subject: Othello Arrayed in Translations: Version Variation Visualization Project News > Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 19:08:23 +0100 > From: Cheesman T. Dear all, Apologies for sending an impersonal email. It's to the many who have helped this project -- wittingly or not. With thanks. "Explore Great Works with their World-wide Translations" -- the first "Translation Array" prototype is live online at www.delightedbeauty.org/vvvclosed http://www.delightedbeauty.org/vvvclosed (read-only). At the read-and-write site www.delightedbeauty.org/vvv http://www.delightedbeauty.org/vvv , you can upload corpora and work on them. The login for both installations is: Guest Guest2012 Our test corpus is Shakespeare's /Othello/, Act 1 Scene 3, with 32 German versions (1766-2010). We'll present our work at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London, on September 11 -- all welcome: see ow.ly/cLIu5 http://ow.ly/cLIu5 -- and at the Leipzig eHumanities Seminar, Oct 24. Kevin Flanagan built the corpus store and segmentation/alignment tool. Stephan Thiel designed visual interfaces. Zhao Geng has developed further visual analysis tools, offline as yet: see ow.ly/cLJu6 http://ow.ly/cLJu6 . AHRC is the main project funder. We hope this model will be interesting for research, education, and arts practice. At '/vvvclosed' (or ow.ly/cLKDT http://ow.ly/cLKDT ), click the lower left image ('Interface study for Viv & Eddy values'). Click any speech to see all German versions, with Google's English back-translations. Versions can be arranged in order of distinctiveness ('Eddy' values). Varying coloration of the base text expresses the intensity of variation among versions ('Viv' values). Certain sub-speech segments have also been defined, e.g. "Here is the man, this Moor" or "I saw Othello's visage in his mind". (On ‘Eddy and Viv’, see ow.ly/cLJN1 http://ow.ly/cLJN1 . We're still working on the maths... and everything.) Feedback, questions, requests and offers are all welcome. Email me, or the team on: transarrays@gmail.com or tweet @transarrays. We'll be delighted to hear from you. Best regards for what's left of the summer, Tom Dr Tom Cheesman Reader in German College of Arts and Humanities Swansea University SA2 8PP Institution: www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/academic/ArtsHumanities/cheesmant http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/academic/ArtsHumanities/cheesmant Shakespeare/Translation: www.delightedbeauty.org http://www.delightedbeauty.org / www.delightedbeauty.org/vvvclosed http://www.delightedbeauty.org/vvvclosed --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 23:04:41 +0100 From: Stephen Ross Subject: The Modernist Versions Project: news and thanks In-Reply-To: <9F7FA2E0294A934CA0CD9E97BD580F8411B6D7CD@CCS-EXCHANGE1.brynmill.swan.ac.uk> The Modernist Versions Project would like to take this brief pause before the onset of the fall term to thank everyone in the larger DH community, and especially our partners, for their support over the last year (MJP, NINES, EMiC, Fairleigh Dickinson University, ETCL, Islandora/DiscoveryGarden). Only a year ago, we were preparing an application for funding and seeking out partnerships. This year, we are the fortunate recipients of a Partnership Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, along with tremendous support from all quarters. We have big plans for the coming year, including our ongoing Year of Ulysses http://web.uvic.ca/~mvp1922/you/ initiative, workshops on versioning modernist texts, sponsorship of a course at DHSI, release of our Project Charter, and a proof-of-concept use-case that will show off what we've been able to do in one short year. Please visit > modernistversions.ca to, and again thank you everyone for your amazing support. Stephen Ross, Principal Investigator, for The Modernist Versions Project board (Jentery Sayers, Tanya Clement, Susan Schreibman, Dean Irvine, J. Matthew Huculak, and James Gifford) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 7 13:39:44 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 C70BD287F17; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:39:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C4EE6287F06; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:39:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120807133937.C4EE6287F06@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:39:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.215 events: thesis animation contest; digital research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 215. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Scullard, Susan" (87) Subject: Digital Research 2012 - Registration Open [2] From: Adam Crymble (9) Subject: DH Thesis animation contest (PhD Comics) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:48:53 +0100 From: "Scullard, Susan" Subject: Digital Research 2012 - Registration Open Digital Research 2012 10-12 September 2012 St Catherine’s College, Oxford, UK digital-research.oerc.ox.ac.uk Digital Research 2012 is being held in St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, 10-12 September 2012. We have an exciting 3-day programme including New Science of New Data, Smart Spaces, Open Science, Web Archiving, Cybersecurity and Responsible Digital Research - plus the launch of the Software Sustainability Institute's Fellows programme and the UK e-Infrastructure Academic Community Forum. We're excited to bring you an exciting set of thought-leading keynote speakers including Jim Hendler, Noshir Contractor, Stevan Harnad, Kieron O'Hara, Stefan Staab, Peter Coveney and Peter Murray-Rust, with additional guests featuring in roundtables on "Digital Research Futures" and "A revolution in social data: current hype or future history?" Please visit the Digital Research 2012 website http://digital-research.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ to register. NB An important element of Digital Research 2012 is the showcase of research activities from across the community, as well as glimpses into the future of digital research. We're keeping submission open for short (1200-1500 words) contributions until 13th August, so if you've not submitted already it's not too late (please see the call below). We look forward to seeing you in September to share the latest developments in digital research and set the agenda for tomorrow! The Digital Research 2012 Team ----- Call for Contributions Digital Research practice, tools and infrastructures have been embraced by researchers across all disciplines. In sciences and humanities, from big data analytics to citizen scholarship, we are harnessing our new digital capabilities ranging from the Web and new devices to e-Infrastructure, High Performance Computing and the Cloud. While adoption and investment grow the community continues to innovate. The goal of Digital Research 2012 is to showcase today’s digital research practice and innovation, and to set an influential agenda for tomorrow. This year we are inviting contributions under the themes of "Digital Research Innovation Showcase" and "Digital Research Futures". The scope is the broad digital research ecosystem, which includes digital research applications in any discipline (sciences, digital humanities, creative and performing arts), tools, methods, practice, all aspects of e-Infrastructure, the research environment, digital curation, data management policy and practice, analytics, modelling, simulation, open science, open data and software, linked data, automation, standards, long tail and citizen science, knowledge infrastructure, sustainability, research communication, reproducible research, learning, training (e.g. data science curriculum), design and responsible innovation. Call for Contributions: Digital Research Innovation Showcase Digital Research 2012 will be showcasing the state of the art in Digital Research. We invite short papers presenting your Digital Research project, emphasising innovative Digital Research practice, tools, resources and outcomes. Please indicate your preferred presentation format: oral, poster, demo or video. The submission format is a 3 page (1200-1500 words) extended abstract. All submissions will be peer-reviewed for their original contribution to the state of the art. Submissions for oral presentation may be accepted instead for poster presentation. All accepted abstracts will be made available in the online proceedings. Call for Contributions: Digital Research Futures This year’s theme is the Future of Digital Research. We invite short papers, stories and videos giving your glimpse of “Digital Research in the Future” in (and between) any disciplines. We encourage originality and forward- thinking, and there will be awards for the best-rated submissions. These glimpses of our Digital Research Future may be based on your current research and should draw on your insights and vision. Short papers set out your view on the evolution of some aspect of the digital research ecosystem. Stories and videos could address the above with alternative narratives like “a day in the life” of a researcher or mock-up media coverage, and your submission should include a rationale for your vision, and include references, to assist with peer review. Creativity is definitely encouraged. The submission format is a 3 page (1200-1500 words) short paper. All submissions will be peer-reviewed for their original contribution to the Digital Research agenda. Position papers and stories may be accepted either for oral or poster presentation at the conference. All accepted papers will be made available in the online proceedings. Please submit your abstracts and short papers via EasyChair by 13th August 2012 – further instructions, and information about special sessions and collocated workshops, can be found on the website http://digital-research.oerc.ox.ac.uk http://digital-research.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ ________________________________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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 14:09:11 +0100 From: Adam Crymble Subject: DH Thesis animation contest (PhD Comics) Dear Distinguished Fellow Digital Humanists! As you may or may not have heard, academic cartoonist Jorge Chan (PhD Comics - http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php) is offering to animate a two minute talk of a PhD student's thesis and turn it onto a video. The entry with the most votes will be animated by Chan. I've put my talk into the hat, which discusses how my research uses distant reading to understand historical immigration. I believe my entry is the only one in the Digital Humanities category, and I'd be very honoured to have your votes. If not for me, than for digital humanities! http://www.phdcomics.com/tv/2minute/#92 Please do pass this along to colleagues, as well as any kittens or puppies who have unique IP addresses and might like to show their support. Thank you kindly, Adam Crymble PhD Student, King's College London Department of Digital Humanities & History _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 8 13:48:05 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 96E2F2871A3; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:48:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1FF37287190; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:47:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120808134754.1FF37287190@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:47:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.216 flashing lights and silent hoovers X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 216. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:41:22 -0500 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.202 flashing lights and silent hoovers We folklorists consider these kinds of narratives to be part of the larger set of legends wherein the nature of reality is tested in interesting ways. As for the nature of the lights themselves, the popular term among the geeks I knew was "der blinkenlighten." I'd be curious to know what other terms were used. (I especially liked the Germanification of the term in this case, giving it a kind of weird blend of camp and science and "German engineering" feel all at the same time.) As to legendry about products that had to be skeumorphed in some fashion, there is always the one about the miraculous topical antibiotic to which salt had to be added because consumers wanted to "feel" the medicine, an earlier version of "feel the burn," working. I've heard it attributed to Neosporin, Bactine, and a number of other medications. yours in the (thankful) demise of mercurochrome, john -- John Laudun Department of English University of Louisiana – Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 337-482-5493 laudun@louisiana.edu http://johnlaudun.org/ On 2012 Aug 1, at 11:42, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 202. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:58:57 -0400 > From: Matthew Bernius > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.197 flashing lights > In-Reply-To: <20120731151027.C52782869C2@woodward.joyent.us> > > > This reminds me about a similar story that comes up in talks on design > affordances being made to budding designers. > > Sooner or later someone tells the story about how one of the major home > appliance manufacturers, during the mid century (usually the 50's) created > a silent vacuum cleaner only to have it rejected by customers. The reason > given is that despite its cleaning ability (which according to the story, > matched that of it's noisy brethren), people wanted to hear the noise of > the engine to be sure that the vacuum cleaner was working. > > Whether or not the story is apocryphal, the popularity of the fable (and > its related moral) is worth exploring -- in particular how it leads to a > sort of design thinking that, I suspect, has contributed to the wide number > of skeuomorphs that currently make up much of the consumer digital > experience. > > ----------------------------- > Matthew Bernius > PhD Student | Cultural Anthropology | Cornell University | > http://anthropology.cornell.edu > mBernius@gMail.com | http://www.mattbernius.com | @mattBernius > My calendar: http://bit.ly/hNWEII > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < > willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > >> No reliable documentation, as such, but the Connection Machines [1] >> famously had all-black front panels which had red lights representing the >> state of the nodes in the machine. It seems, though [2], that these had >> little real connection with the state of the machine, and were instead for >> a range of purposes including being Cool (an important attribute at >> Thinking Machines, it seems, during its short but beautiful life). >> >> It's a tangential point, but Cray clearly also cared about the >> (intimidating?) aesthetics of their machines. A supercomputer should >> _look_ super, dammit, and Crays do look to be dolled up in the hardware >> analogue of primary-coloured lycra and a mask (hmm: I'm thinking of >> Spiderman, here, not Kiss). >> >> Best wishes, _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 8 13:53:04 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 8CE0B28725A; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:53:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C4E2A287249; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:52:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120808135259.C4E2A287249@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:52:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.217 jobs at Night Kitchen Interactive; training in archaeology at York X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 217. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Janneken Smucker (12) Subject: career and internship opportunities at Night Kitchen Interactive [2] From: Judith Winters (18) Subject: HLF/IfA Workplace Learning Bursary Funded Training Placement with ADS/Internet Archaeology --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 09:39:48 -0400 From: Janneken Smucker Subject: career and internship opportunities at Night Kitchen Interactive Night Kitchen Interactive, a Philadelphia design firm specializing in websites and interactive experiences for museums and cultural institutions, is looking for creative, intelligent, passionate people to join its team: Fall 2012 American History Intern http://www.whatscookin.com/html/contact/internships/fall-2012-american-history-internship/ Business Development Manager http://www.whatscookin.com/html/contact/careers/business-development-manager-full-time/ Proposal Coordinator http://www.whatscookin.com/html/contact/careers/proposal-coordinator-full-time/ Interactive Developer http://www.whatscookin.com/html/contact/careers/interactive-developer/ Janneken Smucker Incoming Assistant Professor of Digital History West Chester University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 16:14:37 +0100 From: Judith Winters Subject: HLF/IfA Workplace Learning Bursary Funded Training Placement with ADS/Internet Archaeology Applications are invited for a training placement funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund through the IfA Workplace Learning Bursary scheme. https://jobs.york.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=3885&p_web_page_id=155109 The training to be provided is in Digital Archaeology focussing on digital preservation, data management and web publication skills. The placement will be jointly hosted by The Archaeology Data Service and Internet Archaeology, and will be based at our offices in the King’s Manor, York. The position is available for 12 months from October 2012. regards Judith -- Judith Winters Editor, Internet Archaeology http://intarch.ac.uk Department of Archaeology, Queens Anniversary Prize winner 2011 EMAIL DISCLAIMER http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 8 13:54:10 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 EAC1B2872C7; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:54:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9D3CB2872A0; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:54:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120808135403.9D3CB2872A0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:54:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.218 changing times for Ken Friedman 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. 218. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 07:42:07 +0000 From: Ken Friedman Subject: Changing Times Dear Colleague, Five years ago last month, I had coffee in Amsterdam. Some people travel to the Netherlands for drugs. Others go for the pleasures of the flesh. I went to meet with Ian Young. In those days, Ian was Vice Chancellor and President of Swinburne University of Technology. Ian was looking for a Dean to head the Faculty of Design and my name was on his list. As everyone must know, I had no ambition to be a dean. I had been a research professor for many years, working in leadership and strategic design at the Norwegian School of Management. While my research included leadership and organization theory, I had not been responsible for managing an organization since my entrepreneurial days several decades back. Even so, the issues and challenges of leading a design faculty in a university moving toward a top research profile interested me - and Ian Young is persuasive. You know the rest of the story. For the past five years, I have been a dean at one of the world's 500 best research universities. I'm proud of what we have achieved. I have enjoyed the challenges of the job working with outstanding colleagues in the faculty and across the university. Today, we have begun a process that will move the Faculty of Design to the Hawthorn campus. This requires intense logistical planning and operations management. When I interviewed for the dean's post, I stated in plain language that I'm not an administrator. My mission was an emphasis on research, and I hope that I brought new dimensions to the faculty as the kind of dean one might find in a classical Scandinavian research university. Today, we face a different challenge, and the faculty needs a new kind of dean. We need a leader with different skills, and the ability to juggle complex transition issues while maintaining our momentum in education and research. On September 1, I will be leaving the Dean's office to focus on my role as University Distinguished Professor. Dr. Scott Thompson-Whiteside will become the Acting Dean. Over the past five years, it has been my pleasure to work with Scott as our Associate Dean International. He has also served as Acting Deputy Dean, distinguishing himself in the complex planning and resource management issues that converge in modern university leadership. I am confident that Scott Thompson-Whiteside is the right person for this job, and I am certain that Scott will lead Swinburne Design with skill and the sense of purpose that makes a vital difference. In my first day on the job, I said that I want to build the kind of design faculty where I'd like to work as a professor. This transition gives me the opportunity I've been waiting for, with a return to life as a research professor. My responsibilities will include working with the Swinburne Design Factory. I will also work with the Design Research Alliance, an association of design faculties at seven leading research universities: Aalto, TU Delft, Hong Kong Polytechnic, Loughborough, National Chen Kung, Politecnico di Milano, and Swinburne. There will be other projects coming up as well. In the first week of October, I'll be in Helsinki for Design Factory Week, together with colleagues from Aalto and Tongji. At the end of October, Shanghai will host Radical Design Week, an international extension of Helsinki's year as the World Design Capital 2012. At the Emerging Practices Forum, I'll give a keynote on design in the global knowledge economy and the role that design education must play. (Attached, you'll find an article on this theme, courtesy of Visible Language. The current issue contains ten views on design education - visit the Visible Language web site to learn more.) That brings me up to date. I'd also like to inform you that email address has changed, though only slightly. It is now: kenfriedman@swin.edu.au Other addresses will stop working before long, so please keep in touch at my new address. Warm wishes, Ken Professor Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished Professor | Dean, Faculty of Design | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia | kenfriedman@swin.edu.au | Ph: +61 3 9214 6078 | Faculty www.swinburne.edu.au/design _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 8 13:55:00 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 2E038287348; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:55:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 39F69287337; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:54:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120808135456.39F69287337@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:54:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.219 events: library challenges X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 219. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:32:32 -0400 From: Barbara Mackenzie Subject: Library Challenges: The Eleventh Annual NFAIS Humanities Roundtable Dear All, *Library Challenges Are The Focus of Eleventh Annual NFAIS Humanities Roundtable* June 28, 2012 – Philadelphia, PA The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS - www.nfais.org), the premier membership association for organizations that create, organize and facilitate access to trustworthy information, proudly announces this year’s Eleventh Annual NFAIS Humanities Roundtable, *Focus on the Library!* This event will take place on Monday, October 1, 2012 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, centrally located on Fifth Avenue and 34th Street in New York City. In a time of transition for institutions of higher education, the theme of this year’s Roundtable focuses on the needs and challenges of the academic library, the hub of learning and scholarship for their individual institutions. Scholarly organizations, societies, publishers, and aggregators develop the high-value information resources that form a large part of the distinctive portfolio of services such libraries offer to their communities. *Focus on the Library!* is a targeted examination of the needs and concerns of libraries, enabling content providers to better understand how best to deliver the best products and services for scholars, students, and librarians of the humanities. Topics for the day include discussions of discovery of humanities content in the current library environment, information literacy and training of end-users, best practices for both providers and licensors of high-quality content, criteria libraries use to decide which products and services to invest in, and the digital humanities. Confirmed speaker-participants include: - Elliott Shore, Chief Information Officer and Dean of Libraries, Bryn Mawr College - Kendall Crilly, Associate University Librarian, Program Development and Research, Yale University - Amy Lucker, Head Librarian, Stephen Chan Library, New York University - Beth Bidlack, Collection Assessment and Analysis Librarian, Dartmouth University - Matthew Gold, Assistant to the Provost at the CUNY Graduate Center, Project Manager of the CUNY Academic Commons, Co-Director of CUNY’s Digital Humanities Institute Registrations for the Eleventh Annual NFAIS Humanities Roundtable will be available for both virtual and on-site attendance in order to ensure the broadest possible participation by the information community. Additional information regarding the program, registration, and other logistics may be accessed at: http://www.nfais.org/page/370-2012-nfais-humanities-roundtable Location: The Graduate Center of the City University of New York is located at 365 Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, walking distance from both Penn Station and Grand Central Station, and centrally located for those coming from New York area airports. For more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto: jilloneill@nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org. Best wishes to all, *Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie* *Editor-in-Chief, Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM)* *Director, Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation* The Graduate Center of The City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue • New York, NY 10016 T: 212.817.1991 • F: 212.817.1569 • BMackenzie@rilm.org www.rilm.org • brookcenter.gc.cuny.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Aug 9 15:53:57 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 996F6285D56; Thu, 9 Aug 2012 15:53:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9E20B285D43; Thu, 9 Aug 2012 15:53:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120809155350.9E20B285D43@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 15:53:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.220 flashing lights and silent hoovers X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 220. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 15:01:40 +0100 From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.216 flashing lights and silent hoovers In-Reply-To: <20120808134754.1FF37287190@woodward.joyent.us> On 2012 Aug 8, at 14:47, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > We folklorists consider these kinds of narratives to be part of the larger set of legends wherein the nature of reality is tested in interesting ways. As for the nature of the lights themselves, the popular term among the geeks I knew was "der blinkenlighten." I'd be curious to know what other terms were used. (I especially liked the Germanification of the term in this case, giving it a kind of weird blend of camp and science and "German engineering" feel all at the same time.) I remember that as "das Blinkenlights"; I'd hesitate to guess what the switch in gender connotes. A long while ago -- OS 8 or OS 9 -- there was a shareware (?) application for the Mac called "Das BlinkenLights" (or "Das Blinken Lights"), which had no function other than to produce computerish blinking lights on the screen. This was a sarcastic response to the suggestion that the Mac wasn't a 'real' computer because... well, it didn't look Hard enough (that links to your salty medicine example). I can't now find a mention of this old application, because anything I google comes up with a host of more recent appropriations of the term. And I hadn't thought of 'camp' as an attribute of whatever set of motifs this represents, but it's perfect! Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, 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 Aug 9 15:55:37 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 3A18B285DCE; Thu, 9 Aug 2012 15:55:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C6620285DB0; Thu, 9 Aug 2012 15:55:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120809155513.C6620285DB0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 15:55:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.221 Ken Friedman's changing times X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 221. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:49:49 -0700 From: Willard McCarty Subject: RE: Changing Times > Subject: RE: Changing Times > Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 03:44:14 +0000 > From: Ken Friedman Dear Colleague, Yesterday's email should have had an attached PDF. I've had a couple dozen replies saying it did not come through with a request for copies. I'm sending this again today, with the hope that the attachment will reach you [see below]. If this is a second copy, please discard it and forgive the intrusion. This article comes to you courtesy of Visible Language. I've had a few queries on whether I'll be available for lectures, workshops, and research projects. The answer is yes — but not until January. When I get back from Tongji University, I must get a manuscript out the door. If you’ve got ideas for a project or collaborative venture, please let me know and we can talk about future opportunities. Warm wishes, Ken Professor Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished Professor | Dean, Faculty of Design | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia | kenfriedman@swin.edu.au | Ph: +61 3 9214 6078 | Faculty www.swinburne.edu.au/design http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1344527390_2012-08-09_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_25148.2.pdf *From:*Andrea Streckfuss *On Behalf Of *Ken Friedman *Sent:* Wednesday, 8 August 2012 5:42 PM *To:* Andrea Streckfuss *Cc:* Ken Friedman *Subject:* Changing Times Dear Colleague, Five years ago last month, I had coffee in Amsterdam. Some people travel to the Netherlands for drugs. Others go for the pleasures of the flesh. I went to meet with Ian Young. In those days, Ian was Vice Chancellor and President of Swinburne University of Technology. Ian was looking for a Dean to head the Faculty of Design and my name was on his list. As everyone must know, I had no ambition to be a dean. I had been a research professor for many years, working in leadership and strategic design at the Norwegian School of Management. While my research included leadership and organization theory, I had not been responsible for managing an organization since my entrepreneurial days several decades back. Even so, the issues and challenges of leading a design faculty in a university moving toward a top research profile interested me – and Ian Young is persuasive. You know the rest of the story. For the past five years, I have been a dean at one of the world’s 500 best research universities. I’m proud of what we have achieved. I have enjoyed the challenges of the job working with outstanding colleagues in the faculty and across the university. Today, we have begun a process that will move the Faculty of Design to the Hawthorn campus. This requires intense logistical planning and operations management. When I interviewed for the dean’s post, I stated in plain language that I’m not an administrator. My mission was an emphasis on research, and I hope that I brought new dimensions to the faculty as the kind of dean one might find in a classical Scandinavian research university. Today, we face a different challenge, and the faculty needs a new kind of dean. We need a leader with different skills, and the ability to juggle complex transition issues while maintaining our momentum in education and research. On September 1, I will be leaving the Dean’s office to focus on my role as University Distinguished Professor. Dr. Scott Thompson-Whiteside will become the Acting Dean. Over the past five years, it has been my pleasure to work with Scott as our Associate Dean International. He has also served as Acting Deputy Dean, distinguishing himself in the complex planning and resource management issues that converge in modern university leadership. I am confident that Scott Thompson-Whiteside is the right person for this job, and I am certain that Scott will lead Swinburne Design with skill and the sense of purpose that makes a vital difference. In my first day on the job, I said that I want to build the kind of design faculty where I’d like to work as a professor. This transition gives me the opportunity I’ve been waiting for, with a return to life as a research professor. My responsibilities will include working with the Swinburne Design Factory. I will also work with the Design Research Alliance, an association of design faculties at seven leading research universities: Aalto, TU Delft, Hong Kong Polytechnic, Loughborough, National Chen Kung, Politecnico di Milano, and Swinburne. There will be other projects coming up as well. In the first week of October, I’ll be in Helsinki for Design Factory Week, together with colleagues from Aalto and Tongji. At the end of October, Shanghai will host Radical Design Week, an international extension of Helsinki’s year as the World Design Capital 2012. At the Emerging Practices Forum, I’ll give a keynote on design in the global knowledge economy and the role that design education must play. (Attached, you’ll find an article on this theme, courtesy of Visible Language. The current issue contains ten views on design education – visit the Visible Language web site to learn more.) That brings me up to date. I’d also like to inform you that email address has changed, though only slightly. It is now: kenfriedman@swin.edu.au Other addresses will stop working before long, so please keep in touch at my new address. Warm wishes, Ken Professor Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished Professor | Dean, Faculty of Design | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia | kenfriedman@swin.edu.au | Ph: +61 3 9214 6078 | Faculty www.swinburne.edu.au/design http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Aug 9 15:56:56 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 0CBAB285E79; Thu, 9 Aug 2012 15:56:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D009B285E17; Thu, 9 Aug 2012 15:56:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120809155635.D009B285E17@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 15:56:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.222 jobs at DDH, King's College London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 222. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:06:40 -0700 From: Willard McCarty Subject: jobs in the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London The Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, is advertising for 4 technical research positions, as follows. NB: the closing date for these positions is 13 August 2012. Apologies for the lateness of this advertisement. 1. One year, fixed term. Data modelling and analysis, and the design and development of both editorial and administrative tools, and public facing web applications, across three research projects in the department's portfolio: The Art of Making, The Making of Charlemagne's Europe, and the Breaking of Britain. For more information see: http://bit.ly/M66Joq 2. Two fixed-term contracts for one year. Data modelling and analysis, and the design and development of both editorial and administrative tools, and public facing web applications, across three research projects in the department's portfolio. For more information see: http://bit.ly/OmNAZL and http://bit.ly/LJuNMt 3. Fixed-term contract, ending 31 January 2013. Development of the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (CRSBI), which aims to create a permanent record of Romanesque sculpture, and numerous expert volunteers are engaged in the necessary research work and the capture of metadata and photography across Britain and Ireland. For more information see: http://bit.ly/M66GZN -- 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 Aug 10 17:02:57 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 23EE6286C96; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:02:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1B71E286C8B; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:02:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120810170250.1B71E286C8B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:02:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.223 jobs for educational technologist & for web developer X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 223. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 18:52:35 +0100 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Jorum Team recruiting: Educational Technologist and Web Developer > From: Sarah Currier > Date: 9 August 2012 06:47:58 PM GMT+01:00 > Subject: Jorum Team recruiting: Educational Technologist and Web Developer Dear all, We’re recruiting two full-time posts for a year (note the different closing dates): Jorum Educational Technologist Closing date: 30th August 2012 Do you live and breathe OER? Are you keen to promote learning and teaching, and finding ways in which technologies can support it? If the answer is yes, we may have just the role for you. The Jorum Educational Technologist will be someone who is passionate about the world of OER and has a background in either educational technology support and development, or digital libraries/ repositories support and development, preferably within the HE or FE/Skills sector. We are looking for someone who can: * Communicate and gather evidence of Jorum’s benefits to the HE and FE/Skills sectors. * Offer direct technical support to users in sharing and promoting their own content via Jorum, and finding and using Jorum content. * Be confident and experienced in using social media to engage with OER creators and users; to share Jorum success stories; and to gather feedback. * Communicate feedback and requirements from the community to the Jorum team. Jorum Web Application Developer Closing date: 20th August 2012 Our second role within the Jorum team is for a talented and motivated developer who will undertake a range of software and website development, training and support duties to ensure the ongoing development and maintenance of Jorum’s services. You will manage the Jorum web application and websites; give training and presentations to the potential and existing users of the services; and contribute to meetings, workshops, events and external communications (including via social media). The successful candidate will possess excellent Ruby programming skills and experience in using Ruby on Rails in automated build and deployment configurations, and hold good XSLT, CSS and JavaScript skills. Follow this link to see how to apply: http://www.jorum.ac.uk/news/two-new-jorum-roles-available Questions welcome off-list. Contact Ben Ryan for queries re the developer role: benjamin.ryan@manchester.ac.uk Best wishes, Sarah -- Sarah Currier | Jorum Service Manager Mimas | Roscoe Building (5th Floor) | Oxford Road | The University of Manchester | Manchester | United Kingdom | M13 9PL Tel.: +44 (0)161 275 6034 (ext. 56034) | Mob.: +44 (0)7980855801 E-mail: sarah.currier@manchester.ac.uk Skype & Twitter: morageyrie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Aug 10 17:05:51 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 DB9AA286D2A; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:05:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 41425286D16; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:05:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120810170542.41425286D16@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:05:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.224 cfp: Early Modern Digital X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 224. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:42:31 +0000 From: "Looser, Devoney" Subject: CFP: Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies: Special Issue on the Early Modern Digital Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies: Special Issue on the Early Modern Digital (due 15 Jan 2013) It is well understood that "the digital turn" has transformed the contemporary cultural, political and economic environment. Less appreciated perhaps is its crucial importance and transformative potential for those of us who study the past. Whether through newly—and differently—accessible data and methods (e.g. "distant reading"), new questions being asked of that new data, or recognizing how digital reading changes our access to the materiality of the past, the digital humanities engenders a particularized set of questions and concerns for those of us who study the early modern, broadly defined (mid-15th to mid-19th centuries). For this special issue of JEMCS, we seek essays that describe the challenges and debates arising from issues in the early modern digital, as well as work that shows through its methods, questions, and conclusions the kinds of scholarship that ought best be done—or perhaps can only be done— in its wake. We look for contributions that go beyond describing the advantages and shortcomings of (or problems of inequity of access to) EEBO, ECCO, and the ESTC to contemplate how new forms of information produce new ways of thinking. We invite contributors to consider the broader implications and uses of existing and emerging early modern digital projects, including data mining, data visualization, corpus linguistics, GIS, and/or potential obsolescence, especially in comparison to insights possible through traditional archival research methods. Essays of 3000-8000 words are sought in .doc, .rtf, or.pdf format by January 15, 2013 jemcsfsu@gmail.com. All manuscripts must include a 100-200 word abstract. JEMCS adheres to MLA format, and submissions should be prepared accordingly. In addition, we would welcome brief reports (500-1500 words) that describe digital projects in progress in early modern studies (defined here as spanning from the mid-fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries), whether or not these projects have yet reached completion. These reports, too, should be submitted in .doc, .rtf, or.pdf format, using MLA style, by 15 January 2013 to to jemcsfsu@gmail.com http://www.devoneylooser.com http://www.devoneylooser.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Aug 10 17:07:31 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 40756286D86; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:07:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E1A44286D6A; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:07:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120810170723.E1A44286D6A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:07:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.225 events: Turing in context; Digital Futures X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 225. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Liesbeth De Mol (74) Subject: Final cfp Turing in context II, 10-12 October 2012, Brussels [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (15) Subject: Digital Futures 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:37:25 +0200 From: Liesbeth De Mol Subject: Final cfp Turing in context II, 10-12 October 2012, Brussels FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS "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. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:23:32 +0100 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Digital Futures 2012 Digital Futures 2012, the third annual all-hands conference of the Digital Economy programme of Research Councils UK will be held at the University of Aberdeen from 23-25 October 2012. Details available here: http://www.de2012.org/ 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 Sat Aug 11 14:04:31 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 C60B9287E0D; Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:04:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 83411287DFB; Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:04:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120811140426.83411287DFB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:04:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.226 job at NYU Libraries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 226. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:24:47 -0400 From: Jennifer Vinopal Subject: Position opening: NYU Libraries Digital Studio Technology Specialist Position opening: Digital Studio Technology Specialist Division of Libraries, New York University New York University’s Digital Studio supports the digital scholarship, research, and teaching of the NYU community. New York University’s Digital Studio supports the digital scholarship, research, and teaching of the NYU community. Technology Specialists from NYU Libraries and NYU Information Technology Services work together at the Digital Studio to provide consultation, training, and tools for multimedia production and sharing, file storage and management, digital scholarship, digital project planning and management, copyright and fair use, digital publishing, teaching and learning projects, and learning management tools. In this dynamic, client-oriented environment, we keep abreast of research, teaching, and learning technology developments in higher education and implement services to benefit the global NYU community. Key Responsibilities The Digital Studio Technology Specialist will partner with other technology specialists and librarians to create a holistic service environment for clients. Consultation: Consult with scholars in their use of Digital Studio and other IT services for research and teaching. Facility Management: Oversee the Digital Studio facility (workstations, student staffing, documentation of procedures, staff training initiatives, etc.). Develop a technology environment conducive to effective client work by evaluating user needs and planning and implementing processes and systems to meet those needs. Make recommendations for the purchase of hardware and software. Think creatively about the configuration of workstations, work spaces, workflows, etc. Purchase, and supervise installation of hardware, software, and peripherals and ensure their proper function. Supervise Digital Studio student support staff including hiring, training, and evaluating performance. Identify and prioritize staff assignments to ensure deadlines are met and review work for accuracy. Service Development and Leadership: Work closely with scholars and other Libraries and ITS staff to evaluate current technology, ascertain the academic technology needs of the University, and develop and support standardized, core technology and person-to-person services for research and teaching. Keep informed about trends in technology use in higher education, and research and test emerging information technologies for use at NYU. Support and lead the development of new tools and services, and act as service lead for new and existing services. Work as part of a newly formed team to develop and provide services supporting digital scholarship. This is a new and growing service area in NYU Libraries. Training: Develop and deliver training programs related to Digital Studio services. Identify training needs, arrange for instructors, facilities and materials, as required. Consult with faculty, researchers, and staff on training interests and opportunities. Note: The Digital Studio open hours will be expanding as the service evolves. The successful applicant will be willing to work possible evening and weekend hours. Qualifications Required: Bachelor's degree and 3 years relevant experience or an equivalent combination. Must include: good interpersonal skills, good oral and written communication, client service experience and orientation, experience supporting information technology and training, interest in and a strong desire to learn about new information technologies, interest in the evolving use of technology for scholarship and teaching in higher education, project management experience, ability to work both collaboratively and independently, willingness to undertake responsibility. Experience in one of the following areas: media production, website design, digital humanities, instructional design. Preferred: Master's degree and experience in an academic environment, preferably in Libraries and/or IT. Experience working with scholars on digital projects for research and/or teaching. Application and resume must include a cover letter that reflects how your experience fits the position description. For more information about the Digital Studio, see: http://www.nyu.edu/studio/ For more information about working at NYU and to apply, visit our website at: http://www.nyu.edu/about/working-at-nyu/apply-for-jobs.html NYU offers a generous benefit package including 22 days of vacation annually. NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. To apply: http://www.nyucareers.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=55480 - Jennifer ------------------------------------------------------- Jennifer Vinopal / vinopal@nyu.edu Librarian for Digital Scholarship Initiatives 5th floor south, Bobst Library, New York University 70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 v: 212.998.2522 ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Aug 11 14:05:37 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 6A7FB287E50; Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:05:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7D9FD287E3F; Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:05:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120811140532.7D9FD287E3F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:05:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.227 War of 1812 visualisations? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 227. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:18:39 -0400 From: Simulating Simulations Subject: 1812 Resources - War of 1812 Visualization Input Dear 1812 enthusiast, I work with Dr. Kevin Kee (Department of History and Centre for Digital Humanities at Brock University). Our team has recently launched a new website, 1812 Resources, a digital collection of resources related to the War of 1812. Our goal in creating this Web site is to catalogue resources of interest to those studying or teaching the War of 1812, and then create visual representations of the information we have collected. We believe that in presenting information in a new way, we can literally see history differently. (Please see an example at the bottom of this email.) In the coming weeks, we will offer distinct visualizations that represent trends in each segment of our collection. We are writing to ask for your input. What questions are you asking of resources related to the War of 1812? What visual presentations would benefit you? We are open to any suggestions that you may have, and our staff will consult on any idea to make the most of our collection for the benefit of the wider community. We will share whatever we generate with you and the public. The 1812 Resources website project was designed by me. If you have any questions regarding our website or our research, please do not hesitate to contact me through our website: http://1812resources.com Thank you for your time and we look forward to hearing any suggestions from you. Kev Greene and the 1812 Resources Team Simulating History Lab Brock University Please find below one of the visualizations we have created comparing American and Canadian War of 1812 websites' terminology. This visualization shows three groups of words that surround the two central points, which represent Canadian and American sites. The group at the centre includes words that are used by websites from both countries, while the two separate rings show words used only by one country or the other. For instance, American websites use words such as "Enterprize" and "Triumph" while Canadian websites mention "Evidence" and "Oxford." By comparing the words used by the websites of each country, we can better understand the attitudes they have toward the war and what aspects are most important to each country. [image: Inline image 1] *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1344629936_2012-08-10_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_11134.2.jpeg _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Aug 11 14:09:13 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 EF19F287ECE; Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:09:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0DB05287EB5; Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:09:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120811140905.0DB05287EB5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:09:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.228 events: Japanese gaming; digital palaeography X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 228. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Brookes, Stewart" (52) Subject: DigiPal CfP: "Digital Approaches to Medieval Script and Image" [2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (28) Subject: Replaying Japan --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 19:41:13 +0100 From: "Brookes, Stewart" Subject: DigiPal CfP: "Digital Approaches to Medieval Script and Image" Dear all, Please find below our call for papers for our November symposium. Please note that even if you are unable to attend, please send in an abstract as we are looking for submissions for a collection of essays as the follow-up to our in-the-works volume, "Digital Palaeography" (Ashgate). Thanks and all best, Stewart CfP: "Digital Approaches to Medieval Script and Image" DigiPal One-Day Symposium 22nd November 2012, King’s College London The DigiPal team (http://digipal.eu/) are delighted to invite submissions for their second symposium at King's College London. This year's theme is the implications of the increasing reliance of the scholarly community upon digital images and technologies. Bringing together art historians, palaeographers, medievalists and the Digital Humanities, the symposium will share theoretical approaches and methodologies and, crucially, test prevalent assumptions. -------------------------------- How to propose a paper -------------------------------- Papers of 20 minutes in length are invited on any relevant aspect of digital approaches to the representation of script and manuscript art. We would like to facilitate a wide-ranging debate and so welcome submissions from scholars whose primary experience is not with digitising images, or necessarily the medieval period. Possible topics could include: * the practical and theoretical consequences of the use of digital images * the relevance of art historical theories to the digital representation of medieval manuscripts * the problems and potentials presented by digital imaging technologies * palaeographical method for ‘Digital’ and ‘Analogue’ palaeography * reassessing the terminology used in manuscript studies and palaeography * reports from projects that make use of digitised images To propose a paper, please email a brief abstract (250 words max.) to digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk http://kcl.ac.uk/ . The deadline for the receipt of submissions is 10.23pm on Friday 14th September 2012 Please note that it is our intention to collect selected papers from the symposium as part of a forthcoming publication and so you may wish to submit an abstract even if you can't attend. Several papers from last year's symposium are being edited as part of our forthcoming volume, "Digital Palaeography" (Ashgate). ---------------- Registration ---------------- Registration will officially open from Thursday 20th September, but if you'd like to pre-reserve a place, then please let us know at your earliest convenience by emailing digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk http://kcl.ac.uk/ . We look forward to hearing from you, Stewart Brookes and Peter Stokes -- Dr Stewart J Brookes Research Associate Digital Resource for Palaeography Department of Digital Humanities King's College London Room 210, 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Blog: http://digipal.eu/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:19:34 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Replaying Japan Replaying Japan: A one day symposium on Japanese game culture and industry Replaying Japan is a one day symposium on Japanese game culture, game studies and the gaming industry that will bring together researchers from Japan and Canada on August 22nd, 2012 at the University of Alberta to talk about the challenges and opportunities in cross-cultural study of game culture with a particular focus on university/industry interaction. The symposium will run from 9:15am 96 5:00 pm in Humanities Centre L-2, University of Alberta campus. Anyone interested in game studies and/or Japanese popular culture is welcome. Where: Humanities Centre L-2, University of Alberta When: August 22nd, 9:15am till 5pm Who: Speakers include: -- Koichi Hosoi, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan -- Kazufumi Fukuda, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan -- Kevin Kee, Brock University, St. Catharines ON, Canada -- Mia Consalvo, Concordia University, Montreal QC, Canada -- Akinori Nakamura, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan -- Geoffrey Rockwell, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada -- Mitsuyuki Inaba, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan -- Sean Gouglas, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada Cost: None! More: http://bit.ly/Nuq6TL *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1344633650_2012-08-10_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_2899.1.1.html http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1344633650_2012-08-10_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_2899.1.2.pdf Replaying Japan is supported by GRAND (http://grand-nce.org), the Prince Takamado Japan Centre, the Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts, and the China 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 Tue Aug 14 07:33:27 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 B86CA288FF1; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 07:33:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A1686288FE5; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 07:33:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120814073317.A1686288FE5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 07:33:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.229 jobs at Nebraska-Lincoln X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 229. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:43:45 -0500 From: Ken Price Subject: jobs at University of Nebraska-Lincoln In-Reply-To: <17502_1344693882_q7BE4fjJ002203_20120811140426.83411287DFB@woodward.joyent.us> The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) seeks to hire additional faculty for its cluster hire in digital humanities. In this second phase of our effort, we hope to hire two or three additional tenure-track assistant professors to further propel this signature program. Field of expertise is open within the humanities. Preference will be given to candidates engaged in the building of digital projects, archives, editions, models, tools, and other creative scholarly works in the digital medium. Initial interviews will be conducted via Skype. Candidates should be accomplished digital humanists able to contribute to a thriving interdisciplinary initiative and to a home department. Candidates must provide evidence of successful teaching and an active research agenda. PhD required by August 2013. The participating departments seek specialists who would contribute to UNL92s research profile and teaching capacity in digital humanities. Applicants should go to http://employment.unl.edu, requisition 120608, and complete the Faculty/Academic Administrative Information form and apply online. Applicants should be prepared to attach the following to their online application: a letter of application, a curriculum vita, and a PDF or a link to one representative sample of their digital work. Please do not send paper applications. Review of applications will begin September 25 and continue until suitable candidates are found. For further information contact Kenneth Price, search committee chair, at 402-472-0293 or kprice2@unl.edu. The University of Nebraska has an active National Science Foundation ADVANCE gender equity program, and is committed to a pluralistic campus community through affirmative action, equal opportunity, work-life balance, and dual careers. Web sites: http://cdrh.unl.edu/, http://www.unl.edu/ Ken Kenneth M. Price co-director, The Walt Whitman Archive co-director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0333 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Aug 16 06:34:59 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 60254287604; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:34:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 874122875F0; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:34:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120816063452.874122875F0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:34:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.230 postdocs in Madrid; fellowships at Stanford X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 230. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (44) Subject: Post-Doc Opportunities in Linked Data and Heritage [2] From: Robert Barrick (23) Subject: Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship Opportunities 2013-14 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:29:56 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Post-Doc Opportunities in Linked Data and Heritage The third annual call [1] of Post-doctoral contract within the International Programme for Attracting Talent (Picata) offers 10 post-doctoral positions (two years contract) to work in a joint program between Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In the context of this call, the Ontology Engineering Group at UPM [2] is looking for well motivated Post-docs, who would like to carry out research on Linked data for managing multilingual cultural heritage resources. These individuals will be able to work in a group with a multicultural background, large experience in research, active participation in international R&D projects and with a good publication and innovative software development record. These positions are open to researchers holding a PhD, independently of their nationality. The process for applying to these 2-year positions requires them to contact a research group before submitting the proposal and making a proposal for a 2-year research project. These applications are evaluated according to the research profile of the candidate, to the quality of the research proposal and to the quality of the research group in which they are willing to carry out their research. The minimum salary will be 33.250€, starting in January 2013. Requirements for candidates are: • Have obtained a doctorate degree during the eight years preceding the date of publication of the notice. • Accredit the contribution of prior scientific activity: have at least six accepted publications of the JCR, except in scientific technological areas in which the minimum is four and have participated in at least one project in a competitive research university, company or industry. • Be less than 40 years at the time of publication of the notice. • Comply at least one of the following requirements: • Doctors who meet the conditions for Marie Curie Mobility Program of the existing Framework Programme of the European Commission, ie Researchers must not have made a major activity research in Spain for more than 12 months in the last three years. • Doctors who don ́t have spanish nationality and have developed a PhD outside Spain. • Doctors of any nationality who have completed their research in a different country of their own nationality for at least 24 months. Candidates Heritage cluster that period shall be 12 months. Official deadlines for both calls are October 5th (15:00 CET). If you are interested, please contact asun@fi.upm.es before September 15th, 2012. Please note that Spanish is not required, and English material is available for those interested in applying [1]. Regards, Asuncion Gómez-Pérez [1] http://www.campusmoncloa.es/en/calls/picata/international-call-post-doctoral-contracts- 2012.php [2] http://www.oeg-upm.net/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:57:00 -0700 From: Robert Barrick Subject: Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship Opportunities 2013-14 Announcement of Faculty Fellowships at the Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowships The Stanford Humanities Center provides a collegial environment for faculty who are undertaking innovative projects in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Fellows participate in the intellectual life of the Humanities Center and the broader Stanford community, sharing ideas and work in progress with a diverse cohort of scholars and benefitting from a wide variety of campus resources. Fellowship term: September 2013 -- June 2014 Application deadline: October 1, 2012 Eligibility Applicants must have a PhD and should be at least three years beyond receipt of the degree by the start of the fellowship term. The Center is open to projects employing information technology in humanities research. For full eligibility requirements, see http://shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/non-stanford-faculty/ How to Apply Detailed instructions and a link to the online application are available at: http://shc.stanford.edu External Faculty inquiries: shc-fellowships@stanford.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Aug 16 06:36:10 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 84EB5287664; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:36:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7F717287652; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:36:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120816063605.7F717287652@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:36:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.231 new publication: Digital Curation Resource Guide X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 231. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:52:31 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Digital Curation Resource Guide Digital Scholarship has released the Digital Curation Resource Guide. http://digital-scholarship.org/dcrg/dcrg.htm This resource guide presents over 200 selected English-language websites and documents that are useful in understanding and conducting digital curation. It covers academic programs, discussion lists and groups, glossaries, file formats and guidelines, metadata standards and vocabularies, models, organizations, policies, research data management, serials and blogs, services and vendor software, software and tools, and training. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. The Digital Curation Resource Guide complements the Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works, which was released in June. http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/dcb.htm It is also available as an EPUB file (see How to Read EPUB Files). http://digital-scholarship.org/dcrg/dcrg.epub http://digital-scholarship.org/dcrg/epub.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 Thu Aug 16 06:41:07 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 6305E287728; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:41:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A301C287718; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:40:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120816064059.A301C287718@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:40:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.232 events: archaeology; digital humanities; TEI; girls X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 232. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (44) Subject: Girls & Digital Culture: Transnational Reflections *Registrationnow open* [2] From: Leif Isaksen (115) Subject: CAA2013 PERTH Across Space and Time - Call for Papers and Posters [3] From: Julia Flanders (47) Subject: Taking TEI Further: Transforming and Publishing TEI Data (deadline approaching) [4] From: Clare Mills (25) Subject: Digital Humanities Congress - 9 Days Left to Register! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:59:31 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Girls & Digital Culture: Transnational Reflections *Registrationnow open* Girls & Digital Culture: Transnational Reflections *Registration now open* An international interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Centre for Culture, Media and Creative Industries and the Department of Digital Humanities, King¹s College, London. Dates: 13/14th September 2012 Location: King¹s 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 address the following questions: € What are the key debates in current research on girls, young women and digital culture? € How are girls using new digital technologies? € How do ideas and practices move across national borders? € Is digital culture global culture? € How might a transnational lens raise new questions, and what new ideas does it make thinkable? € How does the development of new digital technologies affects notions and experiences of girlhood? € What effects do transnational interconnections have on girlhood and digital culture? Speakers include: Lisa Nakamura, University of Illinois Shani Orgad, LSE Jessica Ringrose, Institute of Education Rupa Huq, Kingston University Kalpana Wilson, SOAS Simidele Dosekun, King¹s College London The list of accepted papers and links to abstracts can be found at https://gdc.cch.kcl.ac.uk/speakers/#papers 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&de ptid=17&catid=16 We hope you will join us at this event in September Best wishes, Girls and Digital Culture organising committee: Prof. Rosalind Gill, Dr. Faith Lawrence, Dr. Ofra Koffman, King¹s College London --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:34:57 +0100 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: CAA2013 PERTH Across Space and Time - Call for Papers and Posters In-Reply-To: > From: Arianna Traviglia > Date: Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:22 AM > Subject: CAA2013 PERTH Across Space and Time - Call for Papers and Posters CAA2013 PERTH "Across Space and Time" - Call for Papers and Posters – Perth, Western Australia 25-28 March 2013 Printable version Call for Papers and Posters CAA2013 PERTH Across Space and Time 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 Club of Western Australia from Tuesday 26 – Thursday 28 March 2013. Workshops will be held on Monday 25 March on the UWA 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 Call for Papers and Posters The CAA 2013 Organising Committee invites proposals for papers and posters relating to all aspects of computer applications, quantitative methods and digital applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. Paper and Poster proposals are due by 10th October 2012 (UTC). Conference sessions The conference will be comprised of over 40 sessions and workshops. The main themes of the conference include the following: - Field and laboratory data recording - Data management, analysis and the semantic web - 3D modelling, visualisation and simulations - Spatio-temporal modelling and GIS - Remote sensing (long and short range) - Users and interfaces: multimedia, museums and education - Cultural heritage management and interpretation. Papers which do not fit within any of the specified sessions may be submitted to the General Session and may be reassigned by the Review Committee as appropriate. The list of proposed sessions and workshop is available online: http://www.caa2013.org/CAA2013sessions.pdf Formats The CAA 2013 Conference will include several formats for the delivery of content, including the following: - Paper sessions Long paper sessions (LP): A conventional format session of related 20 minute papers with 10 minute question time. Papers should present new and ground-breaking research. Focus sessions (FS): A session consisting of thematically-related 5 minute key-point presentations, an optional discussant to pull the theme together, followed by a room-based breakout organised around posters or demos presenting additional information to maximise networking. Note: Focus Session papers are not ‘short papers’, they are regarded as full papers. - Roundtables A panel addressing a specific topic or issue, coordinated by one or more individuals. Presentations of the speakers will normally be followed by a discussant and general discussion. - Posters A poster session will provide an opportunity for preliminary work to be presented and discussed directly with the presenter. All research presented at CAA2013, regardless of the delivery format, may be submitted after the conference for publication in the peer reviewed conference proceedings. - Workshops: The conference will include a number of half and full day pre-conference workshops. Workshops will generally include practical work or other active participation of attendees. How to Submit Please submit your proposal via the CAA Open Conference System at https://caaconference.org/ocs The CAA Open Conference Systems (OCS) submission tool will receive submissions starting the 21st August 2012 (UTC). 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 previously logged into 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. The abstract should consist of two parts: a 100 word short abstract, which will be used for the conference booklet, and an extended abstract up to 500 words, providing further information on which reviewers can assess the submission. If you have any technical problems in uploading your submission please send an email to submissions@caa2013.org Key Dates 14th August 2012: Call for Papers and Posters circulated 21st August 2012: OCS submission system open for submissions 10th October 2012: Paper and poster abstract submission deadline November 2012: Accepted proposals posted on the CAA2013 conference webpage November 2012: Conference booking system open. We look forward to seeing your proposal and seeing you in Perth in 2013. The CAA2013 Perth Across Space and Time Organising Committee Contact email: info@caa2013.org Web site: www.caa2013.org Submissions: www.caaconference.org/ocs ___________________________________ Dr Arianna Traviglia CAA2013 Chair Macquarie University, NSW Australia T +61 (0) 2 9850 8889 E arianna.traviglia@mq.edu.au --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:01:59 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Taking TEI Further: Transforming and Publishing TEI Data (deadline approaching) In-Reply-To: The September 1 application deadline is coming soon for: Taking TEI Further: Transforming and Publishing TEI Data Brown University, December 10-12, 2012 Application deadline: September 1, 2012 **Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant, up to $1000 for graduate student participants.** XSLT is a crucial tool for those working with the TEI, both as a key part of any XML publication system and also as a technology for manipulating and managing XML data. As a programming language that can be used to transform XML data into other formats, it is immensely powerful and also comparatively approachable for those already familiar with XML. For individual scholars and librarians (who may not have access to technical support or programmer time), XSLT can be a remarkably enabling skill, making it possible for them to create usable output in a variety of formats, including HTML, formats used by visualization software, and even PDF. The challenge for digital humanists is not in finding XSLT resources; because it is such an important technology, there are numerous tutorials online and workshops available. However, these materials and events are almost universally aimed at an industry audience, rather than at humanities scholars. What we seek to do in these seminars is provide an introduction to XSLT that is aimed at a scholarly audience, using examples from real humanities data and approaching the topic from the perspective of those who may be familiar with the TEI and XML, but not with other programming languages. This seminar will provide participants with an understanding of the essential concepts of XSLT, focusing on examples and use cases from TEI data in the humanities. We will also help participants learn how to use simple templates to create more complex XSLT stylesheets, and how to reuse and reverse engineer stylesheets from other projects. 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 may present their projects to the group, discuss specific challenges and solutions, and get advice on thorny problems. 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 visithttp://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/neh_advanced_application.html Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Brown University --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:32:04 +0100 From: Clare Mills Subject: Digital Humanities Congress - 9 Days Left to Register! In-Reply-To: Dear All, This is just a quick reminder that the registration deadline for the Digital Humanities Congress is fast approaching. Our full conference programme and abstracts are now available online at: www.sheffield.ac.uk/hri/dhc2012 We're really excited to be welcoming 66 speakers over the three days and hope some of you will be able to join us. Please book online before 5pm on 24 August to secure your place. 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Aug 17 06:41:02 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 4E0B7286F90; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:41:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F176E286F84; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:40:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120817064053.F176E286F84@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:40:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.233 of the collecting of books X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 233. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 07:28:59 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: of the collecting of books The following arrived while I was away and will likely be of interest to many here. Comments and reviews welcome. Bode, Katherine. Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field. London: Anthem Press, 2012. Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Thaller, Manfred, ed. Controversies around the Digital Humanities. Special issue of Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung 37.3 (2012). In addition I've come across and begun to read: Humphreys, Paul. Extending Ourselves: Computational Science, Empiricism, and Scientific Method. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, which will be of interest to anyone investigating how computing is changing scientific research, and Mayer-Schönberger, Viktor. Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009, relevant to the problem of accumulating artificial memory-archives. Of course there is no end to what might be listed (which endlessness is cause for simultaneous joy and dismay), but the very fact of someone here thinking to mention a book is itself a recommendation worth noting. In the same way I find myself justifying a growing digital collection of articles, chapters and books on my hard disc. My selecting them ranges from the well considered to the nearly thoughtless, but the result (now in the gigabytes) fuzzily delimits a range of persistent interests that more often than not is where I begin new explorations or turn to for recollection of old ones. Has anyone studied this aspect of digital memory archives? Yours, WM 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 Aug 17 06:59:55 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 3B9DD286119; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:59:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D43ED28610D; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:59:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120817065948.D43ED28610D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:59:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.234 events: "Life, The Universe and Machine Learning" X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 234. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:31:16 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: inaugural lecture: "Life, The Universe and Machine Learning" Neil Lawrence's Inaugural Lecture Title: Life, The Universe and Machine Learning Time: 17:15 Thursday 6th September 2012 Venue: St George's Church Lecture Theatre, University of Sheffield Abstract What is Machine Learning? Why is it useful for us? Machine learning algorithms are the engines that are driving forward an intelligent internet. They are allowing us to uncover the causes of cancer and helping us understand the way the universe is put together. They are suggesting who your friends are on facebook, enabling driverless cars and causing flagging potentially fraudulent transactions on your credit card. To put it simply, machine learning is about understanding data. In this lecture I will try and give a sense of the challenges we face in machine learning, with a particular focus on those that have inspired my research. We will look at applications of data modelling from the early 18th century to the present, and see how they relate to modern machine learning. There will be a particular focus on dealing with uncertainty: something humans are good at, but an area where computers have typically struggled. We will emphasize the role of uncertainty in data modelling and hope to persuade the audience that correct handling of uncertainty may be one of the keys to intelligent systems. -- 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 Sat Aug 18 07:28:28 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 0A4FC287EF3; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 07:28:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8436C287EE1; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 07:28:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120818072819.8436C287EE1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 07:28:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.235 of the collecting of books X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 235. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:27:40 -0400 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: totosy re sources re digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20120817064053.F176E286F84@woodward.joyent.us> dear willard: re your collection re digital humanities publications here is a bibliography perhaps of use: Geert Vandermeersche, Joachim Vlieghe, and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. "Bibliography of Publications in Media and (Inter)mediality Studies." Thematic issue New Perspectives on Material Culture and Intermedial Practice. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Asunción López-Varela Azcárate, Haun Saussy, and Jan Mieszkowski. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 13.3 (2011): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol13/iss3/26 . with best regards, steven totosy On Aug 17, 2012, at 2:40 am, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 233. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 07:28:59 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: of the collecting of books > > The following arrived while I was away and will likely be of interest to > many here. Comments and reviews welcome. > > Bode, Katherine. Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field. > London: Anthem Press, 2012. > > Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary > Technogenesis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. > > Thaller, Manfred, ed. Controversies around the Digital Humanities. > Special issue of Historical Social Research / Historische > Sozialforschung 37.3 (2012). > > In addition I've come across and begun to read: > > Humphreys, Paul. Extending Ourselves: Computational Science, Empiricism, > and Scientific Method. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, > > which will be of interest to anyone investigating how computing is > changing scientific research, and > > Mayer-Schönberger, Viktor. Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the > Digital Age. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009, > > relevant to the problem of accumulating artificial memory-archives. > > Of course there is no end to what might be listed (which endlessness is > cause for simultaneous joy and dismay), but the very fact of someone > here thinking to mention a book is itself a recommendation worth noting. > In the same way I find myself justifying a growing digital collection of > articles, chapters and books on my hard disc. My selecting them ranges > from the well considered to the nearly thoughtless, but the result (now > in the gigabytes) fuzzily delimits a range of persistent interests that > more often than not is where I begin new explorations or turn to for > recollection of old ones. > > Has anyone studied this aspect of digital memory archives? > > Yours, > WM > > 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 Aug 18 07:29:55 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 8FBBD287F6A; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 07:29:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7BC6A287F57; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 07:29:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120818072948.7BC6A287F57@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 07:29:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.236 new MA at University College 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. 236. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:56:41 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: New MA in Digital Arts and Humanities at University College Cork The new Masters programme in Digital Arts and Humanities at UCC is open for applications up to Sept 1st. Students on the programme will seek to discover what it is to be human in the digital age, and the answers will help to shape how we see ourselves and others in an age where humanity is becoming increasingly connected by ubiquitous technology. The MA programme serves to introduce students to this field, and lay foundations for research or careers which use digital tools to address the creative questions of the arts & humanities. The DAH MA is not a computer science course, it is geared towards introducing Arts and Humanities graduates to the use of appropriate digital tools to address research questions in their disciplines. It lays the foundations for work on capturing, reading and writing sources in digital form, and using them for analytic and creative work. The programme will provide a grounding in how digital tools can be used to capture humanities data sources in electronic form, using standards based tools (TEI, XML, SQL Etc.) to frame research questions, collaborate on research using social networking tools, and present results both in print and on the web using current standards based presentation technologies. The course will survey core debates on the nature of digital arts and humanities, collaborative research practices, digital analysis of complex problems, digital pedagogy and simulations and games. Our perspective in UCC is that Digital Arts and Humanities is an exciting interdisciplinary field which creates new knowledge, and explores new methods for teaching and research. It is an example of international collaborative best practice in the design and delivery of DAH is crucial to generating a new generation of critically engaged digital natives with a combined foundation in humanities and technology. For more information and registration application particulars please browse to: http://www.ucc.ie/en/study/postgrad/what/acsss/masters/digital/ or directly to: Programme Coordinators Dr Mike Cosgrave, School fo History, UCCm.cosgrave@ucc.ie Dr Orla Murphy, School of English, UCC o.murphy@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 Aug 18 07:34:14 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 D82432870BC; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 07:34:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 949442870B0; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 07:34:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120818073410.949442870B0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 07:34:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.237 events: phylometric & phylogenetic approaches; early English books X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 237. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: (33) Subject: Call for Papers / Participation: Workshop and Tutorial: Phylometric and phylogenetic approaches in the humanities [2] From: "Michael Popham" (37) Subject: EEBO-TCP 2012 - last chance to register! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 07:15:29 +0000 From: Subject: Call for Papers / Participation: Workshop and Tutorial: Phylometric and phylogenetic approaches in the humanities Call for Papers / Call for Participation: WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL – PHYLOMETRIC AND PHYLOGENETIC APPROACHES IN THE HUMANITIES Date: November 22nd-24th, 2012 Location: University of Bern, Switzerland The analysis of large sets of genetic data with phylogenetic algorithms has a long tradition in biology. In the recent past, these methods have also been gaining increasing importance in the humanities, e.g. linguistics (e.g. Warnow and Nichols 2008; McMahon and McMahon 2005), literary studies (e.g. Windram, Shaw, Robinson and Howe 2008) or anthropology (e.g. Tehrani, Collard and Shennan 2010) where they have been used for the visualisation and analysis of different kinds of data such as comparative word lists, manuscript traditions or other types of cultural artefacts. WORKSHOP The workshop “Phylometric and phylogenetic approaches in the humanities” makes a contribution towards evaluating these innovative approaches. We would like to bring together specialists from different disciplines to discuss and exchange ideas about possible applications and limitations of “phylomemetics” (Howe and Windram 2011). We invite contributors from all disciplines who have applied phylogenetic methods to humanistic research problems. Since a tutorial about the application of phylogenetic methods inliterary studies and linguistics will be taking place prior to the workshop(November 22nd–23rd), we would especially welcome papers dealing with issues from other humanistic disciplines such as anthropology,archaeology, art history etc. Please send your abstract (500 characters at maximum) by September 20th, 2012 to the following e-mail address: bernphylogeny@gmail.com TUTORIAL The tutorial “Phylometric and phylogenetic approaches in the humanities” is designed for doctoral students, post-doc researchers and others who would like to get acquainted with these innovative approaches. The tutorial offers a hands-onintroduction to application possibilities of these methods based on data sets from different disciplines. While the focus is on data from linguistics andliterary studies, participants from other subject areas are especially welcome since we believe that interdisciplinary exchange on the use of such methods in non-genetic application domains is beneficial for all parties involved. The tutorial will provide - an overview on phylometric approaches in the humanities - an introduction to the use of relevant computer programs (Paup, SplitsTree) - the opportunity to practice the application of the methods by means of prepareddata sets. There might be the possibility for the participants to work on their own data during the tutorial. This will, however, depend on the number of participants and other factors. More information considering this option will follow in a later circular. The tutorial will be taught by Heather F. Windram (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) and Christoph Wolk (FRIAS, Albert-Ludwig-Universität Freiburg). The tutorial will be followed by a one-day workshop on the same topic on November 24th, 2012. Participants in the tutorial are encouraged to attend the workshop as well. The participation is free of charge and made possible by a grant by Bern University’s Mittelbauvereinigung and funding by the Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS). Please send your application by October 1st, 2012 to bernphylogeny@gmail.com. Please include your name and affiliation and a short statement concerning your background and your interest in the tutorial. Specifically, it is important to us to understand how well you are acquainted with phylogenetic and/or otherquantitative or computational methods, and what data you are interested in working with. Feel free to contact us, if there should be any remaining questions. Organizers: Kathrin Chlench, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Bern Gabriel Viehhauser, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Bern Ruprecht von Waldenfels, Institut für slavische Sprachen und Literaturen, Universität Bern Manuel Widmer, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Bern Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS), Universität Bern website: http://www.germanistik.unibe.ch/personen/gabriel_viehhauser/bernphylogeny.html References: McMahon and McMahon (2005), Language Classification by Numbers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Nichols and Warnow (2008), Tutorial on Computational Linguistic Phylogeny. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2:760–820. Windram, Shaw, Robinson, Howe (2008): Dante's Monarchia as a test case for the use of phylogenetic methods in stemmatic analysis. LLC 23(4): 443-463; Tehrani, Collard and Shennan (2010), The cophylogeny of populations and cultures: reconstructing the evolution of Iranian tribal craft traditions using trees and jungles. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 365(1559): 3865-3874. Howe and Windram (2011): Phylomemetics – evolutionary analysis beyond the gene. PLoS Biology 9: 1-5. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:20:19 +0100 From: "Michael Popham" Subject: EEBO-TCP 2012 - last chance to register! REGISTRATION CLOSES: 24/08/12 "Revolutionizing Early Modern Studies"? The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership in 2012 University of Oxford, 17-18 September 2012 To mark a decade of the Text Creation Partnership (TCP)'s work at the Bodleian Libraries, producing searchable, full-text transcriptions of works in Early English Books Online (EEBO), we are hosting a conference to reflect the various ways in which TCP texts are being used. Is EEBO-TCP revolutionizing research and teaching in early modern studies? What features would be desirable but are not yet available? What improvements could be made in the decade to come? The TCP is a collaboration between the University of Oxford, the University of Michigan and ProQuest. It is funded internationally by a consortium of partner institutions, and in the UK through JISC Collections. TCP editions power full-text searching of ProQuest's EEBO database http://eebo.chadwyck.com/, and contribute to many other projects' work. To date, the TCP has produced over 40,000 full-text XML editions of books printed between 1473 and 1700. Phase I produced over 25,000 texts, and Phase II, currently underway, will complete the corpus of about 70,000 unique titles in English. * Keynote speakers: Dr John Lavagnino, King's College London; Dr Emma Smith, University of Oxford. * For people interested in using TCP texts for research, one-to-one text clinic sessions are available. Papers and posters will include discussion of: * Research based on EEBO-TCP * Methodologies in teaching * Text editing * Emerging trends influenced by EEBO-TCP's availability * Potential for future research If you have a query, or would like to book a text clinic session, please email eebotcp@bodleian.ox.ac.uk. We are keen to support postgraduate and postdoctoral research. If you are a postgraduate or postdoctoral student and would like to be considered for a financially assisted place at the conference, please email eebotcp@bodleian.ox.ac.uk. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 21 05:42:03 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 977C3286238; Tue, 21 Aug 2012 05:42:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0E75A286225; Tue, 21 Aug 2012 05:41:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120821054154.0E75A286225@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 05:41:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.238 jobs at Munich, Berkeley X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 238. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stefan Baums (17) Subject: Job: Programmer and Digital Humanist (University of Munich) [2] From: "Sharon K. Goetz" (54) Subject: job opening at MTP/Berkeley --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:46:43 +0200 From: Stefan Baums Subject: Job: Programmer and Digital Humanist (University of Munich) Dear friends and colleagues, the University of Munich is looking for an experienced Programmer and Digital Humanist to work on the Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhāra project in the Institute for Indian and Tibetan Studies. The initial term of appointment is until 31 December 2015, with the possibility of renewal. The application deadline is 31 August 2012, with a start date as soon as possible thereafter. For further details and the application procedure, please refer to the announcement on the University of Munich website: http://www.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/stellenangebote/technik/20120720074055.html http://gandhari.org/tmp/programmer_and_digital_humanist.txt (English version) Best regards, Stefan Baums -- Dr. Stefan Baums Institute for Indian and Tibetan Studies Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:07:09 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: "Sharon K. Goetz" Subject: job opening at MTP/Berkeley http://jobs.berkeley.edu/ ID 14479 Writer/Editor 3 Please visit the URL above to apply; the job description is included below: ---- Application Review Date The First Review Date for this job is: September 1, 2012 Departmental Overview Located in the midst of the Mark Twain Papers in The Bancroft Library, the Mark Twain Project is editing and publishing a comprehensive scholarly edition of Mark Twain's writings, including all of his letters, notebooks, and unpublished manuscripts, as well as his well-known literary works. Since 2007 we have been building an electronic edition of these writings, http://www.marktwainproject.org, which draws upon the Web's strengths of search, organization, and display. Responsibilities Researches, writes, and edits material as well as potentially develops digital tools for both print and Web publication, including critical editions, XML documents, and databases. In general, works with colleagues to ensure accuracy and completeness of individual scholarly volumes of Mark Twain's letters, literary manuscripts, and published works, which are issued by the Mark Twain Project as printed books as well as electronically through its website, Mark Twain Project Online. Required Qualifications The ideal candidate has contributed successfully to digital humanities projects and is self-motivated to produce accurate work in collaboration with colleagues. Because of the nature of MTP's concerns, the candidate must have a deep understanding of textual criticism, including methodologies for establishing texts. -- Thorough knowledge of computer applications for publishing, image handling, and/or web production, especially XML-based workflows ---- Thorough interpersonal communications skills, including active listening and effective collaboration skills. -- Thorough analytical and critical thinking skills. -- Thorough research and fact verification skills. -- A master's degree in a related area (e.g. American literature, history) or equivalent research experience and training. Preferred Qualifications -- Familiarity with TEI-XML, XSL, JavaScript, databases, and/or content management systems (e.g. Drupal). -- Familiarity with library metadata. -- Experience with transcribing manuscripts. -- Experience with devising and running unit and system tests. -- A keen eye for proofreading and copy-editing. -- Ph.D. is preferred. Salary & Benefits Monthly: $4,250 - $6,308.33 Annual: $51,000 - $75,700 For information on the comprehensive benefits package offered by the University visit: http://atyourservice.ucop.edu/forms_pubs/misc/benefits_of_belonging.pdf Equal Employment Opportunity The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 22 05:03:02 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 3BB81286B5E; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 05:03:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A5FCB286AFD; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 05:02:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120822050250.A5FCB286AFD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 05:02:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.239 events: girls X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 239. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 07:44:50 +0100 From: "Scullard, Susan" Subject: Three weeks to go - Girls & Digital Culture: Transnational Reflections Girls & Digital Culture: Transnational Reflections Free places available for King's College London staff and students 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 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 ________________________________ 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 Thu Aug 23 06:15:14 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 AB0FC28545B; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:15:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 99EE2285440; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:15:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120823061507.99EE2285440@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:15:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.240 job at North Carolina State X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 240. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:20:38 +0100 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Open Rank Assistant/Associate Professor in Digital Humanities Open Rank Assistant/Associate Professor in Digital Humanities Position Vacancy Number: 00002010 North Carolina State University College of Humanities and Social Sciences The Department of English at North Carolina State University seeks to make an Assistant/Associate tenure-track appointment in Digital Humanities. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to help build the digital humanities curriculum in undergraduate and graduate programs in English and in the interdisciplinary doctoral program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, and to develop NC State’s digital humanities presence across campus, in the technology-rich Research Triangle area, and with industry and foundation partners. The candidate will join a department with an established track record of digital scholarship in fields including digital archives, virtual environments, textual editing and criticism, physical computing, and linguistics. In recent years, faculty have received funding in all of these areas from a number of public and private agencies. Our digital humanities initiatives are strongly supported by NC State’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences and by the NC State Libraries, which are nationally known for their excellence in providing innovative research support and data curation. NC State University has special strengths in computer science and digital technology and is located in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill Research Triangle area, nationally recognized as a vibrant center for research and creativity. The James B. Hunt Library, opening this spring on our Centennial Campus, is being built from the ground up as a national model for the integration of technology, scholarship, and information storage, retrieval, and display. The newly formed Research Triangle Digital Humanities Collaborative, a collaboration between NC State, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, and the National Humanities Center, offers further opportunities for research and curricular initiatives. Position Description: Duties include teaching graduate and undergraduate courses (2-2 base teaching load) as well as maintaining an active research and publication program and participating in professional and university service. There will be opportunities for leadership and program administration (with corresponding reductions in teaching load). We particularly welcome candidates whose research and teaching interests can help us develop one or more areas of existing strength within our department: creative writing, film, linguistics, literature, and rhetoric. Qualifications: Required -- Ph.D. in English or related field, area open; track record of excellence in digital scholarship appropriate for rank. Preferred -- a history of successful grant funding in the digital humanities. Information about Department and Programs: The English Department at NC State offers a wide array of programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels: a B.A. in English (with concentrations in Creative Writing; Film; Language, Writing & Rhetoric; Literature, and Teacher Education), an M.A. in English (with concentrations in British & American Literature, Linguistics, Creative Writing, Rhetoric & Composition, and World Literature), an M.S. in Technical Communication, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. In partnership with NC State’s Department of Communication, the English Department also offers an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media. Instructions for Applicants: Please use the NC State University employment web portal (http://jobs.ncsu.edu) and search for position 00002010 to apply; we cannot consider applications submitted in any other way. You can go to the posting directly by using this link, http://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/12400. Upload letter of application (addressed to Antony H. Harrison, Department Head, and referencing the position title Open Rank Professor in Digital Humanities and position number, 00002010), CV, and contact information for at least three references. Three letters of reference, a writing sample, and teaching materials and evaluations may be requested later. Screening of applications will begin October 1 and will continue until position is filled. AA/EOE. North Carolina State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer welcoming applications from members of under-represented groups and all persons without regard to sexual orientation. For ADA accommodation, contact Stephanie McBroom (919-513-0391) or stephanie_mcbroom@ncsu.edu. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Aug 23 06:24:40 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 508952855F3; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:24:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B50BB2855E2; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:24:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120823062436.B50BB2855E2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:24:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.241 buying a bill of goods X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 241. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:19:33 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: rhetoric Allow me to pose a question about where rhetoric leaves off and matters (we think) of substance begin. I quote from an e-mail message that just popped in: > The phenomena, known as big data is enabling organisations to get the > right answers to their biggest questions-faster. > > But big data tools are not, in themselves a ‘magic bullet’ and there > will be challenges along the way that will threaten to derail any > initiative before it even gets off the ground. For a start, > justifying the investment in big data isn't easy. Many will struggle > to define a business case, and the structural, people and process > changes that will likely occur with a big data effort need to be > managed very carefully to ensure success. > > Learn how, by hearing from the early adopters and key innovators > leading the way in big data and advanced analytics at the 3rd Big > Data Insight Group Forum on 13 September 2012. The above can be made considerably more genteel, considerably more like what one of us might write. It's trivial to find the markers of ignorance in the above text, the mistakes in punctuation, grammatical number and so on, and trivial to find the buzz-words and to adjust for the humanities. These are errors and infelicities that can easily be corrected, e.g. thus: > The phenomenon known as "big data" enables us to make significant > progress with our most difficult questions, and to do this faster than > before. > > But big data collections and tools are not sufficient in themselves. > Before they can be provided and put to use, challenges are likely to > threaten any project before it even begins. For a start, > justifying the investment in big data isn't easy. The changes in > institutional structures and processes and the new abilities required > from those involved need to be managed very carefully to ensure > a good outcome. > > Learn how such an outcome may be secured by hearing from early > adopters and key innovators leading the way in big data and > advanced analytics at the 3rd Big Data Insight Group Forum on > 13 September 2012. One could go further. But even so, the bill of goods being sold here remains undisturbed and, I think if we're honest with ourselves, could readily be encountered in an academic context. What's assumed rather than asked? What "critical thinking", as we call it, is missing? 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 Aug 23 06:35:04 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 768BE2857CD; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:35:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8455D2857BA; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:35:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120823063500.8455D2857BA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:35:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.242 events: linguistics; DH & CS; THATCamp & 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. 242. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: kcl - ldc (78) Subject: cfp: Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference [2] From: Brian Rosenblum (41) Subject: THATCamp Kansas and Big Data & Uncertainty Conference [3] From: Ray Siemens (76) Subject: cfp: November Chicago DH conference --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:43:29 +0100 From: kcl - ldc Subject: cfp: Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference ILinC 2012 - Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference Exploring contexts: language at crossroads of society and culture November 9-10, 2012 Queen's University Belfast: Schools of Education, English and Modern Languages Call for Papers Queen's University Belfast is pleased to announce its Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference 2012 (ILinC 2012), a student-led venture co-organised by the Schools of Education, English, and Modern Languages. Given the success of the last ILinC, this two-day conference will give researchers studying language in all academic disciplines the opportunity to exchange information about their research practice in the presence of distinguished and esteemed academics in the field of linguistics. In addition, the event aims to bring together researchers from different academic divisions carrying out language studies in order to foster cross-disciplinary contact. This year's conference theme is 'Exploring contexts: language at crossroads of society and culture'. With this theme, we seek to examine the interactional, communicative, societal and cultural functions of language. The conference will promote internationalisation by bringing researchers from across the globe together and by providing vital networking opportunities. Confirmed keynote speakers: * Prof. Paul Kerswill (University of York); * Prof. Lesley Milroy (University of Oxford); * Prof. Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University). Possible topics of paper/poster proposals include, but are not limited to: * Applied linguistics; * Classroom discourse; * Corpus linguistics; * Critical discourse analysis; * Discourse analysis; * Genre analysis; * Language change; * Language policy; * Language teaching/learning; * Linguistic and cultural imperialism; * Multimodality; * Phonetics/phonology; * Pragmatics; * Semantics; * Sociolinguistics; * Syntax; * Stylistics. Paper/poster submission: Please submit your proposal via EasyAbs available at http://tinyurl.com/ilinc2012 by September 15th, following the guidelines below: 1. Abstracts should be 300 words long (maximum) and clearly present a research question/objective, literature review, methodological approach, results and conclusions (without any subheadings). 2. Abstracts should be sent via the online facility in a DOC format (Word 97-2003), with a centralised title, in bold, and in capital letters. There is no need to include full references at the end of the abstract. Please avoid footnotes and any unusual symbols (such as phonetic transcription) that might be changed in electronic communication. Key dates: * Abstract submission deadline: September 15th* Notification of reviewers' decision: September 30th * Presenters' registration deadline: October 15th * Conference: November 9th / 10th (Friday and Saturday) For updated info about the conference, please visit: * ILinC 2012 website: http://blogs.qub.ac.uk/ilinc2012/ * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QUBILinC * Twitter: https://twitter.com/ILinC2012 ILinC 2012 Organising Committee: Catriona Arlow Heather Cahoon Eleanor Collins Fabiana Macedo Fausto Zoe McCann Helen Morrow Kelly, Hsiao-Hui Wu -- ILinC 2012 - Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference *Nov 9-10, Queen's University Belfast *Please check our website http://blogs.qub.ac.uk/ilinc2012/ and Facebook page for updates, and follow us on Twitter. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:43:33 -0500 From: Brian Rosenblum Subject: THATCamp Kansas and Big Data & Uncertainty Conference The schedule of speakers and workshops at the University of Kansas Digital Humanities Forum, September 20-22, is now online. There is no registration fee to participate; however, space is limited, especially for the Workshops and THATCamp, and is filling up quickly. The detailed 3-day schedule can be viewed at < http://kansas2012.thatcamp.org/schedule/>. The Forum consists of three separate but related programs held over three days: * Day One (Thursday, September 20): WORKSHOPS http://kansas2012.thatcamp.org/workshops/ A set of in-depth, hands on workshops on digital humanities tools and topics including text mining, data visualization, building web exhibits, and teaching digital humanities. * Day Two (Friday, September 21): THATCamp KANSAS http://kansas2012.thatcamp.org/about/ 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 http://kansas2012.thatcamp.org/big-data/ A one-day program of panels and poster sessions showcasing digital humanities projects and research. 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 For more information and to register see: http://kansas2012.thatcamp.org/ ------------------------- Brian Rosenblum Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities Associate Librarian for Digital Scholarship University of Kansas Libraries Room 450, Watson Library 1425 Jayhawk Blvd. Lawrence, KS 66045-7537 Ph. (785) 864-8883 Email: brianlee@ku.edu http://idrh.ku.edu http://cds.lib.ku.edu --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:11:28 +0100 From: Ray Siemens Subject: cfp: November Chicago DH conference Call for Papers: 2012 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 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 four most recent conferences in the DHCS series, which celebrates its seventh year running in 2012: http://chicagocolloquium.org/past-colloquia * 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 ChicagoIda Noyes Hall http://maps.uchicago.edu/eastquad/idanoyes.html 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 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: 1. Register yourself (you will add co-authors later) 2. Confirm the registration e-mail. 3. Make sure you go back to the main link and sign in. 4. Create a “New Submission”. Fill in all appropriate sections. 5. 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 15 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 Aug 24 08:43:27 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 9AC6D2883E0; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:43:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AA78D2883D4; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:43:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120824084320.AA78D2883D4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:43:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.243 brave new world? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 243. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:37:21 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Brave New World, version ? Our colleague Jascha Kessler has sent me a letter he wrote to the Editor of the Financial Times, for Saturday, 18 August 2012, "Brave new world without teachers, or learning, or thinkers". It concerns dire predictions of what will happen to higher education as a result of prominent efforts to teach very large classes by online means. (I send it along as my first attachment, below.) Perhaps this effort will be as successful as various tsunamis have been in wiping out costal settlements. (The metaphor is columnist Christopher Caldwell's, for which see my second attachment.) But I recall prominent efforts at the University of California at Berkeley in the early 1960s to promote teaching by television, accompanied at registration by enthusiastic posters declaring e.g. "See Professor Helson on television!" One can still find the large, now empty, brackets for the televisions in some places. I spit nails, but not here. I think of all my years in classrooms, with people, face to face. "Now we see through a glass darkly, then face to face" reversed? I know, Paul's words are more accurately for us translated "by means of a mirror in an enigma", but the point remains, does it not? Comments? Yours, WM *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1345797509_2012-08-24_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_17636.3.pdf http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1345797509_2012-08-24_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_17636.2.pdf -- 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 Aug 24 08:44:26 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 A192228846D; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:44:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 32CDA28845A; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:44:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120824084421.32CDA28845A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:44:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.244 users of large collections? 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:52:30 +0100 From: "Gooding, Paul" Subject: Survey: Users of large-scale digitised collections Survey: Users of large-scale digitised collections Apologies for any cross-posting: This is a request for participants to complete a survey into how large-scale digitised collections (LSDIs) are being used: https://opinio.ucl.ac.uk/s?s=15519 This survey is part of a PhD research project being undertaken at UCLDH which aims to learn more about the experience of users of LSDIs, and in particular digitised newspaper collections. For the purposes of this project, LSDIs are considered to be large collections of digitised print and other media that can be viewed using a computer; the most famous example is Google Book Search, and other projects include the British Library's digital collections. This project is looking in particular at the British Library's 19th Century Newspaper Collection. If you are a user of this resource, then your opinions will be extremely valuable in helping us to discover how people are using the British Library's collections of digitised newspapers, but we are also eager to hear opinions from users of other large-scale digital collections, whether they contain newspapers or other media. If you use LSDIs for any purpose, whether work, research or personal interest, then please fill in the survey and share with anybody that you think may be interested in contributing. The survey can be found at the following link, along with further information. The closing date is midnight (GMT) on Friday 14th September. Participation is, of course, entirely voluntary and anonymous: https://opinio.ucl.ac.uk/s?s=15519 Many thanks for your time, Paul ------------------------ Paul Gooding PhD Student UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Department of Information Studies University College London Email: paul.gooding.10@ucl.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Aug 24 08:46:33 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 A8364288522; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:46:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8D630288511; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:46:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120824084629.8D630288511@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:46:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.245 events: at Sheffield 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. 245. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:29:17 +0100 From: Clare Mills Subject: DHC 2012 - registration deadline Dear Colleagues, This is just a quick reminder that the registration deadline for the Digital Humanities Congress is fast approaching. Book online at www.sheffield.ac.uk/hri/dhc2012 before 5pm tomorrow (24 August) to secure your place. We're really excited to be welcoming 66 speakers including Professor Andrew Prescott (King's College London), Professor Lorna Hughes (National Library of Wales) and Professor Philip Ethington (University of Southern California) who will be delivering keynote talks. We hope some of you will be able to join us. 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Aug 25 08:24:35 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 DE60A288763; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:24:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D2936288292; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:24:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120825082433.D2936288292@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:24:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.246 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. 246. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Wendell Piez (101) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.241 buying a bill of goods [2] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (40) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.241 buying a bill of goods --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:17:36 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.241 buying a bill of goods In-Reply-To: <20120823062436.B50BB2855E2@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, On 8/23/2012 2:24 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Allow me to pose a question about where rhetoric leaves off and > matters (we think) of substance begin. I quote from an e-mail message > that just popped in: > >> The phenomena, known as big data is enabling organisations to get the >> right answers to their biggest questions-faster. >> >> But big data tools are not, in themselves a ‘magic bullet’ and there >> will be challenges along the way that will threaten to derail any >> initiative before it even gets off the ground. For a start, >> justifying the investment in big data isn't easy. Many will struggle >> to define a business case, and the structural, people and process >> changes that will likely occur with a big data effort need to be >> managed very carefully to ensure success. >> >> Learn how, by hearing from the early adopters and key innovators >> leading the way in big data and advanced analytics at the 3rd Big >> Data Insight Group Forum on 13 September 2012. > > The above can be made considerably more genteel, considerably > more like what one of us might write. It's trivial to find the markers of > ignorance in the above text, the mistakes in punctuation, grammatical > number and so on, and trivial to find the buzz-words and to adjust > for the humanities. These are errors and infelicities that can easily > be corrected, e.g. thus: > >> The phenomenon known as "big data" enables us to make significant >> progress with our most difficult questions, and to do this faster than >> before. >> >> But big data collections and tools are not sufficient in themselves. >> Before they can be provided and put to use, challenges are likely to >> threaten any project before it even begins. For a start, >> justifying the investment in big data isn't easy. The changes in >> institutional structures and processes and the new abilities required >> from those involved need to be managed very carefully to ensure >> a good outcome. >> >> Learn how such an outcome may be secured by hearing from early >> adopters and key innovators leading the way in big data and >> advanced analytics at the 3rd Big Data Insight Group Forum on >> 13 September 2012. > > One could go further. But even so, the bill of goods being sold here > remains undisturbed and, I think if we're honest with ourselves, > could readily be encountered in an academic context. > > What's assumed rather than asked? What "critical thinking", as we > call it, is missing? I love your observation and of course I much prefer your rewritten version. Like you, I had to ask myself what sort of contraption ("initiative") was going to get off the ground before it was derailed. (Maybe one of those rocket ships that takes off from a launch track.) But I hesitate to agree with your implication that anything much like critical thinking is even warranted here. This isn't being written for us; it isn't even being written for someone who needs to be sold on "Big Data". Instead, it's written for someone who has already decided this topic is interesting and maybe important (for their career if nothing else), that it holds promise, and who only needs something they can take to their manager to make the case that a junket (which after all will also be a learning opportunity) will be worth dipping into the budget for. To them, the sale has already been made, and the bill of goods is only so they have a piece of paper that can be stamped for approval. Indeed, look carefully here and you will see the core of the promise is the acknowledgement that "Many will struggle to define a business case", which is subtly and importantly different from your rephrasing ("justifying the investment in big data isn't easy"). The audience doesn't want to justify an investment: they want to make a business case, and the implication is that those who come will be able to fashion one, while those who don't, will only struggle. Why is it important to have a business case, as opposed to being able to justify an investment? Because a business case is enough to meet the need for a business case (in an environment where just having one is enough), while being able to justify an investment only opens a discussion. I dare say that in this context, the correct amount of critical thinking will signal engagement with the topic while taking care to leave the basic premise, as you say, undisturbed. So questioning anyone's ideas is not part of the exercise. Thus, it is fine to suggest that a big investment in Big Data brings risks with it, since we have already accepted that: after all, I am an important person, who takes risks, and risks can pay off or I wouldn't want to see myself as a risk-taker. (What wouldn't be fine would be to say "we are going to ask whether this entire enterprise isn't a big waste of time and money".) (FWIW, I don't believe it inevitably is in this case, although I continue to tell my friends I am only interested in Tiny Data. "Tiny Data!" says one of my Big Data friends. "You are only interested if the second one is different!" Exactly.) Cheers, Wendell -- ================================================= Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:54:03 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.241 buying a bill of goods In-Reply-To: <20120823062436.B50BB2855E2@woodward.joyent.us> The assumption of course is that Big Data contains undiscovered beneficial knowledge that is impossible to obtain by any previously available means. It attempts to collect funding for Big Data projects, funding which presumably has to be newly appropriated for this task, on the belief that it will yield answers that not only will justify the funds, but could lead to a reduction in the cost of operations. In this regard Big Data is very much like the older buzzword of of 'computerizing' something. That by putting operations into the computer there will be benefits both in efficiency and cost savings to justify the new expense. (In actuality, the benefits of 'computerizing' operations is to allow changes in operations that would never have been approved except for the fact that the computer has different requirements for data entry than people; allowing the system to change despite entrenched social beliefs as to how things should be done.) The use of 'Big Data' will thus be seized upon as a means of obtaining funding which isn't available otherwise. Because it is a technical methodology, it bypasses criticisms that it involves paying for human judgement. It's the computer that will make the discoveries, not human beings; therefore the discoveries will be objective and not subjective. Big Data is at this point being proposed blindly as offering solutions when in most cases it is only offering a research project. To offer solutions it would have to be the case that similar Big Data projects in the same field can be shown to have provided benefits. This will invariably lead to the next stage of Big Data failures, when the funders realize that there aren't financial benefits to some Big Data applications. Big Data tasks will then be separated into those that have worked and those that haven't worked. When it is realized that what was being funded was 'research' into the utility of Big Data for a given task. And the cycle will advance to the next buzzword. Now, I should also note that there WILL be Big Data successes. One cannot discount every application of a new methodology--it is just that funders should be aware that they are in many cases being asked to fund research not development. I like research. It is fun and leads to new discoveries. Just don't confuse 'research' with operational improvements. You can't guarantee research will save money. Buggy whip manufacturers couldn't have saved their industry by using better data analysis of their customer's purchases... if anything they would have realized they should cease manufacturing sooner. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Aug 25 08:26:09 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 D9AD4288B2D; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:26:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6771E288ABD; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:26:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120825082608.6771E288ABD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:26:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.247 brave new world & its institutions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 247. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:31:29 +0100 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.243 brave new world? In-Reply-To: <20120824084320.AA78D2883D4@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, It is interesting how this issue which, as you observe has been around in different forms for many years, is suddenly causing such anxiety in the United States - concerns about readiness for on-line activities underlay a lot of the recent controversy about the unsuccessful attempt to dismiss the President at the University of Virginia. I assume that the reason this is causing such concern is what one might call the I-tunes effect - the way in which the success of music downloading has heightened awareness of senior managers in all types of activities of the potential for new digitally-based business models to cause radical transformation quite rapidly. It is by no means certain that disruptions (that favourite neo-liberal idea) evident in one area of activity will necessarily be replicated in another - indeed, part of the nature of disruptive tendencies must be their unpredictability, which must include the possibility that they do not occur. However, in terms of this American discussion (and it is very much as framed here about the relative inflexibility of the structures developed by North American Higher Education over the past fifty years), the following considerations from the UK might be relevant: - The first and most important point is I think that there has been a lamentable rift between much digital humanities work and new developments in pedagogy over the past ten-fifteen years. In the early 1990s, we believed that not only would new digital and networked technologies would transform research and our access to research materials, we also believed that equally important was the transformation that would occur in pedagogy. However, much of our effort since then has gone into creating and financing digital humanities centres which were supported by soft funding and therefore necessarily concentrated on a series of short-term research projects. Teaching activity has tended to be rather an after-thought for most digital humanities centres. However, in the meantime, e-learning and technology-enhanced learning have made enormous strides and for many universities in Britain have been a major focus of activity and funding. The rift is illustrated by the separate professional organisations that have been established. I am not aware that bodies like ADHO or ACH have any significant contact with the parallel bodies for learning technologists, such as the Association for Learning Technology (http://www.alt.ac.uk/). The ALT conference is at the University of Manchester from 11-13 September 2013, and looks very interesting. It might be a good way of starting to explore these links in a better way. Another organisation which has of course championed the importance of pedagogy in the digital humanities is HASTAC, and I think this is one reason why HASTAC is the most exciting and interesting organisational activity in the digital humanities work at present. There is a great deal of the HASTAC website which bears closely on the themes you have raised. - While you shudder at the thought of American experiments in lectures by television, we should also remember that we have one enormously successful institution in the UK which sprang from precisely such activities, namely the Open University. To my mind, the Open University is, after the NHS, the most important piece of social innovation in Britain in modern times, and deserved a place in the opening ceremony of the Olympics. The Open University has of course long ago moved on from the late night television lectures on BBC2 which we remember from the 1970s, and Open University is pioneering new types of online approaches, including a major development in enhancement of Moodle. A hint of some of the Open University's initiatives in this field can be gleaned from the Open Learn section of their website: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/. OU have also been pioneering work on mobile access, particularly mobile libraries. The OU of course famously links its distance provision to residential courses, but I suspect its structures are one that provide a good guide to future developments. I think it is sad that the antiquated insistence of UK higher education on educational autonomy prevents a more co-ordinated and strategic development around the Open University. Given that is quite probably that new online methods will cause changes, it would make great sense if in the UK we scrapped absurd anachronisms like Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and created a more integrated and strategic service based around the OU. - Finally, it is worth noting that concerns about the mechanisation of learning are not new. The use of numerical grades for assessment began in Cambridge in the 1790s in direct response to an increase in the number of students, and may be considered at a number of levels a response to the increasingly industrialisation of society. When marked examinations for school children were introduced in the 1850s, there were many concerns that it privileged repetitive learning, short term memory and the retention of conventional knowledge. As a schoolchild myself in the 1960s, I was always struck and enthused by the willingness at that time of many educational bodies to try and break down the obsession with exams and measurement and try new methods of learning. And of course our excitement about digital technologies is that they open up precisely such possibilities. Maybe our aim should be to try and bring that kind of pedagogic liberalism to the new learning environments which are emerging? 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 On 24/08/2012 09:43, "Humanist Discussion Group" wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 243. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:37:21 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: Brave New World, version ? > > >Our colleague Jascha Kessler has sent me a letter he wrote to the Editor >of the Financial Times, for Saturday, 18 August 2012, "Brave new world >without teachers, or learning, or thinkers". It concerns dire >predictions of what will happen to higher education as a result of >prominent efforts to teach very large classes by online means. (I send >it along as my first attachment, below.) Perhaps this effort will be as >successful as various tsunamis have been in wiping out costal >settlements. (The metaphor is columnist Christopher Caldwell's, for >which see my second attachment.) But I recall prominent efforts at the >University of California at Berkeley in the early 1960s to promote >teaching by television, accompanied at registration by enthusiastic >posters declaring e.g. "See Professor Helson on television!" One can >still find the large, now empty, brackets for the televisions in some >places. > >I spit nails, but not here. I think of all my years in classrooms, with >people, face to face. "Now we see through a glass darkly, then face to >face" reversed? I know, Paul's words are more accurately for us >translated "by means of a mirror in an enigma", but the point remains, >does it not? > >Comments? > >Yours, >WM > >*** Attachments: > >http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1345797509_2012-08-2 >4_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_17636.3.pdf > >http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1345797509_2012-08-2 >4_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_17636.2.pdf > >-- >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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Aug 25 08:28:25 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 00207288B7B; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:28:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C59DC288B6A; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:28:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120825082823.C59DC288B6A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:28:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.248 job at Cornell 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. 248. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:18:00 +0000 From: Oya Yildirim Rieger Subject: Position Announcement: Digital Scholarship Initiatives Coordinatorat Cornell University Library Position Opening at Cornell University Library: Digital Scholarship Initiatives Coordinator Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services: http://www.library.cornell.edu/DSPS The Digital Scholarship Initiatives Coordinator will provide leadership in conceptualizing and implementing new digital scholarship and preservation initiatives with a focus on needs assessment, requirements analysis, and business planning. One of the key responsibilities will be facilitating the implementation of CUL's scholarly communication outreach program by partnering with subject liaisons to understand service needs, coordinate awareness sessions, and facilitate forming new partnerships with faculty in pursuing digital research and teaching initiatives. The main responsibilities include: --Lead a diverse range of DSPS initiatives including setting requirements, developing project plans and timelines, coordinating initiative implementation, conceptualizing innovative solutions, overseeing project staff, managing budgets, assessing project outcomes, and communicating with project team members and clients. --Collaborate with subject liaison librarians to promote CUL's digital scholarship and scholarly communication services, increase awareness about current scholarly communication issues, assess faculty needs for services and adjust CUL services accordingly, create new workshops and forums for faculty and researchers in related topics (e.g., personal archiving, open access). --Participate in initiatives addressing long-term stewardship and access to collections including sustainability programs. --Manage the Cornell Copyright Information Center, including the delivery of the workshop series, development of the website, creation of new information materials, and provision of copyright clearance and intellectual property rights services and consultancies. CUL's Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services program facilitates collaborations within the Cornell University community in the creation and management of digital scholarly content in support of learning, teaching, and research. The program also has a national and international presence and facilitates sharing and archiving of content through online repositories such as e-publishing systems or institutional and subject repositories (e.g., arXiv.org). Qualifications: --Bachelor's degree, preferably with background in information science, library science, or instructional design (advanced degree highly desirable) --Interest in assuming a dynamic role in a vibrant, fast-paced, and innovative environment with emphasis on team work --Thorough understanding of lifecycle management issues and processes involved in creating and managing digital initiatives from technical, business, and policy perspectives --Competency in budgeting and fiscal planning, assessment and evaluation, and service management --Analytical and social sciences research skills to gather, analyze, and present data --Excellent project management skills with experience in overseeing complex technology-based projects. --Background or a good understanding of copyright and information policy issues. --Minimum 2-3 year experience in related program areas. To see the full job description and apply, please visit: http://www.hr.cornell.edu/jobs/positions.html ======================= Oya Y. Rieger, Ph.D. Associate University Librarian Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services arXiv Program Director Cornell University Library http://vivo.cornell.edu/individual/vivo/individual23129 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Aug 25 08:29:03 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 42B73288E6D; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:29:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5ED55288E1D; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:29:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120825082901.5ED55288E1D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:29:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.249 events: TEI at Brown X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 249. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:38:46 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: introductory TEI workshop at Brown: space still available There are still a few spaces available in our upcoming workshop: Introduction to Contextual Encoding with TEI October 15-17, 2012 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island $300 for students, TEI members and subscribers $450 for non-members We'll be accepting registrations until September 20 (or until the workshop is full, whichever comes first). This is an introduction to the basics of TEI and XML, with a special focus on the use of TEI to encode contextual information about persons, places, interpretive themes. A rough schedule is available at: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/context_2012-10/ We hope to see you there! Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Brown University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Aug 26 06:20:06 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 D44CB286813; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 06:20:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2B4C62867DE; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 06:20:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120826062002.2B4C62867DE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 06:20:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.250 brave new world & its institutions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 250. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 21:21:20 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.247 brave new world & its institutions In-Reply-To: <20120825082608.6771E288ABD@woodward.joyent.us> I do appreciate the earnestness revealed in Prof. Prescott's comments. I do think he rather misses what is the point of the present discussions. He concentrates on "learning." Viz., *"** As a schoolchild myself in the 1960s, I was always struck and enthused by the willingness at that time of many educational bodies to try and break down the obsession with exams and measurement and try new methods of learning..."* *Methods of learning? * What does that mean, exactly? I was a schoolchild in the 1930s-40s. I dont think there was or is a method of learning, unless it is taught somehow. By digitized instructors? Kids learn, Homo sapiens learns as it learns, sans "method" or methodologies concocted by...whom? A robot might learn by implantation of code. Okay, we stick silicon chips in newborn heads? But then the chips learn, and what does each unique individual brain make of it all internally? There may be methods to teach say violin technique, but they are applied and tested one on one: teacher and pupil. Results vary by talents. Apart from all that, what I questioned in my letter to the FT was the costs of teachers vs. internet teaching. The learning part requires foot soldiers, future teachers in higher Ed, what schools have been and been about since Sumeria, to test what has been learned, grade and tutor or instruct it. When the Univ of California at Santa Cruz was inaugurated, Prof C Page Smith [in my letter] went up to organize it. It was all Pass/Fail...no grades. Assuming perhaps Humanists and Historians and Lit and the rest reviewed the written work, not multiple choice Xses, of students. It took but a few years until the scientists rebelled at the lack of grading for qualifications in hard subjects, not philosophical or literary chatter. And grading was back, and how, even for a largely pothead and hippy university student body in the 70s and 80s and perhaps beyond, up in the Redwoods paradise. Even with an Open University scheme, Lenin's question remains: *WHO, WHOM?* All may enter and study... but what has been learned by each individual? That costs, and doing away with the absurdity of OxBridge doesn't solve the question of judgments by individuals, referees. You cannot get away with anything in competitive sports. Some are better than others, as in horse and dog racing, and judging there is easy: whoever finishes first second third, etc. Not including Lance Armstrong, et alia, as it turns out. Then, too, we are advised: "It would make great sense if in the UK we scrapped absurd anachronisms like Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and created *a more integrated and strategic** **service based around* the OU." What, it may be asked, is meant by that phrase in italics? More integration of what? Service meaning...teachers? Who, Whom? what qualifies? Integrated whos? Serviced by Whoms? * O, Orwell, thou shouldst be living at this hour!* I take Prescott to be serious, but the questions I raised about Humanities and the Internet remain. It is *not* a matter of tv lectures. When the few expert lecturers have retired, who takes their place? Who has learned what from the medium? I like documentary films, How it is made, where the penguins walk? but then all that may be teaching me what is out there. Still, what goes on, how and why, stanza by stanza in the Divine Comedy? Who will learn or teach what the Divine is, the Commedia means? Or even says? E=MC2 says what it means, and means what it says, and a digitized quiz can locate my grasp of those letters. However, and for example, I offer an Honors Seminar for Frosh, first year students, pass/fail, just show up, and select one assignment. I provide 100 pages of poems; I lay out the fundamental 3 modes of poems written from history. I require each to pick a poem, read it aloud and deliver orally 1 written page that tells the rest what the poem says. I forbid students to say what anything, lines, stanzas, whatever *means*. *Meanings are idiosyncratic and arbitrary. If anyone imagines contemporary student of 19-20 can write one double-spaced page of sentences stating what the poem says, lines say, that one is mistaken. These University of California youth are admitted as of the top 17-19% of high school graduates. We have 2 dozen State Universities for the lower tiers; and many community, 2 year colleges for all the rest who want something after high school and need a lot for work and life and career. A sort of Open system a la UK. But...there is hardly any system to integrate persons tomorrow who have not studied and learned and been graded. Quality is quality. Finally re my Honors Seminar: I attach Plato's Symposium, and tell them to read that short work. As all will recall, each principal vocation speaks in turn all that night, and each man speaks only of what he knows from his craft or profession. Not a one is able to tell the group what it is that the god Eros does to discipline or inspire or create their work[s]. They are all good and educated senior Athenians. But as for understanding the matter of daily life and work's structures and statements, let alone meaning...*nada, nada e pues nada. *In the end, Socrates overturns the evening, although what he has to say remains a mystery, clearly presented. And he got it all from some old Sybil in the mountains. The SYMPOSIUM, in short, remains exemplary regarding this problem. The scientists and technologists are crystal clear about what things say, not what they [might or could] mean; they measure, and measure has always been, or measuring, the foundation effort of civilization: Tekne, the Greeks called it. But I am sure it was known to the painters of Paleolithic caves. That is clear enough, or should be. As for *meaning?* Alas, that is the burden of would be Humanists, digital, digitized, or whatever. Jascha Kessler * * On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > As a schoolchild myself in the 1960s, > I was always struck and enthused by the willingness at that time of many > educational bodies to try and break down the obsession with exams and > measurement and try new methods of learning > -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Aug 26 06:20:20 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 679A1286844; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 06:20:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 34AC9286830; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 06:20:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120826062019.34AC9286830@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 06:20:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.251 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="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. 251. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 09:40:45 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.246 big data In-Reply-To: <20120825082433.D2936288292@woodward.joyent.us> Don't know how to answer your question about the Big Data post, Wendell. It reads to me more like sales copy than scholarship. There's nothing worthy of analysis there. 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 Aug 27 07:05:18 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 83BCB289BC1; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 07:05:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 30591289BB8; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 07:05:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120827070517.30591289BB8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 07:05:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.252 brave new world & its institutions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 252. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:44:22 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.250 brave new world & its institutions In-Reply-To: <20120826062002.2B4C62867DE@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, Professor Kessler is right that I did not address the main point in his letter, which is that the use of new technologies in learning does not automatically mean that the academic profession is doomed. He is right on this. What I wanted to point out is that we have over forty years of experience in Britain of providing university education through a mixture of television, radio, internet, radio cassette and other media, and it seems to me very strange that the current fevered discussion in the United States does not ever refer to this experience which provides very clear pointers for future development. The idea of a 'university of the air' was proposed in Britain as early as 1926 when a historian working for the BBC suggested the development of a 'wireless university'. The idea of a 'university of the air' gathered momentum in the early 1960s, and the creation of an experimental university using television and radio was a prominent part of the Labour Party's manifesto when it was elected to government in 1964. The intention was to offer university education without the requirement for any prior educational qualification. That seems to me one important difference between the discussions in the 1960s and the debates on which Professor Kessler comments - in Britain, we have always seen new technologies as providing a key to offering wider access to education; the current discussions in America seem to focus almost entirely on technology as a cost-saving option. The Open University was established at Milton Keynes in 1969. The Tory minister Iain McLeod called the idea of a 'university of the air' 'blithering nonsense' and threatened to abolish it if the Conservatives formed the next government, but fortunately Margaret Thatcher, the new Education Secretary, decided to allow the experiment to go ahead and the first 25,000 students were admitted in 1971 to be taught by a mixture of television, audio cassette, home science kits, course packs and residential courses. Today, the Open University is the largest single university in Britain with more than 260,000 current students. Since 1969, over 1.5 million students, many without previous formal educational qualifications, have graduated from the Open University. As I mentioned in my previous post, the Open University is pioneering on-line methods of teaching. But, above all, I think the most important achievement of the Open University was that (in the words of its website)'The Open University was the first institution to break the insidious link between exclusivity and excellence'. The Open University has been revolutionary in many of its pedagogical methods and many of these have been since adopted by conventional British universities. But, to support Professor Kessler's key contention, what the Open University demonstrates above all is that such innovative educational achievement depends on first-rate academic staff. The Open University currently employs more than more than 1,200 full-time academic staff and more than 3,500 support and administrative staff. Above all, it has a network of 7,000 tutors locally based (as famously depicted in 'Educating Rita'). The chief lesson of the Open University experience supports Professor Kessler's argument - to successfully use new media to widen access to higher education then you need committed and inspirational academic staff. I think this alone shows why current discussions about the use of new technologies in teaching should take the experience of the Open University in Britain as a starting point. Much more information about the Open University can be found on its website: http://www8.open.ac.uk/about/main/the-ou-explained/history-the-ou I suggested in my previous post that the Open University stands comparison within the National Health Service as one of the greatest social achievements of Britain in modern times. On reflection, I wonder if the Open University isn't the greater of the two achievements. To create a collectivised medical system chiefly requires a society with a strong sense of a social justice and a political and administrative determination to put a fairer and more civilised system in place - it wasn't necessary to do much new in terms of the medicine. The creation of the Open University required an equally strong social sense of social justice but also needed to develop completely new ways of providing a university education which didn't compromise on standards. We need a similar set of values in approaching the pedagogical possibilities provided by new technologies. For further reflections on some of these themes, I would recommend the blog on the history of the Open University maintained by my friend Dan Weinbren: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/History-of-the-OU/ A recent post by Dan is pertinent to these discussions: "Open learning is a movement that isn’t going to go away The idea that technology can be deployed to support learners isn’t new to those who work at the OU. Suddenly, however, it is in the headlines because Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have formed a $60m (£38m) alliance to launch edX, a platform to deliver courses online – with the modest ambition of ‘revolutionising education around the world’. Paying relatively little attention to the decades-long history of sophisticated use of television, radio, video and the internet that has occurred at the OU the director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and one of the pioneers of the MITx online prototype. Anant Agarwal said ‘This could be the end of the two-hour lecture…You can’t hit the pause button on a lecturer, you can’t fast forward’. While MIT might be struggling to catch up pedagogically this development could be a challenge to the OU, as well as an opportunity for it to demonstrate its experience in the field of supported open learning. As Dr Anka Mulder, head of Delft University in the Netherlands and President of the OpenCourseWare group which advocates free online course materials, said ‘Open learning is a movement that isn’t going to go away’". 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 On 26/08/2012 07:20, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 250. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 21:21:20 -0700 > From: Jascha Kessler > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.247 brave new world & its institutions > In-Reply-To: <20120825082608.6771E288ABD@woodward.joyent.us> > > > I do appreciate the earnestness revealed in Prof. Prescott's comments. I > do think he rather misses what is the point of the present discussions. He > concentrates on "learning." Viz., *"** As a schoolchild myself in the 1960s, > I was always struck and enthused by the willingness at that time of many > educational bodies to try and break down the obsession with exams and > measurement and try new methods of learning..."* > > *Methods of learning? * What does that mean, exactly? I was a schoolchild > in the 1930s-40s. I dont think there was or is a method of learning, > unless it is taught somehow. By digitized instructors? Kids learn, Homo > sapiens learns as it learns, sans "method" or methodologies concocted > by...whom? A robot might learn by implantation of code. Okay, we stick > silicon chips in newborn heads? But then the chips learn, and what does > each unique individual brain make of it all internally? There may be > methods to teach say violin technique, but they are applied and tested one > on one: teacher and pupil. Results vary by talents. Apart from all that, > what I questioned in my letter to the FT was the costs of teachers vs. > internet teaching. The learning part requires foot soldiers, future > teachers in higher Ed, what schools have been and been about since Sumeria, > to test what has been learned, grade and tutor or instruct it. > When the Univ of California at Santa Cruz was inaugurated, Prof C Page > Smith [in my letter] went up to organize it. It was all Pass/Fail...no > grades. Assuming perhaps Humanists and Historians and Lit and the rest > reviewed the written work, not multiple choice Xses, of students. It took > but a few years until the scientists rebelled at the lack of grading for > qualifications in hard subjects, not philosophical or literary chatter. And > grading was back, and how, even for a largely pothead and hippy university > student body in the 70s and 80s and perhaps beyond, up in the Redwoods > paradise. > > Even with an Open University scheme, Lenin's question remains: *WHO, WHOM?* > All may enter and study... but what has been learned by each individual? > That costs, and doing away with the absurdity of OxBridge doesn't solve the > question of judgments by individuals, referees. You cannot get away with > anything in competitive sports. Some are better than others, as in horse > and dog racing, and judging there is easy: whoever finishes first second > third, etc. Not including Lance Armstrong, et alia, as it turns out. > Then, too, we are advised: "It would make great > sense if in the UK we scrapped absurd anachronisms like Oxford and > Cambridge Universities, and created *a more integrated and strategic** > **service based around* the OU." What, it may be asked, is meant by that > phrase in italics? More integration of what? Service meaning...teachers? > Who, Whom? what qualifies? Integrated whos? Serviced by Whoms? * O, > Orwell, thou shouldst be living at this hour!* > > I take Prescott to be serious, but the questions I raised about Humanities > and the Internet remain. It is *not* a matter of tv lectures. When the > few expert lecturers have retired, who takes their place? Who has learned > what from the medium? I like documentary films, How it is made, where the > penguins walk? but then all that may be teaching me what is out there. > Still, what goes on, how and why, stanza by stanza in the Divine Comedy? > Who will learn or teach what the Divine is, the Commedia means? Or even > says? E=MC2 says what it means, and means what it says, and a digitized > quiz can locate my grasp of those letters. > > However, and for example, I offer an Honors Seminar for Frosh, first year > students, pass/fail, just show up, and select one assignment. I provide > 100 pages of poems; I lay out the fundamental 3 modes of poems written from > history. I require each to pick a poem, read it aloud and deliver orally 1 written > page that tells the rest what the poem says. I forbid students > to say what anything, lines, stanzas, whatever *means*. *Meanings are > idiosyncratic and arbitrary. If anyone imagines contemporary student of > 19-20 can write one double-spaced page of sentences stating what the poem > says, lines say, that one is mistaken. These University of California > youth are admitted as of the top 17-19% of high school graduates. We have 2 > dozen State Universities for the lower tiers; and many community, 2 year > colleges for all the rest who want something after high school and need a > lot for work and life and career. A sort of Open system a la UK. > But...there is hardly any system to integrate persons tomorrow who have > not studied and learned and been graded. Quality is quality. > > Finally re my Honors Seminar: I attach Plato's Symposium, and tell them to > read that short work. As all will recall, each principal vocation speaks > in turn all that night, and each man speaks only of what he knows from his > craft or profession. Not a one is able to tell the group what it is that > the god Eros does to discipline or inspire or create their work[s]. They > are all good and educated senior Athenians. But as for understanding the > matter of daily life and work's structures and statements, let alone > meaning...*nada, nada e pues nada. *In the end, Socrates overturns the > evening, although what he has to say remains a mystery, clearly presented. > And he got it all from some old Sybil in the mountains. The SYMPOSIUM, in > short, remains exemplary regarding this problem. The scientists and > technologists are crystal clear about what things say, not what they [might > or could] mean; they measure, and measure has always been, or measuring, > the foundation effort of civilization: Tekne, the Greeks called it. But I > am sure it was known to the painters of Paleolithic caves. That is clear > enough, or should be. As for *meaning?* Alas, that is the burden of > would be Humanists, digital, digitized, or whatever. > > Jascha Kessler > * > * > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < > willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > >> As a schoolchild myself in the 1960s, >> I was always struck and enthused by the willingness at that time of many >> educational bodies to try and break down the obsession with exams and >> measurement and try new methods of learning >> > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Aug 27 07:06:25 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 4521F28A838; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 07:06:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1D83628A830; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 07:06:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120827070624.1D83628A830@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 07:06:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.253 updates from ADHO X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 253. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 08:23:31 -0700 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Updates from the ADHO Steering Committee Dear Colleagues,   At the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO; http://digitalhumanities.org/) in Hamburg this past July -- a very successful and engaging gathering (http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/) -- ADHO's Steering Committee met to regenerate itself, as it does on an annual basis, as part of its larger meeting to plan and coordinate its activities.  Those activities include its coming annual conference in Lincoln NB (http://dh2013.unl.edu/), a network of inter-related DH training initiatives, a number of sponsored gatherings, as well as coordinated infrastructure, publishing, and research enterprises.  As outgoing Chair of the Steering Ctte myself (coming into the position of chair of the Conference Coordinating Ctte), it is my great pleasure to welcome Neil Fraistat as incoming Chair and the new officer and committee leadership members of our ADHO Steering Ctte group: . David Beavan as Membership Services Coordinator . Kathleen Fitzpatrick as Chair of our Publications Ctte . Julia Flanders as Secretary . Chris Meister as Chair of our Infrastructure Ctte . Lisa Spiro as Communications Officer . Glen Worthey as Deputy Secretary I'd also like to extend heartfelt thanks to all members of the SC for their great service, and particularly those officers and ctte chairs outgoing this year: . Lorna Hughes, who did double-duty as Secretary and Membership Services Coordinator for several years (!!)  . John Unsworth, most recently as Chair of our Conference Coordination Ctte . Dan O'Donnell, Chair of the Publications Ctte . Dot Porter, who, through the Publications Ctte, was our webmaster for years! And, this, by no means to overlook the essential and excellent work done by many of our community on the whole and in special roles -- like Chris Meister as our conference's local host, Paul Spence as this year's conference programme chair; Kay Walter and Bethany Nowviskie, as they assume those roles, respectively, for the coming year; and those editing and leading our journals and other enterprises that serve and serve to characterise the ADHO community of digital humanists.  Truly, there are many to thank!  A listing of current Steering Ctte members is found at http://digitalhumanities.org/administration/steering, and all those involved in ADHO's activities can be found via http://digitalhumanities.org/administration. With all best wishes for a positive, productive academic year, Ray   About ADHO: ADHO (http://digitalhumanities.org/) is an umbrella organisation whose goals are to promote and support digital research and teaching across arts and humanities disciplines, drawing together humanists engaged in digital and computer-assisted research, teaching, creation, dissemination, and beyond, in all areas reflected by its diverse membership. ADHO supports initiatives for publication, presentation, collaboration, and training; recognises and supports excellence in these endeavours; and acts as an community-based consultative and advisory force. In doing so, ADHO embraces and coordinates activity across five constituent organisations and around the world.  Members in ADHO societies are those at the forefront of areas such as textual analysis, electronic publication, document encoding, textual studies and theory, new media studies and multimedia, digital libraries, applied augmented reality, interactive gaming, and beyond. We are researchers and lecturers in humanities computing and in academic departments such as English, History, French, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theatre, Music, Computer Science, and Visual Arts. We are resource specialists working in libraries, archival centres, and with humanities computing groups. We are academic administrators, and members of the private and public sectors. We are independent scholars, students, graduate students, and research assistants. We are from countries in every hemisphere.  Membership in ADHO organizations is by subscription to Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC).      ____________ R.G. Siemens, English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1. 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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 (47) Subject: education by television [2] From: "Dr. Robert Delius Royar PhD" (59) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.252 brave new world & its institutions [3] From: "Rugg, Annelie" (8) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.252 brave new world & its institutions [4] From: Jascha Kessler (196) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.252 brave new world & its institutions --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:47:57 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: education by television As a quite unhappy 15 year-old American high school student wanting but not getting challenged intellectually in the classroom -- I was bored! -- I discovered a television course on mathematical statistics. It was taught, as I recall, early mornings at 6 am or perhaps earlier. Anyhow I got out of bed each day it was on, turned on the telly, sat there and learned. It was part of a correspondence course. I worked hard, did the homework, posted it each week and received marks back also by post -- it was not easy, but it was inspiring. Alas I cannot remember much of what I learned then, perhaps only that I learned by that means and it kept me afloat emotionally as well as intellectually. My point isn't that I also am an admirer of what the Open U has done in this country and continues to do. Rather it's that there is a *non-exclusive role* for distance-education, for young people reaching out for more than they are getting face-to-face, people raising children who cannot drop everything and go to uni, those who live too far away and cannot move and so on. I ask: why do we so often think in terms of either/or and not both/and? About Oxbridge. Ever since glimpsing the dreaming spires from the windows of a bus travelling up from Heathrow and walking around the streets of Oxford I've had a love-hate relationship with the place. I was not fortunate enough to be a student there, but I have concluded from knowing many who were, as under- and postgraduates, that for most it's wonderful to attend and then vital to leave. I've taught summers at Princeton and formed the same attitude about that great university. Surely as a society we can afford to maintain those shelters for the intellectual life, with all their oddities, while various pernicious storms rage. In his hugely enjoyable and funny "Some Cambridge Dons of the Nineties" Bertrand Russell describes some very odd men, including a Senior Fellow "otherwise... not known to have done any work whatever since the age of twenty-two", and then concludes, > As the case of the Senior Fellow shows, security of tenure > was carried very far. The result was partly good, partly bad. > Very good men flourished, and so did some who were not so > good. Incompetence, oddity and even insanity were tolerated, > but so was real merit. In spite of some lunacy and some laziness, > Cambridge was a good place, where independence of > mind could exist undeterred. 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: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:31:42 -0400 From: "Dr. Robert Delius Royar PhD" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.252 brave new world & its institutions In-Reply-To: <20120827070517.30591289BB8@woodward.joyent.us> On 27 Aug 2012, at 03:05, Andrew Prescott wrote > Professor Kessler is right that I did not address the main point in his > letter, which is that the use of new technologies in learning does not > automatically mean that the academic profession is doomed. He is right > on this. What I wanted to point out is that we have over forty years of > experience in Britain of providing university education through a > mixture of television, radio, internet, radio cassette and other media, > and it seems to me very strange that the current fevered discussion in > the United States does not ever refer to this experience which provides > very clear pointers for future development. I can remember distance television instruction in rural Kentucky in the 1960s. The Kentucky Educational Television network was initially designed to provide daytime classroom instruction for K-12 and evening Educational / Cultural programming in the evenings. In High School in the early 1970s, KET was where I saw complete airings of films directed by Fellini and Bergman. It was also where I learned history that was not covered in my school and much about science. Video tape was reel-to-reel and very expensive at that time; the pause button was not available. In the 1970s (but perhaps not until the 1980s) the New York Institute of Technology had its American Open University which used radio, later video tape, then dialup, and finally the Internet to deliver classes. That program was based on UK's Open University, You see very little mention of these efforts in the current discussion of technology-mediated learning. As for the focus on cost. That is certainly an argument we hear. However, at NYIT and at my current institution the focus was and is not on cost directly but on access. Certainly access is related to cost. If students cannot afford to travel to a campus to take classes, then cost relates to access. At MSU we have full-time graduate students who live in large western states where the nearest graduate programs are over 500 miles away from their homes. In our own state, Kentucky, we have graduate students who teach school all day and cannot travel 2 hours of an evening to campus on the treacherous roads in our region. Cost is not the issue in this case; the issue is access and convenience. Cost does play a major role for programs such as ours when we look at how much we once paid to send faculty to distant, physical campus sites to teach small numbers of students in classes that did not bring enough tuition to support the faculty's load. Now, for most program those classes are online. Our classes are not larger than they would be on the main campus, but they do pay the cost of offering the class. In that way it is money saving. Some programs offer interactive TV classes in specially equipped classrooms for students who can travel to sites within easy driving distance, but many students and faculty prefer Internet classes to ITV classes. I came to MSU in 1994. Each classroom at that time had 1960s-era TVs bolted to the ceilings. Those TVs were no longer operating. However, MSU was using classroom television that went to satellite campuses and across campus during the 1960s. When James Grier Miller founded EDUCOM in the 1960s, his inaugural article arguing for a network for distributed education envisioned access to learning as one of the important results. I think BITNET developed from the same impetus. See http://www.educause.edu/about/mission-and-organization/history/educom-hist ory. For a history that many U.S. journalists (and educators simply ignore). -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar PhD, Associate Professor of English Morehead State University r.royar@moreheadstate.edu --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:02:28 +0000 From: "Rugg, Annelie" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.252 brave new world & its institutions In-Reply-To: <20120827070517.30591289BB8@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Andrew (if I may), Thank you for sharing about the history of the Open University and how you see it connecting with the discussion in the U.S. around online education, MOOCs and the like. I have been fascinated by the OU since attending a Moodlemoot there a few years ago, and agree with many of your points. I would be curious to know if there is any information about what improvements OU alumni have enjoyed in their work and employability that they attribute to their OU education. It would be heartening to know in what ways the educational access OU has provided to its students has made measurable differences to them. Regards, Annelie Rugg, Ph.D. Director || UCLA Center for Digital Humanities 310.903.7691 || annelie@humnet.ucla.edu http://www.cdh.ucla.edu --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:03:56 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.252 brave new world & its institutions In-Reply-To: <20120827070517.30591289BB8@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I thank Professor Prescott for his acknowedgement of my queries about claims for the OU and its workings, even more for his offered historical backgrounding for my benefit. All well and good, in intention and hopes for the UK. There is something, however, that nags at me, and I hope blunt language will not offend, as it is not meant to do so. I suppose it comes down to a matter of perceptions of the scale of problems concerned: California is perhaps larger than France. 10 autonomous University campuses. Over 222,000 students as listed some years ago; over 121,000 faculty and staff, ditto. Auxiliary, open U via Extension classes and research units, paid for and largely taught by qualified faculty or pro tem experts [professional short courses make a lot of money in medicine/engineering/the like, outside of the general education curricula]. Operating budget for one, UCLA, for example, is 6-7 billions if not more. There are 22+ State University campuses established, very large outfits. Supposedly the U's take the top 12.5 of high school graduates; but in practice, closer to 19%, poaching on the 20% students designated for them as eligible. There is a vast network of community colleges, the first two years of a college curriculum, and very varied in subject matter for average students who dont need a full college course, though they are automatically admitted to 3rd and 4th year levels if they apply. The population of California [diminishing lately because of the woeful economy] was about 37 millions last time I looked years ago. Now, if the UK OU system has shown itself useful and possible for some many decades, that is scarcely anything that can be used as a model for the US, since the scales show the difference between a parochial, provincial nation and one that numbers well over 300 millions, perhaps nearer 350ms. I mean, we are not talking about the same kinds of situation, not to mention our terrible decline in educational standards, teachers and financial support for pupils from 5+ to 18+. There cannot be any parallel, I should imagine, between an NHS, UK, French, Swiss, Dutch, German, etc., and what is being fought over in the States, and in this election year. Children are everywhere; ill persons and geronts present themselves for service and care, but certainly not at the rate that children head for kindergartens. What I am suggesting consequently is that there is little point in modeling, say for Internet teaching and learning, between the UK OU and our heterogeneous panoply of institutions. That effort is based on the illusion fostered by the Internet: that we, chatting and discoursing on issues, say for DH's possible relation to billion $$$ schemes to be saving budgets at MIT and Virginia, as exemplars for the Nation, are talking about the same universes. I think not. These are incommensurable realities. When one administrator at UCLA is paid a salary 33% larger than that of the US President, we may begin to see that innocents like ourselves are wading through a swamp teeming with alligators and hunters, etc. That is one clue to my asking, WHO, WHOM? The Internet "Projectors," to use Swift's term, which I used in my letter to the FT, 18 August, which Willard posted to launch this thread, are when x-rayed, simply capital investors speculating on a potential bonanza, regardless of theories of teaching and learning. One ought to reread Edgar Allan Poe's charming satirical poem, "Eldorado." two Google clicks and there it is. I could also supply a similar poem of my own, written in 1951, when I was not quite 22, and which surprisingly was an intuition of the slough into which the Humanities per se may be wading or being thrust by such investment capital barbarians, belonging lobbyists for the Good Intentions Paving Company. Jascha Kessler On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 252. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:44:22 +0100 > From: Dear Prescott > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.250 brave new world & its institutions > In-Reply-To: <20120826062002.2B4C62867DE@woodward.joyent.us> > > Dear Willard, > > Professor Kessler is right that I did not address the main point in his > letter, which is that the use of new technologies in learning does not > automatically mean that the academic profession is doomed. He is right > on this. What I wanted to point out is that we have over forty years of > experience in Britain of providing university education through a > mixture of television, radio, internet, radio cassette and other media, > and it seems to me very strange that the current fevered discussion in > the United States does not ever refer to this experience which provides > very clear pointers for future development. > > The idea of a 'university of the air' was proposed in Britain as early > as 1926 when a historian working for the BBC suggested the development > of a 'wireless university'. The idea of a 'university of the air' > gathered momentum in the early 1960s, and the creation of an > experimental university using television and radio was a prominent part > of the Labour Party's manifesto when it was elected to government in > 1964. The intention was to offer university education without the > requirement for any prior educational qualification. That seems to me > one important difference between the discussions in the 1960s and the > debates on which Professor Kessler comments - in Britain, we have always > seen new technologies as providing a key to offering wider access to > education; the current discussions in America seem to focus almost > entirely on technology as a cost-saving option. > > The Open University was established at Milton Keynes in 1969. The Tory > minister Iain McLeod called the idea of a 'university of the air' > 'blithering nonsense' and threatened to abolish it if the Conservatives > formed the next government, but fortunately Margaret Thatcher, the new > Education Secretary, decided to allow the experiment to go ahead and the > first 25,000 students were admitted in 1971 to be taught by a mixture of > television, audio cassette, home science kits, course packs and > residential courses. Today, the Open University is the largest single > university in Britain with more than 260,000 current students. Since > 1969, over 1.5 million students, many without previous formal > educational qualifications, have graduated from the Open University. As > I mentioned in my previous post, the Open University is pioneering > on-line methods of teaching. But, above all, I think the most important > achievement of the Open University was that (in the words of its > website)'The Open University was the first institution to break the > insidious link between exclusivity and excellence'. > > The Open University has been revolutionary in many of its pedagogical > methods and many of these have been since adopted by conventional > British universities. But, to support Professor Kessler's key > contention, what the Open University demonstrates above all is that such > innovative educational achievement depends on first-rate academic staff. > The Open University currently employs more than more than 1,200 > full-time academic staff and more than 3,500 support and administrative > staff. Above all, it has a network of 7,000 tutors locally based (as > famously depicted in 'Educating Rita'). The chief lesson of the Open > University experience supports Professor Kessler's argument - to > successfully use new media to widen access to higher education then you > need committed and inspirational academic staff. I think this alone > shows why current discussions about the use of new technologies in > teaching should take the experience of the Open University in Britain as > a starting point. > > Much more information about the Open University can be found on its > website: > > http://www8.open.ac.uk/about/main/the-ou-explained/history-the-ou > > I suggested in my previous post that the Open University stands > comparison within the National Health Service as one of the greatest > social achievements of Britain in modern times. On reflection, I wonder > if the Open University isn't the greater of the two achievements. To > create a collectivised medical system chiefly requires a society with a > strong sense of a social justice and a political and administrative > determination to put a fairer and more civilised system in place - it > wasn't necessary to do much new in terms of the medicine. The creation > of the Open University required an equally strong social sense of social > justice but also needed to develop completely new ways of providing a > university education which didn't compromise on standards. We need a > similar set of values in approaching the pedagogical possibilities > provided by new technologies. > > For further reflections on some of these themes, I would recommend the > blog on the history of the Open University maintained by my friend Dan > Weinbren: > > http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/History-of-the-OU/ > > A recent post by Dan is pertinent to these discussions: > > "Open learning is a movement that isn’t going to go away > > The idea that technology can be deployed to support learners isn’t new > to those who work at the OU. Suddenly, however, it is in the headlines > because Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have > formed a $60m (£38m) alliance to launch edX, a platform to deliver > courses online – with the modest ambition of ‘revolutionising education > around the world’. > > Paying relatively little attention to the decades-long history of > sophisticated use of television, radio, video and the internet that has > occurred at the OU the director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial > Intelligence Laboratory and one of the pioneers of the MITx online > prototype. Anant Agarwal said ‘This could be the end of the two-hour > lecture…You can’t hit the pause button on a lecturer, you can’t fast > forward’. While MIT might be struggling to catch up pedagogically this > development could be a challenge to the OU, as well as an opportunity > for it to demonstrate its experience in the field of supported open > learning. As Dr Anka Mulder, head of Delft University in the Netherlands > and President of the OpenCourseWare group which advocates free online > course materials, said ‘Open learning is a movement that isn’t going to > go away’". > > 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 -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 28 05:27:20 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 9E88C289E26; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:27:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 59816289E0F; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:27:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120828052719.59816289E0F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:27:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.255 updates from ADHO X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 255. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:16:51 -0400 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.253 updates from ADHO In-Reply-To: <20120827070624.1D83628A830@woodward.joyent.us> Dear all, On behalf of ADHO’s constituent organizations, I’d like to thank Ray for the two splendid years he has served as Chair of the Steering Committee. During this time, ADHO has grown substantially and flourished remarkably, in no small part due to Ray’s dedication, vision, diplomacy, and grace under pressure approaching that of a Zen Master. Although there may be no adequate way to thank Ray for his service, we have arrived at least one inadequate way by providing a bursary of $500 to help a student of his choice attend next year’s Digital Humanities Summer Institute, the landmark training program that Ray has done so much to build and foster. We are also delighted to say that Ray will continue to work with us as the newly appointed Chair of ADHO’s Conference Coordinating Committee. Cheers, Neil On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 253. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 08:23:31 -0700 > From: Ray Siemens > Subject: Updates from the ADHO Steering Committee > > Dear Colleagues, > > At the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities > Organisations (ADHO; http://digitalhumanities.org/) in Hamburg this past > July -- a very successful and engaging gathering ( > http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/) -- ADHO's Steering Committee met to > regenerate itself, as it does on an annual basis, as part of its larger > meeting to plan and coordinate its activities. Those activities include > its coming annual conference in Lincoln NB (http://dh2013.unl.edu/), a > network of inter-related DH training initiatives, a number of sponsored > gatherings, as well as coordinated infrastructure, publishing, and research > enterprises. > > As outgoing Chair of the Steering Ctte myself (coming into the position of > chair of the Conference Coordinating Ctte), it is my great pleasure to > welcome Neil Fraistat as incoming Chair and the new officer and committee > leadership members of our ADHO Steering Ctte group: > > . David Beavan as Membership Services Coordinator > . Kathleen Fitzpatrick as Chair of our Publications Ctte > . Julia Flanders as Secretary > . Chris Meister as Chair of our Infrastructure Ctte > . Lisa Spiro as Communications Officer > . Glen Worthey as Deputy Secretary > > I'd also like to extend heartfelt thanks to all members of the SC for > their great service, and particularly those officers and ctte chairs > outgoing this year: > > . Lorna Hughes, who did double-duty as Secretary and Membership Services > Coordinator for several years (!!) > . John Unsworth, most recently as Chair of our Conference Coordination > Ctte > . Dan O'Donnell, Chair of the Publications Ctte > . Dot Porter, who, through the Publications Ctte, was our webmaster for > years! > > And, this, by no means to overlook the essential and excellent work done > by many of our community on the whole and in special roles -- like Chris > Meister as our conference's local host, Paul Spence as this year's > conference programme chair; Kay Walter and Bethany Nowviskie, as they > assume those roles, respectively, for the coming year; and those editing > and leading our journals and other enterprises that serve and serve to > characterise the ADHO community of digital humanists. Truly, there are > many to thank! A listing of current Steering Ctte members is found at > http://digitalhumanities.org/administration/steering, and all those > involved in ADHO's activities can be found via > http://digitalhumanities.org/administration. > > With all best wishes for a positive, productive academic year, > > Ray > > > About ADHO: ADHO (http://digitalhumanities.org/) is an umbrella > organisation whose goals are to promote and support digital research and > teaching across arts and humanities disciplines, drawing together humanists > engaged in digital and computer-assisted research, teaching, creation, > dissemination, and beyond, in all areas reflected by its diverse > membership. ADHO supports initiatives for publication, presentation, > collaboration, and training; recognises and supports excellence in these > endeavours; and acts as an community-based consultative and advisory force. > In doing so, ADHO embraces and coordinates activity across five constituent > organisations and around the world. Members in ADHO societies are those at > the forefront of areas such as textual analysis, electronic publication, > document encoding, textual studies and theory, new media studies and > multimedia, digital libraries, applied augmented reality, interactive > gaming, and beyond. We are researchers and lecturers in humanities > computing and in academic departments such as English, History, French, > Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theatre, Music, Computer Science, and Visual > Arts. We are resource specialists working in libraries, archival centres, > and with humanities computing groups. We are academic administrators, and > members of the private and public sectors. We are independent scholars, > students, graduate students, and research assistants. We are from countries > in every hemisphere. Membership in ADHO organizations is by subscription > to Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC). > > > ____________ > 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/ -- Neil Fraistat Professor of English & Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) 0301 Hornbake Library University of Maryland 301-405-5896 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://twitter.com/ fraistat _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 28 05:28:31 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 330E9289E6B; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:28:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0107D289E5D; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:28:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120828052830.0107D289E5D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:28:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.256 job at Washington University X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 256. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 09:35:09 -0500 From: Douglas Knox Subject: Job: Digital Publishing and Digital Preservation Librarian, Washington University Washington University's Olin Library is looking for a Digital Publishing and Digital Preservation Librarian: The Digital Publishing and Preservation Librarian is responsible for the management of archival and access digital assets for the campus-wide digital repository based in the Washington University Libraries. The successful candidate will bring both a broad knowledge of relevant metadata standards, digital repository and publishing platforms and programming to build on the technical and intellectual infrastructure in place in the Washington University Libraries. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Mark Finlayson (83) Subject: CMN'13: Computational Models of Narrative [2] From: Nathalie Richard (99) Subject: Call for paper - History of Science from Below [3] From: Ryan Cordell (52) Subject: NEMLA CFP: The Literary Interventions of the Digital Humanities,A Pecha Kucha Roundtable --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:34:22 -0400 From: Mark Finlayson Subject: CMN'13: Computational Models of Narrative 2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative *********************************** August 4-6, 2013 Hamburg, Germany *********************************** http://narrative.csail.mit.edu/ws13 *********************************** a Satellite Event of: the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Berlin, Germany *********************************** First Announcement ================== Paper submission deadline: February 24, 2013 Workshop Aims ------------- Narratives are ubiquitous in human experience. We use them to communicate, convince, explain, and entertain. As far as we know, every society in the world has narratives, which suggests they are rooted in our psychology and serve an important cognitive function. It is becoming increasingly clear that, to truly understand and explain human intelligence, beliefs, and behaviors, we will have to understand why and to what extent narrative is universal and explain (or explain away) the function it serves. The aim of this workshop series is to address key questions that advance our understanding of narrative and our ability to model it computationally. Special Focus: Cognitive Science -------------------------------- This workshop will be an appropriate venue for papers addressing fundamental topics and questions regarding narrative.The workshop will be held as a satellite event of the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (to be held in Berlin 31st July - 3rd August), and so will have a special focus on the cognitive science of narrative. Papers should be relevant to issues fundamental to the computational modeling and scientific understanding of narrative; we especially welcome papers relevant to the cognitive, linguistic, or philosophical aspects of narrative. Cognitive psychological or neuroscientific experimental work which may provide insights critical to computational modeling is appropriate for this workshop, and is encouraged. Discussing technological applications or motivations is not prohibited, but is not required. We accept both finished research and more tentative exploratory work. Illustrative Topics and Questions --------------------------------- * What cognitive competencies underlie narrative, and how may they be studied? * Can narrative be subsumed by current models of higher-level cognition, or does it require new approaches? * How do narratives mediate our cognitive experiences, or affect our cognitive abilities? * How are narratives indexed and retrieved?Is there a universal scheme for encoding episodic information? * What comprises the set of possible narrative arcs? Is there such a set? How many possible story lines are there? * Is narrative structure universal, or are there systematic differences in narratives from different cultures? * What makes narrative different from a list of events or facts? What is special that makes something a narrative? * What are the details of the relationship between narrative and common sense? * What shared resources are required for the computational study of narrative? * What should a "Story Bank" contain? * What shared resources are available, or how can already-extant resources be adapted to the study of narrative? * What impact do the purpose, function, and genre of a narrative have on its form and content? * What are appropriate formal or computational representations for narrative? * How should we evaluate computational and formal models of narrative? Organizing Committee -------------------- * Mark A. Finlayson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA * Benedikt Löwe, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Universität Hamburg, Germany * Bernhard Fisseni, Universität Duisburg-Essen and Universität Hamburg, Germany * Jan Christoph Meister, Universität Hamburg, Germany Questions should be directed to: narrative-ws13@csail.mit.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:57:39 +0200 From: Nathalie Richard Subject: Call for paper - History of Science from Below Call for Paper - History of science from below Université du Maine, Le Mans, France – June 5-7, 2013 “History from below” emerged in Britain around 1960 as a new historiographic project. It intended to substitute the history of practices and of forms of popular resistance for the more traditional history of institutions and great men, and therefore to confer a new legitimacy on the former. One important outcome of this new historical standpoint has been to take into consideration forms of knowledge and behaviours formally disregarded as marginal or irrational. Focusing on “modest” or “lay” agents, and reconsidering their role in history, this historical trend has greatly contributed to the renovation of social and political history. History of science, notably history of medicine, did not remain uninfluenced by these new historical perspectives. In 1985, Roy Porter advocated a departure from a monolithic history of discoveries and medical glories neglecting popular practices as part of the cure. Olivier Faure has since showed how crucial were the patient’s point of view and initiative. New research grounded on new sources, such as private or first person writings and letters kept in the archives of physicians (for example the Swiss Samuel Tissot), has highlighted the patient’s viewpoint and have contributed to revising the classical history of medicine “from below.” Now studied from multiple angles, the process of a linear and univocal, solely professional and academic, medicalization is rendered more complex, and the autonomous strategic aptitude of lay actors is reappraised. In the history of experimental sciences, the practical skill and knowledge of craftsmen – “the knowledge from the hand”, according to Robert Halleux in 2009 – generate practices which can be considered as forms of trial, even as forms of experiment. During the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, botany and zoology evolved by taking into account this practical knowledge of gardeners, breeders, amateurs and collectors. Learned societies, botanical gardens, rose gardens and orchards were meeting points where scientists and non-scientists alike would observe plants and try to explain and master plant growth and heredity. Observations made by amateurs have often been collected and used by academic scientists in theoretical debates over evolution. Nowadays, the nature and the extent of “scientific cultures” among the general public is an important political and social issue. It is an issue in the growing role played by associations of patients or relatives in the field of medicine. It is also an issue in the “public consultations” which are regularly held on technical and scientific policy. Therefore it seems promising to extend the perspectives of “history from below” to all human and natural sciences, and to emulate discussions on its methodological and theoretical implications. Such is the aim of this conference. Papers should focus on the eighteenth – twentieth centuries, corresponding to the period of emergence of the human and natural sciences in their modern institutional form. Papers dealing with contemporary subjects will be accepted as long as they include some historical perspectives. The following topics could be favoured: - Outsiders from the main academic institutions (general practitioners, technical staff, artisans, amateurs, etc.), and practises at the margins. - Mediators, and modes of dissemination of scientific knowledge (associations, networks, general and popular press, dictionaries and cyclopaedias, publishers, etc.) - History of experimental “subjects” and the public as actors of science, and not solely as material or audience of scientific discourses coming from “above” - Appropriations of science (adaptation, resistance, etc.) The aim of this conference is also to stimulate exchanges on methodological issues, such as: - Sources. What kind of sources can be used to write a history “from below” (oral sources, private letters, first person writings, etc.)? - What should be the limits of the history of science “from below?” Which categories of actors, which groups, which forms of knowledge should be included, or excluded? And how to take them into account? General practitioners are an interesting example. How and when did they cease to be part of the history of medicine “from above?” And how to write their history “from below?” - What should be the right scale for the history of such actors and practices? One could for example question the relationship between the history of science “from below” and microhistory. Collective discussion on methodological issues is still scarce regarding history of science “from below.” It should therefore be central to this conference. How to submit a paper? Abstracts (300/500 words), with formulation of methodological issues, and a short bio-bibliographical notice (100 words), should be sent to the organizing committee before September 30, 2012. Results of the selection process will be announced by November 2012. Conference languages: French and English (translation will not be provided during the conference). Conference venue: Université du Maine, Le Mans, France (Le Mans, France, http://www.univ-lemans.fr) This conference is sponsored by the Centre de Recherches Historiques de l’Ouest (CERHIO, CNRS UMR 6258, http://www.univ-rennes2.fr/cerhio) Organizing committee and contacts: Cristiana OGHINA-PAVIE (CERHIO, Université d’Angers) cristiana.oghinapavie@gmail.com Hervé GUILLEMAIN (CERHIO, Université du Maine) guiherv@club-internet.fr Nathalie RICHARD (CERHIO, Université du Maine) Nathalie.Richard@univ-lemans.fr Nathalie Richard Professeur d'histoire contemporaine, Modern History Professor Université du Maine, Le Mans, France --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:30:23 -0400 From: Ryan Cordell Subject: NEMLA CFP: The Literary Interventions of the Digital Humanities,A Pecha Kucha Roundtable Dear Humanist Colleagues: I write to remind literary scholars on this list of the following CFP for the 2013 NEMLA conference. The deadline of September 30 nears. 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, r.cordell@neu.edu, by September 30, 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 Wed Aug 29 05:28:32 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 D488428A6FB; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 05:28:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0A2E228A6EA; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 05:28:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120829052831.0A2E228A6EA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 05:28:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.258 brave new world & its institutions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 258. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (13) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.254 brave new world & its institutions [2] From: Jascha Kessler (59) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.254 brave new world & its institutions --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:07:18 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.254 brave new world & its institutions In-Reply-To: <20120828052622.D72A4289DDB@woodward.joyent.us> Willard You may be interested to know that outreach begins early... http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/mcyu/ McMaster Children and Youth University The program is a free, monthly Saturday-morning lectures is aimed at students, 7 - 14 years of age, with the goal of engaging them with exciting educational topics while providing a sneak peek into the university environment. It reminds me that a set piece in the Harry Potter novels was the journey to Hogwarts ... Francois Scholar-at-large http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:20:12 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.254 brave new world & its institutions In-Reply-To: <20120828052622.D72A4289DDB@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I do hope my remarks are not to be [mis]taken as critical of the whole future opening for Open Education for millions, and I think Dr. Rugg offers a crucial question, as to what about career futures for participants? It would be analogous to the statistical studies appearing daily in major newspapers about certain diseases that yield valuable insights as to paths for research, and even Obits like the one for an epidemiologist, one Dr. Beasely in today's Los Angeles Times, who broke open the way to treating hepatitis B, his subject in Taiwan in his youth, a project he found difficult to get Taiwan leaders to accept. I am all for such studies, which cost money, time and very careful intelligent analysis. [Parenthetically, had Willard attended my Bronx High School of Science he would have been neither an unhappy nor bored 15-year old, a public school with selective admissions that boasts a number of later Nobelists from its first 50 years.] I would add to the thread only that it commenced with the 60million$ reported to be employed by MIT and U of Virginia, 2 institutions, research leaders in the US and world for the TV or Internet recorded instructions, and perhaps testing by machine. I have no arguments against widespread access to such curricula. And reiterating, for materials that can be machine tested, multiple choice and such, like X marks the answer, as with SATs and GREs, fine. For raising the level of masses of persons who cannot or do not wish or intend to pursue university level work for four years, much of it preparation for post-graduate work...and expenses..think Medicine, think Law, it has shown itself practical, practicable, and valuable. For Engineering research there is postgrad work that may not be amenable. Laboratories, even for undergrads, if not for OU enrolled students, are essential, and costly. I think we all must know that. And this discussion may worth a little more time for the Digital HUMANITIES folk. Meanwhile, it will take more than a village to prepare and maintain the oncoming challenges of the unborn civilization[s] of the near future, civilizations slouching towards ... The Cloud? I will reiterate, I think the subject of OU should be disentangled quite from the matter of canned courses to be offered at the non pareil research institutions, and agglomerated universities of our time in the US. The Chancellor who set UCLA on its incredible progress to first rate, Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, who arrived in 1960, a year before my being hired, gave a public lecture I have never forgotten. It was skeptical and minatory. Reviewing the 20th Century history of colleges in major universities, he observed that most of them began to become umbrellas for schools of Education, Engineering, Business, Law, Art, Architecture, and Medicine — the Professional Schools, in short. He thought that may not have been the healthiest or best development, or evolution. In retrospect, it may be he was a prophet discoursing in the wilderness of our careening civilization, driven by technology, the same Tekne by which all civilizations have developed since the Sumerians tamed the rivers and the Yellow Emperor founded the first Chinese dynasty. I suspect practically nothing is known about the way the media, if all applied as in a Skinner Box, to the earliest months of child development, may be the proper or best vehicle for human creatures' development and education. That is a challenge for DHists to keep in mind. Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 29 05:31:06 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 91A7328B07A; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 05:31:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0E30728B06A; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 05:31:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120829053105.0E30728B06A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 05:31:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.259 new online: Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; telecommunications archive X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 259. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Charlotte Connelly (17) Subject: UK telecommunications heritage [2] From: Rebecka Lindau (27) Subject: Digital Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:52:27 +0100 From: Charlotte Connelly Subject: UK telecommunications heritage Dear All, BT Archives have started a New Connections digitisation project partnered with Coventry University and The National Archives in the UK. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/content2011_2013/newconnections.aspx http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/researchnet/grandchallenges/digitalmedia/BTArchive/Pages/BTe-Archive.aspx New Connections, which will be launched online next year, will cover many aspects of telecommunications history, and will be a portal to hundreds of thousands of documents and images from the BT Archives collections which are currently being scanned. We’ve set up a survey to assess what people would like to see on the website, and we’re keen to get as much academic input as possible. It’s a very short survey and there’s £50 of Amazon vouchers up for grabs, so please tell us what you most want to see from the new BT e-Archive and spread the word to as many colleagues as possible. The survey is accessed from BT Archives catalogue www.bt.com/archivesonline Many thanks. David David Hay Head of Heritage BT Group plc Phone: 020 7440 4227 Fax: 020 7242 1967 Email: david.a.hay@bt.com archives@bt.com BT Archives, Third Floor, Holborn TE, 268-270 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EE www.bt.com/archives www.connected-earth.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:41:37 -0400 From: Rebecka Lindau Subject: Digital Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum In-Reply-To: <9b933988-4839-4d79-b2f4-d2996c9ad4fd@ascsa.edu.gr> *Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum: Digital CIL http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/drupal/?q=en/node/291 * ** ** This site provides online access to the volumes currently out of copyright of *Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL)*, the corpus of ancient Roman inscriptions. This digitized version of the *CIL* will initially comprise the more than 50 parts (vols. I-XVI + auctaria and v. I, editio altera) published before 1940 and be made accessible in *Arachne*, the central object database of the German Archaeological Institute and the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne. ** ** The pages of text and inscriptions can be searched via imperfect OCR recognition. We hope to make the retrieval of inscription and page numbers as well as titles more precise as the work progresses. To learn more and to access the resource, please consult the *Arachne *database ( http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/drupal/?q=en/node/291).* Digital CIL* is a joint project of the American Academy in Rome, l’École française de Rome, and das Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.**** **** Working group:**** Rebecka Lindau (rebecka.lindau@aarome.org) and Paolo Imperatori ( paolo.imperatori@aarome.org), the American Academy in Rome **** Thomas Fröhlich (froehlich@rom.dainst.org) and Paola Gulinelli ( gulinelli@rom.dainst.org), das Deutsches Archäologisches Institut**** Elena Avellino (elena.avellino@efrome.it), l’École française de Rome**** Reinhard Foertsch (foertsch@uni-koeln.de ), die Universität zu Köln (for Arachne) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 29 05:35:56 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 037E128B0D1; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 05:35:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CB5A228B0C1; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 05:35:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120829053553.CB5A228B0C1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 05:35:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.260 events: TEI; Music Encoding Initiative X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 260. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Roland, Perry (pdr4h)" (37) Subject: AMS "Introduction to the Music Encoding Initiative" Workshop [2] From: "Mandell, Laura" (22) Subject: TEI Meeting 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:15:42 +0000 From: "Roland, Perry (pdr4h)" Subject: AMS "Introduction to the Music Encoding Initiative" Workshop Dear colleagues, Below is an announcement regarding a pre-conference workshop in conjunction with the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory joint meeting in New Orleans. Please forgive any cross-posting, but we want to get the word out to a broad range of potential participants. Please distribute this to other lists, such as national and local discussion lists concerned with music and digital humanities, and other interested individuals. Registration for the AMS/SMT conference is not required in order to attend the workshop. Thanks for getting the word out, -- p. __________________________ Perry Roland Music Library University of Virginia P. O. Box 400175 Charlottesville, VA 22904 434-982-2702 (w) pdr4h (at) virginia (dot) edu The University of Virginia Library, the University of Paderborn, and the Music Encoding Initiative Council are pleased to offer an opportunity to learn about the Music Encoding Initiative http://www.music-encoding.org/ (MEI), an increasingly important tool for digital humanities music research, in conjunction with the joint meeting of the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology and the Society for Music Theory in New Orleans, scheduled for 1-4 November. "Introduction to MEI," an intensive, hands-on workshop, will be offered Wednesday, 31 October from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 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. The day will include lectures, hands-on practice, and opportunities to address participant-specific issues. There are no fees associated with this workshop and no previous experience with MEI or XML is required; however, an understanding of music notation and other markup schemes, such as HTML and TEI, will be helpful. Participants are encouraged to bring laptop computers for hands-on exercises. The number of participants is limited to 25. To register, visit the AMS special events page at http://www.ams-net.org/neworleans/special_events.php. Please address questions to info@music-encoding.org. Workshop Schedule Session 1 (9:00-10:00): What is music encoding? This session introduces the basic need for and techniques of music encoding using XML. • What is markup? What is its function? Why is it important? • Basic concepts of XML: elements, attributes, document structure, and schemas • What is the role of standards such as MEI? Why do we need markup languages? Session 2 (10:15-12:00): What is MEI? The following issues will be addressed during this session: • MEI's situation within the landscape of digital humanities scholarship: What are its intellectual affiliations and commitments? • How does MEI support the creation of digital musical texts? What is its role in defining how music documents should be represented? • How is MEI currently used, and how is it evolving? • What are the alternatives to MEI? What are the advantages and risks of using a detailed encoding system like MEI? Session 3 (1:30-3:00): Basics of Encoding with MEI This session will describe basic MEI elements and describe their use, using detailed musical examples. Session 4 (3:15-4:30): MEI Application Tutorials This session introduces MEI-specific encoding tools, such as, MerMEId, MEISE, and the Edirom Editor. Participants will learn how these tools can be used to design workflows for entering, editing, and rendering MEI. Session 5 (4:45-5:30): Wrap-up Discussion Participants will reflect on MEI markup and tools and how they can be employed in the participants’ current and future projects. In addition, opportunities for participation in the MEI community will be covered. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:47:08 +0000 From: "Mandell, Laura" Subject: TEI Meeting 2012 What: TEI Members Meeting — TEI and the Cloud/Crowd When: 7-10 November 2012 Where: Texas A&M University at College Station, Texas, USA. The Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture is very happy to announce that registration for the 2012 Annual TEI Conference and Member's Meeting: TEI and the Crowd/Cloud is now open. The conference will run from Tuesday, November 6th to Saturday, November 10th with the TEI Board Meeting on November 11th. A more detailed schedule can be found at the conference website, and a program is coming soon. Registration is possible via the TEI Store. We look forward to seeing you all at Texas A&M University in November! Please directed any questions to the local organizing committee at this address (idhmc.nexus at gmail dot com). IDHMC) is very happy to announce that registration for the 2012 Annual TEI Conference and Member's Meeting, TEI and the Crowd/Cloud, is now open. The speakers and presentations will run from Thursday, November 8th to Saturday, November 10th with workshops starting Tuesday, Nov. 6, and the TEI Board Meeting as well as an excursion on November 11th. A more detailed schedule can be found at the conference website , and a program is coming soon. Registration is possible via the TEI Store . We look forward to seeing you all at Texas A&M University in November! Please directed any questions to the local organizing committee at this address (idhmc.nexus at gmail dot com). Sincerely, Laura Mandell -- Laura Mandell Professor of English Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture Texas A&M University 237 Blocker, MS 4227 College Station, TX 77843-4227 (979) 845-8345 FAX: (979) 826-2292 mandell@tamu.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Aug 30 05:55:42 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 B57D628AB7B; Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:55:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F1A7928AB6A; Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:55:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120830055540.F1A7928AB6A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:55:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.261 new book on 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. 261. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 08:52:08 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: New iBook Dear Willard, The doctoral students in the Digital Arts and Humanities programme at University College Cork have produced a collective iBook, entitled Digital Arts and Humanities: Scholarly Reflections. The good news is that its free; the bad news is that it can only be read on an iPad. Further details here: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/digital-arts-humanities-scholarly/id529097990?mt=11 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 Thu Aug 30 05:57:06 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 09D4F28ACA3; Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:57:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 877E628AC72; Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:57:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120830055704.877E628AC72@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:57:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.262 events: workshop at the MLA 2013 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 262. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:34:43 -0400 From: Ryan Cordell Subject: Announcement: "Get Started in Digital Humanities with Help from DHCommons" Workshop at #mla13 Dear Humanist Colleagues, This workshop probably isn't aimed at most of you, but if you're in a language or literature department and have DH-curious colleagues or graduate students, please pass it on to them. We're aiming to attract scholars currently outside the big DH tent, so feel free also to repost to other websites, listservs, and bulletin boards. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have. Cheers, Ryan Ryan Cordell | Assistant Professor of English | Northeastern University | r.cordell@neu.edu | rccordell@gmail.com | twitter: @ryancordell ----- MLA Workshop: Get Started in Digital Humanities with Help from DHCommons Thursday, 3 January 2013, 8:30am-12:30pm At the 2012 MLA, conference attendees packed many sessions on the digital humanities (DH), reflecting the growing interest in this domain. Yet many newcomers to digital humanities lack opportunities to connect with the DH community, get help from experienced practitioners with conceptualizing and launching a project, or begin building the skills they need to realize their projects. This four-hour preconvention workshop welcomes language and literature scholars who wish to learn about, start, or join digital scholarly projects for research and/or teaching. Representatives of major digital humanities projects and initiatives will share their expertise on project design, outline available resources and opportunities,and lead small-group training sessions on DH technologies and skills. Experts will come from projects such as 18th Connect, Hypercities, Neatline, NINES, Scalar, TAPoR, and the Women Writers Project, as well as theAssociation for Computers and the Humanities and the NEH's Office of Digital Humanities. You can learn more about our experts at http://dhcommons.org/mla2013-experts. Workshop participants will leave with a plan for getting started in the digital humanities and a resource for connecting to scholars and projects in their disciplines. To that end, this four-hour preconvention workshop welcomes scholars who wish to pursue or join digital scholarly projects but do not have institutional infrastructure to support them. The workshop will build on the model developed for and tested at the 2012 MLA Convention in Seattle. DHCommons (http://www.dhcommons.org), which was launched at that event, connects innovative scholars with mentors and opportunities for collaboration, and increases the community of participants for established projects and centers. When and where: This workshop will be held 8:30am-12:30pm on the first day of the MLA Convention (Thursday, January 3rd, 2013). It will be hosted at Northeastern University (www.northeastern.edu), blocks from the convention center. Sponsors: The workshop is co-sponsored by centerNet, the Northeastern University Centers for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science, and the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) Organizers: Ronald R. Bernier (Wentworth Institute of Technology), Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University), Rebecca Frost Davis (NITLE), Christopher Dickman (St. Louis University), Quinn Dombrowski (UC Berkeley), Laura Mandell (Texas A&M University), Paul Schacht (SUNY Geneseo), Lisa Spiro (NITLE) Application Process Scholars will apply in advance for the 2013 workshop using the form at http://dhcommons.org/mla2013. Applications should either 1.) outline a digital project the scholar would like to undertake or 2.) suggest the type of project on which he or she would be interested in collaborating. The workshop aims to help new digital humanists find exciting work; thus applications will not require scholars to have a fully-developed project idea. The DHCommons Board---with the help of NITLE and centerNet---will select up to 50 scholars from the pool of applicants. Application and Deadlines Review of applications will begin on October 1, 2012. The review board will consider applications and accept participants on a rolling basis until the workshop is full. Those whose applications were received by October 1 will be notified by October 16, 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 Fri Aug 31 06:37:25 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 44D2028C3A1; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:37:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E20A128C390; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:37:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120831063723.E20A128C390@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:37:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.263 standards? 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:32:05 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: standards Steven Shapin, in his review of Robert Crease, World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement (Norton 2011), London Review of Books 34.16, 30 August 2012, observes: > Every modern scholar now accepts that the seeming banality and > just-so-ness of standards mask massive contingency and bloody > struggle in their establishment and maintenance, recognising, as the > historian Ken Adler puts it, that 'the price of standards is eternal > vigilance'. The struggle, he notes, is given more than a bit of iron by "the ability of standards to act over a distance [which is] useful if you [mean] to govern over a distance". Standards, that is, are an intimate part of an exercise of power, with force not far behind. He goes on: > The historical trajectory of standards... is often described as > *disembodiment*.... But under another description that process is a > different kind of embodiment, the transference of standards from > flesh to metal. An official ell or Troy pound just was the reference > bar or lump constituted as such; it was the artifact that gave > meaning to the ell-ness or pound-ness of all other things an ell long > or a pound in weight.... We might think of the transference from flesh to silicon. And so we get the rational, international, local culture-free world "made to measure", as he says. Or computable, we might say. As with standards of markup the benefits are clear and obvious. Shapin notes with Crease "the precision and homogeneity of all sorts of standards -- quantitative and qualitative -- ... powered by a range of practices that deliver us the goods and services we want and whose ability to do so depends on effective action over very long distances and exquisitely precise coordination of things and people". One day (I would hope soon, but perhaps not possible because it is too recent a phenomenon) we will get an intellectual history of markup: what was obviously gained, what was not so obviously lost. There is a danger, of course, that the focus on loss gets coloured by nostalgia for a dreamy past of freedom. But I would suppose that this danger is avoided by asking the critical historical question, as in Crease's book and Shapin's review of it, of congruity or fitness: for us, what did/does the drive to externalised, silicon-ised standards have to do with everything else that was happening? And what do the counter-revolutionary resistance and the struggle against it tell us? 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 Aug 31 06:38:48 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 EAC3328C3FE; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:38:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1B0CD28C3F5; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:38:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120831063846.1B0CD28C3F5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:38:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.264 job at UCL X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 264. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:36:00 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: UCLDH Centre Coordinator Post The UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (UCLDH) wishes to appoint a highly-organised and motivated Co-Ordinator. Further information can be found at https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?SID=amNvZGU9MTI3NTUwOSZ2dF90ZW1wbGF0ZT05NjUmb3duZXI9NTA0MTE3OCZvd25lcnR5cGU9ZmFpciZicmFuZF9pZD0wJnZhY194dHJhNTA0MTE3OC41MF81MDQxMTc4PTkyNzg2JnBvc3RpbmdfY29kZT0yMjQmcmVxc2lnPTEzNDYzNjIyNDktMWI0MGZmNmY4MWI5NGIzZjY4N2E1NDFjNDljNDdjNzJmODA0ZGU1Yw== The Centre, part of the UCL Department of Information Studies, is a university-wide initiative which aims to provide a unique environment within UCL to bring together researchers in the Digital Humanities and the cultural heritage sectors. This is an interesting and varied role, with particular responsibility for the day-to-day management of the Centre, including student administration and centre-led events. The post holder will also be a member of the UCL DIS administrative team. Key Requirements Candidates must have experience of web design and the use of social media, as well as project management and event organization. Applicants must be able to demonstrate excellent communication and IT skills. It is essential that candidates have a proactive approach and be able to use initiative to work independently as well as part of a team. Applicants should ideally have previous experience of working in the field of Digital Humanities or a closely related field, as well as experience of administrative work and event management in an academic context. Further Details Information about the Centre can be found at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/. The UCL Department of Information Studies website can be accessed here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/ Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Melissa Terras, UCLDH Co-Director (m.terras@ucl.ac.uk) or Kerstin Michaels, DIS Departmental Administrator (k.michaels@ucl.ac.uk; Tel: 020 7679 2107). If you have any queries regarding the vacancy or the application process, please contact Kerstin Michaels (k.michaels@ucl.ac.uk; Tel: 020 7679 2107 ----------------- 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 Fri Aug 31 06:39:45 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 7359028C43D; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:39:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 71A2428C435; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:39:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120831063944.71A2428C435@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:39:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.265 new book on digital humanities: a pdf X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 265. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:55:21 +0100 From: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.261 new book on digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20120830055540.F1A7928AB6A@woodward.joyent.us> On 30/08/12 06:55, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 08:52:08 +0100 > From: Andrew Prescott > Subject: New iBook > > The doctoral students in the Digital Arts and Humanities programme at > University College Cork have produced a collective iBook, entitled > Digital Arts and Humanities: Scholarly Reflections. The good news is > that its free; the bad news is that it can only be read on an iPad. Free as in glass-specific-beer but not as in speech, eh? Actually, there is a PDF version available via James O'Sullivan's blog http://josullivan.org/digital-projects/digital-arts-humanities-scholarly-reflections/ (and I would also note his statement, "Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License"). Mike -- Dr Michael Fraser Head of Infrastructure Systems and Services, IT Services, University of Oxford Technical Coordinator, Student Systems Programme _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Aug 31 06:43:20 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 8F54A28C4AF; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:43:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1C2B228C49F; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:43:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120831064319.1C2B228C49F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:43:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.266 research on virtual research environments X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 266. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:24:22 +0100 From: I-CHASS Subject: I-CHASS Awarded $248,551 NSF Grant to Study Virtual ResearchEnvironments [http://hosting-source.bronto.com/9193/public/i-chass-logo.png] Urbana IL - August 30, 2012 I-CHASS announced today that project VOSS: Research on the Process of Virtual Research Environment was awarded $248,551 by the National Science Foundation. In recent years, there has been a wave of development of advanced cyberinfrastructure to support distributed collaborative science. A key type of cyberinfrastructure, virtual research environments (VREs), have been hailed as having the potential to enhance the quality of science, to speed up the conduct of scientific research, and to foster global scientific communities around key research areas. One gap in current knowledge of VREs is lack of systematic studies of the process by which VREs develop through intentional design and through unplanned events and contingencies. A VRE is the product of multiple decisions related to the way in which science will be conducted, technological design and implementation, and who will be involved in the design and governance of the VRE, among other things. These decisions are negotiated among a diverse and changing set of stakeholders over an extended period of time and the process of development is far from the rational design ideal. VOSS will advance and refine a theoretical framework for understanding the processes by which VREs are developed over time and how these processes contribute to their effectiveness or lack thereof said Professor Marshall Scott Poole, Director of I-CHASS and project Co-Principal Investigator. The framework proposes that VREs are constructed through interactions among five critical activity tracks, specifically: (a) technological design and implementation, (b) scientific work, (c) the community of VRE users, developers, funders and other stakeholders, (d) managerial and organizational system, and (e) critical events. Activities in each of the tracks proceed according to different developmental processes and at different paces and the interrelationships among them account for the developmental trajectory of the VRE. Effectiveness will be assessed in terms of productivity, collaboration, community development, and successful implementation and use of VRE features and is expected to vary over time. Moreover ongoing assessments of effectiveness by key stakeholders play a role in the development of the VRE itself. Professor Iftekhar Ahmed project Principal Investigator said “VOSS will utilize the process research approach to study the evolution of six VREs. It will conduct in depth longitudinal analyses of the sequences of events involved in the development of VREs along the five tracks and trace inter-track influences. It will assess the fit of various developmental models to the sequences to determine which generative mechanisms account for the development of the VREs and the coevolution of the tracks. Finally, it will relate various features of the developmental process to effectiveness of VREs on several dimensions”. Professor Ahmed, now in the Communication Department at the University of North Texas, was a post-doctoral researcher at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois when the proposal was developed. ~~~ ABOUT I-CHASS The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science (I-CHASS) charts new ground in high-performance computing and the human sciences. Founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and located at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, I-CHASS creates learning environments and spaces for digital exploration and discovery; presenting leading-edge research, computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming to showcase the future of the humanities, arts, and social science. For more information on I-CHASS, please visit: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu ________________________________ This email was sent to willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk by Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) National Center for Supercomputing Applications | Urbana Forward to a friend | Manage Preferences | Unsubscribe _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 1 08:08:35 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 6322E286782; Sat, 1 Sep 2012 08:08:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EB7F128673B; Sat, 1 Sep 2012 08:08:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120901080833.EB7F128673B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 08:08:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.267 standards X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 267. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:27:03 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.263 standards? In-Reply-To: <20120831063723.E20A128C390@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, Fascinating rundown of slippage via metaphor [which I suspect defies standard measures of real/unreal, fanciful and imaginative [to allude to M H Abrams' THE MIRROR AND THE LAMP], metre, ell, Troy ounce, etc., to siliconized mental/verbal work and processes. I quote you re: "the critical historical question," and ask it to be considered: Plato establishes, in THE REPUBLIC, a bureau of legal/ethical standards [after banishing the Rhapsodes, those dangerous chanters of epic metaphorical narrative, uncontrollable per se, and something that underlies Thomas Mann's late work, DOKTOR FAUSTUS], and names it, the standards-makers, measurers, archivists, what-you-will, THE GUARDIANS. All fine and dandy, and let us proceed. Still, *the critical historical question *remains: Who shall guard the Guardians? [I think to suggest an illustration of my case exemplified by the rise and I think the fall of Martin Heidegger, but this is not the moment today.] Jascha Kessler On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > the critical historical question, -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 1 08:09:22 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 C10C02867C9; Sat, 1 Sep 2012 08:09:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0A1E42867B7; Sat, 1 Sep 2012 08:09:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120901080921.0A1E42867B7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 08:09:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.268 job at NC State X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 268. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:07:16 -0400 From: John Wall Subject: Announcement -- Position in Digital Humanities, Tenure Track, NC State University NC State University: Open Rank Tenure/Tenure Track Faculty in Digital Humanities Position Vacancy Number: 00002010 The Department of English at North Carolina State University seeks to make a tenure-track appointment in Digital Humanities, rank and field open. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to help build the digital humanities curriculum in undergraduate and graduate programs in English and in the interdisciplinary doctoral program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, and to develop NC State’s digital humanities presence across campus, in the technology-rich Research Triangle area, and with industry and foundation partners. The candidate will join a department with an established track record of digital scholarship in fields including digital archives, virtual environments, textual editing and criticism, physical computing, and linguistics. In recent years, faculty have received funding in all of these areas from a number of public and private agencies. Our digital humanities initiatives are strongly supported by NC State’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences and by the NC State Libraries, which are nationally known for their excellence in providing innovative research support and data curation NC State University has special strengths in computer science and digital technology and is located in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill Research Triangle area, nationally recognized as a vibrant center for research and creativity. The James B. Hunt Library, opening this spring on our Centennial Campus, is being built from the ground up as a national model for the integration of technology, scholarship, and information storage, retrieval, and display. The newly formed Research Triangle Digital Humanities Collaborative, a collaboration between NC State, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, and the National Humanities Center, offers further opportunities for research and curricular initiatives. *Position Description:* Duties include teaching graduate and undergraduate courses (2-2 base teaching load) as well as maintaining an active research and publication program and participating in professional and university service. There will be opportunities for leadership and program administration (with corresponding reductions in teaching load). We particularly welcome candidates whose research and teaching interests can help us develop one or more areas of existing strength within our department: creative writing, film, linguistics, literature, and rhetoric. *Qualifications:* Required -- Ph.D. in English or related field, area open; track record of excellence in digital scholarship appropriate for rank. Preferred -- a history of successful grant funding in the digital humanities. *Information about Department and Programs:* The English Department at NC State offers a wide array of programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels: a B.A. in English (with concentrations in Creative Writing; Film; Language, Writing & Rhetoric; Literature, and Teacher Education), an M.A. in English (with concentrations in British & American Literature, Linguistics, Creative Writing, Rhetoric & Composition, and World Literature), an M.S. in Technical Communication, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. In partnership with NC State’s Department of Communication, the English Department also offers an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media. *Instructions for Applicants:* Please use the NC State University employment web portal; we cannot consider applications submitted in any other way. Upload letter of application (addressed to Antony H. Harrison, Department Head, and referencing the position title Open Rank Professor in Digital Humanities and position number 00002010), CV, and contact information for at least three references. Three letters of reference, a writing sample, and teaching materials and evaluations may be requested later. Screening of applications will begin October 1 and will continue until position is filled. North Carolina State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer welcoming applications from members of under-represented groups and all persons without regard to sexual orientation. For ADA accommodation, contact Stephanie McBroom (919-513-0391) or stephanie_mcbroom@ncsu.edu. -- -- John N. Wall Professor of English Literature NC State University Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8105 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 1 08:10:52 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 1528228688D; Sat, 1 Sep 2012 08:10:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 353D828687D; Sat, 1 Sep 2012 08:10:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120901081050.353D828687D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 08:10:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.269 publications: algorithmic influences; access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 269. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Harold Short (15) Subject: Times Higher [2] From: Andrew Prescott (15) Subject: Alliance for Permanent Access --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:53:30 +0100 From: Harold Short Subject: Times Higher Dear Willard Relevant to a couple of today's Humanist posts - your piece on standards and I-CHASS's announcement of the VOSS project - is a short article by David Beer, a Sociology lecturer at York, raising questions bout the impact of algorithms on research. It is titled 'Leave the thinking to us' and can be found online at: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=3D26&storycode= =3D420978&c=3D1 Best wishes Harold Professor Harold Short, Department of Digital Humanities King's College London, 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2739 * Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 Web: www.kcl.ac.uk/cch --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:44:23 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Alliance for Permanent Access The Alliance for Permanent Access to Records of Science in Europe has produced its first newsletter which is available here: http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/index.php/community/newsletter/aparsennewsletter201207/ 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 Sat Sep 1 08:19:42 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 2D9AB2869D7; Sat, 1 Sep 2012 08:19:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 070A92869C6; Sat, 1 Sep 2012 08:19:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120901081940.070A92869C6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 08:19:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.270 events: editing; libraries; oral history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 270. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Andrew Prescott (19) Subject: Internet Librarian Conference [2] From: Monica Berti (85) Subject: Humanities Hackathon on editing Athenaeus and on the Reinvention of the Edition in a Digital Space [3] From: Ray Siemens (40) Subject: Oral History THATCamp, Cleveland, October 13, 2012 - REGISTRATION DEADLINE --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:57:55 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Internet Librarian Conference The Internet Librarian 2012 conference in London on 30-31 October 2012 seems a very rich programme, and interesting for an early opportunity to hear the new Chief Executive of the British Library, Roly Keating, speak on 'The journey to digital at the British Library'. I'm grateful to the organisers of one session for introducing me to a concept I hadn't come across before - the gamification of the library (Session A105). Details at: http://www.internet-librarian.com/2012/ 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 08:04:49 +0200 From: Monica Berti Subject: Humanities Hackathon on editing Athenaeus and on the Reinvention of the Edition in a Digital Space Hi All, Apologies for cross-postings. I am very pleased to send you the RFP of "The Banquet of the Digital Scholars", a humanities hackathon on editing Athenaeus and on the reinvention of the edition in a digital space, which will be held at the University of Leipzig on October 10-12, 2012. For further details, please visit http://www.e-humanities.net/events/athenaeus-hackathon.html All the best, Monica Berti ____________________________ Co-directors: Monica Berti - Marco Büchler - Gregory Crane - Bridget Almas Program: 2 days: hands-on hackathon 1 day: eTRACES techniques (Usage of the Text re-use Webdebugger and the annotation framework for text re-use) Registration Deadline: September 30, 2012 Requirements / Who should apply: TEI XML competence is prerequisite. Participants can establish this by going through http://balmas.github.com/tei-digital-age/ Language skills in ancient Greek maximum 25 students How to apply: Please visit www.e-humanities.net Contact address: hackathon@e-humanities.net Overview: The Deipnosophists (Δειπνοσοφισταί, or “Banquet of the Sophists”) by Athenaeus of Naucratis is a 3rd century AD fictitious account of several banquet conversations on food, literature, and arts held in Rome by twenty-two learned men. This complex and fascinating work is not only an erudite and literary encyclopedia of a myriad of curiosities about classical antiquity, but also an invaluable collection of quotations and text re-uses of ancient authors, ranging from Homer to tragic and comic poets and lost historians. Since the large majority of the works cited by Athenaeus is nowadays lost, this compilation is a sort of reference tool for every scholar of Greek theater, poetry, historiography, botany, zoology, and many other topics. Athenaeus’ work is a mine of thousands of quotations, but we still lack a comprehensive survey of its sources. The aim of this “humanities hackathon” is to provide a case study for drawing a spectrum of quoting habits of classical authors and their attitude to text reuse. Athenaeus, in fact, shapes a library of forgotten authors, which goes beyond the limits of a physical building and becomes an intellectual space of human knowledge. By doing so, he is both a witness of the Hellenistic bibliographical methods and a forerunner of the modern concept of hypertext, where sequential reading is substituted by hierarchical and logical connections among words and fragments of texts. Quantity, variety, and precision of Athenaeus’ citations make the Deipnosophists an excellent training ground for the development of a digital system of reference linking for primary sources. Athenaeus’ standard citation includes (a) the name of the author with additional information like ethnic origin and literary category, (b) the title of the work, and (c) the book number (e.g., Deipn. 2.71b). He often remembers the amount of papyrus scrolls of huge works (e.g., 6.229d-e; 6.249a), while distinguishing various editions of the same comedy (e.g., 1.29a; 4.171c; 6.247c; 7.299b; 9.367f) and different titles of the same work (e.g., 1.4e). He also adds biographical information to identify homonymous authors and classify them according to literary genres, intellectual disciplines and schools (e.g., 1.13b; 6.234f; 9.387b). He provides chronological and historical indications to date authors (e.g., 10.453c; 13.599c), and he often copies the first lines of a work following a method that probably goes back to the Pinakes of Callimachus (e.g., 1.4e; 3.85f; 8.342d; 5.209f; 13.573f-574a). Last but not least, the study of Athenaeus’ “citation system” is also a great methodological contribution to the domain of “fragmentary literature”, since one of the main concerns of this field is the relation between the fragment (quotation) and its context of transmission. Having this goal in mind, the textual analysis of the Deipnosophists will make possible to enumerate a series of recurring patterns, which include a wide typology of textual reproductions and linguistic features helpful to identify and classify hidden quotations of lost authors. Goals: This humanities hackathon is meant as a mini-course for training participants in editing Athenaeus’ work and his quotations, focusing on these topics: marking up quotations and text re-uses in Athenaeus annotating syntax and aligning translation of Athenaeus’ text using Athenaeus as a way to demonstrate the new Perseus SoSOL (http://sosol.perseus.tufts.edu/sosol/) Greek OCR on Athenaeus’ editions identifying and investigating quotations and text re-uses of Homer and Plato by Athenaeus comparing the ways in which Athenaeus and Plutarch quotes Homer and Plato; the goal is to use the computer to investigate how stable is an author’s re-use style in different sources results of this Hackathon will be made publicly available under CC licence. Applications should be sent to hackathon@e-humanities.net. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:04:25 +0100 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Oral History THATCamp, Cleveland, October 13, 2012 -REGISTRATION DEADLINE Oral History THATCamp Cleveland City Club, Cleveland, Ohio October 13, 2012, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Sponsored by the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities and the Ohio Humanities Council. (Initial registration deadline of September 15th. If there are not at least 25 participants registered by that point in time, the event will not go forward.) New this year to the Oral History Association meetings will be the very first THATCamp to be held in conjunction with the conference. This particular THATCamp will focus on bringing together those with an interest in oral history and audio/video production, but it is open to anyone with energy and an interest in digital humanities, regardless of specialization, including academics, librarians, archivists, cultural activists, curators, students, educators, journalists, and professionals in all fields where technology and the humanities intersect. THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) is a user-generated “unconference” on digital humanities inspired by the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University. An unconference is not a spectator event. Participants at THATCamp are expected to present their work, share their knowledge, and actively collaborate with fellow participants rather than simply attend. Sessions at THATCamp will range from software demos to training sessions to discussions of research findings to half-baked rants (but please, no full-blown papers; we’re not here to read or be read to). You should come to THATCamp with something in mind, and once you’re there, you’ll have the opportunity to find people with similar topics and interests and then team up for a joint session. We’ll collaboratively create the session and workshop schedule on the morning of the event, but the general outline is as follows: Registration is from 8:30–9:00AM (coffee and breakfast included). We’ll begin promptly at 9:00AM, break for lunch mid-day and end at about 5:00PM. Registration: If you will be attending the OHA conference, you can register for THATCamp in the "workshops" section of the registration form at http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/oha2012 . If you will not be going to the OHA meetings but would still like to participate in this THATCamp, please visit http://oha2012.thatcamp.org/. Questions? Contact Mary Larson at mary.larson@okstate.edu X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0361DFC357; Mon, 3 Sep 2012 06:08:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6EAD7FC34E; Mon, 3 Sep 2012 06:07:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120903060759.6EAD7FC34E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 06:07:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.271 events: TEI late-breaking call X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 271. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 11:38:39 +0100 From: Elena Pierazzo Subject: TEI Conference 2012: Late-breaking call With usual apologies for cross-posting ======================== As in the previous years, the Programme Committee for the TEI Members Meeting in College Station (Texas) has reserved some limited slots on the program for late breaking submissions. Please notice that these submissions, although evaluated by the programme committee, do not undergo the normal peer review process and therefore will only be considered for inclusion in the conference proceedings after further peer review. Otherwise the requirements and proposal formats are very similar; details of the call for paper can be found at the conference web page http://idhmc.tamu.edu/teiconference/ We hope that the announcement of this possibility will come as a relief to those who missed the deadline of the first round of submissions, but still would like to have a chance to contribute to the program of the meeting. The deadline for late breaking submissions is the 1st of October 2012. You can submit your proposal via conftool: http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/ There will also be an exciting slate of pre-conference workshops to be announced really soon now, so please watch this space, or the conference website for further information. For the 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 Sep 3 06:31:05 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 E19E3FC593; Mon, 3 Sep 2012 06:31:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BA36CFC57D; Mon, 3 Sep 2012 06:31:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120903063102.BA36CFC57D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 06:31:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.272 call for submissions: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 272. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 07:30:07 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: cfp: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Interdisciplinary Science Reviews www.isr-journal.org Call for submissions, ISR 38.2 (June 2013) Submissions are welcome to an open issue of ISR to be published in June 2013. Articles can address any topic as long as it fits within the broad mandate of the journal. ISR aims to set contemporary and historical developments in the sciences and technology into their wider social and cultural context and to illuminate their interrelations with the humanities and arts. ISR seeks out contributions that measure up to the highest excellence in scholarship but that also speak to an audience of intelligent non-specialists. It actively explores the differing trajectories of the disciplines and practices in its purview, to clarify what each is attempting to do in its own terms, so that constructive dialogue across them is strengthened. It focuses whenever possible on conceptual bridge-building and collaborative research that nevertheless respect disciplinary variation. Articles are normally about 6,000 words in length but should be no longer than 8,000 words. Illustrations are published in grey-scale only; their size figures into the word-length on the basis of ca 550 words/page. Potential contributors should send a title and abstract for consideration to the Editor, as below, keeping the following deadlines in mind: submission of complete draft: October 2013 comments back from reviewers: January 2013 final copy to the publisher: March 2013 publication: June 2013 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 Sep 4 05:50:34 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 3FD3A28CF22; Tue, 4 Sep 2012 05:50:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0EF0C28CF17; Tue, 4 Sep 2012 05:50:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120904055033.0EF0C28CF17@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 05:50:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.273 events: preservation; transformation; hacking; war; basics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 273. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (14) Subject: Hack4Europe! Dublin [2] From: Shawn Day (7) Subject: PASIG Conference (Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group) Dublin 17-19 October [3] From: Peter Stadler (48) Subject: registration deadline extension until end of this week for Edirom-Summer-School 2012 [4] From: Andrew Prescott (23) Subject: Digital Transformations Moot, 19 November 2012 [5] From: Simon Dixon (24) Subject: Digital Humanities Meeting: Community Collection, Roadshows and theGreat War, 16 October --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 12:02:02 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Hack4Europe! Dublin Hack4Europe! Dublin ANNOUNCING A COMPETITION TO USE OPEN CULTURAL DATA Hack4Europe! Dublin is part of a series of hack days organised by the Europeana Foundation and its partners throughout Europe. Hackathons provide an exciting environment to explore the potential of open cultural data from the Europeana portal to create products for social and economic growth in Europe. Europeana - www.europeana.eu http://www.europeana.eu/ - enables people to explore over 20 million digital objects from Europe's libraries, museums, archives and galleries. The Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltact is organising the Dublin hackathon in conjunction with the Irish Manuscripts Commission, the Digital Humanities Observatory and Fáilte Ireland. Hack4Europe! Dublin will take place on 24 and 25 September 2012 in the Science Gallery, Pearse Street, Dublin 2. Please see the attached flyer for information on themes and prizes and pass this email on to developers or designers whom you think might be interested in this event. CONTACT AND QUESTIONS – hack4europedublin@gmail.com REGISTRATION – Register your interest before Friday 31 August 2012 at: http://hack4europe2012-dublin.eventbrite.ie On behalf of the organising committee Sharon Barry (D/AHG) Cathy Hayes (IMC) Niall O'Leary (DHO) Ursina O'Riordan (D/AHG) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 12:27:44 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: PASIG Conference (Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group) Dublin 17-19 October Conference Alert The PASIG Conference (Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group) will take place this year in Dublin on October 17th – 19th 2012. This is an important conference on the preservation and archiving of digital information; topics being covered include: cloud-based services for local preservation needs in storage, computing and services; strategies & approaches for digital preservation and archiving; review of storage technology and industry trends (focus on unique needs of digital preservation and archiving); services-oriented architecture work, and use cases etc. This international conference will provide a great opportunity to hear about new developments, share practical experiences, and develop new collaborations. More information about PASIG at http://sun-pasig.ning.com/ Registration at: http://www.asis.org/Pasig/PASIGDublin2012.html More information about this conference is available from Ursula Byrne, UCD Library: ursula.byrne@ucd.ie --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 14:52:47 +0200 From: Peter Stadler Subject: registration deadline extension until end of this week for Edirom-Summer-School 2012 Dear colleagues, to the date there are still places available at the courses of Edirom-Summer-School 2012. Hence we decided to extend registration deadline to the end of this week. *final deadline now is Sunday September 9, 0:00 CEST* If so far you have been undecided, use your chance. For further information and registration visit: http://www.edirom.de/summerschool2012. Edirom-Summer-School tries to communicate basic technologies and concepts for the "Digital Humanities". The focus lies on the XML-based encoding guidelines TEI and MEI as well as generic tools for analysis, manipulation and presentation of XML data. Alongside the "hands on" courses there will be opportunity for personal exchange or own presentations in order to make Edirom-Summer-School a general forum for users of different experience levels. Overview of english courses: - Encoding Text and Music (Sept 27) - Manuscript Encoding and Digital Editions based on MEI (Sept 27 to 28) - An introduction to ODD (Sept 28) With best wishes from your organizing committee, Peter Stadler and Benjamin W. Bohl -- *********************************************************** Edirom - Projekt "Digitale Musikedition" Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar Detmold/Paderborn Gartenstraße 20 D – 32756 Detmold Tel. +49 (0) 5231 / 975-665 Fax: +49 (0) 5231 / 975-668 http://www.edirom.de *********************************************************** === GERMAN =============================== Sehr geehrte Kolleginnen und Kollegen, noch sind einige Plätze in den Kursen der Edirom-Summer-School 2012 frei. Wir haben uns daher entschieden, die Anmeldefrist um eine Woche zu verlängern: *endgültiger Anmeldeschluss ist nun Sonntag, der 09.09.2012, 0:00 Uhr MEZ.* Sollten Sie bis jetzt noch unentschlossen gewesen sein, nutzen Sie die Gelegenheit. Weitere Informationen und die Möglichkeit zur Registrierung finden Sie unter: http://www.edirom.de/summerschool2012 Die Edirom-Summer-School versucht grundlegende Technologien und Konzepte für die „Digital Humanities“ zu vermitteln. Den Schwerpunkt bilden die auf XML basierenden Auszeichnungsrichtlinien TEI und MEI sowie generische Werkzeuge zur Analyse, Manipulation und Präsentation der XML-Daten. Neben den jeweiligen Kursen, die alle „hands on“ abgehalten werden, soll auch Raum für persönlichen Austausch sowie eigene Präsentationen gegeben werden, sodass die Edirom-Summer-School auch ein allgemeines Forum für Anwender unterschiedlichen Erfahrungsstandes werden kann. Kursübersicht: - Einführung in die Codierung von Notentexten mit MEI (24. - 25.09.) - Einführung in die Codierung von Texten mit TEI (24. - 25.09.) - Edirom-Tools - Erstellen einer Edirom-Online (24.09.) - Edirom-Customization - Projektspezifische Anpassungen der Edirom-Online (25.09.) - MerMEId - Arbeiten mit MEI Metadaten (26.09.) - Einführung in die native XML-Datenbank eXist (26.09.) - Edirom User Forum (26.09.) - Encoding Text and Music [Englisch] (27.09.) - Manuscript Encoding and Digital Editions based on MEI [Englisch] (27. - 28.09.) - XPath und Reguläre Ausdrücke - Fortgeschrittenes Suchen in XML Dokumenten (27.09.) - Grundlagen zum nachhaltigen Umgang mit Forschungsdaten (27.09.) - XSL(T) für Einsteiger (28.09.) - An introduction to ODD [Englisch] (28.09.) Mit besten Grüßen von Ihrem Organisationsteam, Peter Stadler und Benjamin W. Bohl --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 14:04:42 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Digital Transformations Moot, 19 November 2012 In-Reply-To: <6176826CB10BB541BD17F634C3ECBCFA0CC031171B@ISSMAILMBXVS1.ph.rc> > Subject: Digital Transformations Moot, 19 November 2012 > Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 13:24:41 +0100 > From: Christie Walker (AHRC) Hello everyone I just wanted to draw your attention to the announcement of the Digital Transformations Moot (19 November 2012, Mermaid Conference Centre, London) on the AHRC’s website: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/Events/Pages/Digital-Transformations-Moot.aspx Included on this page is a link to the registration for the event as well as a link to the call for participants. Please do feel free to circulate this announcement to your colleagues. We hope to see you there! Kind regards, Christie Christie Walker Strategy and Development Manager Creative and Performing Arts Team | *Arts and Humanities Research Council* Polaris House | North Star Avenue | Swindon | SN2 1FL | www.ahrc.ac.uk http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/ T: 01793 416066 E: Christie.Walker@ahrc.ac.uk --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 14:37:35 +0100 From: Simon Dixon Subject: Digital Humanities Meeting: Community Collection, Roadshows and theGreat War, 16 October In-Reply-To: <6176826CB10BB541BD17F634C3ECBCFA0CC031171B@ISSMAILMBXVS1.ph.rc> *London Digital Humanities Group Meeting* *16 October 2012* *5.15pm, Room G21A, Senate House, Malet Street, London* * * The London Digital Humanities Group will reconvene for the coming academic year, and we are delighted to announce our first meeting on 16 October: *'Community Collection, Roadshows and the Great War'* Dr Ylva Berglund Prytz (University of Oxford) It all started as a small part of a digitization project. 'What happens if we do this…?' The success of the Great War Archive, where the general public was invited to share their WW1 memorabilia online, has led to other projects, using the same model of combining an online collection with ‘roadshow’ digitization events. In this talk, we will talk about how it all started, how it developed and what is happening now. Ylva Berglund Prytz works for Oxford University Computing Services where she is involved with the Great Writers Inspire (writersinspire.org/) and Europeana 1914-1918 (europeana1914-1918.eu) projects. She has worked on a number of different projects and services, including RunCoCo, What's the Score at the Bodleian?, OpenSpires, British National Corpus, Oxford Text Archive, OUCS web team and Intute: Arts and Humanities. She is a member of the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics. All are welcome. To confirm attendance please complete the form at http://goo.gl/ZxaxO _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 5 06:35:56 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 B42A328DBB8; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 06:35:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3E1CB28DBAF; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 06:35:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120905063555.3E1CB28DBAF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 06:35:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.274 jobs at King's College London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities 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. 274. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 11:08:34 +0100 From: "Vetch, Paul" Subject: 3 x Research Developer posts at KCL Department of Digital Humanities Dear all, We are advertising additional posts in the Research and Development team at the King's College London Department of Digital Humanities. These posts all involve implementation and functional design work (in collaboration with other members of the R&D team and external partners) across a small number of varied and challenging research projects. Our ideal candidates would combine a background in and understanding of the digital humanities with exceptional programming and web application development experience. Most importantly, we want people who can make creative and substantive contributions to the research and development work they participate in. Details for each of the posts, including the research projects in question, can be found in the application packs available here: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/linking/kings/aug2012/linkingpage.html The closing date is 13th September with interviews to be held during the week beginning 17th September. With best wishes Paul -------------------------------- Paul Vetch Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL tel. +44 (0) 20 7848 1040 mob. +44 (0) 7713 087 446 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 5 06:37:44 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 A8D9D28DC09; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 06:37:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9C39228DC01; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 06:37:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120905063743.9C39228DC01@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 06:37:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.275 computing and modernity? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 275. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:34:32 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: computing and the conditions of modernity In Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age (Polity, 1991), Anthony Giddens describes the conditions of living as we do now, in what Ulrich Beck calls a "risk society", with emphasis on the constant flux of individual identity. He mentions the notion of the postmodern but argues that its supposedly distinguishing features (esp fragmentation) do not distinguish it from the modernity he discusses. I find Giddens' analysis appealing because -- I am struggling to get this right -- he sets us and our doings within a condition of flux, choice and peril (i.e. modernity) rather than posits a great cultural shift from one state to another (i.e. from the modern to the postmodern). The difference I am trying to get at is that between changing (present participle) and changed (past participle). And in his modernity the relationship between the constant changing, choosing and being imperiled and the events and inventions often assigned as causes is a complex network of feedback and feed-forward. Giddens does not mention computing nor related technologies, and that brings me to my question: does anyone here know of literature that centres on computing from such a sociological/cultural-analytic perspective *without positing that because of computing or more or less simultaneously with its invention and then development in hardware (i.e. Turing 1936 to Turing 1950 approximately) we have stepped through a door into a new age*? Of course digital computing can be traced back to specific inventions, publications and so on. But why (and how!), I wonder, does the machinery we have seem so much at home in the world Giddens describes? 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 Sep 5 06:38:51 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 5B76228DC65; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 06:38:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F2C3228DC3D; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 06:38:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120905063849.F2C3228DC3D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 06:38:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.276 preview of a book X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 276. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 11:33:51 -0500 From: Laura Mandell Subject: Preview of Mandell, Breaking the Book Dear Humanist: I am giving a two-day preview of my manuscript *Breaking the Book*, a forthcoming Blackwell Manifesto, in the hopes for some good feedback that will be incorporated with thanks. We are using Comment Press. The manuscript will be available tomorrow morning, 9 a.m. CDT (Central US, or 3 p.m. London, UK, time) at: http://idhmc.tamu.edu/commentpress/breaking-the-book/ Any ideas you have will be most appreciated. Best, Laura -- Laura Mandell Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture Professor, English Texas A&M University p: 979-845-8345 e: mandell@tamu.edu @mandellc http://idhmc.tamu.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 5 06:45:24 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 D26DA28DE3C; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 06:45:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 34D8828DE2C; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 06:45:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120905064523.34D8828DE2C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 06:45:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.277 events: visualisation; ontologies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 277. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: AOW (43) Subject: First Call for Papers: AOW@AI2012 [2] From: Rikke Schmidt Kjaergaard (46) Subject: Symposium on Scientific Visualization, Art & Design --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 11:03:29 +0100 From: AOW Subject: First Call for Papers: AOW@AI2012 8th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2012) 4 December 2012 Held in Conjunction with the 25th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI2012) Sydney, Australia http://aow2012.yolasite.com/ email: aow@csir.co.za AOW 2012 is the eighth in a series of workshops on ontologies held in the Australasian region. For the fourth year running, AOW 2012 will have a best paper award, with a prize of $250(AUD) being awarded to the author(s) of the best paper. The primary aim of the workshop is to bring together active researchers in the broad area of ontologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Ontology models and theories - Ontologies and the Semantic Web - Interoperability in ontologies - Ontologies and Multi-agent systems - Description logics for ontologies - Reasoning with ontologies - Ontology harvesting on the web - Ontology of agents and actions - Ontology visualisation - Ontology engineering and management - Ontology-based information extraction and retrieval - Ontology merging, alignment and integration - Web ontology languages - Formal concept analysis and ontologies - Ontologies for e-research - Linking open data - Significant ontology applications Important Dates: Submission of papers: 10 October 2012 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 12 November 2012 Final camera ready copies: 23 November 2012 Workshop date: 4 December 2012 Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aow20120 For submission instructions: see the AOW website at http://aow2012.yolasite.com/ For enquiries or more information, the workshop email address is aow@csir.co.za [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 23:57:45 +0200 From: Rikke Schmidt Kjaergaard Subject: Symposium on Scientific Visualization, Art & Design Dear Colleagues, Please find details below of an upcoming symposium that you may be interested in: You Need To See This -- Pushing the boundaries of scientific visualization. Would you be so kind as to circulate this information to all individuals who may be interested? Thanks in advance for your assistance with this. You Need To See This -- Pushing the boundaries of scientific visualization Tuesday 25 September - Wednesday 26 September 2012 The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, H.C. Andersens Boulevard 35, DK-1553 Copenhagen V, Denmark. Scientific visualizations are essential for the processes involved in generating and presenting scientific data. This symposium explores how connections between art, design and science inspire and advance research, innovation and working processes in scientific data visualization. Speakers will share ideas for and processes of their work in visualization across disciplines. Talks and discussions will address how visual ideas and intentions are transformed by the use of different tools and technologies, how to meet the challenges of cross-discipline collaborations, how to gain and apply inspiration through multidisciplinary processes, and how these processes can enrich both the practice of science and art. Speakers: David Goodsell (The Scripps Research Institute), Colin Ware (University of New Hampshire), Bang Wong (The Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard), Alessia Giardino (Thread Count Lab London), Nik Spencer (Nature), Amanda Cox (The New York Times), Gaël McGill (Harvard Medical School), Poul Nissen (Aarhus University), Søren Brunak (Technical University of Denmark), Niels Christian Nielsen (Aarhus University), and Mette Høst (Niels Bohr Institute). For full details of the programme and speakers, please see: http://projects.au.dk/sciviz/. Please note that because of technical updates registration opens again Monday 10 September 2012. Deadline for registration is Friday 14 September 2012. Please follow this link for online registration: http://projects.au.dk/sciviz/registration/ Do let me know if you would like any further information. Best wishes, Rikke Schmidt Kjaergaard ---------------------------------- Rikke Schmidt Kjaergaard, Ph.D., MSc. Assistant professor Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, iNANO Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University Gustav Wieds Vej 14 DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark E-mail: risk (at) inano (dot) au (dot) dk http://schmidtkjaergaard.net _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 6 05:21:32 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 66BE0286CF8; Thu, 6 Sep 2012 05:21:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 28FF9286CE3; Thu, 6 Sep 2012 05:21:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120906052130.28FF9286CE3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 05:21:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.278 computing and modernity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 278. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 18:56:14 +0200 From: Milos Rankovic Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.275 computing and modernity? In-Reply-To: <20120905063743.9C39228DC01@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, Of course, “we have stepped through” so many doors in the last century and each time it was a different “we” that did the overstepping… Turing himself opened several doors, none of which “we” seem to have resisted. On the one hand, his nail in the Russell & Whitehead’s metaphysical coffin was more difficult to ignore than Gödel’s. On the other, his computing machines were easily hijacked by the confusion of digital with ontological. Different academic communities at different times and at different points on the globe took their positions along these two tangents. Soon after Gödel’s and Turing’s seminal contributions, biological inheritance, too, turned out to be digital, confusing the issue ever more. Then Derrida spotted this confusion before biologists did (in the very opening pages of his Of Grammatology). Recently discovered complexities in the mechanics of gene “expression” as well as the role of the (inherited) environment in development are already forcing the ground up revisions of the unit theory of inheritance, featuring instead metaphors, such as Cycles of Contingency (ed. Oyama, Griffiths and Gray), that fit rather well with Derrida’s writing on iterability. There are likewise parallel histories of the computational intuitions about the mind with the analogous confusion of the distributed with the fragmented. Here Donald Hebb played Derrida in the area of neuropsychology with his dual-trace memory (only two decades before Derrida’s dual trace, i.e. active/passive, force/ground). This work led to computer simulations of neural networks since Turing never published his own pioneering work on connectionist AI (“Intelligent Machinery”, 1948). Elsewhere, however, the naive interpretations of Turing machines led to the conception of memory as storage. As with biological memory, thankfully, the increasingly conspicuous complexities of implementation (whether silicon or carbon based) are forcing “us” to reconsider whether there can ever be reading that is not also writing. In all, there are conceptions of the machinery that seem at home in the Giddens’ world and then there are those that do not. Any sociological/cultural-analytic account must therefore take pains in describing the “we” that both did and did not step over the threshold (which reminds me of Schrödinger’s 1935 cat and the parallel histories of ToE). milos Bergen On 5 Sep 2012, at 08:37, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 275. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:34:32 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: computing and the conditions of modernity > > In Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age > (Polity, 1991), Anthony Giddens describes the conditions of living as we > do now, in what Ulrich Beck calls a "risk society", with emphasis on the > constant flux of individual identity. He mentions the notion of the > postmodern but argues that its supposedly distinguishing features (esp > fragmentation) do not distinguish it from the modernity he discusses. > > I find Giddens' analysis appealing because -- I am struggling to get > this right -- he sets us and our doings within a condition of flux, > choice and peril (i.e. modernity) rather than posits a great cultural > shift from one state to another (i.e. from the modern to the > postmodern). The difference I am trying to get at is that between > changing (present participle) and changed (past participle). And in his > modernity the relationship between the constant changing, choosing and > being imperiled and the events and inventions often assigned as causes > is a complex network of feedback and feed-forward. > > Giddens does not mention computing nor related technologies, and that > brings me to my question: does anyone here know of literature that > centres on computing from such a sociological/cultural-analytic > perspective *without positing that because of computing or more or less > simultaneously with its invention and then development in hardware (i.e. > Turing 1936 to Turing 1950 approximately) we have stepped through a door > into a new age*? > > Of course digital computing can be traced back to specific inventions, > publications and so on. But why (and how!), I wonder, does the machinery > we have seem so much at home in the world Giddens describes? > > 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 Sep 6 05:24:02 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 134A5286D5B; Thu, 6 Sep 2012 05:24:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4C309286D47; Thu, 6 Sep 2012 05:24:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120906052401.4C309286D47@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 05:24:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.279 a Latin-Lithuanian lexicon worth noting X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 279. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 11:04:04 +0200 From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Thesaurus Latino-Lituanicus In-Reply-To: <02A6D479-11B8-421F-AB97-8A98F7EED0A0@kcl.ac.uk> [From the Digital Classicist list, with thanks. --WM] Hi list, here is a project that seems interesting and useful (don't remember reading about it on the list) --- it has morphology and prosody: University of Vilnius, Faculty of Philology, Digital Philology Centre Thesaurus Latino-Lituanicus Combined Latin-Lithuanian Dictionary from the 17th to the 21st Century http://www.thesaurus.flf.vu.lt/ Thesaurus Latino-Lituanicus is a database which contains several Latin-Lithuanian dictionaries published between the 17th and 21st centuries, with various smart search abilities as well as scanned facsimiles of the original editions. To give a brief summary, Latin words in this resource can be found not only as in the usual computer dictionaries, but also by their morphological or prosodic criteria. For example, you can find all tetrasyllabic interjections; all feminine nouns of the fourth declension; all semi-deponent verbs; all adjectives starting or ending with specified letters whose metrical shape is dactylic, or iambic, or any other; and so on. Having such word lists carefully extracted from a large dictionary can be useful for studying and research into Latin philology, composing Latin verse, and so on. If you know Lithuanian, you can also use the Lithuanian meaning of a Latin word as a search criterion. A more detailed description of the specifically Lithuanian sides of this project, as well as on the individual dictionaries, can be read on the Lithuanian pages. Best, Neven Neven Jovanovic Department of Classical Philology Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb Hrvatska / Croatia _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 6 05:26:45 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 B543D286E2A; Thu, 6 Sep 2012 05:26:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D4A61286E12; Thu, 6 Sep 2012 05:26:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120906052643.D4A61286E12@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 05:26:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.280 events: archives, communication; accessibility; communities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 280. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Kai Jakobs (101) Subject: Deadline Extension: ITU Kaleidoscope 2013 - Building Sustainable Communities - Call for Papers - Deadline 24 Sept 2012 extended [2] From: "Niels Ole Finnemann" (42) Subject: PhD seminar 'Digital Humanities and the Study of the Web and Web Archives' [3] From: Louise Whiteley (31) Subject: PhD Course Pushing the Boundaries of Science Communication at University of Copenhagen [4] From: Shawn Graham (21) Subject: THATCamp Accessibility - call for participation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:31:12 +0200 From: Kai Jakobs Subject: Deadline Extension: ITU Kaleidoscope 2013 - Building Sustainable Communities - Call for Papers - Deadline 24 Sept 2012 extended The 5th ITU Kaleidoscope academic conference Building Sustainable Communities 22-24 April 2013, Kyoto, Japan Call for Papers ****New Deadline: 24 September 2012****   Kaleidoscope 2013 - Building Sustainable Communities - is the fifth in a series of peer-reviewed academic conferences organized by ITU that brings together a wide range of views from universities, industry and research institutions of different fields. The aim of Kaleidoscope conferences is to identify emerging developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) at an early stage to generate successful products and services through the development of international and open standards. Future technologies should be designed to enhance the quality of human life. Kaleidoscope 2013 will, therefore, highlight multidisciplinary aspects of future ICTs including future services and applications demand as well as socio-economic, cultural, ethical, legal, and sustainable development policy aspects of communities of the future. ICTs can be used as a catalyst for transforming life to meet the challenges of the new millennium, including global economic and financial crises, high unemployment rates, accessibility issues, global diseases, food availability and distribution, climate change, environmental disasters, energy consumption, transport systems, safety, security, and welfare. Sustainable communities will combine human-oriented technologies and human values. Besides technical issues, building sustainable communities also raises ethical concerns such as responsibility for future generations and for the environment, as well as for data and information privacy. Therefore, an improved understanding of technology, its suitable application, and a high consideration of its potential consequences are necessary. To address these issues, and for a co-evolution of technology and sustainable communities, standards are indispensable. Developing these standards will require concerted global efforts by inter-sectoral stakeholders. This conference will help to further such collaborations. Building Sustainable Communities is calling for original academic papers offering innovative and bold approaches in research and development to build smart, ethical, and sustainable communities. Audience -------- Kaleidoscope 2013 is targeted at all specialists with a role in the field, including researchers, academics, students, engineers, policy- makers and regulators, innovators and futurists from all over the world. Date and venue -------------- 22-24 April 2013, Kyoto, Japan   Submission of papers -------------------- Prospective authors, from countries that are members of ITU, are invited to submit complete, original papers with a maximum length of 4,500 words within eight pages including summary and references, using the template available on the event website. All papers will be reviewed through a double-blind, peer-review process and handled electronically; see http:// itu-kaleidoscope.org/2013 for the online submission (EDAS). Paper proposals will be evaluated according to content, originality, clarity, relevance to the conference's theme and in particular significance to future standards.   Deadlines --------- Submission of full paper proposals: Mon 24 Sept 2012 extended Notification of paper acceptance: Mon 12 Nov 2012 Submission of camera-ready accepted papers: Mon 3 Dec 2012   Publication and presentation ---------------------------- Accepted papers will be presented during the event and published in the proceedings and in IEEE Xplore. The best papers will be evaluated for potential publication in IEEE Communications Magazine. In addition, selected papers will be considered for publication in the International Journal of Technology Marketing or the International Journal of IT Standards & Standardization Research.   Awards ------ Awards of USD 5k, 3k and 2k will be granted to selected best papers, as judged by the Steering and Technical Programme Committees. In addition, young authors presenting accepted papers will receive a Young Author Recognition certificate. [...]   ________________________________________________________________ Kai Jakobs RWTH Aachen University Computer Science Department Informatik 4 (Communication and Distributed Systems) Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany Tel.: +49-241-80-21405 Fax: +49-241-80-22222 Kai.Jakobs@comsys.rwth-aachen.de http://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/team/kai-jakobs/ EURAS - The European Academy for Standardization. http://www.euras.org The International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research. http://www.igi-global.com/ijitsr The 'Advances in Information Technology Standards and Standardization Research' book series. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=37142 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 14:38:52 +0200 From: "Niels Ole Finnemann" Subject: PhD seminar 'Digital Humanities and the Study of the Web and Web Archives' Dear Collegues, Please, feel free to circulate. Digital Humanities and the Study of the Web and Web Archives PhD-seminar organised by the Digital Humanities Lab/NetLab, Aarhus University, Denmark, 3-5 December 2012. Application no later than October 1 2012. Today the Internet is the medium which holds the most multifaceted set of materials documenting contemporary social, cultural, and political life. It has become the fulcrum for the general development of media, including mass media and a growing variety of digital devices. If the communicative infrastructure of society in the late 20th century was centered on television, it is today centered on the Internet. As a variety of digital media penetrates all spheres in society, they also play a still more dominant role for the social sciences, humanities and arts. They do so in three respects: as archives for contemporary life, as a toolbox for the study of all sorts of digital collections, including digitized collections of non-digital materials (often labeled cultural heritage), and as a means for enforced communication within all spheres of society. In this course we will concentrate on the first of these aspects, the role of the Internet and particularly on online and archived web materials for scholars studying contemporary political, social, and cultural phenomena. Read more about the course format, the venue, and how to enroll: http://www.netlab.dk http://www.netlab.dk The seminar is organized by Professor Niels Ole Finnemann, Center for Internet Studies & Ass. Professor Niels Brügger, Head of Center for Internet Studies, Aarhus University. Niels Ole Finnemann and Niels Brügger are also joint leaders of NetLab - a research infrastructure project which is a part of Danish Digital Humanities Lab. Niels Ole Finnemann Professor, dr. phil. Department of Aestethics and Communication Center for Internet Research/NetLab Helsingforsgade 14 Aarhus University 8200 Aarhus Denmark http://imv.au.dk/~finnemann/english.html --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 15:13:30 +0100 From: Louise Whiteley Subject: PhD Course Pushing the Boundaries of Science Communication at University of Copenhagen Medical Museion at the University of Copenhagen is hosting a 4 day PhD course on March 4th-7th 2013, as part of the Medical Science and Technology Studies Graduate Programme. The course, 'Pushing the Boundaries of Science Communication', takes an interdisciplinary approach to science communication and medicine, and is described here: https://phdkursus.sund.ku.dk/ frontPlanner/DetailKursus.aspx?id3D95756 and on our blog at www.museion.ku.dk. The lecturers will be myself and Prof. Thomas Söderqvist from Medical Museion, plus Prof. Maja Horst from the University of Copenhagen and Asst. Prof. Jenell Johnson from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The course is relevant to students from disciplines including sociology, anthropology, STS, and media, culture, and communication studies, whose research focuses on public health, biomedical research, medical technology or clinical practice. It's also relevant to students from medicine or public health with a strong interest in studying or contributing to public communication, and we'll be mixing lectures with practical and hands-on activities. If you'd like to take part, you can apply through the course catalogue link above, and please do forward this to anyone who might be interested. If you have any questions about the course, or any tips for materials, activities, or similar courses, send me an email on louise.whiteley@sund.ku.dk. Thanks very much, Louise. ----- Louise Whiteley Assistant Professor Medical Museion & NNFCBMR Faculty of Health Sciences Copenhagen University email: louise.whiteley@sund.ku.dk web: museion.ku.dk/author/louise20 skype/twitter: lewhiteley --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 11:50:49 -0400 From: Shawn Graham Subject: THATCamp Accessibility - call for participation Dear listmembers, We are pleased to announce that THATCamp Accessibility will be held at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, on October 27th. We're interested in exploring the intersection between the digital humanities and accessibility (broadly construed). Please see http://accessibility2012.thatcamp.org/ for more information. Registration is free and lunch will be provided. We will close registration on September 21st. We ask, as you fill in the registration form, that you indicate if you have any particular needs that we can help to accommodate. We will do our best to meet them, as we are committed to making every reasonable accommodation we can. Please pass the word, and we hope to see you in October! Hollis Pierce, Shawn Graham Carleton University -- Dr. Shawn Graham, RPA Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities Department of History 406 Paterson Hall, Carleton University 613-520-2600 xt2842 @electricarchaeo _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 6 05:36:55 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 F1062286FCE; Thu, 6 Sep 2012 05:36:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 45DC2286FC3; Thu, 6 Sep 2012 05:36:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120906053653.45DC2286FC3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 05:36:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.281 cfp: DH2013 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 281. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 14:54:54 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: Call for Papers, DH 2013 Digital Humanities 2013 ("Freedom to Explore") - Call for Papers Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Hosted by the University of Nebraska 16-19 July 2013 http://dh2013.unl.edu/ Paper/Poster/Panel deadline: 1 November 2012 Workshop proposal deadline: 15 February 2013 Call for Papers I. General Information The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions of abstracts for its annual conference, on any aspect of the digital humanities. This includes but is not limited to: * humanities research enabled through digital media, data mining, software studies, or information design and modeling; * computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural, and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship; * the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, digital games, and related areas; * the creation and curation of humanities digital resources; * social, institutional, global, multilingual, and multicultural aspects of digital humanities; * and the role of digital humanities in pedagogy and academic curricula. We particularly welcome submissions on interdisciplinary work and new developments in the field, and encourage proposals relating to the theme of the conference. Presentations may include: * posters (abstract max of 750 words); * short papers (abstract max of 1500 words); * long papers (abstract max of 1500 words); * multiple paper sessions, including panels (regular abstracts + approximately 500-word overview); * and pre-conference workshops and tutorials (proposal max of 1500 words) The deadline for submitting poster, short paper, long paper, and sessions proposals to the international Program Committee is midnight GMT, 1 November 2012. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by 1 February 2013. Workshop and pre-conference tutorial proposals are due at midnight GMT on 15 February 2013, with notice of acceptance by 15 March 2013. An electronic submission form will be available on the conference site at the beginning of October 2012: http://dh2013.unl.edu/ Previous DH conference participants and reviewers should use their existing accounts rather than setting up new ones. If you have forgotten your user name or password, please contact Program Committee chair Bethany Nowviskie at bethany@virginia.edu. II. Types of Proposals Proposals may be of five types: (1) poster presentations; (2) short paper presentations; (3) long papers; (4) three-paper or full panel sessions; and (5) proposals for pre-conference workshops and tutorials. Based on peer review and its mandate to create a balanced and varied program, the Program Committee may offer acceptance in a different category from the one initially proposed, and will normally not accept multiple submissions from the same author or group of authors. Papers and posters may be given in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish. 1) Poster Presentations Poster proposals (500 to 750 words) may describe work on any topic of the call for papers or offer project and software demonstrations. Posters and demonstrations are intended to be interactive, with the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees. In addition to a dedicated session, when presenters will explain their work and answer questions, posters will be on display at various times during the conference. 2) Short Papers Short paper proposals (750 to 1500 words) are appropriate for reporting on experiments or work in progress, or for describing newly conceived tools or software in early stages of development. This category of presentation allows for up to five short papers in a single session, with the length held to a strict 10 minutes each in order to allow time for questions. 3) Long Papers Proposals for long papers (750 to 1500 words) are appropriate for: substantial, completed, and previously unpublished research; reports on the development of significant new methodologies or digital resources; and/or rigorous theoretical, speculative, or critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. Proposals about the development of new computing methodologies or digital resources should indicate how the methods are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, what their impact has been in formulating and addressing research questions, and should include critical assessment of their application in the humanities. Papers that concentrate on a particular tool or digital resource in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include critical assessments of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include relevant citations to sources in the literature. 4) Multiple Paper Sessions These consist of one 90-minute panel of four to six speakers, or three long papers on a single theme. Panel organizers should submit an abstract of 750 to 1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. Paper session organizers should submit a statement of approximately 500 words describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750 to 1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session. Papers that are submitted as part of a special session may not be submitted individually for consideration in another category. 5) Pre-Conference Workshops and Tutorials Participants in pre-conference workshops or tutorials will be expected to register for the full conference as well as pay a small additional fee. Proposals should provide the following information: * a title and brief description of the content or topic and its relevance to the DH community (not more than 1500 words); * full contact information for all tutorial instructors or workshop leaders, including a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise; * a description of target audience and expected number of participants (based, if possible, on past experience); * and any special requirements for technical support. Additionally, tutorial proposals should include: * a brief outline showing that the core content can be covered in a half day (approximately 3 hours, plus breaks). In exceptional cases, full-day tutorials may be supported as well. And workshop proposals must include: * the intended length and format of the workshop (minimum half-day; maximum one and a half days); * a proposed budget (as DH workshops are expected to be self-financing); * and, if the workshop is to have its own CFP, a deadline and date for notification of acceptances, and a list of individuals who have agreed to be part of the workshop's program committee. III. Information about the Conference Venue and Theme DH 2013 ("Freedom to Explore") will take place in Lincoln, Nebraska, a capitol city of 258,000 people on the Great Plains of the United States. Lincoln is known for its artistic treasures, live music scene, fabulous trails, and friendly Midwestern attitude. It is also the home of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, chartered in 1869 as both a land-grant and a research university. UNL's approximately 25,000 students come from about 120 different countries. Among its many degree offerings is an interdisciplinary graduate certificate in digital humanities. The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities is this year’s local organizer: http://cdrh.unl.edu IV. Bursaries for young scholars The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations will offer a limited number of bursaries for early-career scholars presenting at the conference. Application guidelines will appear on the ADHO website later this year: http://www.digitalhumanities.org V. International Program Committee Craig Bellamy (ACH) John Bradley (ALLC) Paul Caton (ACH) Carolyn Guertain (CSDH/SCHN) Ian Johnson (aaDH) Bethany Nowviskie (ACH, chair) Sarah Potvin (cN) Jon Saklofske (CSDH/SCHN) Sydney Shep (aaDH) Melissa Terras (ALLC, vice-chair) Tomoji Tabata (ALLC) Deb Verhoeven (aaDH) Ethan Watrall (cN) [Please circulate widely!] _________________________________________ Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 7 04:40:29 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 BD2A028FE38; Fri, 7 Sep 2012 04:40:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8DAE028FE20; Fri, 7 Sep 2012 04:40:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120907044027.8DAE028FE20@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 04:40:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.282 job at Brown X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 282. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:04:07 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: job at Brown > Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 15:55:00 -0400 > From: Mylonas, Elli The Center for Computation and Visualization at Brown University (http://www.brown.edu/Departments/CCV/) has an opening for an Application Scientist, with an emphasis on social sciences and humanities, working on projects that include high performance computing, visualization, and statistical approaches to big datasets, among other things. Although the humanities are only a partial focus of this position, there is a vibrant DH community at Brown which would welcome a new colleague. The official description follows: The Application Scientist Specialist is responsible for the collaborative support of targeted sciences research projects, preferably with an emphasis on applications in the humanities and social sciences. The incumbent will provide advice and support to researchers on the proper methodology to conduct data analysis, synthesis, modeling and visualization; will establish research collaborations involving statistical programming, literature reviews and perform analyses; will assist researchers in developing grant applications including protocol/research design; will assist in preparation of manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals; will establish and maintain collaborations with other statistical oriented centers and will support applications used for graphical representations of data and information visualization; will work with CCV's technical staff, graduate student Technology Assistants, and part-time undergrads, to contribute in the provision of timely and effective user support in a fast-paced, modern academic high-performance computing facility. Minimum Qualifications: - A master degree in the social sciences or related field with a minimum of three years of experience and a strong methodological/analytical background or a combination of education and experience - Quantitative, mathematical and statistical skills required for explorative data mining - Experience in research protocol development, data management and analysis - Strong oral and written communication skills - Applications support, and user support experience, including the ability to communicate technical information clearly to individuals with different levels of technical knowledge. - Ability to work independently, managing tasks, projects, prioritization, timelines and goals - Expertise in the use of major statistical and mathematical applications such as R, SAS, Matlab, and Mathematica. Preferred Qualifications: - Ph.D in the Social Sciences or related field - Moderate to advanced programming experience in C, C++, Python or Perl. - Expertise in the UNIX operating system. - Knowledge of parallel computing and/or cloud computing techniques. - Experience or desire to work in an academic setting. - Graphics and Visualization expertise - Experience with spatial analysis For more information, and to apply, see: http://careers.brown.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=118862 Please disseminate. --elli [Elli Mylonas Center for Digital Scholarship University Library Brown University library.brown.edu/cds] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 7 04:41:40 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 06A9228FF11; Fri, 7 Sep 2012 04:41:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F320428FEFF; Fri, 7 Sep 2012 04:41:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120907044137.F320428FEFF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 04:41:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.283 best practices for facsimile reprints? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 283. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:04:39 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Best practices for facsimile reprints [Please direct any replies to the sender as well as to Humanist. --WM] > Subject: [DHSI] Best practices for facsimile reprints > Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 18:59:20 +0100 > From: Joe Easterly Hi, At SUNY Geneseo we're looking into digitizing and reprinting public-domain books from the 19th century, for distribution online and through POD sources such as Amazon CreateSpace. Do you know of any institutions who have pursued similar projects? I'm interested in learning about their workflows, or any best practices they may have developed for facsimile reprints. many thanks, -- Joe Easterly Electronic Resources & Digital Scholarship Librarian SUNY Geneseo 115B Milne Library 1 College Circle Geneseo, NY 14454 o: 585-245-5127 c: 716-650-0234 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 7 04:43:08 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 40B0B28FF88; Fri, 7 Sep 2012 04:43:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5306F28FF78; Fri, 7 Sep 2012 04:43:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120907044306.5306F28FF78@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 04:43:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.284 publications: book on digital humanities; cinema & seeing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 284. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "James O'Sullivan" (69) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.265 new book on digital humanities: a pdf [2] From: "Glimpse Journal" (47) Subject: GLIMPSE Issue #9, CINEMA, now available --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 18:22:34 +0100 From: "James O'Sullivan" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.265 new book on digital humanities: a pdf In-Reply-To: <20120831063944.71A2428C435@woodward.joyent.us> As Dr Fraser correctly points out, this is available in PDF format on my site: http://josullivan.org/digital-projects/digital-arts-humanities-scholarly-reflections/ The project was something of an "experiment" in electronic publishing and editing for myself, with all of the essays offering reflections rather than addressing research questions, but I think it's a worthwhile read in terms of considering how young scholars in the discipline view their respective fields. Sincerest thanks to Professor Prescott for offering us a very stimulating foreword without any hesitation whatsoever, particularly as he had a few broken bones at the time! It meant a lot to the group that a scholar of his standing was willing to share his limited time with our modest little side-project. As Dr Fraser also pointed out, anything on my site is released under the Creative Commons, so if there is anything within the collection that you feel is of value, feel free to use it as you please. All the very best, James On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 265. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:55:21 +0100 > From: Michael Fraser > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.261 new book on digital humanities > In-Reply-To: <20120830055540.F1A7928AB6A@woodward.joyent.us> > > On 30/08/12 06:55, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 08:52:08 +0100 > > From: Andrew Prescott > > Subject: New iBook > > > > The doctoral students in the Digital Arts and Humanities programme at > > University College Cork have produced a collective iBook, entitled > > Digital Arts and Humanities: Scholarly Reflections. The good news is > > that its free; the bad news is that it can only be read on an iPad. > > Free as in glass-specific-beer but not as in speech, eh? > > Actually, there is a PDF version available via James O'Sullivan's blog > > http://josullivan.org/digital-projects/digital-arts-humanities-scholarly-reflections/ > (and I would also note his statement, "Content on this site is licensed > under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported > License"). > > Mike > > -- > Dr Michael Fraser > Head of Infrastructure Systems and Services, > IT Services, University of Oxford > > Technical Coordinator, > Student Systems Programme -- *James O'Sullivan * @jamescosullivan http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan ** Web: josullivan.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/jamescosullivan LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan http://www.linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan Facebook: http://facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan http://www.facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan New Binary Press: http://newbinarypress.com/ Submit to *The Weary Blues*: http://thewearyblues.org/submit.html --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:06:34 -0700 From: "Glimpse Journal" Subject: GLIMPSE Issue #9, CINEMA, now available In-Reply-To: <20120831063944.71A2428C435@woodward.joyent.us> [Please forward as desired. 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Beautiful and original, GLIMPSE is an excellent choice for academic and public libraries..." - Library Journal, December 2010 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 7 04:43:52 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 1837328FFC9; Fri, 7 Sep 2012 04:43:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 09B8428FFBE; Fri, 7 Sep 2012 04:43:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120907044351.09B8428FFBE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 04:43:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.285 events: preservation & archiving X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 285. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 08:59:03 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Conferences Dear Willard, Details of the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group conference in Dublin 17-19 October 2012 are available here: http://www.preservationandarchivingsig.org/events/2012/PASIGDublin2012.html 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 Sat Sep 8 07:34:53 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 43DF128CD65; Sat, 8 Sep 2012 07:34:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 46ACF28C414; Sat, 8 Sep 2012 07:34:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120908073452.46ACF28C414@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 07:34:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.286 computing and modernity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 286. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 10:29:06 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.278 computing and modernity In-Reply-To: <20120906052130.28FF9286CE3@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I have been somewhat puzzling, maundering over the Berg remark: "implementation (whether silicon or carbon based) [is] forcing “us” to reconsider whether there can ever be reading that is not also writing." And your own question that follows on Berg: "The difference I am trying to get at is that between changing (present participle) and changed (past participle). And in his modernity the relationship between the constant changing, choosing and being imperiled and the events and inventions often assigned as causes is a complex network of feedback and feed-forward." Yours seems to accept the Berg statement, and his I think is not fundamental in any sense, but I think captive to the Derridarean [mis]understandings that have made "Critical Theory" a snakepit of swarming jargon and cliche for several decades in the Anglo-Saxon world that hasn't a clear grasp of the French mode[s] of *discourse.* I think Berg has it topsy-turvy. To say reading is writing is just that, topsy-turvy. Writing, from the first, is the tool [or instrumentality, if you like] in the ME and China, of recording a version of speech. Earlier one has to try to decipher or read the earliest cave paintings. We cannot hear whether they are records, say, of the hunt, or imprecations/invocations for the next hunt. The order, from the first is, then: speech, writing, reading. I would suppose therefore that the matters of digitization are all to be subsumed under writing, and writing offers systems and modes of marks to be read by whoever runs, and whatever silicon-based algorithms "read." Jascha Kessler On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 278. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 18:56:14 +0200 > From: Milos Rankovic > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.275 computing and modernity? > In-Reply-To: <20120905063743.9C39228DC01@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Dear Willard, > > Of course, “we have stepped through” so many doors in the last century and > each time it was a different “we” that did the overstepping… Turing himself > opened several doors, none of which “we” seem to have resisted. On the one > hand, his nail in the Russell & Whitehead’s metaphysical coffin was more > difficult to ignore than Gödel’s. On the other, his computing machines were > easily hijacked by the confusion of digital with ontological. Different > academic communities at different times and at different points on the > globe took their positions along these two tangents. > > Soon after Gödel’s and Turing’s seminal contributions, biological > inheritance, too, turned out to be digital, confusing the issue ever more. > Then Derrida spotted this confusion before biologists did (in the very > opening pages of his Of Grammatology). Recently discovered complexities in > the mechanics of gene “expression” as well as the role of the (inherited) > environment in development are already forcing the ground up revisions of > the unit theory of inheritance, featuring instead metaphors, such as Cycles > of Contingency (ed. Oyama, Griffiths and Gray), that fit rather well with > Derrida’s writing on iterability. > > There are likewise parallel histories of the computational intuitions > about the mind with the analogous confusion of the distributed with the > fragmented. Here Donald Hebb played Derrida in the area of neuropsychology > with his dual-trace memory (only two decades before Derrida’s dual trace, > i.e. active/passive, force/ground). This work led to computer simulations > of neural networks since Turing never published his own pioneering work on > connectionist AI (“Intelligent Machinery”, 1948). Elsewhere, however, the > naive interpretations of Turing machines led to the conception of memory as > storage. As with biological memory, thankfully, the increasingly > conspicuous complexities of implementation (whether silicon or carbon > based) are forcing “us” to reconsider whether there can ever be reading > that is not also writing. > > In all, there are conceptions of the machinery that seem at home in the > Giddens’ world and then there are those that do not. Any > sociological/cultural-analytic account must therefore take pains in > describing the “we” that both did and did not step over the threshold > (which reminds me of Schrödinger’s 1935 cat and the parallel histories of > ToE). > > milos > Bergen > > On 5 Sep 2012, at 08:37, Humanist Discussion Group < > willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 275. > > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > > > > > Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:34:32 +0100 > > From: Willard McCarty > > Subject: computing and the conditions of modernity > > > > In Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age > > (Polity, 1991), Anthony Giddens describes the conditions of living as we > > do now, in what Ulrich Beck calls a "risk society", with emphasis on the > > constant flux of individual identity. He mentions the notion of the > > postmodern but argues that its supposedly distinguishing features (esp > > fragmentation) do not distinguish it from the modernity he discusses. > > > > I find Giddens' analysis appealing because -- I am struggling to get > > this right -- he sets us and our doings within a condition of flux, > > choice and peril (i.e. modernity) rather than posits a great cultural > > shift from one state to another (i.e. from the modern to the > > postmodern). The difference I am trying to get at is that between > > changing (present participle) and changed (past participle). And in his > > modernity the relationship between the constant changing, choosing and > > being imperiled and the events and inventions often assigned as causes > > is a complex network of feedback and feed-forward. > > > > Giddens does not mention computing nor related technologies, and that > > brings me to my question: does anyone here know of literature that > > centres on computing from such a sociological/cultural-analytic > > perspective *without positing that because of computing or more or less > > simultaneously with its invention and then development in hardware (i.e. > > Turing 1936 to Turing 1950 approximately) we have stepped through a door > > into a new age*? > > > > Of course digital computing can be traced back to specific inventions, > > publications and so on. But why (and how!), I wonder, does the machinery > > we have seem so much at home in the world Giddens describes? > > > > 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 Sat Sep 8 07:35:44 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 C75BE28D183; Sat, 8 Sep 2012 07:35:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CF4BB28CDF3; Sat, 8 Sep 2012 07:35:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120908073543.CF4BB28CDF3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 07:35:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.287 jobs: research assistant at Georgia X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 287. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 21:37:12 +0000 From: Bill Kretzschmar Subject: Research Assistantship in Georgia Department: Linguistic Atlas Project, Department of English, University of Georgia Web Address: http://www.lap.uga.edu, www.english.uga.edu Level: PhD Duties: Research Specialty Areas: English Language; Language Variation; Digital Humanities Description: PhD Research Assistantship on the Linguistic Atlas Project (LAP) The LAP Research Assistantship (RA) is a training position: the successful candidate will be involved for 16 hours per week during the academic year in the daily operation of the LAP under the supervision of Professor Bill Kretzschmar, as part of the LAP collaborative research team. Tasks include archival management of historical survey materials in text and audio form, presentation of materials on the Web, and analysis of materials. All of these activities have strong digital components, so the successful candidate should have some experience and be comfortable with making Web sites, with basic scripting for management of files and analysis of language data, and with the use of common software for language study. The LAP RA will be expected to write a dissertation on some aspect of the LAP (e.g. field work, computing/GIS, complex systems, variationist analysis) under the direction of Professor Kretzschmar. The RA will be paid at the standard University of Georgia rate at the PhD level (currently $15,400 for the academic year), plus tuition remission. Additional funding for summer hours may be available depending on grant funding. The RA is renewable annually for up to five years, given acceptable work performance at the LAP and progress towards degree. For the RA starting in mid-August 2013, the deadline for applications to the Graduate Program is December 1, 2012. Candidates must apply to and be accepted into the PhD program in English at the University of Georgia. Admissions are highly competitive; requirements for application and admission are available at http://www.english.uga.edu/grad/admission.html. Students with an MA and students direct from the BA will both be considered. Candidates should discuss their interest in the LAP RA in the Personal Statement section of the application. Final offer of the LAP RA will be made by Professor Kretzschmar, and this can take place only after admission into the PhD program in English has been granted. PhD candidates in English are required to take coursework before the comprehensive exam (generally 27 hours, nine courses, after the MA), and will then conduct research towards the dissertation. Programs of study are quite flexible in English so candidates can expect to follow their interests; however, the comprehensive exam will include at least one area of English literature as well as topics in English language and linguistics. Prospective applicants should get in touch with Professor Bill Kretzschmar (kretzsch@uga.edu) to answer any questions and to determine the suitability of the applicant as a candidate for the RA. There is no special application for the RA beyond correspondence with Professor Kretzschmar and application to the PhD program in English. Complete information about the application process to the university and the English Department is available at http://www.english.uga.edu/grad/admission.html. Please note: the deadline for receipt of complete applications for the 2013-14 academic year is December 1, 2012. ------------------ Bill Kretzschmar Harry and Jane Willson Professor in Humanities Dept of English, Park 317, Univ of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 Tel: 706-542-2246; www.lap.uga.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 8 07:40:59 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 1376928D67A; Sat, 8 Sep 2012 07:40:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ECBD228D669; Sat, 8 Sep 2012 07:40:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120908074056.ECBD228D669@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 07:40:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.288 events: classics; 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. 288. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Andrew Prescott (29) Subject: VAST 2012: The 12th International Symposiumon Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Brighton, UK,19- 21 November 2012 [2] From: Katherine Walter (36) Subject: DCA Conference 2013 Call for Papers [3] From: Matteo Romanello (84) Subject: cfp: Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 10:16:00 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: VAST 2012: The 12th International Symposiumon Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Brighton, UK,19-21 November 2012 In-Reply-To: <8205bb10-e6ee-4278-b77a-d51bd98af5af@PORRIMA.university.brighton.ac.uk> *VAST 2012: T**he 12th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage*** *Brighton, UK, 19-21 November 2012* ** Digital technology has the potential to influence every aspect of the cultural heritage environment. Archaeologists, heritage professionals and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) experts, often collaborate, but many unsolved problems remain. The goal of VAST 2012 is to build on this open dialogue and explore the entire pipeline of ICT in heritage from research to exploitation. The conference not only focuses on the development of innovative solutions, but will investigate the exploitation of computer science research by the heritage community. The organising committee is seeking papers in the following areas: *Data acquisition and processing; metadata handling; presentation: practitioners’ experience; and the economics of digital heritage*. Other relevant works concerning the application of ICT to heritage are also welcome. *_Deadline for papers: 23 September 2012_* http://www.vast2012.org http://www.3d-coform.eu Corinna Hattersley-Mitchell PA/Administrative Assistant to Prof David Arnold Tel: (01273 64)2468 Cultural Informatics Research Group W108 Watts Building University of Brighton Brighton BN2 4GJ UK --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 13:03:59 +0000 From: Katherine Walter Subject: DCA Conference 2013 Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <5A0CAB50-FC8C-443B-BD98-DDCB09A36EC3@unl.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS Word, Space, Time: Digital Perspectives on the Classical World An interdisciplinary conference organized by the Digital Classics Association University at Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo, NY 14261, USA April 5 - 6, 2013 Archaeological GIS, digital historical mapping, literary text mining, and other computational techniques are increasingly shaping how we understand classical antiquity. Digital methods are breaking down sub-disciplinary barriers, allowing literary scholars to more easily explore epigraphical inscriptions, archaeologists to place their findings on digital historical maps, and philosophers to explore style and argument with sophisticated search techniques. Digital tools also offer new ways to explain aspects of classical antiquity in the classroom and to the public at large. The aim of the inaugural Digital Classics Association (DCA) conference is to provide a survey of current approaches to digital methods of research, teaching, and outreach across classical sub-disciplines, with the goals of further opening inter-disciplinary perspectives and establishing common objectives for digital research and education. Abstracts are invited from professional and independent scholars, graduate students, educators, and digital developers who engage with emerging digital methods in any area of classical antiquity. Abstract submitters should indicate whether they wish to present a poster or deliver a paper on a panel. Poster sessions can be on any digital classics topic. Abstracts for panels should indicate which of the following topics they will address: * Historical mapping * Literary and linguistic text mining * Literary criticism and digital methods * Textual corpora and conventions * Visualizing the built environment and lived space (including GIS applications) Authors of abstracts should show innovation in one or more of the following areas: digital methods bearing on new or existing research questions, digital theory, or education / outreach. Abstracts are also invited for 1-hour hands-on workshops on any topic. Possibilities include, but are not limited to: GIS methods, linguistic graphing with R, linked data, literary topic modeling, and spatial visualization. Presenters can give a workshop in addition to a paper or poster, in which case two abstracts should be submitted. Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words via the conference websitehttp://classics.buffalo.edu/events/dcaconference/, which also contains further information about the conference. The abstract receipt deadline is December 14, 2012. The deadline for conference registration is February 15, 2013. Confirmed speakers include: * Monica Berti (Tufts University, University of Rome Tor Vergata) * Marco Büchler (University of Leipzig; eTRACES) * Neil Coffee (University at Buffalo, SUNY; Tesserae Project) * Gregory Crane (Tufts University; Perseus) * Tom Elliott (New York University; Epidoc, Pleiades Project) * Matthew L. Jockers (University of Nebraska Lincoln; Stanford Literary Lab) * Walter Scheidel (Stanford University; Orbis) * Rebecca Schindler (DePauw University; Collaboratory for GIS and Mediterranean Archaeology) Contact: dca2013@buffalo.edu Katherine L. Walter Co-Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities Professor and Chair, Digital Initiatives & Special Collections University of Nebraska-Lincoln 319 Love Library Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 USA kwalter1@unl.edu 402-472-3939 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 15:59:06 +0200 From: Matteo Romanello Subject: cfp: Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin In-Reply-To: <5A0CAB50-FC8C-443B-BD98-DDCB09A36EC3@unl.edu> Dear colleagues, Just a kind reminder that the abstract submission deadline for the Call for Papers for the Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin is still open until midnight MET on Friday, September 14, 2012. Please refer to the original call below for details and the website: http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/cfp . We would be grateful if you would forward this reminder to interested students and colleagues. We would also like to announce that Dr Gabriel Bodard (King’s College London) will give the keynote talk with title “A View on Digital Classics Collaboration: from a cacophony of epigraphic databases to a citizens' web of inscriptions” on Tuesday, October 23 at 17:00 in the TOPOI Building Dahlem. Best wishes, Matteo Romanello on the behalf of the Organising Committee =============================================== Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin 2012/2013: Call for Papers =============================================== (German version below) We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the newly established Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin [1], which will run for the first time in the Winter Term 2012. This initiative, inspired by and connected to London’s Digital Classicist Work in Progress Seminar [2], is organised in association with the German Archaeological Institute and the Excellence Cluster TOPOI. We invite submissions on research which employ digital methods, resources or technologies in an innovative way in order to enable increased understanding of the ancient world at large. Abstracts, either in English or in German, of 300-500 words max. (bibliographic references excluded) should be uploaded by midnight MET on September 14, 2012 using the special submission form [3]. Themes may include digital text, linguistics technology, image processing and visualisation, linked data and semantic web, open access, spatial and network analysis, serious gaming and any other digital or quantitative methods. We welcome seminar proposals addressing the application of these methods to individual projects, and particularly contributions which show how the digital component can lead to crossing disciplinary boundaries and answer new research questions. Seminar content should be of interest both to classicists, ancient historians or archaeologists, as well as information scientists and digital humanists, with an academic research agenda relevant to at least one of these fields. Seminars will run fortnightly on Tuesday evenings (17:00-18:30) starting in October 2012 in the TOPOI Building Dahlem [4], hosted by the Excellence Cluster TOPOI. The full programme will be finalised and announced in late September. It is planned to grant an allowance to speakers for travelling and accommodation costs. Further details will be available once the program is finalised. [1] http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/[2] http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/ [3] http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/submit [4] http://www.topoi.org/buildings/ =============================================== Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin 2012/2013: Call for Papers =============================================== Das neu gegründete Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin [1], das erstmals im Wintersemester 2012/13 stattfinden wird, freut sich den Call for Papers bekannt zu geben. Diese Seminarreihe orientiert sich an dem Digital Classicist Work in Progress Seminar [2] in London und wird unter anderem von dem Deutschen Archäologischen Institut und dem Excellenzcluster TOPOI und in Berlin veranstaltet. Sie sind herzlich dazu eingeladen, Vorschläge zu Beiträgen einzureichen, welche die innovative Anwendung moderner digitaler Methoden, Ressourcen und Techniken in den Altertumswissenschaften thematisieren. Vorschläge in deutscher oder englischer Sprache im Umfang von 300-500 Wörtern (ohne bibliographische Angaben) können bis 14. September 2012 über die unten genannte Webseite hochgeladen werden [3]. Die Vorträge können folgende Themenbereich adressieren: digitale Texte, sprachwissenschaftliche Technologien, Bildverarbeitung und Visualisierung, Linked Data und Semantic Web, Open Access, Raum- und Netzwerk-Analyse und andere digitale oder statistische Methoden. Besonders werden dabei Vorschläge begrüßet, aus denen hervorgeht, wie dank der Anwendung digitaler Methoden fachübergreifende Fragen beantwortet werden können. Die im Seminar präsentierten Inhalten sollten sowohl Philologen, Historiker und Archäologen als auch Informationswissenschaftler und andere Geisteswissenschaftler mit Interesse an den genannten Fragestellungen ansprechen. Die Seminare werden alle 14 Tage dienstagabends um 17.00 - 18.30 Uhr im Hörsaal des TOPOI-Hauses in Berlin-Dahlem stattfinden [4]. Das vollständige Programm wird Ende September bekannt gegeben. Es ist geplant, Vortragende bei der Finanzierung der Reise- und Unterkunftskosten zu unterstützen. Nähere Details hierzu werden bei Veröffentlichung des Programm mitgeteilt. [1] http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/ [2] http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/ [3] http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/submit [4] http://www.topoi.org/buildings/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Sep 9 08:23:04 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 3315828C7CB; Sun, 9 Sep 2012 08:23:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8B9A828BA76; Sun, 9 Sep 2012 08:23:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120909082301.8B9A828BA76@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 08:23:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.289 DNA as storage medium X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 289. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 11:57:10 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: DNA coding for book digitisation Dear Willard This story I think will certainly be of interest to subscribers to Humanist. 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 ------ Book written in DNA code Scientists who encoded the book say it could soon be cheaper to store information in DNA than in conventional digital devices Guardian, Thursday 16 August 2012 19.45 BST http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/16/book-written-dna-code?INTCMP=SRCH Scientists have for the first time used DNA to encode the contents of a book. At 53,000 words, and including 11 images and a computer program, it is the largest amount of data yet stored artificially using the genetic material. The researchers claim that the cost of DNA coding is dropping so quickly that within five to 10 years it could be cheaper to store information using this method than in conventional digital devices. Deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA – the chemical that stores genetic instructions in almost all known organisms – has an impressive data capacity. One gram can store up to 455bn gigabytes: the contents of more than 100bn DVDs, making it the ultimate in compact storage media. A three-strong team led by Professor George Church of Harvard Medical School has now demonstrated that the technology to store data in DNA, while still slow, is becoming more practical. They report in the journal Science that the 5.27 megabit collection of data they stored is more than 600 times bigger than the largest dataset previously encoded this way. Writing the data to DNA took several days. "This is currently something for archival storage," explained co-author Dr Sriram Kosuri of Harvard's Wyss Institute, "but the timing is continually improving." DNA has numerous advantages over traditional digital storage media. It can be easily copied, and is often still readable after thousands of years in non-ideal conditions. Unlike ever-changing electronic storage formats such as magnetic tape and DVDs, the fundamental techniques required to read and write DNA information are as old as life on Earth. The researchers, who have filed a provisional patent application covering the idea, used off-the-shelf components to demonstrate their technique. To maximise the reliability of their method, and keep costs down, they avoided the need to create very long sequences of code – something that is much more expensive than creating lots of short chunks of DNA. The data was split into fragments that could be written very reliably, and was accompanied by an address book listing where to find each code section. Digital data is traditionally stored as binary code: ones and zeros. Although DNA offers the ability to use four "numbers": A, C, G and T, to minimise errors Church's team decided to stick with binary encoding, with A and C both indicating zero, and G and T representing one. The sequence of the artificial DNA was built up letter by letter using existing methods with the string of As, Cs, Ts and Gs coding for the letters of the book. The team developed a system in which an inkjet printer embeds short fragments of that artificially synthesised DNA onto a glass chip. Each DNA fragment also contains a digital address code that denotes its location within the original file. The fragments on the chip can later be "read" using standard techniques of the sort used to decipher the sequence of ancient DNA found in archeological material. A computer can then reassemble the original file in the right order using the address codes. The book – an HTML draft of a volume co-authored by the team leader – was written to the DNA with images embedded to demonstrate the storage medium's versatility. DNA is such a dense storage system because it is three-dimensional. Other advanced storage media, including experimental ones such as positioning individual atoms on a surface, are essentially confined to two dimensions. The work did not involve living organisms, which would have introduced unnecessary complications and some risks. The biological function of a cell could be affected and portions of DNA not used by the cell could be removed or mutated. "If the goal is information storage, there's no need to use a cell," said Kosuri. The data cannot be overwritten but, given the storage capacity, that is seen as a minor issue. The exercise was not completely error-free, but of the 5.27m bits stored, only 10 were found to be incorrect. The team suggests common error-checking techniques could be implemented in future, including multiple copies of the same information so mistakes can be easily identified. The costs of DNA-handling tools are not yet competitive enough to make this a large-scale storage medium. But the costs and scale of the tools are dropping much more quickly than their electronic equivalents. For example, handheld DNA sequencers are becoming available, which the authors suggest should greatly simplify information stored in DNA. Kosuri foresees this revolution in DNA technologies continuing. "We may hit a wall, but there's no fundamental reason why it shouldn't continue." _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Sep 9 08:23:24 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 5392D28CA0F; Sun, 9 Sep 2012 08:23:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B02C428C7DF; Sun, 9 Sep 2012 08:23:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120909082322.B02C428C7DF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 08:23:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.290 events: complex systems in archaeology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 290. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 06:46:44 +0100 From: Tom Brughmans Subject: CFP CAA2013: 'Complex systems simulation in archaeology' Complex systems simulation in archaeology For the 2013 Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference in Perth we will organise a session entitled 'Complex systems simulation in archaeology'. The session invites innovative and critical applications in analytical modelling, ABM, network analysis and other methods performed in a complexity science approach. In addition to the session we will hold a workshop on complex systems and ABM in archaeology. Please find the session and workshop abstracts below this message. CAA 2013 will take place in Perth, Australia 25-28 March 2013: http://www.caa2013.org/drupal/papers To submit a paper please follow this link:https://caaconference.org/ocs . The session code is S9. Submissions should have a 100 word short abstract and an extended abstract of up to 500 words. The deadline for abstracts is 10th October 2012 (UTC). Best wishes, Tom, Iza, Carolin and Eugene Iza Romanowska (Institute for Complex Systems Simulation, University of Southampton)Tom Brughmans (Archaeological Computing Research Group, University of Southampton) Carolin Vegvari (Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge) Eugene Ch'ng (IBM Visual and Spatial Technology Centre, University of Birmingham) --- S9: Complex systems simulation in archaeology Chairs: I. Romanowska, T. Brughmans Discussants: E. Ch'ng, C. Vegvari Format: Paper presentation (LP) A complex system is “a system in which large networks of components with no central control and simple rules of operation give rise to complex collective behaviour, sophisticated information processing, and adaptation via learning or evolution.” Mitchell 2009: 14. Complexity has been proclaimed as a new paradigm shift in science almost half a century ago. It developed as a response to the reductionist approach of René Descartes and the idea of a „clockwork universe‟ that dominated past thinking for many centuries. Complexity brings a fresh alternative to this mechanistic approach. Complex Systems exist in every hierarchy of our world, from the molecular, to individual organisms, and from community to the global environment. This is why researchers in many disciplines, including archaeology, found particularly appealing the idea that global patterns can emerge in the absence of central control through interaction between local elements governed by simple rules (Kohler 2012). As a result, the unifying phrase „the whole is greater than the sum of its parts‟ (Aristotle, Metaphysica 10f-1045a) became the common ground for scholars in many disciplines. Due to the complex nature of interactions, the study of complex systems requires computational tools such as equation-based modelling, agent-based modelling (ABM) and complex network analysis. In recent years the number of archaeological applications of complex systems simulation has increased significantly, not in the least due to a wider availability of computing power and user-friendly software alternatives. The real strength of these tools lies in their ability to explore hypothetical processes that give rise to archaeologically attested structures. They require archaeological assumptions to be made explicit and very often force researchers to present them in quantifiable form. For example, vague concepts such as „social coherence‟, „connectivity‟ or even seemingly explicit „dispersal rates‟, often have to be given numeric values if they are to be integrated into computational models. Computational tools also allow for testing alternative hypotheses by creating „virtual labs‟ in which archaeologists can test and eliminate models which, although superficially logical, are not plausible. The main contribution that complexity science perspectives have to offer archaeology is the wide set of modelling and analytical approaches which recognise the actions of individual agents who collectively and continually create new cultural properties. Indeed, it has been argued that a complexity science perspective incorporates the advantages of culture historical, processual and post-processual paradigms in archaeology (Bentley and Maschner 2003; Bintliff 2008). Quantifiable complex systems simulations and mathematical modelling can provide a way to bridge the gap between the reductionist approach and the constructionist study of the related whole (Bentley and Maschner 2003). This session aims to reflect upon and build on the recent surge of complex systems simulation applications in archaeology. Innovative and critical applications in analytical modelling, ABM, network analysis and other methods performed in a complexity science approach are welcomed. We hope this session will spark creative and insightful discussion on the potential and limitations of complexity science, possible applications, tools as well as its theoretical implications. --- W1: Complex Systems and Agent-Based Modelling in Archaeology Chairs: E. Ch'ng, C. Vegvari Discussants: I. Romanowska, T. Brughmans Modelling in various forms has always been an integral part of archaeology. In the broadest sense, archaeology is the study of human activities in the past, and a model is a simplified representation of reality. As a map is a useful abstract of the physical world that allows us to see aspects of the world we chose to, so a computational model distils reality into a few key features, leaving out unnecessary details so as to let us see connections. Human societies in their environmental context can be considered as complex systems. Complex systems are systems with many interacting parts, they are found in every hierarchy of the universe, from the molecular level to large planetary systems within which life and humanity with its cultural developments occur. Formal modelling can help archaeologists to identify the relationships between elements within a complex socio-environmental system in that particular hierarchy. Simulating large populations and non-linear interactions are computationally expensive. In recent years, however, the introduction of new mathematical techniques, rapid advances in computation, and modelling tools has greatly enhanced the potential of complex systems analysis in archaeology. Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) is one of these new methods and has become highly popular with archaeologists. In Agent-Based Modelling, human individuals in ancient societies are modelled as individual agents. The interaction of agents with each other and with their environment can give rise to emergent properties and self-organisation at the macro level – the distribution of wealth within a society, the forming of cohesive groups, population movements in climate change, the development of culture, and the evolution of landscape use are among the examples. Thus, the application of Agent-Based Models to hypothesis testing in archaeology becomes part of the question. The ability to construct various models and run hundreds of simulation in order to see the general developmental trend can provide us with new knowledge impossible in traditional approaches. Another advantage of agent-based models over other mathematical methods is that they can easily model, or capture heterogeneity within these systems, such as the different characteristics (personalities, gender, age, size, etc), preferences (coastal, in-land, food, fashion), and dynamics (microstates of position and orientation). We would like to invite archaeologists new to complex systems and Agent-Based Modelling for an introductory workshop on Complex Systems and Agent-Based Modelling in archaeology. The workshop introduces the concept of Complexity in archaeology, drawing relationships between Information, Computation and Complexity. The practicality of the workshop leads beginners in building simple agent- based models and provides a means to build more complex simulations after. Participants knowledgeable in Complexity wishing to gain insights on real-world applications of Complexity will benefit from this workshop. Participants will get the opportunity to experiment with simple models and draw conclusions from analysis of simulations of those models. Programming experience is not required as the workshop leads beginners from the ground up in modelling tools. Tom PhD student Archaeological Computing Research Group University of Southampton http://archaeologicalnetworks.wordpress.com/ 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 Sep 10 05:00:53 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 2ED1328E14D; Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:00:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CF20C28E01C; Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:00:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120910050050.CF20C28E01C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:00:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.291 events: information retrieval X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 291. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 04:03:27 +0100 From: Pavel Serdyukov Subject: Second CfP: 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'13) Second CALL FOR PAPERS/POSTERS/DEMOS 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2013) Moscow, Russia, 24-27 March 2013 http://ecir2013.org/ Updates: - Four weeks to go for full papers---please submit your abstract timely! - Open for submissions at http://www.conftool.pro/ecir2013/ Important dates: - 1 Oct 2012: full paper abstract deadline - 8 Oct 2012: full paper deadline - 22 Oct 2012: posters/demos deadline - 30 Nov 2012: notification of acceptance Call for Papers The conference encourages the submission of high-quality research papers reporting original and innovative research in Information Retrieval. Submissions will be reviewed by experts on the basis of the originality of the work, the validity of the results, chosen methodology, writing quality and the overall contribution to the field of Information Retrieval. We accept not only full-papers, but also poster and demo short papers. Posters should present work in progress or leading-edge work. Demo papers should describe first-hand experiences with research prototype systems. ECIR has traditionally had a strong student focus, and papers whose sole or main author is a postgraduate student or postdoctoral researcher are especially welcome. Papers that demonstrate a high level of research adventure or which break out of the traditional IR paradigms are also particularly welcome. All submissions must be written in English following the LNCS author guidelines and submitted electronically through the conference submission system. Full papers must not exceed 12 pages including references and figures. Poster and Demo papers must not be longer than 4 pages. Accepted papers will have to be presented at the conference. Posters and demonstrations will be presented at a special posters and demonstrations session. All submissions will be refereed. Papers and posters will undergo double-blind peer review, so authors should take reasonable care not identify themselves in their submissions. Demo submissions are not anonymous and should preferably contain a link to an online demo. Full papers, posters and demos submissions in PDF conforming to the LNCS style can be submitted at http://www.conftool.pro/ecir2013/ Topics The Program Chairs invite for the submission of original research papers and posters in all areas of Information Retrieval, including but not limited to: * IR Theory and Formal Models: - Searching, browsing, meta-searching, data fusion, filtering and indexing - Text and content classification, categorisation, clustering - Relevance feedback, query expansion - Topic detection and tracking, novelty detection - Content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, Spam filtering - Personalised, collaborative or user-adaptive IR, recommender systems - Adversarial IR - Privacy in IR - Mobile, Geo and Local Search * Web and Social Media IR: - Link analysis - Query log analysis - Advertising and ad targeting - Spam detection - Authority, Reputation, Ranking - Blog and online-community search - Social Tagging * User aspects: - User modelling, user studies, user interaction in IR systems - Interactive IR, User studies, User models, Task-based IR - Novel user interfaces for IR systems - User interfaces, visualisation and presentation of queries, search results or content - Multimodal aspects * IR system architectures - Distributed and peer to peer IR - Parallel IR - Fusion/Combination - Open, interoperable and flexible - Performance, Scalability, Architectures, Efficiency, Platforms - Compression, performance, optimisation * Content representation and processing - IR for semi-structured documents - IR for semantically annotated collections, semantic search - Meta information and structures, metadata - Query representation, Query reformulation - Text Categorisation and clustering - Text data mining - Opinion mining - Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval - Machine translation for IR - Question answering, Natural language processing for IR, Summarization * Evaluation - Evaluation methods and metrics - Building test collections and metrics - Experimental design - Crowdsourcing for evaluation - User-oriented and user-centred test and evaluation * Multimedia and cross-media IR - Speech retrieval - Image and video retrieval - Digital music, radio and broadcast retrieval * Applications - Digital libraries - Enterprise Search, Intranet search, Desktop search - Mobile IR - Genomic IR, IR for chemical structures, etc. - Medical IR, legal IR, patent search Program Committee co-chairs: - Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) - Stefan Rüger (The Open University, UK) Poster Chair: - Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, USA) Demonstrations Chair: - Emine Yilmaz (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 11 05:26:13 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 5A09228E04E; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:26:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 45A9B28DE1C; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:26:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120911052611.45A9B28DE1C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:26:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.292 nominations for ACH Exec? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 292. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:52:53 +0000 From: Katherine Walter Subject: ACH seeks nominations for Executive Council The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) invites nominations for this year's elections. We are electing three Executive Council members to four-year terms and one to fill a 1-year vacancy, and seek candidates who want to advance the field of digital humanities by helping to run the ACH. ACH officers and Executive Council members form ACH's policies, decide how we will spend funds, and oversee all activities. These include our mentorship program and jobs slams, advocacy work, bursaries for DH training programs, publications like Digital Humanities Quarterly and DH Answers, and our collaborations with ADHO partners in the annual DH conference, along with its prestigious awards and student bursaries. You could be involved in helping ACH programs succeed by nominating yourself to be an active participant in the life of the Association. To be confirmed to the Executive Council, candidates must be members of the ACH. They commit to attending annual council meetings at the DH conference and hold discussions during the rest of the year by email and Skype. Council members are expected to be active in the digital humanities community. But these are not roles reserved to those in senior positions: graduate students have often served on the council, and demonstrated commitment to the organization and to the field counts for more with our membership than job titles. Send nominations to ach-nominations@digitalhumanities.org by September 21st. Please confirm with your nominee that he or she is willing to serve, and provide a brief note of interest and qualifications. A platform statement will also be needed for the ballot but need not be included with the nomination. You are warmly encouraged to nominate yourself, but note that per ACH bylaws each nominee requires two nominations to be considered for the ballot. This year, the committee charged with creating a balanced slate will put forward no more than 20 names The three top vote-getters will be elected to four-year terms. The candidate winning the 1-year slot will be eligible for re-election next year. For more information on the responsibilities and obligations of ACH council members, see http://www.ach.org/constitution#Bylaws Current officers of the ACH are listed at http://www.ach.org/officers Many thanks, ACH Nominations Committee Katherine L. Walter, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Chair Johanna Drucker, UCLA Matt Jockers, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Ernesto Priani, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Ex officio members Bethany Nowviskie, ACH President Stefan Sinclair, ACH Vice President Jarom McDonald, ACH Treasurer _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 11 05:27:15 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 202AE28E0D9; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:27:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 017E628E0C9; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:27:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120911052714.017E628E0C9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:27:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.293 podcast on research; report on digital economy X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 293. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Kevin Gotkin (15) Subject: New Research Podcast: 3620 [2] From: Andrew Prescott (23) Subject: Digital Economy --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:21:27 +0000 From: Kevin Gotkin Subject: New Research Podcast: 3620 The doctoral students of the Annenberg School for Communication announce the launch of a new podcast, 3620. 3620 is a research podcast that aims to: 1) Use audio to remind us why we do what we do as researchers and scholars, 2) Deepen and enrich our work, 3) Tell interesting stories, 4) Explore digital scholarship. The podcast is produced each Monday by graduate students and each episode will be between 10 and 20 minutes long. To get a sense of what we're up to, check out our first episode, "Sound Check." You can visit our site http://podcast.asc.upenn.edu/ , find us on iTunes, or look for us on Facebook. We're eager to hear feedback from you, whether you have thoughts about the episodes or want to propose an idea for a future show. Please email me, Kevin Gotkin, at kgotkin@asc.upenn.edu with comments/questions. -- Kevin Gotkin Ph.D. Student Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania Tel: (551)427-7907 [cid:5AA141A0-BA7A-4F98-9113-D088B7A07AE1] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:19:24 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Digital Economy Dear Willard, One of the major government-funded research programmes in the UK recently has been on the Digital Economy. This programme has been undertaken by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council on behalf of all the research councils in the UK, including the Arts and Humanities Research Council. A detailed study has recently been published on the impact of the programme, which may be of interest not only for the information it provides about the programme but also as a discussion of means by which the effectiveness of digital research programmes can be assessed: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/xrcprogrammes/Digital/review/Pages/default.aspx 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 Tue Sep 11 05:32:40 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 DC73228E5F1; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:32:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0AC1A28E5E1; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:32:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120911053239.0AC1A28E5E1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:32:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.294 events: faceted search; philology; libraries; palaeography X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 294. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Center for Comparative Studies" (3) Subject: 4th Meeting on Digital Philology, Verona 13-15 setptember 2012 [2] From: "Brookes, Stewart" (32) Subject: Registration Opens for DigiPal Symposium... [3] From: Barbara Mackenzie (70) Subject: NFAIS Humanities Roundtable: Library Challenges [4] From: Andrew Prescott (66) Subject: Course: Search Usability - Filters and Facets --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:18:30 +0200 From: "Center for Comparative Studies" Subject: 4th Meeting on Digital Philology, Verona 13-15 setptember 2012 The fourth meeting on Digital Philology Verona 13-15 September 2012 Constitutio textus : Establishing the critical text Program: http://folk.uib.no/hnooh/filologiadigitale/index-EN.html --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:32:05 +0100 From: "Brookes, Stewart" Subject: Registration Opens for DigiPal Symposium... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration Opens for "Digital Approaches to Medieval Script and Image" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DigiPal One-Day Symposium Date: 22nd November 2012 Venue: University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street, W1W 6UW (Room CLG.09) Time: 9.30am-5.30pm The DigiPal team (http://digipal.eu/) at King's College London are delighted to announce that registration is now open for their second symposium. If you haven't pre-reserved a place, you can register by emailing digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk http://kcl.ac.uk/ This year's theme is the implications of the increasing reliance of the scholarly community upon digital images and technologies. Bringing together art historians, palaeographers, medievalists and the Digital Humanities, the symposium will share theoretical approaches and methodologies and, crucially, test prevalent assumptions. ------------------------------- Invited speakers include ------------------------------- Marc Michael Epstein (Vassar College) Catherine Karkov (University of Leeds) Melissa Terras (University College London) Elaine Treharne (Stanford University) ------------------------ Proposing a paper ------------------------ It is still not too late to propose a paper. For details, see http://www.digipal.eu/blogs/news/digipal-cfp/ The deadline for the receipt of submissions is 10.23pm on Friday 14th September 2012 We look forward to hearing from you, Stewart Brookes and Peter Stokes -- DigiPal, taking each day one folio at a time: http://digipal.eu/ Dr Stewart J Brookes Research Associate Digital Resource for Palaeography Department of Digital Humanities King's College London --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:00:38 -0400 From: Barbara Mackenzie Subject: NFAIS Humanities Roundtable: Library Challenges Dear All, REMINDER: The Eleventh Annual NFAIS Humanities Roundtable will be held here in New York on October 1, 2012. The focus will be on library challenges in the humanities. Virtual and onsite attendance will be supported. The program is looking very strong. See the press release below. And note that we will be meeting for a Dutch treat dinner at the end of the day, so do stay for that if you can. http://www.nfais.org/page/370-2012-nfais-humanities-roundtable Best wishes to all, Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie RILM *Library Challenges Are The Focus of Eleventh Annual NFAIS Humanities Roundtable* June 28, 2012 – Philadelphia, PA The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS - www.nfais.org), the premier membership association for organizations that create, organize and facilitate access to trustworthy information, proudly announces this year’s Eleventh Annual NFAIS Humanities Roundtable, *Focus on the Library!* This event will take place on Monday, October 1, 2012 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, centrally located on Fifth Avenue and 34th Street in New York City. In a time of transition for institutions of higher education, the theme of this year’s Roundtable focuses on the needs and challenges of the academic library, the hub of learning and scholarship for their individual institutions. Scholarly organizations, societies, publishers, and aggregators develop the high-value information resources that form a large part of the distinctive portfolio of services such libraries offer to their communities. *Focus on the Library!* is a targeted examination of the needs and concerns of libraries, enabling content providers to better understand how best to deliver the best products and services for scholars, students, and librarians of the humanities. Topics for the day include discussions of discovery of humanities content in the current library environment, information literacy and training of end-users, best practices for both providers and licensors of high-quality content, criteria libraries use to decide which products and services to invest in, and the digital humanities. Confirmed speaker-participants include: - Elliott Shore, Chief Information Officer and Dean of Libraries, Bryn Mawr College - Kendall Crilly, Associate University Librarian, Program Development and Research, Yale University - Amy Lucker, Head Librarian, Stephen Chan Library, New York University - Beth Bidlack, Collection Assessment and Analysis Librarian, Dartmouth University - Matthew Gold, Assistant to the Provost at the CUNY Graduate Center, Project Manager of the CUNY Academic Commons, Co-Director of CUNY’s Digital Humanities Institute Registrations for the Eleventh Annual NFAIS Humanities Roundtable will be available for both virtual and on-site attendance in order to ensure the broadest possible participation by the information community. Additional information regarding the program, registration, and other logistics may be accessed at: http://www.nfais.org/page/370-2012-nfais-humanities-roundtable Location: The Graduate Center of the City University of New York is located at 365 Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, walking distance from both Penn Station and Grand Central Station, and centrally located for those coming from New York area airports. For more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto: jilloneill@nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org. http://www.nfais.org/page/370-2012-nfais-humanities-roundtable -- *Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie* *Editor-in-Chief, Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM)* *Director, Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation* The Graduate Center of The City University of New York** 365 Fifth Avenue • New York, NY 10016 T: 212.817.1991 • F: 212.817.1569 • BMackenzie@rilm.org www.rilm.org • brookcenter.gc.cuny.edu --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:01:18 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Course: Search Usability - Filters and Facets Search Usability - Filters and Facets: Tony Russell-Rose Venue: CILIP Headquarters; Google Map of venue location http://bit.ly/u4qWos Date: Thursday, October 18th 2012, 9.30 - 16.30 Course Outline Faceted search offers tremendous potential for transforming the search experience. It provides a flexible framework that can satisfy a wide variety of user needs, from simple fact retrieval to complex exploratory search. It is now the dominant interaction paradigm for most eCommerce sites and is being increasingly applied to a wide range of enterprise search applications. However, with this power comes a challenge: what kinds of categorisation schemes are effective and how should we use them to support search and navigation? Above all, how can we deliver search applications that address a growing range of user needs without compromising usability? This course will provide an introduction to the basic principles of search usability with a focus on the development of faceted navigation schemes that deliver both search effectiveness and user satisfaction. Participants will: . Explore the fundamental concepts of Human-Centred Design forinformation search and discovery . Learn how to differentiate between various types of search behaviour: known-item, exploratory, lookup, learning, investigation, etc. . Understand the dimensions of search usability and how to apply them to different user contexts . Study the basic principles of faceted classification and how to use them to deliver effective search and navigation experiences The course will include both presentations and group work to enable delegates to analyse, evaluate and improve the effectiveness of search applications within their own organisation. Who should attend Intranet/web managers, information architects, search specialists, developers and managers of search projects, or anyone who either has implemented or is planning to implement a search application and wants to maximise the usability and effectiveness of their investment. Course Presenter The course will be presented by Dr. Tony Russell-Rose, Director of UXLabs, a research and design consultancy specialising in complex search and information access applications. Tony holds a PhD in human-computer interaction, an MSc in cognitive psychology and a first degree in engineering, majoring in human factors. He holds the position of Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Interactive Systems Research, City University, London. Costs (including lunch and refreshments): UKeiG members £160 + VAT at the current rate; others £200 + VAT at the current rate UKeiG has the CILIP Seal of Recognition, which recognises high standards in the content and relevance of training courses. See http://www.cilip.org.uk/qualificationschartership/seal/ for details UKeiG is a Special Interest Group of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE. Registered Charity No. 313014. Visit our web site: http://www.ukeig.org.uk -- 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 Wed Sep 12 04:56:43 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 E372628FEB1; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:56:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B78E628FD9D; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:56:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120912045640.B78E628FD9D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:56:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.295 opinions on e-publishing? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 295. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:48:29 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Futurebook census Futurebook, run by The Bookseller magazine, organises a regular census of current opinion on e-publishing. You can contribute to the 2012 census by completing the survey at the following link: http://bit.ly/PTjvTV 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 Wed Sep 12 04:59:15 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 8968F290970; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:59:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7670729095F; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:59:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120912045913.7670729095F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:59:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.296 events: Liu on digital humanities; archiving; geology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 296. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ralph O'Connor (51) Subject: Call for papers: symposia on GEOLOGY IN ART AND LITERATURE and GEOLOGISTS IN THE FIELD, Manchester iCHSTM, July 2013 [2] From: SMILJANA ANTONIJEVIC (31) Subject: CFP: Personal Digital Archiving 2013 [3] From: Andrew Prescott (42) Subject: Seminar by Alan Liu 19 Sept 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:10:23 +0200 From: Ralph O'Connor Subject: Call for papers: symposia on GEOLOGY IN ART AND LITERATURE and GEOLOGISTS IN THE FIELD, Manchester iCHSTM, July 2013 Call for papers: two symposia on the history of geology, to be held at the ICHSTM Congress in Manchester, 22-28 July 2013. Deadline for submission of abstracts to symposia: 15 October 2012. This has been extended from a previous deadline and is non-negotiable. You will be informed as to whether or not your paper has been accepted by 15 November 2012 at the latest. Due to limited space and the need to ensure a balanced programme around the themes announced, not all papers offered will be accepted, and rejection does not imply any judgment as to quality. Those whose papers are not accepted will still have time to submit their abstracts separately to the general iCHSTM call for papers (deadline 23 November 2012). *Symposium 1) S112 - Geology in Art and Literature * Proposals for 15-minute papers are invited for a symposium on *Geology in Art and Literature*. The symposium is convened by Ralph O’Connor (UK) and Noah Heringman (USA). This symposium will explore the role of art and literature in the production and communication of geological knowledge. ‘Literature’ and ‘art’ are broadly defined: papers will explore both ‘high’ genres (such as fine art and poetry) and genres which are conventionally associated with science communication in which artistic form was no less important (such as scientific treatises and printed illustrations). Papers will discuss figures and representational traditions from around the world, although the main focus will be on the period from the eighteenth century to the present day (in order to achieve a sense of disciplinary focus around geology). The papers will discuss the ways in which knowledge was shaped by the constraints and possibilities of artistic and literary forms or aesthetic demands, the role of art and literature in shaping wider public perceptions of geology, and the ways in which art and literature have represented the work of geological knowledge-production itself. Please submit your abstract of not more than 2500 characters (including spaces) to *Ralph O’Connor*: ralph.j.oconnor@gmail.com *Symposium 2) S113 – Geologists in the Field * Proposals for 15-minute papers are invited for a symposium on *Geologists in the Field*. The symposium is convened by Leucha Veneer (UK) and Martina Kölbl-Ebert (Germany). This symposium will explore the history of geological and geophysical fieldwork, examining the work of individuals, research groups and commercial explorers in all areas of the world, from all periods of history. Papers considering the changing nature and status of fieldwork, innovations in the instruments, techniques and training methods of fieldwork, and the role of fieldwork in the development of geological knowledge and theory are welcome. Papers discussing the relation-ships between fieldwork and collections and museums, or between fieldwork and laboratory-based studies are also welcome, as are papers that relate to any aspect of fieldwork not discussed above, including the importance of geological fieldwork as it relates to any aspect of the history of science, technology and medicine. Please submit your abstract of not more than 2500 characters (including spaces) to *Leucha Veneer *leucha.veneer@manchester.ac.uk * * --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:49:20 -0400 (EDT) From: SMILJANA ANTONIJEVIC Subject: CFP: Personal Digital Archiving 2013 In-Reply-To: <555552603.15470652.1347389313873.JavaMail.root@psu.edu> Call for Papers Personal Digital Archiving 2013 21-22 February 2013 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA http://www.pda2013.info Our vital personal records are becoming digital, from family photographs and personal documents to health and financial information. New capture devices and media types are reshaping our personal and collective memories, and personal collections are growing in size and complexity. The Personal Digital Archiving 2013 Conference welcomes a broad community working to ensure long-term access for personal collections and archives. This year, the conference theme focuses on the relationships between collective and individual action around preserving personal digital content. Companies and cultural heritage institutions steward information that documents the life and times of private individuals. At the same time, individuals manage and “self-archive” content for future use by themselves and their families. Personal Digital Archiving 2013 invites proposals on the full range of topics relevant to personal digital archiving. Presentations might address materials and format challenges including family archives of photographs and home movies, personal health and financial data, scrapbooking, social network posts, genealogy, blogs, email and other correspondence. Presentations might also address themes that unite digital archives, including interface design for archives; institutional practices; community outreach; tools; and funding models. Additionally the program committee encourages proposals exploring the following questions: * What new social norms are emerging around preservation, access and disclosure? * How should libraries, museums and archives help collect personal digital materials? * What are some practical strategies for helping libraries, museums and archives conduct personal archiving outreach to their communities? * What are effective outreach strategies for encouraging individuals to undertake personal digital archiving? * How can we cope with the intersection between personal data and collective or social data that is personal? * What tools and services are needed to better enable self-archiving? What models for user interfaces are most appropriate? * What are viable existing economic models that can support personal archives? What new economic models should we evaluate? * What are the the key issues associated with digital estate planning and “the digital afterlife”? The conference program will include three types of presentations: 20-minute papers, 5-minute lightning talks, and posters (including demos). If you wish to submit an abstract for the conference, please visit: http://www.pda2013.info/conftool Submissions should include: * The title of your project, paper or presentation * For 20-minute paper presentations, a 300-word abstract * For lightning talks and posters, a 150-300 word abstract * A brief biographical sketch or CV (no more than 2 pages) Paper, poster, and lightning talk submissions are due 2 November 2012 === Dr Smiljana Antonijević Penn State University E: sua30@psu.edu C: +1 312 731 1947 W: www.smiljana.org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:26:11 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Seminar by Alan Liu 19 Sept 2012 In-Reply-To: <504F9C2A.9060407@kcl.ac.uk> Professor Alan Liu of the University of California Santa Barbara will give a talk on 'The Meaning of Digital Humanities' in the English Department Seminar Room, King's College London Strand Campus S2.39, on Wednesday 19 September 2012 at 5.15pm. Anyone interested in the digital humanities is welcome. Professor Liu's presentation is an essay in progress, intended to explain the digital humanities and its significance to their larger humanities audience. Professor Liu hopes that his presentation will introduce a discussion on the themes he will be exploring in the completed essay. Alan Liu is a Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has taught since 1988. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1980 and taught in the English Department and British Studies Program at Yale University from 1979-87. His central interests include information culture, new media, literary theory, cultural studies, and British Romantic literature and art. He is the author of Wordsworth: The Sense of History (Stanford Univ. Press, 1989), The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2004), and Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2008). Some of his web projects include: The Voice of the Shuttle, Palinurus: The Academy and the Corporation, The Romantic Chronology (co-edited with Laura Mandell), and The Agrippa Files. He is principal investigator of the University of California's Transliteracies Project, a multi-campus research group on online reading practices and technologies, and founder of the UCSB English Department's curricular and research development project titled Transcriptions: Literary History and the Culture of Information. While he is in London, Professor Liu is also speaking at 'Showing the Arts and Humanities Matter', a one day symposium on Tuesday 18 September at UCL: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ah/4humanities/18thSeptember. -- 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 Wed Sep 12 05:23:11 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 D156B290CEB; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:23:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 526F9290CDC; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:23:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120912052308.526F9290CDC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:23:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.297 social networking in Beowulf, the Iliad & the Ulster Cycle X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 297. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 06:20:37 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: social network analysis A colleague and old friend has alerted me to an article in the NY Times describing the work of two scientists who have applied social-network analysis methods to ancient stories - Beowulf, Iliad, and the Ulster Cycle (Tain Bo Cualinge - Cattle Raid of Cooley). See http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/opinion/sunday/the-social-networks-of-myths.html for more. The original paper, attached, is Pádrig Mac Carron and Ralph Kenna, "Universal Properties of mythological networks", Europhysics Letters [EPL] 99 (2012): 28002 (http://iopscience.iop.org/0295-5075/99/2/28002/pdf/0295-5075_99_2_28002.pdf). See below for the attachment link. The aspect that seems interesting to me is the notion of analyzing the social links between characters, a kind of structural analysis of basic relationships - who is connected to whom - as a general measure of the possible historical nature of the story. The authors compare the epics to Facebook or whatever example of actual social networks. Yours, WM ----- *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1347427243_2012-09-12_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_2192.2.pdf -- 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 Sep 13 06:24:26 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 66F9B28F3D6; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:24:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9A96928F3C5; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:24:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120913062424.9A96928F3C5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:24:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.298 social networking in Beowulf, the Iliad & the Ulster Cycle X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 298. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:07:04 +0200 From: Tom Brughmans Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.297 social networking in Beowulf,the Iliad & the Ulster Cycle In-Reply-To: <20120912052308.526F9290CDC@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, That article sparked a lot of discussion on popular media channels (see Guardian and Scientific American posts below) as well as some multi-disciplinary discussion lists I am part of. This fact alone makes it already an interesting paper. Below I summarise some of the comments I made about this paper on other lists, apologies for cross-posting! I think it is creative to trace networks in ancient sources, and I think that might tell you something about how the story is constructed and the role of characters within the narrative. Maybe. But the characteristics the authors suggest are indicative of real social networks have been identified in other networks as well, like the airport network or the WWW. They are just some properties that are common for many real-world networks. What that structure means is a completely different thing. Maybe the Iliad was just created in a way that 'makes sense' and its original audiences could associate with (and this is an argument for the structure and narrative of a text, more than whether it's fact or fiction). That still does not mean it is based on a real social network and I don't think it works as an indication for how real an ancient text is. As far as power law policing goes: I don't think any of their degree distributions show a power law at all. There does not seem to be enough data and the tails of the distributions just don't seem to fit very well. Just saying they are right skewed distributions indicative of some kind of hierarchy in the network is as far as you can take it (and good enough for their aims it sounds to me). The authors provide no references to the archaeological sources that support the historicity of the events in the Iliad. But proving archaeologically that there was a war in Troy and claiming that a specific social network structure connected its protagonists are two very different things. I would like to see the archaeological data for that... I think if the authors would have pitched this article as an exploratory exercise it would have been fine, rather than claiming results about the fact/fiction nature of these texts. The paper was also featured in the Guardian and it is worth going through the comments. Aside from all the usual rants by insane people, one of the authors, Ralph Kenna, actually commented on the Guardian article about the paper. Kenna does seem to defend the historical (and even archaeological) significance of their findings, rather than pitching it as an exploratory exercise. Kenna also announces this message will be spread to a Humanities audience in a different paper soon. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/25/beowulf-shakespeare-plausible-fiction And here is the full quote of Kenna's comment: QUOTE Hello John, Ralph Kenna here, one of the paper's authors. I want to respond to a couple of the points that you make in your article and give a little bit more insight into what our paper has found. The first thing to say is that this research was not funded by the taxpayer. The work was funded by the Leverhulme Trust, whom we acknowledge in the paper, so can you please correct the remark about it being funded by readers' tax contributions? Secondly, your remark about 'tell-tale signs of being fictional' seems to miss the entire point of the research. Our research did not focus on events or individuals in either contemporary texts like Harry Potter or the ancient texts we focused on. Moreover, the fictitious texts were only used as a control group. The main purpose of the research was to compare the three ancient texts from a social networks point of view, using standard tools of statistical physics. What we've found, which has been of wide interest to the general public and warmly welcomed by archaeologists, is that the texts Iliad and Beowulf contain something like real social networks, as does (and this is contrary to mainstream academic opinion) large parts of the T'ain. This is of serious historical significance and I do wonder why such flippant comments are made about a serious effort to evaluate our ancient history. The main goal of our research was to evaluate the artificiality of the T'ain, a culturally significant Irish text. Mainstream academic opinion claims it is wholly artificial. We have found, however, that the majority of links between characters in the text does reflect real-life social networks and this opens up a new area of investigation for Celticists and other scholars. Indeed, a future less technical paper will be prepared for a humanities audience. Physics - and in particular sociophysics - uses network theory to help us understand society in new and exciting ways. Dismissing this kind of research as somehow frivolous and unnecessary is akin to a celebration of ignorance. Our research reflects new and exciting perspectives, through which we are able to evaluate our current and historical culture. If anyone reading this comment would like to know more about the research, please do read the paper http://iopscience.iop.org/0295-5075/99/2/28002 . Ralph END QUOTE Maria Konnikova wrote something for Scientific American recently that uses this paper as an example of how humanists are increasingly using scientific methods, and why that is bad: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/literally-psyched/2012/08/10/humanities-arent-a-science-stop-treating-them-like-one/ Carron and Kenna are not humanities scholars and (as far as I know) no humanities scholars really contributed to their research. They are physicists publishing in a Physics journal. So arguably this is the worst paper to choose when you want to make the point that a scientific method for humanities research is not a good thing. Aside from that, as we heard on this discussion list and on others, their work just does not stand up to close scrutiny. Their network analysis and their "humanist" interpretation of the results are very questionable. So I have the impression that Konnikova recently read the paper which triggered her to write out some ideas she already had about scientific methodologies in the humanities. She does not seem to be a specialist in network science or classics, but she does raise some key concerns we also seem to have on these lists. But still, this is a really bad choice of examples to support her point. Aside from the Carron and Kenna article, I think Konnikova wants to make an argument that sounds a bit too much like defeatist relativism to me. I don't agree that all scientific practice is necessarily reductionist in its purpose, although it might be usefully reductionist in its approach. Not qualifying and contextualising scientific results is bad science by all standards. But then again, there are reasons why "traditional" humanities research is performed the way it is. Probably because it is useful in providing that qualification and contextualisation. Her arguments why history is a good example of this sounds more like a type of sampling issue and can be applied to all social sciences if not many natural sciences. I think it is worrying to label the trend towards a "scientific" humanities a bad one, because clearly the best insights are gained when approaches are mixed (which Konnikova seems to acknowledge at the end of the article). What do you think? I am curious if Carron and Kenna (2012) will spark even more discussion. If anything, their article has been a very welcome contribution to science already, because it sparked heated debate across disciplines! Best wishes, Tom PhD studentArchaeological Computing Research Group University of Southampton http://archaeologicalnetworks.wordpress.com/ http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/ On 12 Sep 2012, at 07:23, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 297. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 06:20:37 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: social network analysis > > > A colleague and old friend has alerted me to an article in the NY Times > describing the work of two scientists who have applied social-network > analysis methods to ancient stories - Beowulf, Iliad, and the Ulster > Cycle (Tain Bo Cualinge - Cattle Raid of Cooley). See > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/opinion/sunday/the-social-networks-of-myths.html > for more. The original paper, attached, is Pádrig Mac Carron and Ralph > Kenna, "Universal Properties of mythological networks", Europhysics > Letters [EPL] 99 (2012): 28002 > (http://iopscience.iop.org/0295-5075/99/2/28002/pdf/0295-5075_99_2_28002.pdf). > See below for the attachment link. > > The aspect that seems interesting to me is the notion of analyzing the > social links between characters, a kind of structural analysis of basic > relationships - who is connected to whom - as a general measure of the > possible historical nature of the story. The authors compare the epics > to Facebook or whatever example of actual social networks. > > Yours, > WM > > ----- > *** Attachments: > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1347427243_2012-09-12_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_2192.2.pdf > -- > 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 Sep 13 06:26:02 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 6EF0E28FB60; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:26:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 74F7228FA74; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:26:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120913062600.74F7228FA74@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:26:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.299 job at Stanford (last call) 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. 299. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:02:57 -0700 From: Nicole Coleman Subject: Last Call: Position for Digital Historian at Stanford Stanford University Libraries is hiring an Academic Technology Specialist (ATS) for the History Department. The ATS collaborates with faculty and graduate students developing and deploying innovative technological solutions in pursuit of research, teaching and publication. Rather than acting as a technical consultant, the ATS takes a leading role in launching new projects. Consequently, the ATS must demonstrate not only expertise with academic technology, but a fundamental understanding of the ideas that form the foundation of history and the humanities. The ATS position falls within the rising tide of hybrid alternative academic (#alt-ac) careers. The ATS will have an office within the History department in order to assure proximity and availability to faculty, but will report to a manager in the Academic Technology Specialist Program (ATSP) a unit of Stanford University Libraries. The ATS will benefit from working at Stanford's Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) and, more broadly, will be embedded in one of the world's leading interdisciplinary research universities in the heart of Silicon Valley. This is a full time position. An advanced degree in History is required, PhD preferred. Applications will be accepted through September 30, 2012 at http://jobs.stanford.edu/. Enter the job number 48502 in the keyword search. Contact Nicole Coleman at cnc@stanford.edu if you have any questions about the position. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 13 06:27:23 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 4E74F28FDA6; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:27:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C80B528FD9D; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:27:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120913062720.C80B528FD9D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:27:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.300 XML Print 1.0 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 300. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:29:42 +0200 From: Marc Küster Subject: Re: XML-Print: Release of version 1.0 In-Reply-To: Dear Colleagues, as pre-announced at DH 2012 we've officially released XML-Print 1.0 this week, an open source XML formatter designated especially for the needs of the Digital Humanties. XML-Print allows the end user to directly interact with semantically annotated data. It consists of two independent, but well-integrated components, an Eclipse-based front-end that enables the user to map their semantic structures to typesetting styles, and the typesetting engine proper that produces the PDF based on this mapping. Both components build as much as possible on existing standards such as XML, XSL-T and XSL-FO and extend those only where absolutely necessary, e.g. for the handling of critical apparatuses. XML-Print is a DFG-supported joint project of the FH Worms (Prof. Marc W. Küster) and the University of Trier (Prof. Claudine Moulin, Dr. Thomas Burch) in collaboration wiht the TU Darmstadt (Prof. Andrea Rapp). It is released under the Eclipse Public Licence (EPL) for the front-end and the Affero General Public Licence (APGL) for the typesetting engine. The project is currently roughly half-way through its intended duration. In its final incarnation the PDF that is produced will satisfy the full set of requirements for the typesetting of (amongst others) critical editions including critical apparatuses, multicolumn synoptic texts and bidirectional text. At this stage it can already handle basic formatting as well as multiple apparatuses, albeit still with some restrictions and rough edges. It is work in progress with new releases coming out regularly. If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via our website http://www.xmlprint.eu or directly to print@uni-trier.de. Any and all feedback is welcome. Moreover, if you know some people you think could benefit from XML-Print, please feel free to spread the news amongst your peers. Best regards, Marc Links: Project homepage: http://www.xmlprint.eu Source code: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xml-print/ Installers for Windows, Mac and Linux: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xml-print/files/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 13 06:30:07 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 E5F3A287EC1; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:30:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 75FBA28724E; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:29:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120913062959.75FBA28724E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:29:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.301 events: archaeology; museums; libraries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 301. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: info@museumsandtheweb.com (32) Subject: Call for Proposals: Museums and the Web 2013 [2] From: Øyvind Eide (34) Subject: CAA modelling session [3] From: Barbara Mackenzie (68) Subject: NFAIS Humanities Roundtable: More Information [4] From: Andrew Prescott (19) Subject: Digital engagement in archaeology --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:32:22 -0700 From: info@museumsandtheweb.com Subject: Call for Proposals: Museums and the Web 2013 The MW2013 Program Committee is now accepting proposals for participation in the conference program for Museums and the Web 2013, 17-20 April 2013 at the Marriott Downtown Waterfront, Portland, Oregon The MW program is built from the ground up, based on your suggestions for sessions, papers and presentations. Proposals are encouraged on any topic related to museums creating, facilitating, delivering or participating in culture, science and heritage through networked technologies – wherever the network may reach. The MW Conference Program is selected through peer-review by an international Program Committee. Submit your proposal online through September 30, 2012: http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/call-for-proposals/ Museums and the Web is an annual conference featuring advanced research and exemplary applications of digital practice for cultural, natural and scientific heritage. Formed by leading professionals from around the world, our community has been meeting since 1997. The products of our meetings and conversations – the MW proceedings, Best of the Web archives and discussion Forum – are an unparalleled resource for museum workers, technologists, students and researchers that grows every year. MW offers a range of professional learning opportunities, from plenary sessions to un-conference sessions, from formal papers to informal networking, from museum project demonstrations to commercial exhibits, from professional debates to lightning talks, from how-to sessions to crit rooms and the Best of the Web awards. Prior to the conference, there are full-day and half-day workshops and a day of pre-conference tours. Read more at http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/ Nancy Proctor & Rich Cherry MW2013 Co-chairs Questions? info@museumsandtheweb.com Follow us on Twitter: @museweb --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:49:12 +0200 From: Øyvind Eide Subject: CAA modelling session Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology CAA 2013 Conference ‘Across Space and Time’, which will be held at the University Club of Western Australia in Perth, Australia on 25-28 March 2013, we would like to invite you to consider to attend session "S20. Modelling space and time as rooms of possibilities" that we will chair. The session abstract is included below. For information about the Call for Papers please refer to the following web pages: http://www.caa2013.org/drupal/papers (call for papers); http://www.caa2013.org/CAA2013sessions.pdf (list of sessions). The submission deadline is 10th October 2012. Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the conference organiser, Dr Arianna Traviglia on arianna.traviglia@mq.edu.au or Øyvind Eide on oyvind.eide@iln.uio.no. We hope you will consider submitting a proposal for the session. The abstract is as follows: S20. Modelling space and time as rooms of possibilities Chairs: Ø. Eide, J. Holmen, C.-E. Ore Format: Paper presentation (LP) During the last two decades, large collections of cultural heritage material have become available in digital format, including historical source texts, museum catalogues, and excavation reports. Although a number of advanced methods already exist for searching and integrating such resources, they are still under-utilised in storytelling and advanced reasoning. It is still the case that many scholarly users only access such resources through free text or simple metadata searches, if they use them at all. On the other hand, there are several well defined standards and methods for data integration at various levels, including, e.g., CIDOC-CRM, Linked Data and RDF/OWL. But such methods are only applied to limited data sets. Although no uncontested history is known or even knowable based on available source materials, the sources can still be interpreted as representing a series of events happening in time and space, involving actors and objects. Even if these events do not give themselves to the researcher as a well ordered series steered by causality, they are still related. We envisage systems which should be able to handle questions in the form of more or less developed hypotheses. This may imply that a tool can build up a scenario based on interpretation of available source material and also be used to scrutinise the plausibility of such scenarios, including likely connections between events in time and space. This will, of course, include speculations about causality. For the session, we invite papers presenting ways to integrate historical events as they can be read from historical documents. Our experience leads us to believe that hybrid human-computer methods are better suited for solving such problems than fully algorithmic or fully manual approaches, but we are looking forward to being challenged by papers seeing this differently. We are looking for well developed plans and prototypes for how such data integration can be done in practice, ideally based on real life examples. Rather than providing answers, we would like a focus on organising the information for the researchers so that they can use the systems for developing new questions; but again, we are happy to be challenged by proposed papers. Questions we would like to see addressed in paper proposals include, but are not restricted to: - How to use various sources to verify co-references within one source material as well as across collections. Co-referring items could, e.g., refer to events, artefacts, places, or actors. - If and how inferred information can be separated from «basic» information, at all levels from theory to the level of implementation. - Can rules be established for how events and actors are distributed in time and space, e.g., based on maximum travel speed at a certain time and place? - Can rules be established for how to use causality and other relationships between events to decide on and reduce uncertainty in their possible time spans and locations? - Which tools are already available, and what would be needed in order to move forward in this area? Can existing tools be used in better ways? -- Kind regards Øyvind Eide Jon Holmen Christian-Emil Ore Unit for Digital Documentation, University of Oslo. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:16:38 -0400 From: Barbara Mackenzie Subject: NFAIS Humanities Roundtable: More Information Register Now for the NFAIS Humanities Roundtable XI, *Focus on Libraries*, Scheduled for October 1, 2012 A one-day NFAIS program*, **Focus on Libraries*,* *is scheduled for October 1, 2012 at the state-of-the-art Graduate Center of the City University of New York http://www.gc.cuny.edu/about_gc/campus/interview_architects.htm in Manhattan, from 9:00am to 4:45pm EDST. Both on-site and virtual registrations are now available (go to: http://www.nfais.org/page/370-2012-nfais-humanities-roundtable). The meeting will take a look at the needs and concerns of librarians on such issues as the discovery of humanities content in today’s library environment, information literacy and the training of end-users, best practices for building effective working relationships among librarians, vendors and content providers, the decision-making criteria used to determine the products and services in which to invest, and the current digital humanities environment. Librarians who attend will learn how their peers are addressing these issues and content providers will gain insight on the how to create and deliver more effective products and services for scholars, students, and librarians in the humanities. The day will begin with a keynote address by Elliot Shore, Chief Information Officer and Dean of Libraries, Bryn Mawr College, who will provide an overview of the digital humanities environment, including how PhD researchers in the humanities intersect with the library community. This will be followed by a look at the humanities information retrieval process and how today’s discovery services are used with or as an alternative to traditional abstracting and indexing databases. The final session of the morning will examine information literacy from the point of view of the librarian training students as well as from the perspective of the vendor creating materials in support of that training. It will highlight the objectives for both groups in developing multiple formats and channels for delivering effective instruction. After lunch (which will be provided) a panel of librarians will discuss effective marketing and promoting information to end users. This will be followed by a facilitated and highly-interactive session that will focus on best practices for building solid working relationships among diverse groups within the information community (business partners, content providers, and librarians), each with their own interests and objectives. And the meeting will close with a presentation by *Matthew Gold**,*Assistant to the Provost, CUNY Graduate Center, Project Manager of the CUNY Academic Commons, Co-Director of CUNY's Digital Humanities Institute, who will discuss the impact of technology in changing the humanities landscape, the rise of the digital humanities, and the emergence of digitized special collections. More information on the program, registration, and other logistics may be accessed at: http://www.nfais.org/page/370-2012-nfais-humanities-roundtable. Register soon, as seating is limited. On-site registration for this one-day session, including continental breakfast, lunch and two refreshment breaks, is only $145 for NFAIS members and $165 for non-members. Registration for virtual participation is $95 for NFAIS members and $115 for non-members. Unlimited virtual attendance (3 or more staff from the same organization) is $275 for NFAIS members and $335 for non-members. For more information contact: Jill O’Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto: mailto:jilloneill@nfais.org . Founded in 1958, NFAIS is a premier membership organization of more than 60 of the world’s leading producers of databases, information services, and information technology in the sciences, engineering, social sciences, business, and the arts and humanities. *NFAIS: Serving the Global Information Community* -- *Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie* *Editor-in-Chief, Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM)* *Director, Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation* The Graduate Center of The City University of New York** 365 Fifth Avenue • New York, NY 10016 T: 212.817.1991 • F: 212.817.1569 • BMackenzie@rilm.org www.rilm.org • brookcenter.gc.cuny.edu --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:37:05 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Digital engagement in archaeology In-Reply-To: <65E399A21347464895570D6005BCAF950B92D482@blmbmbex1.local> *Digital engagement in archaeology conference* On the 8^th and 9^th November, a conference on “Digital engagement in archaeology” will be hosted by UCL as part of the CASPAR/ACRN programme that has been running on strategy and digital communication. It also follows up on the publication of “Archaeologists and the Digital: Towards Strategies of Engagement” earlier this year. Speakers include: ·Bob Bewley, Heritage Lottery Fund ·James Doeser, Arts Council England ·Melissa Terras, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities ·David Dawson, Wiltshire Museum ·Gary Lock, Oxford University ·And many more… Unfortunately it will cost £25 or £15 but this just covers costs for the speakers, so if you can’t afford to go to the Museums Association conference, come to this instead! Details on the 2 day event are here: http://digitalengagementinarchaeology.wordpress.com/ We hope to see some of you there! _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 14 05:31:40 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 C4CCB2918A7; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:31:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 31F0C291894; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:31:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120914053138.31F0C291894@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:31:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.302 social networking in Beowulf, the Iliad & the Ulster Cycle X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 302. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:30:21 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: physics hypothetical? What puzzles me about the discussion of Mac Carron and Kenna's work described in "Universal Properties of mythological networks" is the overwhelming tendency to treat it simply as true or false. It's understandable that physicists should want to believe that physics tells the truth about things, and that scholars of those things fallen into the hands of physicists should react. But, it seems to me, how much better if the results from such analysis were taken as hypothetical: let us pretend that thus-and-such is true of Beowulf et al., that we can treat these works *as if* thus-and-such were true of them, then see what happens by applying method X to them, and then compare what we get to what literary scholars, historians, archaeologists and others have said. Isn't this one of the central things that computing allows us in the humanities to do -- treat cultural artefacts as if they were only and wholly objects of the natural world (as we conceive that world to be)? 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 Sep 14 05:32:32 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 608AF291902; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:32:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BE4612918F2; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:32:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120914053230.BE4612918F2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:32:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.303 brave new world & its institutions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 303. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:35:52 -0400 From: Eric Rabkin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.258 brave new world & its institutions In-Reply-To: <20120829052831.0A2E228A6EA@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, There has been quite a bit of conversation, both in the public press and on this list, about the validity of online education. I think a great deal of the passion arises from a confusion of two functions of our schools: educating and credentialing. If our aim is to educate, surely many sorts of experiences can serve, including watching video clips and reading books without any teacher or even friend to help at all. (I, of course, don't mean that that is a limit to what sort of experience can educate. Human interactivity is wonderfully useful and enjoyable. "School," after all, comes from a Greek word of "leisure.") But if we mean to credential, all sorts of issues arise about standards, evaluative criteria, grading, cheating, originality, and so on. We mix these--educating and credentialing--quite naturally because of the power of interactivity. We learn by collaboration, by our experiences with other people, whether we aim to or not. That's one reason for this list. And in cooperation, one wants to know the other person's character. One doesn't want to invest much, perhaps, in a cheater, or work to earn a credential that is cheapened somehow. Much of the negative passion on this list about online education, I think, is motivated in part by a defense of the value of education and a desire to prevent its cheapening. But if we can separate educating from credentialing, then the subject is different. Even criminals, one hopes in building a "penitentiary," can learn from their experiences. It is completely reasonable to ask how we can preserve the value of credentials, but that is not the same as saying that to do so is what determines the realization of education. Third grade pupils may get gold stars for reading books; we on this list don't, and yet we read anyway. As it happens, I am in the midst of offering one of the MOOCs (massive, open, online courses) that has occasioned the current controversy: "Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World" on the Coursera platform. The Cisco Newsroom has just put up a short essay of mine about that experience which includes a discussion of plagiarism in this context. Perhaps some on this list may want to see it: http://newsroom.cisco.com/feature-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1008003. All best, and, as ever, I thank you for your work for us all, Eric --- Eric S. Rabkin www.umich.edu/~esrabkin http://www.umich.edu/%7Eesrabkin _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 14 05:33:24 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 04ACB29193E; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:33:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2417629192C; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:33:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120914053322.2417629192C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:33:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.304 jobs: postdocs at De Montfort X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 304. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:13:31 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Jobs Two post-doctoral Research Fellow positions are available at De Montfort University, Leicester, to work on the AHRC funded FuzzyPhoto project that is developing and testing computer-based “finding aids” for recommending potential matches between historical photographic exhibition catalogue records and images of photographs that appear in online collections. One will have a knowledge of the Semantic Web, metadata schemas and Web site development, the other will be responsible for investigating and trialling modern database engines and management systems. For further details see http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AFD578/research-fellow-semantic-web/ and http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AFD581/research-fellow-data-warehousing/ -- 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 Fri Sep 14 05:37:32 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 132622919B0; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:37:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 313952919A0; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:37:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120914053730.313952919A0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:37:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.305 events: libraries; medical AI; dynamic knowledge representation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 305. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Márcia_Belchior (38) Subject: [SPSP-members] FINAL CFP || INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC AND LANGUAGE (ISELL2012) || [2] From: Erik Cambria (41) Subject: CFP: IEEE SSCI Special Session on Computational Intelligence in Health Assessment and Monitoring [3] From: Willard McCarty (51) Subject: Consortium of Research Libraries Seminar 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:21:17 +0100 From: Márcia_Belchior Subject: [SPSP-members] FINAL CFP || INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC AND LANGUAGE (ISELL2012) || INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC AND LANGUAGE (ISELL2012) 29-31st October 2012 CFCUL, Lisboa-Portugal Scope Knowledge Representation must take account of a not much developed aspect in the theories about acquisition, transmission and manipulation of knowledge: dynamicity. The aim of the workshop is to discuss knowledge dynamic logical models. Topics of interest of the ISELL2012 include, but are not limited to: * Logic and argumentation theory * Dialogues and Game Theoretical Semantics * Formal semantics * Models and science * Abduction in social sciences * Abduction and the emergence of new scientific concepts * Diagrammatic reasoning * Dynamic Epistemic logic * The Role of fictionality in sciences * Constructive type theoretical semantics and grammar * Dynamic approaches to the semantics of natural language Languages: portuguese, english, spanish Submissions We invite submissions of a short abstract of 200 words. They should be sent to Juan Redmond (juanredmond@yahoo.fr) by 20 SEPTEMBER 2012. Dates and deadlines Deadline for submission of abstracts: 20th September 2012 Notification: 30th September 2012 Date of the conference: 29-31 October 2012 Place of the conference Lisbon (Portugal) Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon (CFCUL) More Information http://cfcul.fc.ul.pt/projectos/Projecto_Knowledge/ISELL2012/pages/home.html -- Márcia Belchior Comunicação e Website [cid:part1.02090009.09080003@fc.ul.pt] Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Campo Grande, Edifício C4, Piso 3, Gabinete 4.3.24 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal Tlf: 217 500 365 W. cfcul.fc.ul.pt http://cfcul.fc.ul.pt/ | Facebook --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:08:24 +0100 From: Erik Cambria Subject: CFP: IEEE SSCI Special Session on Computational Intelligence in Health Assessment and Monitoring Apologies for cross posting, Submissions are invited for next year's IEEE SSCI Special Session on Computational Intelligence in Health Assessment and Monitoring (http://tinyurl.com/CIHAM2013). ABSTRACT Public health measures such as better nutrition, greater access to medical care, improved sanitation, and more widespread immunization, have produced a rapid decline in death rates in all age groups. Since there is no corresponding decline in birth rates, however, the average age of population is increasing exponentially. If we want health services to keep up with such monotonic growth, we need to automatize as much as possible the way patients access the health-care system, in order to improve both its service quality and timeliness. Barriers to use health related quality of life (HRQoL) measuring systems include the time needed to complete the forms and the need for staff to be trained to understand the results. An ideal system of health assessment needs to be clinically useful, timely, sensitive to change, culturally sensitive, low burden, low cost, involving for the patient, and built into standard procedures. The main aim of this CICARE-13 special session is to examine the new frontiers of computational intelligence in health assessment and monitoring by proposing novel techniques in fields such as e-health, web health informatics, and e-health promotion, in order to improve the health-care of individuals using information and communication technology. TOPICS OF INTEREST CIHAM aims to provide an international forum for researchers in the field of e-health to share information on their latest investigations and their applications both in academic research areas and industrial sectors. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • HRQoL measuring systems • Sustainability of health systems • Patient-reported outcomes measures • Health web services and semantics • Personalization of health applications and data input via the Web • Engaging individuals and communities in services provided via the Web • Patient physio-emotional sensitivity measurement • Patient opinion mining • Future directions of health services using the Web • E-health challenges SCHEDULE • October 10th, 2012: Due date for Special Session papers • January 5th, 2013: Notification of paper acceptance to authors • February 5th, 2013: Camera-ready of accepted papers • February 5th, 2013: Early registration SUBMISSIONS Please submit your paper via the IEEE SSCI 2013 on-line submission link accessed from: http://ntu.edu.sg/home/epnsugan/index_files/SSCI2013 ORGANIZERS • Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore (Singapore) • Amir Hussain, University of Stirling (UK) • Newton Howard, MIT Media Laboratory (USA) _______________________________ Erik Cambria, PhD 康文涵 Research Scientist Temasek Laboratories Cognitive Science Programme National University of Singapore 28 Medical Drive, 117456, Singapore Web: http://sentic.net Email: cambria@nus.edu.sg Twitter: http://twitter.com/senticnet Facebook: http://facebook.com/senticnet --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:16:20 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Consortium of Research Libraries Seminar 2012 Consortium of Research Libraries (CERL) CERL ANNUAL SEMINAR 2012: Accessing heritage research collections through digitisation: models and use Tuesday 30 October: 10.00-17.00. British Library Conference Centre, London Attendance is free, but please register with secretariat@cerl.org 09.30 - 10.00 Registration 10.00 - 10.15 Opening & Welcome – Kristian Jensen (Head of Arts & Humanities, British Library, London) – Ulf Göranson (Chair, Consortium of European Research Libraries) SESSION 1 10.15 - 10.40 Planning digitisation projects – Aly Conteh (British Library, London) 10.40 - 11.05 Licensing models – Rachel Marshall (British Library, London) 11.05 - 11.15 Questions 11.15 - 11.45 COFFEE SESSION 2 11.45 - 12.10 Case study 1: Google Books – José Antonio Magán Wals (Complutense University, Madrid) 12.10 - 12.35 Case study 2: Judaica Europeana – Rachel Heuberger (Goethe University Library, Frankfurt) 12.35 - 12.45 Questions 12.45 - 14.00 LUNCH SESSION 3 14.00 - 14.25 Case study 3: Gallica – Eric Dussert (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris) 14.25 - 14.50 Case study 4: Working with commercial partners – Marieke van Delft (National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague) 14.50 - 15.15 Case study 5: JISC Historic Books and addressing the needs of researchers – Gabriel Egan (JISC Historic Books Advisory Board, UK) 15.15 - 15.30 Questions 15.30 - 16.00 COFFEE SESSION 4 16.00 - 16.30 Panel discussion: Scholars discuss their experiences of working with digitisation products, and how features such as access, content selection, licensing restrictions, and product design impact on their research. Panel chair: – Andrew Prescott (King’s College, London) 16.30 - 16.45 Round up – Amanda Saville (Chair, CILIP Rare Books & Special Collections Group) 16.45 - 17.00 Closing statement – Ulf Göranson (Chair, Consortium of European Research Libraries) www.cerl.org secretariat@cerl.org -- 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 Sep 14 05:48:57 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 B535F291A93; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:48:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 00394291A81; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:48:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120914054856.00394291A81@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:48:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.306 Obama and the digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 306. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:00:42 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Obama and the digital humanities Those here will be delighted to know than John Unsworth, now Vice-Provost for Library and Technology Services and Chief Information Officer at Brandeis, has been appointed to the U.S. National Council on the Humanities by President Obama. See http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/12/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts for more. This is *very* good news. 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 Sep 14 05:50:02 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 C7391291AE5; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:50:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A1424291AD5; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:49:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120914054958.A1424291AD5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:49:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.307 Humanist's scope? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 307. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 06:46:58 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a question about Humanist's scope Dear colleagues, As computing extends ever more into all corners of academic and social life, and as the digital humanities grows, diversifies and consolidates, it's no surprise that from time to time we should wonder about what appears here. I'd like to have your advice on that. Today's posting of events is a good example: one undoubtedly relevant item on libraries; one on dynamical knowledge representation; one on computational intelligence in health monitoring. A case could be made for the diminishing relevance of these items, in the order I have listed them. I can imagine someone arguing that a reader of Humanist would get the wrong impression of, say, dynamical KR from just this one item, that he or she would be better off going to a place where KR is the main topic. And health informatics? The bridge to that topic, someone might say, is tenuous indeed. Let's specialise. What do you think? 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 Sep 15 06:54:48 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 5715E290358; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:54:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 966E729034E; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:54:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120915065446.966E729034E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:54:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.308 Humanist's scope X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 308. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Paul Gehl (44) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.307 Humanist's scope? [2] From: Willard McCarty (19) Subject: Humanist's content --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:25:33 -0500 From: Paul Gehl Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.307 Humanist's scope? In-Reply-To: <20120914054958.A1424291AD5@woodward.joyent.us> Please don't specialize too much; indeed, don't specialize at all. One great value of this list as presently organized is that it allows us glimpses of ongoing work in so many fields, which we may individually follow up, off-list, for the specialties that seem likely to be useful for our own work. Paul F. Gehl Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing The Newberry Library 60 w. Walton St. Chicago, IL 60610 USA Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 307. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 06:46:58 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: a question about Humanist's scope > > Dear colleagues, > > As computing extends ever more into all corners of academic and social > life, and as the digital humanities grows, diversifies and consolidates, > it's no surprise that from time to time we should wonder about what > appears here. I'd like to have your advice on that. > > Today's posting of events is a good example: one undoubtedly relevant > item on libraries; one on dynamical knowledge representation; one on > computational intelligence in health monitoring. A case could be made > for the diminishing relevance of these items, in the order I have listed > them. I can imagine someone arguing that a reader of Humanist would get > the wrong impression of, say, dynamical KR from just this one item, that > he or she would be better off going to a place where KR is the main > topic. And health informatics? The bridge to that topic, someone might > say, is tenuous indeed. Let's specialise. > > What do you think? > > Yours, > WM --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 07:17:19 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanist's content In-Reply-To: <20120914054958.A1424291AD5@woodward.joyent.us> One of us wrote to me, asking that the note not be circulated but saying something that I think needs to be aired. It was this: that he gets annoyed when, frustratingly, announcements of very local events are circulated. I think this deserves explanation of why I do that. Two reasons. First it is my experience that in a place as large as London some people find out about London events via Humanist. I assume the same is true for other large centres. Second is the presumed benefit (real as far as I am concerned) of finding out about the kinds of things that are happening, beneficial, I think, even if one cannot possibly attend. But what do you think? 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 Sep 15 06:56:50 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 99794290477; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:56:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E7B9D290468; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:56:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120915065648.E7B9D290468@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:56:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.309 theorizing the minute, local and particular? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 309. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 07:11:57 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: theorizing Let me ask a question the answer to which I should know in every detail but may not -- such is the marvellous proliferation of literature in or about our field. Who has written what of a theoretical nature touching not on what we make (digital media studies and the like) but on the making of it, and in that somewhat narrowed down arena, on the cognitive aspects? Who has written what about minute, local and particular acts of research in the digital humanities, about what we think/do? Many thanks for suggestions. 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 Sep 15 06:57:24 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 9C1F92904E8; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:57:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AE07F2904B8; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:57:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120915065722.AE07F2904B8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:57:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.310 research podcast X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 310. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:20:27 +0000 From: Kevin Gotkin Subject: New Research Podcast: 3620 The doctoral students of the Annenberg School for Communication announce the launch of a new podcast, 3620. 3620 is a research podcast that aims to: 1) Use audio to remind us why we do what we do as researchers and scholars, 2) Deepen and enrich our work, 3) Tell interesting stories, 4) Explore digital scholarship. The podcast is produced each Monday by graduate students and each episode will be between 10 and 20 minutes long. To get a sense of what we're up to, check out our first episode, "Sound Check." You can visit our site http://podcast.asc.upenn.edu/ , find us on iTunes, or look for us on Facebook. We're eager to hear feedback from you, whether you have thoughts about the episodes or want to propose an idea for a future show. Please email me, Kevin Gotkin, at kgotkin@asc.upenn.edu with comments/questions. If you’d like to be added to a weekly episode announcement email list, also email kgotkin@asc.upenn.edu -- Kevin Gotkin Ph.D. Student Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania Tel: (551)427-7907 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 15 06:58:38 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 0C091290576; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:58:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5511E290565; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:58:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120915065836.5511E290565@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:58:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.311 events: blogging unconference on open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 311. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 01:39:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Ernesto Priego Subject: CFP: OA Week 2012 Networked Researcher Blogging Unconference Dear Colleagues, I have just posted the call for participations for our Open Access Week 2012 Networked Researcher Blogging Unconference. We are inviting Networked Researcher contributors to participate with blog posts to be published during Open Access Week, October 22-28 2012. Posts can address any aspects related to open access (OA); all points of view are welcome.  They can be of any length and there is no need to submit an abstract.   Some examples of topics that can be addressed are: Open access and academic publishing; business models, peer review. Open access and public libraries. Open access and institutional repositories. Open access and research impact. Open access and Open Educational Resources. Open access and publicly funded research. Open access publishing and social media; interactions, tools, studies, metrics. Open access and government, democracy, citizen participation. Open access in the humanities and social sciences; comparisons with open access in science. Open access and the digital humanities; humanities computing. Open access and intellectual property and copyright; creative commons licensing. Open access in international development. The open access movement in different countries. Open access and health information provision, for example about HIV and AIDS. To find out more please follow the link: http://www.networkedresearcher.co.uk/netresoa/ We will also be using the hashtag #NetResOA to promote the posts and any discussion on Twitter. I have also posted this call as an event on the Open Access Week site. http://www.openaccessweek.org/events/open-access-week-2012-networked-researcher-blogging-unconference   Best regards, Ernesto -- Dr Ernesto Priego http://epriego.wordpress.com/  @ernestopriego / efpriego@gmail.com The Comics Grid: http://www.comicsgrid.com/ Networked Researcher http://www.networkedresearcher.co.uk/ Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Sep 17 05:11:13 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 808A4288049; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:11:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7AB232871B7; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:11:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120917051110.7AB232871B7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:11:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.312 Humanist's scope, and the Internet's X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 312. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jascha Kessler (21) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.308 Humanist's scope [2] From: maurizio lana (23) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.308 Humanist's scope --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:37:02 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.308 Humanist's scope In-Reply-To: <20120915065446.966E729034E@woodward.joyent.us> If you will glance at Gillian Tett in today's FT, you will see a short pertinent discussion of Internet's vast problem of mosaics, so to say. Not begun to be solved with first algorithms.... I would venture to hope that the title, DIGITAL HUMANISTS, if not Humanities, would keep the purlieu more or less loaded properly. [I had a flash memory writing that of the passage in TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST in which Dana describes the sailing ship beached in our own Santa Monica to receive hides flung down from the bluff where I do my daily perambulation in the newly made park a mile long. Those hides were packed into the holds over months and screwed by winch tighter than tight, thousands. Then on to S Fran, which was not yet, but stank in the Bay from Russian whalers rendering oil day and night, and eventually South South around Cape safely back to Boston. All for shoe leather! Before the rails went West, that was.] -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com [See http://tinyurl.com/9l4h6xc for the article in question. --WM] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 11:19:08 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.308 Humanist's scope In-Reply-To: <20120915065446.966E729034E@woodward.joyent.us> Il 15/09/2012 08:54, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > Two reasons. First it is my experience that in a place as large as > London some people find out about London events via Humanist. > I assume the same is true for other large centres. Second is > the presumed benefit (real as far as I am concerned) of finding out > about the kinds of things that are happening, beneficial, I think, even > if one cannot possibly attend. i myself, when under pressure, of whole blocks of humanist messages i read only the subjects, nothing new. but 'broad' announcements have nevertheless an invaluable meaning of allowing to know "the kinds of things that are happening". so i agree with the reasons of willard, and his criteria. maurizio -- dobbiamo provarci, anche noi. è questo il progresso. a forza di tentare, forse alla fine avremo gli organi necessari, per esempio l'organo della dignità, o quello della fraternità... r. gary, le radici del cielo ------- il mio corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Sep 17 05:12:21 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 480E428F08F; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:12:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4B36528F086; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:12:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120917051219.4B36528F086@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:12:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.313 brave new world & its institutions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 313. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:12:53 -0400 From: "joe raben" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.303 brave new world & its institutions In-Reply-To: <20120914053230.BE4612918F2@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, Apropos of online education, one of its stated goals is to foster collaboration. At the same time we are supposed to be distressed that Harvard undergraduates are "collaborating" on their final exams and are being threatened with expulsion for cheating. Somewhere we we will need to draw a line between demanding that students retain a certain quantum of information (at least until the exam is handed in) and educating them to function in a work environment that is increasingly requiring that they interact with a global community in a group endeavor. The humanities, with their minimal demand for factual information and their emphasis on comprehending and synthesizing, may be best positioned to lead a movement away from traditional restrictions on interaction during examinations and toward an environment more resembling the world in which students will spend their working lives. Joe Raben ----- Original Message ----- From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 1:32 AM Subject: [Humanist] 26.303 brave new world & its institutions Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 303. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:35:52 -0400 From: Eric Rabkin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.258 brave new world & its institutions In-Reply-To: <20120829052831.0A2E228A6EA@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, There has been quite a bit of conversation, both in the public press and on this list, about the validity of online education. I think a great deal of the passion arises from a confusion of two functions of our schools: educating and credentialing. If our aim is to educate, surely many sorts of experiences can serve, including watching video clips and reading books without any teacher or even friend to help at all. (I, of course, don't mean that that is a limit to what sort of experience can educate. Human interactivity is wonderfully useful and enjoyable. "School," after all, comes from a Greek word of "leisure.") But if we mean to credential, all sorts of issues arise about standards, evaluative criteria, grading, cheating, originality, and so on. We mix these--educating and credentialing--quite naturally because of the power of interactivity. We learn by collaboration, by our experiences with other people, whether we aim to or not. That's one reason for this list. And in cooperation, one wants to know the other person's character. One doesn't want to invest much, perhaps, in a cheater, or work to earn a credential that is cheapened somehow. Much of the negative passion on this list about online education, I think, is motivated in part by a defense of the value of education and a desire to prevent its cheapening. But if we can separate educating from credentialing, then the subject is different. Even criminals, one hopes in building a "penitentiary," can learn from their experiences. It is completely reasonable to ask how we can preserve the value of credentials, but that is not the same as saying that to do so is what determines the realization of education. Third grade pupils may get gold stars for reading books; we on this list don't, and yet we read anyway. As it happens, I am in the midst of offering one of the MOOCs (massive, open, online courses) that has occasioned the current controversy: "Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World" on the Coursera platform. The Cisco Newsroom has just put up a short essay of mine about that experience which includes a discussion of plagiarism in this context. Perhaps some on this list may want to see it: http://newsroom.cisco.com/feature-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1008003. All best, and, as ever, I thank you for your work for us all, Eric --- Eric S. Rabkin www.umich.edu/~esrabkin http://www.umich.edu/%7Eesrabkin _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 18 05:11:16 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 5493429138A; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:11:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 15D91291359; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:11:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120918051113.15D91291359@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:11:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.314 brave new world & its institutions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 314. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Daniel Allington (61) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.303 brave new world & its institutions [2] From: James Rovira (27) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.313 brave new world & its institutions [3] From: Jascha Kessler (25) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.313 brave new world & its institutions --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:20:40 +0100 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.303 brave new world & its institutions In-Reply-To: <20120914053230.BE4612918F2@woodward.joyent.us> On 14 Sep 2012, at 06:32, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > > Dear Willard, > > There has been quite a bit of conversation, both in the public press and on > this list, about the validity of online education. I think a great deal of > the passion arises from a confusion of two functions of our schools: > educating and credentialing. > Eric > --- > Eric S. Rabkin > www.umich.edu/~esrabkin http://www.umich.edu/%7Eesrabkin > Dear Eric With respect, I think that's a secondary issue. The current crop of MOOCs represents the first, exploratory stage in the forthcoming globalisation of the higher education industry: as your blog post ominously asks, 'There's no cost or credit for the "students" yet, but could this point the way to the "schools" of the future?' (http://newsroom.cisco.com/feature-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1008003) The answer is clear: if university administrators did not think that it could, then they would not be investing your time in this experiment. While no-one should blame you or any other educator for taking part - who wouldn't want to disseminate his or her ideas to 39,000 students across six continents? - you must realise that some of those who lack that opportunity will quite reasonably dread the probable outcome, not only because it is likely to involve the loss of many of their jobs, but also because it can only result in a dramatic reduction in diversity. At present, the world's most powerful brands in higher education are overwhelmingly owned by American and (to a lesser extent) British institutions, but with regard to teaching (as opposed to research and the recipience of philanthropy) their only ways of capitalising on this international dominance have been (a) to charge astronomical fees to the children of the global elite and (b) to open overseas campuses. Once it has been monetised, the MOOC model will free that fortunate band of adventurers to compete in every market on the globe, with the result that the international structure of higher education will increasingly come to resemble that of the mass media. (For a related argument, see http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmarshallcrotty/2012/08/07/the-coming-age-of-the-teaching-megastar/) Again, I don't blame you. Given the chance, I would do the same thing myself - and one could argue that, in my humble way, I already do: the partially online course to which I've been contributing for the last four years reached over a thousand students this spring (although they're mostly in the nation state to which I pay taxes, so I suppose it isn't quite the same). But the lack of any moral highground for me to take does not diminish my awareness that the brave new educational world under construction by Coursera and others will be an even more exploitative and elitist place than the one that already exists. In the meantime, expect us to deploy whatever arguments we can about validity or credentialing or anything else that comes to mind: a drowning man will clutch at a straw, as they say. Best regards Daniel Dr Daniel AllingtonLecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics Centre for Language and Communication The Open University +44 (0) 1908 332 914 http://open.academia.edu/DanielAllington -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:58:23 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.313 brave new world & its institutions In-Reply-To: <20120917051219.4B36528F086@woodward.joyent.us> Whether or not it is a propos for students to collaborate or not on an exam is a function of course goals, which determine assessment measures, which in turn determine grades. The issue here isn't "traditional restrictions on interaction" vs. forward, global thinking about the goals of education. That's rather off the point, as in the work world our students will both have to collaborate and work on their own. Course goals are what matter here. If I'm teaching a math course, I want to know if every individual student can work out the equations on their own. Jim R Dear Willard, > > Apropos of online education, one of its stated goals is to foster > collaboration. At the same time we are supposed to be distressed that > Harvard undergraduates are "collaborating" on their final exams and are > being threatened with expulsion for cheating. Somewhere we we will need to > draw a line between demanding that students retain a certain quantum of > information (at least until the exam is handed in) and educating them to > function in a work environment that is increasingly requiring that they > interact with a global community in a group endeavor. The humanities, with > their minimal demand for factual information and their emphasis on > comprehending and synthesizing, may be best positioned to lead a movement > away from traditional restrictions on interaction during examinations and > toward an environment more resembling the world in which students will > spend their working lives. > > Joe Raben > --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:14:02 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.313 brave new world & its institutions In-Reply-To: <20120917051219.4B36528F086@woodward.joyent.us> I have been puzzling for the last 24 hours about Prof. Rabkin's suggestion that education and "credentialing," or is it "credentializing"? can be taken separately. Vocational schools, law, medicine, engineering, architecture, design perhaps? offer to teach schools, though all professional organizations like that credential excellent, good, mediocre, poor, and flunks into the world. There is perhaps a Bell curve for all people like that, and woe betide the clumsy engineer, and bad doctor, etc., I mean their clients or patients or operators of machines that maim. One is fortunate to know of a good car mechanic, in short. Or airline pilot, etc.Credentialing is not educating in the original and even modern sense. Educating is otherwise. Readers of Plato's SYMPOSIUM will recall that each representative of a social skill, vocation, profession, etc., speaks on the subject of Eros, but in the end they are each put to shame by Socrates, who reveals their fundamental defects of thought and understanding. Nothing has changed. Some lawyers can do well before a supreme court, most would be, as they say, laughed out of court, credentials notwithstanding. Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 18 05:12:48 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 E630229143A; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:12:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0105E291429; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:12:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120918051246.0105E291429@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:12:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.315 fellowships at KNAW (Netherlands) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 315. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:53:00 +0200 From: Sally Wyatt Subject: Announcement: Visiting fellowships in computational humanities Visiting fellowships in Computational Humanities, based at the eHumanities Group, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) (http://ehumanities.nl). Applications for 2013 now open! These visiting fellowships are intended to enable scholars working in computational humanities to conduct research and to participate in the academic life of the eHumanities Group of the KNAW. Visiting fellowships are awarded for three months Preference will be given to candidates who can demonstrate an ability to contribute to one of the ongoing projects of the Computational Humanities Programme (see website for details – http://ehumanities.nl). During their stay, fellows will be expected to make one presentation about their own research and to hold one workshop in which they provide training in a particular tool, method or approach. Applicants should send their CV plus a two-page plan for their fellowship to Jeannette Haagsma (jeannette.haagsma@ehumanities.knaw.nl) by 01 November 2012. The plan should include which 3 months they would like to spend in Amsterdam (excluding July & August), and ideas for the presentation and workshop. Visiting fellowships are open to women and men from all countries who already have a PhD and a demonstrable record in computational humanities. Successful applicants will receive a stipendium of €10,000 (paid in three installments) plus the costs of one return journey from their home. Fellows will be expected to make their own tax, visa, insurance and accommodation arrangements, where necessary. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 18 05:13:39 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 5DCF5291474; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:13:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 41F49291464; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:13:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120918051336.41F49291464@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:13:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.316 linguistic inventiveness online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 316. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:47:04 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: linguistic inventiveness: Manglish Those here who like to think about linguistic inventiveness will enjoy Patti Waldmeir's Financial Times article on internet Mandarin, "A short course in Manglish: 88,3Q". See http://tinyurl.com/8txefs7 for the article. 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 Sep 18 05:14:38 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 AC6332914B8; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:14:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 63F072914B0; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:14:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120918051437.63F072914B0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:14:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.317 events: THATCamp at Brown X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 317. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:57:08 -0400 From: "Mylonas, Elli" Subject: THATCamp NE 2012, Oct. 19-20 Providence, RI The third annual THATCamp New England will be held at Brown University in Providece, RI, on Friday, October 19, and Saturday, October 20. THATCamp ("The Humanities and Technology Camp") is a spontaneous, collaborative self organizing un-conference on the interactions of humanities and technology. THATCamp New England 2012 is being hosted by Brown University with the generous support and sponsorship of NERCOMP. Registration is now open, at http://newengland2012.thatcamp.org we hope to see you there, if you are in the area! --elli [Elli Mylonas Center for Digital Scholarship University Library Brown University library.brown.edu/cds] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 19 05:30:09 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 3778C287F5F; Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:30:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F0DEC287F47; Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:30:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120919053003.F0DEC287F47@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:30:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.318 brave new world & its institutions 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. 318. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:02:29 -0400 From: Jeff Ravel Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.314 brave new world & its institutions In-Reply-To: <20120918051113.15D91291359@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Digital Humanists, The group may be interested in another perspective on the interactions of students taking Professor Rabkin's Coursera class: http://hackeducation.com/2012/08/27/peer-assessment-coursera/. We are having an interesting internal debate about MOOCs at MIT. The comments of one of our literature professors about teaching Humanities on an "X" platform (her brief essay is called "HumanitiesX") can be found here: http://web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/251/perry.html. One of our engineers has also offered some trenchant observations: http://web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/251/flowers.html. It would seem that the merits of MOOCs, as presently constituted by EdX and other online providers, are far from clear. Regards, Jeff Jeffrey S. Ravel Professor of History Massachusetts Institute of Technology History Faculty, E51-255 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 Work: 617.253.4451 MIT Fax: 617.253.9406 ravel@mit.edu http://history.mit.edu/people/jeffrey-s-ravel _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 19 05:31:17 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 A9E7C28C3B7; Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:31:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7849228C3A4; Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:31:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120919053115.7849228C3A4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:31:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.319 job at the German National Library of Science and Technology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 319. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:11:29 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Vacancy DataCite, German National Library of Science and Technology is looking for a Communications and Project Officer. http://www.datacite.org/node/71 You will assist the Managing Agent and the Board in developing an overall strategic communications plan for DataCite and its services by clarifying communications objectives to support strategic directions, defining and articulating messages for key audiences, recommending strategies for and/or performing marketing research, and by contextualizing communications within the larger academic library and scholarly research environment You will plan and implement communication and marketing strategies including overseeing Internal and external communication through newsletters, direct phone contact, blog entries and administration of the DataCite Website and Blog. You will assist the Managing Agent and the Board in operating DataCite, including organisation of practical aspects of the summer meeting, General Assembly and other meetings, and coordination of contact requests coming through the contact forms. You will be required to meet the following criteria: - Bachelor's degree in communication, marketing, business administration or related field. - Working knowledge of product development and marketing research processes related to communications and marketing. - Familiarity with web design and maintenance and best practices for writing in a web-based context - Ability to balance strategic and creative thinking and writing capability as demonstrated by the ability to focus on key issues, and to gather, assess, and synthesize information and recommendations from a wide variety of sources on a broad range of issues to formulate messaging and positioning statements. - Excellent English written and verbal communication skills as demonstrated by the ability to articulate information and issues clearly, concisely, and persuasively using appropriate grammar, vocabulary, and business style. - Demonstrated ability to understand technical issues at a conceptual level and effectively convey and explain information to users. - Project management and organizational skills to plan and independently execute projects/tasks within specific and short deadlines, and successfully assess, balance, and prioritize numerous competing concerns. - Demonstrated ability to work independently, as well as collaboratively and cooperatively as part of a team in a cross-cultural environment. - Proficiency in a PC operating environment, MS Office, Visio, electronic mail, calendar applications, and the Internet. Ability to operate other internal system applications; willingness to learn new software applications and technologies, as needed. - Experience in a research-intensive academic setting. - Working knowledge of digital libraries and research infrastructures. The position is a full time position with an expected salary of up to 40,000 Euro annually. The contract will be for 2 years with the chance of ongoing employment. The starting date would be December 1st. The position will be based in Hannover, Germany. If desired by the candidate it could also be based in London, UK. Please send your applications before October 5th to jobs@datacite.org If you have any questions regarding this position, please contact jan.brase@tib.uni-hannover.de or Adam.Farquhar@bl.uk Adam Farquhar Head of Digital Scholarship Scholarship and Collections T:+44 (0)20 7412 7832 Adam.Farquhar@bl.uk The British Library London NW1 2DB http://www.bl.uk/ The British Library’s latest Annual Report and Accounts http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/annrep/index.htmlhttp://www.bl.uk/knowledge http://www.bl.uk/emaildisclaimer.html -- 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 Wed Sep 19 05:33:25 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 E416A290868; Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:33:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1EDA328F018; Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:33:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120919053323.1EDA328F018@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:33:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.320 events: human limits; authenticity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 320. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Andrew Prescott (53) Subject: Conference on 'The Real Thing' - what is the value of authenticity and replication for investigation and conservation? , 6-7 December,University of Glasgow [2] From: Jonathan Topham (51) Subject: 'Human Limits' Symposium --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:30:13 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Conference on 'The Real Thing' - what is the value of authenticity and replication for investigation and conservation? , 6-7 December,University of Glasgow In-Reply-To: <405270B582D1F9459B2CE5B0603204D38A18A325FB@CMS01.campus.gla.ac.uk> 'The Real Thing?' The Value of Authenticity and Replication for Investigation and Conservation University of Glasgow, 6-7 December 2012. www.gla.ac.uk/cca/researchnetwork ---------------------- BOOK BEFORE 1 OCTOBER to receive the early bird discount. There is a discounted student rate available. The University of Glasgow is delighted to be hosting a two-day international conference on the topic of authenticity, with papers related to the three fields of textile conservation, dress and textile history and technical art history. The role of curators, conservators, art historians, and conservation scientists has become increasingly complex with new approaches towards interpretation, display and use of collections by the cultural heritage sector. Advances in conservation science provide us with increasing amounts of information about the tangible properties of objects, while the intangible and conceptual qualities, of contemporary and non-western artefacts in particular, also influence our work. The concept of authenticity is one of the core factors driving decision making. An exciting programme has been arranged, with speakers from the Victoria and Albert Museum, The National Archives, West Dean Tapestry Studio, the National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. The cost of registration includes lunches and other refreshments, a reception on the evening of December 6 and conference post prints. Registration (early bird till 1 October; regular registration runs through 25 November): www.gla.ac.uk/cca/researchnetwork Programme: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_240371_en.pdf Conference poster: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_240860_en.pdf Tahitia McCabe History of Art Resource Centre Manager (Mon-Tues only) Research Network for Textile Conservation, Textile History and Technical Art History Administrator Direct line: +44 (0)141 330 4524 Fax: +44 (0)141 330 3513 Email: tahitia.mccabe@glasgow.ac.uk School of Culture and Creative Arts University of Glasgow 8 University Gardens Glasgow, UK, G12 8QH (The Resource Centre is physically located at 7 University Gardens on the first floor) www.gla.ac.uk/historyofart www.gla.ac.uk/instituteofarthistory www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/ The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401 www.arts.gla.ac.uk/pdf/glasgow_postcard.pdf www.arts.gla.ac.uk/pdf/international_cinemas_postcard.pdf www.arts.gla.ac.uk/pdf/mackintosh_postcard.pdf www.arts.gla.ac.uk/pdf/museum_studies_postcard.pdf --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:56:12 +0100 From: Jonathan Topham Subject: 'Human Limits' Symposium In-Reply-To: ‘Human Limits’ Symposium Friday 28 September 19.00-21.30 and Saturday 29 September 10.30-17.00 Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE From: http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/events/human-limits.aspx The onset of the industrial revolution and the technological advances that followed it have stretched our limits more than ever before. We’ve taken to the skies, to outer space and to the depths of the ocean. But what do these new-found environments mean for our bodies and minds? Why do humans always want to stretch their capabilities? How have we imagined the future in the past, and what possibilities might be opened up in the future? How are these possibilities represented in science fiction? This symposium will examine our relationship with technology and how it stretches our ability to perform in the world. From the influence of the light bulb on our working patterns to space missions and the impact they have had on our physiology, the event will also look forward to what our relationship with technology might be like in the future. Friday 28 September Enjoy a screening of 'Aelita: Queen of Mars' (Yakov Protazanov, 1924), one of the first films to depict space travel. This silent film will be accompanied by a live band, Minima, and followed by a drinks reception. Saturday 29 September Talks and discussions will continue on the Saturday, when the following questions will be explored using several different perspectives: * How were the technologies that we take for granted today received when they were first invented? * What pressures do extreme environments put on the body, physiologically? * Where does the boundary lie between training our bodies and technology? * What will our relationship with technology be like in the future? * How did science fiction shift from outer space to inner space? 10.30 Opening remarks – Oliver Morton (chair), Emily Sargent An introduction to Superhuman Exhibit from the curator. 11.00 To Boldly Go – Kevin Fong In the last 100 years, technology and medical science have changed the way we look at ourselves and our expectations of survival in all walks of life. What was routinely fatal at the start of the 20th century has today become simply routine. How do we see the limits of our survival in the 21st century? How will this change the way we explore? 11.40 Coffee break 12.00 Electrical Destiny? Ariel, Aladdin and alienation – Graeme Gooday The electric light bulb is the emblem of human ingenuity. It symbolizes the productive taming of arguably nature’s most violent force. Over the last 150 years, electricity has extended human vision, speech and travel to global scope and ever-greater speeds. But if electricity has taken bodily sensation to new exciting and remote places, why is it that candlelit conversation and steam locomotion still captivate us? Do our electrically wrought superpowers perhaps threaten to make us too efficiently modern? 12.40 Looking Back at the Earth: From Silent Running (1972) to The Day After Tomorrow (2004) – Christine Cornea When Apollo 8 launched in 1968, the objective was to send the first manned mission into lunar orbit and the astronauts were charged with taking close-up pictures of the far side of the moon. Today, however, this mission is most remembered for the famous colour photograph known as ‘Earthrise’, which offers a vision of the Earth as it rises over the lunar horizon. Looking back at the Earth from the moon was, of course, prefigured in science fiction. For instance, the film screened for this symposium, Aelita (1924), both literally and figuratively looked back at the Earth from the distant planet of Mars. Christine Cornea will consider the sociocultural impact of the publication of the ‘Earthrise’ picture – how this strangely reflective picture of the Earth as a vulnerable, blue planet, hanging in space, came to be associated with the rise of the environmental movement in the 1960s and 1970s and how, in turn, this affected the visions offered by science fiction films in the years that followed. 13.30 Lunch 14.30 The Man-Machine: Redesigning ourselves into pseudohumans or superhumans? – Anders Sandberg The idea that we can upgrade our bodies has been around for a long time. What are our real options, now and in the near future, for enhancing ourselves? And what are the implications – practical, ethical, social– of turning ourselves into objects of design and culture? In the future, the coevolution of humans and our technology might be far more intimate and complex than we expect. What kind of humanity would we want to become, and do we have any choice in the matter? 15.10 Becoming a Channel Swimmer: Training, technology and the marathon swimming body – Karen Throsby Swimming the English Channel is a sport that is simultaneously high- and low-tech. Karen Throsby argues that the process of training to become a Channel swimmer not only exploits advanced technology (GPS, specially developed foods), but is also heavily reliant on much more mundane practices (swimming, stretching, purposeful weight gain) that are not usually thought of as technology but that enhance the body’s capacities. She challenges what counts as ‘technology’ and what counts as the ‘natural’ body. 16.10 Roundtable discussion Join Graeme Gooday, Anders Sandberg and Oliver Morton as they reflect on the discussions of the day. 16.50 Concluding remarks – Oliver Morton 17.00 Drinks reception £30 full price/£25 concessions for both days, including drinks on Friday evening and lunch, tea and coffee on Saturday. To book, please call +44 (0)20 7611 2222. For details of the ‘Superhuman’ Exhibition see http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/superhuman.aspx ____________________________________________________________ Dr. Jon Topham Senior Lecturer in History of Science & Director of the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT Tel: +44 (0)113 34 32526 Fax: +44 (0)113 34 33265 http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/people/40006/centre_for_history_and_philosophy_of_science/person/872/jon_topham http://www.sciper.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 20 07:50:03 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 69F0B2910F9; Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:50:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 83DC82910E7; Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:50:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120920075000.83DC82910E7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:50:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.321 jobs at Twente 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. 321. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:52:21 +0100 From: "M.Boon@utwente.nl" Subject: jobs in Philosophy of Technology - deadline Sept 24 2012 The Philosophy Department of the University of Twente http://www.utwente.nl/gw/wijsb/ offers two assistant professorship positions with focus on philosophy of technology, which can be found on http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/en/ (see snips below). The deadline is on September 24th. With kind regards, Mieke Boon http://www.utwente.nl/gw/wijsb/organization/boon/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 20 07:51:16 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 85E6129202B; Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:51:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 53FAE29201B; Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:51:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120920075114.53FAE29201B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:51:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.322 D-Lib Magazine for September/October X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 322. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:37:19 +0100 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: September/October 2012 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Greetings: The September/October 2012 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains five articles, an opinion piece, and two conference reports. The 'In Brief' column presents four short pieces and excerpts from recent press releases. In addition you will find news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in the 'Clips and Pointers' column. This month, D-Lib features the National Library of Medicine's Digital Collections. The articles include: OpenAIREplus: the European Scholarly Communication Data Infrastructure By Paolo Manghi, Institute of Information Science and Technologies, National Research Council, Pisa, Italy; Lukasz Bolikowski, University of Warsaw, Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling Warsaw, Poland; Natalia Manola, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Computer Science Athens, Greece; Jochen Schirrwagen, Bielefeld University Library, Bielefeld, Germany; Tim Smith, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland The Data Conservancy Instance: Infrastructure and Organizational Services for Research Data Curation By Matthew S. Mayernik, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); G. Sayeed Choudhury, Tim DiLauro, Elliot Metsger, Barbara Pralle and Mike Rippin, Johns Hopkins University; Ruth Duerr, National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) A Perspective on Resource Synchronization By Herbert Van de Sompel, Robert Sanderson, and Martin Klein, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University; Berhard Haslhofer and Simeon Warner, Cornell University; Carl Lagoze, University of Michigan Identifying Threats to Successful Digital Preservation: the SPOT Model for Risk Assessment By Sally Vermaaten, Statistics New Zealand; Brian Lavoie, OCLC; Priscilla Caplan, Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC) Fulltext Geocoding Versus Spatial Metadata for Large Text Archives: Towards a Geographically Enriched Wikipedia By Kalev H. Leetaru, University of Illinois The Opinion is: United Kingdom's Open Access Policy Urgently Needs a Tweak By Stevan Harnad, Universite du Quebec Montreal & University of Southampton The Reports are: 4,000+ Tweets Later: Looking Back at the Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories By Carol Minton Morris, DuraSpace AERI 2012 Digital Curation Pre-Conference By Alex H. Poole, Christopher A. Lee, and Angela P. Murillo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 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 September/October 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 Thu Sep 20 07:53:41 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 5DD1F2921B2; Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:53:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A92F529209F; Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:53:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120920075339.A92F529209F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:53:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.323 events: sound objects at the Pitt Rivers; digital humanities at the Open X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 323. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Francesca Benatti (25) Subject: Open University Digital Humanities Seminar, 27 September [2] From: Noel Lobley (23) Subject: 'Making Sound Objects' - A One Day Conference, Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford, UK), Saturday November 24th 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:55:16 +0100 From: Francesca Benatti Subject: Open University Digital Humanities Seminar, 27 September The Digital Humanities Thematic Research Network at the Open University is pleased to announce the following event in its Digital Humanities in Practice seminar series: The Scholarly Monograph in the Age of Open Access Date: 27 September 2012 Time: 12.00pm – 2.00pm Venue: MR1, 2, 3, Wilson A Ground Floor, The Open University, Milton Keynes Open Access publishing is an area of growing interest in the academic community, especially after the publication of the Finch report and the RCUK’s decision to impose an Open Access mandate on all outputs deriving from public funds. However, most of the discussion so far has been dominated by the concerns of the Sciences and has concentrated on journal articles. What is the future, in this new context, of the scholarly monograph, which is of central importance in the Humanities? Caren Milloy of JISC will discuss the findings of the OAPEN project on Humanities publishing, while Rupert Gatti will outline his experience as a publisher of open access monographs. Speakers: Caren Milloy, JISC-OAPEN Rupert Gatti, Open Book Publishers. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. To book a place please email Heather Scott h.scott@open.ac.uk by 24 September 2012. For more information on Digital Humanities at The Open University, please go to the Digital Humanities website http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/digital-humanities/index.shtml --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:53:55 +0000 From: Noel Lobley Subject: 'Making Sound Objects' - A One Day Conference, Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford, UK), Saturday November 24th 2012 Dear All, Proposed contributions more than welcome for the One Day Conference 'Making Sound Objects'. Kind regards, Noel *** British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual One Day Conference, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, Saturday November 24th 2012. “Making Sound Objects: Cultures of Hearing, Recording, Creating and Circulation” This conference explores the contemporary and historical creation, collection and circulation of sound and sound-producing objects, and is guided by the following enlightened advice of Henry Balfour, first curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum: “Any object whether natural or artificial, and however simple, which is employed for the purpose of producing sound (whether ‘musical’ in an aesthetic sense or not) should be included as a musical instrument.” He gave this advice in 1929 to anthropologists engaged in the collection of musical instruments, advice which seems prescient indeed, as distinctions between sound and music are dissolved and re-articulated in contemporary thinking about the sound and sound objects. Such objects have been amassed over 130 years of recording, collected, documented and stored in archives, lofts, memory sticks, phones and clouds, while new technology creates exciting new sonic possibilities: for example, electronic artist Aphex Twin can conduct an orchestra by remote control, engineers use microphones to capture subterranean explosions, and sound designers use ambisonics to encode sound fields with incredible fidelity. At this exciting time in the history of sound recording and objects – when the influence of the commercial recording industry is declining, and the age of personal sound production and inter-personal distribution is proliferating –several key questions arise: What methods and resources might scholars use to collect, analyse, create and use sound? How best might we conceptualise the relationships amongst sound archives, museums, contemporary communities and soundscapes? What type of knowledge is it possible to achieve and share through sound and sound-producing objects? How does the creation and sharing of sounds influence and change societies? This one-day conference is hosted by the Pitt Rivers Museum, and seeks interdisciplinary engagement with these questions. Contributions are welcomed from anthropologists, musicologists, acousticians, historians, geographers, organologists, sound engineers, song collectors and sound artists – in fact anyone engaged with the production and analysis of sound. **A keynote presentation will feature two of the finest sound thinkers – Professor David Toop and Max Eastley. ** Proposed abstracts for presentations are welcome. Deadline: Friday October 19th 2012. http://www.bfe.org.uk/one-dayconference.html http://pittrivers-sound.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/call-for-papers-british-forum-for.html noel.lobley@prm.ox.ac.uk for further information. Many thanks. *** __ Dr Noel Lobley Stipendiary Lecturer in Music, St John's College, University of Oxford Ethnomusicologist and Researcher at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 21 05:30:32 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 F143A290395; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:30:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 40785290385; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:30:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120921053030.40785290385@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:30:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.324 ALLC Small Grants deadline X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 324. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:20:56 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: ALLC Small Grants deadline ALLC: The European Association for Digital Humanities invites submissions for small grants for workshop and project support. Submissions are expected to be in the range from € 800 to € 2,000. The total amount available in this call is € 10,000. Proposals must be received by 15 November, 2012. Notification of the results will be sent on 20 December 2012 at the latest. More about the aims of the small grants can be found in the ‘General description of ALLC calls for workshops and projects’ at http://www.allc.org/research/allc-supported-workshops-and-projects/allc-calls-workshop-and-project-support#4. The requested format for proposals is described under 3, ‘Application procedure’ and the maximum length of a proposal is two pages. The call is open to anyone active in Digital Humanities, although some connection to Europe is strongly recommended. As can also be gathered from the proposed name change, ALLC would from now on like to especially focus its support on the development of Digital Humanities in Europe, hoping to attract more researchers into the digital humanities and preferably also into membership of ALLC or one of the regional organisations.This means that the first item under 4, ‘Terms and conditions’, restricting submissions to registered ALLC-members only, does NOT apply for this call. Submissions are to be sent by email to karina.van.dalen[at]huygens.knaw.nl ----------------- 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 Fri Sep 21 05:31:20 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 E932C290713; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:31:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 72749290702; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:31:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120921053118.72749290702@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:31:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.325 nominations for ACH Exec? (due 21 September) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 325. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:13:10 +0000 From: Katherine Walter Subject: reminder: nominations for ACH Exec due 21 Sept A reminder that nominations or self-nominations for the ACH Executive Council are due by Sept. 21st and that a second is needed. The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) invites nominations for this year's elections. We are electing three Executive Council members to four-year terms and one to fill a 1-year vacancy, and seek candidates who want to advance the field of digital humanities by helping to run the ACH. ACH officers and Executive Council members form ACH's policies, decide how we will spend funds, and oversee all activities. These include our mentorship program and jobs slams, advocacy work, bursaries for DH training programs, publications like Digital Humanities Quarterly and DH Answers, and our collaborations with ADHO partners in the annual DH conference, along with its prestigious awards and student bursaries. You could be involved in helping ACH programs succeed by nominating yourself to be an active participant in the life of the Association. To be confirmed to the Executive Council, candidates must be members of the ACH. They commit to attending annual council meetings at the DH conference and hold discussions during the rest of the year by email and Skype. Council members are expected to be active in the digital humanities community. But these are not roles reserved to those in senior positions: graduate students have often served on the council, and demonstrated commitment to the organization and to the field counts for more with our membership than job titles. Send nominations to ach-nominations@digitalhumanities.org by September 21st. Please confirm with your nominee that he or she is willing to serve, and provide a brief note of interest and qualifications. A platform statement will also be needed for the ballot but need not be included with the nomination. You are warmly encouraged to nominate yourself, but note that per ACH bylaws each nominee requires two nominations to be considered for the ballot. This year, the committee charged with creating a balanced slate will put forward no more than 20 names The three top vote-getters will be elected to four-year terms. The candidate winning the 1-year slot will be eligible for re-election next year. For more information on the responsibilities and obligations of ACH council members, see http://www.ach.org/constitution#Bylaws Current officers of the ACH are listed at http://www.ach.org/officers Many thanks, ACH Nominations Committee Katherine L. Walter, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Chair Johanna Drucker, UCLA, Matt Jockers, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ernesto Priani, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Ex officio members Bethany Nowviskie, ACH President Stefan Sinclair, ACH Vice President Jarom McDonald, ACH Treasurer _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 21 05:32:23 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 339D0290B23; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:32:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EC0AE290953; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:32:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120921053220.EC0AE290953@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:32:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.326 an online reader for Text & Genre in Reconstruction X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 326. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:36:19 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Text and Genre in Reconstruction Open Book Publishers, Cambridge, has devised a new reader that allows at least some of their publications to be read online and offers an embedding function. The volume of essays I edited, Text and Genre in Reconstruction (2010), is now accessible via this reader. Comments on the mechanism are welcome. 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 Sep 21 05:35:27 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 BDB6628EC59; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:35:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9349828EC49; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:35:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120921053525.9349828EC49@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:35:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.327 Humanist exceeds 2000 members X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 327. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:27:34 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: now we are 2001 Some here will be interested in the fact that this morning, London time, the membership of Humanist exceeded 2000 (by one) for the first time in its history. Membership fluctuates to a certain extent, up and down, and 2000 is a small number in terms of the population of the world, or the total number of academics world-wide &c, but still I for one celebrate. Other celebrants are welcome! 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 Sep 21 05:36:30 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 CCD01291055; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:36:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ED67F291045; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:36:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120921053628.ED67F291045@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:36:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.328 cfp: Society for Textual Scholarship conference X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 328. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:24:07 -0500 From: Steve Jones Subject: CFP: STS March 6-8, 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS (please circulate): The Society for Textual Scholarship Seventeenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference March 6-8, 2013 Loyola University Chicago “The Objects of Textual Scholarship” Program Chairs: Steven Jones, Peter Shillingsburg, Loyola University Chicago Deadline for Proposals: November 1, 2012 ================================================================== KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: DIRK VAN HULLE, University of Antwerp; PAULIUS SUBACIUS, Vilnius University; PAUL GEHL, The Newberry Library, Chicago; ISAAC GERWITZ, The Berg Collection, New York Public Library ================================================================== The conference will be held at Loyola University’s Water Tower Campus, just north of the Loop, off the Magnificent Mile and near the Newberry Library, Museum of Contemporary Art, etc. This year’s topic is “The Objects of Textual Scholarship,” and the program chairs invite submissions on any aspect of interdisciplinary textual scholarship, but with a possible focus on the role of primary objects, artifacts. and archival materials as the basis of and challenge to textual scholarship in all its forms, including the digital representation by textual criticism of primary materials and physical artifacts. Submissions (papers, panels, seminars, workshops) may focus on any aspect of textual scholarship across the disciplines, including the discovery, enumeration, description, bibliographical analysis, editing, annotation, and mark-up of texts in disciplines such as literature, history, musicology, classical and biblical studies, philosophy, art history, legal history, history of science and technology, computer science, library and information science, archives, lexicography, epigraphy, paleography, codicology, cinema studies, new media studies, game studies, theater, performance studies, linguistics, and textual and literary theory. Submissions may take the following forms: Proposals should include a title, abstract (one to two pages) of the proposed paper, panel, seminar, or workshop, as well as the name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation for all participants. Format should be clearly indicated. Seminar and workshop proposals in particular should take care to articulate the imagined audience and any expectations of prior knowledge or preparation. ***All abstracts should indicate what if any technological support will be required.*** Inquiries and proposals should be submitted electronically–as plain text–to: Professor Steven Jones: s3jones1-at- gmail -dot- com See http://stevenejones.org for further contact information. A small number of stipends will be available to offset the travel costs for graduate students traveling to Chicago from outside North America. Please note your interest in being considered for this award as part of your application. All participants in the STS 2013 conference must be members of STS. For information about membership, please visit the society for Textual Scholarship website http://textualsociety.org/membership-information/. For conference updates and information, including a list of keynote speakers, see the STS website at http://textualsociety.org. -- Steven Jones http://stevenejones.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 22 09:14:27 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 9377B292C62; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:14:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 93C092929F2; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:14:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120922091425.93C092929F2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:14:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.329 Humanist exceeds 2000 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 329. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: procchi@luiss.it (10) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.327 Humanist exceeds 2000 members [2] From: Simon Rae (51) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.327 Humanist exceeds 2000 members [3] From: "Ulman, H. Lewis" (55) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.327 Humanist exceeds 2000 members --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:32:04 +0200 From: procchi@luiss.it Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.327 Humanist exceeds 2000 members William, Congratulations ! Paolo Rocchi Docent Emeritus IBM via Shangai 53, 00144 Roma Professor LUISS University via Alberoni 7, 00198 Roma On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 327. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:27:34 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: now we are 2001 > > > Some here will be interested in the fact that this morning, London time, > the membership of Humanist exceeded 2000 (by one) for the first time in > its history. Membership fluctuates to a certain extent, up and down, and 2000 > is a small number in terms of the population of the world, or the total number > of academics world-wide &c, but still I for one celebrate. Other celebrants are > welcome! > > 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, 21 Sep 2012 16:17:02 +0100 From: Simon Rae Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.327 Humanist exceeds 2000 members In-Reply-To: <20120921053525.9349828EC49@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, good news indeed ... I'd love to know how far the network of influence of these 2001 reaches, how many of us read, digest and forward the content of appealing messages on to others? Congratulations Simon (member from way back ...) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:51:04 +0000 From: "Ulman, H. Lewis" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.327 Humanist exceeds 2000 members In-Reply-To: <20120921053525.9349828EC49@woodward.joyent.us> Congratulations, Humanist! I look forward to, and learn from, every post. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ H. Lewis Ulman, Associate Professor Director, Digital Media StudiesCo-Director, the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN) Department of English The Ohio State University 353 Denney Hall 164 West 17th Avenue Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: (614) 292-2275 <> E-mail: ulman.1@osu.edu WWW: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/ulman1/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 22 09:18:43 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 180FA28EC4D; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:18:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A13B028EC45; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:18:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120922091841.A13B028EC45@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:18:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.330 funding for digital R&D in the arts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 330. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:50:45 +0100 From: "Waddington, Simon" Subject: {Disarmed} The new £7m Digital R&D Fund for the Arts > From: Nesta > Date: Friday, 21 September 2012 10:01 > Subject: {Disarmed} The new £7m Digital R&D Fund for the Arts is now open for applications We're inviting expressions of interest for the new £7 million Digital R&D Fund for the Arts. The Digital R&D Fund for the Arts is now open for applications. The Digital R&D Fund for the Arts is an exciting new £7 million pound fund for organisations with arts projects based in England working in collaboration with technology providers and researchers. The Fund will support new digital research and development projects that deal specifically with expanding audience research and/or developing new business models. Following on from the success of the pilot Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture this new Fund is offering the sector a new and bigger opportunity to get funding for their digital R&D projects. Don't wait, the Fund is open for applications now. We are looking for expressions of interest from organisations that have an arts project working in collaboration with a technology provider and a researcher or organisations that have an arts project that are working collaboratively with a technology provider who have not yet identified a research partner. We are also accepting applications from researchers who are interested in partnering with organisations working with a technology provider who have not identified their research partner(s). If you are interested in applying please visit the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts website or contact us at Digital-rnd@nesta.org.uk for more information. The Fund is a partnership between the Arts Council England, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (ARHC) and Nesta. If you are an organisation with an arts project based in Scotland please see our affiliate programme - the Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture in Scotland. Kind Regards, Angela Pugh Programme Manager - Digital R&D Fund for the Arts Nesta Our mailing address is: NESTA 1 Plough Place London, England EC4A 1DE United Kingdom _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 22 09:19:55 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 84BB5292285; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:19:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BC2B42921DD; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:19:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120922091953.BC2B42921DD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:19:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.331 cfp: history of science from below X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 331. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:03:45 +0200 From: Nathalie Richard Subject: Call for paper History of science from below Call for Papers - History of science from below Université du Maine, Le Mans, France – June 5-7, 2013 “History from below” emerged in Britain around 1960 as a new historiographic project. It intended to substitute the history of practices and of forms of popular resistance for the more traditional history of institutions and great men, and therefore to confer a new legitimacy on the former. One important outcome of this new historical standpoint has been to take into consideration forms of knowledge and behaviours formally disregarded as marginal or irrational. Focusing on “modest” or “lay” agents, and reconsidering their role in history, this historical trend has greatly contributed to the renovation of social and political history. History of science, notably history of medicine, did not remain uninfluenced by these new historical perspectives. In 1985, Roy Porter advocated a departure from a monolithic history of discoveries and medical glories neglecting popular practices as part of the cure. Olivier Faure has since showed how crucial were the patient’s point of view and initiative. New research grounded on new sources, such as private or first person writings and letters kept in the archives of physicians (for example the Swiss Samuel Tissot), has highlighted the patient’s viewpoint and have contributed to revising the classical history of medicine “from below.” Now studied from multiple angles, the process of a linear and univocal, solely professional and academic, medicalization is rendered more complex, and the autonomous strategic aptitude of lay actors is reappraised. In the history of experimental sciences, the practical skill and knowledge of craftsmen – “the knowledge from the hand”, according to Robert Halleux in 2009 – generate practices which can be considered as forms of trial, even as forms of experiment. During the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, botany and zoology evolved by taking into account this practical knowledge of gardeners, breeders, amateurs and collectors. Learned societies, botanical gardens, rose gardens and orchards were meeting points where scientists and non-scientists alike would observe plants and try to explain and master plant growth and heredity. Observations made by amateurs have often been collected and used by academic scientists in theoretical debates over evolution. Nowadays, the nature and the extent of “scientific cultures” among the general public is an important political and social issue. It is an issue in the growing role played by associations of patients or relatives in the field of medicine. It is also an issue in the “public consultations” which are regularly held on technical and scientific policy. Therefore it seems promising to extend the perspectives of “history from below” to all human and natural sciences, and to emulate discussions on its methodological and theoretical implications. Such is the aim of this conference. Papers should focus on the eighteenth – twentieth centuries, corresponding to the period of emergence of the human and natural sciences in their modern institutional form. Papers dealing with contemporary subjects will be accepted as long as they include some historical perspectives. The following topics could be favoured: - Outsiders from the main academic institutions (general practitioners, technical staff, artisans, amateurs, etc.), and practises at the margins. - Mediators, and modes of dissemination of scientific knowledge (associations, networks, general and popular press, dictionaries and cyclopaedias, publishers, etc.) - History of experimental “subjects” and the public as actors of science, and not solely as material or audience of scientific discourses coming from “above” - Appropriations of science (adaptation, resistance, etc.) The aim of this conference is also to stimulate exchanges on methodological issues, such as: - Sources. What kind of sources can be used to write a history “from below” (oral sources, private letters, first person writings, etc.)? - What should be the limits of the history of science “from below?” Which categories of actors, which groups, which forms of knowledge should be included, or excluded? And how to take them into account? General practitioners are an interesting example. How and when did they cease to be part of the history of medicine “from above?” And how to write their history “from below?” - What should be the right scale for the history of such actors and practices? One could for example question the relationship between the history of science “from below” and microhistory. Collective discussion on methodological issues is still scarce regarding history of science “from below.” It should therefore be central to this conference. How to submit a paper? Abstracts (300/500 words), with formulation of methodological issues, and a short bio-bibliographical notice (100 words), should be sent to the organizing committee before September 30, 2012. Results of the selection process will be announced by November 2012. Conference languages: French and English (translation will not be provided during the conference). Conference venue: Université du Maine, Le Mans, France (Le Mans, France, http://www.univ-lemans.fr) This conference is sponsored by the Centre de Recherches Historiques de l’Ouest (CERHIO, CNRS UMR 6258, http://www.univ-rennes2.fr/cerhio) Organizing committee and contacts: Cristiana OGHINA-PAVIE (CERHIO, Université d’Angers) cristiana.oghinapavie@gmail.com Hervé GUILLEMAIN (CERHIO, Université du Maine) guiherv@club-internet.fr Nathalie RICHARD (CERHIO, Université du Maine) Nathalie.Richard@univ-lemans.fr Nathalie Richard Professeur d'histoire contemporaine Université du Maine, Le Mans, France _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Sep 23 08:25:58 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 17C7929347E; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 08:25:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 134C829346D; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 08:25:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120923082556.134C829346D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 08:25:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.332 new book: Turing's Cathedral X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 332. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:07:15 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Turing's Cathedral and von Neumann's architecture Many here will, I expect, be interested in Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (London: Allen Lane, 2012), by historian of technology George Dyson (son of Freeman Dyson). It has been reviewed by David Kaiser, "Boiling Electrons", London Review of Books 34.18, for 27 September, pp. 17-18. Dyson centres on the construction of John von Neumann's digital electronic computer at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, to the archives of which he has had wonderfully privileged access. (The Institute Digital Collections have been growing slowly, but the riches are far greater than the current listing would suggest; see http://library.ias.edu/digitalpubs/. The online offerings include "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge", by the Institute's founding director, Abraham Flexner.) Anyone who has encountered von Neumann, esp through his own writings, will already know how valuable this book could be. The tome just arrived, all ca 400 pages of it. I may well be saying more as I read. 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 Sep 24 06:46:36 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 CD2CF289CEC; Mon, 24 Sep 2012 06:46:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 028E0289CDC; Mon, 24 Sep 2012 06:46:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120924064635.028E0289CDC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 06:46:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.333 hiatus X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 333. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 07:45:17 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: hiatus Dear colleagues, Humanist is now in the midst of a move from one server to another. During the move, to make sure nothing gets scrambled, no new members will be added and no messages sent out (other than this one). Humanist will resume as normal once the move has been done and all checks out as should be. This should not take long. 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 Sep 24 13:45:17 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 BFEA7289E24; Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:45:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EEA43289DD4; Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:45:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120924134513.EEA43289DD4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:45:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.334 a test message X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 334. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:43:59 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: test Dear colleagues, This is a test message to see if Humanist is working in the new environment. Please delete -- or keep as a souvenir :-). 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 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D8B5F6096; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 07:27:01 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A71E2608E; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 07:27:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8EF8C608D; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 07:26:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121001052659.8EF8C608D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 07:26:59 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.335 Humanist back on the air! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 335. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 06:14:58 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanist back on the air Dear colleagues, It would appear that Humanist is ready to resume normal operations this Monday 1 October morning (BST, though winter is not far off). A few glitches may remain, so don't be surprised if my words turn out to be slightly premature. Nevertheless, my profuse thanks are due to the several people who have been involved in moving Humanist, including Malgosia Askanas, Ian Rifkin, Jan Christoph Meister, John Unsworth, Stéfan Sinclair and perhaps others whose names have not turned up in the last day or so in the many e-mail messages that have flown by. All the best. The time for keeping your thoughts to yourself is over. 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 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C79C7609D; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 07:31:17 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 994646091; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 07:31:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9F17A608F; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 07:31:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121001053115.9F17A608F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 07:31:15 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.336 job at Trinity Dublin, Olympics studentship, fellowship in 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="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. 336. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: David Gants (98) Subject: 2013 BSA Fellowship Announcement [2] From: Shawn Day (20) Subject: Job Opening: Software Engineer for Digital Repository of Ireland [3] From: Andrew Prescott (55) Subject: Studentship --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:45:13 -0400 From: David Gants Subject: 2013 BSA Fellowship Announcement The Bibliographical Society of America 2013 Fellowship Program Announcement The BSA invites applications for its sixth annual Katharine Pantzer Senior Fellowship in Bibliography and the British Book Trades as well as its annual short-term fellowship program, all of which support bibliographical inquiry and research in the history of the book trades and in publishing history. Eligible topics may concentrate on books and documents in any field, but should focus on the book or manuscript (the physical object) as historical evidence. Such topics may include establishing a text or studying the history of book production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading. Thanks to the generosity of donors, certain special fellowships support research in particular areas of study. Applicants should therefore read the fellowship titles and guidelines here to determine project eligibility and fit. Please note: these fellowships do not support enumerative bibliography (i.e. the preparation of lists). Individuals who have not received support in the previous five years will be given preference. All fellowships require a project report within one year of receipt of the award, and a copy of any subsequent publications resulting from the project, to be sent to the BSA. I. Fellowships: --The Senior Katharine Pantzer Fellowship ($6,000); Supports research in topics relating to book production and distribution in Britain during the hand-press period as well as studies of authorship, reading, and collecting based on the examination of British books published in that period, with a special emphasis on descriptive bibliography. --The BSA-ASECS Fellowship for Bibliographical Studies in the Eighteenth Century ($3,000); Recipients must be a member of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the time of the award. --The BSA Fellowship in Cartographical Bibliography ($3000); Supports projects dealing with all aspects of the history, presentation, printing, design, distribution, and reception of cartographical documents from Renaissance times to the present, with a special emphasis on eighteenth-century cartography --The BSA-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography ($2,000). --The Folter Fellowship in the History of Bibliography ($2,000); Supports projects in the history and development of bibliography and/or the book trade before 1900. --The Katharine Pantzer Fellowship in the British Book Trades ($2,000); Supports bibliographical inquiry as well as research in the history of the book trades and publishing history in Britain. --The McCorison Fellowship for the History and Bibliography of Printing in Canada and the United States: the Gift of Donald Oresman ($2,000). --The Reese Fellowship for American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas ($2,000). --BSA General Fellowships ($2,000); The Society also offers a number of unnamed fellowships supporting bibliographical research as described above. II. Application Guidelines: Applications are due Dec 15 of each year. We regret that we cannot consider late or incomplete submissions. Applications should include the following components: 1) application form, available at http://www.bibsocamer.org/fellows.htm; 2) project proposal of no more than 1000 words; 3) applicant curriculum vitae; 4) two signed letters of recommendation on official letterhead submitted independently by referees. Letters submitted electronically as a signed PDF via e-mail are preferable, although postal submissions will be accepted. We ask that recommenders use the subject line ³Recommendation for [Applicant Name]² that is, ³Recommendation for Chris Smith.² Complete all application components (including an attached Project Description and curriculum vitae), save them in a recent version of Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, or PDF (preferable), and e-mail the full package to the Society Secretary at fellowships@bibsocamer.org. It is preferable to submit the application package as a single file with the subject line ³[Applicant Name]: BSA Fellowship,² that is, ³Chris Smith: BSA Fellowship.² This application package and two supporting letters of recommendation must be received by 15 December 2012. We regret that we cannot consider late or incomplete applications. Applicants are advised to request recommendation letters well in advance and to direct referees to the BSA site (http://www.bibsocamer.org/fellows.htm) for guidance. NOTE: The Society has added an on-line application form as a simpler alternative to e-mail or postal submission: http://www.bsafellowships.org/bsa/application_form.php. This page features fill-in fields for all the information contained in the traditional application form as well as buttons for electronically submitting curriculum vitae and Project Description files. For more information, contact the Society Secretary at fellowships@bibsocamer.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:11:49 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Job Opening: Software Engineer for Digital Repository of Ireland Trinity College Dublin is recruiting for a Software Engineer for the Digital Repository of Ireland. • Post Status: Contract up to up to 31st August, 2015 • Post Summary: Developing and deploying advanced IT systems as part of the Digital Repository Ireland (DRI) • Department/Faculty: High Performance & Research Computing, ISS • Location: Lloyd Building, Main Campus, Trinity College Dublin • Salary: This post will be made on the Administrative Officer 3/2 in line with current Government Pay Policy • Closing Date: 12 Noon on Friday 5th October, 2012 Application details are available at the link below. Please forward to anyone you think may be interested. More details are available at http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/node/1077 . --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Academy House, --- 19 Dawson Street --- Dublin 2 IRELAND --- about.me/shawnday --- Tel: +353 (0)1 609 0696 --- s.day@dho.ie --- http://dho.ie --- @iridium --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:55:51 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Studentship > From: Bussie Awosanya > Sent: 28 September 2012 09:29 > Subject: ANN: Archiving the Games - AHRC Studentship readvertisement "Archiving the Games: collecting, storing and disseminating the London 2012 knowledge legacy" The School of School of Sport, Tourism & The Outdoors, in collaboration with The British Library in London, wishes to appoint a suitable candidate for an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) PhD studentship. The project, which is funded by a full-time three-year AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA), seeks to ensure a legacy for materials related to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games that are available at the British Library and other archive sources. The research degree student appointed will investigate the challenges associated with managing and disseminating materials associated with large cultural and sporting events including the practical issues involved in the identification and cataloguing of content distributed across a number of different organisations. The studentship is tenable for up to 3 years for a PhD (via MPhil route) [subject to satisfactory progress]. The studentship will cover the cost of tuition fees for UK/EU residents and provide a maintenance grant of £13,590 pa with a further allowance from The British Library of £1000 pa. EU applicants may apply but may only be eligible for tuition fee support. Due to funding restrictions this studentship will not be open to international applicants. The successful applicant will start on 1 January 2013. Applicants should have a very good Upper Second (2:1) class honours degree in a relevant subject (e.g. librarianship, information science, record and archive studies, museum studies, history or sport studies) and preferably have a postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience in librarianship, information science, records or archives. The student will spend approximately 12 months of their three-year studentship working with The British Library’s content and collections in London. The student will be provided with a dedicated workstation, including PC and relevant software, whilst at The British Library. The British Library will also provide a personalised training programme to supplement that provided for research degree students at UCLan. Requests for an application pack (quoting the reference number RS12-04) should be directed to the Graduate Research School Office. Tel: 01772 895082 or email: researchdegrees@uclan.ac.uk Informal enquiries about the project can be made to either Professor John Horne (Central Lancashire) by emailing jdhorne@uclan.ac.uk or Jude England(The British Library) jude.england@bl.uk. Closing Date for Applications: Friday 02 November 2012 Proposed Interview Date: Thursday 06 December 2012 -- 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 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6AE4960A3; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 07:31:53 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D98660A7; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 07:31:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E63566095; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 07:31:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121001053150.E63566095@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 07:31:50 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.337 call for partners: web-archiving research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 337. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:48:39 +0200 From: "Niels Ole Finnemann" Subject: Proposal and call for partners for web archive research Call for partners! We are looking for colleagues who are interested in joining an initiative for building a transnational research infrastructure for the study of web materials archived in national and similar general web archives. We are interested in three different types of response: First, we are looking for scholars/researchers who are prepared to join us in responding to a EU consultation on themes for future research infrastructures to be announced within the Horizon 2020. See “Integrating Initiatives” at http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=home http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=home. Scholars and institutions outside the EU are not excluded. The proposal will be submitted via DARIAH-EU (http://dariah.eu/). Second, you can allow us to mention you or your institution as possible partner without being co-responsible for the suggestion at the present stage. (There is only limited time to form a preliminary community as the suggestion shall be handed in to EU no later than Oct 22). Even if we are interested to have comments we are not going into more detailed discussions about the content of the proposal at the present stage. We will however respond everybody afterwards. Third, we are interested in establishing a community of researchers – who are also prepared to enter into collaborations with relevant web archiving institutions – a community which we are prepared to initiate via a seminar in 2013. Please respond if you are interested in any of these options no later than 10 October 2012. The proposal is developed in collaboration with DARIAH (dariah.eu) and NetLab (netlab.dk), which is a part of the Danish research infrastructure http://dighumlab.dk/ DIGHUMLAB (dighumlab.dk). The collaborations between the Danish internet archive netarkivet.dk (a joint venture between The Royal Library, Copenhagen and The State Library, Aarhus) and the research community at The Centre for Internet Research, Aarhus University, Denmark have developed gradually since 2000 initiated by a Pilot Project on archiving the municipal elections in Denmark in 2001. The collaboration today continues within the Danish DIGHUMLAB project which includes the establishing of the NetLab research infrastructure. We are looking for possible partners based on close collaboration between archival institutions and scholarly communities. The Call and the proposal can be found at netlab.dk/ Mail to: Head of The Centre for Internet Research Niels Brügger at nb@imv.au.dk or Professor, dr.phil. Niels Ole Finnemann at finnemann @imv.au.dk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 76DFF60B6; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 07:36:25 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4548E609D; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 07:36:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 701DD60A4; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 07:36:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121001053623.701DD60A4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 07:36:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.338 events: Turing; museums; virtual worlds; copyright; textual scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 338. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Andrew Prescott (55) Subject: The future of copyright in the digital age and what it means for you: Emily Goodhand and Professor Charles Oppenheim [2] From: Willard McCarty (114) Subject: A belated September update - first installment [3] From: Barbara Bordalejo (28) Subject: STS Call for Papers [4] From: Tzafnat Shpak (39) Subject: Asian Perspectives: A New Issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research [5] From: info@museumsandtheweb.com (26) Subject: MW2013 Proposals Submissions Are Due TODAY - SEPT. 30TH --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:48:27 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: The future of copyright in the digital age and what it means for you: Emily Goodhand and Professor Charles Oppenheim In-Reply-To: <4E984227352F49AB8FB330991D885DDA@IALOffice> -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [UKeiG] The future of copyright in the digital age and what it means for you: Emily Goodhand and Professor Charles Oppenheim > Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:46:55 +0100 > From: Chris Armstrong We are reposting this message as there are places still available on the course. ** It is not too late to book! ** The future of copyright in the digital age and what it means for you Venue: Queen's University Belfast, College Park, Belfast BT7 1LP Date: Wednesday, 7 November, 2012 - 09:30 - 16:30 Course Outline: This important one-day seminar will bring attendees up to date on recent developments in UK copyright law, explaining the implications for all who use information resources in their day to day work, and what they need to tell colleagues. The seminar will give delegates the confidence to deal with the practical issues which they might encounter, and to answer questions from colleagues on topics as wide ranging as orphan works, licences (including Creative Commons licences) and the significance of proposed legislative changes (including Hargreaves Review, Digital Economy Act and EU legislation) and recent key legal cases. The seminar will be highly interactive, with a quiz, discussions on scenarios, and two Q&A sessions. Attendees are asked to submit questions they would like answering in advance. Who should attend: This course is aimed at all those who undertake library and information work that involves the use of copyright materials and who are keen to learn about recent developments in copyright law and practice. Knowledge of copyright principles and law is assumed. Course Presenters: Emily Goodhand and Professor Charles Oppenheim Emily is the Copyright & Compliance Officer at the University of Reading. She has a strong online presence as @copyrightgirl on Twitter and represents the lis-copyseek community as Vice-Chairman of the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance (LACA). Charles was until he retired in 2009 Professor of Information Science at Loughborough University. He is now a copyright consultant, a frequent contributor to lis-copyseek discussions and is both a member of LACA and of the team that advises the JISC on IPR matters. Costs (including lunch and refreshments): UKeiG members £160 + VAT at the current rate; others £200 + VAT at the current rate To register your interest in this meeting, reserve a place, or request further details, please email meetings@ukeig.org.uk. Further details are also available via the UKeiG website at www.ukeig.org.uk -- UKeiG has the CILIP Seal of Recognition, which recognises high standards in the content and relevance of training courses. See http://www.cilip.org.uk/qualificationschartership/seal/ for details UKeiG is a Special Interest Group of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE. Registered Charity No. 313014. Visit our web site: http://www.ukeig.org.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:54:39 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: A belated September update - first installment In-Reply-To: <4E984227352F49AB8FB330991D885DDA@IALOffice> -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [ATY/TCAC] A belated September update - first installment > Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:19:35 +0100 (BST) > From: S Barry Cooper It's been another hectic month for the Alan Turing Year, and still many great things to come. Here's a first attempt to catch up after a summer of engrossing events: 1) Out in the all-important wider world - and Alan is still far from being a household name beyond the computing and mathematics cognoscenti - the best publicity for Turing and his work has come from the launch of the Turing Centenary Monopoly set, based on the 60-year-old hand-drawn version by schoolboy William Newman. Once again, it's independent Bletchley Park and US company Google who are the key players. Here is some of the nice publicity: The Bletchley Park page with ordering info is at: http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/shop/view_product.rhtm/139574/668529/detail.html Today's Guardian Northerner Blog (Playing Monopoly with Alan Turing), with some coded real science: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2012/sep/24/alan-turing-monopoly?newsfeed=true >From the Express: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/344849/War-hero-s-Monopoly Manchester Evening News: http://bit.ly/NiIHWG Less direct Turing publicity comes from hugely successful ITV production "The Bletchley Circle" - see: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9526647/The-Bletchley-Circle-ITV1-review.html More on this to follow. 2) If you missed the ICO Alan Turing Lecture by MI5 historian Christopher Andrew at MOSI on Sept. 11 in Manchester, you can hear it online at: http://soundcloud.com/iconews/ico-alan-turing-lecture-2012 3) Still time to make the Oct.4 National Press Club Turing Centenary Event at the U.S. National Press Club, Washington - will include a "sneak preview and panel discussion of 'Codebreaker', the acclaimed new 53-minute film about Alan Turing's heroic life, tragic death and lasting legacy." Details: http://bit.ly/QtwwGS 4) Another nice US initiative is "Go Ask A.L.I.C.E." an exhibition at Harvard University on the history of "Turing Tests, Parlor Games, & Chatterbots" - lots of imagination and interest here: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/chsi_goa.html 5) Report of a major Centenary event in the Punjab, India: http://www.lpu.in/FullNewsRelease.aspx?id=339 "Keynote speakers of the conference were experts in the field of Computing, from the prestigious Universities of America, Industry and many reputed Indian Universities. More than 1000 researchers had registered and participated in the Conference. The output of this conference is now further leading towards joint collaborative research projects with Kansas State University, Iowa State University, IBM Research Labs and Pentagram Research Centre." 6) And here is a report on the Monash University, Australia celebration of Turing’s 100th anniversary on Sept.17: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/315722,monash-celebrates-turing8217s-100th-anniversary.aspx 100 participants - "computer scientists and enthusiasts" - for what sounds a great 100th birthday event for Turing. 7) Thanks to the Pet Shop Boys for a Turing Centenary project with the BBC Philharmonic on a piece of music about Alan Turing, to be included in their forthcoming new album. Report from Out Magazine: http://www.out.com/entertainment/popnography/2012/09/13/pet-shop-boys-speak-out-about-alan-turing A Guardian report: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/sep/13/pet-shop-boys has a nice quote from PSB regarding Turing's prosecution for homosexuality and the ongoing petition for a pardon: "A terrible story," says Tennant. "Of course the reason they won't pardon Alan Turing is because they'd have to pardon all those homosexual men. Well why don't they? Why don't they pardon them all, actually?" 8) Fascinating piece from October issue of architecture magazine Blueprint by Owen Pritchard writing about the process of design for 'Codebreaker' at the Science Museum: http://www.nissenrichardsstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/blueprint.pdf 9) And super article from Discover magazine on Turing's morphogenesis - "One way to skin a cat - same genes behind blotches of tabbies and king cheetahs": http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/09/20/tabby-cat-blotches-king-cheetah-stripes-spots-taqpep/ 10) Some quick mentions of events in the next few days - and bags more to catch up on in our next installment: September 25-27, 2012: Workshop on Limits of Theorem Proving, in Rome. Workshop is devoted to Propositional Proof Complexity and its relations to neighboring disciplines such as Computational Complexity, Logic, Reverse Mathematics and Proof Theory. By highlighting the theme of efficient provability, the workshop contributes to the large-scale events of the Alan Turing Year 2012. Keynote speakers include: Sam Buss, Steve Cook, Jan Krajicek and Pavel Pudlak. Contact: Nicola Galesi Details: http://wwwusers.di.uniroma1.it/~galesi/LiThPr.html September 26-28, 2012: IFIP Theoretical Computer Science 2012 (TCS 2012), held at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam. Part of the Alan Turing Jaar 2012 in the Netherlands. Contact: Karin Blankers Details: http://tcs.project.cwi.nl September 27, 2012: The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Lecture, at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, Oxford, 15:00 in R22 Lecture Theatre. With Prof. S.Barry Cooper speaking on From Newton to Turing: Physics and the Computational Constraint. Contact: Bob Bingham See: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/Cooper.RAL.pdf September 28 - October 28, 2012: Breaking the Code in Baltimore - a production by the Performance Workshop Theatre, directed by Marlyn G. Robinson. More details from Baltimore Broadway World. More: http://www.performanceworkshoptheatre.org/Welcome_3.html September 29-30, 2012: 5th Eastern Great Lakes Theory of Computation Workshop at Davis Hall, University at Buffalo North Campus. This year, the workshop will celebrate the legacy of Alan Turing as part of the Alan Turing Year. Speakers: Randall Dipert (Buffalo), Juris Hartmanis (Cornell), Dick Lipton (Georgia), Amir Nayyeri (Carnegie Mellon), Laura Sanità (Waterloo), Vinod Vaikuntanathan (Toronto). Contact: Atri Rudra Details: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/events/theory-V/ For October events, see: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?13#oct __________________________________________________________________________ ALAN TURING YEAR http://www.turingcentenary.eu ASSOCIATION COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE http://www.computability.org.uk Email: pmt6sbc@leeds.ac.uk Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Alan-Turing-Year/199853901070 and http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Alan-Turing-Year/100000473465821 Twitter: http://twitter.com/AlanTuringYear __________________________________________________________________________ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:25:26 +0100 From: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: STS Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <4E984227352F49AB8FB330991D885DDA@IALOffice> CALL FOR PAPERS: The Society for Textual Scholarship Seventeenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference March 6-8, 2013 Loyola University Chicago “The Objects of Textual Scholarship” Program Chairs: Steven Jones, Peter Shillingsburg, Loyola University Chicago Deadline for Proposals: November 1, 2012 =================================================================== KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: DIRK VAN HULLE, University of Antwerp; PAULIUS SUBACIUS, Vilnius University; PAUL GEHL, The Newberry Library, Chicago; ISAAC GERWITZ, The Berg Collection, New York Public Library =================================================================== The conference will be held at Loyola University’s Water Tower Campus, just north of the Loop, off the Magnificent Mile and near the Newberry Library, Museum of Contemporary Art, etc. This year’s topic is “The Objects of Textual Scholarship,” and the program chairs invite submissions on any aspect of interdisciplinary textual scholarship, but with a possible focus on the role of primary objects, artifacts. and archival materials as the basis of and challenge to textual scholarship in all its forms, including the digital representation by textual criticism of primary materials and physical artifacts. Submissions (papers, panels, seminars, workshops) may focus on any aspect of textual scholarship across the disciplines, including the discovery, enumeration, description, bibliographical analysis, editing, annotation, and mark-up of texts in disciplines such as literature, history, musicology, classical and biblical studies, philosophy, art history, legal history, history of science and technology, computer science, library and information science, archives, lexicography, epigraphy, paleography, codicology, cinema studies, new media studies, game studies, theater, performance studies, linguistics, and textual and literary theory. Proposals should include a title, abstract (one to two pages) of the proposed paper, panel, seminar, or workshop, as well as the name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation for all participants. Format should be clearly indicated. Seminar and workshop proposals in particular should take care to articulate the imagined audience and any expectations of prior knowledge or preparation. ***All abstracts should indicate what if any technological support will be required.*** Inquiries and proposals should be submitted electronically–as plain text–to: Professor Steven Jones: s3jones1-at- gmail -dot- com See http://stevenejones.org for further contact information. A small number of stipends will be available to offset the travel costs for graduate students traveling to Chicago from outside North America. Please note your interest in being considered for this award as part of your application. All participants in the STS 2013 conference must be members of STS. For information about membership, please visit the society for Textual Scholarship website http://textualsociety.org/membership-information/. For conference updates and information, including a list of keynote speakers, see the STS website at http://textualsociety.org. -- Steven Jones Professor of English Co-Director, CTSDH Loyola University Chicago http://stevenejones.org --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 06:00:10 +0100 From: Tzafnat Shpak Subject: Asian Perspectives: A New Issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research In-Reply-To: Dear members, We are happy to announce the new publication of The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research: Volume 5, Number 2: Asian Perspectives The editorial team for this issue: * Kenneth Y T Lim, National Institute of Education, Singapore * Young Hoan Cho, National Institute of Education, Singapore * Michael Vallance, Future University, Hakodate, Japan East vs. West? More like East and West. There is a lot the West and the East can learn from each other. Virtual worlds are perhaps one of the best examples. China, Singapore, Korea and Japan all present different approaches to virtual life. Technical and social norms reshape each other. These unique Asian perspectives about virtual worlds were the seed for this issue. In this issue you will find perspectives from East Asia and Southeast Asia; the contrasts and comparisons are at once diverse and revealing. * Managing Editor Corner: East vs. West? More like East and West Yesha Y. Sivan * Issue Editors' Corner: Virtual Worlds Asian Perspectives: a Landscape with Peaks and Valleys Kenneth Y T Lim * Escaping the World: A Chinese Perspective on Virtual Worlds David Kurt Herold * The Demographic Distribution and Social Experience of Chinese MMO Players Li Xiong * The Abyss Observatory - Designing for Remote Collaboration, Self-directed Discovery and Intuition Development in Multi-user Interactive 3D Virtual Environments Hajime Nishimura, Kenneth Y T Lim, Koji Koyamada * Assessment and Learning in the Virtual World: Tasks, Taxonomies and Teaching for Real Michael Vallance, Stewart M. Martin * Effects of Digital Game Play Among Young Singaporean Gamers: A Two-Wave Longitudinal Study Dongdong Li, Hyekyung Choo, Angeline Khoo, Albert K. Liau * Collaboration in Virtual Worlds: The Role of the Facilitator Benjamin G Wigert, Gert-Jan de Vreede, Imed Boughzala, Ikram Bououd We are also happy to let you know of the following: * Our next issue Managerial and Commercial Applications will be led by Shu Schiller, from Wright State University, USA * Check our web site's special page on events in our field. * Review past issues on our website's special all issues cover view page. * We welcome you to join our Facebook page 'theJVWR' and follow @theJVWR on Twitter * And/or subscribe to our mailing list (on the top left of http://www.jvwreserach.org). Wishing you all an interesting reading in this special "Asian Perspectives" issue, and a joyful journey in the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, Tzafnat Shpak Coordinating Editor Prof. Yesha Y. Sivan Managing Editor TheJVWR - The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research http://jvwresearch.org --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:23:13 -0700 From: info@museumsandtheweb.com Subject: MW2013 Proposals Submissions Are Due TODAY - SEPT. 30TH In-Reply-To: Don't forget to submit your MW2013 proposal today! Performances? Hack-a-thons? Maker Faires? sessions, papers, presentations and other interactions or services? Propose any other format of participation + explain how it works. Museums and the Web is open to new ideas. http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/call-for-proposals Museums and the Web is an annual conference featuring advanced research and exemplary applications of digital practice for cultural, natural and scientific heritage. Formed by leading professionals from around the world, our community has been meeting since 1997. The products of our meetings and conversations – the MW proceedings, Best of the Web archives and discussion Forum – are an unparalleled resource for museum workers, technologists, students and researchers that grows every year. MW offers a range of professional learning opportunities, from plenary sessions to un-conference sessions, from formal papers to informal networking, from museum project demonstrations to commercial exhibits, from professional debates to lightning talks, from how-to sessions to crit rooms and the Best of the Web awards. Prior to the conference, there are full-day and half-day workshops and a day of pre-conference tours. Read more at http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/ Nancy Proctor & Rich Cherry MW2013 Co-chairs Questions? info@museumsandtheweb.com Follow us on Twitter: @museweb _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3133860C3; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 07:37:25 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF07960C2; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 07:37:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 72FF760BF; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 07:37:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121001053723.72FF760BF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 07:37:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.339 on Turing's Cathedral; Debates in the Digital Humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 339. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Matthew Kirschenbaum (54) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.332 new book: Turing's Cathedral [2] From: Willard McCarty (13) Subject: our dilemmas --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:35:07 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.332 new book: Turing's Cathedral In-Reply-To: <20120923082556.134C829346D@woodward.joyent.us> It's beautifully written too. On Sep 23, 2012 4:26 AM, "Humanist Discussion Group" < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 332. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:07:15 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: Turing's Cathedral and von Neumann's architecture > > Many here will, I expect, be interested in Turing's Cathedral: The > Origins of the Digital Universe (London: Allen Lane, 2012), by historian > of technology George Dyson (son of Freeman Dyson). It has been reviewed > by David Kaiser, "Boiling Electrons", London Review of Books 34.18, for > 27 September, pp. 17-18. > > Dyson centres on the construction of John von Neumann's digital > electronic computer at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, to > the archives of which he has had wonderfully privileged access. (The > Institute Digital Collections have been growing slowly, but the riches > are far greater than the current listing would suggest; see > http://library.ias.edu/digitalpubs/. The online offerings include "The > Usefulness of Useless Knowledge", by the Institute's founding director, > Abraham Flexner.) > > Anyone who has encountered von Neumann, esp through > his own writings, will already know how valuable this book could be. > The tome just arrived, all ca 400 pages of it. I may well be saying > more as I read. > > 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: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:36:38 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: our dilemmas In-Reply-To: <20120923082556.134C829346D@woodward.joyent.us> Debates in the Digital Humanities, ed. Matthew Gold, has been reviewed by Jennifer Howard, in "Dilemmas of the digital humanists", Times Literary Supplement for 8 August 2012. See http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1099163.ece. 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 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CD9C96130; Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:53:07 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E130612C; Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:53:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 390EF6126; Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:53:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121002045306.390EF6126@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:53:06 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.340 PhD studentship at Maynooth X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 340. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 09:27:48 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Funded PhD Position in DAH Programme at NUI Maynooth The Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) PhD programme at NUI Maynooth is offering one funded 4 year PhD scholarship, commencing 2012-3. Students participate in a collaborative Structured Phd Programme with co-registration in An Foras Feasa and a participating academic department (e.g. English, Music, Media Studies, History, Celtic Studies, Modern Languages, Computer Science). An Foras Feasa specialises in the integration of humanities research with information and communications technologies; particular research strengths in the Institute and its partner departments include digital imaging, digital critical editions, data modeling, digital archives and repository development, humanities computing, software engineering, music technology and multimedia. The scholarship is offered on a competitive basis; the funding has been made available through the University's Hume Scholarship programme and provides fees as well as an annual stipend of 5000 euro. For more information about the DAH programme please visit www.learndigitalhumanities.ie. Prospective applicants are encouraged to contact An Foras Feasa prior to submission of an application; for this and other queries, contact Dr Jennifer Kelly,phdapplications@forasfeasa.ie. To apply for the scholarship and access the details of the application process see http://graduatestudies.nuim.ie. The deadline for receipt of completed applications is 5pm on Monday 08 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 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6AB646130; Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:54:40 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E5006128; Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:54:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 171296125; Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:54:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121002045438.171296125@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:54:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.341 Mellon grant for the Early Modern OCR Project (TAMU) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 341. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 17:12:12 -0500 From: Laura Mandell Subject: Announcing a Mellon Grant Received by the IDHMC at Texas A&M University Announcing a Mellon Grant Received by the IDHMC at Texas A&M University English Professor Laura Mandell, Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC), along with two co-PIs Professor Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna and Professor Richard Furuta, are very pleased to announce that Texas A&M has received a 2-year, $734,000 development grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Early Modern OCR Project (eMOP, http://emop.tamu.edu ). The two other project leaders, Anton DuPlessis and Todd Samuelson, are book historians from Cushing Rare Books Library. Over the next two years, eMOP will work to improve scholarly access to an extensive early modern text corpus. The overarching goal of eMOP is to develop new methods and tools to improve the digitization, transcription, and preservation of early modern texts. The peculiarities of early printing technology make it difficult for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to discern discrete characters and, thus, to render readable digital output. By creating a database of early modern fonts, training the software that mechanically types page images (OCR) to read those typefaces, and creating crowd-sourced correction tools, eMOP promises to improve the quality of digital surrogates for early modern texts. Receiving this grant makes possible improving the machine-translation of digital page images with cutting-edge crowd-sourcing and OCR technologies, both guided by book history. Our goal is to further the digital preservation processes currently taking place in institutions, libraries, and museums globally. The IDHMC, along with our participating institutions and individuals, will aggregate and re-tool many of the recent innovations in OCR in order to provide a stable community and expanded canon for future scholarly pursuits. Thanks to the efforts of the Advanced Research Consortium (ARC) and its digital hubs, NINES, 18thConnect, ModNets, REKn and MESA, eMOP* *has received permissions to work with over 300,000 documents from Early English Books Online (EBBO) and Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO), totaling 45 million page images of documents published before 1800. The IDHMC is committed to the improvement and growth of digital projects and resources, and the Mellon Foundation’s grant to Texas A&M for the support of eMOP will enable us to fulfill our promise to the scholarly community to educate, preserve, and develop the future of humanities scholarship. For further information, including webcasts explaining the problem and copies of the grant application itself, please see the eMOP website: http://emop.tamu.edu -- Laura Mandell Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture Professor, English Texas A&M University p: 979-845-8345 e: mandell@tamu.edu @mandellc http://idhmc.tamu.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EAA5D6138; Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:55:43 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD08F6133; Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:55:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2DA1B6130; Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:55:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121002045542.2DA1B6130@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:55:42 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.342 events: DH2013 proposals due; UK museums X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 342. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Mia (50) Subject: Call for Papers for UK Museums on the Web, 30 November 2012, London [2] From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" (27) Subject: reminder: DH 2013 deadline 1 November --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 14:08:53 +0100 From: Mia Subject: Call for Papers for UK Museums on the Web, 30 November 2012, London In the interests of creating more productive links and knowledge-sharing between museums and the digital humanities, I'd like to share this Call for Papers with the Humanist list. There is also a collaboratively edited document discussing other opportunities for links between memory institutions and digital humanists at http://bit.ly/TzvGYV The Committee of the Museums Computer Group is excited to announce that our annual conference Museums on the Web – UKMW12 – will be held at the Wellcome Collection in London on Friday 30th November 2012. The theme for UKMW12 is ‘strategically digital’. The conference will be an opportunity to take a step back from the everyday and think strategically about the impact of the digital revolution on your museum and on the sector as a whole. As always, UK Museums on the Web is a day for being inspired by the latest ideas, for learning from case studies grounded in organisations like yours, and for networking with other technologists, curators, managers, learning and marketing specialists in the museum and heritage sector. We are interested in proposals on topics such as: * Digitally enabling the modern museum and its staff; * Sustaining the digital agenda and the realities of digital strategies and organisational change; * The complexities of digital engagement and the impact of social media on audience expectations; * Relevant case studies that situate digital projects within organisational strategic objectives, or papers that draw actionable lessons from an overview of the national and international heritage sector. If you would like to propose a paper for one of these themes, please emailcontact@museumscomputergroup.org.uk by 12 October 2012 with the following information: * Your name * The organisation you work for (if applicable) * The title of your paper * A 200-word summary of what your paper will cover * How your paper relates to the themeLinks to any online videos, slides or reports from previous talks that give a sense of your presentation style * Have you given this paper or talked about this project at a previous conference? If so, which conference and when? The UKMW12 Programme Committee will aim to make a decision on the Programme by 19th October 2012. Please don’t hesitate to contact us via twitter (@ukmcg), contact@museumscomputergroup.org.uk or comment at http://bit.ly/UKMWCfP if you have any questions or comments. We look forward to reading your proposals. Cheers, Mia (as MCG Chair) -------------------------------------------- http://openobjects.org.uk/ http://twitter.com/mia_out --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 15:05:12 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: reminder: DH 2013 deadline 1 November Reminder: the deadline approaches for proposals to Digital Humanities 2013, to be held in Lincoln, Nebraska this July! Proposals can now be submitted online: http://dh2013.unl.edu/call-for-proposals/ Abstracts for short and long papers, posters, and panel sessions are due by midnight GMT on 1 November 2012. Proposals for pre-conference workshops and tutorials will be accepted until 15 February 2013. Authors are encouraged to read the CFP carefully and to review the following guidelines, which outline some changes to this year's review process: http://dh2013.unl.edu/guidelines-for-proposal-authors-and-reviewers/ On behalf of the international program committee, Bethany Nowviskie, Chair DH 2013 PC: Craig Bellamy (ACH) John Bradley (ALLC) Paul Caton (ACH) Carolyn Guertain (CSDH/SCHN) Ian Johnson (aaDH) Bethany Nowviskie (ACH, chair) Sarah Potvin (cN) Jon Saklofske (CSDH/SCHN) Sydney Shep (aaDH) Melissa Terras (ALLC, vice-chair) Tomoji Tabata (ALLC) Deb Verhoeven (aaDH) Ethan Watrall (cN) Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9EE0F613B; Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:57:14 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 743C06128; Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:57:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4CDFE6125; Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:57:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121002045713.4CDFE6125@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:57:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.343 new book: Canoni liquidi (Liquid Canons) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 343. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 16:22:41 +0200 From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: new book: Liquid Canons Domenico Fiormonte (ed.), *Canoni liquidi. Variazione culturale e stabilità testuale dalla Bibbia a Internet* [Liquid Canons. Cultural variation and textual stability from the Bible to the Internet], Napoli: ScripatWeb, 2011. Online and print edition available from http://scriptaweb.eu/Catalogo/canoni-liquidi In our Western tradition we read and study Homer, Dante or the Bible as reference texts: immutable, fixed, "canonical". Established “once and for all”, the canonical texts place themselves at the core of our cultural identity. But how is their memory handed down and how was their supposed stability constituted? A brief look at the history of texts – from Homer to ancient India, from Old Testament to Women Studies – reveals that the issue is more complex than one could expect. In the course of time, both the great works of antiquity and those closer to our times underwent through many metamorphosis because of the pressure of social and political events, ideological or religious interests, accidental or conscious manipulation. This volume seeks to make a point about these issues confronting an interdisciplinary group of scholars: Latinists, Greek scholars, Sanskritists, but also anthropologists, sociologists and Computer scientists, are asked to discuss openly and beyond strictly academic barriers what preserving and handing down cultural memory means today. Full English abstracts: http://www.digitalvariants.org/news/canoni-liquidi-international-seminar Table of Contents: Marcello Buiatti (Biology, University of Florence), “I linguaggi della vita” / “The languages of life” Francesco Benozzo (Romance Philology, University of Bologna), “Dalla filologia tradizionale all’etnofilologia tradizionante” / "From traditional philology to traditioning ethnophilology" Gian Luigi Prato (Biblical Studies, University of Roma Tre), “Gli scritti biblici tra utopia del canone fisso e fluidità del testo storico” / “Biblical Writings between the utopia of the fixed canon and the fluidity of the historical text” Giovanni Cerri (Ancient Greek Literature, University of Roma Tre), “Omero liquido” / “Homer in Progress” Francesco Sferra (Asian Studies, University of Naples), “La fluidità testuale nelle tradizioni indiane” / “Textual fluidity in Ancient Indian tradition” Alessandro Simonicca (Anthropology, La Sapienza University of Rome), “La variazione nei processi di trasmissione della cultura” / “Variation in the processes of transmission of culture” Monica Cristina Storini (Italian Literature, La Sapienza University of Rome), “Resistere alla stabilità: il canone letterario in un’ottica di genere” / “Resisting to stability: the literary canon from a gender point of view” Paolo Mastandrea (Latin Literature, University of Venice), “La memoria insignificante. Inerzie formulari e variazioni foniche nel dettato poetico latino” / “Speech variations, insignificant memory: formularity and poetic dictation in Latin” Domenico Fiormonte (Communication Studies, University of Roma Tre), Desmond Schmidt (Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology), “La rappresentazione digitale della “varianza” testuale” / “The digital representation of textual variation” Giulio Lughi (Sociology, University of Turin), “Tra generi e stili: forme di (in)stabilità nei new media” / “Between genres and styles: forms of (in)stability in the new media” _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DED166175; Wed, 3 Oct 2012 07:20:09 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD75A616C; Wed, 3 Oct 2012 07:20:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0020E616C; Wed, 3 Oct 2012 07:20:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121003052008.0020E616C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 07:20:07 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.344 events: InterFace; Humanities Hack; Robots & Avatars; language X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 344. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Andrew Prescott (53) Subject: Humanities Hack, 21/22 November 2012, London [2] From: Andrew Prescott (88) Subject: ROBOTS AND AVATARS, MARIBOR, SLOVENIA, 5th OCT EXHIBITION OPENS [3] From: "Lauersdorf, Mark R" (44) Subject: Call for Abstracts: Language Technology at KFLC 2013 [4] From: Leif Isaksen (57) Subject: InterFace 2013 Call for Venue --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 12:47:04 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Humanities Hack, 21/22 November 2012, London In-Reply-To: <4B0983572BB1C74E885632DE440FC1FA147A2651@UM-excdag-a02.um.gwdg.de> Humanities Hack When: 21st-22nd November 2012 Where: Guys Campus, Hodgkin Building, London, SE1 1UL* Humanities Hack is the first Digital Humanities hack organised jointly by the Department of Digital Humanities, DARIAH, the Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana (DM2E) project and the Open Humanities Working Group at the Open Knowledge Foundation. The London event is the first of a series of hack days organised for Digital Humanists and intended to target research-driven experimentation with existing Humanities data sets. One of the most exciting recent developments in Digital Humanities include the investigation and analysis of complex data sets that require the close collaboration between Humanities and computing researchers. The aim of the hack day is not to produce complete applications but to experiment with methods and technologies to investigate these data sets so that at the end we can have an understanding of the types of novel techniques that are emerging. We are providing a few open humanities data sets but we welcome any addition. We are currently collecting data sets here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al6mO9_3Hr2PdFJ2aEFzNTZZMVVDbkJZWXB1YTRkOWc#gid=0 Possible themes include but are not limited to - Research in textual annotation has been a particular strength of Digital Humanities. Where are the next frontiers? How can we bring together insights from other fields and Digital Humanities? - How do we provide linking and sharing Humanities data that makes sense of its complex structure, with many internal relationships both structural and semantic. In particular, distributed Humanities research data often includes digital material combining objects in multiple media, and in addition there is diversity of standards for describing the data. - Visualisation. How do we develop reasonable visualisations that are practical and help build on overall intuition for the underlying Humanities data set - How can we advance the novel Humanities technique of Network Analysis to describe complex relationships of 'things' in social-historical systems: people, places, etc. With this hack day we seek to from groups of computing and humanities researchers that will work together to come up with small-scale prototypes that showcase new and novel ways of working with Humanities data. As numbers are limited for this hack, please register at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFp1eExmUVMtWG1YUkNZSnFFd05EWlE6MQ If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Sam Leon (sam.leon@okfn.org) or Tobias Blanke (tobias.blanke@kcl.ac.uk) ----------------------------------------------------- As part of the work on its Digital Transformations theme (http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Funding-Opportunities/Research-funding/Themes/Digital-Transformations/Pages/Digital-Transformations.aspx), the Arts and Humanities Research Council is organising a Digital Transfomations Moot at the Mermaid Conference Centre in London on Monday 19 November 2012. Registration for this event is free and those joining the Humanities Hackfest might also enjoy attending the Moot. Further details can be found at: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/Events/Pages/Digital-Transformations-Moot.aspx' My best wishes, Ele Kraft --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 15:41:32 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: ROBOTS AND AVATARS, MARIBOR, SLOVENIA, 5th OCT EXHIBITION OPENS In-Reply-To: > Subject: ROBOTS AND AVATARS, MARIBOR, SLOVENIA, 5th OCT EXHIBITION OPENS > Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 14:09:02 +0100 > From: Ghislaine Boddington *Robots and Avatars On Tour - Exhibition, Debates and Learning Experiences * *at KIBLA in Maribor **Slovenia, October 5–30, 2012**, Slovenia as part of the European City Of Culture* / *ROBOTS AND AVATARS – OUR COLLEAGUES AND PLAYMATES OF THE FUTURE? *Interdisciplinary exhibition, performances, debates, workshops, guided tours** http://kiblix.org/kiblix2012/ra *FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5th:* * * *Workshops* (last day of three days) *- Virtual Worlds and Avatars - Michael Takeo Magruder, Drew Baker (UK): * *1–4 pm interactive social experiment* Martin Bricelj Baraga, Slavko Glamočanin / MoTA (Slovenia): Public avatar; Venue: KIT KIBLA, Glavni trg 14, Maribor, Slovenia *6-8 pm debate no. 1: Ethics and behaviours of robots and avatars in real world usage * Introduction and moderation: Ghislaine Boddington (body>data>space) Artists' input to a specific question about ethics and behaviours in relationship to their work in the exhibition and how they see this relating to the "real world" evolving around us: Mey Lean Kronnermann, Michael Takeo Magruder, Niki Passath, Martin Hans Schmitt, Martin Bricelj Baraga. Experts overview/comments: Jože Slaček, Istvan Szakats, Peter Tomaž Dobrila Venue: Multimedia Centre KIBLA, Ul. kneza Koclja 9, entrance from Svetozarevska street, Maribor, Slovenia *8 pm opening of the exhibition* The exhibition presents a variety of immersive experiences – from unconventional approaches to social networks, re-defining and exploring their influences and dead ends, through virtual worlds rendered into pixels through the act of touch, collaborative landscapes stretching beyond the confines of popular gaming, to electro-acoustic biological extensions, wearable technologies and interactive robotic elements that affect and try to define us, to seemingly ordinary, human behaviour imitating robots. Exhibiting artists and artworks: Louis Philippe Demers/Processing Plant (CA, DE): The Blind Robot; Ruairi Glynn / Motive Colloquies (UK): Sociable Assymetry; Michael Takeo Magruder, Drew Baker, Erik Fleming, David Steele (UK): Visions of Our Communal Dreams; Niki Passath (AT): ZOE; Mey Lean Kronemann (DE): lumiBots; Sašo Sedlaček (SI): Beggar 1.0; Andre Almeida, Gonçalo Lopes, Francisco Dias, Guilherme Martins (PT): NAVI; Marco Donnarumma (UK): Music for flesh II; Martin Bricelj Baraga, Slavko Glamočanin / MoTA (SI): Public avatar, Martin Bricelj Baraga (SI): RoboVox; Aymeric Mansoux, Dave Griffiths, Marloes de Valk (FR, UK, NL): Naked on Pluto; Salvatore Iaconesi, Oriana Persico / Art is Open Source (IT): The Electronic Man; Matthieu Cherubini (CH): rep.licants.org http://rep.licants.org ; Martin Hans Schmitt (DE): Robot world Venues: Multimedia Centre KIBLA, Ul. kneza Koclja 9, entrance from Svetozarevska, Maribor and KIT KIBLA, Glavni trg 14, Maribor, Slovenia *9 pm Opening performance* Marco Donnarumma (UK): Music for flesh II Venue: KIT KIBLA, Glavni trg 14, Maribor, Slovenia After: social gathering/open communication between artists and audience *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6TH* *4-6 pm Children Workshop *Clack Roach by May Lean Kronemann *7-9 pm debate no. 2: Artificial Intelligence – evolutions in robotics and virtual worlds * Introduction and moderation: Ghislaine Boddington (body>data>space) Context set-up/ present situation on AI/slide show: Noel Sharkey, Professor of AI and Robotics at the University of Sheffield. Artists' inputs on AI in relationship to their work in the exhibition; how they see this relating to the "real world" evolving around us and where will AI be in these worlds of representation 10 years from now: Louis Philippe Demers, Drew Baker, Marco Donnarumma, Ruairi Glyn Experts: Istvan Szakats, Peter Tomaž Dobrila, Cameron Bobro, Denis Savkić Venue: Multimedia Centre KIBLA, Ulica kneza Koclja 9, entrance from Svetozarevska street, Maribor, Slovenia *October 8th–30th, 2012 Guided Tours every day* (except Sundays) each full hour from 10 am till 6 pm by Maja Vuksanovič - Pardeilhan Kindly welcome, all events are admission free! ----------------------------------------------- The exhibition is part of the RACIF project, coordinated by body>data>space, London (UK) and partners AltArt, Cluj-Napoca, Romania and KIBLA, Maribor, Slovenia. The project is supported by Programme Culture of the European Union. The Slovenian version is financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia and co-produced with Maribor 2012 – European Capital of Culture. _______________________________________________ *Robots & Avatars website *more info --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 15:49:18 +0000 From: "Lauersdorf, Mark R" Subject: Call for Abstracts: Language Technology at KFLC 2013 In-Reply-To: Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to submit an abstract for participation in the 8th annual Language Technology sessions at KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference. The KFLC is an international, multidisciplinary academic conference with a 66-year history of bringing together top researchers in language, literature, culture, and linguistics in the fields of Arabic, East Asian, French and Francophone, German-Austrian-Swiss, Hispanic, Luso-Afro-Brazilian, and Neo-Latin Studies, as well as Language Technology, Translation and Cultural Studies, and Second Language Acquisition. The KFLC offers broad exposure for your work, gathering over 750 scholars in these disciplines from around the world. The Language Technology division ("LangTech at the KFLC") was inaugurated at KFLC 2006. In bringing a technology track to a high-level international academic conference with a strong literary-cultural tradition and orientation, we provide a forum for both academics and technologists to engage in a discussion of technological innovation in the teaching and research of world literatures and cultures (in addition to the more customary discussions of technology in language instruction). Indeed, "LangTech at the KFLC" seeks to encourage cross-pollination of ideas across languages and literary-cultural interests, encouraging participants from all KFLC literature, culture, and linguistics divisions to join in discussions on integrating technology into their teaching and research programs. I have included below the official Call for Papers for this year's LangTech at the KFLC 2013. I hope that you will consider bringing your work in Language Technology to Lexington to showcase for us, and that you will share this call broadly with your colleagues. I look forward to hearing from you and hope to see you here in the spring. Best regards, Mark Lauersdorf ----- CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - LANGTECH AT THE KFLC - 18-20 April 2013 ----- LangTech at the KFLC is 8 years old this year! At the intersection between technology and literary, cultural, language, and linguistic teaching and research, we welcome submissions on any aspect of: *** Technology for Literature & Culture, Language & Linguistics *** This includes, but is certainly not limited to: - integrating technology into literature, culture, and linguistics curricula and classrooms. - faculty research in literature, culture, and linguistics employing technology ("digital humanities"). - technology for student projects and research in literature, culture, and linguistics. Abstracts are, of course, also welcome in all other areas and aspects of technology and language, such as: - using tech tools and techniques for language instruction in all skills and on all levels. - mentoring language educators in optimal use of technology in their teaching and research. - employing technology-based research publication in language scholarship. - managing language technology in an academic setting. The KFLC is an international academic conference that brings together top researchers in language, literature, culture, and linguistics in the fields of Arabic, East Asian, French and Francophone, German-Austrian-Swiss, Hispanic, Luso-Afro-Brazilian, and Neo-Latin Studies, as well as Translation and Cultural Studies, and Second Language Acquisition. We would like to see this broad range represented in the Language Technology sessions, to encourage cross-pollination of ideas across the languages and disciplines and to encourage participants from the literature, culture, and linguistics sessions to join us in our discussions on integrating technology into teaching and research. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words in length and should be submitted directly online at: ** http://kflc.as.uky.edu/ ** In view of the multi-language audience that we hope to attract to all Language Technology sessions, the recommended language of presentation is English. Presentation sessions are 30 minutes in length (including a 5-10 minute question and answer period). ** Deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 November 2012. ** All proposed abstracts will be considered for inclusion in the KFLC program. Acceptance of a paper implies a commitment on the part of the participant(s) to register and attend the conference. All presenters must pay the appropriate registration fee by 15 February 2013 to be included in the program. The conference will take place 18-20 April 2013 on the campus of the University of Kentucky in Lexington. For more information on conference logistics, please visit: http://web.as.uky.edu/kflc/. For specific information on the Language Technology sessions, contact the division director at the coordinates listed below. If you’ve been with us before, come join us again for Year 8! If you’ve never been, make this the year to come to beautiful springtime Kentucky for "LangTech at the KFLC"! Mark Lauersdorf ----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- Dr. Mark Richard Lauersdorf. KFLC -- Language Technology division director. Associate Professor of Languages and Linguistics. Director, Research in Computing for Humanities. 1055 Patterson Office Tower. University of Kentucky . Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0027, USA. phone: ++ 859.257.7101. fax: ++ 859.257.3743. e-mail: lauersdorf@uky.edu http://www.rch.uky.edu/ http://linguistics.as.uky.edu/users/mrlaue2/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 19:36:31 +0100 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: InterFace 2013 Call for Venue In-Reply-To: Dear all (and with apologies for X-posting) The Call for an InterFace 2013 Venue has just been released. Please consider submitting a proposal and feel free to get in touch with me or via the email address at the bottom if you have any queries. All the best Leif -- Dr. Leif Isaksen Deputy Director, Web Science Doctoral Training Centre Lecturer in Digital Humanities University of Southampton l.isaksen@soton.ac.uk 5th INTERFACE SYMPOSIUM ON HUMANITIES AND TECHNOLOGY (2013) CALL FOR VENUE Following highly successful events in Southampton, Warwick, London and Birmingham, we would like to invite applications to host the the 5th InterFace Symposium on the Humanities and Technology. InterFace brings together Early Career and Doctoral Researchers from across both humanistic and technical disciplines for an intense two day programme of talks and activities in order to facilitate greater cooperation between these areas. The format continually evolves but frequently includes lightning talks, specialist 'how-to' presentations, academic speed-dating and opportunities to meet and engage with future collaborators. Programmes of previous events are available at: http://www.interface2011.org.uk/ http://www.interface2012.org.uk/ Applications should submitted via Google form at the link below: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dFBhVDN6eW9IZ3RCekEzUjJzM0hWVlE6MQ This must include a statement that lays out the organisers' vision for the event, and in particular how they intend to facilitate the twin themes of skills training and community building. We would also recommend including the following information where possible: - A named committee (including short bios or relevant experience). We recommend between 4-6 people with a mix of both Humanities and Technology backgrounds. - Indications of Institutional Support. InterFace is usually run as a joint venture between several departments or institutions although this is not a requirement. - Ideas for sessions. It is important to maintain the general spirit of previous InterFace events, but we encourage experimentation with the format. - Ideas for guest speakers. A mixture of home institution and external presenters is appropriate. It is _very_ important to provide a good mix of humanistic and technology-centric presentations. - Budget. The Steering Committee is able to suggest possible sources of funding but organisers will be responsible for acquiring them so any ideas for additional funding opportunities will be relevant. None of the above information is mandatory but will be taken as representative of what prospective organisers wish to achieve and their ability to do so. The deadline for applications is October 21st. If you have any questions about the InterFace format, previous events, or the application process please feel to contact the Steering Committee at: interface@interface2011.org.uk The InterFace Steering Committee: Alberto Campagnolo, Andreia Martins Carvalho, Alejandro Giacometti, Claire Ross, Jassim Happa, Leif Isaksen, Tychonas Michailidis, Rikki Prince, Matteo Romanello, Raffaele Viglianti _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EA4626113; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 07:14:04 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2E766091; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 07:14:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B87A16091; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 07:14:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20121004051402.B87A16091@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 07:14:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.345 postdocs in textual studies at Victoria 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. 345. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 11:34:34 -0700 From: etcl Subject: Postdoctoral and Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowships in Digital Textual Studies The Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory (ETCL; http://etcl.uvic.ca) at the University of Victoria is seeking full-time and visiting postdoctoral fellows in Digital Textual Studies, working in areas that bridge computation, digital humanities, and textual studies. Fellows will join our existing team of postdoctoral fellows, research assistants, research partners, and developers. Our team works on projects such as Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE; http://inke.ca), the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (http://dhsi.org), and beyond. Current ETCL team members pride themselves on a passionate interest in both the humanities and their digital engagement. Ideal candidates may come from a number of pertinent disciplinary backgrounds, but will share similar enthusiasm as well as be able to introduce the team to new ideas and new perspectives. Successful candidates will have skills and aptitudes in humanities-oriented research, specifically textual studies, including training or demonstrated experience working with a variety of digital humanities resources such as digital archives, scholarly editions, journals and monographs, and text analysis and visualization tools. Organizational skills are essential. Interest and aptitude in research planning and management would be an asset. The ability to work in concert with our existing team is a critical requirement. Postdoctoral Fellowships (2012-13) include salary that is competitive in the Canadian context, governed in part by SSHRC practices. Positions are available as early as October 2012, for a one-year term with the possibility of renewal. Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowships (2012-) are available to those already holding external fellowships and positions in 2012-13 and 2013-14 with aligned programs of research, may be assumed for an academic term or longer, and include an honorarium. Applications comprising a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three referees may be sent electronically to Daniel Sondheim, ETCL Coordinator, at etcl /at/uvic/dot/ca. Interviews may be conducted via Skype or in person, in Victoria or other venues as feasible. Review of applications begins 15 October and will continue until positions are filled. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8DDFD6121; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 07:15:05 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EEC9611F; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 07:15:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 250406101; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 07:15:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121004051504.250406101@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 07:15:04 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.346 events: cfp for The Senses & Technology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 346. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 12:31:24 +0200 From: Stefan Krebs Subject: Call for papers : The Senses & Technology - Annual Conference of the German Society for the History of Technology 2013 Invitation to the 22nd Annual Conference of the German Society for the History of Technology (Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte) 10-12 May 2013, The Saxon State and University Library in Dresden, Germany The board of the “Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte” invites proposals for papers at the 2013 Annual Conference, concerning the theme: The Senses & Technology Local organizers include the Dresden University of Technology: Chair for the History of Technology and Engineering Sciences; Collaborative Research Centre 804 “Transzendenz und Gemeinsinn”, Sub-project M; and the Special-Subject Collection “History of Technology” at the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB). In recent years historians of technology have studied the technological production, re-production, use and epistemological status of images—in short, the visual culture of the history of technology. They have paid less attention to the acoustic, olfactory, gustatory and tactile dimension of technology. Still, all five senses play an important role in the engineering, production, use and disposal of technology. Indeed, the entanglement of the classical senses with other senses—like Eugene Ferguson’s “Minds Eye” of the engineer, or Ferdinand Redtenbacher’s senses of gestalt, order and composition—opens a broad field of inquiry. Furthermore, technology also shapes our senses: our sensory perception is subject to historical change. Examples for this historical conditioning of the senses include culturally grounded complaints about various trade and industry emissions. For instance, noise and smell accompanied the history of the automobile since its invention. More and more, manufacturers emphasize the sensory qualities of consumer goods: the literal experience of a technology using the senses. Sensory technology should emotionally touch and fascinate users. Therefore the sensory perception of technology is optimized: different senses become involved and intertwined in the design process (synesthesia). Again, the automobile is a key example: sound, smell and the surface feel of the car’s interior are thoroughly developed according to future drivers’ alleged desires. Another recent example is the hype surrounding touch screens of smart phones and tablet computers. In addition, the sensory dimension of skilled manual work is of special interest. Another field of study is technical measuring, recording and playback devices: the engineering, as well as the use of such tools and instruments requires and affects our senses. The aim of our conference is the investigation of the above outlined sensory dimension of technology: e.g., one can ask which role the senses play in the engineering of technological artefacts? How are different senses involved in the production process? Which role do they play in the design and appropriation of new technologies? How does sensory perception shape the use of technology and how does technology shape our daily sensory perception? Does increasing technical interconnectedness (CCTV, virtual worlds) affect our perception? To answer these and other questions one can study related discourses, as well as specific sensory practices. Which tacit und embodied knowledge is involved in the sensory appropriation of technology? Is sensory perception part of technological knowledge? How do we learn, develop and transmit such knowledge? And finally: How can we display the sensory dimension of technology in museum exhibitions? The conference invites participants to an interdisciplinary discussion. It aims to stimulate a critical reflection on the state of the art of historical studies on technology’s sensory dimension, the presentation of interesting case studies, and the identification of desiderata. Not least, questions about the hierarchy of the senses, and the relation of the other senses to the above mentioned visual culture of technology arise: Can we speak of a transformation and hierarchization of the senses in late technical modernity? The main conference language is German, though selected papers in English will be accepted. Please note that travel expenses cannot be refunded. Abstracts for contributions (max. 350–400 words) and a short, one-page CV are requested by January 6, 2013. Please send these to: Dr. Stefan Krebs, s.krebs@maastrichuniversity.nl For further information please contact: Dr. Uwe Fraunholz, uwe.fraunholz@tu-dresden.de ; phone +49 (0)351 46334899 --- Dr. Stefan Krebs Postdoc researcher Department of Technology & Society Studies Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands Email: s.krebs@maastrichtuniversity.nl Visiting address: Grote Gracht 86, Room 0.002 --Boundary_(ID_r5BJZbtxiaIoUoUtvLP7Dg) Content-type: text/html; charsetUTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable 
Invitation to the 22nd Annual Conference of the German Society for the History of Technology (Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte)

10-12 May 2013, The Saxon State and University Library in Dresden, Germany

The board of the “Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte” invites proposals for papers at the 2013 Annual Conference, concerning the theme:

The Senses & Technology
 
Local organizers include the Dresden University of Technology: Chair for the History of Technology and Engineering Sciences; Collaborative Research Centre 804  “Transzendenz und Gemeinsinn”, Sub-project M;
and the Special-Subject Collection “History of Technology” at the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB).
 
In recent years historians of technology have studied the technological production, re-production, use and epistemological status of images—in short, the visual culture of the history of technology. They have paid less attention to the acoustic, olfactory, gustatory and tactile dimension of technology. Still, all five senses play an important role in the engineering, production, use and disposal of technology. Indeed, the entanglement of the classical senses with other senses—like Eugene Ferguson’s “Minds Eye” of the engineer, or Ferdinand Redtenbacher’s senses of gestalt, order and composition—opens a broad field of inquiry.

Furthermore, technology also shapes our senses: our sensory perception is subject to historical change. Examples for this historical conditioning of the senses include culturally grounded complaints about various trade and industry emissions. For instance, noise and smell accompanied the history of the automobile since its invention. More and more, manufacturers emphasize the sensory qualities of consumer goods: the literal experience of a technology using the senses. Sensory technology should emotionally touch and fascinate users. Therefore the sensory perception of technology is optimized: different senses become involved and intertwined in the design process (synesthesia). Again, the automobile is a key example: sound, smell and the surface feel of the car’s interior are thoroughly developed according to future drivers’ alleged desires. Another recent example is the hype surrounding touch screens of smart phones and tablet computers.

In addition, the sensory dimension of skilled manual work is of special interest. Another field of study is technical measuring, recording and playback devices: the engineering, as well as the use of such tools and instruments requires and affects our senses.

The aim of our conference is the investigation of the above outlined sensory dimension of technology: e.g., one can ask which role the senses play in the engineering of technological artefacts? How are different senses involved in the production process? Which role do they play in the design and appropriation of new technologies? How does sensory perception shape the use of technology and how does technology shape our daily sensory perception? Does increasing technical interconnectedness (CCTV, virtual worlds) affect our perception? To answer these and other questions one can study related discourses, as well as specific sensory practices. Which tacit und embodied knowledge is involved in the sensory appropriation of technology? Is sensory perception part of technological knowledge? How do we learn, develop and transmit such knowledge? And finally: How can we display the sensory dimension of technology in museum exhibitions?

The conference invites participants to an interdisciplinary discussion. It aims to stimulate a critical reflection on the state of the art of historical studies on technology’s sensory dimension, the presentation of interesting case studies, and the identification of desiderata. Not least, questions about the hierarchy of the senses, and the relation of the other senses to the above mentioned visual culture of technology arise: Can we speak of a transformation and hierarchization of the senses in late technical modernity?
 
The main conference language is German, though selected papers in English will be accepted. Please note that travel expenses cannot be refunded. Abstracts for contributions (max. 350–400 words) and a short, one-page CV are requested by January 6, 2013. Please send these to: Dr. Stefan Krebs, s.krebs@maastrichuniversity.nl
 
For further information please contact: Dr. Uwe Fraunholz, uwe.fraunholz@tu-dresden.de ; phone +49 (0)351 46334899
 
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Dr. Stefan Krebs
Postdoc researcher
Department of Technology & Society Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Email: s.krebs@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Visiting address: Grote Gracht 86, Room 0.002
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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 05:48:24 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: 4 appointments in digital humanities at Connecticut Digital Humanities and New Media positions at the University of Connecticut The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is dedicating four new faculty positions to the Digital Humanities and New Media cluster. Three of the four positions will specialize in the Digital Humanities, and will encompass the use of technology in the study of text and the adaptation of literary criticism to account for the many new types of literary production made possible from new technology. This cluster will enable the College to position its students and faculty at the leading edge of literary studies, preparing majors, especially those in the Department of English, exceptionally well for a changing economy and enabling faculty to compete for external grants supporting the creation of digital publications, editions, journals, and archives. Additionally, a position in New Media with an academic home in the Department of Communication Sciences will serve as the link between the Digital Humanities cluster and a closely related cluster focused on Digital Media. See http://jobs.uconn.edu/faculty/clusters/digital_humanities_new_media.html for more information. -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9BBF86151; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 09:46:50 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C31D6121; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 09:46:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 81265611F; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 09:46:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121004074648.81265611F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 09:46:48 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.348 kinds of publication X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 348. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 07:00:03 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: kinds of publication With our Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) looming here in the U.K. there is much talk about what will count to what extent in the metrics of importance. It is commonplace to hear that one should *not* publish in edited collections, the reputation of which, it seems, is tainted by the belief that getting in is more a matter of who you know than of scholarly merit. I for one am ignoring this word-to-the-wise advice and would be pleased to hear that others are as well. I do so because I depend myself to a high degree on such collections, often finding treasures in them; because I hear from respected colleagues that much of what they've published has been in such venues; and because I suspect that by its current nature our field and edited collections suit each other very well indeed. What for the spread of understanding and acceptance could be better than publishing in a collection centred on a topic dear to one of our disciplinary relations? For the first of my reasons (rhetorically stated as a cause) I cite G.C. Bunn, A.D. Lovie and G.D. Richards, eds., Psychology in Britain: Historical essays and personal reflections (Leicester: British Psychological Society, 2001), in which I discovered the following: Rhodri Hayward, "'Our friends electric': mechanical models of mind in postwar Britain"; Margaret A. Boden, "Purpose, personality, creativity: A computational adventure"; Richard L. Gregory, "Adventures of a maverick" Hayward's was the reason for opening the book; Boden's, Gregory's (and perhaps others, later on today) have been unexpectedly rewarding. Boden's, which I just finished, is quite inspiring. I suspect that some here will be forced by circumstances to defend the indefensible as far as publishing metrically understood is concerned. But let it be widely recognized that the indefensible *is* indefensible. And let it be asked, what sort of good will we be in the long term to society if we go along passively with such dictates? 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DF68A6154; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 11:01:43 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5F036121; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 11:01:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E7B416116; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 11:01:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121004090141.E7B416116@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 11:01:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.349 addendum on publications X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 349. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:14:19 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: addendum on publications A colleague has rightly pointed out after reading my note in Humanist 26.348 that, > The RAE is long gone. The new exercise is called REF - > http://www.ref.ac.uk/ - and while it's effectively the same thing, > your readers may be confused to see RAE used here. My apologies to anyone who has been confused by the error. But given my point, he is also correct in saying that the two schemes are effectively the same. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 351B16172; Fri, 5 Oct 2012 07:03:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0359960FF; Fri, 5 Oct 2012 07:03:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0D82C6081; Fri, 5 Oct 2012 07:03:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121005050316.0D82C6081@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 07:03:16 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.350 the thrill and danger of proof? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 350. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:44:26 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a mathematical thriller Some here will be interested in Chris Pearson's new novel, Proof of Death. I take the following description from Amazon. > Lawyer Richard Troy doesn't do mathematics. But when he accepts > Chechen number theorist Aslan Ivanov as a client, he realises that > life, love and death are all part of the same equation. > > Aslan possesses a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis – a mathematical > proposition that has defied academics for 150 years. With the power > to unlock public key encryption across the internet, blowing open all > online financial transactions in the process, the proof is priceless. > ... Many years ago Dick Francis published a thriller centred on a computer program developed to predict the outcome of horse races. (A colleague of mine at the time, inspired by this novel, wrote such a program; the last I heard his winnings were becoming larger and more frequent.) This leads me to a question: what other works of fiction involve computers used to prove something, but with dire consequences? Is the computer as a mechanism of proof a dominant theme in fiction that features computing? 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C7116618D; Fri, 5 Oct 2012 07:04:24 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 969C76119; Fri, 5 Oct 2012 07:04:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D47A060FF; Fri, 5 Oct 2012 07:04:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121005050422.D47A060FF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 07:04:22 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.351 PhD studentship at UCL X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 351. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 12:32:45 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Funded Phd Studentship at UCLDIS: Copyright, Publishing, and the Digital Age Postgraduate Research Studentship: Department of Information Studies, University College London in association with the Stationers' Foundation, the Charity of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers The Department of Information Studies at University College London (UCLDIS) invites applications for a three year fully funded research studentship from suitably qualified candidates with a good upper-second or first class degrees in an appropriate discipline to conduct research into the near-market implications of copyright and intellectual property in the publishing industry in the digital age. The studentship will cover full UK and EU fees and pay a stipend of approximately £14, 000 per annum. Applications will normally be restricted to candidates from the UK and EU countries. The studentship is funded by the Stationers' Foundation, a charitable body, and is made possible by donations from Pearson plc, the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA), The Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA), the Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) and Euromonitor plc. The research will be supervised by Professor Iain Stevenson of the UCLDIS Centre for Publishing with secondary supervision from appropriate colleagues within UCL including from the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law of the Faculty of Laws. The successful candidate is likely to possess a background in publishing or intellectual property management and will have some experience of working in the creative industries. An academic background in law, communication, information management or business will be advantageous. The studentship is full-time but teaching opportunities may be available in UCLDIS during its tenure. The successful candidate will spend periods of the studentship working in the offices of the donor organisations and will be expected to provide regular seminars and research updates to the donors, as well as academic presentations. Initial registration will be for the degree of MPhil and the candidate will be expected to present a seminar during their second year which will allow the upgrade of registration to PhD. Interested candidates are invited to apply for the studentship by submitting a full CV and a statement of proposed research (not exceeding 750 words), together with letters of recommendation from two referees by 21 November 2012. A short list of candidates will be invited for interview, the panel of which will include representatives of the Stationers' Foundation. Once the studentship has been awarded, the successful candidate will be invited to apply formally for admission to the UCL research degree programme and they should ensure they meet all the requirements for admission (available from the UCL website) Further details and informal discussion of the project can be had by contacting Professor Stevenson (i.stevenson@ucl.ac.uk). It is expected that the studentship will commence on 1 January 2013 but if the candidate can commence earlier, it will be possible to do so. ----------------- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6FC0C6190; Fri, 5 Oct 2012 07:05:15 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 455F66172; Fri, 5 Oct 2012 07:05:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9AD246163; Fri, 5 Oct 2012 07:05:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121005050513.9AD246163@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 07:05:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.352 events: art & design for STS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 352. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 14:46:34 -0500 From: Stan Ruecker Subject: Design and STS workshop in Copenhagen Tues Oct 16--call forparticipants by Oct 8 On behalf of my colleague Laura Forlano, here is an interesting workshop opportunity for your immediate attention. - Stan Ruecker ****** Experiments in (and out of) the studio: Art and Design Methods for Science and Technology Studies One day workshop, Tuesday October 16th, 2012 10:30AM-5:30PM, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen The organizers invite participation in an interdisciplinary one-day hands-on workshop on emerging methods of critical practice in science and technology studies, in particular methods that engage with art and design as well as performance and exhibition. Ultimately, we aim to refine our understanding and also intervene in the way that objects can stimulate and embody critique in STS. The workshop comprises three parts: (1) A morning of talks and participant discussion in the creation and interpretation of digital and material artifacts will operate as a means of exploring how techno-scientific knowledge is produced and how the social significance of that knowledge is refracted through material things. (2) A midday ethnographic exploration of the city of Copenhagen will focus on documenting urban technology through notes, photography, video and sketches to feed into the final session. (3) In the afternoon, we invite participants to build 'machines of enquiry' to materialise and experiment with the ethnographic material as a way of prototyping research insights. If you are interested in participating, please send a brief (3-5 sentences) expression of interest and a short 250-word bio or CV to Dehlia Hannah dh2058@columbia.edu by October 8th at 5pm EST. Please put ‘Pre-EASST Workshop’ in the subject heading. We will notify all participants about the status of their application shortly afterwards. Co-organizers: Laura Forlano, Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology Dehlia Hannah, Philosophy Department, Columbia University Kat Jungnickel, Sociology Department, Goldsmiths, University of London Julien McHardy, Sociology Department, Lancaster University Hannah Star Rogers, Science and Technology Studies, University of Virginia This event has been jointly supported by INCITE, Goldsmiths (University of London) and Microsoft Research Cambridge. Laura Forlano, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Design Institute of Design Illinois Institute of Technology Visiting Scholar Program in Comparative Media Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology (646) 245-5388 (c) http://lauraforlano.org http://designingorganizations.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, TVD_PH_BODY_ACCOUNTS_PRE autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F2D342DE2; Sun, 7 Oct 2012 09:59:04 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBD9C2DD2; Sun, 7 Oct 2012 09:59:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 39A9E2DD1; Sun, 7 Oct 2012 09:59:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121007075903.39A9E2DD1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 09:59:03 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.353 the thrill and danger of proof X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 353. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Joris van Zundert (79) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.350 the thrill and danger of proof? [2] From: Laval Hunsucker (78) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.350 the thrill and danger of proof? [3] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (16) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.350 the thrill and danger of proof? [4] From: "Dr. Robert Delius Royar PhD" (11) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.350 the thrill and danger of proof? [5] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (11) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.350 the thrill and danger of proof? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 09:02:56 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.350 the thrill and danger of proof? In-Reply-To: <20121005050316.0D82C6081@digitalhumanities.org> Interesting question. My guess is actually 'no', but indeed that is a guess, just based on some annecdotal memories. I think computation/computers mostly are just props to either make the character(s) relying on them trustworthy experts, cynister creepy scientist, or mere poor inept human souls. To my mind springs 'The Last Question' by Isaac Asimov. Adam Douglas' famous computed answer '42' from the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And poor Robin Dempsey from David Lodge's Small World. These instances suggest a more ambivelent relationship to computers than as instruments of proof, they seem to be rather instruments that stress the human condition. Best --Joris On Friday, October 5, 2012, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 350. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:44:26 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > > > Subject: a mathematical thriller > > > Some here will be interested in Chris Pearson's new novel, Proof of > Death. I take the following description from Amazon. > > > Lawyer Richard Troy doesn't do mathematics. But when he accepts > > Chechen number theorist Aslan Ivanov as a client, he realises that > > life, love and death are all part of the same equation. > > > > Aslan possesses a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis – a mathematical > > proposition that has defied academics for 150 years. With the power > > to unlock public key encryption across the internet, blowing open all > > online financial transactions in the process, the proof is priceless. > > ... > > Many years ago Dick Francis published a thriller centred on a computer > program developed to predict the outcome of horse races. (A colleague of > mine at the time, inspired by this novel, wrote such a program; the last > I heard his winnings were becoming larger and more frequent.) This leads > me to a question: what other works of fiction involve computers used to > prove something, but with dire consequences? Is the computer as a > mechanism of proof a dominant theme in fiction that features computing? > > 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/ -- Drs. Joris J. van Zundert *Researcher & Developer Digital and Computational Humanities * Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands *Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences * www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/vanzundert/ ------- *Jack Sparrow: I thought you were supposed to keep to the code. Mr. Gibbs: We figured they were more actual guidelines. * --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 07:02:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.350 the thrill and danger of proof? In-Reply-To: <20121005050316.0D82C6081@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, You ask : > This leads me to a question: what other works of fiction involve > computers used to prove something, but  with dire consequences? > Is the computer as a mechanism of proof a dominant theme in > fiction that features computing? I'm not sure about dominant theme in fiction, but . . . How about John Updike's _Roger's version : a novel_  ( Knopf, 1986 ) ? Amazon's desciption, for what it's worth ( http://www.amazon.com/Rogers-Version-John-Updike/dp/0394554353 ) : "A born-again computer whiz kid bent on proving the existence of God on his computer meets a middle-aged divinity professor, Roger Lambert, who'd just as soon leave faith a mystery. Soon the computer hacker begins an affair with professor Lambert's wife -- and Roger finds himself experiencing deep longings for a trashy teenage girl.". I'll leave it to others to decide whether those "consequences" are "dire" :-) ?   - Laval Hunsucker   Breukelen, Nederland --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 09:26:20 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.350 the thrill and danger of proof? In-Reply-To: <20121005050316.0D82C6081@digitalhumanities.org> Willard Novels for the list. You might be intrigued by Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. An room filled with Macintosh computers and synthesisers functions as a time machine. It is a fine fable. One of the characters is intimately involved in the cultural aspects of computing: Richard MacDuff, a young software engineer working for WayForward Technologies II, owned by Gordon Way. His Anthem software, which is designed as a spreadsheet, but also has a unique feature to convert corporate accounts into music, was extremely popular, but he is falling behind in his deadlines to create an updated version. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Gently's_Holistic_Detective_Agency Francois Lachance http://berneval.blogspot.ca/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 12:12:31 -0400 From: "Dr. Robert Delius Royar PhD" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.350 the thrill and danger of proof? In-Reply-To: <20121005050316.0D82C6081@digitalhumanities.org> On 05 Oct 2012, at 01:03, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > This leads > me to a question: what other works of fiction involve computers used to > prove something, but with dire consequences? Is the computer as a > mechanism of proof a dominant theme in fiction that features computing? Two stories I assigned this semester in my science-fiction course are "The Nine Billion Names of God" (1953) Arthur C. Clark "How the World Was Saved" (1967) Stanislaw Lem -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar PhD, Associate Professor of English Morehead State University r.royar@moreheadstate.edu --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 23:58:19 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.350 the thrill and danger of proof? In-Reply-To: <20121005050316.0D82C6081@digitalhumanities.org> I'd probably question whether this is "computing" vs. "mathematics" in fiction, but regardless of which, it is curious how the genre of the fiction shapes what are the consequences. These two examples are from mystery fiction, where apparently (It's not my genre) the computing is instrumental to a traditional crime being carried out. In science-fiction, for example, computing (as opposed to robotics) is usually associated with the emergence of artificial intelligence capabilities or controlling people by turning them into automatons. Perhaps the answer here would first be to delimit the genres of fiction in which computing appears and then determine what its role is in those genres. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 87B622DF5; Sun, 7 Oct 2012 09:59:54 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F5B52DE7; Sun, 7 Oct 2012 09:59:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 08CA32DD3; Sun, 7 Oct 2012 09:59:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121007075952.08CA32DD3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 09:59:51 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.354 fellowships in critical 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="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. 354. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 13:27:39 +0000 From: "Sy, Donna (das3yp)" Subject: Mellon Fellowships in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School Rare Book School welcomes applications from scholars of the digital humanities to The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography. The aim of this new Mellon Foundation-funded fellowship program is to reinvigorate bibliographical studies within the humanities by introducing doctoral candidates, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty to specialized skills, methods, and professional networks for conducting advanced research with material texts. Fellows will receive funding for Rare Book School course attendance, as well as generous stipends, and support for research-related travel to special collections, over the course of three years. Weeklong intensive courses at Rare Book School include courses in XML-TEI text encoding, digitization of historical documents, and scholarly editing. The deadline for application to the program is DECEMBER 1, 2012. Applicants must be doctoral candidates (post-qualifying exams), postdoctoral fellows, or junior (untenured) faculty in the humanities at a U.S. insitution at time of application. Interested scholars are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. For more details, please visit: http://www.rarebookschool.org/fellowships/mellon --- RARE BOOK SCHOOL RECEIVES MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT TO FUND FELLOWSHIPS IN CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY New fellowship program seeks to reinvigorate bibliographical studies within the humanities Charlottesville, VA, October 1, 2012 – Rare Book School (RBS) at the University of Virginia has been awarded an $896,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a new three-year fellowship program, The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography, whose aim is to reinvigorate bibliographical studies within the humanities. The Mellon Fellowship program will enable a select group of doctoral candidates, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty in the humanities to receive advanced, intensive training in the analysis of textual artifacts. Led by a distinguished faculty drawn from the bibliographical community and professionals in allied fields, fellows will attend annual research-oriented seminars at Rare Book School and at major special collections libraries nationwide. Fellows will receive stipends to support research-related travel to special collections, and additional funds to host academic symposia at their home institutions. “This grant will enable our School to deepen and extend its service to the bibliographical community by helping scholars incorporate bibliographical and book-historical methods into their own research and teaching,” said RBS Director Michael F. Suarez, S.J. “I am humbled by the trust that the Foundation has placed in our organization – and deeply gratified by its ratification of our core mission of bibliographical education.” “I expect that these fellowships will sow the seeds for some of the most exciting work from the next generation of humanistic scholars,” commented Michael Winship, Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. “This Mellon Foundation grant is wonderful news! It will ensure that graduate students and early career academics have an opportunity to be exposed to the theories and methodologies of bibliographical practice.” Twenty Mellon Fellowships will be awarded in the spring of 2013. The deadline for application to the program is December 1, 2012. More information about the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography is available at: http://www.rarebookschool.org/fellowships/mellon About Rare Book School (RBS) Rare Book School provides continuing-education opportunities for students from all disciplines and levels to study the history of written, printed, and born-digital materials with leading scholars and professionals in the fields of bibliography, librarianship, book history, manuscript studies, and the digital humanities. Founded in 1983, RBS moved to its present home at the University of Virginia in 1992. RBS is a not-for-profit educational organization affiliated with the University of Virginia. More information about RBS is available on its website:http://www.rarebookschool.org For more information, contact: Donna Sy Mellon Fellowship Program Director Rare Book School donna.sy@virginia.edu Phone: (434) 243-4296 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, TVD_PH_BODY_ACCOUNTS_PRE autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4317F2DE2; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 07:22:50 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 104F3F8D; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 07:22:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F0485F87; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 07:22:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121008052247.F0485F87@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 07:22:47 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.356 the thrill and danger of proof X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 356. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 15:09:39 +0000 From: "Snijder, R." Subject: RE: [Humanist] 26.353 the thrill and danger of proof In-Reply-To: <20121007075903.39A9E2DD1@digitalhumanities.org> This may not be *exactly* what you need, but maybe it's interesting. In "Hogfather" by Terry Pratchett, a 'computer' gets the task to start believing in Hogfather (the novel's version of Santa Claus), in order to help save him. Regards, -ronald- Ronald Snijder Project Manager Digital Publications Amsterdam University Press Herengracht 221 1016 BG Amsterdam tel: +31 (0)20 420 0050 fax: +31 (0)20 420 3214 e-mail: r.snijder@aup.nl www.aup.nl ________________________________________ Van: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] namens Humanist Discussion Group [willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk] Verzonden: zondag 7 oktober 2012 9:59 To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Onderwerp: [Humanist] 26.353 the thrill and danger of proof Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 353. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Joris van Zundert (79) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.350 the thrill and danger of proof? [2] From: Laval Hunsucker (78) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.350 the thrill and danger of proof? [3] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (16) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.350 the thrill and danger of proof? [4] From: "Dr. Robert Delius Royar PhD" (11) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.350 the thrill and danger of proof? [5] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (11) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.350 the thrill and danger of proof? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 09:02:56 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.350 the thrill and danger of proof? In-Reply-To: <20121005050316.0D82C6081@digitalhumanities.org> Interesting question. My guess is actually 'no', but indeed that is a guess, just based on some annecdotal memories. I think computation/computers mostly are just props to either make the character(s) relying on them trustworthy experts, cynister creepy scientist, or mere poor inept human souls. To my mind springs 'The Last Question' by Isaac Asimov. Adam Douglas' famous computed answer '42' from the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And poor Robin Dempsey from David Lodge's Small World. These instances suggest a more ambivelent relationship to computers than as instruments of proof, they seem to be rather instruments that stress the human condition. Best --Joris On Friday, October 5, 2012, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 350. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:44:26 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > > > Subject: a mathematical thriller > > > Some here will be interested in Chris Pearson's new novel, Proof of > Death. I take the following description from Amazon. > > > Lawyer Richard Troy doesn't do mathematics. But when he accepts > > Chechen number theorist Aslan Ivanov as a client, he realises that > > life, love and death are all part of the same equation. > > > > Aslan possesses a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis – a mathematical > > proposition that has defied academics for 150 years. With the power > > to unlock public key encryption across the internet, blowing open all > > online financial transactions in the process, the proof is priceless. > > ... > > Many years ago Dick Francis published a thriller centred on a computer > program developed to predict the outcome of horse races. (A colleague of > mine at the time, inspired by this novel, wrote such a program; the last > I heard his winnings were becoming larger and more frequent.) This leads > me to a question: what other works of fiction involve computers used to > prove something, but with dire consequences? Is the computer as a > mechanism of proof a dominant theme in fiction that features computing? > > 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/ -- Drs. Joris J. van Zundert *Researcher & Developer Digital and Computational Humanities * Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands *Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences * www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/vanzundert/ ------- *Jack Sparrow: I thought you were supposed to keep to the code. Mr. Gibbs: We figured they were more actual guidelines. * --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 07:02:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.350 the thrill and danger of proof? In-Reply-To: <20121005050316.0D82C6081@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, You ask : > This leads me to a question: what other works of fiction involve > computers used to prove something, but with dire consequences? > Is the computer as a mechanism of proof a dominant theme in > fiction that features computing? I'm not sure about dominant theme in fiction, but . . . How about John Updike's _Roger's version : a novel_ ( Knopf, 1986 ) ? Amazon's desciption, for what it's worth ( http://www.amazon.com/Rogers-Version-John-Updike/dp/0394554353 ) : "A born-again computer whiz kid bent on proving the existence of God on his computer meets a middle-aged divinity professor, Roger Lambert, who'd just as soon leave faith a mystery. Soon the computer hacker begins an affair with professor Lambert's wife -- and Roger finds himself experiencing deep longings for a trashy teenage girl.". I'll leave it to others to decide whether those "consequences" are "dire" :-) ? - Laval Hunsucker Breukelen, Nederland --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 09:26:20 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.350 the thrill and danger of proof? In-Reply-To: <20121005050316.0D82C6081@digitalhumanities.org> Willard Novels for the list. You might be intrigued by Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. An room filled with Macintosh computers and synthesisers functions as a time machine. It is a fine fable. One of the characters is intimately involved in the cultural aspects of computing: Richard MacDuff, a young software engineer working for WayForward Technologies II, owned by Gordon Way. His Anthem software, which is designed as a spreadsheet, but also has a unique feature to convert corporate accounts into music, was extremely popular, but he is falling behind in his deadlines to create an updated version. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Gently's_Holistic_Detective_Agency Francois Lachance http://berneval.blogspot.ca/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 12:12:31 -0400 From: "Dr. Robert Delius Royar PhD" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.350 the thrill and danger of proof? In-Reply-To: <20121005050316.0D82C6081@digitalhumanities.org> On 05 Oct 2012, at 01:03, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > This leads > me to a question: what other works of fiction involve computers used to > prove something, but with dire consequences? Is the computer as a > mechanism of proof a dominant theme in fiction that features computing? Two stories I assigned this semester in my science-fiction course are "The Nine Billion Names of God" (1953) Arthur C. Clark "How the World Was Saved" (1967) Stanislaw Lem -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar PhD, Associate Professor of English Morehead State University r.royar@moreheadstate.edu --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 23:58:19 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.350 the thrill and danger of proof? In-Reply-To: <20121005050316.0D82C6081@digitalhumanities.org> I'd probably question whether this is "computing" vs. "mathematics" in fiction, but regardless of which, it is curious how the genre of the fiction shapes what are the consequences. These two examples are from mystery fiction, where apparently (It's not my genre) the computing is instrumental to a traditional crime being carried out. In science-fiction, for example, computing (as opposed to robotics) is usually associated with the emergence of artificial intelligence capabilities or controlling people by turning them into automatons. Perhaps the answer here would first be to delimit the genres of fiction in which computing appears and then determine what its role is in those genres. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CECD82E0D; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 07:23:42 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DB962E05; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 07:23:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6CBE62E04; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 07:23:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121008052340.6CBE62E04@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 07:23:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.357 freeware routine for triple-helix indicator X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 357. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 10:03:56 +0200 From: Loet Leydesdorff Subject: software routine for the triple-helix indicator (freeware) The Triple-Helix Indicator and its Extension to Four Dimensions: http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/th4/index.htm The Measurement of Configurational Information in More than Two Dimensions The program th4.exe http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/th4/th4.exe reads an input file “data.txt” and generates (or adds to an existing) file th4.dbf containing probabilistic entropy values and mutual information values for three and/or four nominal variables. (The source code can be found here http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/th4/th4.prg .) In a number of studies (see the reference list) we used the mutual information in three dimensions as Triple Helix indicator; for example, to measure the reduction of uncertainty (e.g., Yeung, 2008:59f.; cf. McGill, 1954) in the interactions between distributions in the geographical dimensions (addresses), organizational size, and technological capacities of firms (Lengyel & Leydesdorff, 2011; Leydesdorff et al., 2006; Leydesdorff & Fritsch, 2006; Leydesdorff & Strand, in press). Using publications as units of analysis, the focus can be on university, industry and/or government addresses in co-authorship relations (Kwon et al., 2012; Leydesdorff, 2003; Leydesdorff & Sun, 2009; Park et al., 2005; Ye et al., in preparation). A program for examining TH relations on a case-by-case basis is available at http://www.leydesdorff.net/th/th.exe . (The program th.exe also computes also Krippendorff’s (2009a) IABC→AB, AC, BC and the redundancy R; T = I - R (Krippendorff, 2009b; Leydesdorff, 2009, 2010). In a number of studies (and in the literature) questions have been raised about extending the Triple Helix to more than three helices (e.g., Carayannis & Campbell, 2009 and 2010; Leydesdorff, 2012). The issue is urgent since the dimension international versus national was found to be important as an additional dimension in a number of recent studies (Ye et al., in preparation). One may wish to appreciate international coauthorship as a fourth variable (Leydesdorff & Sun, 2009; Kwon et al., 2010) or “foreign driven investment” in the case of firm data (Lengyel & Leydesdorff, 2011; Strand & Leydesdorff, in press). This routine (th4.exe http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/th4/th4.exe ) is meant to facilitate the computation of these values in the case of large sets. This version (unlike th.exe) operates on nominal values; for example, industry codes, the names of regions, classifications; the older routine th. exe http://www.leydesdorff.net/th/th.exe uses numerical values. In the case of numerical values, one may wish to bin these or dichotomize. For example, if three addresses are provided of which two are from universities and one from industry, these U-I relation should be counted as “1”. In other words, numbers are read as character string by this (!) program. Input file Input file is a text file with one case (firm, publication, patent, etc.) on each line, and five variables. The first variable is a case-identifier; for example, “firm1” or “id0001”. The second to fifth variable are read as four nominal variables (including “0” and “1”). If the fifth variable is missing, all values are set to zero, and the corresponding dimension (“z”) is not computed. The four dimensions are indicated as w, x, y, and z, respectively. Each variable on the input file has to be embedded in double quotation marks, and the variables are delimited with commas. As follows: “id1”, “1”, “b”, “region1”, “2” “id2”, “2”, “a”, “region2”, “1” “id3”, “1”, “a”, “region2”, “2” “id4”, “1”, “b”, “region5”, “1” For example, in the case of address information, the second variable may indicate the presence of a university address (Y/N), the third an industrial address, etc. In the case of firm data, the second variable may be a size category (e.g., zero for firms without employees to six for firms with more than 500 employees), the third variable a technology code (e.g., OECD’s NACE codes), the third an indication of the region, and the fifth whether the firm is domestically owned or a subsidiary of a foreign company. The size of the file is not limited (but < 2 GByte). The input file should be named “data.txt”. Place no header with variable names at the first line (because these will be counted as separate categories). Note that typos may lead to the declaration of an additional class because the program indexes on the strings. The program and the input have to be placed in the same folder. Output The program generates the file th4.dbf if not present in this folder; or if present, a new record is appended to th4.dbf. This file can be read using Excel or a similar program. As said, the variables are denoted “w”, “x”, “y”, and “z”, and the new record contains the uncertainties in these four dimensions (Hw, Hx, Hy, Hz), the joint entropies (such Hwx, Hwxy, Hwxyz, etc.), and all possible transmissions (Twx, Twxy, Twxyz, etc.) among them. Note The current version is very much a beta-version. Please, provide feedback for further improvements if bugs are encountered. Carefully check the output on errors! I acknowledge Balazs Lengyel for helping to develop this routine. ** apologies for cross-postings _____ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 loet@leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Visiting Professor, http://www.istic.ac.cn/Eng/brief_en.html ISTIC, Beijing; Honorary Fellow, http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/ SPRU, University of Sussex; http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_DBL_REDIR autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 568932E17; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 07:24:20 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 240032DD5; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 07:24:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 25C7B2E10; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 07:24:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121008052418.25C7B2E10@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 07:24:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.355 events: London Seminar; Digital History X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 355. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Seth Denbo (41) Subject: Digital History Seminar Announcement [2] From: Willard McCarty (38) Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 11:27:34 +0100 From: Seth Denbo Subject: Digital History Seminar Announcement Camille Desenclos (ENC, Sorbonne): "Rethinking historical research in the digital age: a TEI approach" Tuesday, 9 October 2012, 5:15PM (BST) Senate House, G37 (Bedford Room) Please join us for the next Digital History seminar either in person at Senate House in London or online via our video live stream. As per usual we will be offering you the chance to post questions for the speaker to answer, and will have a lively Twitter feed (under the #dhist hashtag). Abstract: Historical research cannot be conceived without a close relation to physical text: paper is still the main source. However the emergence and subsequent multiplication of digital technologies within the historical field have tended to modify the examination of sources. This change is particularly apparent for text editions: how is one to manage the transfer from the manuscript age to a digital one? Can sources be understood and analysed without physical support? This paper will be based on experiences of using electronic editions of early modern texts, specifically diplomatic correspondences such as L'ambassade extraordinaire du duc d'Angoulême, comte de Béthune et abbé de Préaux vers les princes et potentats de l'Empire. TEI, a XML-based language, has been chosen for those editions. Using such a structured language - a far cry from the plain text created by classical text editors - implies changing the conception of what an edition is. We need not just think about texts anymore but only about the historical information contained within the text and which has to be highlighted in terms of the research. This requires researchers to think more about what they want and what they want to show in their studies. Above all, it allows researchers to track specific features such as diplomatic formulas and then to facilitate their analysis. The aim of this talk is to ask if and how digital technologies have changed how historians view sources and even if they have changed the historical studies themselves; how TEI can be used to create new kind of editions. This paper will try to show how, if well used, TEI and digital technologies highlight and add to the results of historical studies. For more information about this seminar see the IHR website events section. To join us online follow this link on Tuesday 9th October: Live Stream webpage --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 12:19:32 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship Institute of English Studies School of Advanced Study University of London http://bit.ly/wxZhqH "Machines of demanding grace: speculations toward a book on the problem of digital interpretation" Willard McCarty 18 October 2012 (Thursday) Room 246, Senate House, Bloomsbury, London 17:30 - 19:30 Abstract. The great anthropological question “What is man?”, raised by Immanuel Kant in 1800 and made the overarching question of philosophy, has been taken up in our time, for example, by Anthony Giddens’ exploration of the perilously negotiated process of “going-on being” in the reflexive construction of self (Modernity and Self-Identity, 1991); Ian Hacking’s dissolving away of the singular soul by probing multiple personality disorder (Rewriting the Soul, 1995); Giorgio Agamben’s “anthropological machine” evinced e.g. in Linnaeus’ homo sapiens, which he reads as denoting a creature in perpetual becoming (L’aperto, 2002); and G. E. R. Lloyd’s subtle navigations across cultures and centuries among the historical variants of “what counts as being human” (Being, Humanity and Understanding, 2012). If, then, the human is in perpetual re-formation, what is the role of computing and the technoscience it communicates? In this talk I will use Sigmund Freud’s notion of the “great outrages” perpetrated by the sciences on human self-love and the moral programme of science that it articulates to suggest tentatively a way in which the digital humanities might do better than supply data for interpretation that happens elsewhere by other means. Refreshments provided. All welcome. Biographical note. Willard McCarty, FRAI, is Professor of Humanities Computing in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London and Professor in the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Western Sydney. He is Editor of Humanist and of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews and founding Convenor of the London Seminar (2006-2012). For more see 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F41362E90; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 07:25:36 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91472E0F; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 07:25:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B0D2B2E08; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 07:25:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121008052535.B0D2B2E08@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 07:25:35 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.358 events: Appfest for Digital Public Library of America X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 358. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 18:02:11 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Digital Public Library of America Appfest Dear all, The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is delighted to announce our first Appfest, an informal, open call for both ideas and functional examples of creative and engaging ways to use the content and metadata in the DPLA back-end platform. The first Appfest will take place on November 8-9, 2012, at the Chattanooga Public Library on The 4th Floor. We’ll have access to their new 1 gig wireless internet connection, so anything you build should be smokin’ fast! We’re looking for web and mobile apps, data visualization hacks, dashboard widgets that might spice up an end-user’s homepage, or a medley of all of these. There are no strict boundaries on the types of submissions accepted, except that they be open source (the DPLA platform is released under a AGPLv3 license) and interoperable with the DPLA platform. Participants are asked to pitch ideas for apps on the DPLA Appfest wiki page before the event, as pitches made on the wiki will inform what is made on Friday, November 9th. For inspiration, participants might consider building or pitching an app that recommends books and other content based on user preferences or a certain set of criteria, an app that helps kids find content related to the topic of their favorite book, or an app that visualizes bibliographic data in new and interesting ways. Any number of approaches to building or pitching an app that utilizes the DPLA platform are open for exploration. We encourage participants to engage the public in their development processes to the extent that they are comfortable doing so. Registration is free and open to the public; register here. For more information about the DPLA Appfest, including a preliminary agenda and information regarding scholarships, please consult the Appfest page on our site. Questions? Email us at dpla@cyber.law.harvard.edu. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 14:54:38 +0000 From: Charlotte Sleigh Subject: Permanent job in history of science and/or technology, University of Kent The University of Kent's School of History seeks to appoint a historian of modern science and/or technology (c. 1700 to present). Successful applicants will be able to demonstrate a commitment to research-led teaching at all levels and to the intellectual culture of this vibrant department. They will also contribute to the activities of the Centre for the History of the Sciences. The successful candidate will have a PhD in History or Science Studies with experience of working in a Higher or Further Education context. Evidence of substantial research activity, including outputs of 3* or 4* quality ready for submission to REF 2014, is essential. The successful candidate will have the ability to teach a range of history of science and/or technology modules at all stages, and the ability to teach Science Communication at Masters level. Being committed to a team culture of research and teaching is also essential to the role. For more information, see the University of Kent online announcement. Informal enquiries may be directed towards me. The deadline for applications is 11 November 2012. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Jordanous, Anna" (16) Subject: VAST 2012: The 12th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage [2] From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" (17) Subject: CHArt 2012: Display: Consume: Respond - Digital Engagement withArt, 15-16 November --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 10:21:41 +0000 From: "Jordanous, Anna" Subject: VAST 2012: The 12th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage VAST 2012: The 12th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Brighton, UK, 19-21 November 2012 Digital technology has the potential to influence every aspect of the cultural heritage environment. Archaeologists, heritage professionals and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) experts, often collaborate, but many unsolved problems remain. The goal of VAST 2012 is to build on this open dialogue and explore the entire pipeline of ICT in heritage from research to exploitation. The conference not only focuses on the development of innovative solutions, but will investigate the exploitation of computer science research by the heritage community. Registration is now open. Book now to get your early bird discount: http://shop.brighton.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=30&modid=2&compid=1 www.vast2012.org http://www.vast2012.org http://www.vast2012.org Corinna Hattersley-Mitchell PA/Administrative Assistant to Prof David Arnold Tel: (01273 64)2468 Cultural Informatics Research Group W108 Watts Building University of Brighton Brighton BN2 4GJ UK VAST 2012: Follow us on Twitter and Facebook or have a look at our website: VAST2012: The 13th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage | VAST 2012 http://www.vast2012.org/ You can register for VAST 2012 on our online store: Exhibitions Seminars & Workshops | University of Brighton Online Store --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 11:54:46 +0000 From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" Subject: CHArt 2012: Display: Consume: Respond - Digital Engagement withArt, 15-16 November COMPUTERS AND THE HISTORY OF ART (CHArt) 28TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE Display: Consume: Respond - Digital Engagement with Art Thursday 15 - Friday 16 November 2012 The Association of Art Historians, 70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ www.aah.org.uk This year's conference will look 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). The morning session on Friday 16th is @ Free World Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3GA Programme, paper abstracts and booking information at http://www.chart.ac.uk/chart2012/. Deadline for reduced rates: 15 October 2012. CHArt is hosted by the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London, UK. ----- Dr Anna Bentkowska-Kafel Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 68C7C2E0D; Tue, 9 Oct 2012 07:03:39 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 385402DFB; Tue, 9 Oct 2012 07:03:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A2FA32DD5; Tue, 9 Oct 2012 07:03:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121009050337.A2FA32DD5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 07:03:37 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.361 publications: Kuhnian perspectives; textual scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 361. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Sakari_Katajamäki (36) Subject: CFP: Limited Sources, Boundless Possibilities: Textual Scholarship and the Challenges of Oral and Written Texts [2] From: Gregory Radick (15) Subject: Kuhnian perspectives on the life and human sciences: free special issue of STUDIES IN HPS C --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 13:06:00 +0000 From: Sakari_Katajamäki Subject: CFP: Limited Sources, Boundless Possibilities: Textual Scholarship and the Challenges of Oral and Written Texts In-Reply-To: <6521464241636150.WA.b.bordalejobham.ac.uk@www.jiscmail.ac.uk> Call for Papers Limited Sources, Boundless Possibilities: Textual Scholarship and the Challenges of Oral and Written Texts A Special Issue of RMN Newsletter (December 2013) The objectives and methods of textual scholars vary a great deal, but they share common challenges of interpreting and representing limited sources - fragmentary documents, discontinuous recordings, fading voices, incoherent manuscripts and insufficient or contradictory data on the contexts of producing and transmitting texts. We would like to enhance interdisciplinary discussion and to provide researchers with a better methodological understanding of the challenges of limited sources in editing oral and written texts and of studying their transmission and variance in a special issue of RMN Newsletter, the international open-access bi-annual publication of Folklore Studies / Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki (ISSN 1799-4497). Our publication promotes cross-disciplinary discussion on diachronic, comparative and source-critical treatments of cultural expression across diverse and intersecting disciplines: http://www.helsinki.fi/folkloristiikka/English/RMN/index.htm The special issue on textual scholarship calls for both research articles (up to 10 pages + works cited) and reviews (up to 5 pages + works cited). The research articles will be peer reviewed. The articles may treat various materials (e.g. manuscripts, folklore, letters, diaries, recordings) and cover themes such as: * tracing processes of textualization in oral poetry * lost sources * the scholarly editing of incoherent sources * annotating gaps: interpreting illegible, invisible or inaudible sections * limited sources in stemmatalogy * challenges of historical and comparative methods in folklore studies * describing obscure ethnomusical data * digitalizing and encoding fragmentary texts * overlaps and limitations in digital editions and databases The themes may be discussed through concrete case studies or as broader comparative investigations. Theoretical discussions are also welcome. If you are interested in participating in this international and cross-disciplinary discussion, please submit a 500 word abstract of your proposed contribution, with your name, affiliation and contact information to the issue editors Karina Lukin, University of Helsinki karina.lukin@helsinki.fi or Sakari Katajamäki, Finnish Literature Society sakari.katajamaki@finlit.fi Deadline for proposal submission is Monday, January 15th, 2013. The completed 3-10 page submission (+ works cited) will have a deadline of May 1st, 2013. Further information on the newsletter's editorial criteria and author guidelines can be found at: http://www.helsinki.fi/folkloristiikka/English/RMN/guidelines.htm For further information on textual scholarship: http://textualsociety.org/ http://www.textualscholarship.eu/ ________________________ Sakari Katajamäki Managing Editor FINNISH LITERATURE SOCIETY (SKS) Research Department Edith – Critical Editions of Finnish Literature Hallituskatu 2 B (P.O. Box 259) FI-00171 Helsinki FINLAND tel +358 (0)201 131 285 sakari.katajamaki@finlit.fi www.edith.fi/english www.finlit.fi/index.php?lang=eng --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 19:11:25 +0100 From: Gregory Radick Subject: Kuhnian perspectives on the life and human sciences: free special issue of STUDIES IN HPS C In-Reply-To: To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas Kuhn'sThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions, a Kuhn-and-revolutions-themed special issue of articles from Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences is now available for free downloading at the journal's website: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/studies-in-history-and-philosophy-of-science-part-c-studies-in-history-and-philosophy-of-biological-and-biomedical-sciences/ In the main journal, articles from the current (September 2012) issue include: * Anna Maerker on Florentine anatomical wax models in eighteenth-century Vienna * Roberta Millstein on Darwin, race and sexual selection * Leon Rocha on Needham, Daoism and Science and Civilization in China Gregory Radick Professor of History and Philosophy of Science School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT, UK Tel: (UK) 0113 343 3269 Email: G.M.Radick@leeds.ac.uk Website: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/people/20048/philosophy/person/861/gregory_radick Editor-in-Chief, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 799D4601B; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:41:12 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44AE52DD1; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:41:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E997E2C8B; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:41:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121010054109.E997E2C8B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:41:09 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.362 jobs at Middlebury, Penn State X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 362. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Patricia Hswe (45) Subject: Digital Humanities Design Consultant job at Penn State [2] From: Ray Siemens (14) Subject: GIS Teaching Fellows Program at Middlebury College --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 08:49:21 -0400 From: Patricia Hswe Subject: Digital Humanities Design Consultant job at Penn State Dear Colleagues, The Penn State Libraries invite applicants and nominations for a Digital Humanities Design Consultant: "The Pennsylvania State University Libraries are currently seeking a Digital Humanities Design Consultant who is a creative researcher interested in exploring an 'alternative academic' career and in expanding the modes of humanistic research through emerging and existing technologies. The person in this position will be a critical part of initiating services and programs in support of the digital humanities at Penn State, and will work as an intellectual partner with faculty, students and staff in the College of the Liberal Arts. The successful candidate will be able to work effectively between the boundaries of various humanities disciplines to help Penn State develop its digital humanities research programs. He or she will collaborate effectively and translate ideas and concepts between diverse audiences to enable the creation of new knowledge and will have fluency with a variety of technologies and direct experience in bringing technology to bear on research and teaching." This is a fixed-term (multi-year), non-tenure-track appointment based in the newly formed Publishing and Curation Services department and funded by both the Libraries and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. It includes support for professional development activities. The complete job description is posted here: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/jobs/facjobs/dhdc.html. For more context on Publishing and Curation Services at the Penn State Libraries, please see this recent blog post by Mike Furlough, Associate Dean for Research and Scholarly Communications: http://stewardship.psu.edu/2012/09/publishing-and-curation-services----making-it-work.html Review of applications will begin on November 5, 2012, and proceed until the position is filled. All best, Patricia -- Patricia Hswe Digital Content Strategist | Head, ScholarSphereUser Services Publishing and Curation Services Division of Research and Scholarly Communications 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/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 13:14:51 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: GIS Teaching Fellows Program at Middlebury College > From: Knowles, Anne K. [mailto:aknowles@middlebury.edu] > To: Gregory, Ian I’m writing in hopes that you might know promising young scholars who would be good candidates for the new GIS Teaching Fellows Program that the Middlebury College Geography Department is launching in Fall 2013. I attach here our job advertisement. Our search is unusual because it is not aimed at classically trained geographers. The purpose of the Program is for Fellows to develop new courses, based on their own research expertise, that will promote spatial learning across the curriculum. The Program offers strong support and training for Fellows. They will work closely with our lead GIS and cartography professor, Jeff Howarth, a leader in applying the pedagogical practices and theory of blended learning to GIS instruction. The additional perk is that Fellows will be teaching excellent undergraduates, including majors in Geography, Environmental Studies, Architecture, Geology, History, and other disciplines. This is a great place to teach. And the Teaching Fellows Program allows scope for curricular innovation that is rarely encouraged in new faculty. Please forward the job ad, and this email if you wish, to anyone you know who might be interested in applying or who has graduate students working with GIS in compelling ways. All the best, Anne Knowles Chair, Geography Department Middlebury College Middlebury, VT 05753 USA Email: aknowles@middlebury.edu Phone: (802)443-3434 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 26C096083; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:42:16 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC88A5FCF; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:42:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 95E832E17; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:42:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121010054213.95E832E17@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:42:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.363 events: Turing in Rome; learning in Hawaii X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 363. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Domenico Fiormonte (34) Subject: Alan Turing conference in Rome [2] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (25) Subject: Hawaii TCC 2013: Apr 16-18, Call for Proposals & Presentations --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 12:40:36 +0200 From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Alan Turing conference in Rome “Alan Turing's Legacy” / "L'eredità di Alan Turing" University of Roma Tre, Facoltà di Lettere, 12- 13 October 2012 The aim of this conference is twofold: on one hand we want to discuss the real Alan Turing, his true projects, his scientific and technical objectives, his philosophical inspirations, his agenda, and the scientific contemporary groups who influenced and were influenced by his work. On the other hand we wish to analyze what is still alive of Turing’s inheritance and which are the fields, that are still inspired by his insights. The speakers - some of which have researched in the same areas that Turing pioneered - will be asked to respond to the questions about how much they were influenced by Turing's results, but also which are the eventual negative influences that Turing's multifarious achievements and their standard interpretations caused in their views. We will try to describe and map the actual presence of Turing's results in many different research fields such as Computer Science, Logic, Philosophy of Mind, Machine Intelligence, Biology etc. In order to fulfill this goal we need an interdisciplinary perspective in order to understand the different, sometimes opposed, interpretations of his results. The reconstruction of the reasons for the standard interpretations (not always correct, and often partial with reference to the richness of Turing's thoughts) of some of his most famous results is crucial to understand his importance not only as a scholar but also as a symbolic presence in the history and philosophy of science and technology. Friday, October 12, Aula Verra, Philosophy Dept. - Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, University of Rome Three - Via Ostiense 234 - 00146 Rome (Line B - Stop Marconi) Saturday, October 13, Aula 2, Sapienza University of Rome, Villa Mirafiori - Via Carlo Fea, 2 - 00161 - Rome (Line B, Stop Bologna + 10 minutes walk) Conference website and abstracts: http://logica.uniroma3.it/TuringLegacy/english.html Contact details Teresa Numerico tnumerico@uniroma3.it --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 09:11:21 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Hawaii TCC 2013: Apr 16-18, Call for Proposals & Presentations Aloha, please consider submitting a proposal for a general, student or paper session for TCC 2013. Cheers, -bert ----------------- 18th Annual TCC WORLDWIDE ONLINE CONFERENCE April 16-18, 2013 EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR LEARNING ~ BEST CHOICES & CURRENT PRACTICES ~ Submission deadline: December 17, 2013 CALL FOR PROPOSALS Please consider submitting a proposal for a paper or general session relating to all aspects of educational technology, including but not limited to e-learning, OER, ICT, online communities, social media, augmented reality, educational gaming, faculty & student support, Web 2.0 tools, international education and mobile learning. FULL DETAILS http://tcchawaii.org/call-for-proposals-2013/ SUBMISSIONS http://tinyurl.com/tcc2013-proposal MORE INFO Bert Kimura TCC Hawaii and LearningTimes collaborate to produce this event. Volunteer faculty and staff worldwide provide additional support. Aloha, - Bert Kimura for TCC 2013 Conference Team _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 06E406082; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:44:49 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA7C05FCF; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:44:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AD2FC2E0E; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:44:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121010054447.AD2FC2E0E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:44:47 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.364 new publication: Journal of Scholarly Publishing 44.1 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 364. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 17:06:43 +0000 From: UTP Journals Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing 44.1 October2012 Now available online… Journal of Scholarly Publishing Volume 44, Number 1, October 2012 http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/t6195363810p/ This issue contains: University Press Forum 2012 Rebecca Ann Bartlett Choice's Compilation of Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates, 2011–2012 Tom Radko The Church and Peer Review: Was ‘Peer’ Review Fairer, More Honest Then Than Now? Thomas H. P. Gould The traditional thought regarding peer review tends to be that it started with the establishment of the academy, sometime around 1650. It is a reasonable presumption that to have peer review one needs first to have peers. However, the actual review of works certainly occurred long before 1650. Of some importance is the nature of that review that took place prior to the appearance of universities in Bologna and Paris. The standard (and misapplied) logic is that the Church wielded a heavy hand on all publishing, acting as a restraint on inappropriate works prior to their publication. This is not wholly true, however. The Church is best known for its suppression of works post-publication. In a way, it acted as a critic, offering its advice to authors who it found proposed errant ideas and suggesting they might wish to recant and return to good standing. This is interesting when cast in today's peer-review environment. The author suggests that much can be learned from the Church's method of dealing with scholarship, especially in a world of e-reserves. Should we ditch the traditional peer-review method and go back to a publish-then-evaluate system used by the Holy See? In large part, the author argues that unless the academy is willing to cure the perceived ills of peer review and do so soon, the question will be answered in the affirmative, with or without our agreement. Editing Academic Books in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Maximizing Impact for Effort Louise Edwards This article explores the difficulties commonly experienced by academics seeking to edit multi-chapter, multi-contributor edited volumes. Edited volumes play important intellectual and community-building roles in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) sector. Yet these significant positive contributions are not always apparent to or valued by tenure and promotion committees. The article identifies several key problems editors face in the formulation and execution of their volumes. It aims to assist prospective editors in ensuring that the time spent editing or co-editing a book remains proportional to the likely return for effort. The article concludes with the argument that the recent emergence of Google Scholar Citations will enable HSS-sector academics to break free of the hegemony of the science-based model for quality assurance that privileges Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) journal articles and will reveal the considerable impact of edited volumes and therefore increase their value as markers of quality scholarship. British Scholarly Journals on Film Studies: Study and Evaluation of Their Internationality Susana Torrado Morales, Elea Giménez Toledo In the United Kingdom, the journal Screen has since the 1950s been the main bibliographic source for the theorists of cinema. At the moment, there are other journals in this area which are making room for themselves in the global arena of film publications. This article studies the internationality—nowadays a key factor in the process of scientific evaluation—of sixteen British film journals as part of an ongoing research project on the evolution of criteria used to measure the quality of scientific journals in the period 2008–2012. In order to measure their level of internationality, four indicators are studied: presence in national and international databases, internationality of both editorial and scientific boards, internationality of contributions, and, finally, the existence of peer-review evaluation in the selection process of the manuscripts. Book Reviews Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, reviewed by Sanford G. Thatcher Jeffrey Kahan, Getting Published in the Humanities: What to Know, Where to Aim, How to Succeed, reviewed by Steven E. Gump Darcy Cullen, Editors, Scholars, and the Social Text, reviewed by Willis Regier Letter to the Editor Stephen K. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 06:34:08 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: from quantum physics to digital humanities It remains to be seen how long and complex the path is to machines on our desks (or wherever they then are) from the work of Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the US, who just won a joint Nobel Prize for preserving the quantum character of particles while manipulating them. But the fact that there is a connection may be worth thinking about. For those who like to follow events on very distant intellectual galaxies, see http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c5c33840-11f9-11e2-bbfd-00144feabdc0.html#axzz28s3oUB7s. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 73D93F9B; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:58:44 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 463AFF8D; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:58:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 162F6F8C; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:58:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121011045843.162F6F8C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:58:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.366 job at Victoria X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 366. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:09:17 -0700 From: etcl Subject: Programmer Needed The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria is looking for a full-time (35 hours per week) programmer to assist in the development of Web tools for humanities-related research, as well as to work in and around social media and digital scholarly editions. The successful candidate will have a Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent experience, and demonstrated experience in the following tools and technologies: • Content management systems or similar, including WordPress • Relational databases, including design, ideally in the context of literary analysis • Object-oriented coding (at least 2 years experience), ideally in the context of visualizations of Humanities documents or social networks Experience in some or all of the following technologies is desirable but not required: • Ruby on Rails • Postgresq • MySql • Apache • PHP • Linux • XML/XSLT/HTML and W3C Standards • JavaScript • CSS The ability and desire to learn technologies on this list that the candidate lacks is an asset. Duties for this position will include the following: • Developing and implementing object-oriented designs • Designing database schemas • Writing documentation • Holding constructive discussion with other team members • Deploying web applications • Open-source software research • Maintaining web applications • Requirement elicitation The ETCL is a leading-edge research lab, working on a variety of exciting projects. Self-motivated personalities are essential. Individual development and new ideas are encouraged. Read more about us at . Salary for this position is competitive in the academic market and will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. The contract is for a five-month term, from November 1 2012 until March 31 2013. Applications, comprising a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three referees, may be sent electronically to . Applications will be received and reviewed until the position is filled. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6D9AF122E; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:02:06 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E172F9C; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:02:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8B82CF9B; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:02:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121011050204.8B82CF9B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:02:04 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.367 events: models of text; DHSI 2013 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 367. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Joris van Zundert (109) Subject: Interedition: CFP Bootcamp #13 [2] From: Ray Siemens (24) Subject: 2013's Digital Humanities Summer Institute (6-10 June 2013,U Victoria) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:39:14 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Interedition: CFP Bootcamp #13 == Interedition: Call For Participation Bootcamp #13 == Interedition has the pleasure of inviting all interested scholars and developers to participate in the upcoming Bootcamp to be held on the occasion of the 2012 conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (http://ests2012.huygens.knaw.nl/). This bootcamp will be held from 21 until 24 November 2012 at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands in The Hague (http://www.huygens.knaw.nl/). == Challenge == Computational models of text in the Digital Humanities are strongly informed by the technological basis which practitioners in the field choose to process them. Such technological bases may be found in XML-based technologies[1] employed for encoding, processing and delivering digital texts. They may be found in alternatives like the Resource Description Format (RDF)[2], string-/range-based models[3, 4] or network/graph-oriented approaches[5]. Which ever: each of these technological frameworks shape the way we construct and (in the end) conduct computations on digital texts. While the family of XML-related tools forms an ecosystem which does not only include an encoding standard but also offers a manifold of options for processing XML-encoded data (XPath, XQuery, XSLT, XProc etc.), alternatives often fall short of providing easy-to-use, practical solutions for the digital humanist when it comes to leveraging the advantages of such complementary approaches. This particular bootcamp therefore sets a formidable challenge: can the contours of an alternative, domain specific language (DSL) for the flexible processing of texts (beyond the constraints of e.g. XML) be defined and the beginnings of a reference implementation be designed and constructed in mere days? == Programme == * Wednesday 21 November 2012 Day 1 of the bootcamp will be an unconference on the concepts and particulars of text modeling. Which existing models (graphs, ranges, trees?) or what combination serves us the most. What verbs make up our language, to what scholarly concepts does it answer? And how do we implement it? * Thursday 22 & Friday 23 November 2012 Day 2 & 3 will be hacking, developing, testing, and reiterating. The idea is to end with a minimalist implementation that for example could execute something like: witnesses = Witnesses.new() witnesses.add( 'http://example.org/rest_tei&id=00.1.3233.2' ).add( ' http://example.org/rest_tei&id=00.1.3233.3' ) witnesses.first.annotate( new Range( 20, 40 ), "My annotation" ) variant_graph = witnesses.collate.graph variant_graph.out( './examples/exmp_001.svg' ) All naive assumptions and implicit architectural subtext in this fictitious example are discussables! * Saturday 24 November 2012 Day 4 will be evaluative. We see what we have, what problems we identified. Also we make a start with disseminating our findings in a blog post and the layout of a journal contribution. == Bursaries == Kindly sponsored by the Huygens Institute 'Interedition' is able to offer a limited amount of bursaries typically ranging from 500 to 750 Euros depending on travel distance. Successful applicants are expected to attend the full bootcamp, and should in general be early stage researchers and/or developers (< Ph.D. + 10 years) able to motivate a clear interest and experience in tool design, development, and/or text modeling. If you are interested in participating in the bootcamp, please send an email to joris.van.zundert-AT-huygensinstituut.knaw.nl by *10 November 2012*. In the email please state your affiliation, add a short description of your current or related development work in digital humanities. Please also suggest what you want to bring to the bootcamp as to modeling and development expertise, and what you hope to take away form it. == About Interedition == Interedition (http://www.interedition.eu) is a digital humanities community initiative whose objective is to further the interoperability of tools in digital scholarship. Interedition is raising the awareness of the importance of interoperability as a major driver for sustainability for tools and data in the field of digital scholarship. This activity takes two forms: firstly, meetings in which researchers in digital scholarship can network their knowledge of tools and the possibilities for their interoperability; secondly, the development of proof-of-concept implementations of interoperable tools. These proof-of-concept tools are the focus of Interedition's periodic bootcamps, which offer the open source development community in the humanities opportunities to meet, network, and exchange knowledge. == About the organizers == The bootcamp is organized through the kind efforts of: * Ronald Haentjens-Dekker (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands) * Joris van Zundert (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands) == Bootcamp venue == Dekenzaal Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5 2595 BE The Hague (52.081669, 4.327998) (Note that the venue is *different* from the ESTS2012 conference venue to ensure good development facilities. The ESTS venue in Amsterdam is a 40 minutes train ride away.) == Bootcamp start == Wednesday 21 November 2012, 10AM CEST == References == [1] TEI: The Text Encoding Initiative. http://www.tei-c.org/ [2] Di Iorio, Angelo, Silvio Peroni and Fabio Vitali. “Towards markup support for full GODDAGs and beyond: the EARMARK approach.” Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009, Montréal, Canada, August 11 - 14, 2009. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 3 (2009). doi:10.4242/BalisageVol3.Peroni01. [3] Nicol, G. T. Core Range Algebra: Toward a Formal Model of Markup. In: Proceedings of Extreme Markup Languages. Montréal, Québec, 2002. [4] Thaller, M., 2006. Strings, Texts and Meaning. In: Digital Humanities 2006 The First ADHO International Conference. Université Paris-Sorbonne. July 5th-July. 9th. Conference Abstracts. Centre de Recherche Cultures Anglophones et Technologies de l'Information. pp. 212-214. [5] Schmidt, D., and R. Colomb (2009). A data structure for representing multi-version texts online.International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 67: 497-514. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:12:47 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: 2013's Digital Humanities Summer Institute (6-10 June 2013,U Victoria) DHSI 2013 6-10 June 2013 http://dhsi.org/ Dear Members of the DHSI Community, A quick note of update for those who are subscribed to the DHSI e-mail list, following the announcement of our 2013 offerings earlier this month. We're very pleased at the response we've received already in relation to our offerings for 2013, the result of consultation with our community about the sorts of material we'd all like to see covered at DHSI now and in the future, as well as a call for proposals for courses among members of our community. Like last year, we had so many good ideas that -- even as we added more courses for 2013 -- we couldn't facilitate all of the excellent suggestions this year ... so please look also to 2014 for even more innovative and engaging programming over and above the core and foundational DH skills on which our time together is based at DHSI. At the moment, preparations for 2013 are already humming along in Victoria, and our 'quiet' launch of 2013 registration over the weekend has resulted in courses beginning to fill ... even a bit ahead of anticipated schedule. As with last year: if there's a course you or a member of your team absolutely must have, we'd recommend registration earlier rather than later for it. We're very, very happy to welcome our new and returning sponsors last year and this -- among them the University of Victoria and its Library; the University of British Columbia Library; the College of Arts at University of Guelph; Texas A&M University; the Centre for Digital Humanities in the Department of English at Ryerson University; the Faculty of Arts at University of Waterloo; the Brittain Fellowship at Georgia Tech; the Simpson Center for the Humanities at University of Washington; the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology/Faculty of Letters at University of Tokyo; English, North Carolina State U; the Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Culture, Ritsumeikan U; Vancouver Island University (Office of the Provost and VP); Hamilton College DHi; the Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC) project; Modernist Versions Project (MVP); NINES; the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project; the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO); the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS); the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH/SCHN); the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH); and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). All of us in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) are so grateful for such good company! Further, as we do every year, we'll have the pleasure of awarding a number of early tuition scholarship spots. Application is via http://dhsi.org/scholarships.php, and these scholarships cover tuition costs with the exception of a small, non-refundable administration fee (students $150, non-students $300). The absolute deadline to apply for scholarships is 14 February, though the scholarship committee considers applications on a regular, rolling basis and evaluates applications based on need, merit, and course availability at the time of evaluation; scholarship spots tend to fill exceptionally quickly. -- If you've not yet seen the list of 2013 course offerings (at http://dhsi.org/courses.php) and our schedule (at http://dhsi.org/schedule.php), we'd really encourage you to do so. In addition to a great mix of classic courses and new ones recommended by our community, we've got some great talks planned by, among others, Kari Kraus (U Maryland) -- as well as our DHSI Colloquium, lunchtime unconference sessions, and much more! This year, too, our gathering takes place in alignment with the conference of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (CSDH/SCHN; http://csdh-schn.org/) at CFHSS Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (see http://www.fedcan.ca/en/congress) -- an exciting alignment that will add much to our time together. - To register for a 2013 DHSI course: http://dhsi.org/courses.php - To apply for a tuition fellowship: http://dhsi.org/scholarships.php It is shaping up to be another banner year, and we hope very much that you are considering joining us for it! All best, Ray For the DHSI team http://dhsi.org/ ____________ 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 54566F9D; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:33:40 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26EEDF8D; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:33:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 381A8F8A; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:33:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20121011053338.381A8F8A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:33:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.368 open [?] access publishing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 368. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:24:37 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Open Access *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1349933521_2012-10-11_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_15839.2.pdf > Subject: Open Access > Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:35:55 +0100 > From: Andrew Prescott > CC: Andrew Pink Dear Willard, I wonder whether the attached open letter from the President of the Royal Historical, Society would be of interest to subscribers to Humanist. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F33A7122E; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:47:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B74CFF9E; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:47:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8B468E6C; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:47:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121012044717.8B468E6C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:47:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.369 small print newsletter to digital? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 369. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:34:51 -0500 From: Mandy Gagel Subject: how to turn a small print newletter to digital? Hello, This is a general plea for information about an easy and inexpensive way to switch over the distribution of a small newsletter/journal to a digital one. I was hoping some on this list might have a recommendation for a service that can help with this? We would want it to be an easy transfer of the look of the print one to a digital format, and hopefully optimized for mobile devices. Any recommendations or advice would be appreciated. Feel free to email me directly at mandygagel@gmail.com Thank you! Mandy Gagel Loyola Uni., Chicago Sent from my iPad _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 124E42C59; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:53:16 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4FFFE6B; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:53:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 73413E6C; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:53:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121012045313.73413E6C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:53:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.370 events: New Scholars; GIS; curation; music; industry-academic X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 370. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Schreibman (33) Subject: Registration open for Framing the Digital Curation Curriculum workshop [2] From: Willard McCarty (19) Subject: New Scholars in Digital Humanities [3] From: Shawn Day (34) Subject: Realising the Opportunities of Digital Humanities: industry- academic interface [4] From: "Murrieta-Flores, Patricia" Subject: GIS in the Digital Humanities: A free one day seminar [5] From: Andrew Prescott (40) Subject: AISB Symposium on Music and Unconventional Computing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:54:51 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Registration open for Framing the Digital Curation Curriculum workshop Please join us for a free one-day event which forms part of the ongoing work of DigCurV http://www.digcur-education.org/ to design a Curriculum Framework in digital curation. The workshop will be held in Florence on 10th December 2012. DigCurV presents this one-day free workshop which will take place on the periphery of the Online Heritage conference which is also taking place in Florence in December 2012. The workshop will feature high profile expert guest speakers from the field of digital curation, as well as the opportunity to provide feedback on the development of the Curriculum Framework. DigCurV brings together a network of partners to address the availability of vocational training needed to develop new skills that are essential for the long-term management of digital collections, including --How do we self-evaluate our skills and knowledge as digital curators to keep current in our field? --What training is required for those working in digital curation at the Practitioner, Manager and Executive levels? --What challenges are there in designing digital curation training? To register visit http://digcurvdec2012.eventbrite.com/ To find out more about the event, visit http://www.digcur-education.org/eng/Events/Framing-the-Digital-Curation-Curriculum-a-DigCurV-Workshop -- Susan Schreibman, PhD The Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities School of English Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland Email: susan.schreibman@gmail.com Phone: 353 1 896 3694 Mobile: 353 86 049 1966 http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:53:50 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: New Scholars in Digital Humanities To mark and celebrate completion of each PhD in Digital Humanities, the Department of Digital Humanities (DDH), King's College London, has created a seminar series entitled "New Scholars in Digital Humanities". The first of these, sponsored jointly by the Arts and Humanities Research Institute (AHRI) at King's as part of its Interdisciplinary Seminar series, is to be given by Dr Luke Blaxill (History and DDH) on 2 November, 6-8pm, Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus. Dr Blaxill's title is, "Quantifying the language of British politics, 1880-1914". See http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/eventrecords/ahriblaxill.aspx for details. All welcome. 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/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:24:46 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Realising the Opportunities of Digital Humanities: industry-academic interface Limited spaces still available for 'Realising the Opportunities of Digital Humanities'. Day two is now fully booked but a few spaces still available for the Day One Symposium and Day Three Workshops. This exciting event is the first in a series of workshops targeting the industry-academic interface for identifying and realising the opportunities of the digital humanities. It is jointly organised by the two major digital humanities national infrastructures (the Digital Repository of Ireland-DRI and the Digital Humanities Observatory-DHO), and the largest semantic web research Institute (Digital Enterprise Research Institute- DERI, NUI Galway), together with a large-scale European digital infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities-DARIAH). The event will be held in Dublin and Maynooth, Ireland. Limited places still available for : Day 1: Tuesday 23rd October 2012, The Importance of Digital Humanities, Case Studies in Action, and Academic-Public-Industry partnerships achieving more. Venue: Croke Park Stadium, Dublin Day 3: Thursday 25th October 2012 Skills Workshops: Data Visualisation, Data Modeling, and Linked Data. Venue: Labs, NUI Maynooth For registration and more information see the conference website: http://www.dri.ie/realising-opportunities-digital-humanities Details of the Oct 15th skills workshops are available on this page: http://www.dri.ie/skills-workshops And bios for our panel speakers have been linked to the full conference programme: http://www.dri.ie/programme Please email dri@ria.ie if you have any questions or require additional information. This workshop is jointly sponsored 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) Please forward this message to any contacts or lists who may be interested. Regards, Rebecca Grant Digital Archivist, Digital Repository of Ireland Royal Irish Academy 19 Dawson Street Dublin 2 web: www.dri.ie http://www.dri.ie/ tel: 00353 1 609 0691 email: r.grant@ria.ie www.ria.ie http://www.ria.ie/ The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann Ireland's Academy for the sciences and humanities [CROPPED dri_logo_white_sp] The Royal Irish Academy is subject to the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 & 2003 and is compliant with the provisions of the Data Protection Acts 1998 & 2003. For further information see our website www.ria.ie --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:32:24 +0000 From: "Murrieta-Flores, Patricia" Subject: GIS in the Digital Humanities: A free one day seminar GIS in the Digital Humanities: A free one day seminar Lancaster University Friday 30th November, 2012 Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are becoming increasingly used by historians, archaeologists, literary scholars, classicists and others with an interest in humanities geographies. Take-up has been hampered by a lack of understanding of what GIS is and what it has to offer to these disciplines. This free workshop, sponsored by the European Research Council’sSpatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places project and hosted by Lancaster University, will provide a basic introduction to GIS both as an approach to academic study and as a technology. Its key aims are: To establish why the use of GIS is important to the humanities; to stress the key abilities offered by GIS, particularly the capacity to integrate, analyse and visualise a wide range of data from many different types of sources; to show the pitfalls associated with GIS and thus encourage a more informed and subtle understanding of the technology; and, to provide a basic overview of GIS software and data. Timetable: 9:30 Registration 10:00 Welcome and Introductions 10:15 Session 1: Fundamentals of GIS from a humanities perspective. 11:45 Session 2: Case studies of the use of GIS in the humanities. 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Session 3: Getting to grips with GIS software and data. 15:30 Roundtable discussion – going further with GIS. 16:30 Close Who should come? The workshop is aimed at a broad audience including post-graduate or masters students, members of academic staff, curriculum and research managers, and holders of major grantsand those intending to apply for major grants. Professionals in other relevant sectors interested in finding out about GIS applications are also welcome. This workshop is only intended as an introduction to GIS, so will suit novices or those who want to brush up previous experience. It does not include any hands-on use of software – this will be covered in later events to be held 11-12th April and 15-18th July 2013. How much will it cost? The workshop is free of charge. Lunch and refreshments are included. We do not provide accommodation but can recommend convenient hotels and B&Bs if required. How do I apply? Places are limited and priority will be given to those who apply early. As part of registering please include a brief description of your research interests and what you think you will gain from the workshop. This should not exceed 200 words. For more details of this and subsequent events see: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/spatialhum/training.html. To register please email a booking form (attached or available from the website) to: I.Gregory@lancaster.ac.uk who may also be contacted with informal enquiries. --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:44:58 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: AISB Symposium on Music and Unconventional Computing CALL FOR PAPERS: 1st AISB Symposium on Music and Unconventional Computing The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) is pleased to announce the 1st AISB Symposium on Music and Unconventional Computing, to take place during the AISB Annual Convention 2013, University of Exeter, UK, April 2nd-5th 2013. http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/computer-science/research/aisb/ Research into unconventional, or nature-inspired, computing aims to uncover novel principles of efficient information processing and computation in physical, chemical and biological systems, to develop novel non-standard algorithms and computing architectures, and also to implement conventional algorithms in non-silicon, or wet, substrates. Computers have been programmed to produce sounds as early as the beginning of the 1950’s. Nowadays, the computer is ubiquitous in many aspects of music, ranging from software for musical composition and production, to systems for distribution of music on the Internet. Therefore, it is likely that future developments in Computer Science will have an impact in music technology. This workshop will discuss ways in which unconventional modes of computation may provide new directions for future developments in Computer Music. You are welcome to join us to discuss and possibly shape the future of music technology. Chairs: Prof Eduardo Miranda Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR) Plymouth University, UK. Prof Andy Adamatzky, Unconventional Computing Centre University of the West of England, UK. -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AC0412CBE; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:54:37 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F9EE122E; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:54:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 00DE7F91; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:54:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121012045435.00DE7F91@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:54:34 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.371 alternative publishing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 371. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:28:10 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: alternative publishing Hard on the heels of the open letter from the President of the Royal Historical Society that my colleague Andrew Prescott forwarded via Humanist comes a brief note from one of our new PhD students, Samuel Moore, as follows: > I'm writing with my Open Book Publishers hat on. I wasn't sure > whether this was suitable for dissemination through the Humanist > list, but Paul Jump has just written a nice story on us in THE - > http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=421432&c=1 > . As you will see Mr Jump explicitly uses the Finch Report to highlight what Open Book is doing. And I can say as one who has published an edited collection with this publisher and then recommended the same to the editor of a collection for which I have written, Open Book is doing a splendid job. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B4E452CD4; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:58:21 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8078FF9E; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:58:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B2018F9E; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:58:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121012045819.B2018F9E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:58:19 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.372 what goes on in the interchange? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 372. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:12:59 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: pointing to the problem In his detailed consideration of objections to his notion of a "trading zone" of exchange among scientific subcultures, Peter Galison takes up the power relations between unequal partners. He uses as an example quantum electrodynamics ("the heartland of the purest pure physics") and radio engineering, showing how two physicists' Nobel Prize winning discoveries were shaped by collaboration with radio engineers. He concludes with the following paragraph that I recommend strongly to your attention: > From examples like the joint work of radio engineers and theoretical > physicists a new question arises: What characterizes the forms of > technical exchange that take place under such conditions of > inequality? This, as it turns out, is a question that arises in > nonscientific interlanguages. Some anthropological linguists have > argued that the subordinate group often donates syntax, while the > superordinate group provides lexical or referential structure. I > suspect that something similar went on between the physicists and the > engineers: calculational strategies were from the engineers, terms > from the physicists. While this pattern may not be universal, it is > suggestive. At the very least such examples prompt a set of > questions: In instances of unequal exchanges between > scientific-technical subcultures, what precisely does make it to the > interlanguage from each side? It is a question that cannot even arise > if we stop our analysis with proclamations about > "interdisciplinarity," "collaboration," or "symbiosis." Those terms > point at the problem; all the interest, in my view, lies in unpacking > what the nature of this coordination is and how it evolves over time. [...] > If one is content to label work between scientific subcultures as > "interdisciplinary," questions remain that are utterly obscured. Of > course we know there is collaboration -- that is what we want to > understand. To tackle the joint workings of different groups by > referring to a label is not much help. It reminds me of Molière's > quack who explains the sleep-inducing power of opium as being its > virtus dormitiva. What we need is a much more interesting and > effective active ingredient than "virtus dormitiva" -- instead a way > of approaching joint work that parses what comes with what, and how > ways of speaking, calculating, and building are coordinated. Peter Galison, "Trading with the enemy", in Michael E. Gorman, ed., Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise: Creating New Kinds of Collaboration (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2010): 39, 40. So I wonder: do we have the wherewithal to unpack what our uses of the terms "interdisciplinarity" and "collaboration" tell us about what is actually going on in the interchanges between digital humanities and the disciplines with which we interact? 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 55AC62CD4; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:10:02 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F205F90; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:10:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 568CCEC7; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:10:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121013081000.568CCEC7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:10:00 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.373 small print newsletter to digital X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 373. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:27:12 +0100 From: Alexander Hay Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.369 small print newsletter to digital? In-Reply-To: <20121012044717.8B468E6C@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Mandy, As a rule, you can design something with a print-style layout in InDesign and save it as a .pdf. Mount the file on a CMS and job's a good 'un, as they say. You can also convert Word docs to .pdf via Open Office. Again, just host the end result and all is well. You may need to come up with a completely different version for smartphones, though. I'd go so far as to say content for these platforms count as a medium in their own right, given how differently they are read and so written. I hope that helps. Kind regards, - Alexander On 12 October 2012 05:47, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 369. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:34:51 -0500 > From: Mandy Gagel > Subject: how to turn a small print newletter to digital? > > Hello, > > This is a general plea for information about an easy and inexpensive way > to switch over the distribution of a small newsletter/journal to a digital > one. I was hoping some on this list might have a recommendation for a > service that can help with this? We would want it to be an easy transfer of > the look of the print one to a digital format, and hopefully optimized for > mobile devices. Any recommendations or advice would be appreciated. > Feel free to email me directly at mandygagel@gmail.com > > Thank you! > Mandy Gagel > Loyola Uni., Chicago > > Sent from my iPad > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: > http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DE57B2D8A; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:10:49 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFE7EF90; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:10:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 652ECF9B; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:10:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121013081047.652ECF9B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:10:47 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.374 postdoc for NSF EAGER project X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 374. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:35:35 +0000 From: I-CHASS Subject: HASTAC seeking Postdoctoral Scholar for NSF EAGER Social Network Data Grant HASTAC seeking Postdoctoral Scholar for NSF EAGER Social Network Data Grant HASTAC is currently seeking a Postdoctoral Scholar to carry out social network data analysis for a newly awarded $294,000 NSF EAGER project "Assessing the Impact of Technology-Aided Participation and Mentoring on Transformative Interdisciplinary Research: A Data-Based Study of the Incentives and Success of an Exemplar Academic Network.” Through a large-scale analysis of the HASTAC social network, the Postdoc will investigate the interplay of cyberinfrastructure and scholarly communication, combining cutting-edge data mining methods with thoughtful human and institutional questions to examine how virtual interdisciplinary connections and mentoring can promote new modes of research, learning, teaching, and career development. Computational analysis, data extraction, and social networking analysis will be used to examine six years’ worth of data from the HASTAC website, which is built on the Drupal platform. The full call, as well as the abstract and a link to the full proposal, is posted below. Interested parties should submit their materials by 5pm EST on Friday, November 16, 2012. OPEN POSTDOCTORAL POSITION NSF OCI-1243622 Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER), Division of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation Title: “Assessing the Impact of Technology-Aided Participation and Mentoring on Transformative Interdisciplinary Research: A Data-Based Study of the Incentives and Success of an Exemplar Academic Network” Skills: Demonstrated experience with mathematical and visual social network analysis, quantitative and qualitative methods (including case study and ethnographic) for mapping collaborative networks, citation networks, professional networks, mentoring relationships, structural cohesion and integration within and across disciplines and institutions. Candidate must be able to participate in and generate dialogue with faculty and students about these issues and then test hypotheses using HASTAC’s data or gathering new data (survey, interviews, case study, ethnography). Organizational assignment: The postdoctoral fellow will work in the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge at Duke University or possibly in the Information Futures Project Space (under construction) and will be part of a multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary Technology-Aided Participation Advisory Board. The fellow will be expected to maintain a virtual presence on the HASTAC site, reporting on preliminary findings, posting white papers for peer-to-peer feedback from the HASTAC community, and working within HASTAC’s network structure to generate new ideas, problems, and questions to be addressed. Position availability: Start date December 2012, or earliest availability; residency at Duke University highly desirable. In an exceptional case, fellow may reside virtually, with a telepresence accessible during business hours and a monthly residence (week long) for site-specific meetings, collaborations, and events. Outcomes: In addition to working with the HASTAC team to produce a number of local and webcast events (seminars, webinars, conferences), the postdoctoral fellow will be expected to maintain a virtual presence on the www.hastac.org site, reporting on preliminary findings, posting white papers for peer-to-peer feedback from the HASTAC community, and working within HASTAC’s network structure to generate new ideas, problems, and questions to be addressed. The fellow will also be expected to present papers at scholarly conferences and to submit final work to refereed journals in social science, science studies, and other relevant fields. Type of contract: 6 months to 1 year (with renewable second year possible based on performance) Salary: $48,000-55,000 annually, prorated for months worked and commensurate with experience Application deadline: 5pm EST, Friday, November 16, 2012 To apply: Please submit your letter of interest and CV to Mandy Dailey, Director of Administration, HASTAC and Temporary EAGER Program Manager at mandy.dailey@duke.edu by 5pm EST, Friday, November 16, 2012. --------- ABSTRACT “Assessing the Impact of Technology-Aided Participation and Mentoring on Transformative Interdisciplinary Research: A Data-Based Study of the Incentives and Success of an Exemplar Academic Network” uses computational analysis, data extraction, and social network analysis to embark on the first large-scale study of the interplay of cyberinfrastructure and scholarly communication in an academic peer-produced network. The exemplar virtual institution studied is the Humanities, Arts, Sciences and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC or “haystack”), a network of over 9000 educators dedicated to innovative, technology-aided forms of collaborative research and teaching. Formed in 2002, HASTAC, now headquartered at Duke University in the Ph.D. Lab in Digital Knowledge, is currently adding 200-300 new members a month. The study mobilizes six years of the extensive HASTAC data pool, including the 176MB MySQL database of individual and institutional member profiles, for social network analysis, data extraction, text and content analysis, and procedural and organizational analysis. It provides critically needed evidence for the current and future capacities of institutions to support the interdisciplinary collaborations essential to meet the Grand Challenges (such as energy, water sustainability, or human sciences and policy design) confronting the world, especially those requiring collaboration among scientists working with humanists and social scientists trained to confront the societal and cultural factors that deter the implementation of scientific and technological solutions. Given the unique interdisciplinary nature of HASTAC as a virtual organization and the fact that this is a first, exploratory study of its extensive, accessible, anonymized “clean” individual and institutional data (in a Drupal database), this is a transformative, high-impact early-stage study for which EAGER was designed. Because one focus of the study is the 522 current students and recent alumni (80% graduate, 20% undergraduate) in 63 disciplines and departments on small scholarships from over 120 supporting institutions, the study will also test the hypothesis that networked interdisciplinary young scholars “outcompete” more traditional peers, another first commensurate with the EAGER mission of transformative knowledge with the potential for maximum impact. The intellectual merits of the project include modeling a method by which cyberfrastructure can enable successful collaborative research adaptable to other problem-based research centers and scalable to other projects, such as NSF-funded Science of Learning Centers (SLC); determining the best incentives for risk-taking early career interdisciplinary research; and calculating how voluntary, scholarly network and virtual mentoring support and promote early-stage researchers in both scholarly innovation and high-prestige academic achievement. The broader impact of the study is in addressing one of the most urgent structural problems in higher education and one on which there is little quantitative, data-based research: how to incentivize and support the range of cross-disciplinary researchers who must work together successfully in order to solve society’s biggest problems. At its broadest, it is anticipated that the study will intervene in current theories of organizational behavior, social media protocols, disciplinary and interdisciplinary formation, and self-governing systems, and lay the groundwork for increased collaborations dedicated to tackling the major problems and Grand Challenges of the 21st century. DOWNLOAD THE FULL PROPOSAL ~~~ ABOUT I-CHASS The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science (I-CHASS) charts new ground in high-performance computing and the human sciences. 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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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7E1E82D9A; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:11:19 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 429352D8F; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:11:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 518B82D8A; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:11:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121013081118.518B82D8A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:11:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.375 events: libraries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 375. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:38:17 +0000 From: kcl - digitalhumanities Subject: First Call of Proposals QQML2013, 5th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, 4 - 7 June2013, "La Sapienza" University, Rome Italy In-Reply-To: > From: Secretariat@isast.org [secretariat@isast.org] > Subject: First Call of Proposals QQML2013, 5th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, 4 - 7 June 2013, "La Sapienza" University, Rome Italy We invite you to submit a paper /abstract /poster /workshop to the 5th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2013), 4 - 7 June 2013, “La Sapienza” University, Rome Italy. Abstract submission deadline: 20 December 2012. First Call of Proposals QQML2013 Dear Colleagues, It is our great pleasure to announce the 5th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2013) at 4 - 7 June 2013, “La Sapienza” University, Rome Italy: http://www.isast.org/qqml2013.html Since 2009 QQML has provided an excellent framework for the presentation of new trends and developments in every aspect of Library and Information Science, Technology, Applications and Research. The 5th QQML2013 was scheduled during the previous 4th QQML2012 Conference. It was also decided that the 6th QQML 2014 International Conference will be organized in Istanbul, Turkey. QQML2009, QQML2010, QQML2011 and QQML2012 were successful events both from the number and quality of the presentations and from the post conference publications in Journals and Books. QQML2013 will continue and expand the related topics. Papers are invited for this international conference. The conference will consider, but not be limited to, the following indicative themes: 1. Bibliographic Control 2. Bibliometric Research 3. Change of Libraries and Managerial techniques 4. Changes in Learning, Research and Information needs and Behaviour of Users 5. Climate Change Data 6. Communication Strategies 7. Data Analysis and Data Mining 8. Development and Assessment of Digital Repositories 9. Development of Information and Knowledge Services on the Public Library 10. Digital Libraries 11. Economic Co-operation and Development 12. Energy Data and Information 13. Environmental Assessment 14. Financial strength and sustainability 15. Health information services 16. Historical and Comparative case studies related to Librarianship 17. Information and Data on various aspects of Food and Agriculture 18. Information and Knowledge Services 19. Information Literacy: Information sharing, Democracy and Lifelong Learning 20. Library Cooperation: Problems and Challenges at the beginning of the 21st century 21. Library change and Technology 22. Management 23. Marketing 24. Museums, Libraries and Cultural Organizations 25. Music Librarianship 26. Performance Measurement and Competitiveness 27. Publications 28. Quality evaluation and promotion of info 29. Technology & Innovations in Libraries and their Impact on Learning, Research and Users 30. Technology transfer and Innovation in Library management Special Sessions – Workshops You may send proposals for Special Sessions (4-6 papers) or Workshops (more than 2 sessions) including the title and a brief description at: secretariat@isast.org or from the electronic submission at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractregistration.html You may also send Abstracts/Papers to be included in the following sessions, to new sessions or as contributed papers at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractregistration.html Contributions may be realized through one of the following ways a. structured abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) and presentation; b. full papers (not exceeding 7,000 words); c. posters (not exceeding 2,500 words); d. visual presentations (Pecha kucha). These presentations consist of exactly 20 slides, each of which is displayed for 20 seconds. Total presentation time is precisely 6 minutes 40 seconds and so it is important to use the transition feature in PowerPoint to time your presentation exactly. In all the above cases at least one of the authors ought to be registered in the conference. Abstracts and full papers should be submitted electronically within the timetable provided in the web page: http://www.isast.org/importantdates.html The abstracts and full papers should be in compliance to the author guidelines: http://www.isast.org/abstractregistration.html All abstracts will be published in the Conference Book of Abstracts and in the website of the Conference. The papers of the conference will be published in the website of the conference, after the permission of the author(s). Student submissions Professors and Supervisors are encouraged to organize conference sessions of Postgraduate theses and dissertations. Please direct any questions regarding the QQML 2013 Conference and Student Research Presentations to: the secretariat of the conference at: secretariat@isast.org On behalf of the Conference Committee Dr. Anthi Katsirikou, Conference Co-Chair University of Piraeus Library Director Head, European Documentation Center Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information Professionals anthi@asmda.com Professor Carla Basili, Local Co-Chair EnIL - The European network on Information Literacy, co-ordinator Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Istituto di Ricerca sull'Impresa e lo Sviluppo sede di Roma via dei Taurini, 19 - 00185 Roma, Italy _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1F3E92D9A; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:12:25 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E38F52CD4; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:12:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A19492CD4; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:12:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121013081223.A19492CD4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:12:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.376 alternative publishing & open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 376. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Daniel Allington (55) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.371 alternative publishing [2] From: Marin Dacos (113) Subject: Open Edition Academic Committee's statement on Open Access --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:04:33 +0100 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.371 alternative publishing In-Reply-To: <20121012045435.00DE7F91@digitalhumanities.org> This is very laudable, but the single comment on that THE story (from a reader calling him- or herself 'Counterpunch') points out why it can't work from the point of view of an early career academic: "At the moment ayone who wants a job or promotion would be insane to give their book to open publishers - it'd get (unfairly) sneered at by powers-that-be. The only people who could get away with it are those senior people cited here who are beyond caring because they are already at the top of their fields." Shortlisting panels and appointments committees loyally seek to secure for their kindhearted employers the candidates with the books with the 'best' publishers. Does anyone doubt that in the eyes of the powers-that-be, the candidate with the CUP book 'beats' the candidate with (say) the Routledge book, while the candidate with the Routledge book 'beats' (say) the candidate with the Trentham book? And does anyone have any serious doubts about where open access publishers are going to fit into that hierarchy? As a means of assessing the quality of somebody's scholarship, this is wrong. It's wrong and it's unfair and it's hidebound and it's counterproductive. But if a recent PhD graduate told me he or she was thinking of sending his or her book to an open access publisher, I'd advise him or her to think again (unless, of course, it was his or her intention to leave academia altogether). To be honest, I think I'd find it pretty hard to sleep that night if I didn't. Best wishes Daniel On 12 Oct 2012, at 05:54, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 371. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:28:10 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: alternative publishing > > > Hard on the heels of the open letter from the President of the Royal > Historical Society that my colleague Andrew Prescott forwarded via > Humanist comes a brief note from one of our new PhD students, Samuel > Moore, as follows: > >> I'm writing with my Open Book Publishers hat on. I wasn't sure >> whether this was suitable for dissemination through the Humanist >> list, but Paul Jump has just written a nice story on us in THE - >> http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=421432&c=1 >> . > > As you will see Mr Jump explicitly uses the Finch Report to highlight > what Open Book is doing. And I can say as one who has published an > edited collection with this publisher and then recommended the same > to the editor of a collection for which I have written, Open Book is doing a > splendid job. > > 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, 12 Oct 2012 17:50:53 +0200 From: Marin Dacos Subject: Open Edition Academic Committee's statement on Open Access In-Reply-To: <20121012045435.00DE7F91@digitalhumanities.org> *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1350057421_2012-10-12_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_6567.2.pdf Dear colleagues, As you already know, the European commission has decided to support Open Access. The UK gave an answer with the Finch Report. The OpenEdition Academic committee has decided to publish a statement about Open Access to contribute to this debate. We do not think that the Gold Open Access should be the only and main road to Open Access. We would like to support the green road and to promote a third road, called Platinum. The statement is here : http://oep.hypotheses.org/103 (EN). Best regards, Marin Dacos Director - Center for open electronic publishing (Cleo) OpenEdition Academic Committee’s statement on Open Access Within the framework of the Assises de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, the OpenEdition Academic Committee at the Centre for Open Electronic Publishing wishes to draw the French government’s attention to the issue of Open Access in academic literature. Open Access benefits all It is our firm belief that Open Access to academic research results represents a huge progress for society as a whole. Open Access is a highly effective and fair system as it facilitates access to research results for both researchers and lay people the world over. The direct benefits for academic progress, knowledge and society are plain to see. In the humanities and social sciences, comprising a range of disciplines which contribute to our understanding of the complex societies in which we live, Open Access to research results is also essential, for the development of our societies and for the cultural enhancement of all. Open Access also encourages the influence of research beyond national and disciplinary boundaries. Finally, as most research is funded by public money, it is necessary that this collective investment can be made public as quickly and as efficiently as possible. The Progress of Open Access The European Union has understood these issues and has undertaken to promote Open Access, which it considers a major asset for continent-wide innovation and, thus, as a lever for improving the efficiency of its investments in the research sector. It supports two approaches: the *green road*, represented by HAL in France, the system of open archives where researchers deposit their works in full text and make them accessible to all. This solution has enabled thousands of articles in all disciplines to be made available on Open Access. We too support this approach. However, it cannot be the only strategy to be developed. The second approach is the *gold road*. Following the Finch report, the United Kingdom has decided to invest massively in this approach. Once, *Open Access Gold* simply referred to publications – journals and books – published on Open Access. Gradually this definition has altered and now refers to the fast developing “author-pay” business model, where authors, research centres or their financing bodies meet publication costs (varying from $1000-$5000/article). This mechanism has become widespread in certain disciplines, but we do not believe it is the most conducive to the progress of academic knowledge. - It ties ability to publish to the financial capabilities of researchers, their laboratories or establishments; - The mechanism itself incites publishers to increase the number of publications, whereas, traditionally, their mission and business model was based on choice and the selection of the best articles or books; - The editorial ecosystem ultimately depends on a relationship between the author, or financing institution, and the publisher which is too exclusive. The readership and their representatives, especially libraries, who traditionally make selections from a publisher’s range, are marginalised. *We believe in a third road for Open Access. *The *platinum* road creates a form of Open Access publishing that enables authors to publish and readers to read without financial obstacles. The various existing modes to finance such a model are listed in the Open Access Directory. We favour a hybrid model, the *Freemium model*, where texts are Open Access but a collection of value-added services may be purchased. It is to this end that, in 2011, OpenEdition launched OpenEdition* Freemium* for journals, and late 2012, launched a *Freemium* book service (OpenEdition Books). Readers, publishers, and libraries have welcomed the proposal, and initiatives based on the same principle, but with different modus operandi, have also emerged, proof that the idea is catching on. The*Freemium* model is at the heart of the OpenEdition future investment project selected by the French government for funding for the next eight years to come. *The OpenEdition Academic Committee* Claire Lemercier, Philippe Cibois, Sylvain Piron, Patrice Bellot, Florence Bouillon, Chérifa Boukacem, Marin Dacos, Björn-Olav Dozo, Éric Duchemin, Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Hubert Guillaud, Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur, Jean Kempf, Octavio Kulesz, Joëlle Le Marec, Antónia Lima, Pierre Mercklé, Pierre Mounier, Natalie Petiteau, Jean-Christophe Peyssard, Laurent Romary, Sophie Roux, Hervé Théry, Milad Doueihi, Claudine Moulin. TO FIND OUT MORE - The European Commission’s position in 2012 : Towards better access to scientific information: Boosting the benefits of public investments in research” http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/era-communication-towards-better-access-to-scientific-information_en.pdf - Finch report: “Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications” http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch - Budapest Open Access Initiative 10 years http://www.soros.org/openaccess/boai-10-recommendations - List of different Open Access business models listed by the Open Access Directory http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_journal_business_models http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_book_business_models - OpenEdition and OpenEdition *Freemium* http://www.openedition.org/6438 http://www.openedition.org/8699 French version http://leo.hypotheses.org/9953 -- Marin Dacos - http://www.openedition.org Director - Centre for Open Electronic Publishing ** OpenEdition is now a Facility of Excellence http://www.openedition.org/10221?lang=en * *(Equipex) ** ** New email : marin.dacos@openedition.org ** CNRS - EHESS - Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) - Université d'Avignon 3, place Victor Hugo, Case n°86, 13331 Marseille Cedex 3 - France Tél : 04 13 55 03 40 Tél. direct : 04 13 55 03 39 Fax : 04 13 55 03 41 Skype : marin.dacos - Gmail video chat : marin.dacos@gmail.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/#!/marindacos _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9CD0A2DAC; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:23:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6769B2D9F; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:23:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0DC342D9E; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:23:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121014082317.0DC342D9E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:23:16 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.377 alternative publishing & open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 377. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Thomas.Gloning@germanistik.uni-giessen.de (18) Subject: alternative publishing & open access [2] From: virginia kuhn (50) Subject: new PhDs are researchers! re:[Humanist] 26.371 alternative publishing+ advice --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 20:38:01 +0200 From: Thomas.Gloning@germanistik.uni-giessen.de Subject: alternative publishing & open access In-Reply-To: For those of you with a command of German: Bader, Anita ; Fritz, Gerd ; Gloning, Thomas (eds.): Digitale Wissenschaftskommunikation 2010-2011 : Eine Online-Befragung Giessen: GEB 2012. URL: http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2012/8539/ Among other things this study investigates Open Access, Open Peer Review and the use of mailing lists, blogs, and social media in different fields of research (in Germany). While we are on this subject: In another "book" we studied new digital forms of communication in science: Gloning, Thomas ; Fritz, Gerd (eds.): Digitale Wissenschaftskommunikation : Formate und ihre Nutzung Giessen: GEB 2011. URL: http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2011/8227/ Searching for "Willard" or "Humanist" will take you to the places where our marvelous list is mentioned. All best, Thomas --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:04:35 -0700 From: virginia kuhn Subject: new PhDs are researchers! re:[Humanist] 26.371 alternative publishing+ advice In-Reply-To: While there *is* only one comment on the *THE* story, I disagree that that comment shows why open access publishing "can't work" for academics, early career or otherwise. Instead I see this comment as both reflecting and contributing to the culture of fear and risk-aversion that increasingly renders academe irrelevant. I also don't think it worth losing sleep over any sort of advice one gives to a new academic: after all, earning a doctorate qualifies one to be a researcher. Why isn't the business of knowledge production subject to these research skills, especially by humanists? I honestly cannot see how someone enters academia in the current moment without an understanding of the ways in which scholarship, research and pedagogy shifts in light of sweeping technological changes, and without an awareness of the need to champion the scholarly practices that still make sense, and to abandon those that are obsolete (or have always been simply bad practices). I am not suggesting that these issues are straightforward or even universal, but articulating the rationale for one’s scholarly trajectory seems essential. There should surely be intentionality and context in one’s choices (even if that means one has chosen not to deal with the biases that inhere in some traditional forms of publication while understanding the potential penalties), and anything else seems like incomplete scholarship. At a panel on the future of publishing at the conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies last year, I was amazed when several ABDs in the audience suggested they wanted to be scholars and didn't want to concern themselves with the business of academe, as if those things could be untangled somehow. Further, there are many early stage scholars who have made open access “work” for their careers, because they have articulated the reasons for their choices, and they have also shown dexterity among discursive communities, pursuing both traditional and nontraditional modes of scholarship. And while I am not young, I am a new-ish academic (2005) having worked in the private sector between my degrees, and I publish in all the ‘wrong’ places. These choices have not always served me in the short term, and I guess the jury is still out on the long-term implications, but at least my decisions have been informed ones. While paternalistic warnings might be called for, maybe it’s better to ask graduate students to be rigorous about how they approach their work based on what type of career they are after. Models don’t hurt either and I, for one, applaud those senior scholars who have chosen to work with Open Book Publishers but also the junior ones (I am delighted to be a contributor to a forthcoming anthology which has both types!). -- Virginia Kuhn, PhD Associate Director Institute for Multimedia Literacy Assistant Professor School of Cinematic Arts http://iml.usc.edu/ University of Southern California http://virginiakuhn.net/ Twitter: @vkuhn _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 123D72DB0; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:23:47 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D68AC2DB2; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:23:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C8E092DAE; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:23:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121014082344.C8E092DAE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:23:44 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.378 small print newsletter to digital X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 378. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:41:20 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.373 small print newsletter to digital In-Reply-To: <20121013081000.568CCEC7@digitalhumanities.org> Wix.com provides a number of sophisticated templates that have both web and mobile device versions. Upside is that they're quite attractive and consistent across platforms. Downside is that they're probably not easily transferable to a print format, and you have to build your site for each platform. I think the site was originally designed for photographers' portfolios. Joomla may easily export to .pdf, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it to anyone. I don't recall if Wordpress has this capability, but it's worth checking out. Jim R > Hello, > > > > This is a general plea for information about an easy and inexpensive way > > to switch over the distribution of a small newsletter/journal to a > digital > > one. I was hoping some on this list might have a recommendation for a > > service that can help with this? We would want it to be an easy transfer > of > > the look of the print one to a digital format, and hopefully optimized > for > > mobile devices. Any recommendations or advice would be appreciated. > > Feel free to email me directly at mandygagel@gmail.com > > > > Thank you! > > Mandy Gagel > > Loyola Uni., 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BC75A2DB6; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:24:36 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 866802DB0; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:24:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6C2092DAC; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:24:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121014082435.6C2092DAC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:24:35 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.379 events: Italian Association: Digital Humanities & Digital Culture X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 379. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:47:27 +0200 (CEST) From: "fmeschini@tin.it" Subject: An Agenda for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture. First Meeting of the Italian Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture An Agenda for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture First Meeting of the Italian Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture Florence, 13-14 December 2012 Via dell'Arte della Lana, 1, 50123 Florence The Italian Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture is passing through a crucial moment. After the important works and results reached by the first researchers in this field, there is now in Italy a wide and lively community who shares methods, theories and practices, both on a national and an international level. One year ago this community has organized itself and it is represented by a national Association. The aim of this first meeting is to present Digital Humanities and Digital Cultures as a fundamental component for the development of humanities research in Italy. Goals During the meeting the discussion will focus on some fundamental issues so to define an agenda of the priority activities. The questions which will foster the discussion will be: - What are the infrastructure requirements? What are the current research centers, libraries, archives and other services supporting research and teaching in digital humanities? - What are the standards for the evaluation of digital publications in the humanities? And what about the evaluation of research in digital humanities? - How to stimulate multidisciplinary research experiences? How to create synergies with other academic communities, starting with the computer science one? Attendance to the meeting is free, but registration by 10 December 2012 at http://aiucd.eventbrite.it/ is mandatory. Provisional programme 13 December 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Infrastructures 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Research, evaluation and dissemination of results in digital humanities 14 December 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Italian projects and experiences of multidisciplinary convergence 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Members meeting The definitive programme will be published on the Association website (http://www.umanisticadigitale.it) and on related mailing lists as soon as it will be available. Call for Papers The organizing committee is proposing a Call for Papers for the third session “Italian projects and experiences of multidisciplinary convergence”. Abstract proposals (maximum of 500 words) should be sent by email by 15 November 2012 to cunsolo@rinascimento-digitale.it. The authors of the selected proposals will receive the acceptance communication by the end of November 2012. Papers presentation should have a maximum length of 20 minutes, including Q&A. Papers will be published as conference proceedings. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7707F2DB9; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:25:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43D942DB2; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:25:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 08E2A2DB1; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:25:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121014082516.08E2A2DB1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:25:15 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.380 call for submissions: Digital Philology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 380. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:04:36 +0000 From: Albert Lloret Subject: CFP - Digital Philology, 2014 and 2015 Open Issues Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures Call for Submissions, 2014 and 2015 Open Issues Digital Philology is a new peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of medieval vernacular texts and cultures. Founded by Stephen G. Nichols and Nadia R. Altschul, the journal aims to foster scholarship that crosses disciplines upsetting traditional fields of study, national boundaries and periodizations. Digital Philology also encourages both applied and theoretical research that engages with the digital humanities and shows why and how digital resources require new questions, new approaches, and yield radical results. The Johns Hopkins University Press publishes two issues of Digital Philology per year. One is open to all submissions, while the other one is guest-edited, and revolves around a thematic axis. Contributions may take the form of a scholarly essay or focus on the study of a particular manuscript. Articles must be written in English, follow the 3rd edition (2008) of the MLA style manual, and be between 5,000 and 7,000 words in length, including footnotes and list of works cited. Quotations in the main text in languages other than English should appear along with their English translation. Digital Philology is welcoming submissions for its 2014 and 2015 open issues. Inquiries and submissions (as a Word document attachment) should be sent to dph@jhu.edu, addressed to the Managing Editor (Albert Lloret). Digital Philology also publishes manuscript studies and reviews of books and digital projects. Correspondence regarding manuscript studies may be addressed to Jeanette Patterson at jlp4@princeton.edu. Correspondence regarding digital projects and publications for review may be addressed to Timothy Stinson at tlstinson@gmail.com. [http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/index.html] Editorial Staff Albert Lloret, Managing Editor University of Massachusetts Amherst Jeanette Patterson, Manuscript Studies Editor Princeton University Timothy Stinson, Review Editor North Carolina State University Nadia R. Altschul, Executive Editor Johns Hopkins University Stephen G. Nichols and Nadia R. Altschul, Founding Editors Johns Hopkins University Editorial Board Tracy Adams, University of Auckland Benjamin Albritton, Stanford University Nadia R. Altschul, Johns Hopkins University R. Howard Bloch, Yale University Kevin Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV Suzanne Conklin Akbari, University of Toronto Lucie Doležalová, Charles Univerzita Karlova v Prague Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University Daniel Heller-Roazen, Princeton University Jennifer Kingsley, Johns Hopkins University Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz Joachim Küpper, Freie Universität Berlin Deborah McGrady, University of Virginia Christine McWebb, University of Waterloo Stephen G. Nichols, Johns Hopkins University Johan Oosterman, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State University Lori Walters, Florida State University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 29EFA2DD3; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:40:41 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F00EF2DB9; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:40:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3D188E87; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:40:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121015074039.3D188E87@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:40:39 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.381 alternative publishing & open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 381. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Daniel Allington (20) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.377 alternative publishing & open access [2] From: Toby Burrows (9) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.371 alternative publishing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:08:40 +0100 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.377 alternative publishing & open access In-Reply-To: <20121014082317.0DC342D9E@digitalhumanities.org> For an early career academic, publishing in the right places is like paying the rent: the penalties of not doing it are absolutely clear. In one case, you end up homeless; in the other, you end up unemployed. It's not about being averse to risk, but about averting disaster. Unfortunately, many PhD students, postdocs, and teaching fellows don't learn this until too late, because there is a culture of letting them figure it out the hard way. Alexander Hay's message to this list on 6 July gave us all a good - although rather sad - example of that. But I'm sure that many of us could give others. Speaking for myself, I'd be embarrassed to admit how long it took me to work out that chapters in edited collections don't count for anything! (The realisation didn't stop me writing them - but when I do so now, it is with the knowledge that they are something in the vicinity of a luxury.) I'm willing to admit, though, that my comments relate to a UK context. US academic employment practices are probably that much more enlightened. Best wishes Daniel > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:04:35 -0700 > From: virginia kuhn > Subject: new PhDs are researchers! re:[Humanist] 26.371 alternative publishing+ advice > In-Reply-To: > > > While there *is* only one comment on the *THE* story, I disagree that that > comment shows why open access publishing "can't work" for academics, early > career or otherwise. Instead I see this comment as both reflecting and > contributing to the culture of fear and risk-aversion that increasingly > renders academe irrelevant. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:34:28 +0800 From: Toby Burrows Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.371 alternative publishing In-Reply-To: <20121014082317.0DC342D9E@digitalhumanities.org> Australian researchers should be aware that the current status of "open books" in the annual Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) is problematic. The HERDC specifications for 2012 specifically excluded books and book chapters which were "only published electronically". To be eligible, books must have been "offered for sale" and "published by a commercial publisher". See Section 9 of this government document: http://www.innovation.gov.au/Research/ResearchBlockGrants/Documents/2012HERDCSpecifications.pdf A review of these criteria has been scheduled for 2012. A working group will "examine in detail the appropriate parameters by which research published electronically should be defined and included in future years". HERDC results are used to calculate Federal Government "block research funding" for universities, hence the importance of their criteria! Dr Toby Burrows | Manager (eResearch Support) The University of Western Australia M209 35 Stirling Highway CRAWLEY WA 6009 toby.burrows@uwa.edu.au _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 99BA12DE5; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:41:19 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D0332DDD; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:41:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4DD032DD7; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:41:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121015074118.4DD032DD7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:41:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.382 New Humanities at Roma III X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 382. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 22:04:43 +0200 From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: New Humanities Dear all, Together with an international team of scholars today (October 15th) we are launching a new initiative called "New Humanities". NH is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration made possible by a grant assigned by the University of Roma Tre to a group of about ten colleagues coming from different backgrounds and fields. So far the project is built around seven case studies, but we hope to add more, and include also material coming from different sources. If you have resources or material to share or recommend, please let us know! Our web site is still provisional, but the essential info is there: http://www.newhumanities.org/ We would like to share our project and ideas with all interested people, including other similar initiatives and research groups (i.e. http://www.interdisciplines.org/conferences/Global-Humanities). We are starting today with an exciting seminar on "Biology, Knowledge and Culture" with two renowned experts, Marcello Buiatti (biologist) and Giuseppe Longo (mathematician and philosopher). For more info and a reflection see also: http://infolet.it/2012/10/13/new-humanities/ If you are interested in participating to NH, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@newhumanities.org. All the best Domenico _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DBF3C2DEA; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:50:47 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A63D72DDD; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:50:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EDA132D8F; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:50:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121016075045.EDA132D8F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:50:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.383 WorldCat for projects? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 383. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:45:04 -0400 From: Elena Razlogova Subject: WorldCat for Digital Humanities Projects? In-Reply-To: <20121015074118.4DD032DD7@digitalhumanities.org> Dear all, Is there a WorldCat for digital humanities projects? Has anyone tried to start it? It seems like there are a lot of DH projects out there now, finished and in progress, and there should be a searchable directory somewhere. Thanks! Elena _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 690022DF5; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:52:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C9122DEC; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:52:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 748FC2DCF; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:52:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121016075217.748FC2DCF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:52:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.384 job at North Carolina - Greensboro X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 384. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:09:44 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Public History/U.S. History, Assistant Professor (UNCG) -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Filene [mailto:bpfilene@uncg.edu] Public History/U.S. History, Assistant Professor The History Department of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor to begin in August 2013. Candidates must hold or anticipate a Ph.D. in History, American Studies, African American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Urban Studies, or a related field by August 1, 2013. We expect to fill the position at the rank of Assistant Professor, although experienced candidates may also be considered for appointment at the Associate rank. This position expands a thriving public history program in which students receive a Master's degree in History with a concentration in Museum Studies. The program has partnerships with a number of local cultural institutions, including the International Civil Rights Center and Museum, Greensboro Historical Museum, Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, and High Point Museum. Stand-out applicants will have a strong track record in public practice, demonstrating imagination and skill in working collaboratively to connect history with public audiences. The program seeks applicants with the expertise and passion to build bridges between universities and communities; to inspire and train graduate students; and to join with existing faculty in program administration and long-term planning. Preference will be given to applicants with interests in digital humanities and community-engaged scholarship. UNCG is a high-research activity university with a professionally active history department of 20 tenured and tenure-track faculty working in a wide range of geographical and topical areas. The graduate program includes a Ph.D. in American history. The University encourages and rewards community-engaged research and teaching. Greensboro is a diverse city, reflective of the larger adjacent diverse metropolitan area. UNCG is also the most diverse campus in the UNC system, reflected in the composition of its undergraduate student body. We seek to attract a diverse applicant pool for this position, including women and members of minority groups. We are an EEO/AA employer with a strong commitment to faculty diversity. Send a letter of application addressing experience in public practice; research, writing, and creative activity; teaching; and administration, as well as a c.v. and three letters of recommendation by November 9, 2012 to: Dr. Benjamin Filene Chair, Public History Search Committee UNCG-Department of History 2129 MHRA Bldg. 1111 Spring Garden St. Greensboro, NC 27412 Website: www.uncg.edu/his; and www.uncg.edu/hpms _______________________________________________ Institute mailing list Institute@lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY, URIBL_DBL_REDIR autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4884D2DFB; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:54:21 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 086762DF2; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:54:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6EE0C2DEA; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:54:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121016075419.6EE0C2DEA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:54:19 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.385 announcements: Encoding Shakespeare; NSF grant for summit X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 385. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Michael Ullyot (9) Subject: Project Launch: Encoding Shakespeare [2] From: I-CHASS (59) Subject: NSF Awards I-CHASS $97,991 Grant for Radical Innovation Summit --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 07:30:16 -0600 From: Michael Ullyot Subject: Project Launch: Encoding Shakespeare Some weeks ago, Willard asked those who lurk on the Humanist mailing list to introduce ourselves and our work. I'm glad now to be able to fulfil his request. I've just launched "Encoding Shakespeare," a three-year project to improve the automated encoding (using NLP) of early modern English texts, to enable text analysis. My ultimate objects are the EEBO-TCP texts, transcriptions of printed texts in English from c. 1473 to 1700. My plan is to use Shakespeare’s complete works as a training set: to encode their linguistic features (which ones is an open question) using the expertise of online curators drawn from those who read and teach Shakespeare's texts. A more detailed, if provisional, desription is here: { http://bit.ly/Sqjj4q }. yours Michael Ullyot ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Michael Ullyot, Assistant Professor Department of English, University of Calgary ullyot.ucalgaryblogs.ca/ | @ullyot | 403.220.4656 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:19:23 +0000 From: I-CHASS Subject: NSF Awards I-CHASS $97,991 Grant for Radical Innovation Summit October 15, 2012 – Urbana, IL The National Science Foundation has award the Institute for Computing in Humanities Arts and Social Science (I-CHASS) $97,991.00 for the proposal “Radical Innovation Summit.” The meeting will convene leading practitioners and scholars of innovation to collectively consider how education might be reconfigured. Summit participants will identify and articulate strategies for creating and sustaining learning environments that promote the development of innovative thinking skills, behaviors, dispositions and that reward students, faculty and administrators for practicing and tuning these skills. The Summit will leverage current ideas around innovation as a foundation for thinking about how to operationalize these ideas and practices in education, across the pre-K to college spectrum. Hosted in Spring 2013 by I-CHASS at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Washington DC Access Center, the two-day Summit will bring together leaders in innovation from across a wide variety of disciplines. Invited participants will include disruptive education innovators from academia, industry, and government to bring a broader view of innovation to the gathering. An immediate anticipated outcome is that the Summit will explicitly identify and articulate strategies for implementing innovative education into pre-K – college curricula. The Summit will be organized to create an open environment for creative thinking and collaborative strategizing, with the ultimate goal of producing ideas that help incorporate “design thinking” into pedagogical approaches. By design thinking, the Summit means to designate a process that begins with formulating new ideas, leads to new creations, and ends in a transformed ecology of ideas, resources, models and tools. A wiki or other private online space will be created where participants will be encouraged to continue discussions or comment further on ideas generated over the course of the two days. Mapping social networks of and among participants will provide insights into how innovative practices are shared and spread across relationships and networks. The organizers will also make aspects of the Summit available to educators, by making areas of the wiki available to educators and researchers. Intended broader impacts of the Summit are (1) to be able to offer educators and policy makers concrete suggestions for “next steps” in operationalizing innovation in educational settings, (2) participants will take away ideas to implement in their own teaching practices and become innovation evangelists in sharing new strategies with colleagues, and (3) participants will become models or mentors to an extended network of educators as they prepare students to become innovative contributors in their courses, future employment, and as US and global citizens. Evaluation of the Summit will include a mapping of social networks that form among participants, which will provide insights into the “reach” of the Summit and the connections participants pursue with other radical innovators. Organizers expect to be able to get a sense of how ideas about innovation spread beyond the Summit and the degree to which the Summit fosters new connections among innovators. ~~~ ABOUT I-CHASS The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science (I-CHASS) charts new ground in high-performance computing and the human sciences. Founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and located at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, I-CHASS creates learning environments and spaces for digital exploration and discovery; presenting leading-edge research, computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming to showcase the future of the humanities, arts, and social science. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_DBL_REDIR autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 356902DFF; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:11:43 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 091762DF8; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:11:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5A61D2DF8; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:11:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121016081140.5A61D2DF8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:11:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.386 events: Greco-Roman drama; progress; databases & literary studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 386. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (15) Subject: Colloquium: Greco-Roman Drama in Context - Ancient and Modern [2] From: Maureen Engel (70) Subject: CFP HASTAC 2013: The Storm Of Progress [3] From: Hannah McGregor (21) Subject: cfp: "The Genre of the Twenty-First Century"? Databases and the Future of Literary Studies --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:06:36 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Colloquium: Greco-Roman Drama in Context - Ancient and Modern Venue: Academy House, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 Date: Thursday 15 November and Friday 16 November, 2012 In this colloquium speakers from diverse backgrounds (classics, theatre, drama, digital arts and humanities) will explore the ancient and modern production and reception contexts of Greek and Roman drama. Topics include the realities of ancient masked theatre, the intellectual and ritual contexts of Greek tragedy, and the reception, translation and production of ancient tragedy in Ireland today. Thursday Speaker: Dr Hugh Denard (keynote speaker) is Lecturer in Digital Humanities at King’s College London. His research interests include the application of digital visualisation methods to ancient Greek and Roman drama and twentieth-century Irish theatre performance. He has also been involved in the development of internationally-adopted methodological principles for historical visualisation. Hugh’s lecture focuses on the King’s Visualisation Lab project ‘The Body and Mask in Ancient Theatre Space’ (www.kvl.cch.kcl.ac.uk/masks.html The lecture is followed by a reception at 19.15 Friday Speakers: Dr Bridget Martin Professor Michael Lloyd Dr Anastasia Remoundou-Howley Dr Martine Cuypers Andy Hinds Kevin McGee The full programme is available at: http://www.ria.ie/getmedia/4cbf4c44-fcd9-462d-b7c6-1789c0f67798/Full-Programme.pdf.aspx For more information on the speakers: http://www.ria.ie/getmedia/6e77e13c-9841-4285-8c28-689f0cc1e35d/Speaker-Information.pdf.aspx --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:17:51 -0600 From: Maureen Engel Subject: CFP HASTAC 2013: The Storm Of Progress *Call for Papers: HASTAC 2013 -- The Decennial * *The Storm of Progress: New Horizons, New Narratives, New **Codes* April 25-28, 2013 York University, Toronto, Canada Submission Deadline: November 15, 2012 @ hastac2013.org "This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe that keeps piling ruin upon ruin and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. "The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress." -- Walter Benjamin What’s next? 2013 marks the 10th anniversary of the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory* (*HASTAC)’s founding. In that spirit we invite work that is either reflective or prescient, that evaluates our history and seeks to construct our future(s). We invite you to take this opportunity to look back, theorize and archive. We invite you to engage in the creative, if impossible, attempt to glimpse the digital future. We challenge you to shape it. We invite you to share how you, your team, your research lab, your classroom, or your students are building the technologies and subjects of the future right now or imagining new horizons of possibility for the ways in which we will make, teach, learn and find community in the coming decade(s). Possible topics include: -- HASTAC histories -- historical roots of current practices; cautionary tales -- libraries and preservation in 2023; digital traces and archives -- new publics, movements going global and communities of the future -- manifestos for the next generation -- new stories for new screens: e-literatures, immersive/augmented worlds, future cinema, games -- ways of working – methodologies, code, communities, funding -- future classrooms, curricula, and pedagogies -- maker movements; -- tools we haven't built yet, but that we desperately need -- visualization and data-driven futures -- mobility, future city spaces, built and liquid architectures -- crowdsourcing (and/in) the future -- teleologies and their discontents -- new and imagined creative practices HASTAC 2013 will be composed of keynote addresses, structured conversations, a curated exhibition, participant presentations, performances and tech demos, spontaneous disruptions, and a Scholars’ Space. We will accept proposals for participant presentations in the following categories: 5-8 minute lightning talks; 15-20 minute talks; curated panels (lightning talks, longer talks, curated conversation); project demos; digital and/or print posters; creative performances; post-conference workshops (April 28th). Full submission details hastac2013.org All proposals will be reviewed, but we regret that we cannot provide reviewer feedback. We welcome applications from scholars at all stages of their careers from all disciplines and fields, from private sector companies and public sector organizations, from artists and public intellectuals, and from you. Follow us on twitter: HASTAC2013 Conference hashtag: #HASTAC2013 -- Maureen Engel, PhD Graduate Coordinator, Humanities Computing Acting Director, Canadian Institute for Research Computing in Arts (CIRCA) 1-17 Humanities Centre University of Alberta Edmonton AB T6G 2E5 edmontonpipelines.org skype: maureenengel appointment calendar: http://bit.ly/tZUHZD twitter: @moengel ; @yegpipelines --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:37:05 +0000 From: Hannah McGregor Subject: cfp: "The Genre of the Twenty-First Century"? Databases and the Future of Literary Studies Hi all, Please find [below] a CFP for ACCUTE 2013, which will be taking place in Victoria next June immediately prior to the DHSI. Please send paper proposals (500-700 words), a 100-word abstract of your presentation, and a 50-word autobiographical statement to mcgregoh@uoguelph.ca by November 1, 2012. Best, Hannah ----- "The Genre of the Twenty-First Century"? Databases and the Future of Literary Studies Paul Hjartarson (Alberta), Hannah McGregor (Guelph), Harvey Quamen (Alberta), and EMiC UA In 2007 a debate emerged on the pages of the PMLA surrounding the incorporation of the database—as tool or metaphor—into literary studies. Ed Folsom, celebrating his and Kenneth Price’s Walt Whitman Archive, argued that their project exemplifies the "database [as] a new genre, the genre of the twenty-first century," while Jerome McGann rebutted that "The Walt Whitman Archive is not—in any sense that a person meaning to be precise would use—a database at all." Given that many digital projects have eschewed databases in their effort to, as Susan Brown wrote of the Orlando Project, "retain the fluidity, flexibility, and nuance of continuous prose," the PMLA debate demands a reconsideration of the nature of databases and their use in literary studies. This panel intervenes in this technological debate. Do current database projects undermine the familiar rubrics of literary studies or productively challenge the disciplinary status quo? How have databases reshaped our understanding of literary history, archives, and digital remediation? Are databases truly inhospitable to narrative? Does a celebration of the database participate in a fantasy of technological neutrality or enforce a new politics? We welcome papers that engage with these questions, or with other dimensions of the database in literary studies. Please submit proposals to Hannah McGregor (mcgregoh@uoguelph.ca). -- Hannah McGregor TransCanada Institute Doctoral Fellow School of English and Theatre Studies University of Guelph 519-824-4120 x53853 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A39CB2E08; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:12:05 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6791C2E05; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:12:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 195672E00; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:12:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121016081204.195672E00@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:12:04 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.387 on being too small to fail X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 387. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:22:57 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Bethany Nowviskie's "Too small to fail" I recommend to your attention Bethany Nowviskie’s keynote at the second annual conference of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, "Too small to fail", the text of which is at http://nowviskie.org/2012/too-small-to-fail/. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4D7F22DFA; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:27:05 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 210332DCF; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:27:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 284A42DCA; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:27:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121017052703.284A42DCA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:27:03 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.388 WorldCat for projects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 388. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Levin (31) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.383 WorldCat for projects? [2] From: Neil Fraistat (49) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.383 WorldCat for projects? [3] From: Rebecca Davis (50) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.383 WorldCat for projects? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:34:54 +0100 From: John Levin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.383 WorldCat for projects? In-Reply-To: <20121016075045.EDA132D8F@digitalhumanities.org> There was http://www.arts-humanities.net/ - currently down at the time of writing, I don't know if this is a permanent state of affairs. To be honest, I think such a catalogue is impractical. It takes a great deal of time & effort to keep it up to date, never mind demarcation problems (what goes in, what doesn't), etc. John On 16/10/2012 08:50, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 383. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:45:04 -0400 > From: Elena Razlogova > Subject: WorldCat for Digital Humanities Projects? > In-Reply-To: <20121015074118.4DD032DD7@digitalhumanities.org> > > Dear all, > > Is there a WorldCat for digital humanities projects? Has anyone tried to start it? It seems like there are a lot of DH projects out there now, finished and in progress, and there should be a searchable directory somewhere. > > Thanks! > Elena > > -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:28:14 -0400 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.383 WorldCat for projects? In-Reply-To: <20121016075045.EDA132D8F@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Elena and all, The newly revamped arts-humanities.net, which will soon become a publication of centerNet seeks to provide just such a comprehensive international registry of digital humanities projects. Stay tuned for more news early in 2012. Best, Neil -- Neil Fraistat Professor of English & Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) 0301 Hornbake Library University of Maryland 301-405-5896 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ https://twitter.com/fraistat --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:24:17 -0500 From: Rebecca Davis Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.383 WorldCat for projects? In-Reply-To: <20121016075045.EDA132D8F@digitalhumanities.org> One place you can look for projects is Digital Humanities Commons or dhcommons.org. DHCommons is a hub for people and organizations to find projects to work with, and for projects to find collaborators, so the focus is more on projects in process. DHCommons is an initiative of centerNet http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/2012/01/dhcommons-becomes-a-sponsored-initiative-of-centernet/ , the international alliance of digital humanities centers. Rebecca Frost Davis, Ph.D. Program Officer for the Humanities National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) 1001 East University Avenue | Georgetown, Texas 78626 http://www.nitle.org | tel. 512 863-1734 | fax 512 819-7684 Twitter: @FrostDavis | Diigo: rebeccadavis | NITLE's Techne Blog: http://blogs.nitle.org For regular updates from NITLE, subscribe to *The NITLE News* http://eepurl.com/bk92v . _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,T_FRT_LOLITA1, URIBL_DBL_REDIR autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8290B2DFF; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:35:16 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48DC82DFA; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:35:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CAC332DCF; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:35:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121017053514.CAC332DCF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:35:14 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.389 events: Nordic DH; Turing; libraries; social informatics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 389. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Claire Clivaz (68) Subject: Call for Participation: SocInfo 2012 (Early Registration Deadline: October 31, 2012) [2] From: "Secretariat@isast.org" (104) Subject: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference [3] From: S Barry Cooper (130) Subject: Turing Year October 17 update [4] From: Ray Siemens (30) Subject: Nordic Digital Humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:59:14 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Call for Participation: SocInfo 2012 (Early Registration Deadline: October 31, 2012) International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2012) LAUSANNE, December 5-7, 2012 *** Early Registration by October 31, 2012 *** http://www.socinfo2012.com -------------------------- The Fourth International Conference on Social Informations (SocInfo 2012) is focusing this year on how technology can influence social phenomena through better motivation of human agents, through the use of social norms, through better modeling, or through a better understanding of social concepts like trust, credibility, privacy, and fairness. SocInfo 2012 will be held at EPFL in Lausanne, a young engineering school that has grown in many dimensions, to the extent of becoming one of the leading European institutions of science and technology. The mission of Socinfo 2012 is to provide an interdisciplinary venue for researchers from Computer Science, Informatics, Social Sciences and Management Sciences to share ideas and opinions, and present original research work on studying the interplay between socially-centric platforms and social phenomena. The conference program will reflect this in the keynote talks, tutorials, workshops and paper sessions addressing emerging topics which attract interdisciplinary research attention. The conference will be preceded by two workshops on December 4, 2012, the First international workshop on Just-in-time Sociology JITSO 2012 and the EINS Workshop on Internet Trust, Reputation, Identity and Privacy. On December 7, afternoon the FutureICT flagship initiative will organize a special session. In addition, there will be a social program that covers reception and a banquet in the pre-Christmas ambiance of Montreux for participants to know one another better and to appreciate the local environment. With a good combination of work and fun, SocInfo 2012 hopes to foster collaboration among the social informatics researchers as well as to demonstrate the relevance of their research to a wider community. The conference receives support from Nokia Research, The European Network of Excellence in Internet Science and the LARC Living Analytics Research Center. The online registration of SocInfo2012 is now open. The early-bird full and student registration fees are *** CHF 550 and CHF 290 *** respectively. We strongly encourage early registrations at: http://www.socinfo2012.com/registration/#info The early registration deadline is *31 October 2012*. The program highlights include: Keynotes -------- About the Why? and the How? of psychologically plausible agents Andreas Ernst, University of Kassel Big Data and the Attention Economy Bernardo Huberman, HP Research From Computational Social Science to Socio-Inspired Technology to Artificial Societies Dirk Helbing, ETH Zürich Tutorials --------- Human activity and mobility patterns: measurements, models, and implications. Vittoria Colizza, INSERM, Paris Supporting sociological theories with social media data mining Luca Aiello, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain Online Social Experiments with nodeGame Stefano Balietti, ETH Zürich More information about the program can be found at the conference website. Student Travel Support ---------------------- The SocInfo 2012 organizing committee invites applications for small grants to help cover the travel expenses and registration. The award grant has kindly been made available by the previous SocInfo organizers. Please check out http://www.socinfo2012.com/registration/#support Learn more at http://socinfo2012.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:48:59 +0300 From: "Secretariat@isast.org" Subject: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference We invite you to submit a paper /abstract /poster /workshop to the 5th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2013), 4 - 7 June 2013, "La Sapienza" University, Rome Italy. Abstract submission deadline: 20 December 2012. First Call of Proposals QQML2013 Dear Colleagues, It is our great pleasure to announce the 5th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2013) at 4 - 7 June 2013, "La Sapienza" University, Rome Italy: http://www.isast.org/qqml2013.html Since 2009 QQML has provided an excellent framework for the presentation of new trends and developments in every aspect of Library and Information Science, Technology, Applications and Research. The 5th QQML2013 was scheduled during the previous 4th QQML2012 Conference. It was also decided that the 6th QQML 2014 International Conference will be organized in Istanbul, Turkey. QQML2009, QQML2010, QQML2011 and QQML2012 were successful events both from the number and quality of the presentations and from the post conference publications in Journals and Books. QQML2013 will continue and expand the related topics. Papers are invited for this international conference. The conference will consider, but not be limited to, the following indicative themes: 1. Bibliographic Control 2. Bibliometric Research 3. Change of Libraries and Managerial techniques 4. Changes in Learning, Research and Information needs and Behaviour of Users 5. Climate Change Data 6. Communication Strategies 7. Data Analysis and Data Mining 8. Development and Assessment of Digital Repositories 9. Development of Information and Knowledge Services on the Public Library 10. Digital Libraries 11. Economic Co-operation and Development 12. Energy Data and Information 13. Environmental Assessment 14. Financial strength and sustainability 15. Health information services 16. Historical and Comparative case studies related to Librarianship 17. Information and Data on various aspects of Food and Agriculture 18. Information and Knowledge Services 19. Information Literacy: Information sharing, Democracy and Lifelong Learning 20. Library Cooperation: Problems and Challenges at the beginning of the 21st century 21. Library change and Technology 22. Management 23. Marketing 24. Museums, Libraries and Cultural Organizations 25. Music Librarianship 26. Performance Measurement and Competitiveness 27. Publications 28. Quality evaluation and promotion of info 29. Technology & Innovations in Libraries and their Impact on Learning, Research and Users 30. Technology transfer and Innovation in Library management Special Sessions - Workshops You may send proposals for Special Sessions (4-6 papers) or Workshops (more than 2 sessions) including the title and a brief description at: secretariat@isast.org or from the electronic submission at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractregistration.html You may also send Abstracts/Papers to be included in the following sessions, to new sessions or as contributed papers at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractregistration.html Contributions may be realized through one of the following ways a. structured abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) and presentation; b. full papers (not exceeding 7,000 words); c. posters (not exceeding 2,500 words); d. visual presentations (Pecha kucha). These presentations consist of exactly 20 slides, each of which is displayed for 20 seconds. Total presentation time is precisely 6 minutes 40 seconds and so it is important to use the transition feature in PowerPoint to time your presentation exactly. In all the above cases at least one of the authors ought to be registered in the conference. Abstracts and full papers should be submitted electronically within the timetable provided in the web page: http://www.isast.org/importantdates.html The abstracts and full papers should be in compliance to the author guidelines: http://www.isast.org/abstractregistration.html All abstracts will be published in the Conference Book of Abstracts and in the website of the Conference. The papers of the conference will be published in the website of the conference, after the permission of the author(s). Student submissions Professors and Supervisors are encouraged to organize conference sessions of Postgraduate theses and dissertations. Please direct any questions regarding the QQML 2013 Conference and Student Research Presentations to: the secretariat of the conference at: secretariat@isast.org On behalf of the Conference Committee Dr. Anthi Katsirikou, Conference Co-Chair University of Piraeus Library Director Head, European Documentation Center Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information Professionals anthi@asmda.com Professor Carla Basili, Local Co-Chair EnIL - The European network on Information Literacy, co-ordinator Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Istituto di Ricerca sull'Impresa e lo Sviluppo sede di Roma via dei Taurini, 19 - 00185 Roma, Italy --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:26:15 +0100 (BST) From: S Barry Cooper Subject: Turing Year October 17 update A number of Turing Year events still to come in what is left of October: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?13#oct But before looking at these in detail, some quite special news: 1) The UK governmant is announcing some special support for Bletchley Park. We are told: "The Foreign Secretary will be visiting Bletchley Park this month to demonstrate the UK's commitment to supporting the work of the Bletchley Park Trust and will be making an announcement about a number of GCHQ initiatives. He will be accompanied by Director GCHQ, Iain Lobban." Here is an MK News report of this important development: http://www.mk-news.co.uk/News/Tories-announce-Bletchley-Park-will-get-funding-boost-10102012.htm 2) Meanwhile, creative member of the TCAC, David Link, has won the first Tony Sale Award, for his Love Letters program run on a 1951 Ferranti: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19922414 This is fascinating work, see: http://alpha60.de/loveletters/2009_zkm/ and http://alpha60.de/loveletters/2012_dOCUMENTA13/ 3) And Andrew Hodges confirms that he is helping the Pet Shop Boys with a special Turing project: http://www.petshopboys.co.uk/pettexts/3293 We first heard about this on Radio 2, via John Wood from Leeds. Andrew replied to our query: "This is quite correct - I am helping Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe with the Turing project they announced last month. They are writing music which will go with words selected from my book." Back to listed events: 4) This week we have lectures by Andrew Hodges: "Alan Turing: Not Just a Beautiful Mind", at the Royal Society on October 17: http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/alan-turing/ and by Rod Downey in New Zealand on "Alan Turing, the Birth of Computing, the Power of Mathematics", on Thursday 18 October. 5) With the film "Codebreaker" having an extended US premiere across a number of cities, Washington DC on 17th (all tickets sold); New York City on 25th; and San Francisco on November 1st - for details of all of these see: http://todpix.com/codebreaker/ Washington Blade has a nice feature, focusing on film-producer Patrick Sammon: http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/10/11/tragic-hero/ 6) Next week we have the "International Symposium: The Alan Turing legacy" in Madrid, October 23-24, 2012: http://bit.ly/LOr7Jk with an impressive list of speakers, including international invitees Leslie Valiant, Gerald Sacks, David Pearce, Georg Gottlob and Nigel Smart. 7) On October 26-27, 2012 we have another major event: "Turing under Discussion" which is the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science SSLPS, at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland: http://www.sslps.unibe.ch/meetings.html Speakers include: Barry Cooper, Jack Copeland, Martin Davis, Juraj Hromkovic, Ueli Maurer, Stewart Shapiro, Christof Teuscher and Wolfgang Thomas. 8) And then we have 3 fabulous events of general interest - on the artistic front there is the BLINC Digital Arts Festival 2012 in Conwy, Wales, October 27-28, 2012: http://blincdigital.com with a lot of Turing interest. In particular, Anna Dumitriu, the curator of the touring Turing Centenary Exhibition "Intuition and Ingenuity: An exhibition to celebrate the Turing Centenary" will be exhibiting a selection of Artworks at the Festival. The exhibition features an eclectic mix of artworks all inspired by the Alan Turing legacy. Anna says: "See http://www.turingcentenaryarts.eu for more information on the exhibition and http://blincdigital.com/ for more information on the festival." The BCS focuses on BLINC 2012 and Alan Turing's impact on art with a nice item "Computer Art Image of the Month", at: http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/48180 9) The Manchester Science Festival 2012 has a number of special Turing centenary event, at various venues: http://www.manchestersciencefestival.com/whatson/alan-turing-in-manchester A favourite is "Spirals Count" with Jonathan Swinton: http://www.manchestersciencefestival.com/whatson/spirals-count Erinma Ochu (Turing's Sunflower Project Manager) points us to the Turing's sunflower webpage for counting events going on in the next few days. See also the code-breaking event 27-29 October, organised with GCHQ. 10) Also in Manchester, not to be missed, is a remarkable programme of Turing-inspired music by composer Barry Truax, details at: http://www.electrocd.com/en/oeuvres/select/?id=33720 It is on October 28 at the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, University of Manchester. 11) Yet more great Alan Turing events from Turing Year in Hong Kong. While we were travelling, the publicity for events including a showing of "Codebreaker" in Hong Kong came to us via Loke Lay, so here it is, very striking: http://microwavefest.net/festival2012/edm/enews.html Also from Loke Lay and Hong Kong colleagues comes audio recording of a grand performance of her "Turing Song" performed by Hong Kong celebrity soprano Eli Fung: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/alan_turing_song_english.mp3 We also have the score with words in Chinese and English: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/ada.music1.pdf http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/ada.music2.pdf 12) From ERCIM News we have a Special Themed Issue on "What is Computation - Alan Turing's Legacy": http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en91/special It includes an engrossing selection of Turing-related articles, guest edited by Gilles Dowek and Samson Abramsky. Included is a Keynote contribution from Andrew Hodges on "The Impact of Alan Turing": http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en91/keynote 13) The "Turing In Context II" meeting in Brussels last week was fabulous by the way, no end of interesting and unusual perspectives on Turing, his contemporaries and legacy - for a nice photo of participants see: http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be/tic2 14) Spenta Wadia writes: "I would like to bring to your attention a Turing Centenary event of the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (in Bangalore). "Professor Sydney Brenner will deliver the ICTS Turing Centenary Lecture titled "The Architecture of Biological Complexity", on 18th October 6pm at the J.N. Tata Auditorium of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. The link to this event is http://www.icts.res.in/home/ " 15) How about this from Chicago - "Chicago gets lesson in LGBT history with new open-air museum" - it's a report of the official opening of the 'Legacy Walk' honouring a number of iconic LGBT figures, with a special place for Alan Turing: http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=208973 16) From Google Developers, more on the artistic impact with "GDL Presents: Van Gogh Meets Alan Turing": https://developers.google.com/live/shows/8983024/ As we approach November, some of us have been talking about what we should do to carry forward the remarkable impact of the Alan Turing Year. One basic suggestion concerns the ATY website as a possibly ongoing source of information about activities relating to the Turing legacy. This seems to be a valuable idea, perhaps rebranding the website "The Alan Turing Legacy", and keeping it up-to-date with latest information. Any suggestions very welcome. __________________________________________________________________________ ALAN TURING YEAR http://www.turingcentenary.eu ASSOCIATION COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE http://www.computability.org.uk Email: pmt6sbc@leeds.ac.uk Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Alan-Turing-Year/199853901070 and http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Alan-Turing-Year/100000473465821 Twitter: http://twitter.com/AlanTuringYear __________________________________________________________________________ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:53:19 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Nordic Digital Humanities Call for Papers: Digital Humanities Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies 103rd Annual Meeting May 2-4, 2013, San Francisco Hilton Hotel, Financial District Digital methods in the Liberal Arts have shifted from being a sideshow to a central act in the scholarly engagement with human culture. Though humanists and social scientists have used computation in their work for many decades, the amount of both digitized data and degree of algorithmic sophistication makes the present moment a crucial one for bringing together expertise and exchange of ideas in this area. Since our field studies nations with high levels of technical development and strong investments in large-scale digital cultural heritage projects, we face a special challenge in ensuring our methodologies are sophisticated enough to tackle a coming flood of Nordic "big data." As part of the Annual Meeting of SASS, we are soliciting proposals on the subject Digital Humanities, broadly considered. We anticipate any of the following focus areas would be appropriate, and also welcome other topics and approaches as relevant: * Literary and linguistic text mining * Digital folkloristics /computation for cultural heritage domains * Stylometrics * GeoSpatial / GIS / digital cultural mapping * Digital multimodal / new media studies * Algorithmic image analysis/ film analysis * TEI, XML, and other forms of semantic markup * Digital editions or online scholarly editions * Corpus query engines / information retrieval for cultural analytics * Digital humanities, pedagogy, and the college curriculum * Corpus linguistics / Internet linguistics * Computational linguistics / Natural language processing * Computational social media analysis * Consumer platforms and new modes of reading, viewing, listening, and translating content * Digital methods in the humanities, arts, and social sciences * Theories of digital humanities and critical inquiry into the quantification of humanities research * Tutorials and introductory information presentations suitable also for those with an interest in learning more about Digital Humanities but who have limited experience in the area. * We also encourage proposals from researchers in computer science, informatics, and statistics, with the caveat that such presentations frame their work with a clear connection to the Nordic Humanities, Social Sciences, or the Arts. These papers will be assembled into an in-conference seminar, or Topic Stream, which links multiple papers on this topic. We anticipate a variety of formats for the panels in the Digital Humanities Stream and ask that contributors clearly specify which format they are most interested in, though we cannot guarantee that all requests can be accommodated. * Traditional: four 15-minute papers or three 20-minute papers * Flash: six ten-minute papers * Poster: visual displays on board or computer monitor * Roundtable: discussion on a subtopic, or summary panel We expect to draw on submissions to the Digital Humanities Stream for a subsequent peer-reviewed publication, either as a special issue of a journal, an edited collection, or as an open access web-publication. We encourage interested participants to reference ways in which they foresee developing their conference contribution into a possible publication. Send 500-word abstracts with a short biographical note by November 30 to Peter Leonard pleonard@gmail.com; Cissi Oversdotter Alm coagla@rit.edu, Tim Tangherlini tango@humnet.ucla.edu, or Anna Stenport aws@illinois.edu. A copy should also be sent to the conference committee at sass2013@berkeley.edu. For more information about SASS 2013 or the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, please visit:http://www.scandinavianstudy.org/site/. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 147E32E0C; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:36:15 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC4BB2DC5; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:36:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C86452DFF; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:36:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121017053612.C86452DFF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:36:12 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.390 thanks X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 390. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 06:18:21 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: thanks On behalf of all of us here, and all those who in time will be, I would like to thank everyone involved in moving Humanist, fixing it once moved and finding the funds to support the work for a job well and generously done. The sense of community we have sustained for a quarter century is still robust enough to support those who would support its expression. Perhaps, amidst everything else, this will prove an enduring consequence of the internet. In any case, thank you! 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_DBL_REDIR autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1C50F2C51; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:20:16 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4FFDF9E; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:20:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 72FB8F9B; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:20:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121018052014.72FB8F9B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:20:14 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.391 WorldCat for projects; sessions at the MLA X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 391. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Andrew Prescott (15) Subject: Annual list of sessions at MLA2013 [2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (19) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.388 WorldCat for projects [3] From: Anupam Basu (4) Subject: Re: WorldCat for Digital Humanities Projects? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:59:11 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Annual list of sessions at MLA2013 -- 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 lisaspiro: @samplereality releases his handy annual list of digital humanities sessions at #MLA13: http://t.co/vAeUvXg0 Original Tweet: http://twitter.com/lisaspiro/statuses/258567336720728064 Sent via TweetDeck (www.tweetdeck.com) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:04:09 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.388 WorldCat for projects In-Reply-To: <20121017052703.284A42DCA@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Elena and John, centerNet is currently looking at taking over arts-humanities.net as a publication of centerNet. A transition committee that I chair has been looking at this question and we are tentatively recommending that an online resource for the discovery and review of projects should be pursued. John is right that such a resource takes a great deal of time to maintain, but we still believe it would benefit our centre members. I would appreciate any thoughts on the subject that others have as we finalize our recommendations. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell On Oct 16, 2012, at 11:27 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > There was http://www.arts-humanities.net/ - currently down at the time > of writing, I don't know if this is a permanent state of affairs. > To be honest, I think such a catalogue is impractical. It takes a great > deal of time & effort to keep it up to date, never mind demarcation > problems (what goes in, what doesn't), etc. > > John --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:13:49 -0500 From: Anupam Basu Subject: Re: WorldCat for Digital Humanities Projects? In-Reply-To: <20121017052703.284A42DCA@digitalhumanities.org> The MLA maintains a list of DH projects http://www.mla.org/publications/bibliography/bib_search that might be of interest. -Anupam _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C11AD2DC3; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:22:32 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94BDC2CBC; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:22:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0F741122C; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:22:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20121018052230.0F741122C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:22:29 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.392 What is the value of the humanities? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 392. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:13:10 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: What is the value of the humanities? Dear colleagues, 4Humanities is running a poll on All Your Ideas to see what people think are persuasive arguments for the humanities. Please consider voting or proposing answers at: http://www.allourideas.org/4humanities Once this has run for a while we will post an analysis of results on the 4humanities site: http://humanisti.ca 4Humanities is a digital humanities collective dedicated to advocating for the humanities. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BE15B2DCD; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:28:31 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 886782D09; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:28:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7B7752CED; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:28:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20121018052829.7B7752CED@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:28:29 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.393 job at Arizona State 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="===============6317309782112383099==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============6317309782112383099== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 393. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:51:59 +0000 From: Kathleen Renshaw Subject: Announcement of Vacancy - Assistant Professor Digital Humanities at Arizona State University Assistant Professor (Digital Humanities) Arizona State University Tenured, tenure track https://sls.asu.edu/about/jobs Application Deadline: December 3, 2012 ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS The Faculty of Languages & Cultures in the School of Letters and Sciences on the Downtown Phoenix campus of Arizona State University seeks a tenure-track assistant professor with a specialty in digital humanities. This tenure track position will assume the following distribution of effort during the tenure probationary period: 40% research and creative activity (significant research in area of specialty), 40% teaching (normal teaching load is four classes per year), and 20% service (appropriate to rank). QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in a humanities field (e.g., English, Philosophy, History, Cultural Studies, Rhetoric, or interdisciplinary humanities) by time of hire; recognized body of scholarship appropriate to rank in digital humanities or related field; college-level teaching experience and mentoring appropriate to rank; a commitment to working in multicultural settings; a commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship and evidence of department, college, community and/or professional service appropriate to rank. DESIRED Experience with online teaching and learning in humanities areas; commitment to developing and sharing knowledge about digital humanities pedagogy; demonstrated commitment to community engagement, place­based inquiry, and use­inspired research consistent with mission of a New American University. APPLICATION DEADLINE Monday, December 3, 2012, if not filled, weekly Monday thereafter until search is closed. APPLICATION PROCEDURE A complete application must include a cover letter outlining relevant qualifications, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, two samples of relevant research-based writing, and three letters of recommendation. Please send these as one electronic file to Kelli Collins (Kelli.M.Collins@asu.edu); indicate the position (Assistant Professor-Digital Humanities, AV #10254) in the subject line. DO NOT send your application letter, vita, names of references, etc., separately. We will not accept incomplete applications. GENERAL INFORMATION Academic year contract, 8/16/13-5/15/14. Salary contingent upon qualifications and assigned teaching load. Background check required prior to employment. ASU is an affirmative action/equal employment opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity. Women and members of underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:00:01 -0400 From: Natalia Ermolaev Subject: Princeton launches Blue Mountain Project The Princeton University Library is pleased to announce the launch of the Blue Mountain Project, an open-access digital thematic research collection of avant-garde art, music and literary periodicals (1848-1923). Drawing together rare material from Princeton92s Art, Music and Rare Books libraries, the Blue Mountain Project will provide high-quality digital images as well as full-text searching, deep indexing of content, detailed metadata and descriptive essays to a broad audience. With generous support from the NEH, the Blue Mountain Project will make 34 titles available over the next two years. A full list of these periodicals -- which are in English, German, French, Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Czech and Russian -- can be found on the Blue Mountain project page: http://library.princeton.edu/projects/bluemountain. Please check the website periodically as we make the journals available, and visit our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/BlueMountainProject) or subscribe to our Twitter feed (@bmtnproj) for news and updates about Blue Mountain progress. Scholars interested in using Blue Mountain materials are encouraged to contact us for collaboration. We will hold a conference at Princeton in Fall 2013, bringing together researchers, curators, librarians and technologists to discuss methods of research and teaching with digitized periodicals. The Blue Mountain Project can be reached at: bluemntn@princeton.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Natalia Ermolaev Project Manager, Blue Mountain Project nataliae@princeton.edu (609) 258-6243 Marquand Library, A63 Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0915E2CED; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:17:32 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDA6A122E; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:17:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AAE18F9B; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:17:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121018061731.AAE18F9B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:17:31 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.396 disciplines of resistance? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 396. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 06:56:49 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: resistance It is curious to observe what battles were fought, or not fought, over the incursion of computing into various disciplines of the humanities. I have investigated so far two disciplines for their uptake of computing in the first three decades of activity (essentially the 1960s-1980s): literary studies and history. One might think that both these text-centred disciplines would have had a relatively easy time of it, at least with English-language materials. But they didn't. As far as I can tell, mainstream literary criticism simply ignored computing, despite the heroic efforts of people such as Joe Raben, as Rosanne Potter said was happening in 1989. As many have observed, critics simply headed for the high-ground of literary theory, leaving their digital colleagues (as we would now call them) with their concordances, despite declarations of a "quasi-scientific revolution" -- Stephen Parrish's words, citing C. P. Snow, in 1964. In history, however, as one can see from Jacques Barzun's Clio and the Doctors: Psycho-History, Quanto-History and History (1974), computing was met with explicit and open resistance. Sometimes this was noisy, quite over-the-top, as in the Oxford Professor of Modern History Richard Cobb's "Historians in white coats", number 12 in the Times Literary Supplement series, Thinking by Numbers, for 3 December 1971. Cobb saw a dark apocalypse ushered in by the end of history as he knew it. Quite disturbingly sexual imagery was sometimes used. Among other things the different reactions teach us unsurprisingly that different disciplines saw computing differently. Superficially, at least, it is not all that difficult to find an explanation for why literary critics went one way and historians another. The former were at the tail end of a by then positivistic style of criticism; critical theory provided an attractive new way of thinking about literature. For the latter computing had strong allies in the economic historians, who had numbers to crunch and much experience doing this by hand. What interests me, however, is what the literary critics and historians had in common in their quite different reactions. I would be *very* interested in recommendations for other disciplines that reacted in quite specific ways to computing ca 1960-1990. Many thanks in advance. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 80A2B2D9E; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:18:30 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AFF42DC8; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:18:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 50A2D2D93; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:18:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121018061828.50A2D2D93@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:18:28 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.397 open publication of The Making of 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. 397. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:59:35 +0000 From: "Snijder, R." Subject: Books "The making of the humanities" now fully available in OpenAccess Volume I and volume II of the book "The making of the humanities" are now available in the OAPEN Library. They are freely available and can be found here: http://www.oapen.org/search?keyword=%22making+of+the+humanities%22 The Making of the Humanities : Volume I - Early Modern Europe: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=429194 The Making of the Humanities : Volume II - From Early Modern to Modern Disciplines: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=429447 Regards, -ronald- Ronald Snijder Project Manager Digital Publications Amsterdam University Press Herengracht 221 1016 BG Amsterdam tel: +31 (0)20 420 0050 fax: +31 (0)20 420 3214 e-mail: r.snijder@aup.nl www.aup.nl _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 93A802DFA; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:35:54 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 652F72DCD; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:35:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E650A2DC8; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:35:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121019143552.E650A2DC8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:35:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.398 disciplines of resistance X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 398. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Andrew Prescott (117) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.396 disciplines of resistance? [2] From: Daniel Allington (22) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.396 disciplines of resistance? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:42:25 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.396 disciplines of resistance? In-Reply-To: <20121018061731.AAE18F9B@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard It is quite old now, but I was very struck by the volume published by the British Academy in 1999 and edited by Terry Coppock 'Information Technology and Scholarship: Applications in the Humanities and Social Scienes', which reviewed the achievements and difficulties of the use of computing across a range of disciplines. Robert Morris's discussion of computing in history there is very interesting - he points to whole areas of historical sources, such as poll books, which were first opened up by the use of computers. Particularly interesting from the point of view of your question is Stephen Shennan's discuission of archeology, whee Shennan posits explicit resistance. Here's the abstract: "The first use of computers in archaeology occurred in the 1960s and involved the application of statistical methods. It was associated with the emergence of new theoretical approaches to the study of prehistoric societies. From the early 1980s interest in the use of computer-based methods for academic archaeological research declined. This was the result of a growing disillusionment with the results achieved and of changing theoretical orientations within the discipline, which led to a rejection of what were perceived to be 'scientific' approaches. At the same time, the appearance of microcomputers made information technology (IT) techniques widely available for the first time to field archaeologists and other outside academic institutions. This led to a growth in the importance of mundane computer applications for recording excavations and post-excavation analysis. More recently there have been developments which have led to IT methods once again having a more central role in academic research. Geographic Information Systems provide new and more powerful way of performing traditional archaeological tasks, as well as new means of analysing spatial data. The use of multimedia techniques over the Internet has the potential to solve current major problems of research access to raw archaeological data. The creation of virtual reality reconstructions can offer new insights into experiencing the past. The renewed interest in computer-based modelling has begun to provide a rigorous way of looking at how micro-scale social and ecological processes give rise to complex and counter-intuitive outcomes". I think what is interesting here is the way in which computers were first exclusively associated with a quantitative approach and became discredited when the limitations of such an approach were exposed. The resistance is not a Luddite resistance to technology as such, but rather an assumpton that computing was linked to only one approach. When the plasticity of the computer becomes more widely appreciated, interest in the potential of computing revives. Which raises the question as to whether the resistance was to computing at all, but rather to its association with demands for a more 'scientific' approach to the humanities. After all, Lucien Febvre argued the need for history to be conducted in laboratories by historians in white coats in the 1930s. Perhaps it was this type of outlook which was the real focus of resistance, and the computer simply a shorthand for this approach. 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 On 18/10/2012 07:17, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 396. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 06:56:49 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: resistance > > It is curious to observe what battles were fought, or not fought, over > the incursion of computing into various disciplines of the humanities. I > have investigated so far two disciplines for their uptake of computing > in the first three decades of activity (essentially the 1960s-1980s): > literary studies and history. One might think that both these > text-centred disciplines would have had a relatively easy time of it, at > least with English-language materials. But they didn't. > > As far as I can tell, mainstream literary criticism simply ignored > computing, despite the heroic efforts of people such as Joe Raben, as > Rosanne Potter said was happening in 1989. As many have observed, > critics simply headed for the high-ground of literary theory, leaving > their digital colleagues (as we would now call them) with their > concordances, despite declarations of a "quasi-scientific revolution" -- > Stephen Parrish's words, citing C. P. Snow, in 1964. In history, > however, as one can see from Jacques Barzun's Clio and the Doctors: > Psycho-History, Quanto-History and History (1974), computing was met > with explicit and open resistance. Sometimes this was noisy, quite > over-the-top, as in the Oxford Professor of Modern History Richard > Cobb's "Historians in white coats", number 12 in the Times Literary > Supplement series, Thinking by Numbers, for 3 December 1971. Cobb saw a > dark apocalypse ushered in by the end of history as he knew it. Quite > disturbingly sexual imagery was sometimes used. > > Among other things the different reactions teach us unsurprisingly that > different disciplines saw computing differently. Superficially, at > least, it is not all that difficult to find an explanation for why > literary critics went one way and historians another. The former were at > the tail end of a by then positivistic style of criticism; critical > theory provided an attractive new way of thinking about literature. For > the latter computing had strong allies in the economic historians, who > had numbers to crunch and much experience doing this by hand. > > What interests me, however, is what the literary critics and historians > had in common in their quite different reactions. I would be *very* > interested in recommendations for other disciplines that reacted in > quite specific ways to computing ca 1960-1990. Many thanks in > advance. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:37:59 +0100 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.396 disciplines of resistance? In-Reply-To: <20121018061731.AAE18F9B@digitalhumanities.org> It's a rather obvious thing to say, but my 'home' discipline of linguistics would be a good example. Some sections of it embraced computing, others didn't - and the embrace of computing took a very different form in the UK and in the US because of the different schools of linguistics that were dominant in the two countries. The way that linguistics has been constituted in the US provides more scope for collaboration between it and core computer science research areas: there's an obvious affinity between generative linguistics, artificial intelligence, and natural language generation, for example. On the other hand, UK linguistics has more of a historical association with lexicography and language teaching, so the initial interest was in using statistical analysis of language data to inform the design of dictionaries and ELT syllabi. I'm talking about the 1980s mostly, but the effects of this are still visible. best wishes 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0989B2E0A; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:36:48 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D140D2DB3; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:36:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8BAFF2DD1; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:36:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121019143646.8BAFF2DD1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:36:46 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.399 value of 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. 399. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:56:59 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.392 What is the value of the humanities? In-Reply-To: <20121018052230.0F741122C@digitalhumanities.org> Here is a perhaps persuasive comment on Humanities. I recall King James' comment to the fanatic puritan presbyter folk who wanted to do away with Henry VIII's *novus ordo. *He said, "What! No Bishops? No Bishops, no King!" So for Humanities, *What! No Humanities? No Civilization!* In short, descent into the oubliette of a *novus ordo "ordurum..."* Jascha Kessler On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 392. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:13:10 -0600 > From: Geoffrey Rockwell > Subject: What is the value of the humanities? > > > Dear colleagues, > > 4Humanities is running a poll on All Your Ideas to see what people think > are persuasive arguments for the humanities. Please consider voting or > proposing answers at: > > http://www.allourideas.org/4humanities > > Once this has run for a while we will post an analysis of results on the > 4humanities site: > > http://humanisti.ca > > 4Humanities is a digital humanities collective dedicated to advocating > for the humanities. > > Yours, > > Geoffrey Rockwell -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D1A932E10; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:39:04 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A54712E09; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:39:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AE9AB2DF2; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:39:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121019143902.AE9AB2DF2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:39:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.400 events: undergrad DH; computational linguistics; data publication X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 400. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Katherine Singer (74) Subject: CFP for Panel on "The Future of Undergraduate Digital Humanities" at DH2013 [2] From: "Alexander Gelbukh (CICLing-2013)" (32) Subject: CFP: CICLing 2013 - NLP - Greece - Springer LNCS [3] From: "Lorna M. Hughes" (47) Subject: Data Publication and Linked Data in the Humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:51:37 -0700 From: Katherine Singer Subject: CFP for Panel on "The Future of Undergraduate Digital Humanities" at DH2013 CFP: "The Future of Undergraduate Digital Humanities," a panel for Digital Humanities 2013 - July 16-19, Lincoln, Nebraska With the increasing number of digital humanities job listings, postdoctoral fellowships, and graduate programs as well as the swell in digital pedagogy, it seems an opportune time to think closely about how the digital humanities will shape undergraduate education. New jobs and fellowships presuppose undergraduates who have been and will be introduced to conversations of the digital humanities as well as humanities faculty who will teach them. Because such infrastructures are still very much in flux, the digital humanities in undergraduate education is an area that scholars have only recently made inroads into seriously debating (Brier 2012; Reid 2012; Davis and Alexander 2012). This panel considers how our notions of the digital’s role in the humanities might be recalibrated if we make undergraduate education a more central preoccupation. Building on recent, compelling discussions of infrastructure and curriculum for digital humanities graduate programs (Clement 2010; Thaller et al., 2012; Boggs et al., 2012) as well as roundtables on alternative careers (Nowviskie 2011), dynamic new constellations for undergraduate education are emerging from the interactions among new computational methods, classroom spaces, reimagined curricula, and alternative career paths for college graduates. More than simply creating students to enroll in new graduate programs, introducing the methods of the digital humanities to undergraduates provides opportunities for them to do something traditionally reserved for students in the sciences: original, collaborative research (Blackwell and Martin 2009; Norcia 2008). Working individually or as entire classes, students can experiment with new methods as they are being developed concomitantly by scholars, creating knowledge via new analyses and new approaches. Moreover, digital humanities has arguably brought discussions of pedagogy back to the forefront of academics discussions, with online journals such as Hybrid Pedagogy http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/ and The Journal of Interactive Pedagogy and Technology http://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/itcp , Brett D. Hirsch’s forthcoming collection Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles, Politics (2012), multiple panels on digital pedagogy at the 2012 MLA (Harris 2012; Berens and Croxall 2012) and a digital pedagogy unconference at the 2013 MLA (Croxall and Koh 2013), Brown’s seminar on TEI and pedagogy (2012), a dedicated track at recent Digital Humanities Summer Institutes (Harris, Sayers, and Jakacki 2012; Jakacki 2013) and several poster presentations at recent Digital Humanities Conferences (Bonsignore et al., 2011; Harris 2011; Singer 2012; Croxall 2012). This roundtable seeks to broaden and deepen current debates about both the role of digital humanities in an undergraduate education and the possibilities for pedagogy, as digital praxis, to alter how we organize and teach undergraduate students. Questions that panelists might consider include the following: - What are best practices for project-based, research approaches in the undergraduate classroom? - What are the most important trends and practices in digital pedagogy across disciplines? - What departmental / university infrastructure and support are necessary for a digital humanities undergraduate curriculum? - Should undergraduate digital humanities work primarily consist of a computational means of studying humanities or a means of studying digital culture? - Is digital humanities a methodology or a topic of study? How can the two approaches be best integrated in the undergraduate classroom? - How do we integrate both digital humanities as a computational praxis and also digital culture as a topic of study (Reid 2012)? - How do we redesign curricula to incorporate both dh courses and incursions into traditional disciplines? - How might we envision curricula to be redesigned in the future with digital tools and digital critical thinking in mind? - Is digital humanities something that should be based within particular departments? Or is it something that should be taught across allhumanities undergraduate departments? - How can we prepare students for work at the graduate level? - How does digital pedagogy sit under the big tent of digital humanities? Please send proposals of 250 words or less to Kate Singerand Brian Croxall by Friday, 26 October 2012. Kate Singer, Assistant Professor of English, Mount Holyoke College Brian Croxall, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow and Emerging Technologies Librarian, Emory University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:48:12 +0000 From: "Alexander Gelbukh (CICLing-2013)" Subject: CFP: CICLing 2013 - NLP - Greece - Springer LNCS CICLing 2013 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics Samos, Greece March 24-30, 2013 Springer LNCS www.CICLing.org/2013 TOPICS: All topics related with computational linguistics, natural language processing, human language technologies, information retrieval, etc. PUBLICATION: LNCS - Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science; poster session: special issue of a journal KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Sophia Ananiadou, Walter Daelemans, Roberto Navigli, Michael Thelwall CULTURAL PROGRAM: Three days of cultural activities: tours to Ephesus, Samos, and nearby islands AWARDS: Best paper, best student paper, best presentation, best poster, best software SUBMISSION DEADLINES: November 30: registration of tentative abstract, December 7: full text of registered papers See complete CFP and contact on www.CICLing.org/2013 This message is sent in good faith of its usefulness for you as an NLP researcher. If this is an error, kindly let me know. Alexander Gelbukh www.Gelbukh.com --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:47:09 +0100 From: "Lorna M. Hughes" Subject: Data Publication and Linked Data in the Humanities Data Publication and Linked Data in the Humanities November 12th, 2012, 09:30-16:30 Council Chamber, National Library of Wales About the event Leading figures from the digital humanities, libraries and archives community will address the major challenges in transferring recent developments in the Semantic Web from research laboratories into the real world of humanities research. The term "linked data" covers a set of principles and approaches for publishing, sharing and linking data over the Web, in particular by using semantic web technologies. Humanities researchers have access to a great deal of digital material, whether produced by other researchers or by digitisation programmes in archives and museums. However, even when these resources are accessible over the Web, they are often held in dispersed, individual silos that are difficult to access in an integrated fashion because of the variety of formats, vocabularies and standards employed to represent them. Such resources would be much more useful to scholars if they could be linked up and explored as a single rich data landscape. The seminar will investigate how linked data could serve the digital arts and humanities by bringing together international experts in the semantic web to discuss existing approaches in the digital arts and humanities. This workshop is co-organised by the National Library of Wales and King’s College, London, and funded by JISC. There is no charge to attend the workshop, however, registration is essential by sending e-mail to Angharad Medi Lewis at NLW: amj@llgc.org.uk Programme 09:30 Coffee and arrival 10:00 Welcome by the Lorna Hughes, NLW and Mark Hedges, KCL 10:10 Jane Stevenson, University of Manchester 10:30 Dominic Oldman, British Museum 11:00 Christian Emil Ore, University of Oslo 11:30 Coffee 12:00 Leif Isaksen, University of Southampton 12:30 Discussion 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Sebastian Rahtz, University of Oxford 14:30 Mark Hedges, King’s College, London 15:00 Gill Hamilton, National Library of Scotland 15:30 Discussion 16:30 Tea -- Professor Lorna M. Hughes University of Wales Chair in Digital Collections Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru National Library of Wales Lorna.Hughes@llgc.org.uk Ffôn / Phone 01970 632 499 http://www.llgc.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 767182E14; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:40:06 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E2292E0D; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:40:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1837B2E09; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:40:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121019144005.1837B2E09@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:40:05 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.401 publication: artworks; Hansard X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 401. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Andrew Prescott (32) Subject: Open Data Institute Artworks [2] From: Andrew Prescott (25) Subject: Hansard --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:46:32 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Open Data Institute Artworks Data-Driven Art proposals invited for by Tim Berners-Lee's new Open Data Institute. One of the ODI’s goals is to showcase the possibilities of open data and we aim to highlight the wide-ranging potential for this emerging field. Proposals are sought for all forms of data-driven art, including: screen, wall, or ceiling based, free-standing, roaming, interactive, site-specific, permanent or temporary. We are looking for time-based or kinetic works but all data-generated work will be accepted for review. The work should, in some way, incorporate or reflect the ODI’s focus on getting value from data: social, economic, and/or environmental. Data can be real-time or static, collected from personal or local sensors (e.g. heart-rate, movement, transport systems) or online global sources (e.g. stock market, air pollution, population demographics). We are interested in work that represents change, movement, and fluctuation in data in innovative ways, abstractly or literally. We aim to engage at least 5 artists: • Existing or adapted works will be awarded £1,000 • New commissions will receive up to £3,000 The application deadline is TIGHT - SUNDAY 28th OCTOBER, (with delivery by end of November) but the application requirements are fairly simple. Further details here: http://www.mztek.org/odi-data-art-commission/ -- 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:19:10 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Hansard HISTORIC HANSARD ONLINE Please note that Parliament, as administrator of the Historic Hansard website at http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/, has received notice from its hosting provider that the existing hosting service will no longer be available after 30th November. We are working to ensure the continuing availability of the material, by moving the content of the existing site to new hosting arrangements. It is likely there will be some impact on the service early in November. We are working in particular to ensure that URLs do not change. The search function is unlikely to be available initially under the new arrangements, but we will provide means to search the content as soon as possible. Further information on how the Historic Hansard website may change will be made available before the end of November. If you have any questions or comments about the Historic Hansard website, please contact webmaster@parliament.uk -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E47242DFD; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:49:57 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEE1F2DEB; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:49:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7646C2DCD; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:49:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121020074955.7646C2DCD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:49:55 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.402 a lab space? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 402. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:57:42 -0700 From: Ruth Mostern Subject: DH lab space planning? Greetings Humanist Colleagues, As a DHer (one of only a few at my university), I've been asked to provide feedback to a committee designing a new academic building that will include a DH lab. This is at the University of California, Merced, the newest research university in the US. We opened to students in 2005 and weare on a growth trajectory to reach about 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students by 2020, along with proportional numbers of faculty, librarians, professional staff, etc. We'll ultimately have several dozen humanities faculty and several dozen humanities grad students, of whom a percentage will be engaged in DH activities to some extent. My task is to spec the DH space -- just the space for now, not furniture or equipment -- for that community; keeping in mind that I need to think about the potential needs of individuals who have not yet been hired, and will therefore need to be rather generic. I'm guessing that we want a fairly sizable shared space -- 1000 sf or so -- and space for a staff person in or adjacent to it. We'll want a separate smaller space for printers, and another separate smaller space that could be purposed in some fashion down the line for immersive visualization, or for a large piece of equipment like an overhead scanner. As a separate matter, there will be space in the building for individual faculty labs, for people who need -- and can fund -- space fully under their own control. Although I've spent some time in shared DH facilities on other campuses, I've never lived with one for the long term, or helped to manage one. So, I am hoping to get feedback from Humanist members who have used or managed DH labs that work well (or ones that don't but which have taught useful lessons). If you could design core campus DH infrastructure from the ground up, what would it look like? Please respond to the list or offline with any advice or suggestions, including photos or blueprints. Many thanks in advance! Ruth Mostern -- Ruth Mostern Associate Professor of History and Founding Faculty World Cultures Graduate Group Chair School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts University of California, Merced http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/rmostern rmostern@ucmerced.edu 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA 95343 Office: COB 379 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E095E2E05; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:52:14 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 957E32DF8; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:52:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A6F1B2DCD; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:52:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121020075213.A6F1B2DCD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:52:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.403 events: use & reuse 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. 403. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:47:34 +0200 From: Jean-Philippe Magué Subject: Workshop: Open Digital Humanities - use and reuse of digital data inthe Humanities *Workshop* *Open Digital Humanities: use and reuse of digital data in the Humanities* Amsterdam, 17 January 2013 *Call for papers* * How do we ensure findability of data? * How do we ensure trust and quality of data? * How do we ensure interoperability of data? * How do we ensure preservation of data? As the use of digital data has become a common practice, the multiplication of collections of data and the resources invested in their set-up and maintenance raise questions about access and, more generally, their life cycle beyond the context in which they were created. The working group on Collection of Digital Data of the European Research Network NeDiMAH (Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities, http://www.nedimah.eu) is organising an Experts’ Seminar in conjunction with the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc13) in Amsterdam on 17 January 2013. *===Topics===* This workshop will focus on access and re-use of digital data in the arts and humanities. Together with leading experts, we will address scientific considerations (how data are constructed), technical considerations (how data formats and tools promote interoperability) and legal considerations (how property and licences can facilitate data reuse). *===Submissions and important dates===* Workshop proposals of 500 words and a short 300 words author bio should be sent in PDF format to nedimah@ens-lyon.fr by 9 November 2012. Authors will be notified of paper acceptance by 23 November 2012. Selected authors will be invited to submit a paper to be published in a scientific book and/or a scientific journal special issue. *===Travel grants===* A limited amount of travel grants are available for workshop participants coming from one of the NeDiMAH project contributing countries (listed in http://www.nedimah.eu). For further information please contact Jean-Philippe Magué : jean-philippe.mague at ens-lyon.fr *===Contact and more info===* Contact workshop chair: Jean-Philippe Magué : jean-philippe.mague at ens-lyon.fr For more information on this workshop please visit: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc13/workshops -- Jean-Philippe Magué Maître de Conférences en Humanités Numériques Responsable de l'Atelier des Humanités Numériques : ahn.ens-lyon.fr Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon +33 (0)4 26 23 38 11 -- "Using computers will therefore lead us to a more profound and systematic knowledge of human expression; in principle, it can help us to be more humanistic than before." Busa, 1980. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 09F502DFF; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:47:29 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D158F2DF2; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:47:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CDCD82DF2; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:47:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121022064728.CDCD82DF2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:47:28 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.404 value of the humanities: the survey X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 404. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:12:04 -0400 From: Andrew Brook Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.392 What is the value of the humanities? In-Reply-To: <20121018052230.0F741122C@digitalhumanities.org> Even though I went most of the way through the survey, I never did cotton on to how it works. And there is no explanation. Andrew -- Andrew Brook, D.Phil. Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science President-Elect, Canadian Psychoanalytic Society 3A57 Paterson Carleton University Ottawa, ON K1S5B6 Ph: 613 520-3597 Web: www.carleton.ca/~abrook _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B20092E03; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:50:06 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83A832DFA; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:50:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3D9322DF2; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:50:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121022065004.3D9322DF2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:50:04 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.405 weak ties of social media X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 405. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:38:08 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the weak ties of social media David Runiman, in "Stiffed", his London Review of Books assessment of Janet Byrne's The Occupy Handbook, contrasts the involvement of those who are physically present at a protest (such as Occupy Wall Street) and the virtual involvement of those others who are involved only online. He asks to what degree the online activists "really represent like-minded people who have better things to do than protest themselves" and comments, > Social networks have made it much easier for individuals to form > shallow connections of shared concern and vicarious experience. > Occupy Wall Street has taken advantage of this on websites designed > to tap into the affinity between the life stories of the protesters – > ordinary people at the end of their tether – and everyone else. At > the same time, the protesters talk about their extraordinary > experiences at the protests and the bonds they have formed with > people they might once have believed they had little in common with: > the homeless, the destitute, the afflicted. This is the result of > unexpected face to face encounters. Strange things happen when people > talk to each other. But that experience is emphatically not being > shared by anyone who is Occupying Wall Street from the comfort of > their own homes. There are really two different kinds of link being > forged here: the transformative interactions of those on the ground > and the fleeting connection being made with those looking in. The > first have almost nothing in common with the second. Direct democracy > and representative democracy remain poles apart. Comments? The whole article may be read at http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n20/david-runciman/stiffed. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 532C52E0D; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:50:52 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24CCD2E06; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:50:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0B8212E05; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:50:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121022065050.0B8212E05@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:50:49 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.406 peer-review: the Jesus' Wife's Gospel affair X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 406. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 21:13:46 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Jesus Wife Gospel as example to claim a peer-review post-publication Dear all, The affair of the "Jesus' Wife Gospel" illustrates very well what Kathleen Fitzpatrick was claiming in "Planned Obsolescence": the need of a peer-review post-publication. And it happens at Harvard. For a full argument, see my blog: http://cclivaz.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/the-real-scoop-of-the-so-called-jesus-wife-gospel-the-transformation-of-the-peer-review-process/ Claire Clivaz (Lausanne, CH) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 18BE42E01; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:44:20 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD4962DF2; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:44:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E34E22D92; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:44:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121023074417.E34E22D92@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:44:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.407 weak ties; value of the humanities survey X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 407. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Andrew Prescott (61) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.405 weak ties of social media [2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (13) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.404 value of the humanities: the survey --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:39:56 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.405 weak ties of social media In-Reply-To: <20121022065004.3D9322DF2@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, I wonder how far this is related to the debates around 'slacktivism', on which there is a substantial scholarly literature and for which Wikipedia is a useful starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism 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 On 22/10/2012 07:50, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 405. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:38:08 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: the weak ties of social media > > > David Runiman, in "Stiffed", his London Review of Books assessment of > Janet Byrne's The Occupy Handbook, contrasts the involvement of those > who are physically present at a protest (such as Occupy Wall Street) and > the virtual involvement of those others who are involved only online. He > asks to what degree the online activists "really represent like-minded > people who have better things to do than protest themselves" and > comments, > >> Social networks have made it much easier for individuals to form >> shallow connections of shared concern and vicarious experience. >> Occupy Wall Street has taken advantage of this on websites designed >> to tap into the affinity between the life stories of the protesters – >> ordinary people at the end of their tether – and everyone else. At >> the same time, the protesters talk about their extraordinary >> experiences at the protests and the bonds they have formed with >> people they might once have believed they had little in common with: >> the homeless, the destitute, the afflicted. This is the result of >> unexpected face to face encounters. Strange things happen when people >> talk to each other. But that experience is emphatically not being >> shared by anyone who is Occupying Wall Street from the comfort of >> their own homes. There are really two different kinds of link being >> forged here: the transformative interactions of those on the ground >> and the fleeting connection being made with those looking in. The >> first have almost nothing in common with the second. Direct democracy >> and representative democracy remain poles apart. > > Comments? The whole article may be read at > http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n20/david-runciman/stiffed. > > Yours, > WM > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:02:59 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.404 value of the humanities: the survey In-Reply-To: <20121022064728.CDCD82DF2@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Andrew and others, All Our Ideas is itself a research project by some sociologists at Princeton. You can read about it at: http://www.allourideas.org/about and following links. AOI isn't a survey is the sense of something you need to go through. It throws up two possible answers and you vote. You can vote once or twice or keep on voting. I don't know how it decides which answers to present, but it does return interesting data on how many people voted for each idea. Why use it? I was impressed by how the ACH used it before the AGM this past summer and thought it might give us at 4Humanities insight into arguments for the humanities. I also think it is an interesting and lightweight social media tool for openly eliciting ideas. Thank you to all the Humanists who have voted! Perhaps others know more about the underlying algorithm or can suggest alternatives. For those interested in the issue of how to advocate for the humanities (which is what 4Humanities is trying to do) I recommend a short report titled, Making the Case for the Humanities: http://www.cic.net/Home/NewsAndPubs/News/12-09-20/New_Report_Making_a_Case_for_the_Humanities--Advocacy_and_Audience.aspx Best, Geoffrey R. On 2012-10-22, at 12:47 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Even though I went most of the way through the survey, I never did > cotton on to how it works. And there is no explanation. > > Andrew _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 847882E0A; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:44:54 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 582572DFC; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:44:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 97BD1E61; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:44:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121023074452.97BD1E61@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:44:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.408 job 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="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. 408. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:11:44 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Job Opening: Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Screen Media University College Cork Closing Date for Applications: 20 Nov 2012 Contract Type: Permanent Whole-Time Job Type: Academic Salary: €67,107 – €94,043 Applications from suitably qualified candidates are invited for the post of Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Screen Media. The successful applicant will be an established scholar with an excellent track record in research and publication, teaching and administration. The core field of specialization will be Digital Humanities, with essential expertise in Screen Media. As well as playing a key role in the new MA Digital Humanities and the new BA Film & Screen Media, the appointee will fully contribute to relevant undergraduate and postgraduate programmes including the MA and PhD programmes in Arts and Digital Humanities and the MA in Film Studies. This is a unique opportunity to join a dynamic and innovative College with an international profile and a vibrant research culture. The appointee will be expected to play a leading role in developing these pivotal areas which combine groundbreaking interdisciplinary research and innovation in teaching, and constitute prioritised areas for development and funding in Ireland. Essential criteria include: a PhD in a relevant discipline; a strong record of research including practice based research and publication; proven teaching excellence; proven administrative experience or evidence of ability to undertake administrative responsibility; demonstrated leadership skills and capacity for successful course development; excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build relations and liaise with colleagues in other disciplines. The post is available from 1 January 2013 or at a date to be agreed. More information and to apply: http://www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacancies/academic/full-details-170356-en.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 89E002E0F; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:50:47 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5854A2DEF; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:50:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5C77B2D92; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:50:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121023075045.5C77B2D92@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:50:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.409 events: DH2013; launch party; PhD Forum X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 409. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Melissa Terras (21) Subject: Digital Humanities in Practice - Launch Party at UCL, 6th November [2] From: Gordon OSullivan ( ) Subject: PhD Forum announcement for the list [3] From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" (12) Subject: reminder: DH 2013 deadline --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:47:33 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Digital Humanities in Practice - Launch Party at UCL, 6th November Hi Everyone, We are holding a launch party for our new book, Digital Humanities in Practice, at UCL on the 6th November. We have a few tickets left and would be delighted to see anyone working in the area of DH who is in London at the time there. You can find more information about it and register at dhinpractice.eventbrite.co.uk/. More information about the book can be found on the Facet website: http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=7661 . best wishes, 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/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:35:02 +0100 (BST) From: Gordon OSullivan Subject: Call for Participants in a PhD online forum for MarineLives Dear All, MarineLives is an innovative academic project for the collaborative transcription, linkage and enrichment of primary manuscripts which were originated in the High Court of Admiralty (HCA), London, 1650-1669. The end product will be a publicly and freely available online academic edition. Further information can be seen on the project website: http://www.marinelives.org/ We are now actively seeking PhD students in History and associated fields like English, Geography, Historical Linguistics, Sociology and Anthropology to participate in four online SKYPE forums to be held beginning in the last week of November, 2012. The PhD Forum will consider the potential relevance of High Court Of Admiralty records, as revealed by the substance of HCA 13/71 (1656-1657) to four broad research areas and to the specific research interests of participants. The research areas of interest are: (1) Material & Cultural (2) Commercial & Legal (3) Geography & Trade (4) Language with a separate SKYPE forum held for each area. These forums will assist us in understanding the research questions relevant to forum members that can be addressed using tools such as semantic markup, data mining, and data linking. This input will influence the second phase of our project between January and March, 2013. We will gain an understanding of how forum members would like to interact with the data, on completion of transcription and markup, influencing the specification and implementation of our production server and software, as well as the data formats to be utilised in further phases of the project. In addition, we hope that the forums will establish linkages between the project team and the wider research community while at the same time raising awareness of the rich research potential of HCA materials. As part of these forums, we will provide the participants with advance access to our project resources such as the digitised images of HCA 13/71 (1656-1657), the first cut transcriptions as they go up and are then edited, the MarineLives project dictionaries and the project manual. In return, participants in the forum will commit to one 90 minute online SKYPE conference call. Each PhD Forum member will participate in only one forum. Briefing notes will be distributed to each participant in advance and prior reading of this document and assessment of the project resources would also be required to contribute meaningfully to the forum. Notes taken of the discussion will be distributed to participants after the event, with the opportunity to respond further to the points raised in writing. This is a terrific opportunity for PhD students to participate in an exciting digital project and we would welcome your involvement to help shape the future direction of MarineLives. If you are interested in participating, you can sign up by emailing phdforum@marinelives.org with details of your areas of study and interest. There are limited places available in the forum so please note that the deadline for confirming participation is Friday, November 2, 2012. Thank you for your assistance and we look forward to hearing from you, Richard Blakemore, Associate Research Fellow, Centre for Maritime Historical Studies, University of Exeter Dr. Liam D. Haydon, University of Manchester Philip J Hnatkovich, PhD Student, Pennsylvania State University Gordon O’Sullivan, M.Phil Student, Digital Humanities and Culture, Trinity College Dublin Laura Seymour, PhD student, Birkbeck College, University of London PhD Forum Convenors MarineLives http://www.marinelives.org/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 04:46:34 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: reminder: DH 2013 deadline Dear colleagues -- This is a friendly reminder that the November 1st deadline for paper, panel, and poster proposals to Digital Humanities 2013 is one week away! http://dh2013.unl.edu/call-for-proposals/ Our annual DH conference will be held in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA from 16-19 July 2013. Please click "submit through ConfTool" at the URL above -- where, through the good offices of ADHO volunteers, the conference CFP is now available in ten languages! For the 2013 DH program committee, Bethany Nowviskie Bethany Nowviskie, PhD Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVa Library Assoc. Director, Scholarly Communication Institute President, Association for Computers & the Humanities nowviskie.org | 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1602C2E19; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:52:38 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1E552E10; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:52:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A82F72E0F; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:52:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121023075235.A82F72E0F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:52:35 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.410 Visions of our communal dreams X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 410. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:33:02 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Visions of our communal dreams Visions of Our Communal Dreams v2.0 by: Michael Takeo Magruder with Drew Baker, Erik Fleming & David Steele A virtual/physical art installation exploring issues of hybridity, embodiment and collective creativity in the Avatar Age. Synopsis: Visions of Our Communal Dreams is a new media artwork blending virtual, physical and networked environments that explores issues of hybridity, embodiment and collective creativity made possible through the use of avatars and virtual worlds. The artwork is comprised of two public spaces – one virtual and one physical – that are inherently connected in order to create a series of mixed-reality contexts, situations and experiences. The artwork's virtual component consists of an imaginary forest landscape constructed using the open source 3D application server OpenSimulator. This synthetic, 'living' metaverse is defined by the creative aspirations of its avatar inhabitants and is intrinsically linked to a changing selection of gallery and public spaces in the real world. Live interactions and exchanges flow between the virtual and physical realms through various site-specific 'portals' ranging from immersive architectural projections and windows to arrangements of small painterly artefacts and kiosks. These gateways are realised through telematic interfaces that allow residents from both discrete locations to gaze upon each other and their surroundings, thus creating uncanny connections and dialogues between the worlds. See http://www.takeo.org/nspace/sl010/ for more. -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5E2342E19; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:31:00 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34AA12E01; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:31:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B4FED2DFB; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:30:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121024053058.B4FED2DFB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:30:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.412 weak ties X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 412. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Leda Mansour (107) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.407 weak ties; value of the humanities survey [2] From: Jascha Kessler (18) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.407 weak ties; value of the humanities survey --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:23:59 +0200 From: Leda Mansour Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.407 weak ties; value of the humanities survey In-Reply-To: <20121023074417.E34E22D92@digitalhumanities.org> Bonjour, Perhaps you read this post : SMALL CHANGE Why the revolution will not be tweeted. BY MALCOLM GLADWELL http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell?current Page=all Bonne journée, Léda Mansour Docteure en Sciences du langage Laboratoire MoDyCo UMR 7114 Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense Tél : 06 16 33 19 00 Site professionnel: https://sites.google.com/site/ledamansour/ Le 23/10/12 09:44, « Humanist Discussion Group » a écrit : > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 407. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Andrew Prescott > (61) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.405 weak ties of social media > > [2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell > (13) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.404 value of the humanities: the survey > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:39:56 +0100 > From: Andrew Prescott > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.405 weak ties of social media > In-Reply-To: <20121022065004.3D9322DF2@digitalhumanities.org> > > Dear Willard, > > I wonder how far this is related to the debates around 'slacktivism', on > which there is a substantial scholarly literature and for which > Wikipedia is a useful starting point: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism > > 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 > > On 22/10/2012 07:50, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 405. >> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:38:08 +0100 >> From: Willard McCarty >> Subject: the weak ties of social media >> >> >> David Runiman, in "Stiffed", his London Review of Books assessment of >> Janet Byrne's The Occupy Handbook, contrasts the involvement of those >> who are physically present at a protest (such as Occupy Wall Street) and >> the virtual involvement of those others who are involved only online. He >> asks to what degree the online activists "really represent like-minded >> people who have better things to do than protest themselves" and >> comments, >> >>> Social networks have made it much easier for individuals to form >>> shallow connections of shared concern and vicarious experience. >>> Occupy Wall Street has taken advantage of this on websites designed >>> to tap into the affinity between the life stories of the protesters ­ >>> ordinary people at the end of their tether ­ and everyone else. At >>> the same time, the protesters talk about their extraordinary >>> experiences at the protests and the bonds they have formed with >>> people they might once have believed they had little in common with: >>> the homeless, the destitute, the afflicted. This is the result of >>> unexpected face to face encounters. Strange things happen when people >>> talk to each other. But that experience is emphatically not being >>> shared by anyone who is Occupying Wall Street from the comfort of >>> their own homes. There are really two different kinds of link being >>> forged here: the transformative interactions of those on the ground >>> and the fleeting connection being made with those looking in. The >>> first have almost nothing in common with the second. Direct democracy >>> and representative democracy remain poles apart. >> >> Comments? The whole article may be read at >> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n20/david-runciman/stiffed. >> >> Yours, >> WM Léda Mansour Docteure en Sciences du langage Laboratoire MoDyCo UMR 7114 Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense Tél : 06 16 33 19 00 Site professionnel: https://sites.google.com/site/ledamansour/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:58:46 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.407 weak ties; value of the humanities survey In-Reply-To: <20121023074417.E34E22D92@digitalhumanities.org> From what was observable about the Occupy Phenomenon and the London riots, and Seattle's too, the protestors were certainly *not *at "the end of their tether"! Rather at the beginning of their tether, i.e., life's connection to group slavery of one sort or another. There is Freedom in Democracy, but there is far more slavery of every sort, physical and psychological. What has never been learned or taught in our institutions of higher learning, whether in the sciences or Humanities, are the fundamental principles discussed by Albert Camus in *L'Homme Revolté *[title Englished as *The Rebel*]. Nor even the lessons taught and implied by Socrates, as Plato preserved them. Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 058512E21; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:32:24 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD5CD2E0D; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:32:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0EED62E01; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:32:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121024053223.0EED62E01@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:32:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.413 fellowships 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. 413. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:58:11 +0100 From: Alexandra Franklin Subject: Fellowships in the history of science and communication The Byrne Bussey Marconi Fellowships Bodleian Library and Museum of the History of Science *Two awards available for 2013* Deadline: 10 December 2012 Promoting the use of the Marconi archives at the Bodleian Library and collections at the Museum of the History of Science, these awards will provide the recipients with the opportunity for a period of uninterrupted research and collegial discussion at the Bodleian Library and the Museum of the History of Science, culminating in a public lecture at the University of Oxford on the results of this research. see Further Particulars and Application Form: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships.htm#marconi The value of each award is up to £4000 for four months, prorated for a shorter stay. Applications will be considered from researchers in any field of the history of science or the history of communications. Those wishing to use the Marconi Archives at the Bodleian Library and the Marconi artefacts at the Oxford Museum of the History of Science are particularly encouraged to apply. Dr. Alexandra Franklin Project Coordinator Centre for the Study of the Book Bodleian Library Oxford OX 1 3BG tel. (01865) 277006 alexandra.franklin@bodleian.ox.ac.uk http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/csb/ http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/csb/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BE87E2E25; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:34:45 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90EC02E17; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:34:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1E9332E0D; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:34:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121024053443.1E9332E0D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:34:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.414 things to be read X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 414. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (13) Subject: open access [2] From: Andrew Prescott (80) Subject: New Arcadia funded report on Measuring the Impactof Digital Resources [3] From: Claire Clivaz (6) Subject: Ebook Reading Tomorrow --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:18:23 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: open access Many here will enjoy reading Adeline Koh's "Open Access Ahoy: An Interview with Ubiquity Press", ProfHacker, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 23 October 2012, http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/ubiquity/43312?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en. 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, 23 Oct 2012 15:36:04 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: New Arcadia funded report on Measuring the Impactof Digital Resources In-Reply-To: Dear Colleagues, Measuring the Impact of Digital Resources: The Balanced Value Impact Model The full report is now available: http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/impact.html The Balanced Value Impact Model (BVI Model) draws evidence from a wide range of sources to provide a compelling account of the means of measuring the impact of digital resources and using evidence to advocate how change benefits people. The aim is to provide key information and a strong model for the following primary communities of use: the cultural, heritage, academic or creative industries. For the purposes of this Model, the definition of Impact is: The measurable outcomes arising from the existence of a digital resource that demonstrate a change in the life or life opportunities of the community for which the resource is intended. The outcome of this cross disciplinary research is a new and targeted model of Impact Assessment for the primary communities of use identified above. The Balanced Value Impact Model brings together aspects from disparate Impact Assessment communities into a cohesive and logical process for Impact Assessment. The Balanced Value Impact Model is intended to aid the thinking and decision making of those wishing to engage in Impact Assessment. It also acts as a guide through the process of Impact Assessment to enable the core values most appropriate to the assessment to be brought to the fore and given a balanced consideration when evaluating outcomes. It presumes that the assessment will be measuring change within an ecosystem for a digital resource. Who should use the BVI Model? The aim of this report is to provide key information and a strong model for the following primary communities of use: ·Memory institutions and cultural heritage organizations, such as libraries, museums and archives. ·Funding bodies who wish to promote evidence-based impact assessment of activities they support. ·Holders and custodians of special collections. ·Managers, project managers and fundraisers who are seeking to justify further investment in digital resources. ·Academics looking to establish digital projects and digital scholarship collaborations with collection owners. ·Publishing, media and business sectors which may be considering the best means to measure the impact of their digital resources and are looking to collaborate and align with collection owners, with academia or with memory institutions. ·Impact Assessment practitioners considering an Impact Assessment of a digital resource. What can you do with this document? This document synthesizes information from the whole Impact Assessment sector and then proposes the Balanced Value Impact Model as a means to effectively carry out an Impact Assessment relating to the benefits of digitization and digital resources in general. It seeks to help the communities identified above to provide a compelling argument for future work. Thus, you will find in this document information on: ·Where the value and impact can be found in digital resources, ·Who are the beneficiaries gaining from the impact and value, ·How to measure change and impact for digital resources, ·What makes for good indicators of change in people’s lives, ·How to do an Impact Assessment using the Balanced Value Impact Model, and ·How to present a convincing evidence-based argument for digital resources? Re-use, copy, distribute, divide and repackage this document for your needs and non-commercial benefit. Please attribute the source/authorship according to the licence. Citing the document: Tanner, S. (2012) Measuring the Impact of Digital Resources: The Balanced Value Impact Model. King’s College London, October 2012. Available at: www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/impact.html http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/impact.html Thanks for your attention, Simon** *____________________________________________* *Simon Tanner* *Department of Digital Humanities King's College London* 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL ** *Email*: simon.tanner@kcl.ac.uk *Web: *www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/ http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/ and www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/ ** *Twitter: *@SimonTanner http://twitter.com/#!/SimonTanner ** *Phone: *+44(0)7887-691716 (direct) +44(0)20-7848-2861 (Dept Office) Blog: http://simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:59:24 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Ebook Reading Tomorrow In-Reply-To: Dear all, The first Swiss DH collected essays, «Reading Tomorrow / Lire Demain», is now available here as ebook: http://www.ppur.com/produit/549/9782889141494/Lire%20demain The full table on contents can be checked on the website. Pages 1-79 can be freely read online. Some contributions are in two languages. The ebook offers 50% of English texts, 50% of French texts. Main authors: David Bouvier, François Bovon, Claire Clivaz, Mary Ebbott and Leonard Muellner, David Hamidovic, Frédéric Kaplan, Philippe Kaenel, Jean-Yves Mollier, David Parker, Christian Vandendorpe. For the editorial team: Claire Clivaz, Lausanne (CH) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C95B62E19; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:41:19 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95FBD2DFB; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:41:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F285F2DFB; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:41:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121024054117.F285F2DFB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:41:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.415 events: textual scholarship; 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="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. 415. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Caroline_Macé (11) Subject: LECTIO: Laboratory for Critical Text Editing - Round Table 19 November [2] From: Peter Boot (9) Subject: Registration open for Nov. 22-24 conference European Society forTextual Scholarship [3] From: jeremy hunsinger (37) Subject: CFP: Canadian Communication Association (CCA) 2013 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:58:32 +0000 From: Caroline_Macé Subject: LECTIO: Laboratory for Critical Text Editing - Round Table 19 November Dear Colleagues, LECTIO, the Leuven Centre for the study of the transmission of texts and ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (http://ghum.kuleuven.be/lectio), is organizing a series of round tables in the framework of a "Laboratory for critical text editing". This fourth round table is entitled 'Scholars of the past - Editions of today'. Speakers are: - Mariken Teeuwen (Huygens Instituut - ING) - Pantelis Golitsis (Aristoteles-Archiv, Freie Universität Berlin) - Toon Van Hal (KU Leuven) The meeting will take place on Monday November 19, 2-5 pm, in Leuven, Faculty of Theology, St.Michielsstraat 2-4, Romeroroom (COVE 02.10) (see the map in attachment). You are most welcome to attend (and coffee and refreshments will be served), but, please register by sending an email to Marleen Reynders (Marleen.Reynders@ghum.kuleuven.be). Best wishes, Caroline Macé --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:57:00 +0200 From: Peter Boot Subject: Registration open for Nov. 22-24 conference European Society forTextual Scholarship Registration is now open for the ninth conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, "Editing Fundamentals: Historical and Literary Paradigms in Source Editing". The conference will be held Nov. 22-24 2012 in Amsterdam. The programme,including keynotes by Manfred Thaller, Andrew Jewell and Godfried Croenen, is available at http://ests2012.huygens.knaw.nl/?page_id=7. Participants can register at http://ests2012.huygens.knaw.nl/?page_id=25. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:39:42 +0000 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: CFP: Canadian Communication Association (CCA) 2013 > La version française suit ci-dessous > > Call for Papers 2013 / Appel à communication 2013 > > La version française suit ci-dessous > > Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Annual Conference 201 > June 5-7 > University of Victoria, > Victoria, British Columbia > > ***The deadline for paper and panel proposals is December 1, 2012*** > > "@ the Edge" is the theme of the Canadian Federation for the > Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) 2013 Congress within which the > Canadian Communication Association (CCA) will hold its Annual > Conference from June 5-7, 2013 at the University of Victoria > (http://congress2013.ca/). We are calling for proposals that explore, > critique and extend this theme as well as for proposals on any other > relevant themes to Communication Studies. > > We invite scholars and professionals to submit proposals that develop > the range and depth of scholarship in communication studies. > > Proposals may take the form of: > > Single-paper presentations > Multi-paper panels > Roundtables or Workshops > Performances or Screenings > Graduate Master's Sessions (GMS - for MA students only). > > Details concerning submission of proposals, annual prizes, student > travel assistance, Graduate Master's Sessions terms of reference, and > our Conference FAQ are available at the Annual Conference section of > the CCA website (www.acc-cca.ca/). > [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6D4102E21; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:21:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41C882E13; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:21:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3F7C32E05; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:21:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121024072116.3F7C32E05@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:21:16 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.416 assessments X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 416. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:32:41 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: assessments In reply to one of my messages on Humanist, my colleague Andrew Prescott recommended a collection of essays I would now like to bring to your attention once more: Coppock, Terry, ed. 1999. Information Technology and Scholarship: Applications in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy). The title is not the most likely to cause you to rush to Amazon, but the contents make its case. Although Anthony Kenny, in "Scholarship and Information Technology", says many of the same things as he did in "Computers and the Humanities", his 1992 British Library lecture, he brings his essential question up to the end of the 20th Century: "After 45 years of humanities computing", he writes, "why has IT had so little effect on scholarship?" (2). This question and the attitude behind it set the tone for the rest of the essays in the volume, e.g. Karen Spärk Jones' very fine "How much has information technology contributed to linguistics?" Her answer: "Information technology should have much to offer linguistics... [but] has had rather little influence..." (109). She recommends "more attention from linguists". Kenny's own response comes in the form of several hypotheses: (a) all humanists are by nature Luddites -- which he finds wanting; (b) digitization has failed to give us what we need -- the "one more heave" school of explanation he also finds inadequate; (c) a shift in scholarly focus away from the empirical sort of work our machines are esp good at, because humanists have fled quantification and so taken to the theoretical high ground -- which must have seemed plausible at the time but is rather less compelling now; (d) computing has become ubiquitous and so disappeared from the sight of most people or been manifested primarily by what has not been written -- which I find utterly unconvincing. He argues that even so the effect of computing hasn't been at all comparable in magnitude to the shift from oral culture to written or to the invention of printing, as so often claimed. "It has not so much changed patterns of scholarship as improved the life of the scholar, by freeing up a great deal of time from donkeywork for genuine research" (4). Here one of those words should cause us to choke. Compare medievalist Franklin J Pegues' statement from 1965: > The purpose of the machine is not to dehumanize the humanities but to > free the humanist for the important work of literary criticism by providing > him with large and accurate masses of data that may be used by him in > the work which only he can accomplish. "Editorial: Computer Research in the Humanities". Journal of Higher Education 36.2: 105-8. Either Pegues nailed the real contribution of computing in 1965 or -- my suggestion -- the problem is precisely the relegation of computing to service so that we can do something else. Hence Kenny's "donkeywork". (The usual term in the historical literature is "drudgery", but the underlying social model, and the real problem here, is the same: servitude. Is this the best way to design for the computing of the future, to design for a way of being that has us as lords and ladies waited on by morally neutral servants (who, of course, do the living for us)? In any case Kenny's question remains and, I think, survives in robust health into the present. I note Ryan Cordell's statement in his proposal for a 2013 Northeast MLA roundtable: "DH scholarship has not significantly influenced the vast body of literary scholarship" (https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/46411). Of course this last is not proof or even argument -- indeed, it is intended as provocation. But one really should pay attention to something our colleagues have been saying for several decades. If, like me, you think nevertheless not only that the great changes happen more slowly and fundamentally than we tend to notice but also, and primarily, that intellectual growth has been stunted by the wrong ideas of computing, then the critical perspective of Kenny et al does us great benefit. There is, after all, no need any longer to promote. Let the circus impresarios do that. Let us come up with the goods. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BDBBA2DEF; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:41:49 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CD372DCF; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:41:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D0C252DC8; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:41:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121025054147.D0C252DC8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:41:47 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.417 assessments X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 417. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (79) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.416 assessments [2] From: Andrew Prescott (149) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.416 assessments [3] From: Paul Fishwick (78) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.416 assessments --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:06:27 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.416 assessments In-Reply-To: <20121024072116.3F7C32E05@digitalhumanities.org> Great questions once again, Willard. I think that rather than phrasing the question in terms of the computer doing the "real work" (our living for us), we might want to think in terms of different kinds of work. People who wanted to generate lists of word frequencies (like, say, Wellhausen) prior to the advent of computing had to spend painstaking hours counting words by hand and, of course, undoubtedly getting the count at least a little wrong. Hence, the rise of the concordance. Once you produce a list you may as well publish it so that it can be reviewed and corrected. Only -after- all this counting had been done could the -other work- be done, which involved analysis of word frequencies, word clusters, etc. Now, computers are great at counting, but we don't have one that can perform this analysis for us yet, especially any kind of analysis that takes into account human, social, environmental, etc., factors that exist beyond the words of any given text but certainly influence our understanding of the text. So I don't think it's a matter of the computer being a low-paid servant out there doing the donkeywork (yes, I love this word) for us keeping us from having to work at all. Instead, it's more like an assistant that's better than us at some tasks but can't perform others, so we divide the work accordingly. The question remains, of course: -why- aren't we using these assistants more? I think it's a combination of factors, including most of those you list. There are luddites among us humanists, but most of us aren't, I think. There may also be a luddism by default in that we don't want to take the time to learn to use these ever-changing technologies because the learning process would take too much time. But it could be in some cases we really don't need them all of the time. I'm currently writing an essay on Kierkegaard and literature for an upcoming anthology and focus more upon very carefully read key passages than mass clusters of data. I have done the mass clusters of data kind of work before, but don't do it exclusively, or even primarily. I'm not taking advantage of certain tools, then, only because my current work doesn't require it. I may need them later, even on my next project. It could also be true that these tools are like dishwashers -- once I got used to them I couldn't live without them, and if I'd use them more often I'd find more uses for them. But, for now, I'm fine. Jim R On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Kenny's own response comes in the form of several hypotheses: (a) all > humanists are by nature Luddites -- which he finds wanting; (b) > digitization has failed to give us what we need -- the "one more heave" > school of explanation he also finds inadequate; (c) a shift in scholarly > focus away from the empirical sort of work our machines are esp good at, > because humanists have fled quantification and so taken to the > theoretical high ground -- which must have seemed plausible at the time > but is rather less compelling now; (d) computing has become ubiquitous > and so disappeared from the sight of most people or been manifested > primarily by what has not been written -- which I find utterly > unconvincing. He argues that even so the effect of computing hasn't been > at all comparable in magnitude to the shift from oral culture to written > or to the invention of printing, as so often claimed. "It has not so > much changed patterns of scholarship as improved the life of the > scholar, by freeing up a great deal of time from donkeywork for genuine > research" (4). > > Here one of those words should cause us to choke. Compare > medievalist Franklin J Pegues' statement from 1965: > > > The purpose of the machine is not to dehumanize the humanities but to > > free the humanist for the important work of literary criticism by > providing > > him with large and accurate masses of data that may be used by him in > > the work which only he can accomplish. > "Editorial: Computer Research in the Humanities". Journal of Higher > Education 36.2: 105-8. > > Either Pegues nailed the real contribution of computing in 1965 or -- my > suggestion -- the problem is precisely the relegation of computing to > service so that we can do something else. Hence Kenny's "donkeywork". (The > usual term in the historical literature is "drudgery", but the underlying > social model, and the real problem here, is the same: servitude. Is this > the > best way to design for the computing of the future, to design for a way of > being that has us as lords and ladies waited on by morally neutral > servants (who, of course, do the living for us)? > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:19:20 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.416 assessments In-Reply-To: <20121024072116.3F7C32E05@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, I have never read a posting that so accurately and succinctly describes the issues confronted by the digital humanities, while suggesting a clear way forward. It made me think more about what that way forward might be. I went to the launch of a book to which I contributed today, which derived from a project working with schoolchildren in East London to consider the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. Copies of the book were given to all the children who took part in the project, and as they arrived at the Barbican, these children were desperate to see advance copies of the book, to see how the items they had contributed turned out. This hunger for the book was a sight which would have gladdened the heart of any Education Minister. We have a reverence, almost an idolatory, for the book, and we consider it important that the young feel just the same. It would seem odd to describe the book as a labour-saving device, although (particularly in its printed form) that is largely what it is. Reading David McKitterick's Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order recently, the striking aspect about his argument is how long it took for the distinctions between manuscript and print to be fully worked through - Mckitterick suggests that in library organisation a functional distinction between print and manuscript was not commonplace until the seventeenth century. Yet with the computer the opposite happened - very quickly, the computer became regarded as somehow less than the book, less an object of reverence and cultural aspiration. This is strange, because surely one aspect of the computer is that it brings us more of what the book offers - I first became intersted in computers because I love books. How do we get to the point where we regard the digital object as a cultural touchstone like the book? It may be that we have underestimated the importance of the hardware here. It seems to me that tablet technology is starting to change things, and I wonder whether this is a sign of the future. iPad apps which by digital humanities standards are trivial (such as the Wasteland app) are having an enormous impact, because they are speaking to the same cultural sense as the book. Maybe it is delivering in these environments which will start to change things? 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 On 24/10/2012 08:21, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 416. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:32:41 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: assessments > > > In reply to one of my messages on Humanist, my colleague Andrew Prescott > recommended a collection of essays I would now like to bring to your > attention once more: > > Coppock, Terry, ed. 1999. Information Technology and Scholarship: > Applications in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Oxford: Oxford > University Press (for the British Academy). > > The title is not the most likely to cause you to rush to Amazon, but the > contents make its case. Although Anthony Kenny, in "Scholarship and > Information Technology", says many of the same things as he did in > "Computers and the Humanities", his 1992 British Library lecture, he > brings his essential question up to the end of the 20th Century: "After > 45 years of humanities computing", he writes, "why has IT had so little > effect on scholarship?" (2). This question and the attitude behind it > set the tone for the rest of the essays in the volume, e.g. Karen Spärk > Jones' very fine "How much has information technology contributed to > linguistics?" Her answer: "Information technology should have much to > offer linguistics... [but] has had rather little influence..." (109). She > recommends "more attention from linguists". > > Kenny's own response comes in the form of several hypotheses: (a) all > humanists are by nature Luddites -- which he finds wanting; (b) > digitization has failed to give us what we need -- the "one more heave" > school of explanation he also finds inadequate; (c) a shift in scholarly > focus away from the empirical sort of work our machines are esp good at, > because humanists have fled quantification and so taken to the > theoretical high ground -- which must have seemed plausible at the time > but is rather less compelling now; (d) computing has become ubiquitous > and so disappeared from the sight of most people or been manifested > primarily by what has not been written -- which I find utterly > unconvincing. He argues that even so the effect of computing hasn't been > at all comparable in magnitude to the shift from oral culture to written > or to the invention of printing, as so often claimed. "It has not so > much changed patterns of scholarship as improved the life of the > scholar, by freeing up a great deal of time from donkeywork for genuine > research" (4). > > Here one of those words should cause us to choke. Compare > medievalist Franklin J Pegues' statement from 1965: > >> The purpose of the machine is not to dehumanize the humanities but to >> free the humanist for the important work of literary criticism by providing >> him with large and accurate masses of data that may be used by him in >> the work which only he can accomplish. > "Editorial: Computer Research in the Humanities". Journal of Higher > Education 36.2: 105-8. > > Either Pegues nailed the real contribution of computing in 1965 or -- my > suggestion -- the problem is precisely the relegation of computing to > service so that we can do something else. Hence Kenny's "donkeywork". (The > usual term in the historical literature is "drudgery", but the underlying > social model, and the real problem here, is the same: servitude. Is this the > best way to design for the computing of the future, to design for a way of > being that has us as lords and ladies waited on by morally neutral > servants (who, of course, do the living for us)? > > In any case Kenny's question remains and, I think, survives in robust health > into the present. I note Ryan Cordell's statement in his proposal for a 2013 > Northeast MLA roundtable: "DH scholarship has not significantly influenced > the vast body of literary scholarship" > (https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/46411). Of course this last is > not proof or even argument -- indeed, it is intended as provocation. But > one really should pay attention to something our colleagues have been saying > for several decades. If, like me, you think nevertheless not only that the > great changes happen more slowly and fundamentally than we tend to notice > but also, and primarily, that intellectual growth has been stunted by the > wrong ideas of computing, then the critical perspective of Kenny et al does > us great benefit. There is, after all, no need any longer to promote. Let > the circus impresarios do that. Let us come up with the goods. > > 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/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:35:59 -0400 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.416 assessments In-Reply-To: <20121024072116.3F7C32E05@digitalhumanities.org> Willard: Some thoughts on your post: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Here one of those words should cause us to choke. Compare > medievalist Franklin J Pegues' statement from 1965: > > > The purpose of the machine is not to dehumanize the humanities but to > > free the humanist for the important work of literary criticism by > providing > > him with large and accurate masses of data that may be used by him in > > the work which only he can accomplish. > "Editorial: Computer Research in the Humanities". Journal of Higher > Education 36.2: 105-8. > The questionable conclusion here is that "literary criticism" is an immutable procedure, impervious to the advances of technology, There may still be some who might believe that technology does not (or should not) affect culture. As Postman remarks in Technopoly, we must always be on guard and engage in critical inquiry--that is our nature as philosophers. So, I am not proposing a non-critical acceptance of technology, but rather a recognition that the technology is far more than a tool, and more than a service. Technology (including computing) changes how we think. What I see happening in the humanities is that the definition of humanities scholarship is evolving, changing in part because of computing technology. It not a matter of the machine as our slave, but a much more complex relationship resulting in our own evolution and our deep changing understanding of research, scholarship, and meaning. > > In any case Kenny's question remains and, I think, survives in robust > health > into the present. I note Ryan Cordell's statement in his proposal for a > 2013 > Northeast MLA roundtable: "DH scholarship has not significantly influenced > the vast body of literary scholarship" > (https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/46411). Of course this last is > not proof or even argument -- indeed, it is intended as provocation. If DH scholarship has "not significantly influenced the vast body of literary scholarship" it is likely due to the inherent conservatism in the academy. We move slowly, but change does come, and often the young faculty are the first to embrace it. > But > one really should pay attention to something our colleagues have been > saying > for several decades. If, like me, you think nevertheless not only that the > great changes happen more slowly and fundamentally than we tend to notice > but also, and primarily, that intellectual growth has been stunted by the > wrong ideas of computing, then the critical perspective of Kenny et al does > us great benefit. There is, after all, no need any longer to promote. Let > the circus impresarios do that. Let us come up with the goods. > I agree! -paul _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4FDCC6002; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:42:28 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F7672E01; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:42:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BC4B72DF9; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:42:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121025054225.BC4B72DF9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:42:25 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.418 new MA/PhD programme at Tokyo ITASIA X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 418. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:46:20 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Information About Graduate Program (the University of Tokyo ITASIA) In-Reply-To: <059f01cdb1b0$2e5f4b50$8b1de1f0$@iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp> The University of Tokyo's new English-language International Master's/Doctoral Degree Program in "Information, Technology, and Society in Asia" (ITASIA) at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies (GSII) graduated its third generation of students in September. The first recipient of a Ph.D. from our program completed in March 2012. We are looking ahead to building the program as it enters its fifth year. Our program offers a unique opportunity for graduate students to study Asian society, history, international relations, media and cultural studies in Japan. Even students with no previous Japanese-language background are welcome to apply. The program should appeal to students who are looking for opportunities to continue their study of Asia in Japan after graduation. As a faculty member working closely with students of Asia, I hope that you will bring our program to the attention of your students, particularly your graduating seniors. The application deadline is 22 February 2013, but those wishing to be considered for a merit-based scholarship must apply by 7 January 2013. The latest digital brochure has been uploaded on the following website. I appreciate your assistance in making information about this program available to your students and others. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Melissa Terras (29) Subject: Graduate Open Day in Digital Humanities (and more) at UCL [2] From: Andrew Prescott (47) Subject: Manchester Hackathon --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:52:49 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Graduate Open Day in Digital Humanities (and more) at UCL Hi folks, Just to let you know about the graduate open day at UCL: if you are interested in undertaking a taught or research postgraduate qualification in Digital Humanities, do pop along and talk to us then. Thanks! Melissa UCL Graduate Students Open Day Wednesday 21 November 2012 UCL Department of Information Studies (DIS) is a leading centre for research and professional education in librarianship, information science, archives and records management, publishing and the digital humanities. Come along to our Faculty and Departmental Graduate Students Open Day: talk to teaching staff, visit the campus and library, hear from researchers and chat with current students. It takes place on Wednesday 21 November 2012. From 11am in Wilkins South Cloisters, Gower Street, UCL (please register at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ah/grad-open-day/ ) And from 3pm – 7pm in DIS, Foster Court, Ground Floor, UCL (for details see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis ). Students benefit from studying in the UK’s largest information school, at one of the world’s top 10 universities. We offer MA/MSc/Diploma programmes in Digital Humanities; Library and Information Studies; Archives and Records Management; Publishing; Electronic Communication & Publishing and Information Science. Our teaching is built upon an international research reputation: the department hosts three research centres and two research groups: Centre for Publishing, Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH), Centre for Archives and Records Research (ICARUS), Applied Logic Group andKnowledge Organization Group. We welcome research students (MRes, MPhil and PhD) in all these areas. ----------------- 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/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:09:57 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Manchester Hackathon Calling all hackers, coders and creative collaborators – Manchester needs you to shape the future of the digital city. For the first time ever, the City of Manchester invites you to dig underneath its digital skin. FutureEverything, Open Data Manchester and Manchester City Council are looking for experts and innovators to hack, code, programme and experiment with the city’s sets of open data to build new applications and develop future services. Utilising the open data sets from DataGM made available by Manchester City Council and public sector partners, participants are welcome to produce anything they wish - develop applications to help people find their way around, stay safe, discover new experiences and everything and anything in between. All data is released under the Open Government Licence. Taking place at MadLab in the heart of Manchester’s Northern Quarter on Saturday 17th November, the Manchester Hackathon is set to be an intense, productive and exciting collaboration between the brightest minds in software development and data processing. Entries from both teams and individuals are welcome, and there are cash prizes to be won for the best product at the end of the session, including; Grand Prize – £4,600* Best Under 21′s Creation – £600 Best Visualisation – £600 Best Locative Application – £600 Developer’s Prize – £600 Best Solution for an Identified Problem – £600 * £1000 prize & £3,600 development funding The event is completely free to enter and open to all. Register at: http://mcrhackathon.eventbrite.co.uk The prizes will be selected by a panel of independent industry experts, including Dave Carter (MDDA) and Lou Cordwell (magneticNorth). The Hackathon takes place on Saturday 17th November 9am – 7pm, with a warmup and networking session beforehand at MDDA (Lower Ground Floor, 117-119 Portland St, Manchester, M1 6ED) on Friday 16th November 6.30 – 8.30pm The Manchester Hackathon is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community. -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B2AB46069; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:44:48 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8434E6034; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:44:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 971406002; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:44:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121025054446.971406002@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:44:46 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.420 medical history 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. 420. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:19:27 -0400 From: Medical Heritage Library Subject: The Medical Heritage Library Welcomes a New Content Contributor Good morning! The Medical Heritage Library is pleased to announce the addition of over 100 titles relating to medical history from the Brandeis University Libraries. Since 2008, the Brandeis library has digitized more than 1700 books and other out-of-copyright works, in partnership with the Boston Library Consortium and the Open Content Alliance, to make them freely accessible online through the Internet Archive. Brandeis Special Collections texts available on the Internet Archive include a number of books related to the history of medicine, including books from the collection of the now-defunct Samuel Gridley Howe Library at the Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center in Waltham. Topics include eugenics, juvenile delinquency, child labor, and criminal psychology. 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 from a variety of contributors including Duke University, University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Lamar Soutter Library, and the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto. Thank you! -Hanna Clutterbuck ~~~~~~~~~~ Processing Assistant Center for the History of Medicine, 617-432-7393 Project Coordinator, Medical Heritage Library (http://www.medicalheritage.org/) Hanna_Clutterbuck@hms.harvard.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 34FCA2DC8; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:42:26 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 036602D80; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:42:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 677272C59; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:42:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121026054223.677272C59@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:42:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.421 assessments X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 421. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:07:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.417 assessments Andrew Prescott this morning : > How do we get to the point where we regard the digital object as a > cultural touchstone like the book? Ineluctable question, perhaps. A spontaneous reaction. To start with, minimally :  by endowing it with ( something like ) the nature of an *actual* object, hence at least enabling for us the development of a direct affinity ?  By obviating, accordingly, the inevitability of machine mediation ?  Or, failing ( that impossible ? ) obviation, by effectively dissimulating such inevitability as well as, of course, such mediation ? But what if any are our prospects for success, any time soon ?  As far as that goes, Kenny's "one more heave" might actually turn out to be a rather tall order. > It may be that we have underestimated the importance of the > hardware here. May be. But, at the same time, what I keep seeing all around me, at least, looks like a whole lot of relative *over*estimation of the importance of hardware (and of software, for that matter).  And it doesn't seem to me that one has to be even a quasi-Luddite, or to be an exponent of technological "servitude", in order to credit such impressions. Might I add that Rovira's remarks on this question this morning struck me as highly judicious and appropriate ? - Laval Hunsucker   Breukelen, Nederland _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0A3CB2E04; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:44:33 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3AFE2DC0; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:44:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DF5602DC0; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:44:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121026054431.DF5602DC0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:44:31 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.422 out into the world to try their fortune X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 422. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:54:52 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a different way of thinking Thomas Fuller, M.D., begins his preface "To the Reader", in Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British (1732), by imagining, as a parent would of a child, the future of his work: > All of us forget more than we remember, and therefore it hath been my > constant Custom to note down and record whatever I thought of my > self, or receiv'd from Men, or Books worth preserving.... And having > at length collected more than ever any Englishman has before me, I > have ventur'd to send them forth, to try their Fortune among the > People.... > > All that I take upon me here to do, is only to throw together a vast > confus'd heap of unsorted Things, old and new, which you may pick > over and make use of, according to your Judgment and Pleasure.... > > I use the alphabetical Order of the initial Words, not as any help to > the Reader, but to my self, that I might the better avoid > Repetitions, which otherwise would be extreamly difficult to do, in > the writing out of so many thousand Sentences, at different times. The following strikes me: 1. that the folkloric sending out to try its fortune among the people who may chance to read it expresses a far more reasonable act, much more likely to fit what happens, than our seeking after accursed Impact; 2. that the unsorted mass in preference to any sorting he might have done differs interestingly though by not all that much from what we do (I use an OCR'd pdf, but digitizing this we might attempt to fit multiple classifications, perhaps expressing scholarly "added value"); 3. that the loss of enforced serendipity is not an inconsiderable loss. Comments? If you're charmed by Fuller's Gnomologia, it may be found in the Internet Archive, with a pdf from Google Books. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 97ADC2E0D; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:46:00 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CF122D80; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:46:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4D7CF2DC0; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:45:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121026054558.4D7CF2DC0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:45:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.423 a lab space X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 423. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Adam Crymble (83) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.402 a lab space? [2] From: "Dr. Robert Delius Royar PhD" (16) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.402 a lab space? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 10:12:19 +0100 From: Adam Crymble Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.402 a lab space? In-Reply-To: <20121020074955.7646C2DCD@digitalhumanities.org> Re: DH lab space planning: I'd suggest you take a trip to silicon valley and ask for a tour of what Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! offer their staff in terms of spaces. I imagine you'll find lots of flexible spaces where people can meet together and be creative without disturbing others who are trying to get down to business and work, as well as meeting rooms where people who don't have regular desks can come in to speak with and work with others. The more flexible the better. We've all seen universities who invested heavily in individual ethernet ports for each and every desk in a lecture hall. And all of that is now useless. Plan for people. The technology will fit in somewhere. Adam Crymble PhD Student, History & Digital Humanities King's College London acrymbl@uwo.ca On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 402. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:57:42 -0700 > From: Ruth Mostern > Subject: DH lab space planning? > > > Greetings Humanist Colleagues, > > As a DHer (one of only a few at my university), I've been asked to provide > feedback to a committee designing a new academic building that will include > a DH lab. This is at the University of California, Merced, the newest > research university in the US. We opened to students in 2005 and weare on > a > growth trajectory to reach about 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students > by 2020, along with proportional numbers of faculty, librarians, > professional staff, etc. We'll ultimately have several dozen humanities > faculty and several dozen humanities grad students, of whom a percentage > will be engaged in DH activities to some extent. My task is to spec the DH > space -- just the space for now, not furniture or equipment -- for that > community; keeping in mind that I need to think about the potential needs > of > individuals who have not yet been hired, and will therefore need to be > rather generic. > > I'm guessing that we want a fairly sizable shared space -- 1000 sf or so -- > and space for a staff person in or adjacent to it. We'll want a separate > smaller space for printers, and another separate smaller space that could > be > purposed in some fashion down the line for immersive visualization, or for > a > large piece of equipment like an overhead scanner. As a separate matter, > there will be space in the building for individual faculty labs, for people > who need -- and can fund -- space fully under their own control. > > Although I've spent some time in shared DH facilities on other campuses, > I've > never lived with one for the long term, or helped to manage one. So, I am > hoping to get feedback from Humanist members who have used or managed DH > labs that work well (or ones that don't but which have taught useful > lessons). If you could design core campus DH infrastructure from the > ground > up, what would it look like? Please respond to the list or offline with any > advice or suggestions, including photos or blueprints. > > Many thanks in advance! > > Ruth Mostern > > -- > Ruth Mostern > Associate Professor of History and Founding Faculty > World Cultures Graduate Group Chair > School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts > University of California, Merced > > http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/rmostern > rmostern@ucmerced.edu > 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA 95343 > Office: COB 379 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 05:56:43 -0400 From: "Dr. Robert Delius Royar PhD" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.402 a lab space? In-Reply-To: <20121020074955.7646C2DCD@digitalhumanities.org> One idea I would recommend that you consider is to change the term lab to studio. Humanists are used to experimenting in the studio, and the term carries many more positive connotations for those in the traditional humanities than does the term lab. While the scholarship is old, there has been a good deal of research in computers and writing focused on the way to arrange equipment in computer-facilitated/mediated writing studios. Some of that might be useful. I recall, also, that when our university added a GIS facility more than a decade ago, the geographers had scholarship in their field to support the design they chose when IT said it was too difficult to build. [An alternate term for smaller, interconnected facilities is "suite." Here is a link to a peer-tutoring program at the university I attended decades ago. They call it the "Digital Media Suite." I have seen this facility. It is smaller than what you describe, but it is an example of a well-used facility http://reach.louisville.edu/tutoring/computer/dms.html ] -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0209B2E25; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:47:13 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE392DDE; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:47:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F1B652DCF; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:47:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121026054711.F1B652DCF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:47:11 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.424 job at Arizona State X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 424. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:38:34 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: job in digital humanities Arizona State University Tenure-track assistant professorship in digital humanities https://sls.asu.edu/sites/default/files/AV%2010254%20Assistant%20Professor%20Digital%20Humanities%20position%20172902.pdf ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS The Faculty of Languages & Cultures in the School of Letters and Sciences on the Downtown Phoenix campus of Arizona State University seeks a tenure-track assistant professor with a specialty in digital humanities. This tenure track position will assume the following distribution of effort during the tenure probationary period: 40% research and creative activity (significant research in area of specialty), 40% teaching (normal teaching load is four classes per year), and 20% service (appropriate to rank). QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in a humanities field (e.g., English, Philosophy, History, Cultural Studies, Rhetoric, or interdisciplinary humanities) by time of hire; recognized body of scholarship appropriate to rank in digital humanities or related field; college-level teaching experience and mentoring appropriate to rank; a commitment to working in multicultural settings; a commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship and evidence of department, college, community and/or professional service appropriate to rank. DESIRED Experience with online teaching and learning in humanities areas; commitment to developing and sharing knowledge about digital humanities pedagogy; demonstrated commitment to community engagement, place-based inquiry, and use-inspired research consistent with mission of a New American University. APPLICATION DEADLINE Monday, December 3, 2012, if not filled, weekly Monday thereafter until search is closed. APPLICATION PROCEDURE A complete application must include a cover letter outlining relevant qualifications, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, two samples of relevant research-based writing, and three letters of recommendation. Please send these as one electronic file to Kelli Collins (Kelli.M.Collins@asu.edu); indicate the position (Assistant Professor-Digital Humanities, AV #10254) in the subject line. DO NOT send your application letter, vita, names of references, etc., separately. We will not accept incomplete applications. GENERAL INFORMATION Academic year contract, 8/16/13-5/15/14. Salary contingent upon qualifications and assigned teaching load. Background check required prior to employment. ASU is an affirmative action/equal employment opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity. Women and members of underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. Barbara A. Lafford, Ph.D Faculty Head, Languages & Cultures (http://sls.asu.edu/lc/index.html) Writing Program Administrator Professor of Spanish Linguistics Barrett Honors Faculty School of Letters and Sciences (http://sls.asu.edu/) Mail Code 0320 Arizona State University 411 N. Central Ave., Ste 325 Phoenix, AZ 85004-0696 E-mail: blafford@asu.edu Office: UCENT 325 Phone: (602) 496-0623 FAX: (602) 496-0655 *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1351198022_2012-10-25_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_24838.2.pdf _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6ACC42F76; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:47:51 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C7A22E0B; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:47:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BFB182DEF; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:47:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121026054748.BFB182DEF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:47:48 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.425 report on interactive mapping interface X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 425. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:33:03 +0200 From: Loet Leydesdorff Subject: interactive mapping of patents; both geographically and in terms of patent classificaitons Interactive Overlay Maps for US Patent (USPTO) Data http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.6456 based on International Patent Classifications (IPC) We report on the development of an interface to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that allows for the mapping of patent portfolios as overlays to basemaps constructed from citation relations among all patents contained in this database during the period 1976-2011. Both the interface and the data are in the public domain; the freeware program VOSViewer can be used for the visualization. These basemaps and overlays can be generated at both the 3-digit and 4-digit levels of the International Patent Classifications (IPC) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The basemaps provide a stable mental framework for analysts to follow developments over searches for different years, which can be animated. The full flexibility of the advanced search engine of USPTO is available for generating sets of patents which can thus be visualized and compared. This instrument allows for addressing questions about technological distance, diversity in portfolios, and animating the developments of both technologies and technological capacities of organizations over time. Loet Leydesdorff, (a) Duncan Kushnir, (b) & Ismael Rafolsc, (d) _____ Mapping (USPTO) Patent Data using Overlays to Google Maps http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.5712 [JASIST 63(7) (2012) 1442-1458] A technique is developed using patent information available online (at the US Patent and Trademark Office) for the generation of Google Maps. The overlays indicate both the quantity and quality of patents at the city level. This information is relevant for research questions in technology analysis, innovation studies and evolutionary economics, as well as economic geography. The resulting maps can also be relevant for technological innovation policies and R&D management, because the US market can be considered the leading market for patenting and patent competition. In addition to the maps, the routines provide quantitative data about the patents for statistical analysis. The cities on the map are colored according to the results of significance tests. The overlays are explored for the Netherlands as a "national system of innovations," and further elaborated in two cases of emerging technologies: "RNA interference" and "nanotechnology." The routines are available (as freeware) at http://www.leydesdorff.net/patentmaps . Loet Leydesdorff & Lutz Bornmann (e) a Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands; loet@leydesdorff.net; http://www.leydesdorff.net; * corresponding author. b Environmental Systems Analysis, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden; duncan.kushnir@chalmers.se. c SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex, Freeman Centre, Falmer Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9QE, United Kingdom; i.rafols@sussex.ac.uk. d Ingenio (CSIC-UPV), Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain. e Division for Science and Innovation Studies, Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society, Hofgartenstr. 8, D-80539 Munich, Germany; bornmann@gv.mpg.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D44536034; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:48:46 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD3A2F76; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:48:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D3C332E17; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:48:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121026054844.D3C332E17@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:48:44 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.426 events: seminars at King's College London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 426. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:03:10 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: King's College London Seminars DEPARTMENT OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND CENTRE FOR E RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES 2012-2013 All held in the Anatomy Museum, 6th Floor, Strand Building, King's College London at 6.15pm unless otherwise stated. Admission free and all welcome. Refreshments are served after the seminar. 30 October: Martin Foys, Drew University, ‘Digital Incunabula’ (CeRCH seminar) 6 November 2012: Kirk Woolford, University of Sussex and Stuart Dunn, King's College London, ‘Motion data and augmented reality in the physical and virtual worlds’ (CeRCH seminar) 13 November 2012: Orla Murphy, University College Cork, ‘Reading Screens’ 20 November 2012: Tanya Szrajber, British Museum, ‘The British Museum Collection Database: How to Create and Manage over 2,000,000 Records’ (CeRCH seminar) 27 November 2012: Anouk Lang, University of Strathclyde, ‘Between the real and the imaginary: Using digital mapping in literary studies’ 4 December 2012: tbc 11 December 2012: tbc -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 601176069; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:49:44 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 288046065; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:49:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 267372DCF; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:49:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121026054943.267372DCF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:49:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.427 Literary & Linguistic Computing 27.4 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 427. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:17:55 +0000 From: "oxfordjournals-mailer@alerts.stanford.edu" Subject: Lit Linguist Computing Table of Contents for December 2012; Vol.27, No. 4 *********************** Free papers in honour of the International Journal of Lexicography's 25th Anniversary In commemoration of the IJL's 25th volume, 10 articles have been made freely available for the anniversary year. Click below to read these anniversary articles for free! http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4646/12 *********************** Literary and Linguistic Computing Table of Contents Alert Vol 27, December 2012 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol27/issue4/index.dtl?etoc ---------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ---------------------------------------------------------------- Improving record matching in imprecise and uncertain datasets David Croft The secret life of scribes. Exploring fifteen manuscripts of Jacob van Maerlant's Scolastica (1271) Karina van Dalen-Oskam Goldsmith's contributions to the 'Critical Review': a supplement Peter Dixon and David Mannion Experiments in 17th century English: manual versus automatic conceptual history Stephen Pumfrey, Paul Rayson, and John Mariani Who wrote Bacon? Assessing the respective roles of Francis Bacon and his secretaries in the production of his English works Noel B. Reynolds, G. Bruce Schaalje, and John L. Hilton, (deceased) Author discrimination between the Holy Quran and Prophet's statements Halim Sayoud Toward modeling the social edition: An approach to understanding the electronic scholarly edition in the context of new and emerging social media Ray Siemens, Meagan Timney, Cara Leitch, Corina Koolen, Alex Garnett, and with the ETCL, INKE, and PKP Research Groups ---------------------------------------------------------------- Reviews ---------------------------------------------------------------- Linguistic Modeling of Information and Markup Languages, Contributions to Language Technology. Andreas Witt and Dieter Metzing (eds). Piotr Banski Visual Interface Design for Digital Cultural Heritage. A Guide to Rich-Prospect Browsing. Stan Ruecker, Milena Radzikowska, and Stefan Sinclair (eds). Jeremy Boggs Logic of Analog and Digital Machines. Paolo Rocchi. John Bradley The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the future of humanities scholarship. * D. J. Bodenhamer, J. Corrigan and T. M. Harris (eds). Stuart. E. Dunn E-lexicography. The Internet, Digital Initiatives and Lexicography. Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera, Henning Bergenholtz (eds). Hennie van der Vliet Corpus Stylistics in Principles and Practice. A Stylistic Exploration of John Fowles' The Magus. Yufang Ho. Martin Wynne _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CF9D42DEB; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:40:07 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44362DDA; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:40:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 696482DC5; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:40:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121027084006.696482DC5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:40:06 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.428 out into the world X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 428. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (65) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.422 out into the world to try their fortune [2] From: Jascha Kessler (91) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.422 out into the world to try their fortune --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:27:39 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.422 out into the world to try their fortune In-Reply-To: <20121026054431.DF5602DC0@digitalhumanities.org> Willard Can you expand upon the statement tacked on the end of your post? 3. that the loss of enforced serendipity is not an inconsiderable loss. Is it indeed the case that there is a loss of serendipity? Search engine results constantly surprise me with the luck of the draw. Francois > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 422. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:54:52 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: a different way of thinking > > > Thomas Fuller, M.D., begins his preface "To the Reader", in Gnomologia: > Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings, Ancient and > Modern, Foreign and British (1732), by imagining, as a parent would of a > child, the future of his work: > >> All of us forget more than we remember, and therefore it hath been my >> constant Custom to note down and record whatever I thought of my >> self, or receiv'd from Men, or Books worth preserving.... And having >> at length collected more than ever any Englishman has before me, I >> have ventur'd to send them forth, to try their Fortune among the >> People.... >> >> All that I take upon me here to do, is only to throw together a vast >> confus'd heap of unsorted Things, old and new, which you may pick >> over and make use of, according to your Judgment and Pleasure.... >> >> I use the alphabetical Order of the initial Words, not as any help to >> the Reader, but to my self, that I might the better avoid >> Repetitions, which otherwise would be extreamly difficult to do, in >> the writing out of so many thousand Sentences, at different times. > > The following strikes me: > > 1. that the folkloric sending out to try its fortune among the people > who may chance to read it expresses a far more reasonable act, much more > likely to fit what happens, than our seeking after accursed Impact; > > 2. that the unsorted mass in preference to any sorting he might have > done differs interestingly though by not all that much from what we do > (I use an OCR'd pdf, but digitizing this we might attempt to fit > multiple classifications, perhaps expressing scholarly "added value"); > > 3. that the loss of enforced serendipity is not an inconsiderable loss. > > Comments? If you're charmed by Fuller's Gnomologia, it may be found in > the Internet Archive, with a pdf from Google Books. > > 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, 26 Oct 2012 11:22:49 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.422 out into the world to try their fortune In-Reply-To: <20121026054431.DF5602DC0@digitalhumanities.org> Is it not possible to consider that a book is a kind of "machine"? After all, what, speaking paleographically, is the source of our expression: "He who runs may read"? Some thousands, two? three? of years ago, writing went up on a wall, usually on a fixed papyrus sized sheet, in large letters, perhaps heiroglypics? or earlier incised cuneiform into a clay brick the size of a Kindle today? A literate could, even running, not walking or stopping, make out the writing, even as did Daniel ["Mene, mene, Tekel, Upharsin"] The fact that digitized books are now downloadable should not surprise, though I have no pads or kindles, but prefer a large screen...NOT to read a book ever. Hence the new books, as eBooks. The task, perhaps, is to find a way to imitate that hodgepodge of Fuller's library, which itself at least had some alphabetization. So reading an ebook will likely and soon offer that new form of the old book, even with margins to make notes in? and a digital hodgepodge of links, like those alphabetized dust-gatherers, in Fuller's library...and mine too. There may be of course the economics of it all to consider. Still, an editor asked me if remark of mine about Jeremiah was accurate...? I had written a clause in a sentence, but did think to leave my studio for the shelves within where the JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA stands in a heavy rank in a book case shelf. I went in, and fetched the biographical information from a volume, "J" not opened in the past 30 years. That is what is needed, because Wikipedia cannot serve such a need accurately or fully, or well. Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C48AD2DEE; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:42:52 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 867162DE7; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:42:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 724CE2DD5; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:42:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121027084250.724CE2DD5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:42:50 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.429 events: DHSI Colloquium; medieval space; language tech X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 429. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (60) Subject: DHSI 2013 colloquium CFP [2] From: Chris Sparks (26) Subject: Digital Humanities Meeting: Mining Spatial Descriptions in Medieval Charters [3] From: "Lauersdorf, Mark R" (52) Subject: Second Call: Language Technology at KFLC 2013 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 06:53:28 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: DHSI 2013 colloquium CFP Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2012 DHSI Colloquium June 6-10, 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS: Proposals are now being accepted for presentations at the DHSI colloquium for the digital humanities, to be held in June 2013 at the University of Victoria. Open to all DHSI attendees, the colloquium starts on the second day of the institute and takes place during sessions that begin and end each day. Presentations will be informal and may take the form of brief, high-impact demonstrations and presentations (5-10 minutes), as well as more traditional short conference papers (15 minutes). The colloquium welcomes presentations by individuals or teams of two or more presenters. We invite proposals of 200-300 words for these presentations. Successful proposals will focus on specific applications, aspects and/or cases of digital humanities research, as opposed to general issues pertaining to the digital humanities; topics may include, but are not limited to, the scholar’s role in personal and institutional research projects, tool application and development, perspectives on digital humanities implications for the individual’s own research and pedagogy, etc. Potential presenters should be new or emerging scholars (including, but not limited to, graduate students; early career scholars and humanities scholars who are new to the digital humanities; librarians, and those in cultural heritage; altacademics; academic professionals; and those in technical programs). Please submit abstracts via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dhsi2013. Deadline for submissions is January 15, 2013. Submissions will be peer-reviewed and all who have submitted an abstract will be notified by late February 2013. For more information, contact Diane Jakacki diane.jakacki@lmc.gatech.edu, or dhsi2013@easychair.org. ABOUT THE DHSI: The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria provides an ideal environment for discussing and learning about new computing technologies, and how they are influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The Institute takes place across a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. It brings together faculty, staff, and graduate students from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library, and Archives communities. During the DHSI, we share ideas and methods, and develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to our teaching, research, dissemination, and preservation. For more information see www.dhsi.org. REGISTRATION: In recent years, courses have filled up quickly. We encourage applicants interested in attending the DHSI to register early. A number of sponsored tuition scholarships are also available. Registrations and applications for tuition scholarship applications will be accepted beginning in October ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Diane K. Jakacki, Ph.D. Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media and Culture diane.jakacki@lmc.gatech.edu http://dianejakacki.org Twitter: @DianeJakacki "Study as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow." St. Edmund of Abingdon *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1351231321_2012-10-26_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_21272.2.pdf --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:24:59 +0100 From: Chris Sparks Subject: Digital Humanities Meeting: Mining Spatial Descriptions in Medieval Charters You are warmly invited to the next London Digital Humanities Group meeting: *11th December, 2012* *5.15pm, Jessel Room, Senate House**, London* *ChartEx: mining spatial descriptions in medieval charters.* www.chartex.org http://www.chartex.org/ The ChartEx consortium is an innovative partnership between historians, archivists, and experts in computer science and artificial intelligence from Canada, the Netherlands, the UK and the US. It is funded by the Digging into Data Challenge http://diggingintodata.org/ , 2012-13. The ChartEx Project is developing new ways of exploring the full text content of digital historical records. In particular it is exploring the descriptions of parcels of property found in medieval charters and their associations with three key entities (people, places and events). The new ChartEx tools will use a combination of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Data Mining to extract information about places, people and events from the charters automatically and find new relationships between them. The project will then build an interactive "virtual workbench" that will allow historians, archivists and others interested in charters to explore the information extracted and add further information and comments. The seminar will present progress to date and invite further discussion. Participants in the Seminar will include historian Sarah Rees Jones (York), computational linguist Roger Evans (Brighton), and Helen Petrie, Professor of Human Computer Interaction (York). All are welcome. To confirm your attendance, please complete the form at: http://goo.gl/lMOZj --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:14:33 +0000 From: "Lauersdorf, Mark R" Subject: Second Call: Language Technology at KFLC 2013 Dear colleagues, This is the *Second Call* for submission of abstracts to the Language Technology sessions at KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference. Many thanks to those who have already responded and who have shared this information with their colleagues and constituents. Please note (and relay to your colleagues) that the deadline for submission of abstracts is fast approaching: **15 November 2012** For your convenience, I have included below my original message with the full Call for Abstracts. If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me. I look forward to hearing from you and your colleagues. Mark ----- original message and Call for Abstracts ----- Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to submit an abstract for participation in the 8th annual Language Technology sessions at KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference. The KFLC is an international, multidisciplinary academic conference with a 66-year history of bringing together top researchers in language, literature, culture, and linguistics in the fields of Arabic, East Asian, French and Francophone, German-Austrian-Swiss, Hispanic, Luso-Afro-Brazilian, and Neo-Latin Studies, as well as Language Technology, Translation and Cultural Studies, and Second Language Acquisition. The KFLC offers broad exposure for your work, gathering over 750 scholars in these disciplines from around the world. The Language Technology division ("LangTech at the KFLC") was inaugurated at KFLC 2006. In bringing a technology track to a high-level international academic conference with a strong literary-cultural tradition and orientation, we provide a forum for both academics and technologists to engage in a discussion of technological innovation in the teaching and research of world literatures and cultures (in addition to the more customary discussions of technology in language instruction). Indeed, "LangTech at the KFLC" seeks to encourage cross-pollination of ideas across languages and literary-cultural interests, encouraging participants from all KFLC literature, culture, and linguistics divisions to join in discussions on integrating technology into their teaching and research programs. I have included below the official Call for Papers for this year's LangTech at the KFLC 2013. I hope that you will consider bringing your work in Language Technology to Lexington to showcase for us, and that you will share this call broadly with your colleagues. I look forward to hearing from you and hope to see you here in the spring. Best regards, Mark Lauersdorf ----- CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - LANGTECH AT THE KFLC - 18-20 April 2013 ----- LangTech at the KFLC is 8 years old this year! At the intersection between technology and literary, cultural, language, and linguistic teaching and research, we welcome submissions on any aspect of: *** Technology for Literature & Culture, Language & Linguistics *** This includes, but is certainly not limited to: - integrating technology into literature, culture, and linguistics curricula and classrooms. - faculty research in literature, culture, and linguistics employing technology ("digital humanities"). - technology for student projects and research in literature, culture, and linguistics. Abstracts are, of course, also welcome in all other areas and aspects of technology and language, such as: - using tech tools and techniques for language instruction in all skills and on all levels. - mentoring language educators in optimal use of technology in their teaching and research. - employing technology-based research publication in language scholarship. - managing language technology in an academic setting. The KFLC is an international academic conference that brings together top researchers in language, literature, culture, and linguistics in the fields of Arabic, East Asian, French and Francophone, German-Austrian-Swiss, Hispanic, Luso-Afro-Brazilian, and Neo-Latin Studies, as well as Translation and Cultural Studies, and Second Language Acquisition. We would like to see this broad range represented in the Language Technology sessions, to encourage cross-pollination of ideas across the languages and disciplines and to encourage participants from the literature, culture, and linguistics sessions to join us in our discussions on integrating technology into teaching and research. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words in length and should be submitted directly online at: ** http://kflc.as.uky.edu/ ** In view of the multi-language audience that we hope to attract to all Language Technology sessions, the recommended language of presentation is English. Presentation sessions are 30 minutes in length (including a 5-10 minute question and answer period). ** Deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 November 2012. ** All proposed abstracts will be considered for inclusion in the KFLC program. Acceptance of a paper implies a commitment on the part of the participant(s) to register and attend the conference. All presenters must pay the appropriate registration fee by 15 February 2013 to be included in the program. The conference will take place 18-20 April 2013 on the campus of the University of Kentucky in Lexington. For more information on conference logistics, please visit: http://web.as.uky.edu/kflc/. For specific information on the Language Technology sessions, contact the division director at the coordinates listed below. If you’ve been with us before, come join us again for Year 8! If you’ve never been, make this the year to come to beautiful springtime Kentucky for "LangTech at the KFLC"! Mark Lauersdorf ----------------------------------- Dr. Mark Richard Lauersdorf. KFLC -- Language Technology division director. Associate Professor of Languages and Linguistics. Director, Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities. 1055 Patterson Office Tower. University of Kentucky . Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0027, USA. phone: ++ 859.257.7101. fax: ++ 859.257.3743. e-mail: lauersdorf@uky.edu http://www.rch.uky.edu/ http://linguistics.as.uky.edu/users/mrlaue2/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 45A562DF9; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:44:01 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D6A32DDE; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:44:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 34EBC2DDE; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:44:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121027084400.34EBC2DDE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:44:00 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.430 programmes: MA at Alberta; funded PhD at Illinois X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 430. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Scott Smallwood (24) Subject: MA in Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta [2] From: "J. Stephen Downie" (62) Subject: Funded PhD Opportunities with the HathiTrust Research Center at the University of Illinois --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:31:49 -0600 From: Scott Smallwood Subject: MA in Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1351284721_2012-10-26_scott.smallwood@ualberta.ca_7689.1.1.html http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1351284721_2012-10-26_scott.smallwood@ualberta.ca_7689.1.2.pdf Dear Colleagues, Please forward this to any interested parties, and apologies in advance of cross-posting: -- MA in Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta In today's knowledge economy, people who can combine technological know-how with critical thinking and communication skills are vital to any organization's success. With an emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and project-oriented coursework, the University of Alberta offers an MA degree in Humanities Computing, with the possibility of specializing in a variety of specific disciplines in the humanities, fine arts, and social sciences. We encourage students to explore creative and unique research projects within the context of sophisticated uses of technology, utilizing new computing paradigms for analysis and compilation of research data, while questioning basic tenants of traditional modes of research through technological inquiry and culture. The faculty in Humanities Computing come from diverse backgrounds and maintain teaching and research profiles in a variety of areas, including gaming, digital mapping, digital text analysis and visualization, human-computer interfacing, sound installation, and interactive media. Course offerings in recent years have included project management, database and xml programming, multimedia, digital mapping, and microprocessor programming. All students, regardless of background, receive experiences using databases and high-level programming environments, as well as working collaboratively in teams on real-world projects. Located in the vibrant city of Edmonton, Alberta, the Humanities Computing program has built strong connections with the local community through projects such as the Intensity Challenge, a week-long intensive in which students work in teams to take a project from an idea to a completed project, often for local clients. Other community-oriented projects include the Edmonton chapter of Dorkbot, a community-based forum for presenting interactive art projects to the public, and a recent digital mapping project with the Edmonton Public Library. For more information about our program, please visit our website at http://ois.ualberta.ca/HumanitiesComputing [ - ] - [ - ] - [ - ] - [ - ] - [ - ] - [ - ] - [ - ] - [ - ] - [ - ] S c o t t S m a l l w o o d composer, sound artist faculty of arts, u of alberta scott.smallwood@ualberta.ca http://www.scott-smallwood.com http://www.ecnedive.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:21:44 -0500 From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: Funded PhD Opportunities with the HathiTrust Research Center at the University of Illinois Funded PhD Opportunities with the HathiTrust Research Center at the University of Illinois The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) and the Illinois Informatics Institute (I3) at the University of Illinois are actively recruiting outstanding doctoral candidates interested in research assistantships with the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) to develop the HTRC infrastructure, create mechanisms for outreach and engagement with scholarly communities, and cross-pollinate ideas among HTRC stakeholders . The HTRC is the research arm of the HathiTrust (http://www.hathitrust.org). The HTRC represents a unique collaboration between the University of Illinois and Indiana University. The center conducts research addressing the technical challenges associated with the analysis of massive amounts of digitized text. HTRC faculty and students develop cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge. The Office of the Provost of the University of Illinois has generously provided support for two doctoral students with up to 4 years of funding, including tuition waivers, stipends, and benefits. Successful candidates will work closely with leading faculty in a cooperative and highly interdisciplinary environment. We are particularly interested in students with research interests in: information organization and access, cultural informatics, digital humanities, data curation, data modeling, metadata, machine learning, data mining, and socio-technical data analytics. The Graduate School of Library and information Science supports a broad range of interdisciplinary research in areas such as youth services, user services and outreach, information history and policy, social and community informatics, and information organization. For more information about the GSLIS PhD program, please visit: http://www.lis.illinois.edu/academics/programs/phd or contact program staff directly at . Research and education in the Informatics PhD program has a strong interdisciplinary flavor involving experts in information and computation foundations together with experts in a wide range of application areas. It supports interdisciplinary research and promotes the creation of new fields of research enabled by the development and application of new technologies. For more information about the Illinois Informatics PhD program, please visit: https://rhino.ncsa.illinois.edu/display/infophd/Home or contact program staff directly at . For more information about the HathiTrust Research Center, please visit: http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc or contact J.Stephen Downie, Co-Director of HTRC, at . The application process is competitive. Research assistantships will be assigned to the most qualified applicants only after admission to the PhD program. Students from historically and statistically underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply. Deadline for PhD applications to both programs is December 15, 2012 for Fall 2013 enrollment. -- ********************************************************** "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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 261092DEB; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:20:26 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E87E12DDA; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:20:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E979E2DD9; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:20:23 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121028082023.E979E2DD9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:20:23 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.431 public good vs personal data protection? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 431. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:49:47 +0200 From: Miran arnes Subject: Public good vs. personal data protection Dear colleagues, I am quite upset about the recent legal decisions in Slovenia to disable the name search in the national text corpora (e. g. http://bos.zrc-sazu.si/a_beseda.html), referring to the personal data protection law. The institutions that host databases followed the scribal interpretation of the law and prevented the user to find any combination of the first and the last name in the database. As it is impossible to separate dead from alive, and exclude public personalities and fictional characters, the user is handicapped when trying to get concordances concerning literary heroes, authors of fictional works, or any other Slovene person. The same governmental institution stopped Google streetview in Slovene towns and consistently and vigorously exercies the Nineteen-Eighty-Four-like control of all possible internet locations that (on purpose or accidentally) reveal personal data, thus privileging private concerns over public good and destroying established social services. The academic community protested on Internet forums, recalling to the common sense, the directors of the institutions where the databases are hosted had meetings with the responsible governmental office--with no positive effect. I understand the reinforcement of legal decisions mentioned as an attack on the information society. Do you happen to know of any similar narrowminded occurences and--if you do--how do you suggest to react to them? -- Miran _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B8BD02E04; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:20:52 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 927782DFC; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:20:52 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 549482DF0; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:20:51 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121028082051.549482DF0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:20:51 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.432 cutting of European science budgets X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 432. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:48:08 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: European Science Budgets Dear colleagues, The discussions at the next summit of the European Union heads of state or government, which is scheduled for 22 and 23 November, will be decisive in determining the EU research budget for the next seven years. Several Member States are demanding severe cuts on the total EU budget and research will have to compete with other policy priorities. This is a time when we, the scientific community, should act together and make our case to protect research funding, including that of the European Research Council (ERC), from cuts. Decisions will be prepared in discussions among politicians at the national level. All of us must look for opportunities to affect these decisions and send a strong signal to the heads of state or government. An open letter signed by European Nobel laureates has been published in top European newspapers this week. The impact of this letter will be increased if it is followed by a mobilization of the national scientific communities. To keep the momentum going, an online petition has been launched: http://www.no-cuts-on-**research.eu/ http://www.no-cuts-on-research.eu/ I would like to ask you to sign it and to encourage all your colleagues to do likewise. Note that in the past, less than 30 000 scientists signed the largest petition for a European scientific cause compared to the hundreds of thousands of signatures on petitions from other groups of society. We must do better than that. This action is coordinated by the Initiative for Science in Europe ( ise@i-se.org>; http://www.initiative-science-**europe.org/ http://www.initiative-science-europe.org/ http://www.**initiative-science-europe.org/), of which EMBO is a member. Please contact Wolfgang Eppenschwandtner, Executive Coordinator of the ISE if you have any questions or suggestions. Best regards, Maria Leptin Director EMBO - excellence in life sciences Meyerhofstr. 1 69117 Heidelberg, Germany tel +49-6221-8891-102 fax +49-6221-8891-202 -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A7BF22DEF; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:19:40 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C5952DDC; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:19:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 048C22DD9; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:19:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121029081939.048C22DD9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:19:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.433 public good vs personal data protection X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 433. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:12:24 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.431 public good vs personal data protection? In-Reply-To: <20121028082023.E979E2DD9@digitalhumanities.org> As a complete amateur, my caveat, may I reply to Miran's: " As it is impossible to separate dead from alive, and exclude public personalities and fictional characters, the user is handicapped when trying to get concordances concerning literary heroes, authors of fictional works, or any other Slovene person." Why should there not be some Google-ish algorithm available or created to separate the names of the living from the dead. The dead are quite another category of the "public good," [defined my what authority? O'Brien's?] and the names of published authors at least are not to be kept privy from scholarship or sociology or medical, etc. research. Both public and private realms ought to be amenable to a proper search engine, since everything digitized is immanently public, not private...? Jascha Kessler On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > As it is impossible to separate > dead from alive, and exclude public personalities and fictional characters, > the user is handicapped when trying to get concordances concerning literary > heroes, authors of fictional works, or any other Slovene person. > -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 500262DF9; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:57:30 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20A742DEB; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:57:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 13A622DDE; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:57:27 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20121030065728.13A622DDE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:57:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.434 public good vs personal data protection 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. 434. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:46:58 +0000 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.431 public good vs personal data protection? In-Reply-To: <20121028082023.E979E2DD9@digitalhumanities.org> Looking at the corpus in question, one is able to limit the search to different sub-corpora. So it seems to me that a possible partial solution might be to have the law applied to individual sub-corpora instead of to the corpus as a whole. First name / last name searches could then be enabled with regard to the Fiction sub-corpus at least, and probably also to at least some of the others. This would not be a full solution, and would be of no help to someone who wanted to search for concordances of fictional, public, or otherwise non-living people in sub-corpora that include mentions of real, living, private citizens. That is certainly very annoying, although - with hindsight - it looks as if the problem could have been avoided by anonymising references to non-public living persons in the corpus itself, at the time when it was put together. I believe that my employing institution's ethics policy would have required that, for example. Sympathies! Daniel On 28 Oct 2012, at 08:20, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:49:47 +0200 > From: Miran arnes > Subject: Public good vs. personal data protection > > > Dear colleagues, > > I am quite upset about the recent legal decisions in Slovenia to disable the > name search in the national text corpora (e. g. > http://bos.zrc-sazu.si/a_beseda.html), referring to the personal data > protection law. The institutions that host databases followed the scribal > interpretation of the law and prevented the user to find any combination of > the first and the last name in the database. As it is impossible to separate > dead from alive, and exclude public personalities and fictional characters, > the user is handicapped when trying to get concordances concerning literary > heroes, authors of fictional works, or any other Slovene person. > > ... > > -- Miran > -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BDD0C2E10; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:00:15 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C2702E03; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:00:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E69372E04; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:00:12 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121030070012.E69372E04@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:00:12 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.435 what is in (or made to be in) a name X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 435. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:22:35 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: what is in (or made to be in) a name Essays in David M. Berry's very interesting edited collection, Understanding Digital Humanities (Palgrave 2012), are hardly alone in deploying the term "digital humanities" as if (to use Berry's quotation from Katherine Hayles' contribution) the term had been "meant to signal that the field had emerged from the low-prestige status of a support service into a genuinely intellectual endeavour with its own professional practices, rigorous standards, and exciting theoretical expectations" (3). That such an emergence has been underway during the last 8-10 years (since the publication of the Blackwell's Companion, for which "digital humanities" was adoped) is, I think, generally agreed. The problem is that a simple equation of a change in name, whatever the intention, to a change in character badly muddies the historical waters and in effect severs what we do now, and the predicaments we have now, from the formative period of the field. That is a thoughtless tossing out of a very valuable inheritance. Matt Kirschenbaum, in "What is Digital Humanities and What's It Doing in English Departments?" (http://mkirschenbaum.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/kirschenbaum_ade150.pdf, pp. 2-3) quotes our colleague John Unsworth on the origins of the term: > The real origin of that term [digital humanities] was in conversation > with Andrew McNeillie, the original acquiring editor for the Blackwell > Companion to Digital Humanities. We started talking with him about that > book project in 2001, in April, and by the end of November we’d lined up > contributors and were discussing the title, for the contract. Ray > [Siemens] wanted “a Companion to Humanities Computing” as that was the > term commonly used at that point; the editorial and marketing folks at > Blackwell wanted “Companion to Digitized Humanities.” I suggested > “Companion to Digital Humanities” to shift the emphasis away from > simple digitization. My own decision to entitle a book Humanities Computing (Palgrave 2005) was based on a love of the oxymoronic collision of "humanities" with "computing" and a conviction that I still hold, in opposition e.g. to Brian Cantwell Smith, that the difference thus marked is essential, not an accident of history we now no longer need suffer from. Indeed, I'm working on a book which takes that difference to a new level, or so I hope. My decision was in one respect unfortunate, however, since now, with a truncated view of our history in wide circulation, potential readers are likely to assume that my book is old hat. It *is* showing signs of age, as one would expect, but the essential difference I've noted isn't one of them. The same holds true of other constructions of this history, such as Schnapp's and Presner's "waves" or Berry's "layers". Schnapp and Presner, in the Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0, posit a first wave in the late 1990s and early 2000s, as if what happened prior to that isn't worth mentioning. Someone taking an historical view is perfectly justified in saying what he or she thinks was tending to happen, as Schnapp and Presner do, but all too often "tend", even if accurate (which remains to be shown), covers up highly significant developments with the actions of a numerical majority. Furthermore by naming the Manifesto according to the convention by which versions of software are designated, history is conceptualised as if it progressed in the manner of our technologies. No wonder, as Ryan Cordell has said in his recent call for Petcha Kutcha contributions to a roundtable at the Northeast MLA for 2013, we're in effect still being ignored by the mainstream. What real historian would credit this? The big problem, as I said, is the anti-historical, triumphalist progressivism that we seem apt to fall into by cutting off rather than recovering and seeking to understand the incunabular period of our field, from its beginnings to the onset of the Web. The going was at times rough then, but it is our history. This history, when one bothers to look into it, in fact reveals "a genuinely intellectual endeavour with its own professional practices... and exciting theoretical expectations" -- way back in the mid 1960s. It uncovers much signalling of real change by those few who understood that more than relief from drudgery was in the offing. This is signalling that is actually attested in the historical record rather than dreamed up. I think it's time we took the humanities seriously. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2E3032E17; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:01:14 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D321C2E18; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:01:13 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7639B2E04; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:01:05 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121030070105.7639B2E04@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:01:05 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.436 job at Penn State X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 436. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:37:02 -0400 From: Patricia Hswe Subject: Job opening: Digital Humanities Design Consultant Reposting this job description since the review start date of Nov. 5 is approaching . . . ========= Dear Colleagues, The Penn State Libraries invite applicants and nominations for a Digital Humanities Design Consultant: "The Pennsylvania State University Libraries are currently seeking a Digital Humanities Design Consultant who is a creative researcher interested in exploring an 'alternative academic' career and in expanding the modes of humanistic research through emerging and existing technologies. The person in this position will be a critical part of initiating services and programs in support of the digital humanities at Penn State, and will work as an intellectual partner with faculty, students and staff in the College of the Liberal Arts. The successful candidate will be able to work effectively between the boundaries of various humanities disciplines to help Penn State develop its digital humanities research programs. He or she will collaborate effectively and translate ideas and concepts between diverse audiences to enable the creation of new knowledge and will have fluency with a variety of technologies and direct experience in bringing technology to bear on research and teaching." This is a fixed-term (multi-year), non-tenure-track appointment based in the newly formed Publishing and Curation Services department and funded by both the Libraries and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. It includes support for professional development activities. The complete job description is posted here: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/jobs/facjobs/dhdc.html. For more context on Publishing and Curation Services at the Penn State Libraries, please see this recent blog post by Mike Furlough, Associate Dean for Research and Scholarly Communications: http://stewardship.psu.edu/2012/09/publishing-and-curation-services----making-it-work.html Review of applications will begin on November 5, 2012, and proceed until the position is filled. All best, Patricia -- Patricia Hswe Digital Content Strategist | Head, ScholarSphereUser Services Publishing and Curation Services Division of Research and Scholarly Communications 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B9DB02E02; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:28:05 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DF0F2DFD; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:28:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E323F2D8F; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:28:03 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121031062803.E323F2D8F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:28:03 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.437 out into the world to try its fortunes X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 437. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 07:46:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.422 out into the world to try their fortune In-Reply-To: <20121026054431.DF5602DC0@digitalhumanities.org> > that the folkloric sending out to try its fortune among the people > who may chance to read it expresses a far more reasonable act, much > more likely to fit what happens, than our seeking after accursed > Impact; > [ . . . ] > Comments? Willard, Apparently you here mean not genuine impact ( effect, result, influence ) -- even of the sort of which those in the "performance measurement" world speak -- but rather what is pervertedly and pretentiously and flat-out incorrectly and misleadingly termed "impact", all too often, in so-called bibliometric/scientometric circles and by those sheepish habitués who have been infected by such charlatanism. In which case, who could really disagree with you ? - Laval Hunsucker   Antwerpen, België ----- Original Message ----- > From: Humanist Discussion Group > To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > Cc: > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 7:44 AM > Subject: [Humanist] 26.422 out into the world to try their fortune > > >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 422. >             Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                 Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >         Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:54:52 +0100 >         From: Willard McCarty >         Subject: a different way of thinking > > > Thomas Fuller, M.D., begins his preface "To the Reader", in > Gnomologia: > Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings, Ancient and > Modern, Foreign and British (1732), by imagining, as a parent would of a > child, the future of his work: > >> All of us forget more than we remember, and therefore it hath been my >> constant Custom to note down and record whatever I thought of my >> self, or receiv'd from Men, or Books worth preserving.... And having >> at length collected more than ever any Englishman has before me, I >> have ventur'd to send them forth, to try their Fortune among the >> People.... >> >> All that I take upon me here to do, is only to throw together a vast >> confus'd heap of unsorted Things, old and new, which you may pick >> over and make use of, according to your Judgment and Pleasure.... >> >> I use the alphabetical Order of the initial Words, not as any help to >> the Reader, but to my self, that I might the better avoid >> Repetitions, which otherwise would be extreamly difficult to do, in >> the writing out of so many thousand Sentences, at different times. > > The following strikes me: > > 1. that the folkloric sending out to try its fortune among the people > who may chance to read it expresses a far more reasonable act, much more > likely to fit what happens, than our seeking after accursed Impact; > > 2. that the unsorted mass in preference to any sorting he might have > done differs interestingly though by not all that much from what we do > (I use an OCR'd pdf, but digitizing this we might attempt to fit > multiple classifications, perhaps expressing scholarly "added value"); > > 3. that the loss of enforced serendipity is not an inconsiderable loss. > > Comments? If you're charmed by Fuller's Gnomologia, it may be found in > the Internet Archive, with a pdf from Google Books. > > 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 650562E09; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:29:25 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 380BA2E00; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:29:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DC9DD2DFD; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:29:23 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121031062923.DC9DD2DFD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:29:23 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.438 laboratory into the world X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 438. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:13:26 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: extending the laboratory into the world In her article, "Desired machines: Cinema and the world in its own image", Science in Context 24.3 (2011): 329-59, Jimena Canales studies the history of scientific research into the production of moving images, which, she argues, suffered a decisive break when recording camera and projecting camera became separate devices. Toward the end of the article, she writes: > For non-scientists the essence of cinema was increasingly defined in > terms of its emancipation from the laboratory – a step which occurred > along with the adoption and mass production of filmstrips > (Banet-Rivet, 1 August 1907; Trutat 1899b). The development of the > cinematographic industry was part of a modern trend that extended > laboratory methods to the outside world through new industrialized > and standardized production methods. Eugène Trutat, honorary > president of the Société photographique and director of the Muséum > d’Histoire naturelle at Toulouse, noticed how “from the laboratory of > men of science the modern discovery goes to the factory” (Trutat > 1899a).... In the case of cinema continuity from lab to mass-market was broken. But is not Trutat's observation true of computing in a non-trivial sense? 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5D7A92E05; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:35:38 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DFA02DF1; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:35:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1E2772DEE; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:35:36 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121031063536.1E2772DEE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:35:36 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.439 intemperance and outcry, but against what? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 439. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:11:33 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: intemperance and outcry The season for intemperate remarks seems to be upon us. First, upon me: I see from reading further that (in reference to the coining of "digital humanities") the historical record, as I rather pretentiously called it, *does* have specific people wanting to distance themselves from computing support services, with which "humanities computing" was thought to be too closely associated. Katherine Hayles documents this in her contribution to Understanding Digital Humanities, ed. David M. Barry, p. 43. Apologies where needed -- but no retraction of the argument against anti-historical constructs. Second, upon Stephen Marche, in "Literature is not Data: Against Digital Humanities", Los Angeles Review of Books, 28 October, http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=1040&fulltext=1&media=. I won't comment directly on what Marche says, though I do hope someone else does. What interests me particularly is the fact of his saying what he says. Getting such opposition means a nerve has been touched, an anxiety stirred up, a fear evoked -- which to me signifies that something rather important is happening. For the historian of the present of the digital humanities, the article constitutes highly valuable evidence. *Of course*, as he says in the last sentence of his article, "Insight remains handmade", i.e. as one might say, there is no text unless a human reads it, and when he or she does, no one (self-identical) text. The question is, why would anyone feel so strongly driven to insist on the presence of the human reader/ interpreter? What is being threatened? 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 15C8A2E0D; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:37:20 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA1812E00; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:37:19 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D5C832DFF; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:37:18 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121031063718.D5C832DFF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:37:18 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.440 job at Stanford; Google research awards X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 440. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Kenneth Romeo" (114) Subject: Job at Stanford University: Academic Technology Specialist for the English Department [2] From: Arianna Ciula (32) Subject: Google Faculty Research Awards in Computer Science, Engineering, and related fields --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:55:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kenneth Romeo" Subject: Job at Stanford University: Academic Technology Specialist for the English Department Apply at: http://stanfordcareers.stanford.edu/ Search for: Job # 50014 Description Stanford's Academic Technology Specialists (ATSs) collaborate with faculty and staff in departments or programs to provide leadership in the uses of information technology for education and research. The ATS Program's mission is to be innovative and creative in making technology accessible, understandable, and appealing to an academic audience; and to offer the resources to identify and integrate technological solutions to best meet pedagogical and research needs. The ATS Program is part of Academic Computing Services (ACS), a division of Stanford Libraries. ACS operates and supports multiple technology-rich education and multimedia services on campus, including CourseWork, Stanford's primary learning management system. The ATS for the Department of English will initially focus on implementing online courses featuring multiple faculty members and covering the history of English and American literature. The first goal will be to transform the Department's new Core Curriculum by moving much of its lecture-content to an interactive online platform. The Department's ultimate goal is to make Stanford English an intellectual hub for online reference tools and courses in English and American literature. Overall, the aim is for online technologies to enhance the learning experience of Stanford students while increasing the global visibility of Stanford in the humanities. In addition to developing and supporting the Department of English's online education efforts, the ATS will assist literature faculty more generally with the integration of technology into their teaching and research activities. The incumbent will report to a Manager in the ATS Program and will be located in Margaret Jacks Hall; in partnership with ACS, his/her work for the English Department will be directed by the Department Chair. In addition to working with faculty and graduate students associated with the English department, the ATS will devote twenty percent of his/her time in service to the ATS Program in its technology innovation and leadership role within ACS and Stanford Libraries. Responsibilities (ATS, Department of English): . Provide technical and pedagogical leadership in designing the course platform, finding solutions for lecture capture and video production, and structuring interactive web-assisted tools and activities; provide overall coordination and management of the online course experience. . Design and develop solutions to the difficult problem of online assessment of writing and other assignments featuring literary and critical analysis. . Collaborate with colleagues from the Vice Provost of Online Learning (VPOL) and the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) to explore and develop appropriate platforms and production services. Serve as liaison to VPOL and CTL and consult on best practices for online pedagogies and delivery of humanities courses. Partner with VPOL and CTL to sync course offerings with broader developments in online education at Stanford. . Coordinate academic learning technology policies, procedures, and support. . Provide consulting to faculty and colleagues when technical depth in humanities instructional resources is needed. Initiate ideas, implement solutions, and find resources for use in teaching and course development. . Assess training needs for faculty, graduate students, and teaching assistants; develop and deliver workshops, supporting documentation, and appropriate tools. . Recommend commercially available software, providing consulting support to develop individual applications, or work with on- or off-campus resources to develop or adapt applications. Guide faculty to appropriate online resources and assist them in making their own online scholarly contributions. . Develop relationships with service providers throughout the University to advocate needs and obtain resources for English Department faculty and students. . Consult with faculty in the use of technologically enhanced classrooms and in designing courses and activities to fully utilize the rooms' features. . Review professional literature; network with colleagues within and outside the University; participate in conferences, newsgroups and other forums to continually improve knowledge of academic technology and humanities instruction. Qualifications The ideal candidate will have a record of innovation and creativity in making technology accessible, understandable, and appealing to an academic audience (both in the classroom and online), and demonstrated leadership and resourcefulness in identifying and integrating technological solutions to pedagogical needs. Specific requirements: . An advanced degree in the humanities, with a focus on literature , plus at least five years' experience in academic computing - or the equivalent combination of education and experience . A doctoral degree in the humanities or education is desirable. . An interest in literature and the desire to enhance the understanding and experience of the subject for students at Stanford and, potentially, a broader public. Demonstrated ability to express course material and pedagogic goals through the imaginative application of technology to existing materials and structures. . Excellent teaching, communication, and interpersonal skills. Ability to interact effectively and tactfully with members of the academic community; experience working in an environment where colleagues have diverse backgrounds and interests. . The necessary skills to plan, formulate, and manage online courses so that they are rewarding experiences for students and teachers alike. . Demonstrated expertise in both humanities course content pedagogy and online delivery technologies, so as to be able to serve as a creative liaison between faculty and engineers or representatives of different online platforms. . Experience with scripting (Ruby, Php, Python) and relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, PostGreSQL); experience delivering applications and providing computing resources in a networked environment; experience with object oriented programming (Java) desirable, . Excellent time management and project management skills. Demonstrated ability to manage a complex workload, prioritize tasks, and use good judgment in providing services based on goals. . Expert knowledge of Macintosh and Windows environments, and facility with Unix. . Experience developing web sites using graphics, audio, and video resources. Experience working with content management systems. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:52:53 +0800 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: Google Faculty Research Awards in Computer Science, Engineering, and related fields This could be of interest to some Humanist readers: The deadline for the next round of Research Awards is April 15, 2013. A link to the application form will be provided by April 1; see http://research.google.com/university/relations/research_awards.html for more information Google Research Awards are one-year awards structured as unrestricted gifts to universities to support the work of world-class full-time faculty members at top universities around the world. The intent of the Google Research Awards is to support cutting-edge research in Computer Science, Engineering, and related fields. Applicants are asked to categorize their proposals into one of the following broad research areas of interest to Google: Economics and market algorithms Geo/maps Human-computer interaction Information retrieval, extraction, and organization Machine learning and data mining Machine perception Machine translation Mobile Natural language processing Networking Policy and standards Privacy Security Social networks Software engineering Speech Structured data and database management Systems (hardware and software) Best, Arianna _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DC03C2E1B; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:38:08 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76A052E14; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:38:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 74C8B2E00; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:38:06 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121031063806.74C8B2E00@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:38:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.441 event: digital curriculum X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 441. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:00:25 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Registration open for Framing the Digital Curation Curriculum workshop Registration has opened for a Framing the Digital Curation Curriculum: A DigCurV workshop, a free one-day event which forms part of the ongoing work to design a Curriculum Framework in digital curation. The workshop will be held in Florence on 10th December 2012. DigCurV presents this one-day free workshop which will take place on the periphery of the Online Heritage conference which is also taking place in Florence in December 2012. The workshop will inform the development of a Curriculum Framework for Digital Curation. Working within three key areas, we discuss the design of the curriculum from the perspective of the Executive, the Practitioner and the Manager. The workshop will feature high profile expert guest speakers from the field of digital curation, as well as the opportunity to provide feedback on the development of the Curriculum Framework. DigCurV brings together a network of partners to address the availability of vocational training for digital curators in the library, archive, museum and cultural heritage sectors needed to develop new skills that are essential for the long-term management of digital collections. Professionals, practitioners and executives working in the field of digital curation are encouraged to participate in this workshop. • How do we self-evaluate our skills and knowledge as digital curators to keep current in our field? • What training is required for those working in digital curation at the Practitioner, Manager and Executive levels? • What challenges are there in designing digital curation training? To discuss these issues, join us for this workshop! Spaces are limited so be sure to register soon. To register visit http://digcurvdec2012.eventbrite.com/ To find out more about the event, visit http://www.digcur-education.org/eng/Events/Framing-the-Digital-Curation-Curriculum-a-DigCurV-Workshop _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7A8A62E25; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:34:38 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C9BB2E22; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:34:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0C8B42E10; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:34:36 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121101083437.0C8B42E10@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:34:36 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.442 public good vs personal data protection X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 442. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:26:28 +0100 From: Miran gmail Subject: Re: 26.433 public good vs personal data protection Thanks to Jascha Kessler, Daniel and some personal replies re: 26.433 public good vs personal data protection. I find Daniel's idea to exclude fictional texts from privacy protection law as well as the idea to exclude the collected fictional names very useful. However, the majority of texts in the corpus don't belong to fiction. Yes, it is possible to collect names of authors from the national bibliography and names of prominent public people from encyclopedia entries, and exclude them from anonymising, but it doesn't help as there are always some living people who don't publish, sharing the same name with a historical celebrity or author, and the *potential violation* of *their* privacy is the major concern of the office in question, no matter how imaginary it is, as people mostly (with the exception of those in crime news) don't care about their appearance in old newspapers and in text corpora. A reasonable and a common sense solution would be that individual names are deleted from the database by the explicit demand of a particular non-public living person. Regardless all the problematic adaptation of the corpus I would appreciate a general supportive oppinion that the legislation has to respect the routines of the information society and not vice versa. Isn't this case similar to the copyright issues? -- miran _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, SUBJECT_NEEDS_ENCODING,T_FRT_POSSIBLE autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4BC8D5FB3; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:35:51 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B6435F49; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:35:51 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 764995F48; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:35:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: 26.443 petition on behalf of l'Anne Philologique From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121101083548.764995F48@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:35:48 +0100 (CET) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 443. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:02:46 +0100 From: petition@anphil.org Subject: Information aux signataires de l'Année Philologique Français + Deutsch + English + Español + Italiano Cher(e)s collègues et ami(e)s, Merci à tous. Vous êtes près de 4500 à avoir signé notre pétition de solidarité envers la rédaction allemande de l'Année Philologique (APh) depuis sa mise en ligne en avril dernier. Vous venez des quatre coins du monde, d'horizons, métiers et spécialités très différents. Vous n'êtes pas tous antiquisants, ce qui prouve le rayonnement de l'APh au delà de nos domaines spécialisés et son ancrage dans le monde de l'université et de la recherche en général. Plusieurs d'entre vous ne sont pas directement membres de la communauté académique. Parmi vous, de nombreux étudiants, ce qui est encourageant pour l'avenir : leur soutien prouve l'utilité de notre travail pour le développement des études classiques et pour la diffusion de l'information scientifique. Vos commentaires nous encouragent à poursuivre, mais ils soulignent aussi la grande responsabilité qui est la nôtre face à vos exigences de qualité et de pertinence scientifique. Vous êtes nombreux à souligner l'importance d'une bibliographie comme l'APh, sous tutelle d'institutions publiques universitaires et de recherche, à un moment où l'information scientifique tend à devenir un enjeu commercial. Votre mobilisation a permis à nos collègues allemands de continuer à travailler sans se décourager, dans des conditions de grande incertitude. Votre soutien rapide et massif a sans doute pesé dans la recherche de solution de la part des autorités académiques allemandes. Nous vous sommes tous reconnaissants. Des nouvelles de la situation actuelle. Une nouvelle rédaction de l'Année Philologique a été créée sous la tutelle de l'université de Munich. Elle prendra en janvier 2013 la suite de la Zweigstelle Heidelberg qui fermera ses portes fin décembre 2012. La disparition définitive de la partie allemande et de la langue allemande de l'APh a ainsi été évitée. Cette rédaction aura un financement pour trois ans et comportera moins de personnel que la précédente. Des procédures de transmission du savoir et des compétences de l'ancienne rédaction à la nouvelle sont en cours d'élaboration, dans le respect du cahier de charges dont la direction scientifique de l'APh a la responsabilité et qui a été envoyé à la nouvelle tutelle. Cette transmission est indispensable, car la nouvelle rédaction sera constituée de collègues entièrement nouveaux. Nous souhaitons que la nouvelle rédaction soit pérennisée et qu'elle ait les moyens d'accomplir sa tâche de la meilleure façon possible. Elle aura en tout cas notre appui comme toutes les rédactions. Nous vous tiendrons informés des évolutions à venir, mais nous comptons aussi sur votre vigilance. Grâce aux efforts de tous, l'APh continuera à avoir un rôle central dans le paysage scientifique au niveau international. Encore merci et à bientôt. L'équipe éditoriale parisienne. Dina Bacalexi, Julie Giovacchini (directrices) Laurent Capron, Sébastien Grignon (éditeurs) Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, liebe Freunde! Herzlichen Dank an alle! Sie sind fast 4500, die unseren Aufruf zur Solidarität mit der deutschen Redaktion der Année Philologique (APh) unterzeichnet haben, seit er im vergangenen April ins Netz gestellt wurde. Sie kommen aus allen vier Himmelsrichtungen mit sehr unterschiedlichen Horizonten, Berufen und Spezialisierungen. Sie sind nicht alle Altertumswissenschaftler, was die Ausstrahlung der APh über unsere Spezialgebiete und ihre Verankerung in der Welt der Universität bzw. allgemein der Forschung hinaus beweist. Mehrere von Ihnen sind nicht unmittelbar Mitglieder der akademischen Gemeinschaft. Unter Ihnen gibt es zahlreiche Studierende, was für die Zukunft ermutigend ist. Ihre Unterstützung beweist den Nutzen unserer Arbeit für die Fortentwicklung der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften und für die Verbreitung wissenschaftlicher Informationen. Ihre Kommentare ermutigen uns, weiterzumachen, aber sie unterstreichen auch unsere große Verantwortung angesichts Ihrer Forderungen nach Qualität und wissenschaftlicher Exaktheit. Sie haben in großer Zahl bekräftigt, wie wichtig es ist, dass eine Bibliographie wie die APh unter dem Schutz öffentlicher Institutionen in Universität und Forschung steht, und das zu einem Zeitpunkt, wo die wissenschftliche Information dazu tendiert, kommerzialisiert zu werden. Ihr Engagement hat es unseren deutschen Kollegen ermöglicht, weiterzuarbeiten, ohne sich entmutigen zu lassen, und das unter äußerst unsicheren Bedingungen. Ihre schnelle und massive Unterstützung hat ohne Zweifel eine gewichtige Rolle bei der Suche nach einer Lösung von Seiten der deutschen akademischen Entscheidungsträger gespielt. Wir sind Ihnen allen sehr dankbar. Was die gegenwärtige Situation betrifft, so wurde eine neue Redaktion der APh unter der Obhut der Universität München geschaffen. Sie wird im Januar 2013 die Nachfolge der Zweigstelle Heidelberg antreten, die Ende Dezember 2012 schließt. Das endgültige Verschwinden des deutschen Anteils und der deutschen Sprache aus der APh konnte damit vermieden werden. Diese Redaktion wird für die Dauer von drei Jahren finanziert werden; ihre personelle Ausstattung wird geringer sein als die der vorigen. Zur Zeit arbeitet man an der Weitergabe des Wissens und der Kompetenzen der alten Redaktion an die neue, unter Berücksichtigung der Aufgaben und Pflichten, für welche die wissenschaftliche Leitung der APh verantwortlich ist und die der neuen Leitung übermittelt wurden. Diese Weitergabe ist unverzichtbar, weil die neue Redaktion vollständig aus neuen Kollegen bestehen wird. Wir hoffen, dass die neue Redaktion auf Dauer bestehen wird und die Mittel bekommt, um ihre Aufgabe bestmöglich zu erfüllen. Sie wird auf jeden Fall wie alle Redaktionen unsere Unterstützung haben. Wir werden Sie über die künftigen Entwicklungen auf dem Laufenden halten; wir zählen aber auch auf Ihre Wachsamkeit. Dank der Anstrengung aller wird die APh weiterhin eine zentrale Rolle in der wissenschaftlichen Landschaft auf internationaler Ebene haben. Nochmals vielen Dank und bis bald! Das Herausgebergremium in Paris Dina Bacalexi, Julie Giovacchini (Direktorinnen) Laurent Capron, Sébastien Grignon (Herausgeber) Dear friends and colleagues, Thanks to everyone. Since it was put on line last April, almost 4500 of you have signed our petition of solidarity with the German office of the Année Philologique (APh). You come from the four corners of the world, and from very different backgrounds, careers and specializations. Not all of you are professional scholars of Antiquity, which proves the influence of the APh beyond our specialized fields, and its rootedness in the world of the University and of research in general. Several of you are not directly members of the Academic community. There are many students among you, which is encouraging for the future: their support proves the usefulness of our work for the development of classical studies and the diffusion of scholarly information. Your comments encourage us to carry on, but they also emphasize our great responsibility with regard to your demands for quality and scholarly relevance. Many of you have emphasized the importance of a bibliography such as the APh, under the auspices of pubic university and research institutions, at a time when scholarly information is tending to become a matter of commercial interests. Your mobilization has enabled our German colleagues to continue to work without discouragement in conditions of great uncertainty. Your rapid and massive support was no doubt important in the search for a solution carried out by German academic authorities. We are all grateful to you. As far as the current situation is concerned: A new office of the Année Philologique has been created under the auspices of the University of Munich. In January 2013, it will replace the Zweigstelle Heidelberg, which will close its doors at the end of December 2012. The definitive disappearance of the German component and of the German language from the APh has thus been avoided. This office will have financing for three years, and will employ fewer personnel than its predecessor. Procedures for transmitting skill and knowledge from the old office to the new one are currently being elaborated, while respecting the statement of work for which the Editors of the APh are responsible, and which has been sent to the new branch. This transmission is indispensable, for the new office will be made up of entirely new colleagues. We would like the new office to be made permanent, and that it have the means to carry out its tasks in the best way possible. In any case, like all our offices, it will count on our support. We will keep you informed of future developments, but we are also counting on your vigilance. Thanks to the efforts of all concerned, the APh will continue to play a central part in the scholarly landscape at the international level. Thanks once again, and goodbye for now. The Paris editorial team. Queridos colegas y amigos: Gracias a todos. Formáis parte de los casi 4500 firmantes de nuestra petición de solidaridad para con la redacción alemana de la Année Philologique (APh) desde que fue colgada en internet el pasado mes de abril. Venís del mundo entero, de horizontes, profesiones y especialidades muy diferentes. No todos sois estudiosos del mundo antiguo, lo que es prueba de la proyección de la APh más allá de nuestras disciplinas y de su anclaje en el mundo de la universidad y de la investigación científica en general. Algunos de vosotros no formáis parte directamente de la comunidad académica. Muchos sois estudiantes, lo que representa un motivo de ánimo para el futuro: este apoyo es prueba de la utilidad de nuestro trabajo para el desarrollo de los estudios clásicos y para la difusión de la información científica. Vuestros comentarios nos animan a seguir adelante, pero ponen también de manifiesto la gran responsabilidad que tenemos ante vuestras exigencias de calidad y de rigor científico. Muchos nos habéis señalado la importancia de una bibliografía como la APh, bajo el amparo de instituciones públicas universitarias y de investigación, en un momento en que la información científica tiende a convertirse en un negocio. Vuestra movilización ha permitido a nuestros colegas alemanes continuar trabajando sin desánimo, en condiciones de gran incertidumbre. Vuestro diligente y masivo apoyo ha pesado sin duda en la búsqueda de una solución por parte de las autoridades académicas alemanas. Os estamos a todos muy agradecidos. Algunas noticias sobre la situación actual. Se ha creado una nueva redacción de la Année Philologique bajo la tutela de la Universidad de Múnich. A partir de enero de 2013 tomará el relevo de la Zweigstelle Heidelberg, que cerrará sus puertas a finales de diciembre de 2012. Se ha evitado así la desaparición definitiva de la sección alemana y de la lengua alemana en la APh. La nueva redacción dispondrá de financiación por tres años y comportará menos personal que la anterior. Estamos elaborando el procedimiento para la transmisión, de la antigua a la nueva redacción, de las competencias y de los métodos de trabajo, de acuerdo con el pliego de condiciones del que es responsable la dirección científica de la APh y que ha sido enviado a la nueva institución tutelar. Dicha transmisión es indispensable, dado que la nueva redacción estará completamente constituida por nuevos colegas. Deseamos que la nueva redacción perdure y que disponga de los medios necesarios para desarrollar su tarea del mejor modo posible. Podrá contar en todo caso con nuestro apoyo como todas las redacciones. Os tendremos informados de la evolución de los acontecimientos en los próximos años, pero contamos también con vuestro atento seguimiento. Gracias a los esfuerzos de todos, la APh podrá continuar jugando un papel central en el contexto científico internacional. Gracias una vez más y hasta pronto. El equipo editorial parisino. Dina Bacalexi, Julie Giovacchini (directoras) Laurent Capron, Sébastien Grignon (editores) Cari colleghi e amici, grazie a tutti. Avete firmato in quasi 4500 la nostra petizione di solidarietà nei confronti della redazione tedesca dell'Année Philologique (APh) da quando essa è stata messa on line lo scorso aprile. Venite da ogni parte del mondo, da orizzonti, professioni e specialità molto diversi. Non siete tutti antichisti, ciò che dimostra l'influenza dell'APh al di là dei nostri ambiti specialistici e il suo radicamento nel mondo dell'università e della ricerca in generale. Molti di voi non sono direttamente membri della comunità accademica. Tra di voi si trovano numerosi studenti, un fatto che è incoraggiante per l'avvenire: il sostegno da parte di questa categoria prova l'utilità del nostro lavoro per lo sviluppo degli studi classici e per la diffusione dell'informazione scientifica. I vostri commenti ci incoraggiano ad andare avanti, ma sottolineano anche la nostra grande responsabilità di fronte alle vostre esigenze di qualità e di pertinenza scientifica. Siete in molti a sottolineare l'importanza di una bibliografia come l'APh, sotto la tutela di istituzioni pubbliche universitarie e di ricerca, in un momento in cui l'informazione scientifica tende a diventare un'impresa commerciale. La vostra mobilitazione ha permesso ai nostri colleghi tedeschi di continuare a lavorare senza scoraggiarsi, pur in condizione di grande incertezza. Il vostro sostegno tempestivo e massiccio ha senza dubbio pesato sulla ricerca di una soluzione da parte delle autorità accademiche tedesche. Noi tutti ve ne siamo grati. Alcuni aggiornamenti sulla situazione attuale. Una nuova redazione dell'Année Philologique è stata creata sotto la tutela dell'università di Monaco. Nel gennaio del 2013 essa subentrerà alla Zweigstelle Heidelberg, che chiuderà i battenti alla fine di dicembre 2012. Così è stata evitata la sparizione definitiva del settore tedesco e della lingua tedesca dall'APh. Questa redazione avrà un finanziamento per tre anni e sarà costituita da personale in numero ridotto rispetto alla precedente. Sono in corso di elaborazione procedure per trasmettere l'esperienza e le competenze della precedente redazione alla nuova, nel rispetto del protocollo operativo di cui la direzione scientifica dell'APh ha la responsabilità e che è stato inviato alla nuova istituzione di tutela. Questo passaggio di consegne è indispensabile, dal momento che la nuova redazione sarà composta interamente da nuovi colleghi. Auspichiamo che la nuova redazione sia stabilizzata e che essa abbia i mezzi per assolvere al proprio compito nel modo migliore possibile. Essa avrà in ogni caso il nostro appoggio come tutte le altre redazioni. Vi terremo informati sulle prossime evoluzioni, ma contiamo anche sulla vostra vigilanza. Grazie agli sforzi di tutti, l'APh continuerà ad avere un ruolo centrale nel panorama scientifico di livello internazionale. Grazie ancora e a presto. L'équipe editoriale parigina. Dina Bacalexi, Julie Giovacchini (direttrici) Laurent Capron, Sébastien Grignon (editori) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E63DD5FCF; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:37:43 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A66E35FB3; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:37:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7F8A95F49; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:37:42 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121101083742.7F8A95F49@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:37:42 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.445 events: DH2013 deadline extension; Visualising TechCity@UCL X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 445. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org From: Humanist Discussion Group Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 444. 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: DH 2013 deadline extension [2] From: Andrew Prescott (48) Subject: Visualising TechCity@UCL --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:37:21 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: DH 2013 deadline extension In light of widespread power outages and disruptions caused by Hurricane Sandy on the eastern seaboard of the United States, the international program committee for Digital Humanities 2013 has decided to extend our deadline for proposals by 48 hours. The NEW DEADLINE for paper, poster, and panel sessions at DH 2013 is 11:59pm GMT on Saturday, November 3rd. The "bidding phase" for the conference, a new feature for DH 2013 in which registered reviewers will be able to indicate preferences and mark conflicts of interest, will therefore extend from November 5th-8th, and reviewing will happen on schedule, from November 10th-December 14th. If you are a reviewer or author residing in an area affected by the hurricane, who needs to communicate extenuating circumstances, please contact us at dh2013@unl.edu. On behalf of the Program Committee, Bethany Nowviskie (chair) http://dh2013.unl.edu/ Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D 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: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:00:04 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Visualising TechCity@UCL 2012 Visualizing Global Marathon - Visualizing TechCity@UCL The 2012 Visualizing Global Marathon has launched and registration is open! The Visualizing Marathon is the world’s largest student data visualization competition. This year, the global student design community will be brought together for one weekend to tackle real world issues with data and design. There is an awesome jury of leading data and design professionals to evaluate all the Marathon submissions and they will award over $10,000 in prizes. The event is free. UCL will be hosting a London meet up for this global competition on Friday 9 November from 3pm UK time. We will also be holding our own 3 day competition for visualizing TechCity data - and the winning entry to be included in a future publications of our TechCity Atlas. Participants can continue on Saturday and Sunday independently, or you might want to meet up with some those you meet on Friday to continue what you're working on. We encourage you to register and take part in this world-wide event. To participate in the event, you must register on Eventbrite http://marathon2012-ucl-eac2.eventbrite.com/# . In addition to Eventbrite, all participants must have an account on Visualizing. Visit 2012 Visualizing Global Marathon for eligibility and rules, FAQs, and more. How It Works Dive into data visualization alongside students from around the world. At the start of the marathon you will be given a data set and challenge in order to design and build a project that creatively visualizes the data. You can work individually or in teams, participating online or at one of the in-person meetups. There will be broadcasted workshops by data rockstars throughout the weekend. There will also be games, mini-challenges and more ways to connect with other students. Upload your finished project by the deadline, and then get to see what everyone else has been working on! The event is free for all students. You can compete individually or in a team of up to four members. There is an awesome jury of leading data and design professionals to evaluate all the Marathon submissions and they will award over $10,000 in prizes. -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6BB386065; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:38:12 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4D52D92; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:38:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C570A6000; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:38:10 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20121101083810.C570A6000@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:38:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.446 publication: art history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 446. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 09:35:33 +0000 From: Stanislav Roudavski Subject: publication: Evocative Research in Art History and Beyond:Imagining Possible Pasts in the Ways to Heaven Project I am new to this list and by the way of an introduction here is my recent publication. This is (for now) a somewhat tangential direction to the rest of my work and I suspect there is lot to learn in this area. So, I would be grateful for thoughts or references to literature or projects. http://www.academia.edu/1841926/Evocative_Research_in_Art_History_and_Beyond_Imagining_Possible_Pasts_in_the_Ways_to_Heaven_Project Thank you, Stanislav Roudavski http://perfomativeplaces.expressivespace.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4A9955FE9; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 07:36:56 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C3AA5F9D; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 07:36:56 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B0F9D2E02; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 07:36:54 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121102063654.B0F9D2E02@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 07:36:54 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.447 public good vs personal data protection X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 447. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:09:06 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: to replace bounced note sent to no such address anymore. tooretentive of no names by far this keeper of privacies... Miran writes: "Isn't this case similar to the copyright issues?" Analagous, perhaps. However, Copyright concerns ownership of property, which means protection fiscal and legal against taking registered writing. A person's name and perhaps the attached identity, if attached? may be taken and privacy perhaps invaded; but what is owned? Can the same name as that to which a written property is attached and vice versa for 50 years [?], if listed and privacy threatened by exposure sue the worldwide corpus of listed and listees? Lots of luck. Whoever has hired a lawyer to engage in "the law's delay" has to have had a bankroll that can handle 500$ to 1000$ an hour to pay for the legalists' scribblings. Lot of luck. Can Slovenia work this out for the rest of the world...? Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor Emeritus of Modern English & American Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.7968 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_DBL_REDIR autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4823A6065; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 07:39:56 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11AD75FCC; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 07:39:56 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C3C325FCC; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 07:39:53 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121102063953.C3C325FCC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 07:39:53 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.448 events: summer school; libraries; museums; 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. 448. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Cummings (24) Subject: Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2013 -- save the dates [2] From: "Pierazzo, Elena" (45) Subject: NeDIMAH Expert Seminar on Digital Scholarly Editions: registrationopen [3] From: Milena Dobreva (136) Subject: TPDL 2013 - call for contributions [4] From: Mia (30) Subject: Museums on the Web 30 November --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:17:16 +0000 From: James Cummings Subject: Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2013 -- save the dates Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2013 Save the dates: 8 - 12 July 2013! The Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School (DHOXSS) 2013 will take place from 8 - 12 July 2013 at the University of Oxford. DHOXSS delegates will be introduced to a range of topics suitable for researchers, project managers, research assistants, and students who are interested in the creation, management, or publication of digital data in the humanities. Each delegate will follow one of our 5-day workshops (to be announced), and supplement this with plenary guest lectures by experts in their fields and a variety of social events. DHOXSS is a collaboration for Digital.Humanities@Oxford between the University of Oxford's IT Services, the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC), the Bodleian Libraries, and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. The information we currently have available can be found at: http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/ If you are interested in sponsoring the DHOXSS please see: http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/sponsorship.html Dr James Cummings Director of DHOXSS -- Dr James Cummings, researchsupport@it.ox.ac.uk Research Support, IT Services, University of Oxford --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 17:44:59 +0000 From: "Pierazzo, Elena" Subject: NeDIMAH Expert Seminar on Digital Scholarly Editions: registrationopen ***Apologies for cross posting*** Registration is now open for the NeDIMAH Expert Seminar on Digital Scholarly Editions organised by Matthew Driscoll (University of Copenhagen) and Elena Pierazzo (King's College London). NeDIMAH is a network supported by the European Science Foundation. Please notice that the registration is free, but it is compulsory as places are limited. If you are interested in attending, please send an email to Kirsten Leth, kln@hum.ku.dk by the 16th of November. NeDiMAH working group in digital scholarly editions – Experts’ seminar Tesselschadezaal, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, The Hague, 21 November 2012 Programme 09.00-10.30 1st session Patrick SAHLE, Universität zu Köln (DE) – What is a scholarly digital edition? Marina BUZZONI, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (IT) – A 'protocol' for digital scholarly editions? The Italian point of view. Greta FRANZINI, University College London (UK) – A catalogue of digital editions. 10.30-11.00 break 11.00-12.30 2nd session Ray SIEMENS, University of Victoria (CA) – Foundations of the social edition. Dirk VAN HULLE, Universiteit Antwerpen (BE) – Digital genetic editing and manuscript literacy. Roberto ROSSELLI DEL TURCO, Università di Torino (IT) – The battle we forgot to fight: Should we make a case for digital editions? 12.30-13.30 lunch 13.30-15.00 3rd session Cynthia DAMON, University of Pennsylvania (US) – A digital workspace for Latin textual criticism. Jennifer LO, King's College London (UK) – Dimensionality in print and digital editions of Henslowe’s Diary. Camille DESENCLOS, École nationale des chartes (FR) – Rethinking digital editions for early modern correspondences: A new approach to edition at the École nationale des Chartes. 15.00-15.30 break 15.30-16.30 4th session Krista Stinne Greve RASMUSSEN, Københavns Universitet (DK) – Reading or using a digital edition? Reader roles in scholarly editions. Joris VAN ZUNDERT, Huygens ING (NL) – The practice of theory and tools: A theoretical framework for quality assessment of tools for digital scholarly editing. 16.30-17.30 Roundtable: Matthew Driscoll, Elena Pierazzo, Mats Dalhstrom, Michael Stolz, Peter Boot, Florence Clavaud, Pierre-Yves Buard, Caroline Macé, with intervention from Ray Siemens, Dirk Van Hulle, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco and Marina Buzzoni. Our meeting will be in the Tesselschadezaal in the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (Huygens ING), which is located at the National Library of The Netherlands, right next to The Hague Central Station. A map and directions can be found at http://www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/contact/bereikbaarheid/. -- Dr Elena Pierazzo Lecturer in Digital Humanities Department in 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: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 19:56:27 +0000 From: Milena Dobreva Subject: TPDL 2013 - call for contributions Call for Contributions 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries Valletta, Malta, September 22-26, 2013 http://www.tpdl2013.info The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) constitutes a leading scientific forum on digital libraries that brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. TPDL 2013 will be organized by University of Malta and it will be held in Valletta, Malta on September 22-26, 2013. * Aims and scope * Valuable and rapidly increasing volumes of data are produced or transformed into digital form by all fields of scientific, educational, cultural, business and governmental activities. For this purpose the digital libraries community has developed long-term and interdisciplinary research agendas, providing significant results, such as conceptual models, added value infrastructures, software tools, standards and services. The advent of the technologies that enhance the exchange of information with rich semantics is the epicenter of the discussions of the community. Information providers inter-link their metadata with user contributed data and offer new services outlooking to the development of a web of data and addressing the interoperability and long-term preservation challenges. TPDL 2013 under the general theme "Sharing meaningful information", invites submissions for the proliferation of scientific and research osmosis in the following categories: Full Papers, Short Papers, Posters and Demonstrations, Workshops and Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity in a triple peer review process. The TPDL 2013 proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs). The authors of the best research papers submitted to TPDL2013 will be invited to submit substantially extended versions of their paper for publication in a Focused Issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/799). * Topics * General areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following topics, organized in four categories, according to a conceptualization that coincides with the four arms of the Maltese Cross: Foundations - Information models - Digital library conceptual models and formal issues - Digital library 2.0 - Digital library education curricula - Economic and legal aspects (e.g. rights management), landscape for digital libraries - Theoretical models of information interaction and organization - Information policies - Studies of human factors in networked information - Scholarly primitives - Novel research tools and methods with emphasis on digital humanities - User behavior analysis and modeling - Social-technical perspectives of digital information Infrastructures - Digital library architectures - Cloud and grid deployments - Federation of repositories - Collaborative and participatory information environments - Data storage and indexing - Big data management - e-science, e-government, e-learning, cultural heritage infrastructures - Semi structured data - Semantic web issues in digital libraries - Ontologies and knowledge organization systems - Linked Data and its applications Content - Metadata schemas with emphasis to metadata for composite content (Multimedia, geographical, statistical data and other special content formats) - Interoperability and Information integration - Digital Curation and related workflows - Preservation, authenticity and provenance - Web archiving - Social media and dynamically generated content for particular uses/communities (education, science, public, etc.) - Crowdsourcing - 3D models indexing and retrieval - Authority management issues Services - Information Retrieval and browsing - Multilingual and Multimedia Information Retrieval - Personalization in digital libraries - Context awareness in information access - Semantic aware services - Technologies for delivering/accessing digital libraries, e.g. mobile devices - Visualization of large-scale information environments - Evaluation of online information environments - Quality metrics - Interfaces to digital libraries - Data mining/extraction of structure from networked information - Social networks analysis and virtual organizations - Traditional and alternative metrics of scholarly communication - Mashups of resources * Important Dates * - Full and Short papers, Posters and Demonstrations: March 23, 2013 - Panels, Workshops, Tutorials: March 4, 2013 - Notification of acceptance for Papers, Posters, and Demonstrations: May 20, 2013 - Notification of acceptance for Panels, Workshops and Tutorials: April 22, 2013 - Camera Ready Versions: June 9, 2013 - Doctoral Consortium Papers Submission Deadline: June 2, 2013 - Doctoral Consortium Acceptance Notification: July 2, 2013 - End of Early Registration: July 31, 2013 - Conference Dates: September 22-26, 2013 * Formatting Instructions * Full papers (12 pages), short-papers (6 pages), posters and demonstrations (4 pages) must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. The TPDL 2013 proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs). Therefore all submissions should conform to the formatting instructions described in the "For Authors" webpage (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). For Doctoral Consortium, papers are expected to have a maximum of 8-10 pages, including references. Papers is recommended to be formatted according to Springer LNCS guidelines. In case your paper includes images or screenshots please ensure that you set image compression at 600dpi when you produce your PDF file. * Submission * All papers, short-papers, posters and demonstrations must be submitted in electronic format (PDF) via the conference's EasyChair submission page (TBA). According to the Registration Regulation for TPDL 2013, inclusion of papers in the Proceedings is conditional upon registration of at least one author per paper. * Organization * General Chairs: Milena Dobreva, University of Malta, Malta Giannis Tsakonas, University of Patras, Greece Program Chairs: Christos Papatheodorou, Ionian University, Greece Trond Aalberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Organizing Chair: Charles J. Farrugia, National Archives, Malta --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 21:37:45 +0000 From: Mia Subject: Museums on the Web 30 November Dear Humanists, having had such an encouraging response to the Call for Papers I sent to this list I thought some of you might be interested in the resulting conference: The Museums Computer Group's annual Museums on the Web conference – UKMW12 – will be held at the Wellcome Collection in London on 30 November 2012. UKMW12 is about being ‘strategically digital’. Responding to the issues currently faced by museums and heritage organisations, it's an opportunity to take a step back from the everyday and think strategically about the impact of the digital revolution on your museum and on the sector as a whole, including themes such as: digitally enabling the modern museum and its staff; sustaining the digital agenda and the realities of digital strategies and organisational change; and the complexities of digital engagement and the impact of social media on audience expectations. UKMW12 brings together speakers from organisations including the Tate, the V&A, UCL, King's College, the Guardian, Strategic Content Alliance, Collections Trust and Caper. As always, UK Museums on the Web is a day for being inspired by the latest ideas, for learning from case studies grounded in reality, and for networking with other technologists, curators, managers, academics, learning and marketing specialists in the museum and heritage sector. Don't miss out! Book your ticket now at http://ukmw12.eventbrite.co.uk Find out more about the conference at http://bit.ly/ukmw12 Cheers, Mia -------------------------------------------- http://openobjects.org.uk/ http://twitter.com/mia_out _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D31E9608B; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 07:41:05 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44DF6085; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 07:41:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AF09A6082; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 07:41:03 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121102064103.AF09A6082@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 07:41:03 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.449 publications: Turing Complete User; Baudrillard X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 449. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Neven_Jovanović" (20) Subject: Turing Complete User [2] From: Gerry Coulter (10) Subject: Baudrillard Studies -- Special Issue: Baudrillard and Politics --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 12:12:56 +0100 From: "Neven_Jovanović" Subject: Turing Complete User In-Reply-To: <504896E9.6080704@mccarty.org.uk> Willard, just came across an in places imperfectly Englished, but interesting, contribution for the HUMANIST list: Turing Complete User Olia Lialina, October 2012 http://contemporary-home-computing.org/turing-complete-user/ ... what I mean are users who have the ability to achieve their goals regardless of the primary purpose of an application or device. Such users will find a way to their aspiration without an app or utility programmed specifically for it. The Universal user is not a super user, not half a hacker. It is not an exotic type of user. There can be different examples and levels of autonomy that users can imagine for themselves, but the capacity to be universal is still in all of us. -- Best, Neven Neven Jovanovic Department of Classical Philology Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb Hrvatska / Croatia --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 15:31:42 +0000 From: Gerry Coulter Subject: Baudrillard Studies -- Special Issue: Baudrillard and Politics In-Reply-To: <504896E9.6080704@mccarty.org.uk> Humanist list, please post the following notification of publication on the list. == The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies has posted Volume 9, Number 3: A Special Issue on Baudrillard and Politics. The issue contains 20 articles. The table of contents for the issue is available at this link: http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol-9_3/v9-3-tofc.html Dr. Gerry Coulter Editor, IJBS _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 84042608E; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 07:42:13 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 531BB6085; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 07:42:13 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A5A836068; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 07:42:11 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121102064211.A5A836068@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 07:42:11 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.450 intemperance & outcry X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 450. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jascha Kessler (94) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.439 intemperance and outcry, but against what? [2] From: Christopher M. Ohge (70) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.439 intemperance and outcry, but against what? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:00:30 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.439 intemperance and outcry, but against what? In-Reply-To: <20121031063536.1E2772DEE@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, "What is being threatened?" you ask. I have several examples or critical remarks, even perhaps paragraphs that knock at my forehead to be *typed out *and *emailed* to you. But am too busy at the moment. I will say that your quotation reveals a *stupidum's* thoughts and writing. It is a large matter, and I know where to point at here and there. But consider this: Plato banned the rhapsodes, or poets, from his REPUBLIC. And of all the major US media in journalism, all but one since the 1970s dropped the little filler, a poem, from their editorial pages, that exception remains today: THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, of all unexpected venues... In the mid-1950s, Norman Podhoretz, on becoming editor of COMMENTARY, dropped the several filler poems in its pages. His former mentor at Columbia U, Lionel Trilling, and a founder of the magazine, was enraged. To no end. And Lionel was a subtle critic, mostly of prose, not verse. It is something that went flat in our culture. I was stuck in 1974 for 3 days in Budapest on account of heavy fog, waiting for a plane to Tehran each day, and became acquainted with a one or two of the 5 men also waiting. One was a tall, vigorous Sudanese, a battery mogul from Khartoum. When I told him I was headed to Iran to read my translations of their great modern poet, Forugh Farrokhzad, on an invitation from their Kulchur Ministry...he asked for my pages to read, and for a day say crooning and reading aloud to himself, entranced. Not only by the poet's work, but poetry itself as something to be admired and read aloud and as something of importance. Well, things have gone down, and how! in Khartoum and Tehran, as we know, since 1974. I wrote an article about that visit, in fact. [Which an editor friend "mislaid" 4 times on his desk for 15 years, until I went elsewhere in our current decade... "Roses and Bulbul Birds," www.calitreview.com Jascha Kessler On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:35 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 439. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:11:33 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: intemperance and outcry > > > The season for intemperate remarks seems to be upon us. > > First, upon me: I see from reading further that (in reference to the > coining of "digital humanities") the historical record, as I rather > pretentiously called it, *does* have specific people wanting to distance > themselves from computing support services, with which "humanities > computing" was thought to be too closely associated. Katherine Hayles > documents this in her contribution to Understanding Digital Humanities, > ed. David M. Barry, p. 43. Apologies where needed -- but no retraction > of the argument against anti-historical constructs. > > Second, upon Stephen Marche, in "Literature is not Data: Against Digital > Humanities", Los Angeles Review of Books, 28 October, > http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=1040&fulltext=1&media=. > I won't comment directly on what Marche says, though I do hope someone > else does. What interests me particularly is the fact of his saying what > he says. Getting such opposition means a nerve has been touched, an > anxiety stirred up, a fear evoked -- which to me signifies that > something rather important is happening. For the historian of the > present of the digital humanities, the article constitutes highly > valuable evidence. *Of course*, as he says in the last sentence > of his article, "Insight remains handmade", i.e. as one might say, > there is no text unless a human reads it, and when he or she does, > no one (self-identical) text. The question is, why would anyone feel so > strongly driven to insist on the presence of the human reader/ > interpreter? What is being threatened? > > 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: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:38:33 -0400 From: Christopher M. Ohge Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.439 intemperance and outcry, but against what? In-Reply-To: <20121031063536.1E2772DEE@digitalhumanities.org> Dear All –– I wrote some thoughts on Marche's article that I hope will appeal to digital humanists & those who want to know more about it: http://hastac.org/blogs/cmohge/2012/10/30/defense-empiricism-digital-humanities-not-merely-data I would of course welcome any comments about where I went wrong, but my limited experience suggests that Marche mischaracterizes a diverse field & fears a world without the codex, serious literature, artifacts (in archives), & equipped readers. I know several MFA students & poets in Boston who would take issue with his line of thinking; the last thing on artists' minds is the danger of the digital. I'm not sure about what is being threatened, except the "sacred" sense of reading that he vacuously describes. With good wishes, Christopher M. Ohge -- Christopher M. Ohge Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning Boston University Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities University of Maine http://umaine.edu/umhi/digital-humanities/ Twitter: @cmohge _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5800A2E18; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:48:24 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C9EA2DF3; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:48:24 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A49B82DF4; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:48:22 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121104084822.A49B82DF4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:48:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.451 job at the Digital Preservation Coalition X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 451. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 09:08:32 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Job vacancy Dear All, The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) seeks to recruit an experienced and capable Senior Information Officer to work closely with the Executive Director of the Coalition on a part time (50%) basis. Recruitment will be to either of the DPC offices in Glasgow or York. The post is available immediately for 12 months. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a high-profile and wide-ranging role. The candidate will be expected to design and deliver a range of communications and information-provision tasks in support of the DPC strategic plan. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record and experience in communications, media or PR but with sufficient knowledge and experience of digital preservation and related topics to be credible. The post is advertised as a Senior Information Officer, Grade 7, points 32-39 (£31,948 to £39,257 per annum, pro rata). The post will be located in the DPC office in University of Glasgow to work alongside the Executive Director who will manage the post or to the DPC office in the Science Park at the University of York where the DPC Business Manager is based. The post is part time (50%). The DPC welcomes proposals from its members about secondments of existing staff. Senior Information Officer Position type: 12 months, 50% Salary: £31,948 to £39,257 (pro rata) Closing date:28th November (1200) Location: Glasgow or York For more details see: http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/vacancies Please do circulate this to possible candidates. All best wishes, William -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3AF86607E; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:51:54 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D81D2E18; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:51:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7F30A2DF4; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:51:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121104085152.7F30A2DF4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:51:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.452 text-comparison 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="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. 452. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 05:24:10 +0000 From: info@opendaht.org Subject: SimpleTCT v1.0 SimpleTCT is an open source simplified management environment designed to assist in textual comparison. Users can display the contents of rtf files, define themes, highlight passages and add personal notes as required. A document may then be exported containing all of the selected passages, organised thematically, situated alongside the relevant notes.It is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux. SimpleTCT v1.0 is available for download from OpenDAHT.org: http://opendaht.org/SimpleTCT.html OpenDAHT is an initiative aimed at the development, maintenance and provision of digital tools and resources for use within various fields of arts and humanities scholarship. OpenDAHT always welcomes new contributors. Feedback and suggestions on SimpleTCT and its future direction are welcome. [1] Links: ------ [1] http://altmail.blacknight.com/index.php/mail# _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BF6CF6081; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:53:04 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89F085FCC; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:53:04 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CFB952E18; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:53:02 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121104085302.CFB952E18@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:53:02 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.453 the Wellcome Collection X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 453. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 08:27:10 +0000 From: Phoebe Harkins Subject: Wellcome Collection and the Wellcome Library are growing Dear list members, Wellcome Collection and the Wellcome Library are growing. When Wellcome Collection opened in 2007, we anticipated attracting around 100,000 visits each year. This figure has increased year-on-year to almost half a million this year, with over 40,000 visits to the Wellcome Library alone. In order to cope with unprecedented visitor demand, our building will be transformed over the coming two years. Our spaces will be redefined, bringing new areas into public use, while building on the unique qualities that have made Wellcome Collection and the Wellcome Library such a success. Opening up the Reading Room Central to the project, the Wellcome Library???s Reading Room will become an innovative public space, bridging the gap between the Library???s research community and Wellcome Collection???s exhibitions and events programmes and opening our extraordinarily rich collections to new audiences. The Reading Room will be an inviting salon where visitors are free to relax, linger and indulge their curiosity ??? a blend of the very best curatorial and library practice, in a setting that encourages sociability and the sharing of ideas. This new space will sit at the heart of the building, curated with events and displays of books and objects from the collections, alongside state-of-the-art technology to fully exploit our ambitious digitisation programme. Enhancing the Research Library Our Research Library will also be renovated, offering our members an outstanding environment in which to study and work. With an expanded Rare Materials Room, a new Viewing Room, and with improved space configuration ??? including new desk spaces and areas for group work, private study, and conversation ??? the Library will be an inviting and stimulating place that will cater for the needs of all our audiences. We will continue to provide a significant proportion of our collections on open access together with greater access to digital resources, and offer better facilities and easier circulation via a new internal lift and staircase. We will continue to offer users a quiet and relaxing working environment in which to enjoy and use our outstanding collections, fostering understanding of the place of human and animal health in all periods and cultures. Elsewhere in Wellcome Collection The development will open up 30 per cent more gallery space and double our capacity for public events. A major new thematic gallery will hold in-depth exhibitions over a year-long period, with a mixture of semi-permanent displays and exhibits. There will also be a dedicated youth events studio for 14-to-19- year-olds to engage with and produce work that contributes to the Wellcome Collection programme. An interdisciplinary research Hub will catalyse research and public engagement collaborations between the brightest minds across specialisms, with grants being made available for group residencies. A Spotlight events series will offer a forum for experts from different disciplines to come together and debate key topics and policy issues affecting medicine, science and society. And a new restaurant, in addition to the current caf?(C), will significantly increase the catering offer within Wellcome Collection. Keeping in touch Major works on the development will begin in summer 2013, with completion scheduled for summer 2014. We will keep Library users informed throughout the project, alerting you to key dates throughout the build. If you are planning on visiting the Library during summer 2013, please contact us and we can keep you updated on projected dates for building works, and access to the various collections. We will be hosting a series of drop-in sessions where you can come and see the building plans and hear more about the development project. Details of these dates will be published on the Library website and blog and be displayed in the Library on the noticeboard. For more information download our Q&As (pdf). Warm regards Dr Simon Chaplin Head of the Wellcome Library 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE http://wellcomelibrary.org http://wellcomecollection.org The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England, no. 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England, no. 2711000, whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6B5B72DCF; Mon, 5 Nov 2012 07:27:38 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35DF42D8F; Mon, 5 Nov 2012 07:27:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 90EE82D8D; Mon, 5 Nov 2012 07:27:35 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121105062735.90EE82D8D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 07:27:35 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.454 when does amplification make new? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 454. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 20:55:14 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: when amplification makes something new In George R Stibitz and Jules A Larrivee, Mathematics and Computers (1957), the authors mention "a notion advanced by Warren Weaver that an increase in any ability by a factor of 10 or 100 is in effect a new *kind* of ability" (vi). Does anyone know where in print Weaver wrote that? And what do you make of such an assertion? With regards to intelligence I have certainly met people in another league altogether -- e.g. when a teenager a fellow about my age who was in mathematical ability (and, as far as I could tell, only in that respect) simply a different kind of creature. Olympic athletes suggest the same -- as one colleague said (she is prone to exaggeration) "like gods". In evolutionary terms we use a Linnaean scheme that distinguishes one kind from another by physiological criteria. Darwin advised that attempts to distinguish humans from animals systematically were by their number and differences shown to be in vain. Whatever Weaver intended, Stibitz and Larrivee were suggesting that having the computer (as it was then) meant having an ability. If I say that with this computer I am now using, for example, I *have* thus and such an ability, in what sense do I *have* it? 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3A4052DE8; Mon, 5 Nov 2012 07:29:58 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07E362DD7; Mon, 5 Nov 2012 07:29:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F2CE42D96; Mon, 5 Nov 2012 07:29:55 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121105062955.F2CE42D96@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 07:29:55 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.455 new book: Dall'Informatica umanistica alle culture digitali X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 455. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 22:08:10 +0100 From: Fabio Ciotti Subject: Book Announcement: Dall'Informatica umanistica alle culture digitali Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the publication of: Dall'Informatica umanistica alle culture digitali. Proceedings of the Conference in memory of Giuseppe Gigliozzi (Rome, 27-28 October 2011) Edited by Fabio Ciotti and Gianfranco Crupi Quaderni Digilab - Casa Editrice Università La Sapienza ISBN: 978-88-95814-82-7 DOI: 10.7357/DigiLab-32 This volume collects the speeches given at the conference organized to commemorate Giuseppe Gigliozzi on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his death, and is divided into three sections: The statute of Humanities Computing; Text and computer; Beyond Humanities Computing: digital culture and knowledge networks. The book is published as an open access publication under the Creative Commons 3.0 License and is available at: http://digilab-epub.uniroma1.it/index.php/Quaderni_DigiLab/index. _____________________Table of contents Prefazione Fabio Ciotti, A Giuseppe, amico e maestro Lo statuto dell'informatica umanistica Giovanni Ragone, Introduzione ai lavori Tito Orlandi, Per una storia dell'informatica umanistica Dino Buzzetti, Che cos'è, oggi, l'informatica umanistica? L'impatto della tecnologia Il testo e il computer Maurizio Lana, Da una digital library del latino tardo ad un corpus globale Paolo Mastandrea, 1991-2011, un ventennio di evoluzione nella filologia pratica Raul Mordenti, Domande teoriche sul concetto di edizione (nel nome di Giuseppe Gigliozzi) Federica Perazzini, Oltre i confini del testo: le Digital Humanities tra scienza e opportunità Francesca Tomasi, Digital editions between embedded markup and external representation. A case study: Vespasiano da Bisticci's Letters Oltre l'informatica umanistica: culture digitali e reti della conoscenza Domenico Fiormonte, Per un critica culturale delle Digital Humanities Fabio Ciotti, Web semantico, linked data e studi letterari: verso una nuova convergenza Gianfranco Crupi, Universo bibliografico e semantic web Emiliano Ilardi, La narrazione in rete dei patrimoni culturali digitalizzati Christoph Bläsi, The book as a medium: interesting phenomena to be researched with the help of digital humanities approaches Stefano Lariccia, Automi e linguaggio nell'ecosistema delle reti digitali _______________________ Fabio Ciotti _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 87CC72E1A; Tue, 6 Nov 2012 07:41:32 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 580282E13; Tue, 6 Nov 2012 07:41:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C74B82E10; Tue, 6 Nov 2012 07:41:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121106064130.C74B82E10@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 07:41:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.456 when amplification makes new; usefulness of mapping interface X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 456. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Laudun (61) Subject: Re: 26.454 when does amplification make new? [2] From: Malte Rehbein (99) Subject: Re: 26.425 report on interactive mapping interface --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:48:37 -0600 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: 26.454 when does amplification make new? Doesn't this inquiry connect back to previous threads about the location of "ability" or "knowledge" when using tools? Certainly, if one follows the work of cognitive anthropologists like Charles Frake and Edwin Hutchins, who argue that in cognition is embedded (often) in a larger process which includes materiel outside the human body, then the skilled operator does indeed possess the ability. That's Frake notion, to some degree, when discussing the Medieval sailor's use of the compass rose and also Hutchins' notion when exploring the expanded socio-technological landscape of modern ship navigation, a landscape he ultimately describes as "distributed cognition." john laudun -- John Laudun Department of English University of Louisiana – Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 337-482-5493 laudun@louisiana.edu http://johnlaudun.org/ On Nov 5, 2012, at 12:27 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 454. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 20:55:14 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: when amplification makes something new > > In George R Stibitz and Jules A Larrivee, Mathematics and Computers > (1957), the authors mention "a notion advanced by Warren Weaver that an > increase in any ability by a factor of 10 or 100 is in effect a new > *kind* of ability" (vi). Does anyone know where in print Weaver wrote > that? And what do you make of such an assertion? > > With regards to intelligence I have certainly met people in another league > altogether -- e.g. when a teenager a fellow about my age who was in > mathematical ability (and, as far as I could tell, only in that respect) > simply a different kind of creature. Olympic athletes suggest the same -- > as one colleague said (she is prone to exaggeration) "like gods". In > evolutionary terms we use a Linnaean scheme that distinguishes one > kind from another by physiological criteria. Darwin advised that attempts > to distinguish humans from animals systematically were by their > number and differences shown to be in vain. Whatever Weaver intended, > Stibitz and Larrivee were suggesting that having the computer (as it > was then) meant having an ability. If I say that with this computer I am > now using, for example, I *have* thus and such an ability, in what sense > do I *have* it? > > 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: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 13:01:28 -0600 From: Malte Rehbein Subject: Re: 26.425 report on interactive mapping interface In-Reply-To: <20121026054748.BFB182DEF@digitalhumanities.org> Können wir davon etwas gebrauchen? Turned uns das an? :-) On 26.10.2012 00:47, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 425. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:33:03 +0200 > From: Loet Leydesdorff > Subject: interactive mapping of patents; both geographically and in terms of patent classificaitons > > > Interactive Overlay Maps for US Patent (USPTO) Data > http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.6456 > based on International Patent Classifications (IPC) > > We report on the development of an interface http://www.leydesdorff.net/ipcmaps> to the US Patent and Trademark Office > (USPTO) that allows for the mapping of patent portfolios as overlays to > basemaps constructed from citation relations among all patents contained in > this database during the period 1976-2011. Both the interface and the data > are in the public domain; the freeware program VOSViewer can be used for the > visualization. > > These basemaps and overlays can be generated at both the 3-digit and 4-digit > levels of the International Patent Classifications (IPC) of the World > Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The basemaps provide a stable > mental framework for analysts to follow developments over searches for > different years, which can be animated. The full flexibility of the advanced > search engine of USPTO is available for generating sets of patents which can > thus be visualized and compared. This instrument allows for addressing > questions about technological distance, diversity in portfolios, and > animating the developments of both technologies and technological capacities > of organizations over time. > > Loet Leydesdorff, (a) > Duncan Kushnir, (b) & > Ismael Rafolsc, (d) > > _____ > > Mapping (USPTO) Patent Data using Overlays to Google Maps > http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.5712 > [JASIST 63(7) (2012) 1442-1458] > > A technique is developed using patent information available online (at the > US Patent and Trademark Office) for the generation of Google Maps. The > overlays indicate both the quantity and quality of patents at the city > level. This information is relevant for research questions in technology > analysis, innovation studies and evolutionary economics, as well as economic > geography. The resulting maps can also be relevant for technological > innovation policies and R&D management, because the US market can be > considered the leading market for patenting and patent competition. In > addition to the maps, the routines provide quantitative data about the > patents for statistical analysis. The cities on the map are colored > according to the results of significance tests. The overlays are explored > for the Netherlands as a "national system of innovations," and further > elaborated in two cases of emerging technologies: "RNA interference" and > "nanotechnology." The routines are available (as freeware) at > http://www.leydesdorff.net/patentmaps . > > Loet Leydesdorff & Lutz Bornmann (e) > > a Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of > Amsterdam, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands; > loet@leydesdorff.net; http://www.leydesdorff.net; * corresponding author. > > b Environmental Systems Analysis, Chalmers University of Technology, > Göteborg, Sweden; duncan.kushnir@chalmers.se. > > c SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex, > Freeman Centre, Falmer Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9QE, United Kingdom; > i.rafols@sussex.ac.uk. > > d Ingenio (CSIC-UPV), Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain. > > e Division for Science and Innovation Studies, Administrative Headquarters > of the Max Planck Society, Hofgartenstr. 8, D-80539 Munich, Germany; > bornmann@gv.mpg.de -- Dr. Malte Rehbein Assistant Professor of History Faculty Fellow, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska 624 Oldfather Hall Lincoln, NE 68588 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3DFA25F49; Tue, 6 Nov 2012 07:42:12 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 118952E1A; Tue, 6 Nov 2012 07:42:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2D0362DEF; Tue, 6 Nov 2012 07:42:10 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121106064210.2D0362DEF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 07:42:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.457 evaluation of scholarly projects? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 457. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 15:32:12 -0600 From: Sarah L Pfannenschmidt Subject: Call for Participants Good afternoon, I'm an MSIS candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, School of Information. My faculty sponsor (Dr. Tanya Clement) and I are working on a project that focuses on evaluation methods and standards for digital scholarly projects, with a particular emphasis on those that use the Text Encoding Initiative standard. We would like to gather responses from the TEI community (as well as the general Digital Humanities community) in order to understand more about how digital scholarly projects are currently evaluated. To this end, I have put together a survey and would be grateful if you would take the time to answer a few questions: https://qtrial.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_b89IXl4msVon4u9 The survey should take no more than 20 minutes of your time. If you take the survey and would be open to discussing this topic further, please contact me at the following email address and we can arrange a virtual interview via Skype at your convenience: SPfannenschmidt@utexas.edu. Thank you in advance for your assistance with this project; we value your insights. Best, Sarah Pfannenschmidt, MSIS candidate, University of Texas at Austin School of Information Dr. Tanya Clement, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin School of Information _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 992AA5FCF; Tue, 6 Nov 2012 07:46:59 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693562E14; Tue, 6 Nov 2012 07:46:59 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CF5922E13; Tue, 6 Nov 2012 07:46:56 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121106064656.CF5922E13@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 07:46:56 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.458 events: visualisation & arts; Scandinavian DH; cultural 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. 458. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: kcl - digitalhumanities (71) Subject: CFP:Digital Humanities, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies 103rd Annual Meeting [2] From: Anna Maerker (11) Subject: IHR seminar Weds: Alison Wylie & Laura Peers [3] From: Graham Diprose (36) Subject: EVA London 2013 Call for Proposals --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 08:23:30 +0000 From: kcl - digitalhumanities Subject: CFP:Digital Humanities, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies 103rd Annual Meeting Call for Papers: Digital Humanities Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies 103rd Annual Meeting May 2-4, 2013, San Francisco Hilton Hotel, Financial District Digital methods in the Liberal Arts have shifted from being a sideshow to a central act in the scholarly engagement with human culture. Though humanists and social scientists have used computation in their work for many decades, the amount of both digitized data and degree of algorithmic sophistication makes the present moment a crucial one for bringing together expertise and exchange of ideas in this area. Since our field studies nations with high levels of technical development and strong investments in large-scale digital cultural heritage projects, we face a special challenge in ensuring our methodologies are sophisticated enough to tackle a coming flood of Nordic “big data.” As part of the Annual Meeting of SASS, we are soliciting proposals on the subject Digital Humanities, broadly considered. We anticipate any of the following focus areas would be appropriate, and also welcome other topics and approaches as relevant: • Literary and linguistic text mining • Digital folkloristics /computation for cultural heritage domains • Stylometrics • GeoSpatial / GIS / digital cultural mapping • Digital multimodal / new media studies • Algorithmic image analysis/ film analysis • TEI, XML, and other forms of semantic markup • Digital editions or online scholarly editions • Corpus query engines / information retrieval for cultural analytics • Digital humanities, pedagogy, and the college curriculum • Corpus linguistics / Internet linguistics • Computational linguistics / Natural language processing • Computational social media analysis • Consumer platforms and new modes of reading, viewing, listening, and translating content • Digital methods in the humanities, arts, and social sciences • Theories of digital humanities and critical inquiry into the quantification of humanities research • Tutorials and introductory information presentations suitable also for those with an interest in learning more about Digital Humanities but who have limited experience in the area • We also encourage proposals from researchers in computer science, informatics, and statistics, with the caveat that such presentations frame their work with a clear connection to the Nordic Humanities, Social Sciences, or the Arts. These papers will be assembled into an in-conference seminar, or Topic Stream, which links multiple papers on this topic. We anticipate a variety of formats for the panels in the Digital Humanities Stream and ask that contributors clearly specify which format they are most interested in, though we cannot guarantee that all requests can be accommodated. • Traditional: four 15-minute papers or three 20-minute papers • Flash: six ten-minute papers • Poster: visual displays on board or computer monitor • Roundtable: discussion on a subtopic, or summary panel We expect to draw on submissions to the Digital Humanities Stream for a subsequent peer-reviewed publication, either as a special issue of a journal, an edited collection, or as an open access web-publication. We encourage interested participants to reference ways in which they foresee developing their conference contribution into a possible publication. Send 500-word abstracts with a short biographical note by November 30 to Peter Leonard pleonard@gmail.com; Cissi Oversdotter Alm coagla@rit.edu, Tim Tangherlini tango@humnet.ucla.edu, or Anna Stenport aws@illinois.edu. A copy should also be sent to the conference committee at sass2013@berkeley.edu. For more information about SASS 2013 or the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, please visit: http://www.scandinavianstudy.org/site/. ________________________________ 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 09:24:31 +0000 From: Anna Maerker Subject: IHR seminar Weds: Alison Wylie & Laura Peers [from the Mersenne list] The next event of the Public History seminar series at the Institute of Historical Research in London may be of interest to readers of Mersenne: ‘Negotiating the past: Collaborative practice in cultural heritage research’ Weds 7th November, Athlone Room (102), Senate House, 17:30-19:30 Speaker: Prof. Alison Wylie Departments of Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Washington Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Durham (Michelmas Term 2012) Archaeology has seen a major sea change in the last few decades as any number of stakeholders, especially Indigenous, Aboriginal, and First Nations descendant communities, demand accountability to their interests, their conventions of practice and conceptions of cultural heritage. What are the implications of this for archaeological practice? Internal debate in North America has been dominated by anxieties about the costs of response to these demands: the focus is on high profile examples of research opportunities lost and professional autonomy compromised by legal constraints and by intractable conflict. All too often this obscures local initiatives that illustrate what becomes possible when practice is reframed as a form of intellectual and cultural collaboration. In the case of collaborations with Native American communities, the archaeologists involved describe innumerable ways in which their research programs have been enriched, empirically and conceptually. I explore the legacies of community-based collaborative practice in archaeology, focusing on their implications for procedural norms that govern the adjudication of empirical robustness and credibility. I argue that conditions for effective critical engagement must include a requirement to take seriously forms of expertise that lie outside the research community. Respondent: Dr Laura Peers Pitt Rivers Museum and School of Anthropology, University of Oxford The seminar will be followed by a drinks reception. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 14:13:37 +0000 From: Graham Diprose Subject: EVA London 2013 Call for Proposals ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS LONDON 2013 Monday 29th July - Wednesday 31st July 2013 Venue: British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA www.eva-london.org CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: 18th January 2013 *Visualising* Ideas and concepts in culture, heritage the arts and sciences: digital arts, sound, music, film and animation, 2D and 3D imaging, European projects, archaeology, architecture, social media for museums, heritage and fine art photography, medical visualisation and more OFFERS OF PAPERS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND WORKSHOPS by 18th January 2013 A feature of EVA London 2013 is its varied session types. We invite proposals of papers, demonstrations, short performances, workshops or panel discussions. Demonstrations and performances will be an important part of this year's conference. We especially invite papers or presentations on topical subjects, and the newest and cutting edge technologies and applications. EVA London 2013 will include a digital art exhibition. Only a summary of the proposal, on up to one page, is required for selection. This must be submitted electronically according to the instructions on the EVA London website. Proposals may be on any aspect of EVA London's focus on visualisation for arts and culture, heritage and medical science, broadly interpreted. Papers are peer reviewed and may be edited for publication as hard copy and online. Other presentations may be published as summaries or as papers. If your proposal is a case study, we will be looking for discussions of wider principles or applications using the case study as an example. 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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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4C5EF5FCF; Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:43:39 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE022E1A; Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:43:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 96BC32E05; Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:43:37 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121107064337.96BC32E05@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:43:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.459 when amplification makes new X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 459. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 10:38:32 -0800 (PST) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: 26.456 when amplification makes new; usefulness of mapping interface In-Reply-To: <20121106064130.C74B82E10@digitalhumanities.org> John Laudun wrote : > Doesn't this inquiry connect back to previous threads about the  > location of "ability" or "knowledge" when using tools? Certainly,  > if one follows the work of cognitive anthropologists like Charles  > Frake and Edwin Hutchins, who argue that in cognition is embedded  > (often) in a larger process which includes materiel outside the human  > body, then the skilled operator does indeed possess the ability. That's  > Frake notion, to some degree, when discussing the Medieval sailor's  > use of the compass rose and also Hutchins' notion when exploring the  > expanded socio-technological landscape of modern ship navigation, a  > landscape he ultimately describes as "distributed cognition." As far as Classics ( my former field ), at least, is concerned :  this jogs  in my memory that, interestingly, such a line of thought was being  pursued by Don Fowler not too long before his very untimely death,  as I heard him discuss in a presentation which he gave at the colloquium  "Computing in Classical Studies" at the ULondon Institute of Classical  Studies back in February of 1998.  Willard will probably know more  about this and about whatever further may have come of it. And, in that  connection, I note his own relevant "A network with a thousand  entrances: commentary in an electronic age?" ( p.359-402 in _The  classical commentary: histories, practices, theory_ / ed. by R.K.  Gibson & C. Shuttleworth Kraus. - Brill, 2002 ) -- an article which he  in fact dedicated to Fowler. Perhaps he might wish to say something  more about this.   - Laval Hunsucker   Breukelen, Nederland _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E2CBE6068; Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:44:22 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B56F96002; Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:44:22 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D725A5FE5; Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:44:19 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121107064419.D725A5FE5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:44:19 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.460 what distance measure? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 460. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 23:06:12 +0000 From: Tom Salyers Subject: What distance measure should I be using for string similarity? Here's the executive summary: I'm trying to cluster sentences from about twenty Elizabethan plays together based on how similar their grammatical structures are. To that end, I've compiled a database of the sentences from an XML corpus that has each word tagged with its part of speech. For instance, the sentence "Now Faustus, what wouldst thou have me do?" has the structure "av np pu q vm p vh p vd pu". So far, so good. The problem is that since sentences are such flexible, modular things, there's no hard-and-fast way to assign a sentence into a particular category. What I've finally settled on is clustering to assign sentences to categories by their similarity--most likely k-medoid clustering, since my original approach, hierarchical agglomerative clustering, was hugely time-consuming. (On the order of O of n^2.) My problem arises when trying to compute similarities and/or distances between the sentences. I originally was trying Levenshtein distance, but it seems to be skewing the results for short but structurally-different sentences, even after I reduced the part-of-speech tags to single alphanumeric characters to eliminate noise from different-length tags. For instance, I'm getting "Fie, Publius, fie!" (POS tags "uh pu np pu uh pu", encoded as "TPJPTP") put in the same cluster as "Once more adieu!" ("av av uh pu", "AATP"), which shouldn't really be happening--but the edit distance is so much smaller between them and the longer sentences that they're getting dropped into the same bucket. I've started toying around with things like cosine similarity, and to that end have reduced my sentences to n-dimensional frequency-of-occurrence vectors for each POS tag...but I'm wondering if there's a better measure out there that I just haven't heard of. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance, and please let me know if you need more details. -- Tom Salyers _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E6F066084; Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:47:46 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA94F6034; Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:47:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id ECE9B6034; Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:47:44 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121107064744.ECE9B6034@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:47:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.461 history of technology 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. 461. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 16:31:16 -0500 From: Andrew Butrica Subject: Maurice Daumas Prize 2013 ICOHTEC: The International Committee for the History of Technology Call for Articles MAURICE DAUMAS PRIZE 2013 The International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC, welcomes sub­missions for its new article prize, the Maurice Daumas Prize, which aims to encourage innovative and superbly written research in the history of technology. ICOHTEC is interested in the history of technology focusing on technological development as well as its relationship to science, society, economy, culture and the environment. The history of technology covers all periods of human history. There is no limitation as to theoretical or methodological approaches. The Maurice Daumas Prize will be awarded to the best article submitted on the history of technology and published in a journal or edited volume in 2011 or 2012. Submissions are welcomed from junior and senior scholars of any country, and their focus can be the technological past of any part of the world. Eligible for the prize are original articles published in any of the official ICOHTEC languages (English, French, German, Russian or Spanish). If the language of publication is not English, applicants should include a three-page English summary. For the Maurice Daumas Prize 2013, please send your submission to each of the four Prize Committee members. Your submissions must be postmarked no later than 23 January 2013. The submission should be accompanied by a CV and, if applicable, a list of publications. Applicants are free to add references or reviews of the work submitted. The winner will be contacted in mid-early June 2013. The prize will be awarded at our 40th Symposium, 22–28 July 2013 in Manchester, United Kingdom. The winner will receive a cash prize of Euro 500 as well as a travel grant of Euro 300 (if needed) to attend the ICOHTEC Symposium of 20123. . Additionally, the ICOHTEC Symposium will feature a special panel organized around the winning article. Send a complete application by regular mail or electronically as a pdf-file attach­ment to each of the following Article Prize Committee members: Andrew Butrica, Dr.,Chair Email: abutrica@earthlink.net Research Historians History Group Apt. 913-South 5225 Pooks Hill Road Bethesda, MD 20814 USA Martina Hessler, Prof. Email: mhessler@hsu-hh.de Department of History Helmut Schmidt University Holstenhofweg 85 D-22039 Hamburg Germany Pierre Lamard, Prof. Email: pierre.lamard@utbm.fr Laboratoire RECITS L’Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM) F-90010 Belfort CEDEX France Susan Schmidt Horning, Prof. Email: schmidts@stjohns.edu Department of History St. John's College of Liberal Arts and SciencesUniversity St. John Hall, Room 244N Queens Campus 8000 Utopia Parkway, Queens, NY 11439 USA * * * MAURICE DAUMAS (1910 - 1984) – The French Trailblazer The history of technology would never have become a prominent field of historical research without energetic pathbreakers. Maurice Daumas was one of them. His broad scientific production includes an early work work, Les instruments scientifiques aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, which garnered a good reputation and also appeared in English translation. During the years 1962–1978, he edited a highly valued history of technology, Histoire générale des techniques, 5 volumes, which has been translated into English and Spanish and used as a textbook in various countries. In France, Daumas was also the pioneer of industrial archaeology. Daumas was a major promoter of the history of technology as a discipline, and he contributed to several societies, journals and conferences. He was also the first secretary general of ICOHTEC and the host of its symposium at Pont-à-Mousson in 1970. For further information: http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/issue/rhs_0151-4105_1984_num_37_3 ICOHTEC: The International Committee for the History of Technology ICOHTEC – A Scholarly Forum and Global Organiser ICOHTEC, founded in Paris in 1968, is a Scientific Section within the Division of the History of Science and Technology of the International Union of the History and Philo­sophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST/DHST). It is a leading international organi­sation in the history of technology. Its membership base is mainly in Europe, but also in the Americas, East Asia, India and Australia. Research activities in which ICOHTEC members co-operate are on a comparative national basis, stressing aspects of co-operation between various nations, regions or institutions. ICOHTEC holds annual symposia at sites spread around the world. Next year’s meeting “Technology, the Arts and Industrial Culture” will take place in BarcelonaManchester, Spain England from 10 to 14 August 2012 22 to 28 July 2013. ICON is ICOHTEC’s journal and contains scholarly articles and reviews. Other items of interest to members are reported in the Newsletter, which also provides country reports on the history of technology and bibliographical surveys. Further information is available at ICOHTEC’s homepage: http://www.icohtec.org/ http://www.icohtec.org/. Should you wish to join ICOHTEC, please visit our website, fill in the membership form and return it to the address provided at: http://icohtec.org/about-us-join.htm For more information, please contact Timo Myllyntaus, ICOHTEC Secretary General, at timmyl@utu.fitimmyl@utu.fi. Andrew J. Butrica, Ph.D.Research Historian Voice: (301) 656-3486 Fax: (301) 656-3486 (please call first) E-mail: abutrica@earthlink.net "Il faut cultiver nôtre jardin." Voltaire, Candide. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 758D32E1C; Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:48:49 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431126088; Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:48:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 68EE76084; Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:48:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121107064847.68EE76084@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:48:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.462 events: classifying archaeological artefacts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 462. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 10:16:05 +0100 From: Matteo Romanello Subject: Today's Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin: "Classifying Formal Features of Archaeological Artefacts [...]" Hi all, The event below may be of some interest to those of you that are based in Berlin. All the others will be interested to know that we aim to publish online the video of all presentations, together with slides and abstracts–all materials will be accessible also from the page http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/seminar2012. Please check back soon for updates! Best regards, Matteo ##### Just a kind reminder about today's session (17:18-30) of the Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin. Diego Jiménez-Badillo (INAH, Mexico) will be presenting on "Classifying Formal Features of Archaeological Artefacts through the Application of Spectral Clustering"– see http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/2012/10/30/Jimenez-Badillo for the full abstract. The seminar takes place in the same venue as the last time, i.e. in the Gartensaal of the German Archaeological Institute. Please note that the actual entrance to the Gartensaal is from Peter-Lenné-Straße (approximately here http://goo.gl/maps/v4m9z http://goo.gl/maps/v4m9z ). All welcome: the seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. Hope to see you there! -- Matteo Romanello PhD Student Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL web: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/people/students/romanello blog: http://c4tc.wordpress.com/ skype: matteo.romanello twitter: http://twitter.com/@mr56k _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1972E6098; Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:49:35 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C28CA6097; Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:49:35 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EE67E6092; Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:49:34 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121107064934.EE67E6092@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 07:49:34 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.463 predicting elections X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 463. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:25:32 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: being stochastic Many here, I suspect, will enjoy reading Tom Bartlett's article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, "The Rise of the Poll Quants (or, Why Sam Wang Might Eat a Bug)", at http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/the-rise-of-the-poll-quants-or-the-demise-of-the-tv-pundits/31636?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8D9B76002; Thu, 8 Nov 2012 09:55:17 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E28A2E1A; Thu, 8 Nov 2012 09:55:17 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AFB932E19; Thu, 8 Nov 2012 09:55:15 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121108085515.AFB932E19@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 09:55:15 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.464 distance measure; amplification making new X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 464. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (35) Subject: Re: 26.459 when amplification makes new [2] From: Neven Jovanovic (72) Subject: Re: 26.460 what distance measure? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 07:04:30 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Re: 26.459 when amplification makes new Thanks to Laval Hunsucker, who wrote in Humanist 26.459 in response to John Laudun's mention of the extended-mind/body hypothesis regarding tools and abilities that, > As far as Classics ( my former field ), at least, is concerned : this jogs > in my memory that, interestingly, such a line of thought was being > pursued by Don Fowler not too long before his very untimely death, > as I heard him discuss in a presentation which he gave at the colloquium > "Computing in Classical Studies" at the ULondon Institute of Classical > Studies back in February of 1998. Willard will probably know more > about this and about whatever further may have come of it. And, in that > connection, I note his own relevant "A network with a thousand > entrances: commentary in an electronic age?" ( p.359-402 in _The > classical commentary: histories, practices, theory_ / ed. by R.K. > Gibson& C. Shuttleworth Kraus. - Brill, 2002 ) -- an article which he > in fact dedicated to Fowler. Perhaps he might wish to say something > more about this. In my original posting I asked in what sense any of us *has* an ability whose exercise depends on an external device, in this case, a computer. The usual argument focuses on moments or periods of time in which the device is being used, e.g. the person has his or her hands on the tiller of a boat and so moves through the water as would otherwise be impossible. But what about when he or she is asleep in bed? Walking the dog? Where is the ability then? What about if the person should suffer a horrible accident and lose the arm required for sailing? Lose his or her sight? Perhaps I am just playing with words. Is there a real question here? 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, 7 Nov 2012 17:46:51 +0100 From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Re: 26.460 what distance measure? In-Reply-To: <20121107064419.D725A5FE5@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Tom and Humanist, my math is hopelessly inadequate, but I can ofer some linguistic remarks: 1. it is not clear what you're actually counting: tags or differences ("even after I reduced the part-of-speech tags to single alphanumeric characters to eliminate noise from different-length tags")? 2. If you're counting differences, how do you treat repetition ("fie fie")? 3. The method you've described suggests that "Once more adieu!" and "Fie, Publius, fie!" are similar -- and to me they do seem similar: both are incomplete sentences lacking the verb, both consist of three elements. Now, if "Fie, Publius, fie!" turns up to be similar to "I need you" as well -- then, I guess, you have a methodological problem. It so happens that I'm currently experimenting with something related -- trying to compare translations using Levenshtein distance, but not in a scientific way, more metaphorically. Even so, it seemed necessary to introduce separate edit distances on different linguistic layers: lexical, grammatical, semantic. My notes can be found here: http://www.ffzg.unizg.hr/klafil/dokuwiki/doku.php/z:levenshtein-translation . So, in the end, I can only second Tom's request: if there is work that we should know about, please do enlighten us! Best, Neven Neven Jovanovic Zagreb, Croatia On 7 November 2012 07:44, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 460. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 23:06:12 +0000 > From: Tom Salyers > Subject: What distance measure should I be using for string similarity? > > Here's the executive summary: I'm trying to cluster sentences from > about twenty Elizabethan plays together based on how similar their > grammatical structures are. To that end, I've compiled a database of > the sentences from an XML corpus that has each word tagged with its > part of speech. For instance, the sentence "Now Faustus, what wouldst > thou have me do?" has the structure "av np pu q vm p vh p vd pu". > > So far, so good. The problem is that since sentences are such > flexible, modular things, there's no hard-and-fast way to assign a > sentence into a particular category. What I've finally settled on is > clustering to assign sentences to categories by their similarity--most > likely k-medoid clustering, since my original approach, hierarchical > agglomerative clustering, was hugely time-consuming. (On the order of > O of n^2.) > > My problem arises when trying to compute similarities and/or distances > between the sentences. I originally was trying Levenshtein distance, > but it seems to be skewing the results for short but > structurally-different sentences, even after I reduced the > part-of-speech tags to single alphanumeric characters to eliminate > noise from different-length tags. For instance, I'm getting "Fie, > Publius, fie!" (POS tags "uh pu np pu uh pu", encoded as "TPJPTP") put > in the same cluster as "Once more adieu!" ("av av uh pu", "AATP"), > which shouldn't really be happening--but the edit distance is so much > smaller between them and the longer sentences that they're getting > dropped into the same bucket. > > I've started toying around with things like cosine similarity, and to > that end have reduced my sentences to n-dimensional > frequency-of-occurrence vectors for each POS tag...but I'm wondering > if there's a better measure out there that I just haven't heard of. > Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance, and > please let me know if you need more details. > > -- > Tom Salyers _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 65CED607E; Thu, 8 Nov 2012 09:57:44 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D2CD6000; Thu, 8 Nov 2012 09:57:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1E3CB2E1C; Thu, 8 Nov 2012 09:57:42 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121108085742.1E3CB2E1C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 09:57:42 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.465 jobs: postdoc at MPI Berlin; job in Digital Theology at St Louis X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 465. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Elaine Leong (18) Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin [2] From: Hugh Cayless (28) Subject: Job opening at the Center for Digital Theology --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 09:38:08 +0100 From: Elaine Leong Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin In-Reply-To: *Apologies for cross posting* The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Department II (Prof. Lorraine Daston), announces one Postdoctoral fellowship for two years with possibility of renewal for a third year, starting date September 1, 2013. The fellow will join the MPG Minerva Research Group “Reading and Writing Nature in Early Modern Europe” lead by Dr. Elaine Leong. The group is part of Department II at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and is connected to the project “The Sciences of the Archive.” Further details concerning the project may be found at http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/MRGLeong/index_html. We particularly welcome applicants whose research contributes to the working group project ‘Testing Drugs and Trying Cures in Early Modern Europe’ (Project website). Other possible topics include: - Cultures (material, social and intellectual) of selecting, collecting, preserving, classifying, and transmitting knowledge and, in particular, notebooks and paper technologies - Histories of reading (e.g. investigations of reading practices and histories of book collections and libraries) - Histories of book production including publishing and print, scribal publication and translation practices. The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science is an international and interdisciplinary research institute (http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/index.html). The colloquium language is English; it is expected that candidates will be able to present their own work and discuss that of others fluently in that language. Candidates should hold a doctorate in the history of science, history of medicine or related field at the time the fellowship begins. Outstanding junior scholars are invited to apply. Fellowships are endowed with a monthly stipend between 2.100 € and 2.500 € (fellows from abroad) or between 1.468 € and 1.621 € (fellows from Germany). Candidates of all nationalities are welcomed to apply; applications from women are especially welcomed. The Max Planck Society is committed to promoting more handicapped individuals and encourages them to apply. Applications should be submitted in English. Candidates are requested to send a curriculum vitae, publication list, research prospectus (maximum 750 words), a sample text, and two letters of recommendation no later than January 15, 2013 to: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Administration, PD-II-Minerva Boltzmannstr. 22 14195 Berlin, Germany Electronic submission is also possible: rheld@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de. For questions concerning the research project and Department II, please contact Dr. Elaine Leong (eleong@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de); for administrative questions concerning the position and the Institute, please contact Claudia Paaß (paass@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de), Head of Administration, or Jochen Schneider (jsr@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de), Research Coordinator. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 11:40:49 -0600 From: Hugh Cayless Subject: Job opening at the Center for Digital Theology In-Reply-To: A job opening that may be of interest: Begin forwarded message: > From: James Ginther > Subject: [dm-l] Job opening at the Center for Digital Theology > Date: November 7, 2012 10:26:52 CST > To: dm-l@uleth.ca > Reply-To: ginthej@slu.edu > > The Center for Digital Theology, at research unit in digital humanities at Saint Louis University, is seeking a new web developer with experience in Java. The details of the post can be found at http://digital-editor.blogspot.com/2012/11/seeking-new-developer.html. Please share this with all who might be interested in applying. > > Thanks, > Jim > > > -- > ---------- > James R. Ginther, PhD > Professor of Medieval Theology, > Associate Chair, Department of Theology > & Director, Center for Digital Theology > Saint Louis University > ------------------------- > ginthej@slu.edu > Faculty Page: Departmental Page > Research Blog: http://digital-editor.blogspot.com > Twitter: DH_editor > T-PEN: www.tpen.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CB9CB604A; Thu, 8 Nov 2012 10:08:31 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A26586000; Thu, 8 Nov 2012 10:08:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 285DF5F49; Thu, 8 Nov 2012 10:08:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121108090830.285DF5F49@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 10:08:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.466 events: many and diverse X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 466. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Peter van Kranenburg (68) Subject: Call for Abstracts: 3rd International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis [2] From: "Brookes, Stewart" (60) Subject: Remember, remember, "Digital Approaches to Medieval Script and Image" in November... [3] From: Andrew Prescott (45) Subject: Sign up to the Humanities Hack, London [4] From: "Garfinkel, Susan" (20) Subject: Digital Humanities at ASA San Juan [5] From: Jennifer Guiliano (72) Subject: CFP: Shared Horizons: Data, Biomedicine, and the Digital Humanities [6] From: Stuart Dunn (37) Subject: CeRch seminar next week: Orla Murphy --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:36:46 +0100 From: Peter van Kranenburg Subject: Call for Abstracts: 3rd International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis [Apologies for cross-posting] ============================================== FMA2013 : Call for Abstracts ============================================== FMA2013 - 3rd International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis You are kindly invited to participate in the 3rd International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis that will take place in Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 6 and 7, 2013. It is the third workshop in a series (Athens 2011, Sevilla 2012). This workshop is an excellent opportunity to present and discuss ongoing research in the area of computational ethnomusicology. There are two important motivations. Firstly, recent advances in computer science, artificial intelligence, etc. have great potential to be employed for (ethno)musicology. This implies a more empiric approach to music studies. The current research in this area is only in its beginnings. Therefore much attention should be paid to explore these methods and their relation to the research traditions of musicology. Secondly, most of the current research in music information retrieval is primarily aimed at western music. Therefore, with this workshop we want to stimulate a broader focus that also includes non-western musics. Authors are kindly invited to submit an extended abstract (max. 1000 words or 2 pages in 12 point font). Additional pages may be added for references. The extended abstracts will be peer reviewed. Authors of accepted abstracts have the opportunity to contribute a full paper to be published online in the workshop proceedings in addition to the extended abstract. The language of the workshop is English. There is no limit on the number of abstracts that may be submitted by a single researcher, and abstracts do not need to be anonymized for blind review. Topics include: - Computational ethnomusicology - Retrieval systems for non-western and folk musics - New methods for music transcription - Formalization of musical data - Folk music classification systems - Models of oral transmission of music - Cognitive modelling of music - Aesthetics and related philosophical issues - Methodological issues - Representational issues and models - Audio and symbolic representations - Formal and computational music analysis Important dates: 3 February 2013: Deadline for abstract submissions 10 March 2013: Notification of acceptance/rejection of submissions 5 May 2013: Deadline for submission of revised abstracts or full papers 6 and 7 June: Workshop The workshop is jointly organized by the eLaboratory Oral Culture of the Meertens Institute, the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht Universty and the Study Group on Digital Musicology of the International Musicological Society. The workshop is supported by the eHumanities Group of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Local organizing committee: - Peter van Kranenburg (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam) - Berit Janssen (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam) - Anja Volk (Utrecht University) - Frans Wiering (Utrecht University) Further details will be announced on the workshopÂ’s webpage: http://www.elab-oralculture.nl/fma2013 -- Peter van Kranenburg, MSc, MA, PhD. http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/cms/en/staff/142502-peterk http://www.musical-style-recognition.net/ http://www.lodebar.nl/pvk Visiting Address: Meertens Instituut, Room 0.54 Joan Muyskenweg 25; 1096 CJ Amsterdam; Netherlands Postal Address: Postbus 94264; 1090 GG Amsterdam; Netherlands Tel: +31 (0)20 4628533 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 15:53:07 +0000 From: "Brookes, Stewart" Subject: Remember, remember, "Digital Approaches to Medieval Script and Image" in November... DigiPal (Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London) One-Day Symposium Dear all, As the days darken and the wind starts to bite, we thought it might be worth remembering that there's more to a UK November than fireworks and cold weather. With that in mind, the DigiPal team at King's College London, in association with the Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, University of Westminster, are delighted to announce the programme for their "Digital Approaches to Medieval Script and Image" Symposium. "Digital Approaches to Medieval Script and Image" Date: Thursday 22nd November 2012 Venue: University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street, W1W 6UW (Room CLG.09) Time: 9.30am-5.30pm If you haven't registered for the Symposium as yet, then now would seem to be the ideal moment to snap up one of the few remaining places. Registration is free -- all you have to do is send an email (with your name and affiliation as you would like them to appear on your name badge) to digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk Coffee and registration will be at 9.30am and the Symposium will start at 9.50am. There will be refreshments, but lunch isn't included (we wanted to keep registration free, and it turns out that there's no such thing as a free lunch). Looking forward to seeing you on the 22nd, Stewart Brookes and Peter Stokes (King's College London) and Louise Sylvester (University of Westminster) ------------------------- Speakers and titles ------------------------- Stewart Brookes (King's College London) — "You Can't Always Get What You Want: Selecting Images for the DigiPal Database" Florence Codine (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) — "Letters in Sharp Relief: Digital Images and Epigraphy through the Example of Coin Inscriptions" Kathleen Doyle and Sarah Biggs (British Library) Marc Michael Epstein (Vassar College) — "The Chiasmatron: Hyperlinks and Pedagogical Methodology in the Study of the Iconography of Manuscripts Made for Jews in the Middle Ages" Rachel Hart (Universities of St Andrews and Dundee) — "Teaching and Learning Palaeography on Both Sides of the Tay: Physical and Digital Realities" Catherine Karkov (University of Leeds) — "Mourning Materiality in the Postdigital Era" Neel Smith (College of the Holy Cross) — "Analyzing Early Manuscripts of the Iliad with Scholia" Peter A Stokes (King's College London) — "Describing Handwriting, Describing Decoration – Then Finding it Again" Jonathan Taylor (British Museum) — "Towards a Digital Palaeography of Cuneiform" Melissa Terras (University College London) – "Trusting What We See: Issues of Provenance When Imaging Manuscript Material in Complex Ways" Elaine Treharne (Stanford University) – "Will the Real Palaeographer Please Stand Up" Sarah Weston (Stanford University) — "ST(M)EMS (Stanford Tree of (Medieval and) Early Modern Scripts) and the Implications of Online Paleographic Tools" -- DigiPal, just when you thought it was safe to open your manuscript: http://digipal.eu/ Dr Stewart J Brookes Research Associate Digital Resource for Palaeography Department of Digital Humanities King's College London --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 20:09:54 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Sign up to the Humanities Hack, London In-Reply-To: -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [open-humanities] Sign up to the Humanities Hack, London > Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 17:22:11 +0000 > From: Sam Leon Hi All, * * *When: 21st-22nd November 2012* *Where: Guys Campus, Hodgkin Building, London, SE1 1UL* *>> Sign-up form here <<* This is a reminder that the *Humanities Hack* will be taking place later this month between the *21st and 22nd November*. For those of you who don't know this is a joint venture between the Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/ , DARIAH http://dariah.eu/ , DM2E http://dm2e.eu/ and the Kings College London, Digital Humanities Department http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/index.aspx . The London event is the first of a series of hackdays organised for coders and researchers and intended to nurture research-driven experimentation with existing openly licensed Humanities data. The aim of the hackday is not to produce complete applications but to experiment with methods and technologies to investigate these data sets so that at the end we can have an understanding of the types of novel techniques that are emerging. We are curating a list of datasets http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/index.aspx at the moment for use at the hack, please have a look at them and add any that you think would be good to look at on the day. It's set to be a fantastic day with people who have been involved in some of the most exciting open source Digital Humanities projects already signed-up such as TEXTUS http://textusproject.org/ and Pundit http://thepund.it/ . As spaces are filling up, I would urge anyone who still wants to come to sign-up in the next few days. Any queries about the day itself, then let me know! All the best and hope to see many of you there! Sam -- Sam Leon Community Coordinator Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/ Skype: samedleon --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 16:32:48 -0500 From: "Garfinkel, Susan" Subject: Digital Humanities at ASA San Juan In-Reply-To: [Even if you won't be in San Juan please do consider joining our online conversations, as part of the forum (1 below), or via Twitter. --SG] Please join the Digital Humanities Caucus for part or all of a Friday's worth of sessions at the American Studies Association meeting in San Juan. Please also consider participating in any of several ways: 1) What Can the Digital Humanities Bring to American Studies, and Vice Versa? Fri, Nov 16 - 8:00am - 9:45am Puerto Rico Convention Center, 202A * This is a roundtable session with an accompanying online forum. See http://www.theasa.net/caucus_digital_humanities/page/american_studies_and_digital_humanities_2012_roundtable, and please add your comments! Check back as more entries and comments are added from within and beyond the American Studies community. 2) Digital Shorts: New Platforms of Knowledge Production and Resistance Fri, Nov 16 - 10:00am - 11:45am Puerto Rico Convention Center, 202A * Participants wanted! This lightning talks session is open to everyone at the conference who has a digital humanities project to share--even if you're on the program elsewhere. Talks are informal and no more than five minutes in length. To learn more, or to sign up to talk, see http://www.theasa.net/caucus_digital_humanities/item/participants_wanted_digital_humanities_lightning_talks/. Walk-ins are also welcome. 3) Digital Humanities Caucus Business Meeting Fri, Nov 16 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm Puerto Rico Convention Center, 201B * Becoming a member of the Digital Humanities Caucus is free, and easy to do. Please join us to help plan next year's conference events as well as additional year-long projects. (Note: We will end at 1:00 pm, in time for a lunch break.) 4) Digital Dimensions of Graduate Education in American Studies Fri, Nov 16 - 2:00pm - 3:45pm Puerto Rico Convention Center, 202A * This professional development roundtable is co-sponsored with the ASA Committee on Graduate Education and the ASA Students Committee. 5) And there are yet other ways to get involved. Follow us on Twitter at @dhcaucus. Tweet the conference (look out for news the official hashtag once we learn it.) Join us on the ASA Web site at http://www.theasa.net/caucus_digital_humanities/. Questions? Contact Susan Garfinkel at sgarfinkel "at" loc.gov --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 20:14:47 -0500 From: Jennifer Guiliano Subject: CFP: Shared Horizons: Data, Biomedicine, and the Digital Humanities In-Reply-To: Shared Horizons solicits applications to attend this two-day National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Symposium Date: Wednesday, April 10- Friday, April 12, 2012 Location: University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland USA Applications Due: December 15, 2012 *(please note the revised deadline)* APPLY NOW http://www.mith.umd.edu/sharedhorizons/conftool/ The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities * *(MITH), working in cooperation with the Office of Digital Humanities http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh of the National Endowment for the Humanities http://www.neh.gov , the National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ of the National Institutes for Health http://www.nih.gov, and the Research Councils UK http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/Pages/Home.aspx , will host a two-day symposium to: (1) address questions about collaboration, research methodologies, and the interpretation of evidence arising from the interdisciplinary opportunities in this burgeoning area of biomedical-driven humanities scholarship; (2) to investigate the current state of the field; and (3) to facilitate future research collaborations between the humanities and biomedical sciences. Awarded via a National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman’s Cooperative Agreement, Shared Horizons: Data, BioMedicine, and the Digital Humanities will explore collaboration, research methodologies, and the interpretation of evidence arising from the interdisciplinary opportunities in this burgeoning area of biomedical-driven humanities scholarship. Shared Horizons will create opportunities for disciplinary cross-fertilization through a mix of formal and informal presentations combined with breakout sessions, all designed to promote a rich exchange of ideas about how large-scale quantitative methods can lead to new understandings of human culture. Bringing together researchers from the digital humanities and bioinformatics communities, the symposium will explore ways in which these two communities might fruitfully collaborate on projects that bridge the humanities and medicine around the topics of sequence alignment and network analysis, two modes of analysis that intersect with “big data.” The organizers encourage applications from faculty, staff, and graduate students in the humanities and biomedicine fields, as well as other academics and the general public with a serious interest in sequence alignment, network analysis, and “big data”. Applicants would commit to the submission of a paper for inclusion in the Shared Horizons Resources section in addition to a 15 minute presentation related to their paper on one of these modes of analysis within your research. Applications to attend the Shared Horizons Symposium will be accepted from November 1-December 15, 2012. Applications should include an statement of research interests in these areas, a 500-1000 word abstract for their paper/presentation, and a current curriculum vitae. Selected papers would be distributed to symposium attendees prior to the event as well as posted online. Applicants should be current residents of the U.S. APPLY NOW http://www.mith.umd.edu/sharedhorizons/conftool/ Participants will be selected by the Advisory Board in consultation with the Shared Horizons Staff and Sponsors based on the following criteria with each area being weighted equally. 1) scholarly engagement with sequence alignment and/or network analysis 2) quality of proposed paper 3) collaborative potential Notification of selection will be made by January 10, 2013. Visit us at http://www.mith.umd.edu/sharedhorizons/ for more information. -- Jennifer Guiliano Assistant Director Email:guiliano@umd.edu Office Phone: (301) 405-9528 Skype: jenguiliano twitter: @jenguiliano website: http://mith.umd.edu/ -- Jennifer Guiliano Assistant Director Email:guiliano@umd.edu Office Phone: (301) 405-9528 Skype: jenguiliano twitter: @jenguiliano website: http://mith.umd.edu/ --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 16:09:01 +0000 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: CeRch seminar next week: Orla Murphy In-Reply-To: Centre for e-Research Seminar, King's College London Reading Screens Orla Murphy , University College Cork http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2012-13/reading.aspx 13 November 21012, 6.15pm, Anatomy Museum Space, Strand Campus (directions: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/atm/location.aspx) The cultural act of reading is in flux. The dynamic, contextual framework that is the text viewed on screen challenges our understanding of the page. Some technologies seek to emulate the page, to turn off the back light and enable reading outdoors in sunlight. Other digital technologies aim to both sustain and augment the reader’s experience of the text, moving beyond the paper page and into a new conceptualisation of reading, with layers of texts, with choices of views, with integrated multi and social media. This presentation explores how we once read and how we now read often multivalent texts on multiple screens. I query what has changed in these new modes of knowledge representation, and what remains constant, and posit challenges for future scholarly discourse. About the Speaker Orla Murphy – Coordinator of the MA DAH program at UCC, member of the national inter-institutional PhD DAH program in Ireland. Lecturer in the School of English, University College Cork, where she teaches, Old English language, palaeography, codicology and new histories of the book; a third year course on textualities, and MA, PhD courses on digital scholarly editing and textual practice. The seminar will be followed by wine and nibbles. --------------------------------------------- Dr. Stuart Dunn Lecturer Centre for e-Research Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel. +44 20 7848 2709 Fax. +44 20 7848 2980 www.stuartdunn.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AE7626081; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:20:58 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F0B46002; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:20:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D099D2E1C; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:20:56 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121109062056.D099D2E1C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:20:56 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.467 distance measure X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 467. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Bryan Jurish (116) Subject: Re: 26.460 what distance measure? [2] From: Desmond Schmidt (67) Subject: Re: 26.460 what distance measure? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:47:15 +0100 From: Bryan Jurish Subject: Re: 26.460 what distance measure? In-Reply-To: <509A3449.8040301@bbaw.de> morning Tom, morning list, This is my first post to this list, so I suppose a brief introduction is in order: I'm a computational linguist originally trained as a philosopher and a confirmed rationalist with a penchant for empirical data. A colleague of mine kindly forwarded me Tom's posting to the list, and since I'm interested in this kind of thing as well, it piqued my interest... On 2012-11-06 23:06:12, Tom Salyers appears to have written: > Here's the executive summary: I'm trying to cluster sentences from > about twenty Elizabethan plays together based on how similar their > grammatical structures are. Judging from the rest of the posting, I'm guessing you're interested primarily in syntactic structure and not the semantics, correct? > To that end, I've compiled a database of > the sentences from an XML corpus that has each word tagged with its > part of speech. For instance, the sentence "Now Faustus, what wouldst > thou have me do?" has the structure "av np pu q vm p vh p vd pu". Idle speculation: when everything else is working, it might be useful to run a parser over the sentences and work with tree-postorder strings; e.g. for "S(NP(NE(John)),VP(V(loves),NP(NE(Mary))" you'd get "NE,NP,V,NE,NP,VP,S" rather than just the less-informative "NE,V,NE": that way you might be able to get a handle on constituent structure rather than just POS-substrings, but I digress... > So far, so good. The problem is that since sentences are such > flexible, modular things, there's no hard-and-fast way to assign a > sentence into a particular category. What I've finally settled on is > clustering to assign sentences to categories by their similarity--most > likely k-medoid clustering, since my original approach, hierarchical > agglomerative clustering, was hugely time-consuming. (On the order of > O of n^2.) Yup. You might look at [1] for an alternative to "pure" hierarchical clustering which manages to sneak around the quadratic complexity by using a 2-pass approach: hierarchically cluster a small number (sqrt(kn)) of (randomly chosen) prototypes and subsequently attach the remaining items to the prototype-clusters. > My problem arises when trying to compute similarities and/or distances > between the sentences. I originally was trying Levenshtein distance, > but it seems to be skewing the results for short but > structurally-different sentences, even after I reduced the > part-of-speech tags to single alphanumeric characters to eliminate > noise from different-length tags. For instance, I'm getting "Fie, > Publius, fie!" (POS tags "uh pu np pu uh pu", encoded as "TPJPTP") put > in the same cluster as "Once more adieu!" ("av av uh pu", "AATP"), > which shouldn't really be happening--but the edit distance is so much > smaller between them and the longer sentences that they're getting > dropped into the same bucket. This is a well-known problem with the Levenshtein metric: the maximum distance depends on the lengths of the argument strings. In theory, you can adjust for this by scaling each comparison by an "expected distance" a la [2], setting d'(a,b) = (d(a,b)-E(d|a,b)]) / (max(d|a,b)-d(a,b)) ... unfortunately, afaik, no closed-form solution is currently known for the Levenshtein distance between two random (read "uncompressable") strings of given length (but you can get a pretty good empirical estimate for a small alphabet size like yours). Add to that the fact that POS-strings for natural language sentences are by no means random (otherwise statistical taggers would be utterly useless), and the Levenshtein distance starts looking less attractive. > I've started toying around with things like cosine similarity, and to > that end have reduced my sentences to n-dimensional > frequency-of-occurrence vectors for each POS tag...but I'm wondering > if there's a better measure out there that I just haven't heard of. > Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance, and > please let me know if you need more details. I suspect that cosine similarity over POS-unigram frequencies won't give very satisfactory results if you're interested in syntax as such. For one thing, POS frequencies (like most other natural language frequency distributions) aren't usually amenable to linear approximations (which is what cosine-distance is really doing under the hood). For medium-to-large samples, log-frequencies *do* tend to work well [my hunch: probably because of their relation to model-entropy, since log(f) ~ -log(p(f))], but a single sentence as a sample is likely too small for that to be of much use. There is a very great deal of work out there on string similarity measures, usually in the context of spelling correction or "fuzzy" search; [3] gives a pretty good survey. Since I'm assuming you want to cluster based on syntactic properties, I think your easiest path forward would be to go with an n-gram distance measure like [4,5], possibly adjusting it for expected and/or maximum values, or smoothing by interpolation (in order to avoid zeroes due to sparse data). If you're feeling ambitious, you might also look into information-based distance measures like those in [6,7] (but note that these often don't play nicely together with "standard" clustering algorithms) -- in theory, these should be able compensate for common similarities (e.g. sential properties like has-a-subject, has-an-inflected-verb) while still punishing items which lack those properties. Apologies for the long-winded reply; I hope it's at least mildly useful. Also, your project sounds very interesting -- please let me know how it turns out, and if you have a more detailed description than your "executive summary", I'd be interested in that too! marmosets, Bryan REFERENCES [1] D. Cutting, J. O. Pedersen, D. Karger, and J. W. Tukey. Scatter/gather: A cluster-based approach to browsing large document collections. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 318­-329, 1992. [2] L. Hubert and P. Arabie. Comparing partitions. Journal of Classification, 2:193­-218, 1985. [3] G. Navarro. A guided tour to approximate string matching. ACM Computing Surveys, 33(1):31­-88, 2001. [4] Esko Ukkonen. Approximate string-matching with q-grams and maximal matches. Theoretical Computer Science, 92:191­-211, 1992. [5] G. Kondrak. N-gram similarity and distance. In Proc. Twelfth IntÂ’l Conf. on String Processing and Information Retrieval, pp. 115-126, 2005. [6] P. F. Brown, V. J. Della Pietra, P. V. deSouza, J. C. Lai, and R. L. Mercer. Class-based n-gram models of natural language. Computational Linguistics, 18(4):467­479, 1992. [7] P. M. B. Vitányi, F. J. Balbach, R. L. Cilibrasi, and M. Li. Normalized Information Distance. In F. Emmert-Streib and M. Dehmer (eds), Information Theory and Statistical Learning, Springer, pp. 45-82, 2009. -- Bryan Jurish "There is *always* one more bug." moocow.bovine@gmail.com -Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 11:47:52 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 26.460 what distance measure? In-Reply-To: <20121107064419.D725A5FE5@digitalhumanities.org> Hi Tom, Since you have reduced your patterns to strings why not use a n-gram approach to similarity, like a BLAST search? Adapting it to your problem you might try comparing two patterns by the number of 3-grams they share, normalised by the number of such trigrams that they *could* share. So EABCD would share one trigram with ABC out of a possible 3 (score==.333) whereas it would share nothing with AEBDC (score 0), which has the same Levenshtein distance from ABC. This preserves patterns better than a crude edit distance. This is just a suggestion. I haven't tried it and it may not work. On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 460. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 23:06:12 +0000 > From: Tom Salyers > Subject: What distance measure should I be using for string similarity? > > Here's the executive summary: I'm trying to cluster sentences from > about twenty Elizabethan plays together based on how similar their > grammatical structures are. To that end, I've compiled a database of > the sentences from an XML corpus that has each word tagged with its > part of speech. For instance, the sentence "Now Faustus, what wouldst > thou have me do?" has the structure "av np pu q vm p vh p vd pu". > > So far, so good. The problem is that since sentences are such > flexible, modular things, there's no hard-and-fast way to assign a > sentence into a particular category. What I've finally settled on is > clustering to assign sentences to categories by their similarity--most > likely k-medoid clustering, since my original approach, hierarchical > agglomerative clustering, was hugely time-consuming. (On the order of > O of n^2.) > > My problem arises when trying to compute similarities and/or distances > between the sentences. I originally was trying Levenshtein distance, > but it seems to be skewing the results for short but > structurally-different sentences, even after I reduced the > part-of-speech tags to single alphanumeric characters to eliminate > noise from different-length tags. For instance, I'm getting "Fie, > Publius, fie!" (POS tags "uh pu np pu uh pu", encoded as "TPJPTP") put > in the same cluster as "Once more adieu!" ("av av uh pu", "AATP"), > which shouldn't really be happening--but the edit distance is so much > smaller between them and the longer sentences that they're getting > dropped into the same bucket. > > I've started toying around with things like cosine similarity, and to > that end have reduced my sentences to n-dimensional > frequency-of-occurrence vectors for each POS tag...but I'm wondering > if there's a better measure out there that I just haven't heard of. > Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance, and > please let me know if you need more details. > > -- > Tom Salyers _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 517476084; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:22:08 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26ECC2E00; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:22:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 93B856002; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:22:06 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121109062206.93B856002@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:22:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.468 a possible Shakespeare Hackday? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 468. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:53:24 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Looking for comments on a possible Shakespeare Hackday In-Reply-To: <509BD11A.2050300@ed.ac.uk> Hi there, Myself and my colleagues at EDINA are considering running a hackday (likely to be December this year) for a project we've been working on and which I hope may be of interest. The project is called Will's World and it is a JISC-funded project to build a registry of metadata about Shakespeare resources across the UK. We have been inspired by other excellent hack events we've been to and are wanting to run our own online hack event. We think that's a fairly unusual way to do it and we really want some feedback on the idea and the format from the people we want to be involved - which might hopefully include some of you. The hackday would be open to all (as will the registry) and I am very much hoping you might able to involved either in giving us some feedback on the idea, in the event itself or both! We've put up a blogpost about our idea here: http://willsworld.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2012/10/18/online-hack-event/ And the survey we are running to capture feedback is here: https://www.survey.ed.ac.uk/willsworldhack/ Please do feel free to forward/share with others - we want to both get word out about the possible event and capture as much feedback as possible before we start planning so we can make sure it actually works well. Huge thanks in advance! - Nicola. -- Nicola Osborne Social Media Officer EDINA website: http://www.edina.ac.uk/ t: 0131 651 3873 e: nicola.osborne@ed.ac.uk a: EDINA, The University of Edinburgh, Causewayside House, 158-162 Causewayside, Edinburgh EH9 1PR The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -- Nicola Osborne Social Media Officer EDINA website: http://www.edina.ac.uk/ t: 0131 651 3873 e: nicola.osborne@ed.ac.uk a: EDINA, The University of Edinburgh, Causewayside House, 158-162 Causewayside, Edinburgh EH9 1PR _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1B6126084; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:24:32 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3C6F6002; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:24:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DCCBA2E1C; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:24:29 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121109062429.DCCBA2E1C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:24:29 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.469 events: literature & science; biological research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 469. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (27) Subject: cfp: British Society for Literature and Science Conference 2013 [2] From: Chiara Ambrosio (58) Subject: STS Seminar Series 2012-13 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:35:18 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: cfp: British Society for Literature and Science Conference 2013 British Society for Literature and Science Conference 2013 Call for Papers Cardiff University and the University of Glamorgan The British Society for Literature and Science invites proposals for papers and panels to be delivered at its eighth annual conference to be held in Cardiff, 11-13 April 2013. The BSLS Conference does not have a theme (as it its usual practise) but especially welcomes proposals on the state of the field of literature and science as well as its relation too ther fields. This year we would be particularly interested to receive proposals that reflectupon the interdisciplinary study of literature and science in the context of the debate about the present position of the humanities in academia. However, the Society remains committed to supporting proposals on all aspects of literature and science across all periods. Proposals for papers of 15-20 minutes should be sent in the body of the email text (no attachments, please), to bsls2013@yahoo.co.uk, with the subject line ‘BSLS 2013abstractÂ’. Submissions should include the title of the paper, an abstract of no more than 300 words, a maximum of 3 keywords (placed at the end of the abstract), and the name and contact details of the speaker. -- 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: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 22:52:33 +0000 From: Chiara Ambrosio Subject: STS Seminar Series 2012-13 STS Seminar Series 2012-13 Department of Science and Technology Studies University College London The series is free and open to the public Monday 12 November, 4.15 pm Sabina Leonelli , Centre for Genomics and Society (Egenis), Exeter "Life in the Digital Age: The Impact of Open Data and Data-Sharing Technologies on Biological Research" Venue: Roberts Building, room 106 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/estates/roombooking/building-location/?id=045 The seminar will be followed by a reception at the Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy Abstract: The so-called ‘data deluge’, caused by the overwhelming quantity of information available to scientists through new technologies for the production, storage and dissemination of data, keeps making headlines. Online databases and data mining tools are gaining authority as the best ways not only to disseminate data, but also to understand their scientific significance – in other words, to transform data into knowledge. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Microsoft researchers have taken the lead in dubbing data-intensive approaches as a brand new paradigm in the history of science. Equally unsurprising is the position of scholars in the history, philosophy and social studies of science, who are taking a more cautious stand on both the novelty and the revolutionary potential of these developments. This talk examines some implications of this shift in research practices within the biological and biomedical sciences. Are we witnessing the rise of a new scientific epistemology, centred upon data-intensive research methods? And what opportunities and dangers are associated to it? This talk will consider these questions from a philosophical perspective informed by empirical studies of data curation in model organism biology and plant science, as well as involvement in policy discussions of Open Science and ‘intelligent’ data dissemination. Forthcoming Seminars: Monday 26 November, 4.15 pm Helen Curry, HPS, Cambridge "Atoms in agriculture: nuclear science as agricultural outreach in the United States, 1945-1960" Venue: Room 105, 24 Gordon Square Building Location: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/estates/roombooking/building-location/?id=026 Monday 10 December, 4.15 pm Jack Stilgoe, STS, UCL "Governing intent: Experiments in responsible geoengineering" Venue: Room 105, 24 Gordon Square Building Location: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/estates/roombooking/building-location/?id=026 -- Dr. Chiara Ambrosio Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science Department of Science and Technology Studies University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT Phone: +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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D67926094; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:25:49 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3BA5608B; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:25:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 349FB6088; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:25:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121109062547.349FB6088@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:25:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.470 publication: Glottometrics 23 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 470. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 17:21:55 +0000 From: Ram-Verlag Subject: Glottometrics 23, 2012 Just published: Glottometrics 23, 2012 (ISSN 1617-8351) Published by: RAM-Verlag http://www.ram-verlag.eu Abstracts: See attachment please at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1352410921_2012-11-08_ram-verlag@t-online.de_2641.2.doc Glottometrics 23 is available as: - Printed Edition: 30,00 EU plus PP, - CD-Edition: 15,00 EUR plus PP - Internet (PDF-file download): 7,50 EUR If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me. Jutta Richter For: RAM-Verlag RAM-Verlag Jutta Richter-Altmann Medienverlag Stüttinghauser Ringstr. 44 58515 Lüdenscheid Germany Tel.: + 049 (0) 2351 / 973070 Fax: + 049 (0) 2351 / 973071 Mail: RAM-Verlag@t-online.de Web: http://www.ram-verlag.com http://www.ram-verlag.com/ Steuer-Nr.: 332/5002/0548 MwsT/VAT/TVA/ID no.: DE 125 809 989 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8EF6A6097; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:26:52 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62AEB6092; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:26:52 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7A3006090; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:26:50 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121109062650.7A3006090@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:26:50 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.471 partners for EU project? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 471. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 01:00:39 +0000 From: Gabriele Civiliene Subject: Partners sought for EU-funded project MUPROMEC Hi there, I’m writing on behalf of Vilnius Business College (www.kolegija.lt) which is currently seeking partners for MUPROMEC (Multilingual problems of the Modern European Community) EU-funded project. The total value of the grant is €68,000,000. In a nutshell, the project aims to study the impact of multilingual problems on all significant aspects of the modern European life at the levels of citizens, regions (countries) and Europe at large. We are in particular interested in partners who specialize in computational linguistics and are from the University of Vienna and Sorbonne University. If you know these people and you think they could be interested and contacted, pls give me a lead. Alternatively, if you think you are the one, pls contact me directly for more info. Gabriele Salciute-Civiliene gabriele.salciute-civiliene@kcl.ac.uk gabrielemucho@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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1B7886018; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:54:44 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E44FC2DFF; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:54:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 449002DF8; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:54:42 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121110085442.449002DF8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:54:42 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.472 reviewing e-books X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 472. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 14:07:03 -0500 (EST) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Electronic Books and Reviewing Willard, Torill Mortenson recently raised an interesting point in reference to what I refer to as the "gift" economy of reviewing. She is make the point that digital rights might restrict the uptake on reviewing. Her point: This means that an editor can'’t receive a book, look it over, decide on a reviewer and pass it on. The different systems of electronic book loans are not a good option, as one of the attractions of reviewing books is to be able to keep the book afterwards. A limited-time loan of an electronic book does not cover that reward. On the other hand, if the publishers allowed editors the right to pick and donate electronic books permanently to reviewers, the distribution of the book would be much quicker and more precise. http://torillsin.blogspot.ca/2012/11/notes-on-usefulness-of-electronic-books.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9D651608B; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:56:18 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7576F6080; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:56:18 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 86E046063; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:56:16 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121110085616.86E046063@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:56:16 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.473 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. 473. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 13:41:46 +0000 From: Alexander Hay Subject: Re: 26.158 should I quit In-Reply-To: <20120713234025.EF554284D57@woodward.joyent.us> Something of an update. Having asked about one job I wanted to apply for, I was told I needed a monograph published. I asked if the very long journal article I had written might count. No. Since this is one of only a few non-Oxbridge fellowships being advertised, I really have no chance of getting a job. Now, I'm presently working full time (and not as an academic) so it's rather hard to get down to the British Library to do research for a piece someone will probably rubbish anyway. Yes, this is a whinge, but I feel entitled to one. Or getting back the five years I put into getting the white elephant qualification I have. Remind me again of how hard it is to get into academia. I'm minded to flog my PhD certificate on Ebay - it might be worth something that way. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 36D4F6095; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:57:28 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CCF96090; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:57:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 03F416087; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:57:25 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121110085726.03F416087@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:57:25 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.474 events: library & information studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 474. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 16:21:59 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Events CILIP’s Umbrella Conference 2013 Bringing the information world together Discover. Connect. Achieve. Manchester | 2-3 July 2013 Call for Papers now open The Call for Papers is now open for the country’s leading library and information conference: Umbrella 2013. The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) Umbrella Conference regularly attracts up to 600 delegates from across the library and information world to meet, learn, debate and be inspired. Proposals for presentation are invited from within and outside of the profession on the four main themes for this year’s conference: · Future Skills and Future Roles: What will society need from our profession? · Information to best support society: Information and digital literacy in education, work, health and leisure · Beyond Information Matters: Pushing the frontiers of Knowledge and Information Management · Partnerships for progress: Community engagement reaching our communities at organisational, local, regional, national and international levels The closing date for entries is Friday 30 November 2012. For more information visit the website http://www.cilip.org.uk/umbrella2013/pages/call-for-papers.aspx Any queries please contact Jason Russell, CILIP Events: jason.russell@cilip.org.uk Biddy Fisher OBE MLib FCLIP Programme Director, CILIP UMBRELLA 2013 http://www.cilip.org.uk/umbrella2013/pages/call-for-papers.aspx -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A92316081; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:53:24 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77A2C2E1B; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:53:24 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2380B2E00; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:53:22 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121111095322.2380B2E00@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:53:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.475 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. 475. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jennifer Edmond (49) Subject: Re: 26.473 should I quit [2] From: Willard McCarty (40) Subject: quitting? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:47:07 +0000 From: Jennifer Edmond Subject: Re: 26.473 should I quit In-Reply-To: <20121110085616.86E046063@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Alexander, No degree is anything more than the cumulative experience of the years you spend earning it. It doesn't entitle you to anything - indeed you might see yourself privileged (as i do) to have spent 5 years developing your own competences, while others get caught up at an earlier career point serving the goals of others. I often joke that the only thing I am actually 'qualified' to do is explain movies (or German novels, but I get less call for that). But I have turned this experience of understanding text and subtext into a large number of truly enjoyable paid positions, from DH support person to research strategist, from Institute director to research project PI. I miss wearing my academic robes, but otherwise I wouldn't change a thing about my unorthodox path post PhD, which I chose only because the traditional options before me were, as yours are, asking too high a price for what they offered. Humanist doesn't seem quite the place for this kind of platitude, but what the hey: life is what you make it. Jennifer Edmond Director of Strategic Projects Trinity College Dublin Sent from my iPhone On 10 Nov 2012, at 08:56, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 473. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 13:41:46 +0000 > From: Alexander Hay > Subject: Re: 26.158 should I quit > In-Reply-To: <20120713234025.EF554284D57@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Something of an update. Having asked about one job I wanted to apply for, I > was told I needed a monograph published. I asked if the very long journal > article I had written might count. No. > > Since this is one of only a few non-Oxbridge fellowships being advertised, > I really have no chance of getting a job. > > Now, I'm presently working full time (and not as an academic) so it's > rather hard to get down to the British Library to do research for a piece > someone will probably rubbish anyway. > > Yes, this is a whinge, but I feel entitled to one. Or getting back the five > years I put into getting the white elephant qualification I have. > > Remind me again of how hard it is to get into academia. I'm minded to flog > my PhD certificate on Ebay - it might be worth something that way. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 09:38:09 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: quitting? In-Reply-To: <20121110085616.86E046063@digitalhumanities.org> For many years I have been saying to PhD students and those interested in a PhD that the only defensible motivation for doing the degree is love of the subject. The primary reason I've had for saying this is that such an important role in society requires devotion to its central purpose, very hard work and long hours -- 60 hours/week at minimum, I would guess, but who is counting? The fact is, however, that everywhere I know of jobs are (to put it mildly) difficult to get. In some places (such as the UK) and in the humanities at least, and I expect also in the theoretical end of the natural sciences, the number of available positions makes hen's teeth look plentiful. Luck has a dominant role to play, it seems. The rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. But then jobs have been scarce as long as I can remember. When I was a doctoral student at Toronto in the early 1980s it was said of the English department there (a very fine department it was) that it produced more PhDs in a single year than all of Canada could absorb in 10. I spent 8 years (3-4 of those part-time, working to support a family) in the programme; my first academic job came 12 years later. I should note, however, that those were the days when association with computing was poison, at least to N American English departments. Somehow I kept my research going all that time, though at an enormous personal cost. I was obsessed. But having been lucky enough to have gained an academic position and held it for the past 16 years I know what a huge difference it makes to have the social mandate and the time to be a scholar. No one should ever belittle the difficulties thrown in a scholar's path by most other kinds of employment. As we build our PhD programmes in the digital humanities we may not have to face such a severe problem of placing students, but there are unlikely to be enough positions once these programmes are as numerous as they seem likely to become. So, it would seem, a debate we need to have is how we shape these programmes to train students to be able to do the digital humanities in the world as it is. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9C5106097; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:07:32 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CD736092; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:07:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 458746090; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:07:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121112090730.458746090@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:07:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.476 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. 476. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alexander Hay (172) Subject: Re: 26.475 should I quit [2] From: Alan Corre (3) Subject: Quitting? [3] From: James Rovira (26) Subject: Re: 26.475 should I quit --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:13:56 +0000 From: Alexander Hay Subject: Re: 26.475 should I quit In-Reply-To: <20121111095322.2380B2E00@digitalhumanities.org> Jennifer, I don't feel 'entitled' to anything. It's just that after so many false dawns, cul de sacs, dead certs that turned out to be sclerotic pit ponies, the luck of the draw and the rather arrogant, condescending attitude of some (not all) academics I've run into (yes, I know it's an employer's job market - but there's no need to be such a jackass about it, though), I feel utterly disheartened. I know I'm not the only post-doc with the scars to prove they staggered through their PhD, but I think you forget that when you put your heart and soul into something, quixotic though it may be, it really hurts to keep being told you're not good enough. I also get the impression you were simply in the right place at the right time, so your self-congratulatory tone isn't particularly helpful. That's the problem with a lot of people in Britain these days - they consider their success well-earned, when in fact it is down more to random twists and turns. - Alexander --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 08:15:01 -0600 (CST) From: Alan Corre Subject: Quitting? In-Reply-To: <1614230635.325844.1352642269991.JavaMail.root@mail12.pantherlink.uwm.edu> Jennifer and Willard's comments on this subject are very much to the point. It is my understanding that in the Communist USSR, when, for example, a professor of Arabic was called for, they would train an individual for the job which he would ultimately get. In this way that kept full employment and avoided oversupply, but at the high cost of lack of freedom on the part of the individual. This is the flip side of the freedoms we enjoy in the west; we have to take our chances what fate has in store for us, but at least we can prepare ourselves in ways we choose,and work and hope for the best. I would like to add one point about academic positions. It has always been hard to get academic jobs and probably always will be. Things have been made worse, though, by the current tendency on the part of universities to offer short term academic jobs where the incumbent does not know from month to month what the future holds. This makes it difficult to develop an attachment to the institution with which one is connected, and this important ingredient in becoming an effective teacher and member of the academic community is compromised. This may have been caused by the current tight economy, but like so many other attendant problems, cries out for attention. We do not want the standards of our universities to decline as a result. Alan Corré --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 11:22:08 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: 26.475 should I quit In-Reply-To: <20121111095322.2380B2E00@digitalhumanities.org> This semester I'm teaching three undergraduate classes, co-teaching two graduate classes, serving as Program Chair for my institution's Master of Humanities program (so am responsible for curriculum review and revision and every problem that every student and faculty member in the program comes up with -- at least those that wind up coming to me), and I have a 7,000 word essay due on Kierkegaard and literature in about a week. I am advisor to about 20 students and serve on three committees, plus have to do all of the usual for faculty meetings. My three undergraduate classes are capped at 25 (but thank God, not all of them are full) and each class has a 20 page per student writing requirement. There are few institutions with more reasonable work loads -- research institutions may only assign a 2-1 or 2-2 teaching load, but then you'll be supervising doctoral students. So instead of 25 students who have to do 20 pages of writing each (500 pages of writing to grade per semester per class), you might have three doctoral theses coming in at 200 pages or so each, plus the reading to keep up with. Many faculty members I know say that they don't do anything but work, round the clock. Many of them get sick around November -- flus, colds, etc. -- largely just from lowered resistance due to overwork. Of course I'm describing conscientious faculty who are trying to meet requirements and do their jobs well. Other faculty members may assign this work (or not), look the other way, just assign all papers As without any feedback, etc. Bottom line: if you can't work a 9-5 job and get research done you won't cut it in an academic position anyhow, so it's just as well. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3FE6E609F; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:08:59 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05207609D; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:08:59 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5FBD76096; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:08:57 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121112090857.5FBD76096@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:08:57 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.477 events: new seminar series X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 477. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 13:29:32 +0000 From: federica perazzini Subject: New Humanities Seminar Series New Humanities research group (http://www.newhumanities.org/) is glad to announce its seminar series dedicated to the exploration of the relationships between hard and soft sciences. Coming soon, the second meeting organized by Prof. Ugo Fracassa titled Seeing, knowing, recognizing. Protocols of vision, between science, art and life: http://www.newhumanities.org/seminars/seeing-knowing-recognizing-protocols-of-vision-between-science-art-and-life/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6A3CB6069; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:06:47 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ABFD2DF9; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:06:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C327C2DF4; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:06:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121113050645.C327C2DF4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:06:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.478 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. 478. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jennifer Edmond (168) Subject: Re: 26.476 should I quit [2] From: Francois Lachance (191) Subject: Re: 26.476 should I quit --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:10:54 +0000 From: Jennifer Edmond Subject: Re: 26.476 should I quit In-Reply-To: <20121112090730.458746090@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Alexander, One final word on this, as I have clearly failed in my attempt to encourage you, then I will say no more. Of course you feel disheartened. But you seem to assume I never did, and that I never had any contact with any of the arrogant jerks you mention. I would wager every reader of Humanist has done so: I certainly did, and I do, and believe you me, there are certain things I know my institution only asks me to do with hesitation. Water, Back, Duck: their loss, not mine. I did stagger through my PhD, I did put my heart and soul into it, and I was tacitly told, through MLA interview after MLA interview that I was not 'good' enough (though later experience on the other side of the table tells me that 'good' really isn't the right term: 'right' is a more suitable one, as you can have one job to offer and 50 applications still in the pile when the 'non-good' ones have been winnowed out. It ain't always fun to be in that position, either, and the exhaustion of dealing with 80 hungry qualified applicants is one you might think a bit about. It's no excuse for arrogance, but with the best will in the world, it can make you cranky). If I was in the right place at the right time, that place has spanned three countries (and that is assuming you consider rural Kentucky and Connecticut the same place) and a number of institutions. And I certainly don't aim to be self-congratulatory, merely encouraging, from a position of (I am guessing) about 15 years further along the career ladder. Lastly, as a good Irish patriot (albeit with American accent) I can assure this is not a UK-based opinion. Erin go bragh! :-) Jennifer -- Dr Jennifer Edmond Director of Strategic Projects Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Trinity College Dublin Ireland Phone: +353 1 896 4224 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:52:06 -0500 From: Francois Lachance Subject: Re: 26.476 should I quit In-Reply-To: <20121112090730.458746090@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, A long time ago, I too tried to land a position in the academy. I am very lucky to have friends who too went that route and who have carved out for themselves niches in which to engage in intellectual activity. We get together regularly and catch up on our various projects. The sense of community was what I thought I would miss the most by being barred entry into the academic club. But the wall of higher learning are porous and what I thought I would miss I have found through online networks and choosing to live in a large metropolis (Toronto) with a lively civic commitment to book and film culture. For the most part I have dwelt with the not landing an academic job with a certain degree of equanimity -- I have after all access to an excellent reference library. However there are times when I find that academic departments are insular and fail to reach out to the larger community. I believe they sometimes need publicists to encourage coverage of events and greater use of recording technology for play back would be great -- there is at times an alarming unknowingness about creating accessible archives of the events of academic life. Some would argue that being extra-muros brings its own rewards. I am not prepared to say so. It presents very specific challenges to anyone who would claim the mantle of scholar. Being extra-muros does have its own charm (especially when I consider the workloads of my friends and colleagues who teach and conduct research). Charm of course is not a reward nor is it a gift. It's a by-product of the story we extramural folks spin. It takes an incredible effort to keep the story spinning so as to avoid resentment. To have the energy and time to reknit one's sense of pride and purpose is sometimes a matter of luck. I have been lucky and part of that luck has been Humanist and its readers. I am not going to trivialize someone's decision to quit the race by producing some platitude to the effect that it gets better. It doesn't. Nor will I intimate that they didn't try hard enough - that's simply uncouth. I will suggest that the academy -- the collective invisible college -- make it easier to prepare future scholars to exercise their abilities whether or not they come to occupy a place within its walls. I was lucky my alma mater did encourage us to think of career paths beyond the academy. What it didn't do so well was help us imagine being scholars for life. Humanist and other networks can -- and should. Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance http://berneval.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0DD6E608A; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:07:49 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D791B5FB3; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:07:48 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AC0D72DFF; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:07:46 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121113050746.AC0D72DFF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:07:46 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.479 jobs at York X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 479. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:37:12 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Job Announcement: Two new posts at the Archaeology Data Service In-Reply-To: <2334517778572850.WA.stuart.jeffreyyork.ac.uk@jiscmail.ac.uk> Dear All, The Archaeology Data Service is delighted to invite applications for two new posts based with us here at the Department of Archaeology at King’s Manor in the University of York: ADS European Projects Manager: https://jobs.york.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=3885&p_web_page_id=158678 ADS Communications and Access Manager: https://jobs.york.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=3885&p_web_page_id=158683 This is an opportunity to take one of two key management roles within a team environment. One post will be responsible for managing a portfolio of EU-funded projects and exploring new funding opportunities, the other for promoting the ADS and usage of its digital resources. Applicants should have a first degree and postgraduate qualification, at least one of which should be in archaeology. Both posts are fixed term for 36 months and available from January 2013. The closing dates for applications is 27th of November 2012. Informal enquiries may be made to the ADS Director: Prof Julian Richards (julian.richards@york.ac.uk). Please feel free to circulate this message to anyone you think may be interested. Best wishes, Stuart. -------------------------- Dr Stuart Jeffrey Deputy Director (Access) Archaeology Data Service Department of Archaeology University of York The King's Manor York, YO1 7EP, UK Tel: +44 (0)1904 324990, @ADS_Update http://archaeologydataservice.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2A0226092; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:13:12 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA9485FB3; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:13:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0C9C12DF9; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:13:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121113051310.0C9C12DF9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:13:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.480 events: HASTAC; music encoding; Leonardo X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 480. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Roland, Perry (pdr4h)" (40) Subject: The Music Encoding Conference 2013 [2] From: Matthew Landrus (6) Subject: CFP Leonardo da Vinci and the history of science (ICHSTM/LdV Society Manchester 2113) [3] From: Willard McCarty (175) Subject: cfp: HASTAC 2013 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:16:48 +0000 From: "Roland, Perry (pdr4h)" Subject: The Music Encoding Conference 2013 =============================================================== CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The Music Encoding Conference 2013: Concepts, Methods, Editions 22-24 May, 2013 =============================================================== You are cordially invited to participate in the Music Encoding Conference 2013 – Concepts, Methods, Editions, to be held 22-24 May, 2013, at the Mainz Academy for Literature and Sciences in Mainz, Germany. Music encoding is now a prominent feature of various areas in musicology and music librarianship. The encoding of symbolic music data provides a foundation for a wide range of scholarship, and over the last several years, has garnered a great deal of attention in the digital humanities. This conference intends to provide an overview of the current state of data modeling, generation, and use, and aims to introduce new perspectives on topics in the fields of traditional and computational musicology, music librarianship, and scholarly editing, as well as in the broader area of digital humanities. As the conference has a dual focus on music encoding and scholarly editing in the context of the digital humanities, the Program Committee is also happy to announce keynote lectures by Frans Wiering (Universiteit Utrecht) and Daniel Pitti (University of Virginia), both distinguished scholars in their respective fields of musicology and markup technologies in the digital humanities. Proposals for papers, posters, panel discussions, and pre-conference workshops are encouraged. Prospective topics for submissions include: * theoretical and practical aspects of music, music notation models, and scholarly editing * rendering of symbolic music data in audio and graphical forms * relationships between symbolic music data, encoded text, and facsimile images * capture, interchange, and re-purposing of music data and metadata * ontologies, authority files, and linked data in music encoding * additional topics relevant to music encoding and music editing For paper and poster proposals, abstracts of no more than 1000 words, with no more than five relevant bibliographic references, are requested. Panel sessions may be one and a half or three hours in length. Abstracts for panel sessions, describing the topic and nature of the session and including short biographies of the participants, should be no longer than 2000 words. Proposals for pre-conference workshops, to be held on May 21st, must include a description of space and technical requirements. Author guidelines and authoritative stylesheets for each submission type will be made available on the conference webpage at http://music-encoding.org/conference/2013 in early December. All accepted papers, posters, and panel sessions will be included in the conference proceedings, tentatively scheduled to be published by the end of 2013. Important dates: 31 December 2012: Deadline for abstract submissions 31 January 2013: Notification of acceptance/rejection of submissions 21-24 May 2013: Conference 31 July 2013: Deadline for submission of full papers for conference proceedings December 2013: Publication of conference proceedings Additional details will be announced on the conference webpage (http://music-encoding.org/conference/2013). If you have any questions, please contact conference2013@music-encoding.org. ------ Program Committee: Ichiro Fujinaga, McGill University, Montreal Niels Krabbe, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, København, Elena Pierazzo, King's College, London Eleanor Selfridge-Field, CCARH, Stanford Joachim Veit, Universität Paderborn, Detmold (Local) Organizers: Johannes Kepper, Universität Paderborn Daniel Röwenstrunk, Universität Paderborn Perry Roland, University of Virginia --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:41:08 +0000 From: Matthew Landrus Subject: CFP Leonardo da Vinci and the history of science (ICHSTM/LdV Society Manchester 2113) Call for papers for a symposium : Leonardo da Vinci and the history of science On the behalf of the Leonardo da Vinci Society, we invite essays for a symposium on Leonardo and the history of science at the 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, 22 - 28 July 2013 (http://www.ichstm2013.com). Leonardo has often had an ambiguous treatment from historians. Historians of art have rarely dealt with anything that looked to them so 'scientific' and historians of science have rarely dealt with diagrams that are so beguilingly beautiful. These difficulties are partly caused by the narrow specialisms of our day. In recent years some bridges have been built and the emergence of a healthier body of literature on Leonardo offers some opportunities to historians of science to integrate him into a viable image of the natural philosophy, mathematics, medicine and technology of his time - and, of course, to assess his possible contributions to what happened next. Possible topics for the meeting include: the influence of practice, towards a science of engineering, the workings of patronage, manuscript in an age of printing, what price publish or perish? Confirmed speakers: J. V. Field (What the craftsmen taught the scholars), Martin Kemp (Science in the Codex Leicester), Matthew Landrus (Leonardo's engineering). By Wednesday, 28 November, please forward an abstract of less than 2500 characters to the symposium organisers: Dr J. V. Field, jv.field@hist-art.bbk.ac.uk, and Dr Matthew Landrus, matthew.landrus@hoa.ox.ac.uk One version of the abstract and title must be in English or French, though a second version of the title and abstract in an alternate preferred language may be included in German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian, or Arabic. In addition to the abstract, please include your full name, institution (or "independent scholar"), postal address, email address, and a CV. If you might require presentation media other than an LCD projector and Windows PC with Powerpoint media, please also note this with the proposal. The Leonardo da Vinci Society: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/leonardo --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 04:36:23 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: cfp: HASTAC 2013 Call for Papers: HASTAC 2013 -- The Decennial The Storm of Progress: New Horizons, New Narratives, New Codes
 April 25-28, 2013 York University, Toronto, Canada Submissions Deadline: November 15, 2012 hastac2013.org This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe that keeps piling ruin upon ruin and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress. -- Walter Benjamin What's next? 2013 marks the 10th anniversary of HASTAC's (Humanities,Arts, Science Advanced Collaboratory's) founding. In that spirit we invite work that is either reflective or prescient, that evaluates our history and seeks to construct our future(s). We invite you to take this opportunity to look back, theorize and archive. We invite you to engage in the creative, if impossible, attempt to glimpse the digital future. We challenge you to shape it. We invite you to share how you, your team, your research lab, your classroom, or your students are building the technologies and subjects of the future right now or imagining new horizons of possibility for the ways in which we will make, teach, learn and find community in the coming decade(s). -- HASTAC histories -- historical roots of current practices; cautionary tales -- libraries and preservation in 2023; digital traces and archives -- new publics, movements going global and communities of the future -- manifestos for the next generation -- new stories for new screens: e-literatures, immersive/augmented worlds, future cinema, games -- ways of working -- methodologies, code, communities, funding -- future classrooms, curricula, and pedagogies -- maker movements; -- tools we haven't built yet, but that we desperately need -- visualization and data-driven futures -- mobility, future city spaces, built and liquid architectures -- crowdsourcing (and/in) the future -- teleologies and their discontents -- new and imagined creative practices HASTAC 2013 will be composed of keynote addresses, structured conversations, a curated exhibition, participant presentations, performances and tech demos, spontaneous disruptions, and a Scholars' Space. We will accept proposals for participant presentations in the following categories: 5-8 minute lightning talks; 15-20 minute talks; curated panels (lightning talks, longer talks, curated conversation); project demos; digital and/or print posters; creative performances; post conference workshops (April 28th). We are now accepting proposals for participant presentations in the following categories: 5-8 Minute Lightning Talks. We seek focused, inspiring talks that can serve as both provocation and an introduction to your work in progress or your wider interests. We require: 1) complete contact information including valid phone, e-mail, and institutional affiliation, if any; 2) brief (200-250 word) bio; 3) a half-page abstract of the work you would like to present that must discuss its relationship to the conference theme; 4) any technical requirements or other support that may be required for you presentation. 15-20 Minute Talks. We also seek more traditional papers that really require more time to develop a sustained argument than a lightning talk would allow. Please let us know in your submission if you would allow us to simultaneously consider your presentation submission for a lighting talk instead of a full talk. We require: 1) complete contact information including valid phone, e-mail, and institutional affiliation, if any; 2) brief (200-250 word) bio; 3) a one-page abstract of the work you would like to present that must discuss its relationship to the conference theme; 4) any technical requirements or other support that may be required for your presentation. Curated Panels. If you would like to curate a panel of 3- 5 lightning talks, a traditional panel of 3 papers or a conduct structured conversation among key thinkers, we require: 1) complete contact information including valid phone, e-mail, and institutional affiliation, if any, for all participants; 2) brief (200-250 word) bio for all participants; 3) a one-page abstract of the panel's theme that must discuss its relationship to the larger conference theme, clearly identifying how each panelist will contribute; 4) identification of the panel/group organizer who will be required to facilitate the panel/group involvement; 5) any technical requirements or other support that may be required for the presentation. Project Demos. Designed to showcase well-developed digital projects or tools. Demos will be grouped in a single room and will, ideally, remain up for an entire conference day. You will have a dedicated 2 hour slot to engage with conference participants without competing with other events. You will have wireless access and a table. While we endeavor to provide projectors or other equipment for participants who make a request at the time of submission, presenters will be responsible for bringing all required technology with them. We require: 1) complete contact information including valid phone, e-mail, and institutional affiliation, if any; 2) brief (200-250 word) bio; 3) a half-page abstract of the work you would like to present and a link to a project url with images or video documentation; 4) any technical requirements or other support (including any space requirements beyond a table) that may be required for the presentation. Please indicate any equipment that is absolutely required and that you cannot bring with you. In the event that we cannot guarantee access to the equipment, we regret that we may not be able to accept your demo. Digital and/or Print Posters. Print posters (4 x 3') and electronic posters (to be projected) are solicited for emerging projects, ideas, and scholars. In presenting your research with a poster, you should aim to use the poster as a means for generating active discussion of your research. Limit the text to about one-fourth of the poster space, and use visuals (graphs, photographs, schematics, maps, etc.) to tell your story. Required: 1) complete contact information including valid phone, e-mail, and institutional affiliation; 2) brief (200-250 word) bio; 3) a half-page abstract of your work that must discuss its relationship to the conference theme; 4) statement clearly identifying whether your poster will be hard-copy or digitally projected; 5) a digital draft of your poster. Creative Performances. We are soliciting creative interventions, too -- e-lit readings, ARGs and mobile cinema, talks that cross boundaries between the academic and the poetic, tech wearables, etc.. We see these as being integrated into conference sessions (ie if you have a five minute piece, we might schedule it as a lighting talk), as potentially being part of scheduled evening entertainment (a 30 minute interactive dance performance or epoetry reading), or as taking place outside of/alongside scheduled time (ie a mobile game that conference participants can download). 1) complete contact information including valid phone, e-mail, and institutional affiliation, if any; 2) brief (200-250 word) bio; 3) a one-page abstract of the work you would like to present that clearly identifies the genre your are working in and how, ideally, you would like it to be scheduled during the conference (including time and space requirements). Your abstract must discuss its relationship to the conference theme; 4) any technical requirements or other support (including any space requirements). Please indicate any equipment that is absolutely required and that you cannot bring with you. In the event that we cannot guarantee access to the equipment, we regret that we may not be able to accept your creative submission. Post-conference Workshops to take place April 28th. Full day or half day workshops will be considered. If you have new tools, new approaches or seek a new community of collaborators we can provide an opportunity for you to offer full and half workshops. For consideration we require: 1) complete contact information including valid phone, e-mail, and institutional affiliation, if any; 2) brief (200-250 word) bio; 3) a one or two page abstract of the workshop that clearly describes the goals of the workshop, its relationship to the conference theme; its target audience (and any specialized background required for participation) and whether the proposal is for a full day or half-day workshop; 4) a brief explanation of the space and technical resources required to run the workshop. All proposals will be reviewed, but we regret that we cannot provide reviewer feedback. We welcome applications from scholars at all stages of their careers from all disciplines and fields, from private sector companies and public sector organizations, from artists and public intellectuals, and from you. Follow us on Twitter: HASTAC2013 Conference hashtag: #HASTAC2013 Submit online: hastac2013.org/submit-proposal/ -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 755CA6090; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:54:02 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E9F35F49; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:54:02 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B5B945F9D; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:54:00 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121114075400.B5B945F9D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:54:00 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.481 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. 481. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Daniel Allington (10) Subject: Re: 26.476 should I quit [2] From: Patrick Durusau (45) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.476 should I quit --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:05:12 +0000 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: 26.476 should I quit In-Reply-To: <20121112090730.458746090@digitalhumanities.org> Alan's point is an important one. As in the economy as a whole, we're not seeing a lack of jobs right now so much as a lack of good jobs for people that don't already have good jobs: there are plenty of opportunities to teach a few hours here and a few hours there with no security from one semester to the next, and (at least in the UK) quite a lot of opportunities to do professor X's research for him over the next couple of years, but what good is that? But I think it's worth remembering that the trend towards casualisation began well before the income squeeze. When there was more money around, the management priority in most universities was to invest it not in academic staff, but in fancy new buildings (and - dare I say it - extra layers of management). This means that the root cause of casualisation is not the current economic situation, and therefore that it can be opposed. At my university, the new vice chancellor for research created a procedure last year whereby temporary research staff could be made permanent - presumably because it was recognised that endlessly training new researchers and then losing them is not necessarily good for the institution's research culture. Daniel > > I would like to add one point about academic positions. It has always been hard to get academic jobs and probably always will be. Things have been made worse, though, by the current tendency on the part of universities to offer short term academic jobs where the incumbent does not know from month to month what the future holds. This makes it difficult to develop an attachment to the institution with which one is connected, and this important ingredient in becoming an effective teacher and member of the academic community is compromised. This may have been caused by the current tight economy, but like so many other attendant problems, cries out for attention. We do not want the standards of our universities to decline as a result. > > Alan Corré > -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:09:06 -0500 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.476 should I quit In-Reply-To: <20121112090730.458746090@digitalhumanities.org> Alexander, I think you hit primary issue in your reply to Jennifer where you say: On 11/12/2012 04:07 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Jennifer, > ... > I know I'm not the only post-doc with the scars to prove they staggered > through their PhD, but I think you forget that when you put your heart and > soul into something, quixotic though it may be, it really hurts to keep > being told you're not good enough. You are letting others judge whether you are "good enough." (I hasten to say we all are guilty of it so I am not saying to you what others haven't said to me.) Not unexpected after graduate work where catering to the caprice and whimsy of others determines your success in graduate school. (Like all universal statements, untrue for any number of anecdotal accounts that may follow this post.) True, others will judge whether you get position X or Y, but as others have said, having an academic position doesn't necessarily enable scholarship. If you want to do scholarship, it will be in spite of an academic appointment, not because of it. Recall that in biblical studies (my area of graduate studies) that approximately 98% of the articles subjected to peer review go uncited 5 years after publication. Question: If you had a car that failed to start 98 times out of 100, what value would you assign to it? Considering the value of peer reviewer opinions, what does that say about the people who hold them? If you want to do scholarship, by all means, do so. But realize the academy exists primarily to preserve the academy with its perks and positions. Hope you are having a great day! (and continue to work on research you enjoy) 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 572BB6096; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:54:49 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F91F6092; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:54:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A53E8604A; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:54:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121114075447.A53E8604A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:54:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.482 do we have something to say? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 482. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:47:08 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: all the conversations In a quiet moment early this morning I happened to pick up and read the first few pages of a fine book, Alison Winter's Memory: Fragments of a Modern History (Chicago, 2012). It's grist for a mill I am building. Those pages not only told me that I had not misspent my book allowance (self-allowed and unregulated :-) but once again reminded me of the situation in which we find ourselves as digital humanists. So, grist for this mill also. These days it is often said that the digital humanities is the humanities' salvation. As I've perhaps commented before, I wonder in each case if the sayer has any idea at all what wonderful work is going on in these humanities, arm in arm as they are with the sciences, e.g. of memory. I do understand that institutionally the humanities are in trouble, but then higher education is in trouble as a whole -- caused by ignorance of purpose within and without. This ignorance is appalling, but I wonder whether it is a new phenomenon? More true of some disciplines than others? I suspect that a history of humanists' complaints would reveal a continuum of whinging ab ovo. But what impresses me is simply how much good work is going on, and how much we have to learn. We in the digital humanities have recently entered a very large room in which many astonishing conversations are in progress -- such as about memory. Wouldn't you think, for example, that while we help to build these cultural memory archives we make ourselves aware of this work? Stop talking as if (to resort to a N American idiom) we are endlessly baking apple pies, each tastier than the last? The question is, do we have anything to say to the people in this room we have just entered, or are we (to adjust my food metaphor slightly) merely serving drinks and nibblies, listening in briefly, at best catching snatches of this or that conversation before quietly moving on? 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 30DAC609E; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:57:44 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0285F6093; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:57:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B4AB76092; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:57:41 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121114075741.B4AB76092@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:57:41 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.483 events: ecology of data; music encoding; interpreting text X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 483. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Viglianti, Raffaele" (45) Subject: CFP: Music Encoding Conference 2013 [2] From: jcplantin (82) Subject: Call for Paper International Symposium Towards an Ecology of Data. Political and Scientific Issues of Digital Data. February 14th, 2013 [3] From: Segolene Tarte (28) Subject: Colloquium announcement: "Interpreting Textual Artefacts" - 11-12 Dec 2012 - Oxford --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:20:41 +0000 From: "Viglianti, Raffaele" Subject: CFP: Music Encoding Conference 2013 ============================================ CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The Music Encoding Conference 2013: Concepts, Methods, Editions 22-24 May, 2013 ============================================ You are cordially invited to participate in the Music Encoding Conference 2013 – Concepts, Methods, Editions, to be held 22-24 May, 2013, at the Mainz Academy for Literature and Sciences in Mainz, Germany. Music encoding is now a prominent feature of various areas in musicology and music librarianship. The encoding of symbolic music data provides a foundation for a wide range of scholarship, and over the last several years, has garnered a great deal of attention in the digital humanities. This conference intends to provide an overview of the current state of data modeling, generation, and use, and aims to introduce new perspectives on topics in the fields of traditional and computational musicology, music librarianship, and scholarly editing, as well as in the broader area of digital humanities. As the conference has a dual focus on music encoding and scholarly editing in the context of the digital humanities, the Program Committee is also happy to announce keynote lectures by Frans Wiering (Universiteit Utrecht) and Daniel Pitti (University of Virginia), both distinguished scholars in their respective fields of musicology and markup technologies in the digital humanities. Proposals for papers, posters, panel discussions, and pre-conference workshops are encouraged. Prospective topics for submissions include: * theoretical and practical aspects of music, music notation models, and scholarly editing * rendering of symbolic music data in audio and graphical forms * relationships between symbolic music data, encoded text, and facsimile images * capture, interchange, and re-purposing of music data and metadata * ontologies, authority files, and linked data in music encoding * additional topics relevant to music encoding and music editing For paper and poster proposals, abstracts of no more than 1000 words, with no more than five relevant bibliographic references, are requested. Panel sessions may be one and a half or three hours in length. Abstracts for panel sessions, describing the topic and nature of the session and including short biographies of the participants, should be no longer than 2000 words. Proposals for pre-conference workshops, to be held on May 21st, must include a description of space and technical requirements. Author guidelines and authoritative stylesheets for each submission type will be made available on the conference webpage at http://music-encoding.org/conference/2013 in early December. All accepted papers, posters, and panel sessions will be included in the conference proceedings, tentatively scheduled to be published by the end of 2013. Important dates: 31 December 2012: Deadline for abstract submissions 31 January 2013: Notification of acceptance/rejection of submissions 21-24 May 2013: Conference 31 July 2013: Deadline for submission of full papers for conference proceedings December 2013: Publication of conference proceedings Additional details will be announced on the conference webpage (http://music-encoding.org/conference/2013). If you have any questions, please contact conference2013@music-encoding.org. ------ Program Committee: Ichiro Fujinaga, McGill University, Montreal Niels Krabbe, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, København, Elena Pierazzo, King's College, London Eleanor Selfridge-Field, CCARH, Stanford Joachim Veit, Universität Paderborn, Detmold (Local) Organizers: Johannes Kepper, Universität Paderborn Daniel Röwenstrunk, Universität Paderborn Perry Roland, University of Virginia For the Program Committee and the local organizers, Raffaele Viglianti PhD Candidate and PG Research Assistant Department of Digital Humanities King's College London WC2B 5RL --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:55:25 +0100 From: jcplantin Subject: Call for Paper International Symposium Towards an Ecology of Data. Political and Scientific Issues of Digital Data. February 14th, 2013 *Call for Papers* *International Symposium* *Towards an Ecology of Data.* * Political and Scientific Issues of Digital Data.* *February 14th, 2013* *Institut des Sciences de la Communication du CNRS (ISCC)* *20 rue Berbier-du-Mets, Paris, France* There is currently a growing number of data produced and disseminated in professional, public and scientific spaces. These data come from various sources: governments posting their operational data within Open Data initiatives, companies opening non-strategic data, scientists increasingly sharing banks of data, or Internet users. Traditional ways of processing data seem insufficient in front of these big data. This fact calls for new means of thinking how to extract, store (grids, cloud computing ...), share, analyze and visualize data. The Web 2.0 related term “data science” (i.e. extracting, processing, analyzing data) now concerns a large number of activities similarly facing large data sets, such as scientific research or data journalism. This symposium will cover the theoretical and practical implications of social research based on data. It calls for critical works that identify the quantitative leap induced by large masses of data available for social sciences, and the related disciplinary and epistemological consequences, e.g. notions of author or producer, public and private actors strategies, citizen uses of data, emerging ecosystems of data processing, local initiatives currently developing Open Data services and applications with related business issues. Epistemological reflections, work in progress and position papers are welcome and can cover one of the following areas: *1. **Digital data and social sciences: History and Epistemology* Large data corpora have been processed for a long time within scientific practices: what is the precise nature of the qualitative leap brought by current technologies? Does the presence of massive data change social science practices? What are the needs, expectations, challenges and emerging solutions? Do these new methods of processing digital data imply epistemological changes? *2. **The politics of Open Data, citizen participation and local eco-systems.* In recent years, Open Data initiatives have been set off by both law changes and actors’ specific demands. It aims to make public data available and reusable. This movement raises many questions: Is it a public service improvement, a regional development tool? What is the relationship between supply and demand, top/down and bottom/up initiatives? Who are those who really understand the data? Can these uses be interpreted as civic empowerment or democracy renewal, as suggested by the proximity between "Open Data" and "Open Government"? How can traditional participatory democracy use these data? What are the possible links between public data and already implemented territorial e-democracy practices? *3. **New sociotechnical mediations, training and professionalization.* Which elements should compose the knowledge base necessary to understand issues around these data? What are the new forms of mediation facilitating citizen uses of released data and its applications? This third axis will highlight, for each category of actors, the type of skills required to be able to understand the data ecosystem in all its complexity, from technical to political aspects. What are the solutions implemented by the various professions facing this flow of data? What types of mediation would increase effective ownership of released data by civil society? What are the training needs to sustain and develop these efforts? How are these new forms of data management skills reorganizing professions (particularly journalism), companies and administrations involved in Open Data? *Submission* We welcome proposals based on current experiments, theoretical reflections and comparative analysis. They can be written in English or in French. Proposals should be 1000 words long, short bibliography included. Selected contributions will be published in a special issue of a French-speaking academic journal. *Proposals should be sent to:* Clément Mabi: clement.mabi@utc.fr and Jean-Christophe Plantin: jean-christophe.plantin@utc.fr *Deadlines* • Deadline for submission of proposals: November 15th 2012 • Notification of acceptance: December 15th 2012 • Symposium: February 14th 2013 *Scientific Committee * David Berry (Swansea University, College of Arts and Humanities) Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay (CNRS-ISCC) Clément Mabi (UTC-Costech) Jean-Christophe Plantin (UTC-Costech) Bernard Rieder (University of Amsterdam, Media studies department) Valérie Schafer (CNRS-ISCC) Laurence Smith-Monnoyer (UTC-Costech) Bruno J. Strasser (Université de Genève & Yale University) Stéphanie Wojcik (UPEC-Ceditec) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:44:05 +0000 From: Segolene Tarte Subject: Colloquium announcement: "Interpreting Textual Artefacts" - 11-12 Dec 2012 - Oxford Colloquium announcement: "Interpreting Textual Artefacts" - 11-12 Dec 2012 - Oxford "Interpreting Textual Artefacts: cognitive perspectives and digital support for knowledge creation” 11th-12th December 2012 University of Oxford - lecture theatre at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies The overall aim of this 1.5 day colloquium is to gain a better-integrated view of the cognitive processes involved in the interpretation of ancient textual artefacts as well as to develop ways of supporting them and facilitating them digitally. The colloquium will be articulated around the five following main themes: * Materiality and visual perception * Kinaesthetic engagement in reading * Word identification * Structural knowledge and context * Creativity and collaboration In each session, at least one speaker from the Humanities (in particular Palaeography, Papyrology, Archaeology, and Oriental Studies) and one speaker from the Cognitive Sciences will present aspects of their work relevant to one of the themes above. More information - including an more extended overview and the full programme with the names of the speakers and the titles of their talks can be found at http://charades.hypotheses.org This event is free of charge. All welcome! [In order to help with numbers for catering, I would be very grateful if those planning to attend could, please, email me at: segolene.tarte@oerc.ox.ac.uk] Segolene ************************************************ Segolene Tarte, PhD Research Fellow (AHRC) Digitally Curating Knowledge Creation Oxford e-Research Centre 7 Keble Road Oxford OX1 3QG Tel: +44 (0)1865 610 615 Mobile: +44 (0)7581 676 802 Research blog: http://charades.hypotheses.org http://oxford.academia.edu/SegoleneTarte _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5498D2E13; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:38:58 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2935D2DDA; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:38:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D5EEA2DD9; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:38:55 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121115083855.D5EEA2DD9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:38:55 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.484 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. 484. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Simpson (113) Subject: Re: 26.481 should I quit [2] From: Bob Blair (206) Subject: Re: 26.478 should I quit --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:53:46 -0700 From: John Simpson Subject: Re: 26.481 should I quit In-Reply-To: <20121114075400.B5B945F9D@digitalhumanities.org> If anyone would like to see a similar sort of explanation around the rise of Administration at universities you could look at "The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administration University and Why it Matters" by Benjamin Ginsberg. -John John Simpson Postdoctoral Fellow Text Mining & Visualization / INKE 4-16 Humanities Centre University of Alberta On 2012-11-14, at 0:54, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 481. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Daniel Allington (10) > Subject: Re: 26.476 should I quit > > [2] From: Patrick Durusau (45) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.476 should I quit > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:05:12 +0000 > From: Daniel Allington > Subject: Re: 26.476 should I quit > In-Reply-To: <20121112090730.458746090@digitalhumanities.org> > > Alan's point is an important one. As in the economy as a whole, we're not seeing a lack of jobs right now so much as a lack of good jobs for people that don't already have good jobs: there are plenty of opportunities to teach a few hours here and a few hours there with no security from one semester to the next, and (at least in the UK) quite a lot of opportunities to do professor X's research for him over the next couple of years, but what good is that? > > But I think it's worth remembering that the trend towards casualisation began well before the income squeeze. When there was more money around, the management priority in most universities was to invest it not in academic staff, but in fancy new buildings (and - dare I say it - extra layers of management). This means that the root cause of casualisation is not the current economic situation, and therefore that it can be opposed. At my university, the new vice chancellor for research created a procedure last year whereby temporary research staff could be made permanent - presumably because it was recognised that endlessly training new researchers and then losing them is not necessarily good for the institution's research culture. > > Daniel > >> >> I would like to add one point about academic positions. It has always been hard to get academic jobs and probably always will be. Things have been made worse, though, by the current tendency on the part of universities to offer short term academic jobs where the incumbent does not know from month to month what the future holds. This makes it difficult to develop an attachment to the institution with which one is connected, and this important ingredient in becoming an effective teacher and member of the academic community is compromised. This may have been caused by the current tight economy, but like so many other attendant problems, cries out for attention. We do not want the standards of our universities to decline as a result. >> >> Alan Corré > -- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:37:58 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Blair Subject: Re: 26.478 should I quit In-Reply-To: <20121113050645.C327C2DF4@digitalhumanities.org> I'll add an obvious bit. Early in life you don't know what you'll be good at and what you will have passion for. I started as an aquatic entymologist and ended (or have landed, since it's not the end yet) a pretty good software engineer. Opportunism worked for me. Bob Blair _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3FF542E18; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:42:18 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D5602DDE; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:42:18 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4F4892DDA; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:42:16 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121115084216.4F4892DDA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:42:16 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.485 default online publication of dissertations? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 485. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:41:02 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: default online publication This is to ask your opinion on a matter of online publication. Do you think that a doctoral dissertation in the humanities once submitted should as a matter of course be put online by the degree-granting institution unless the student applies for and is granted an embargo? What is the practice where you are? Personally I am in favour of getting the text of dissertations (and everything else we write and otherwise make) out into circulation as quickly as possible. I find myself wanting to get my hands on doctoral (and sometimes MA) dissertations from time to time and am frustrated whenever I cannot. If asked I would argue that good books so seldom come from dissertations without a thorough-going revision that discouraging their unrevised publication is fully justified. A dissertation just isn't a proper monograph. I would also argue that you're better off getting known quickly for your preliminary work as a scholar than hiding it away while you work on publishing versions of it. I would also point out that in some cases (mine is one) getting the much-desired academic job came in part as a result of being known by having an online scholarly presence. In the old days of typewriters and floppies, I was asked to decide on whether I wanted my dissertation to be freely available in the stacks of the library. I decided to have it kept locked up for some few years. As it happened I never did anything with the dissertation (I would prefer now that it remain out of reach), but that was a different time. It is very easy for me to be in favour of immediate online circulation of all dissertations, however, so I am cautious in thinking that scholars at the beginning of their careers would agree. What do you think? How should we treat finished work in the humanities that might be published in some form or other? 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1AF62604A; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:45:51 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E54962E14; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:45:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 108FD2E00; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:45:48 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121115084549.108FD2E00@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:45:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.486 PhD studentships at King's College London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 486. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 08:23:15 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: ESRC studentships at King's College London *KING'S ESRC STUDENTSHIPS IN LINGUISTICS and/or LANGUAGE, MEDIA & CULTURE* ESRC Studentships for September 2013 are available at King's College London, in the thematic area *Language Media & Culture* (LMC) (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/pg/school/dtc/research-themes/Theme10.aspx). LMC is part of the King's Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Centre (KISS-DTC http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/pg/school/dtc/welcome.aspx ), and it encompasses two broad pathways: * Language, discourse & communication (www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc ), covering text & discourse analysis, linguistic ethnography, literacy studies, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, applied, educational, cognitive and corpus linguistics * Media & culture (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/cmci/index.aspx and http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/filmstudies/index.aspx) You can either apply to one or other of these areas, or you can apply with a project that works across them. You should have very good qualifications and a clear research idea, and to apply, there are a number of steps to follow: 1)Identify a potential supervisor, referring to the relevant pathway webpages above. 2)Email the person you have identified, providing detailed information about your background, your qualifications, prior research methods training, and a research proposal. If after a careful look, you are unsure about who to contact, please send the material to ben.rampton@kcl.ac.uk writing 'ESRC Studentship' in the Subject. 3)If the person you have contacted encourages you, follow the application procedures outlined at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/pg/funding/sources/esrc.aspx. Check your eligibility very carefully, and confer with your potential supervisor if you're unclear whether your project qualifies for funding from the ESRC rather than the Arts & Humanities Research Council (see www.kcl.ac.uk/study/pg/funding/sources/ESRCsubjectguide.pdf http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/pg/funding/sources/ESRCsubjectguide.pdf ) 4)As well as writing your studentship application - the 'Case for Support' - you need to apply for an ordinary/non-funded doctoral place through the online admissions portal: https://myapplication.kcl.ac.uk/. You'll need to include a research proposal in the ordinary application, but do note the difference between this and the Studentship Case for Support. The CfS form asks specific questions and you can't use more than 2 sides of A4. 5)The closing data for the ESRC Studentship applications is *Friday 1 February 2013, 17.00hrs.* If you're encouraged to apply, start working on the forms well before this deadline. You will also need to contact your referees well in advance, to ensure that they have submitted their references by the deadline. If you need further advice, contact ldc@kcl.ac.uk inserting 'ESRC Studentships' in the message subject. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CA6EB608E; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:47:15 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A8312DDE; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:47:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D008F2E14; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:47:13 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121115084713.D008F2E14@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:47:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.487 events: conference call; language; race X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 487. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Roisin O'Brien" (12) Subject: Digital Humanities Conference Call [2] From: Rebecca Davis (43) Subject: Last day to register for free, open to the public NITLE Seminar, Race and the Digital Humanities, 11/16/12 [3] From: "Lauersdorf, Mark R" (57) Subject: Deadline Extension & Final Call: Language Technology at KFLC 2013 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:07:34 +0000 From: "Roisin O'Brien" Subject: Digital Humanities Conference Call Dear humanists, I am emailing with regard to an upcoming conference call between digital humanists around the world. The first call is aimed at those who are new to DH, however we will welcome anyone who wishes to take part in this collaborative venture. All details can be found at: http://roisinobrien.com/?p=216 If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at roisinaobrien@gmail.com or on Twitter @RoisinAnneOB http://twitter.com/RoisinAnneOB I look forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Róisín O'Brien --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:31:20 -0600 From: Rebecca Davis Subject: Last day to register for free, open to the public NITLE Seminar, Race and the Digital Humanities, 11/16/12 *Today is the last day to register for this free, open to the public, NITLE Seminar on Race and the Digital Humanities.* * Title: Race and the Digital Humanities: An Introduction Date: Friday, November 16, 3-4 pm EST Location: Hosted online via NITLE’s videoconferencing platform What is the role of race in the digital humanities? Join Adeline Koh, Visiting Faculty Fellow, Duke University and Assistant Professor of Literature, Richard Stockton College for a brief survey of the emerging field of race and the digital humanities, including an introduction to a variety of digital projects informed by race and links to resources for people interested in working in this field. Topics we will cover include: the genealogy of these debates, the theoretical assumptions that inform them, and issues to consider while constructing a race and digital humanities project. Details: http://www.nitle.org/live/events/151-race-and-the-digital-humanities-an-introduction Registration Please register online by Wednesday, November 14, 2012. Registration is free, however space is limited. This seminar, “Race and the Digital Humanities: An Introduction,” has been designated an open-house event for institutions considering membership in the NITLE Network http://www.nitle.org/network/benefits.php . Non-member institutions are invited to register interested faculty and staff for this event free of charge. Registration link: http://www.nitle.org/registrations/race_and_digital_humanities_registration.php * * * *All the Best,* *Rebecca Davis* * *Rebecca Frost Davis, Ph.D. Program Officer for the Humanities National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) 1001 East University Avenue | Georgetown, Texas 78626 http://www.nitle.org | tel. 512 863-1734 | fax 512 819-7684 Twitter: @FrostDavis | Diigo: rebeccadavis | NITLE's Techne Blog: http://blogs.nitle.org For regular updates from NITLE, subscribe to *The NITLE News* http://eepurl.com/bk92v . --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:28:19 +0000 From: "Lauersdorf, Mark R" Subject: Deadline Extension & Final Call: Language Technology at KFLC 2013 Dear colleagues, This is the *Final Call* for submission of abstracts to the Language Technology sessions at KFLC: The Language, Literature, and Culture Conference 2013. There is still time to join our international group and be a part of the 8th annual LangTech sessions. With the problems caused by hurricane Sandy in the eastern sections of the United States, the deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended through: *** Sunday, 18 November 2012 *** For your reference, I have included below my original message with a brief description of the conference and the full Call for Papers. Many thanks to those who have already responded and who have shared this information with their colleagues and constituents. If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me. I look forward to hearing from you and your colleagues and to adding your work to the growing list of exciting proposals that have already come in. With best regards, Mark Lauersdorf ----- original message and Call for Abstracts ----- Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to submit an abstract for participation in the 8th annual Language Technology sessions at KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference. The KFLC is an international, multidisciplinary academic conference with a 66-year history of bringing together top researchers in language, literature, culture, and linguistics in the fields of Arabic, East Asian, French and Francophone, German-Austrian-Swiss, Hispanic, Luso-Afro-Brazilian, and Neo-Latin Studies, as well as Language Technology, Translation and Cultural Studies, and Second Language Acquisition. The KFLC offers broad exposure for your work, gathering over 750 scholars in these disciplines from around the world. The Language Technology division ("LangTech at the KFLC") was inaugurated at KFLC 2006. In bringing a technology track to a high-level international academic conference with a strong literary-cultural tradition and orientation, we provide a forum for both academics and technologists to engage in a discussion of technological innovation in the teaching and research of world literatures and cultures (in addition to the more customary discussions of technology in language instruction). Indeed, "LangTech at the KFLC" seeks to encourage cross-pollination of ideas across languages and literary-cultural interests, encouraging participants from all KFLC literature, culture, and linguistics divisions to join in discussions on integrating technology into their teaching and research programs. I have included below the official Call for Papers for this year's LangTech at the KFLC 2013. I hope that you will consider bringing your work in Language Technology to Lexington to showcase for us, and that you will share this call broadly with your colleagues. I look forward to hearing from you and hope to see you here in the spring. Best regards, Mark Lauersdorf ----- CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - LANGTECH AT THE KFLC - 18-20 April 2013 ----- LangTech at the KFLC is 8 years old this year! At the intersection between technology and literary, cultural, language, and linguistic teaching and research, we welcome submissions on any aspect of: *** Technology for Literature & Culture, Language & Linguistics *** This includes, but is certainly not limited to: - integrating technology into literature, culture, and linguistics curricula and classrooms. - faculty research in literature, culture, and linguistics employing technology ("digital humanities"). - technology for student projects and research in literature, culture, and linguistics. Abstracts are, of course, also welcome in all other areas and aspects of technology and language, such as: - using tech tools and techniques for language instruction in all skills and on all levels. - mentoring language educators in optimal use of technology in their teaching and research. - employing technology-based research publication in language scholarship. - managing language technology in an academic setting. The KFLC is an international academic conference that brings together top researchers in language, literature, culture, and linguistics in the fields of Arabic, East Asian, French and Francophone, German-Austrian-Swiss, Hispanic, Luso-Afro-Brazilian, and Neo-Latin Studies, as well as Translation and Cultural Studies, and Second Language Acquisition. We would like to see this broad range represented in the Language Technology sessions, to encourage cross-pollination of ideas across the languages and disciplines and to encourage participants from the literature, culture, and linguistics sessions to join us in our discussions on integrating technology into teaching and research. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words in length and should be submitted directly online at: ** http://kflc.as.uky.edu/ ** In view of the multi-language audience that we hope to attract to all Language Technology sessions, the recommended language of presentation is English. Presentation sessions are 30 minutes in length (including a 5-10 minute question and answer period). ** Deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 November 2012. ** All proposed abstracts will be considered for inclusion in the KFLC program. Acceptance of a paper implies a commitment on the part of the participant(s) to register and attend the conference. All presenters must pay the appropriate registration fee by 15 February 2013 to be included in the program. The conference will take place 18-20 April 2013 on the campus of the University of Kentucky in Lexington. For more information on conference logistics, please visit: http://web.as.uky.edu/kflc/. For specific information on the Language Technology sessions, contact the division director at the coordinates listed below. If you've been with us before, come join us again for Year 8! If you’ve never been, make this the year to come to beautiful springtime Kentucky for "LangTech at the KFLC"! Mark Lauersdorf ----------------------------------- Dr. Mark Richard Lauersdorf. KFLC -- Language Technology division director. Associate Professor of Languages and Linguistics. Director, Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities. 1055 Patterson Office Tower. University of Kentucky . Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0027, USA. phone: ++ 859.257.7101. fax: ++ 859.257.3743. e-mail: lauersdorf@uky.edu http://www.rch.uky.edu/ http://linguistics.as.uky.edu/users/mrlaue2/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B94FC6090; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:50:11 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD70607E; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:50:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A374C2E00; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:50:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121115085009.A374C2E00@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:50:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.488 something to say X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 488. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alexander Hay (73) Subject: Re: 26.482 do we have something to say? [2] From: Jascha Kessler (97) Subject: Re: 26.482 do we have something to say? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:29:07 +0000 From: Alexander Hay Subject: Re: 26.482 do we have something to say? In-Reply-To: <20121114075447.A53E8604A@digitalhumanities.org> Constantly, we are reading and interpreting our surroundings. Understanding how and why this happens is key to understanding ourselves and the world we inhabit. Also, the potential for computer mediated text remains under-used. (I'm unusual in that I make full use of hyperlinks in my work as a web editor, for example.) We haven't even begun to explore the potential of this, and far from being the end of print, what electronic text really amounts to is a new medium altogether, just waiting to be explored. http://emcarroll.com/comics/faceallred/01.html On 14 November 2012 07:54, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 482. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:47:08 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: all the conversations > > In a quiet moment early this morning I happened to pick up and read the > first few pages of a fine book, Alison Winter's Memory: Fragments of a > Modern History (Chicago, 2012). It's grist for a mill I am building. > Those pages not only told me that I had not misspent my book allowance > (self-allowed and unregulated :-) but once again reminded me of the > situation in which we find ourselves as digital humanists. So, grist for > this mill also. > > These days it is often said that the digital humanities is the > humanities' salvation. As I've perhaps commented before, I wonder in > each case if the sayer has any idea at all what wonderful work is going > on in these humanities, arm in arm as they are with the sciences, e.g. > of memory. I do understand that institutionally the humanities are in > trouble, but then higher education is in trouble as a whole -- caused by > ignorance of purpose within and without. This ignorance is appalling, > but I wonder whether it is a new phenomenon? More true of some > disciplines than others? I suspect that a history of humanists' > complaints would reveal a continuum of whinging ab ovo. > > But what impresses me is simply how much good work is going on, and how > much we have to learn. We in the digital humanities have recently > entered a very large room in which many astonishing conversations are in > progress -- such as about memory. Wouldn't you think, for example, that > while we help to build these cultural memory archives we make ourselves > aware of this work? Stop talking as if (to resort to a N American idiom) > we are endlessly baking apple pies, each tastier than the last? The > question is, do we have anything to say to the people in this room we > have just entered, or are we (to adjust my food metaphor slightly) > merely serving drinks and nibblies, listening in briefly, at best > catching snatches of this or that conversation before quietly moving on? > > 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, 14 Nov 2012 13:33:20 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 26.482 do we have something to say? In-Reply-To: <20121114075447.A53E8604A@digitalhumanities.org> Well, Willard's rumination is understandable, and not a post-turkey dyspepsia. But the root of the matters that concerns him may, or might? be located in what has sometimes irritated me: that is, the term Digital Humanities itself seems to have fossilized into an indigestible lump, from its reification, both adjective and noun floating in a sea of generalities. My 3-year old grandson, with a sharp ear, was chanting the other week as his father shoved him along in the stroller, that refrain he and his older brothers always sing out, from HORSE FEATHERS, Groucho's famous political-social jibe, "Whatever it is, I'm against it!" Felix turned to his father and surprised him with, "But Daddy, what *is* that *it* I'm against?" You can ask of DH, what *is *that *DH* I am for?" Is it more or as much as the sum of it 1s and 0s? Is it something at all? When Willard says higher learning in the subjects and teaching that are not science or the social sciences, which are neither social nor sciences, is in trouble in the universities, surely we all know it is a matter of money, and, worse, something in our Western kulchur, as Ezra Pound named it. Much-mocked Oswald Spengler may have put his finger on the fact, but not the causes, when he spoke of the West's Decline. If the mountain is made of glass, there are neither handholds nor footholds, and down we go, as Eliot put it in the first part of his Wasteland. We can hold on tight if there are any ledges. In any case, patience and courage to do somehow what was always done from the most ancient times, Swat, Study, and Think ... and Record too, whether our work is preserved in Ther Cloud [a Pooh-ism], or bound in leaves of perishable paper... Jascha Kessler _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 310076000; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:45:32 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E865C5F9D; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:45:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7360C2E14; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:45:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121116084530.7360C2E14@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:45:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.489 default online publication of dissertations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 489. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Daniel Allington (50) Subject: Re: 26.485 default online publication of dissertations? [2] From: "Zafrin, Vika" (54) Subject: Re: 26.485 default online publication of dissertations? [3] From: "Lele, Amod" (58) Subject: Re: 26.485 default online publication of dissertations? [4] From: Michael Fraser (32) Subject: Re: 26.485 default online publication of dissertations? [5] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (22) Subject: Re: 26.485 default online publication of dissertations? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:11:22 +0000 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: 26.485 default online publication of dissertations? In-Reply-To: <20121115084216.4F4892DDA@digitalhumanities.org> The practice you describe - online unless embargoed - was (and as far as I know, still is) in force at the institution where I completed my PhD. I think it's fine provided that the application for an embargo is never refused on any grounds. Just imagine the ramifications otherwise: former student applies for an embargo; university rejects application; thesis appears online; former student sends manuscript to publisher; publisher rejects manuscript on grounds that too much of the material is already available. Who could blame said student for suing the university? Some theses are more immediately publishable than others. I know of at least one recent PhD graduate whose thesis was accepted for publication with virtually no modifications. Best wishes Daniel On 15 Nov 2012, at 08:42, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:41:02 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: default online publication > > > This is to ask your opinion on a matter of online publication. Do you > think that a doctoral dissertation in the humanities once submitted > should as a matter of course be put online by the degree-granting > institution unless the student applies for and is granted an embargo? > What is the practice where you are? > ... > > In the old days of typewriters and floppies, I was asked to decide on > whether I wanted my dissertation to be freely available in the stacks of > the library. I decided to have it kept locked up for some few years. As > it happened I never did anything with the dissertation (I would prefer > now that it remain out of reach), but that was a different time. It is > very easy for me to be in favour of immediate online circulation of all > dissertations, however, so I am cautious in thinking that scholars at the > beginning of their careers would agree. > > What do you think? How should we treat finished work in the humanities > that might be published in some form or other? > > 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: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:11:02 +0000 From: "Zafrin, Vika" Subject: Re: 26.485 default online publication of dissertations? In-Reply-To: <20121115084216.4F4892DDA@digitalhumanities.org> Timely question, Willard. There's a lot going on in the world of ETDs (electronic theses and dissertations) right now. My institution has recently decided to follow a general trend and begin accepting graduate theses and dissertations electronically. We're large, so we're doing it in stages: our first cohort is the May 2013 graduating class of just one (albeit largest) school within the university. The reasons for the decision are a combination of pragmatism and the usual reasoning behind the open access movement: - student work gets a LOT more exposure, which is good for both students and university; - less resource-heavy for the students: no dead trees, no multiple printings for error correction, no special paper, no associated fees, much easier and cheaper to submit remotely; - less resource-heavy for the university libraries: no binding, no storage of thousands upon thousands of paper theses that mostly never get consulted, much improved processing workflows, less strain on the interlibrary loan system. ProQuest--formerly UMI, the entity with the largest collection of theses and dissertations in the U.S.--has made it easier for us to transition to ETDs by building a website, etdadmin.com, which they customize for each participating school. Through it, we can accept drafts, bounce them back with comments, and process final submissions and all accompanying documentation. This costs us nothing extra if we're already doing business with PQ, which we are. Schools that don't do business with PQ find other ways to streamline this. So, that's the dry business case. What's the humanities-specific case? I think it aligns pretty much wholly with the case for open access in general. Increased visibility, increased citations, serendipitous opportunities that would be difficult to come by any other way. If there's a good reason to restrict access, that can be done. Mostly, there isn't a good reason to restrict access. Most publishers that consider dissertations for revision and publication don't seem to mind the originals being openly accessible, since the final publication often doesn't much resemble the final submitted dissertation. In cases where they do mind, the author can usually choose to embargo the dissertation either upon submission or afterwards. Which is to say: everyone wins. We think. I'm interested in your apparent contradiction: you're frustrated whenever you can't get your hands on a thesis or dissertation, but you also think "discouraging their unrevised publication is fully justified." Sure, a dissertation isn't a proper monograph. It's not meant to be. If the context is fully understood, why should unrevised publication of dissertations be discouraged? For what it's worth, most young scholars I talk to at BU, including those in the humanities, are persuaded by the above arguments. If anything, it's the faculty we need to struggle with, because some of them tend to unintentionally misinform students about what open access actually *is*, and scare them off with tales of OA being bad for their careers. (It's not. It's been shown to be good.) -Vika Vika Zafrin Institutional Repository Librarian Boston University +1 617.358.6370 | http://dcommon.bu.edu/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:48:52 +0000 From: "Lele, Amod" Subject: Re: 26.485 default online publication of dissertations? In-Reply-To: <20121115084216.4F4892DDA@digitalhumanities.org> I briefly thought about keeping my dissertation behind a pay wall to make it more attractive to book publishers, but decided that as an advocate for open access I really couldn't live with myself for doing that. I also knew that I wasn't going to be turning the book into a diss as it was - it was probably going to be the starting point for two different books. So I paid to have UMI archive it as open access. When I decided I was sick of the faculty job market, I made it available on my own website for everyone to see (http://loveofallwisdom.com/other-writings/) - but only then. As soon as he saw this, a fellow recent graduate in my discipline Gchatted me with alarm: "You posted your entire dissertation! Aren't you interested in publishing it as a book?" And I don't blame him. In the cutthroat calamity that is the faculty job market, it is no surprise that struggling recent graduates want every advantage for publishing that they can get, and the incentive structure rewards conventional publishing, not open access. The system benefits neither writers nor readers, only publishers. But it's probably going to get worse before it gets better. Amod Lele, PhD Educational Technologist Boston University Office: 617-358-6909 Mobile: 617-645-9857 lele@bu.edu --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:27:28 +0000 From: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: 26.485 default online publication of dissertations? In-Reply-To: <20121115084216.4F4892DDA@digitalhumanities.org> Oxford has an institutional policy that mandates the submission of a digital copy of a research thesis to the institutional repository (once passed). See http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ora/oxford_etheses for the policy and guidelines; and for some sample Humanities theses see http://ora.ox.ac.uk/search/detailed?q=*%3A*&truncate=450&filterf_faculty=%22Humanities%20Division%20-%20English%20Language%20and%20Literature%22&filterf_typeOfWork=%22Thesis%22&sort=t_itemDate+desc&rows=5&start=0 . I never transformed my thesis into a monograph. I made it available (as in 'uploaded a PDF') via both a dedicated web site and deposited it within Durham University's digital repository ( http://dro.dur.ac.uk/17/ ). And left it there. And was pleasantly surprised, after a few years. to discover it was cited in a number of published works (which I very much doubt would have happened if I had left it in the library stacks). Mike -- Dr Michael Fraser Director of Infrastructure Services IT Services, University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road, Oxford Technical Coordinator Student Systems Programme Tel: 01865 283 343 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mikef/ --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:16:44 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: 26.485 default online publication of dissertations? In-Reply-To: <20121115084216.4F4892DDA@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, Most Canadian PhD Theses are published online through Theses Canada (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html). Many universities have built into their processes submission to Theses Canada which includes signing the Theses Non-Exclusive License. This license I find too broad. It includes the following language: -------------start quote from http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/frm-nl59-2-e.pdf hereby grant a non-exclusive, for the full term of copyright protection, license to Library and Archives Canada: (a) to reproduce, publish, archive, preserve, conserve, communicate to the public by telecommunication or on the Internet, loan, distribute and sell my thesis (the title of which is set forth above) worldwide, for commercial or non-commercial purposes, in microform, paper, electronic and/or any other formats; (b) to authorize, sub-license, sub-contract or procure any of the acts mentioned in paragraph (a). ------------end Note that this allows LAC to sell my thesis and pass on the rights licensed. I think this is so LAC can sell the theses to 3rd party publishers who aggregate Canadian ones with others for the useful end of having larger databases. You can read a story in the Chronicle about how our theses are being sold at http://chronicle.com/article/Dissertation-for-Sale-A/132401/ There is some language in the Theses Canada process that allows students to embargo their thesis or parts of it for copyright reasons. For example, if you wrote a novel for an MFA you might not want it up while you negotiate with a publisher. Likewise an art history thesis might reproduce copyright materials (images) that the author cannot pass on to LAC. My university makes it awkward for a students to not sign the license or to refuse to submit, even though I don't think we can actually refuse to grant a PhD if someone refused. Some work arounds exist - you can upload a PDF with only page images if you don't want the full text up there. You can embargo your thesis for a number of years. You can hand in only a paper copy. You can annotate the license and force the library to deal with you. You can put something into the thesis restricting its use. That said, it is easy for me to describe the issue, but a different thing for a poor student just trying to finish up and get out to stand up to the university rules. I have documented some of this on my blog at http://www.theoreti.ca/?s=theses+canada I should add that I do believe there are good reasons for encouraging all Canadian graduate students to share their theses in ways that allow them to be aggregated. I just don't think they should be forced to do so. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:52:17 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Digital Transformations Moot Readers of Humanist who are not attending (or were unable to get tickets for) the Digital Transformations Moot, a major event being organised by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in London on 19 November, may be interested in taking a look at the brochure for the event which is available for download at: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Funding-Opportunities/Research-funding/Themes/Digital-Transformations/Pages/Digital-Transformations-Moot.aspx I think what is particularly interesting about this event is that, although there are some interesting and important 'yacks', much of the emphasis of the event is on the large number of interactive stalls and installations. Does this prefigure how DH conferences should develop - hack rather than yack? The brochure also gives details of the live-streaming of the event: The event will be live-streamed. Please tell your colleagues that they can watch at http://digitrans.crowdvine.com/ pages/watch-live and on the AHRC website at http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/watchthemootlive 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id ED1F6607E; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:52:48 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE06C6069; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:52:48 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C52E15F9D; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:52:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121116085247.C52E15F9D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:52:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.491 events: open access; collection database; AI & Turing Test X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 491. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Andrew Prescott (42) Subject: The Finch Report, open access and the historical community [2] From: "Gauvin, Jean-Francois" (19) Subject: Go Ask A.L.I.C.E.: A Panel Discussion @ Harvard [3] From: Andrew Prescott (19) Subject: Seminar: BM Collection Database --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:52:17 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: The Finch Report, open access and the historical community The Finch Report, open access and the historical community - free colloquium Friday, January 18 2013 Institute of Historical Research, University of London Court room Senate House, Malet Street London WC1E 7HU United Kingdom http://events.history.ac.uk/event/show/7871 1.30 Registration 1.50 Introduction and welcome 2.00 Panel One Philip Carpenter (VP and Managing Director, Social Sciences and Humanities, Scientific, Technical, Medical and Scholarly, Wiley) Simon Chaplin (Head of the Wellcome Library) Caren Milloy (Head of Projects, JISC Collections) Daniel Pearce (Commissioning Editor, Humanities and Social Science Journals, Cambridge University Press) 3.00 Panel Two Lyndal Roper (Regius Professor of History, University of Oxford) Colin Jones (Outgoing President, Royal Historical Society) Christopher Wickham (Publications Secretary, British Academy) Felix Driver (Royal Holloway, University of London) 4.00 Tea/coffee 4.15 Roundtable discussion Edward Acton (Vice-Chancellor, University of East Anglia) Kimm Curran (History Lab Plus) Michael Jubb (Executive Director, Research Information Network) Mark Llewellyn (Director of Research, Arts and Humanities Research Council) Other speakers TBC 5.00 Close Registration is required, but there is no charge for attendance. -- 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:29:52 -0500 From: "Gauvin, Jean-Francois" Subject: Go Ask A.L.I.C.E.: A Panel Discussion @ Harvard Dear Friends and Colleagues, Please join us on 29 NOVEMBER, 2012 in Science Center 469 @ 5:30pm for a panel discussion about artificial intelligence, Turing Test and Thinking machines. We have a great panel composed of Daniel C. Dennett (Tufts University), Fox Harrell (MIT), John Searle (UC Berkeley), Peter Galison (Harvard), Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard) and Sophia Roosth (Harvard). Following the event refreshments will be served. You will be able to (re)discover our current exhibit on the topic: Go Ask A.L.I.C.E.: Turing Tests, Parlor Games & Chatterbots. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/chsi_goa.html Please join us in great numbers! For any information, please contact me. Very best, jfg -- Jean-François Gauvin, Ph.D. Director of Administration for the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments Lecturer for the Department of the History of Science Harvard University Science Center 371 1 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 http://jfgauvin2008.wordpress.com/ http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/chsi.html Tel: (617) 496-1021 Fax: (617) 496-5932 Cell: (857) 998-8523 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:13:03 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Seminar: BM Collection Database Tanja Szrajber of the British Museum will give a Department of Digital Humanities seminar at King's College London on Tuesday 20 November at 6.15pm. Tanya will speak on 'The British Museum Collection Database: How to Create and Manage over 2,000,000 Records'. All are very welcome and there will be refreshments afterwards. The seminar will be held in Room S-3.01, Strand Building, King's College London (not the Anatomy Museum as previously announced). -- -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CF081608D; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:54:08 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FAAA6000; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:54:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BB5125FCF; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:54:06 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121116085406.BB5125FCF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:54:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.492 new publication: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 37.3 on Warren McCulloch X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 492. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:34:19 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 37.3 Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 37.3: Warren McCulloch and his Circle September 2012 http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr/latest All articles in this issue are available free of charge. Preface: The McCulloch Connections, pp. 201-202 Galison, Peter Warren S. McCulloch and his Circle, pp. 203-205 Abraham, Tara H Warren McCulloch's Turn to Cybernetics: What Walter Pitts Contributed, pp. 206-217 Aizawa, Kenneth Cybernetic Sense, pp. 218-236 Halpern, Orit Warren McCulloch and the British Cyberneticians, pp. 237-253 Husbands, Phil; Holland, Owen An Asymmetric Relationship: The Spirit of Kenneth Craik and the Work of Warren McCulloch, pp. 254-268 Collins, Alan F 'The Materials of Science, the Ideas of Science, and the Poetry of Science': Warren McCulloch and Jerry Lettvin, pp. 269-286 Abraham, Tara H -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7C9372E1C; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:32:27 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 491B22E0F; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:32:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 755A52E02; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:32:25 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121117093225.755A52E02@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:32:25 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.493 default online publication of dissertations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 493. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Daniel Allington (20) Subject: Re: 26.489 default online publication of dissertations [2] From: "Vandegrift, Micah" (16) Subject: 26.489 default online publication of dissertations --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:48:54 +0000 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: 26.489 default online publication of dissertations In-Reply-To: <20121116084530.7360C2E14@digitalhumanities.org> Amod While I'm sympathetic to most of your argument, I'd be careful of dividing the interests of publishers from the interests of writers or readers so neatly. There are practices which really do benefit (a minority of) publishers alone, e.g. charging a five figure sum for a year's subscription to a journal that is written and edited for free (and which may even charge a handling fee for submissions). But the majority of academic publishers do not behave like that, and wouldn't have the opportunity to do so anyway. Authors and readers benefit from good editing. Authors benefit from good marketing. In fact, readers can arguably benefit from good marketing too, because that's one of the major ways in which they find out about new books: I often order books from the catalogues I receive from various university presses, for example, and these are often books that I wouldn't have noticed otherwise. If I order them through my university library and as physical rather than DRM-crippled electronic copies, they then go onto the shelves where not only staff and students but also members of the public can access them for free. Editing and marketing are things that publishers have traditionally done. They don't always do them well, but the alternatives are (a) doing them yourself or (b) hiring freelancers, and most of us don't have the time for the first or the resources for the second. Call me conservative, but I want publishers - including academic publishers - to carry on being able to turn a profit so that I as a writer and reader am able to carry on benefiting from the work that they do. Except in extreme cases which have to be addressed as such (e.g. the pricing of top medical and scientific journals; I won't name names here), I do not believe it is fair to describe the system as benefiting only publishers, because writers and readers greatly benefit from activities that publishers will no longer be able to engage in once the system ceases to benefit them. There has to be a place for both open access and commercial publication, I would think. Perhaps these can even be combined in a single entity, a la Canonical. But I hope we're not going to begrudge the typical academic publisher its meagre (and steadily falling) income. Best Daniel On 16 Nov 2012, at 08:45, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > The system benefits neither writers nor readers, only publishers. But it's probably going to get worse before it gets better. > > Amod Lele, PhD > Educational Technologist > Boston University > Office: 617-358-6909 > Mobile: 617-645-9857 > lele@bu.edu > > -- 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: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:24:53 +0000 From: "Vandegrift, Micah" Subject: 26.489 default online publication of dissertations In-Reply-To: Morning all, I just wanted to weigh in on the ETD conversation, as it is one I am deeply involved in here at Florida State. First, I'd like to point out a recent study http://works.bepress.com/nancy_seamans/7/ that found that "96% of university presses and journals indicated that ETD based works would be eligible for consideration in their publication." The paper is available here. Also, early this year, even the American Historical Association released a statement saying "there is no conclusive evidence that electronic publication can make it more difficult to publish a revised version of a dissertation…" and that "some editors reported that they would be more likely to publish a dissertation that had attracted attention online." I'd also like to point out that if ever the humanities are going to move to embrace a more open model of scholarship, it should begin and be encouraged from the first scholarly work produced, the dissertation. I think a lot of the resistance to digital dissemination is simply a misunderstanding of the practicality and potential benefits of it. As the repository manager at Florida State, I get multiple requests for access to our theses and dissertations, so that that research can be consulted, built upon and revived. Regardless of the scholars like or dislike for their dissertation, that can only mean more citations and greater visibility of their work, broadly. Currently we allow students, with stated valid reason, to embargo up to 48 months from the time of graduation. I understand the impulse to hide that work away so that one can build it into a better, more fine-tuned product (The Monograph), but in the digital age there is also something to be said for staking that claim early, by releasing the dissertation upon graduation and proving that there are kernels of great ideas therein that will be built upon in future publications. And if publishers are still considering those works for publication, it sounds like a win-win. The case I hear over and over is that very seldom is a dissertation published as is. There will be such substantial changes, through additions, revisions, editorial intervention, peer review, etc, that the dissertation being available online serves more as a teaser of the greater (different) work coming soon than a rehashing and repackaging of graduate-level work. Also, there is something to be said for how we talk about what happens to a dissertation… I'd argue that they are not "published" when they are made accessible in an institutional repository, but deposited, archived, released. Changing that language could go a long way for changing the culture of ETDs in the humanities, and how they are regarded as foundations for the next step of a scholars career. I'd also like to make the case that generally there is a lack of understanding about the ETD process between libraries, graduate schools and humanities departments. As institutional repositories are becoming the central locations of many more ETD collections, educating the graduate school and the departments about author rights, the facts about open access and the role of the library in archiving and preserving these documents is becoming more apparent. I spend a good amount of my work doing outreach to our grad students on these topics, and often do so in contrast to the misunderstandings that are perpetuated in the home departments. The most salient point, and an argument for open access broadly in the humanities, comes from Kathleen Fitzpatrick. She writes, "… The more we close our work away from the public, the more we refuse to engage in dialogue across the boundaries of the academy, the more we undermine the public's willingness to fund our research and our institutions… closing our work away from non-scholarly readers, and keeping our conversations private, might protect us from public criticism, but it can't protect us from public apathy, a condition that is, in the currently economy, far more dangerous." Micah Vandegrift -- Micah Vandegrift Scholarly Communication Librarian Florida State University 850-645-9756 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1A97D6002; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:33:59 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5EEE2E25; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:33:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 240342E0F; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:33:57 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121117093357.240342E0F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:33:57 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.494 fellowships at IATH X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 494. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:52:02 +0000 From: Sarah Wells Subject: CFP for IATH Fellowships Dear Fellows, Hiya! We're starting to look for applications for the next round of IATH Fellowships, and we'd like to get the word out to as wide an audience as possible. So, we're hoping that you will pass on the attached notice to colleagues whose research you think should or could be a good match with IATH. And I should also note that we are happy to provide support & feedback on ideas and applications. Thanks very much for your help! Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns about this process. 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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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2B9546069; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:38:24 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D793B6002; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:38:23 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 00CC02E1C; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:38:21 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121117093822.00CC02E1C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:38:21 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.495 old mss like born-digital text X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 495. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:36:49 -0600 From: Laura Mandell Subject: FW: News Distribution: ProQuest participates in project to make old manuscripts behave like born-digital text In-Reply-To: <24082900FD8BBB4F8A3E5CF2890E761E01740622ED@AAPQMAILBX02V.proque.st> ProQuest is participating in a project at Texas A&M that will significantly advance research of the early modern era. In a nutshell, a collective of publishers and software companies are supporting the efforts of scholars and librarians to train OCR technology to read the peculiar fonts of the 14th through 17th centuries. When they're done, researchers will be able to conduct key word searches of 600-year-old manuscripts, making them as easy to work with as born digital content. Fascinating! Read on to learn more -- here http://www.proquest.com/en-US/aboutus/pressroom/12/20121106.shtml or below... ProQuest Joins Forces with TAMU Scholars to Make 15th Century Books Behave Like Born-Digital Text Collaborative project will train OCR technology to read early modern fonts November 6, 2012 (ANN ARBOR Mich.) -- Information powerhouse ProQuest http://www.proquest.com/ is participating in a project that will vastly accelerate research of 15 th through 17th Century cultural history. The company will provide access to page images from the veritable Early English Books Online and newcomer Early European Books to the Early Modern OCR Project (eMOP http://emop.tamu.edu/ ) at Texas A&M. EMOP will use the content to create a database of typefaces used in the early modern era, train OCR software to read them and then apply crowd-sourcing for editing. The project will turn the rich corpus of works from this pivotal historical period into fully searchable digital documents. “Digitization of the historical archives of the early modern era made this literature far more accessible. Page images provide scholars with unprecedented access to books that previously could have only been viewed in their source library. However, precision search -- the ability to use technology to zero in on very specific text -- has been hampered by the fact that OCR technology can’t read the peculiarities of early printing,” said Mary Sauer-Games, ProQuest vice-president, publishing. “We’re thrilled to participate in an effort that we feel will drive new levels of historical discovery. We love the application of modern ingenuity to turn these very old archives into works that are as searchable as text that was born digital.” ProQuest has played a key worldwide role in preservation and access to early modern history, ensuring the survival of printed works from as early as 1450. In the 1930s, the company became a pioneer of microfiche, when it filmed the contents of the vast archives of the British Library and other major libraries across England – virtually every English language book printed in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. The microfilm collection, ProQuest’s flagship Early English Books, opened these works to global study and created an avenue for preservation. It has since become the quintessential collection for study of the early modern era. In the 1990s, ProQuest began a massive effort to capture the collection digitally. Early English Books Online enables scholars to manage, share and collaborate on their research virtually. The company even created a social network that allows the scholars who use the collection as a base for their research to connect with each other. Then, early in the 21st century, ProQuest expanded the program to include major European libraries, launching Early European Books with the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen and the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze in Italy. Digitization projects are also underway with the U.K.’s famed scientific and medical library -- The Wellcome – and the National Library of the Netherlands. eMop is led by Texas A&M Professors Laura Mandell, Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC), Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna of Computer Science, and Richard Furuta, Director of the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries (CSDL), along with Anton DuPlessis and Todd Samuelson, book historians from Cushing Rare Books Library. The scholars earned a two-year, $734,000 development grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the work. ProQuest is one of a variety of participating publishers and software organizations that are collaborating on the project. To learn more about eMOP visit http://emop.tamu.edu. For more information about ProQuest’s role in access to and preservation of the world’s knowledge, visit www.proquest.com. About ProQuest (www.proquest.com) ProQuest connects people with vetted, reliable information. Key to serious research, the company has forged a 70-year reputation as a gateway to the world’s knowledge – from dissertations to governmental and cultural archives to news, in all its forms. Its role is essential to libraries and other organizations whose missions depend on the management and delivery of complete, trustworthy information. ProQuest’s massive information pool is made accessible in research environments that accelerate productivity, empowering users to discover, create, and share knowledge. An energetic, fast-growing organization, ProQuest includes the ProQuest®, Bowker®, Dialog®, ebrary®, and Serials Solutions® businesses and notable research tools such as the RefWorks® and Pivot™ services, as well as its’ Summon® web-scale discovery service. The company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with offices around the world. --30-- Beth Dempsey, for ProQuest +1 248 349-7810 office +1 248 915-8160 mobile beth.dempsey@proquest.com --Laura Mandell Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture Professor, English Texas A&M University p: 979-845-8345 e: mandell@tamu.edu @mandellc http://idhmc.tamu.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3CD31608E; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:44:39 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CFFA6084; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:44:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1F7E56000; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:44:37 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121117094438.1F7E56000@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:44:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.496 events: Canadian DH; Turing; scholarship; history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 496. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Seth Denbo (33) Subject: Digital History Seminar [2] From: "Stefan Sinclair, Prof" (17) Subject: CFP for Canadian DH Conference at Congress (CSDH/SCHN), June 3-5, 2013 [3] From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it (21) Subject: congress on Turing at Lincei [4] From: Susan Schreibman (42) Subject: Methods/New Perspectives on Humanities Scholarship: A NeDimah/DARIAH Workshop [5] From: Keir Waddington (22) Subject: CFP British Society for Literature and Science Conference 2013 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:35:06 +0000 From: Seth Denbo Subject: Digital History Seminar In-Reply-To: Digital History seminar Ian Gregory (University of Lancaster) "Using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to Explore Historical Texts: Examples from the Lake District and Census Reports" Venue: Room G37, Senate House, University of London or online on History SPOT Tuesday, 20 November 2012, 5:15pm GMT Traditionally there has been a simple split in scholarship between social science approaches based on quantitative sources on the one hand, and humanities based approaches based on textual sources on the other. If you were interested in the former then IT had much to offer to help with your analysis, if however, you were interested the latter then IT offered little and you would instead stress the close reading of your texts. This cosy dichotomy is falling under threat because increasingly large volumes of texts are available in digital form and close reading is no longer a suitable approach for understanding all of the huge volumes of material that are now available. Unfortunately we know little about how to analyse texts in an IT environment in ways that are able to cope with both the large volumes of material – potentially stretching to billions of words – together with the traditional need within the humanities to stress detail and nuance. This paper presents some initial results from a European Research Council funded project *Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places* that explores how Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology can be exploited to help us to understand the geographies within texts. It is based on two examples: one drawing on early literature from the Lake District, the other from a much larger collection of census and vital registration material drawn from the Histpop collection (www.histpop.org). Ian Gregory is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Lancaster. Seminars are streamed live online at HistorySpot. To keep in touch, follow us on Twitter (@IHRDigHist) or at the hashtag #dhist http://twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/dhist . --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:48:11 +0000 From: "Stefan Sinclair, Prof" Subject: CFP for Canadian DH Conference at Congress (CSDH/SCHN), June 3-5, 2013 In-Reply-To: @ the Edge — 2013 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society For Digital Humanities / Société Canadienne Des Humanités Numériques [FedCan Congress]The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities invites scholars, practitioners, and graduate students to submit proposals for papers and sessions for its annual meeting, which will be held at the 2013 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia from 3-5 June (http://congress2013.ca/). The society would like in particular to encourage submissions relating to the central theme of the Congress– “@ the Edge.” While this year’s Congress theme is well suited to the interests of CSDH/SCHN, we encourage submissions on all topics relating to both theory and practice in the evolving field of the digital humanities. Proposals for papers (20 min.), posters, and panels or roundtables (2 -6 speakers for a 1½ hour session) will be accepted until 17 December 2012 and must be submitted at https://www.conftool.net/csdh-schn-2013/. Abstracts should be between 200 and 400 words long, and should clearly indicate the paper’s thesis, methodology and conclusions. There is a limited amount of funding available to support graduate student travel. Please note that all presenters must be members of CSDH/SCHN at the time of the conference. Selected papers from the conference will appear in a special collection published in the society journal, Digital Studies/Le champ numérique (http://www.digitalstudies.org). 2013 Program committee: Christine McWebb (program chair), Jentery Sayers (local organizer), Jon Saklofske, Susan Brown, Stéfan Sinclair, Daniel O’Donnell. and Michael E. Sinatra. @la fine pointe — Réunion annuelle de 2013 de la Canadian Society For Digital Humanities / Société Canadienne Des Humanités Numériques La Société canadienne des humanités numériques invite chercheurs et étudiants aux cycles supérieurs à soumettre des propositions de communication et de session pour sa réunion annuelle, qui se tiendra au Congrès 2013 de la Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines à l’Université Victoria, Victoria, Colombie Britannique du 3 au 5 juin (http://congress2013.ca/). La Société souhaite encourager en particulier des propositions concernant le thème central de la réunion : « @la fine pointe ». Bien que le thème du congrès de cette année soit bien adapté aux intérêts de la SDH/SEMI, nous encourageons également toute communication qui traite des sciences humaines numériques, tant au niveau théorique que pratique. Les propositions de communication (20′), posters et de session ou table-ronde (2-6 participants pour une période d’une heure trente) seront acceptées jusqu’au 17 décembre 2012 et doivent être soumises à https://www.conftool.net/csdh-schn-2013/. Les résumés devraient compter entre 200 et 400 mots, et indiquer clairement la thématique, méthodologie, et conclusion. La société a des fonds limités pour les frais de déplacements pour les étudiants. Veuillez noter que tout présentateur devra être membre de la CSDH/SCHN au moment de la conference. Une sélection des présentations de la conférence sera publiées dans un numéro spécial du journal de la Société, le Digital Studies/Le champ numérique (http://www.digitalstudies.org). Comité scientifique 2013: Christine McWebb (program chair), Jentery Sayers (local organizer), Jon Saklofske, Susan Brown, Stéfan Sinclair, Daniel O’Donnell et Michael E. Sinatra. -- 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) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:26:31 +0100 From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: congress on Turing at Lincei In-Reply-To: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Celebrating the "Alan Turing Year" (2012, centenary of his birth) the Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare Beniamino Segre, a special branch of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (www.lincei.it; Palazzo Corsini, via della Lungara 10, Roma), holds a Conference "Per il centenario di Alan Turing, fondatore dell'informatica" Organizing committee: Giorgio Ausiello, Carlo Cellucci, Paolo Galluzzi, Tito Orlandi. Date: November 22nd, 9.30 until 18.00. The focus of the conference will concern all scientific activities in which Alan Turing was engaged, but especially his intuition and theorization of computability, and consequently the Turing Machine. It is also an occasion to reflect on the evolution of computer science from the years Thirties up to our days, on its impact on information society, and on its appreciation by those who utilize its applications. Renowned specialists will also discuss Turing's role in other fields of mathematics, in artificial intelligence, and in cryptography. The speakers are (in the order of presentation): Tito Orlandi (director of the Centro Linceo), Gabriele Lolli, Angelo R. Meo, Giorgio Ausiello, Carlo Cellucci, Daniele Mundici, Luigia Carlucci Aiello, Pino Persiano, Dino Buzzetti, Gino Roncaglia. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 07:36:06 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Methods/New Perspectives on Humanities Scholarship: A NeDimah/DARIAH Workshop In-Reply-To: *New Methods/New Perspectives on Humanities Scholarship: A NeDimah/DARIAH Workshop* *Tuesday 27 November 2012, 9.00am-3.00pm Trinity Long Room Hub, Dublin, Ireland* For registration see http://nedimahdublin2012.eventbrite.com/ Digital technologies have opened up a wealth of methodologies that can augment and enhance more traditional research practice, allowing new ways to engage with the ever-growing web of digital data. This one-day workshop hosted by NeDIMAH with support from DARIAH will provide an introduction to these methods NeDiMAH (Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities) is an ESF-funded network investigating the use and impact of digital methods on arts and humanities research in Europe. As part of the network's ongoing work, Trinity College's Long Room Hub will be the venue for a *free one-day symposium* to analyse and evaluate the methods thus far developed within the network, and identify ways in which it can further assist scholarly research being carried out in the Digital Arts and Humanities. This workshop will focus on the core areas which NeDIMAH has been investigating: space and time; information visualisation; linked data and ontological methods; building and developing collections for digital data for research; using large-scale text collections for research; digital scholarly editions; and the impact of digital methods on scholarly publishing. We invite digital humanists at all different career levels, from MPhil students to Directors of Museums, to join us for this event. Your experience and feedback is vital to the ongoing work of NeDIMAH and DARIAH. The event is free but registration is required at http://nedimahdublin2012.eventbrite.com/ For further information about NeDimah see http://nedimah.eu; about DARIAH see http://dariah.eu; and on DH@TCD see http://dh.tcd.ie/dh -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Long Room Hub Associate Professor in Digital Humanities School of English Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland email: susan.schreibman@tcd.ie phone: +353 1 896 3694 fax: +353 1 671 7114 check out the new MPhil in Digital Humanities at TCD http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digital-humanities/ --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:36:31 +0000 From: Keir Waddington Subject: CFP British Society for Literature and Science Conference 2013 In-Reply-To: British Society for Literature and Science Conference 2013 – Call for Papers Cardiff University and the University of Glamorgan The British Society for Literature and Science invites proposals for papers and panels to be delivered at its eighth annual conference to be held in Cardiff, 11-13 April 2013. The BSLS Conference does not have a theme (as it its usual practise) but especially welcomes proposals on the state of the field of literature and science as well as its relation to other fields. This year we would be particularly interested to receive proposals that reflect upon the interdisciplinary study of literature and science in the context of the present crisis in the humanities. However, the Society remains committed to supporting proposals on all aspects of literature and science across all periods. Proposals for papers of 15-20 minutes should be sent in the body of the email text (no attachments, please), to bsls2013@yahoo.co.uk with the subject line ‘BSLS 2013 abstract’. Submissions should include the title of the paper, an abstract of no more than 300 words, a maximum of 3 keywords (placed at the end of the abstract), and the name and contact details of the speaker. Closing date for submissions: 7 December 2012. (Decisions will be made in January 2013) Contributors interested in organising a panel or other special session, or who have suggestions for alternative forms of conference presentation, are warmly encouraged to contact the conference organisers. The organisers would welcome, for example, workshops on teaching literature and science, or on specific themes in literature and science that cross period boundaries, or on specific published works with considerable influence in the field. Please email the organisers on bsls2013@yahoo.co.uk, using ‘BSLS 2013 Panel’ as the subject line in email correspondence. Funding: we anticipate that there will be a small bursary awarded to a graduate student on the basis on the paper proposals. The student must be registered for a masters or doctoral degree on 9 January 2013. Accommodation: please note that those attending will need to make their own arrangements for accommodation. As in previous years, we anticipate that the conference will begin at about 1pm on the first day and conclude at about 2pm on the last. Membership: in order to attend the conference, you must be a paid-up member of the BSLS for 2013. We anticipate that it will be possible to pay the £10 annual membership fee when paying the conference fee online. ------------------------------------------------ Keir Waddington Director of Research Editor, Studies for the Social History of Medicine [http://www.sshm.org/publications/series.html] Contact details: School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University Humanities Building, Colum Drive Cardiff CF10 3EU United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)29 20876103 Web page: http://www.cf.ac.uk/share/contactsandpeople/academicstaff/U-Z/waddington-keir-dr-overview_new.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F298E6084; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:46:26 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C31525F9D; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:46:26 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7F4F52E1C; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:46:24 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121117094624.7F4F52E1C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:46:24 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.497 publications: D-Lib; space & literature X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 497. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Miran gmail (30) Subject: space in literature and literature in space [2] From: Bonnie Wilson (60) Subject: November/December 2012 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:50:03 +0100 From: Miran gmail Subject: space in literature and literature in space Dear colleagues, national philologies communicate predominantly in national languages and are thus limited to those who speak the language, in case of minor cultures limited only to the members of the national community. Wishing to get a broader echo, Slavistična revija, Slovene journal for linguistics and literary studies (all the volumes of the journal since 1948 are freely available through the journal's web archive http://www.srl.si/) has published its special issue entitled Space in Literature and Literature in Space--SRL 60/3 (2012)--as a bilingual (Slovene-English) edition, edited by Urška Perenič. Current issue contents: Space in Slovene Literary Studies: Critical Editions of the Classics At the Juncture of Literature and Geography: Literature as a Subject of Geographic Inquiry in the Case of Slovene Istria The Network of Memorials of Slovene Literary Culture as Semiotic Appropriation of (National) Space The Reading Societies Network and Socio-Geographic Dynamics The Capital and Centers of Slovene Literature Space and its Geographical Presentation in Slovene Historical Narrative [...] The reviews of the books are available in Slovene only: on the spatial turn in narratology, on Barbara Piatti: Die Geographie der Literatur, Barney Warf and Santa Arias (eds.): The Spatial Turn: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, David Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, and Trevor Harris (eds.): The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship, and a report of Erfurt 2012 workshop Mapping Spatial Relations, their Perceptions and Dynamics. The majority of the articles in the issue was generated by the project The Space of Slovene Literary Culture: Literary History and Spatial Analysis using the Geographic Information System (http://sl.wikiversity.org/wiki/Literatura_in_prostor). -- miran --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:16:53 +0000 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: November/December 2012 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. Greetings: The November/December 2012 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains six articles and two conference reports. The 'In Brief' column presents five short pieces and excerpts from recent press releases. In addition you will find news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in the 'Clips and Pointers' column. This month, D-Lib features Digibaeck. a digital gateway to the collection of the Leo Baeck Institute. The articles include: Context and Its Role in the Digital Preservation of Cultural Objects Article by Joan E. Beaudoin, Wayne State University A Framework for Contextual Metadata Used in the Digital Preservation of Cultural Objects Article by Joan E. Beaudoin, Wayne State University Viewshare and the Kress Collection: Creating, Sharing, and Rapidly Prototyping Visual Interfaces to Cultural Heritage Collection Data Article by Lauren Algee, National Gallery of Art, Jefferson Bailey, Metropolitan New York Library Council and Trevor Owens, Library of Congress CORE: Three Access Levels to Underpin Open Access Article by Petr Knoth and Zdenek Zdrahal, Knowledge Media institute, The Open University Georeferencer: Crowdsourced Georeferencing for Map Library Collections Article by Christopher Fleet, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh; Kimberly C. Kowal, The British Library, London; Petr Pridal, Klokan Technologies GmbH, Baar, Switzerland and Moravian Library, Brno, Czech Republic Exploring Social Curation Article by Michael Zarro and Catherine Hall, Drexel University The Reports are: Report on the 16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing: Social Shaping of Digital Publishing Conference Report by Tomasz Neugebauer, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada CurateGear: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections Conference Report by Alex H. Poole, Christopher A. Lee, and Angela P. Murillo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill See the In Brief column for more reports on conferences and workshops. D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, England http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/ The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the November/December 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6A9246094; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:27:47 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 147942DF5; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:27:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8907E2DE2; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:27:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121119062745.8907E2DE2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:27:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.498 old mss like born-digital text X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 498. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:54:32 +0000 From: jonathan.gibson@rhul.ac.uk Subject: Re: 26.495 old mss like born-digital text I think this is a project on early printed books, NOT manuscripts. Sent from my HTC ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Humanist Discussion Group" > To: > Subject: [Humanist] 26.495 old mss like born-digital text > Date: Sat, Nov 17, 2012 09:38 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 495. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:36:49 -0600 From: Laura Mandell Subject: FW: News Distribution: ProQuest participates in project to make old manuscripts behave like born-digital text ProQuest is participating in a project at Texas A&M that will significantly advance research of the early modern era. In a nutshell, a collective of publishers and software companies are supporting the efforts of scholars and librarians to train OCR technology to read the peculiar fonts of the 14th through 17th centuries. When they're done, researchers will be able to conduct key word searches of 600-year-old manuscripts, making them as easy to work with as born digital content. Fascinating! Read on to learn more -- here http://www.proquest.com/en-US/aboutus/pressroom/12/20121106.shtml or below... ProQuest Joins Forces with TAMU Scholars to Make 15th Century Books Behave Like Born-Digital Text Collaborative project will train OCR technology to read early modern fonts November 6, 2012 (ANN ARBOR Mich.) -- Information powerhouse ProQuest http://www.proquest.com/ is participating in a project that will vastly accelerate research of 15 th through 17th Century cultural history. The company will provide access to page images from the veritable Early English Books Online and newcomer Early European Books to the Early Modern OCR Project (eMOP http://emop.tamu.edu/ ) at Texas A&M. EMOP will use the content to create a database of typefaces used in the early modern era, train OCR software to read them and then apply crowd-sourcing for editing. The project will turn the rich corpus of works from this pivotal historical period into fully searchable digital documents. “Digitization of the historical archives of the early modern era made this literature far more accessible. Page images provide scholars with unprecedented access to books that previously could have only been viewed in their source library. However, precision search -- the ability to use technology to zero in on very specific text -- has been hampered by the fact that OCR technology can’t read the peculiarities of early printing,” said Mary Sauer-Games, ProQuest vice-president, publishing. “We’re thrilled to participate in an effort that we feel will drive new levels of historical discovery. We love the application of modern ingenuity to turn these very old archives into works that are as searchable as text that was born digital.” ProQuest has played a key worldwide role in preservation and access to early modern history, ensuring the survival of printed works from as early as 1450. In the 1930s, the company became a pioneer of microfiche, when it filmed the contents of the vast archives of the British Library and other major libraries across England – virtually every English language book printed in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. The microfilm collection, ProQuest’s flagship Early English Books, opened these works to global study and created an avenue for preservation. It has since become the quintessential collection for study of the early modern era. In the 1990s, ProQuest began a massive effort to capture the collection digitally. Early English Books Online enables scholars to manage, share and collaborate on their research virtually. The company even created a social network that allows the scholars who use the collection as a base for their research to connect with each other. Then, early in the 21st century, ProQuest expanded the program to include major European libraries, launching Early European Books with the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen and the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze in Italy. Digitization projects are also underway with the U.K.’s famed scientific and medical library -- The Wellcome – and the National Library of the Netherlands. eMop is led by Texas A&M Professors Laura Mandell, Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC), Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna of Computer Science, and Richard Furuta, Director of the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries (CSDL), along with Anton DuPlessis and Todd Samuelson, book historians from Cushing Rare Books Library. The scholars earned a two-year, $734,000 development grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the work. ProQuest is one of a variety of participating publishers and software organizations that are collaborating on the project. To learn more about eMOP visit http://emop.tamu.edu. For more information about ProQuest’s role in access to and preservation of the world’s knowledge, visit www.proquest.com. About ProQuest (www.proquest.com) ProQuest connects people with vetted, reliable information. Key to serious research, the company has forged a 70-year reputation as a gateway to the world’s knowledge – from dissertations to governmental and cultural archives to news, in all its forms. Its role is essential to libraries and other organizations whose missions depend on the management and delivery of complete, trustworthy information. ProQuest’s massive information pool is made accessible in research environments that accelerate productivity, empowering users to discover, create, and share knowledge. An energetic, fast-growing organization, ProQuest includes the ProQuest®, Bowker®, Dialog®, ebrary®, and Serials Solutions® businesses and notable research tools such as the RefWorks® and Pivot™ services, as well as its’ Summon® web-scale discovery service. The company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with offices around the world. --30-- Beth Dempsey, for ProQuest +1 248 349-7810 office +1 248 915-8160 mobile beth.dempsey@proquest.com --Laura Mandell Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture Professor, English Texas A&M University p: 979-845-8345 e: mandell@tamu.edu @mandellc http://idhmc.tamu.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E8098609B; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:29:00 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9AFB6095; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:29:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 36AC52DFC; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:28:59 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121119062859.36AC52DFC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:28:59 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.499 default online publication of dissertations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 499. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:34:37 +0000 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: 26.493 default online publication of dissertations In-Reply-To: <20121117093225.755A52E02@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Micah McMillan et al 2011 is a very interesting study, and I'd like to thank you for drawing our attention to it. The devil is in the detail, though, and in this case the detail would seem to support the view that - depending upon his or her publication plans - there might still be very good reasons for a student's wanting access restrictions or an embargo: ----- Journal editors are more enthusiastic about receiving submissions based on ETDs than are university presses. Two-thirds of the journals “always welcome” submissions from ETDs, while one-tenth of the university presses do. This is not to say the university presses discourage submissions based on ETDs. Nearly half consider ETD-based submissions on a case-by-case basis. Slightly more than one-quarter (26.8%) will consider submissions “ONLY IF the contents and conclusions in the manuscript are substantially different from the ETD.” There does not appear to be a significant relationship between the size of the enterprise and its policy or perspective on accepting manuscripts derived from ETDs. However, university presses are about two-and-a-half times as likely to “never” accept ETD-based submissions, than are journal editors. Only university presses find access restrictions necessary. McMillan et al 2011, http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&context=univ_lib_facpub ----- That study also indicates that there are university presses that would expect access to the thesis to be restricted after publication, even if it wasn't restricted before ('Another commented: “We ask authors to stop distribution of their ETD when we agree to publish their REVISED material.”', ibid.). My understanding (possibly incorrect) of my alma mater's policy was that once my thesis was out in the open, there would be no going back. Is this allowed for in your respository's 48-month policy? We also need to be very clear about the benefits of open access to the individual. You mention citations: thankfully, they currently count for nothing in my discipline (at least in the UK!), but in contexts where they do count, not all citations count equally. For example, it's quite common practice to derive citation counts from the Web of Science, which only indexes cross-citations within a select subset of journals and conference proceedings - not theses. Those journals may accept ETD-based submissions, of course, but there's still a potential disadvantage in that the open access thesis could begin to act as a competitor of the article, when it is the latter alone whose citations can actually add up to something. It was with this in mind that I recently emailed the author of a thesis I had read a couple of years back and which I had already cited several times, asking her if the relevant work had since appeared in a publication that she would prefer me to cite. These are complex and unpleasantly important issues. I write this, by the way, as someone who has uploaded almost all his research publications to an institutional repository. I'm not against open access, I just don't believe we should expect the most vulnerable people in the entire system (i.e. recent PhD graduates) to be the vanguard of change - and I very much believe that the decision of whether and when to open access to a thesis should belong to its author, and to its author alone. best wishes Daniel On 17 Nov 2012, at 09:32, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:24:53 +0000 > From: "Vandegrift, Micah" > Subject: 26.489 default online publication of dissertations > In-Reply-To: > > > Morning all, > > I just wanted to weigh in on the ETD conversation, as it is one I am deeply involved in here at Florida State. First, I'd like to point out a recent study http://works.bepress.com/nancy_seamans/7/ that found that "96% of university presses and journals indicated that ETD based works would be eligible for consideration in their publication." The paper is available here. Also, early this year, even the American Historical Association released a statement saying "there is no conclusive evidence that electronic publication can make it more difficult to publish a revised version of a dissertation…" and that "some editors reported that they would be more likely to publish a dissertation that had attracted attention online." > > I'd also like to point out that if ever the humanities are going to move to embrace a more open model of scholarship, it should begin and be encouraged from the first scholarly work produced, the dissertation. I think a lot of the resistance to digital dissemination is simply a misunderstanding of the practicality and potential benefits of it. As the repository manager at Florida State, I get multiple requests for access to our theses and dissertations, so that that research can be consulted, built upon and revived. Regardless of the scholars like or dislike for their dissertation, that can only mean more citations and greater visibility of their work, broadly. Currently we allow students, with stated valid reason, to embargo up to 48 months from the time of graduation. ... > > Micah Vandegrift > > -- > > Micah Vandegrift > Scholarly Communication Librarian > Florida State University > 850-645-9756 > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A30F0609D; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:30:03 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60196609B; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:30:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0327B2DE2; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:30:01 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121119063002.0327B2DE2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:30:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.500 update on Turing Year activities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 500. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 06:22:46 +0000 (GMT) From: S Barry Cooper Subject: Update, 18 November, 2012 As the petition for a pardon for Alan Turing completes its 12 months at the end of the coming week, we start to look back on an amazing year of centenary celebrations. We expected the year would be something special, but what we have seen has been beyond anything we might have dreamt of. Of course, it is not just Turing himself we remember in 2012. The Turing legacy means so many things to so many different people, things which relate to the future, and to who we are and how we face an incomputable world with the sort of curiosity, honesty and courage that Alan himself did. It is the making sense and finding meaning which was Turing's adventure, and which inspires so many to look beyond the surface of daily life. We too look for personal ways through the complexities, the rewards, and the inevitable setbacks. While thinking outside the box ... Meanwhile, still quite a lot of events before the year's end. 1) From Andrew Mohan, Chairman of Manchester BCS: "I would be grateful if you could add details of our forthcoming Turing Lecture to the ATY website, details are https://nwengineersxmas2012.eventbrite.com/ " The speaker is the remarkable Prof. Bernard Richards, who worked with Turing on morphogenesis as a young MSc student in the early 1950s, and though going on to have his own distinguished career, never forgot his time with Turing. The BCS page points to a superb interview with Bernard from the June 19 Manchester Evening News, quoting him "The day he died felt like driving through a tunnel and the lights being switched off": http://bit.ly/UH9Lx9 It's Tuesday, December 4, 2012 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the Manchester BCS Branch, and is free, but you have to register. 2) You have to be quick to get in on the discussions of the "Big Questions Online" from the John Templeton Foundation - you can find Jack Copeland's second provocative contribution asking "Is Alan Turing Both Inventor of the Basic Ideas of the Modern Computer and a Pioneer of Artificial Intelligence?" at: http://bit.ly/RB6e4Z The article went online last Tuesday, and has just a couple more days to run (until November 19) before the discussion gets cut off. All credit to Ansley Roan and the JTF for hosting these interesting contributions from Jack, and the resulting discussions, though some of us would be glad of a little longer to read and contribute. 3) A reminder that Leeds Cafe Scientifique on Tuesday 20th November 2012, at 8pm, at "Seven", Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton, Leeds LS7 3PD has Barry Cooper introducing the discussion on "Alan Turing - The Building of a Brain". See: http://www.cafe-sci.org.uk/ 4) We're told his talk might have some similarity to the short contribution he made to the LGBT History Month 2013 pre-launch at Bletchley Park on Thursday! This was a wonderful event, well-attended, which promises further Alan Turing interest in February 2013. The organisers are hoping for people from the science, mathematics and technology community to get involved in the preparations for February - nice report at: http://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/featured-left/bletchley-park-goes-rainbow/ And from Demotix "Alan Turing nephew speaks at LGBT History Month pre-launch event": http://bit.ly/T2XweX Thanks to Tony Fenwick, Sue Sanders and many others - including a sparky bunch of young LGBT History Month activists - for a great day. And should mention the incredible Pink Punters support team. 5) A very interesting issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews just appeared, focussing on Warren McCulloch and his circle (of McCulloch and Pitts fame): http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr/2012/00000037/00000003 Journal editor Willard McCarty wrote: "Since Turing inspired McCulloch's and Pitts' work, perhaps there would be some place to mention this issue in the publicity you are sending out regarding the Turing celebrations?" Any doubts arising from Turing's famous 1949 description of McCulloch as "a charlatan" disappear when one reads the paper by Philip Husbands and Owen Holland (Sussex) on "Warren McCulloch and the British Cyberneticians": http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/mcculloch.pdf - it's full of Turing interest, and puts the charlatan comment in context. All in all, a fascinating collection, and part of the 'Turing in context' theme of 2012. 6) Concerning the petition for a Turing pardon, Andrew Pakes in Pink News writes "Time is right to pardon Alan Turing": http://bit.ly/S68MIc He comments: "Earlier this month, Labour frontbencher Sadiq Khan MP became the latest senior politician to back calls for a pardon for Alan Turing. The campaign has momentum, and hopefully the government will listen and re-examine its decision to turn down a pardon." This is in the context of broad multi-party support for this overdue decision, of course. 7) From Jack Copeland, a report on the Alan Turing event in Finland last Monday, arranged by the British Embassy: http://ukinmontserrat.fco.gov.uk/en/news/?view=News&id=833934682 - he writes (apologies to Jack for quoting his letter, but he writes with the same appealing sincerity as he speaks with in public): "I'm just back from the Turing bash at the British Embassy in Helsinki. Daniella organized it. It was terrific, and the Embassy did Turing proud, with an audience of around 80 Finnish captains of industry and other VIPs. It would be good if some other British embassies would pick up the same model. Dani gave one of the talks, by the way, a retrospect of the ATY to date. She was brilliant - I hadn't heard her speak before and she turns out to be a natural born performer, stole the show in fact. She's a great ambassador for Turing and it would be good to see her getting more speaking gigs." 8) Of course, the British Embassy in Sao Paulo has also been busy. There is an impressive exhibition - ALAN TURING - LEGACY FOR COMPUTING AND HUMANITY, at the Museum of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil: http://www.ufrgs.br/alanturingbrasil2012/eng/expo.html This is promoted by the Institute of Informatics/UFRGS, British Consulate General in Sao Paulo and the British Consulate in Porto Alegre. 9) The Daily Mail had more Bletchley Park/Alan Turing related news on Wednesday "Rare German World War Two Enigma machine which scrambled the code broken by Bletchley Park experts is sold for 85,000": http://bit.ly/RXJVGy - can't grumble about the machine going to a US buyer, given how generous the US has been to the Turing legacy during 2012. Special mention of the ACM, Princeton University, Google and the JTF. Many others might be added (the Boston University event last week, with Marvin Minsky, Martin Davis and other great speakers being fresh in the minds of those lucky enough to have been there). 10) From Tito Orlandi in Rome, news of an event in Rome next week - here's his announcement in full: Celebrating the "Alan Turing Year" (2012, centenary of his birth) the Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare Beniamino Segre, a special branch of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (www.lincei.it; Palazzo Corsini, via della Lungara 10, Roma), holds a Conference "Per il centenario di Alan Turing, fondatore dell'informatica" Organizing committee: Giorgio Ausiello, Carlo Cellucci, Paolo Galluzzi, Tito Orlandi. Date: November 22nd, 9.30 until 18.00. The focus of the conference will concern all scientific activities in which Alan Turing was engaged, but especially his intuition and theorization of computability, and consequently the Turing Machine. It is also an occasion to reflect on the evolution of computer science from the years Thirties up to our days, on its impact on information society, and on its appreciation by those who utilize its applications. Renowned specialists will also discuss Turing's role in other fields of mathematics, in artificial intelligence, and in cryptography. The speakers are (in the order of presentation): Tito Orlandi (director of the Centro Linceo), Gabriele Lolli, Angelo R. Meo, Giorgio Ausiello, Carlo Cellucci, Daniele Mundici, Luigia Carlucci Aiello, Pino Persiano, Dino Buzzetti, Gino Roncaglia. 11) Should mention the new Audioboo Bletchley Park Podcast Extra E10: audioboo.fm/boos/1064097-bletchley-park-podcast-extra-e10 It includes more from the Mythbusters event held at Bletchley Park: "Organised by bestselling author Michael Smith (Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park, Britain's Spies - the Real James Bonds) who was joined by the official GCHQ historian and, in a rare public appearance, veteran Bletchley Park Code Breaker & former Director of GCHQ, Sir Arthur Bonsall." 12) From Ian Watson, news of another special screening of CODEBREAKER - as he says "this time the first in New Zealand. This will round off our Turing Year celebrations in an excellent way". Details: CODEBREAKER Thursday 6 December 2012 6.00pm Location: University of Auckland Owen G Glenn Building B4 (260-073) Refreshments 5.30pm before the movie, location tbc FREE Entry Not yet added to the December list of ATY events: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?13#dec - but will be soon. There is an interesting blog by the film producer Patrick Sammon on "Why I Made a Film About Alan Turing, the Gay 'Father of Computer Science'" at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patrick-sammon/codebreaker_b_1991075.html 13) Also - CODEBREAKER is being shown at ENIGMA - Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, in Hong Kong: http://microwavefest.net/festival2012/#!/codebreaker_as Just finishing today is the David Link 'Love Letters' exhibit: http://microwavefest.net/festival2012/#!/love_letters_as 14) Another time-sensitive item - the deadline for applications for GCHQ apprenticeships is fast approaching, November 30th: http://www.gchq-careers.co.uk/roles-at-gchq/school-leavers-students/apprenticeships/ If you know anyone these would appeal to - and working at GCHQ in Cheltenham would be a memorable experience - they should go to: http://www.careersinbritishintelligence.co.uk 15) From Erinma Ochu, who has done such a fantastic job for the Turing's Sunflowers experiment, another letter full of interest - again, as the year is ending, here it is in almost full detail: "We're delighted to have the preliminary results of the Turing's Sunflowers experiment. They can be viewed at: www.turingsunflowers.com/results and specifically: http://www.turingsunflowers.com/spiralscount Here's the press release: http://www.turingsunflowers.com/press/release/theresults In addition to confirming Fibonacci numbers in the majority of sunflowers, we found some very interesting sunflowers in which it was difficult to count the number of spirals in one direction and in others we found sunflowers which didn't have Fibonacci-type structure. Jonathan [Swinton] and the Turing's Sunflower team at MOSI would like to thank everyone that took part in the experiment and those who took an interest and got the message out more widely." Yes, it really was a highlight of the year, and brought Alan Turing into hundreds of schools. 16) Another fun Turing project was the selling of framed Lego portraits of Alan Turing: http://littleartist.co.uk/artwork/alan-turing-portrait/ Not cheap, but they do come framed. Available to buy exclusively from The Little Artists website. 17) While, we're told, the Alan Turing Monopoly sets are almost sold out: http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/news/docview.rhtm/675554 18) From Sol Feferman a couple of interesting items (the first me meant to mention last time) - "A recent excellent novel that features the Turing Test in an interesting way is 'A Working Theory of Love', by Scott Hutchins. You can find it on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594205051 along with a dozen or so good reviews. I would suggest your looking at these with the idea of possibly mentioning the book on one of your Turing Year bulletins." And more recently: "Though a few years old, this great proof in Seuss-style verse of the unsolvability of the halting problem by Geoffrey Pullum just came across my desktop. Geoff is a well known linguist, formerly of UC Santa Cruz and now at the University of Edinburgh. http://m-phi.blogspot.nl/2012/03/geoff-pullum-seusses-out-halting.html " Actually, Geoff did a reading of his excellent (correct) poetic proof at the Turing Centenary Conference in Cambridge. We look forward to getting him reading it on YouTube one day. 19) Btw, having read the new book "Time Traveller Danny and the Codebreaker" by Paul Morris, we can definitely recommend it. There is a particularly nice treatment of aspergers syndrome, one of the less spotlighted aspects of the Turing year - you can buy it at Amazon etc now. >From Paul we heard: "A brief and inadequate note to thank you for the kind mention in the ATY/TCAC November update, which was copied to me by Rachel at Sherborne School. And another to thank you for alerting Alan Edwards re my launch event on Saturday just gone. Everyone seemed to find it enjoyable, judging from comments received, but for my part it was very memorable for this gentleman to step up and quietly introduce himself as a friend of AT. That really added something for me and my guests, and he was a fascinating chap to talk to." Yes, Alan Edwards, who has featured in this update on occasion, is quite famous now. He says of the booklaunch: "Just thought that I would let you know that I went to the book launch of Paul Morris's book "Time Traveller Danny and the Codebreaker" in Poynton on Saturday. I had a great time. Most enjoyable. It also included a short extract from a stage show devised by a local youth theatre which is based on the book. (I shall go to see the show in full when they eventually put it on later this year)." And, it seems, Paul had seen a copy of Outnorthwest magazine published by LGF in Manchester (the June/July issue) which had a double page spread about what was happenning in Manchester during the actual centenary month and alsofeatured an interview with Alan Edwards! 20) A final focus on some events for the rest of November and the beginning of December, not yet mentioned: * November 20-25, 2012: TURING - a staged case history, a multi-media performance at the Studio Theatre, Piccolo Theatre of Milan, Milan, Italy. 2012 is the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, a brilliant mathematician, logician and British cryptanalyst, considered one of the fathers of computer science. His thinking, development and the logic underlying it, its principal research, take form in a multimedia show. The actor, an ensemble of computer, and video, are the characters on stage. With live elctronics from Massimo Marchi. Great webpage: http://www.piccoloteatro.org/play/show/2012-2013/turing-----a-staged-case-history * November 22, 2012: Per Il Centenario Di Alan Turing, Fondatore Dell'Informatica, organised by Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei - Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare "Beniamino Segre". 9:30-18:00, at Palazzo Corsini, via della Lungara 10. Speakers include: Gabriele Lolli, Angelo R. Meo, Giorgio Ausiello, Carlo Cellucci, Daniele Mundici, Luigia Carlucci Aiello, Pino Persiano, Dino Buzzetti, Gino Roncaglia. Details: http://www.lincei.it/files/convegni/969_invito.pdf * November 23, 2012: Launch of Take Tea with Turing, an anthology of creative work inspired by the life and legacy of Alan Turing, edited by Viccy Adams, Leverhulme Trust Artist in Residence at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. 7pm at Inspace with an evening of readings from contributors. See: http://taketeawithturing.wordpress.com * November 28, 2012: Showing of CODEBREAKER in Hamburg, 18:15-20:00 Grosses Kino des Abaton (in one of the main cinemas of the University quarter). Part of the Deutsches Alan Turing-Jahr. Details: http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/BreakingTheCode/Film/ * November 28, 2012: Premiere performance of TO KILL A MACHINE by Catrin Fflur Huws, 7:45pm at Aberystwyth Arts Centre. A new play "about the wartime code-breaker Alan Turing, whose pioneering work considered whether a machine could think. At the heart of the play is a powerful love story which questions the meaning of humanity, and the importance of freedom." http://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/theatre/kill-machine Continues at Sherman Cymru, 6pm on November 29: http://www.shermancymru.co.uk/to-kill-a-machine Also, December 5 at Swansea University. * December 1, 2012: Computer History Tour of Melbourne, dedicated to Alan Turing. One of a unique series - Melbourne has several remarkable links to the earliest days of computers, and these tours seem to be the first of their kind in the world. Tour starting at the Caulfield campus of Monash University at 8:45am and finishing at about 5pm. See: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~gfarr/tour/ * December 4, 2012: NW Engineers' Christmas Lecture: The Four Facets of Alan Turing and our work on Morphogenesis. Speaker Prof. Bernard Richards. At BCS Manchester Branch, from 6:00-8:00pm, at Manchester Metropolitan University, John Dalton Building, Oxford Road (All Saints Campus) M15 6BH Manchester. See: https://nwengineersxmas2012.eventbrite.com * December 4, 2012: Lecture "Alan Turing and the Computing Revolution: Ten Big Ideas that Changed the World" by Barry Cooper: http://www.ufrgs.br/alanturingbrasil2012/eng/resumos_palestras.html#5 Part of the special lecture series in the "Alan Turing - Legacy for Computing and Humanity" programme of events: http://www.ufrgs.br/alanturingbrasil2012/eng/palestrantes.html * December 4-7, 2012: World Intelligence Congress in Macau, China. As a special event for the Alan Turing Year, the conference has Turing Keynote Speaker Edward Feigenbaum (1994 Turing Award winner), from Stanford University. The congress includes five intelligent informatics related conferences - IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2012 (WI'12), IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2012 (IAT'12), Active Media Technology 2012 (AMT'12), Brain Informatics 2012 (BI'12) and Methodologies for Intelligent Systems 2012 (ISMIS'12). See: http://www.fst.umac.mo/wic2012/ * December 5, 2012: Public Engagment Afternoon in Swansea, to celebrate Alan Turing's Centenary - includes: Distinguished Lecture by Martin Campbell-Kelly on Alan Turing's Other Universal Machine: The ACE, and A new play by by Catrin Fflur Huws: To Kill A Machine, performed by Scriptography Productions. http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/turing2012/ * December 7-8, 2012: Alan Turing Centenary Year Celebrations - Workshop on Art of Computing, at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India. Accommodation requests close November 25. Another impressive webpage: http://psgtech.edu/alanworkshop/ * December 8-11, 2012: Fifth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-12), in Oxford, UK. Appropriately for this Alan Turing centenary year, this is the first AGI conference to be held in the UK. See: http://agi-conf.org/2012/ * December 10, 2012: Turing Year Enriques Lecture in Milan, with speaker Barry Cooper on Alan Turing and the Computational Content of Causality. 16:30pm at the Dipartimento di Matematica, v. Saldini, 50, aula Chisini, Universit degli studi di Milano. See: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/MILANposter.pdf * December 18-20, 2012: Alan M. Turing - Simplification in Intelligent Computing Theory and Algorithms, a 3-Day Faculty Development Program at the Foundation for Advancement of Education and Research (FAER), in Bangalore. Will include lectures by eminent speakers on Turing, Cryptography, Computing, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence etc, as well as a Panel Discussion. Part of the Alan Turing Year 2012 - India Celebrations. See: http://faer.ac.in/alan_turing/index.html All for now - please send items for what may be our final update of the Alan Turing Year ... __________________________________________________________________________ ALAN TURING YEAR http://www.turingcentenary.eu ASSOCIATION COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE http://www.computability.org.uk Email: pmt6sbc@leeds.ac.uk Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Alan-Turing-Year/199853901070 and http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Alan-Turing-Year/100000473465821 Twitter: http://twitter.com/AlanTuringYear __________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B1952609E; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:35:34 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8021D2DFC; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:35:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8D4E82DF5; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:35:32 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121119063532.8D4E82DF5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:35:32 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.501 events: medieval futures; digital libraries; John Bradley at Maynooth X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 501. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jennifer Kelly (17) Subject: Digital Humanities Research Seminar at An Foras Feasa [2] From: Andrew Prescott (39) Subject: Digital Pasts, Medieval Futures Workshops at Leicester December 10th and 11th - with Martin Foys [3] From: Shawn Day (142) Subject: Call for Contributions: 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:50:49 +0000 From: Jennifer Kelly Subject: Digital Humanities Research Seminar at An Foras Feasa Dear Humanists, An Foras Feasa is delighted to announce that John Bradley, King's College London, will deliver the AFF Digital Humanities Research Seminar at NUI Maynooth on Wednesday 21 November at 3pm. The title of the seminar is 'Being Englebartian? Thoughts on Digital Tools for Humanists.' John Bradley has been at King's College London since 1997, and for many years, as Senior Analyst or as Co-Investigator, worked on many collaborative projects such as the Clergy of the Church of England, the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England and the Peoples of Medieval Scotland. In 2011 he was appointed Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities in King's Department of Digital Humanities. Personal research interests have centered on exploring the impact of digital tools on Humanities research. He was the principal designer for the TACT text analysis system in the 1980s and 1990s – as system that although now over 20 years old still has today an influence upon thinking about text-based tools within the Digital Humanities community. More recent work (The Pliny project: http//pliny.cch.kcl.ac.uk) has focused on tools to support scholarly research that proposes a role for tools for digital annotation to support scholarly research and interpretation development. Pliny was awarded a MATC prize from the Andrew Mellon Foundation for its innovative view on a possible role for computer technology in traditional scholarship. Other research interests include: Computer Supported Text Analysis Techniques and Tools Graphical Text Analysis Environments Impact of Structured Data and Structured Text on Humanities Scholarship New areas for potential computer support for Humanities Scholarship The Seminar will take place in the AFF Boardroom (1.26, Iontas Building). All are very welcome to attend. Best wishes, Jennifer Kelly. Dr Jennifer Kelly Project Officer An Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions NUI Maynooth 353 (0)1 4747105 Jennifer.Kelly@nuim.ie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:42:23 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Digital Pasts, Medieval Futures Workshops at Leicester December 10th and 11th - with Martin Foys In-Reply-To: <8C5770533E3B404CB49A1FA1F79FA085859225E37B@EXC-MBX1.cfs.le.ac.uk> Dear All, While we’re basking in the afterglow of such a fantastic Quadrivium in Sheffield this year, I thought I’d try and tempt you with an early Christmas Cracker… We are very excited to have Martin Foys of Virtually Anglo Saxon, Digital Mappaemundi, Bayeux Tapestry, and ISAS fame coming to Leicester to give two workshops aimed at Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers. The schedule is outlined below and there’s a public lecture in the evening after the first workshop followed (inevitably) by medieval pub times. Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1353163921_2012-11-17_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_29441.2.pdf Monday 10 December2.00–3.30pm Digital Medievalisms: the way we work(ed) Here we will look at how digital resources have worked, and are changing, using the DM project as a case study alongside a 'sandbox' of maps and texts. Participants are encouraged to bring their own specific projects, to discuss how they are using digital resources in old or new ways, and how they wish they could use them Tuesday 11 December 10.00–11.30am The Nature of Medieval Media: Material, Ecology, History This workshop will consider how understanding medieval expression – in terms of media history and theory – can change the way we understand it. Attention will be paid to traditional texts, but also very non-canonical forms of expression (eg: bells). Students are encouraged to bring their own specific projects, that may connect to ideas of media (beyond, of course, the old model of oral –> written texts). We have about 20 places available in total on a first come first served basis.People are already signing up at Leicester, so we know it’s going to be popular! Email me on this email (there was a typo in my email address on the participants list – my bad!) to book your place. Many thanks, Owen More info… Workshops: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/mrc/events/mrc-public-lectures/prof.-martin-foys-digital-medievalisms-workshops Public Lecture: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/mrc/events/mrc-public-lectures/prof.-martin-foys-the-bayeux-tapestry --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 21:21:36 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Call for Contributions: 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries In-Reply-To: <8C5770533E3B404CB49A1FA1F79FA085859225E37B@EXC-MBX1.cfs.le.ac.uk> Call for Contributions 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries Valetta, Malta, September 22-26, 2013 Full Information: http://www.tpdl2013.info The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries constitutes a leading European scientific forum on digital libraries that brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. The 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2013) is organized by the University of Malta and it will be held in Valetta, Malta on September 22-26, 2013. * Aims and scope * Valuable and rapidly increasing volumes of data are produced or transformed into digital form by all fields of science, education, culture, business and government. For this purpose the digital libraries community has developed long-term and interdisciplinary research agendas, providing significant results such as conceptual models, added value infrastructures, software tools, standards and services. The advent of the technologies that enhance the exchange of information with rich semantics is on the centre of the discussions of the community. Information providers inter-link their metadata with user contributed data and offer new services outlooking to the development of a web of data and addressing the interoperability and long-term preservation challenges. TPDL 2013 under the general theme "sharing meaningful information", invites submissions describing original, unpublished research and not (and will not be) simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere, for the proliferation of scientific and research osmosis in the following categories: Full Papers, Short Papers, Posters and Demonstrations, Workshops and Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity in a triple peer review process. The TPDL 2013 proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs). According to the Registration Regulation for TPDL 2013, inclusion of papers in the Proceedings is conditional upon registration of at least one author per paper. The authors of the best research papers presented to TPDL2013 will be invited to submit substantially extended versions of their paper for publication in a Focused Issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/799). Doctoral Consortium papers will be published by the Bulletin of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (IEEE-TCDL Bulletin, http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/Bulletin/current/index.html) * Topics * General areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following topics, organized in four categories, according to a conceptualization that coincides with the four arms of the Maltese Cross: Foundations - Information models - Digital Library conceptual models and formal issues - Digital Library 2.0 - Digital library education curricula - Economic and legal (e.g. rights management), landscape for digital libraries - Theoretical models of information interaction and organization - Information policies - Studies of human factors in networked information - Scholarly primitives - Novel research tools and methods with emphasis on digital humanities - User behavior analysis and modeling - Social-technical perspectives of digital information Infrastructures - Digital Library architectures - Cloud and grid deployments - Federation of repositories - Collaborative and participatory information environments - Data storage and indexing - Big data management - e-science, e-government, e-learning, cultural heritage infrastructures - Semi Structured data - Semantic web issues in digital libraries - Ontologies and knowledge organization systems - Linked data and their applications Content - Metadata schemas with emphasis to metadata for composite content (Multimedia, geographical, statistical data and other special content formats) - Interoperability and Information integration - Digital Curation and related workflows - Preservation, authenticity and provenance - Web archiving - Social media, and dynamically generated content for particular uses/communities (education, science, public, etc.) - Crowdsourcing - 3D models indexing and retrieval - Authority management issues Services - Information Retrieval and browsing - Multilingual and Multimedia Information Retrieval - Personalization in digital libraries - Context awareness in information access - Semantic aware services - Technologies for delivering/accessing digital libraries, e.g., mobile devices - Visualization of large-scale information environments - Evaluation of online information environments - Quality metrics - Interfaces to digital libraries - Data mining/extraction of structure from networked information - Social networks analysis and virtual organizations - Traditional and alternative metrics of scholarly communication - Mashups of resources * Important Dates * - Full and Short papers, Posters and Demonstrations: March 23, 2013 - Panels, Workshops, Tutorials: March 4, 2013 - Notification of acceptance for Papers, Posters, and Demonstrations: May 20, 2013 - Notification of acceptance for Panels, Workshops and Tutorials: April 22, 2013 - Camera Ready Versions: June 9, 2013 - Doctoral Consortium Papers Submission Deadline: June 2, 2013 - Doctoral Consortium Acceptance Notification: July 2, 2013 - End of Early Registration: July 31, 2013 - Conference Dates: September 22-26, 2013 * Formatting Instructions * Full papers (12 pages), short-papers (6 pages), posters and demonstrations (4 pages) must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. The TPDL 2013 proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs). Therefore all submissions should conform to the formatting instructions described in the "For Authors" webpage (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). For Doctoral Consortium, papers are expected to have a maximum of 8-10 pages, including references. Papers is recommended to be formatted according to Springer LNCS guidelines. In case your paper includes images or screenshots please ensure that you set image compression at 600dpi when you produce your PDF file. * Submission * All papers, short-papers, posters and demonstrations must be submitted in electronic format (PDF) via the conference's EasyChair submission page (TBA). * Organization * General Chairs: Milena Dobreva, University of Malta, Malta Giannis Tsakonas, University of Patras, Greece Program Chairs: Trond Aalberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Christos Papatheodorou, Ionian University, Greece Organizing Chair: Charles J. Farrugia, National Archives, Malta _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 043046084; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:48:56 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C11FF6034; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:48:56 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9A7C76018; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:48:55 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121120084855.9A7C76018@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:48:55 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.502 old mss (not) like born-digital text X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 502. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:56:56 -0600 From: Laura Mandell Subject: Re: 26.498 old mss like born-digital text In-Reply-To: <20121119062745.8907E2DE2@digitalhumanities.org> Yes, it is on printed books, which is why marketing people should not be allowed to write press releases! We are only allowed to post what they give us. Best, Laura On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 498. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:54:32 +0000 > From: jonathan.gibson@rhul.ac.uk > Subject: Re: 26.495 old mss like born-digital text > > I think this is a project on early printed books, NOT manuscripts. > > Sent from my HTC > > > ----- Reply message ----- > > From: "Humanist Discussion Group" > > To: > > Subject: [Humanist] 26.495 old mss like born-digital text > > Date: Sat, Nov 17, 2012 09:38 > > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 495. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:36:49 -0600 > From: Laura Mandell > Subject: FW: News Distribution: ProQuest participates in project > to make old manuscripts behave like born-digital text > > > ProQuest is participating in a project at Texas A&M that will significantly > advance research of the early modern era. In a nutshell, a collective of > publishers and software companies are supporting the efforts of scholars > and librarians to train OCR technology to read the peculiar fonts of the > 14th through 17th centuries. When they're done, researchers will be able to > conduct key word searches of 600-year-old manuscripts, making them as easy > to work with as born digital content. Fascinating! Read on to learn more -- > here http://www.proquest.com/en-US/aboutus/pressroom/12/20121106.shtml or > below... > > > > ProQuest Joins Forces with TAMU Scholars to Make 15th Century Books Behave > Like Born-Digital Text > > Collaborative project will train OCR technology to read early modern > fonts > > November 6, 2012 (ANN ARBOR Mich.) -- > > Information powerhouse ProQuest http://www.proquest.com/ is participating > in > a project that will vastly accelerate research of 15 th through 17th > Century > cultural history. The company will provide access to page images from the > veritable Early English Books Online and newcomer Early European Books > to the Early Modern OCR Project (eMOP http://emop.tamu.edu/ ) at Texas > A&M. > EMOP will use the content to create a database of typefaces used in the > early modern era, train OCR software to read them and then apply > crowd-sourcing for editing. The project will turn the rich corpus of works > from this pivotal historical period into fully searchable digital > documents. > > “Digitization of the historical archives of the early modern era made this > literature far more accessible. Page images provide scholars with > unprecedented access to books that previously could have only been viewed > in > their source library. However, precision search -- the ability to use > technology to zero in on very specific text -- has been hampered by the > fact > that OCR technology can’t read the peculiarities of early printing,” > said Mary Sauer-Games, ProQuest vice-president, publishing. “We’re > thrilled to participate in an effort that we feel will drive new levels of > historical discovery. We love the application of modern ingenuity to turn > these very old archives into works that are as searchable as text that was > born digital.” > > ProQuest has played a key worldwide role in preservation and access to > early > modern history, ensuring the survival of printed works from as early as > 1450. In the 1930s, the company became a pioneer of microfiche, when it > filmed the contents of the vast archives of the British Library and other > major libraries across England – virtually every English language book > printed in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. The microfilm collection, > ProQuest’s flagship Early English Books, opened these works to global > study and created an avenue for preservation. It has since become the > quintessential collection for study of the early modern era. > > In the 1990s, ProQuest began a massive effort to capture the collection > digitally. Early English Books Online enables scholars to manage, share > and collaborate on their research virtually. The company even created a > social network that allows the scholars who use the collection as a base > for > their research to connect with each other. > > > Then, early in the 21st century, ProQuest expanded the program to include > major European libraries, launching Early European Books with the Danish > Royal Library in Copenhagen and the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di > Firenze > in Italy. Digitization projects are also underway with the U.K.’s famed > scientific and medical library -- The Wellcome – and the National Library > of the Netherlands. > > > eMop is led by Texas A&M Professors Laura Mandell, Director of the > Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC), Ricardo > Gutierrez-Osuna of Computer Science, and Richard Furuta, Director of the > Center for the Study of Digital Libraries (CSDL), along with Anton > DuPlessis and Todd Samuelson, book historians from Cushing Rare Books > Library. The scholars earned a two-year, $734,000 development grant from > the > Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the work. ProQuest is one of a > variety of participating publishers and software organizations that are > collaborating on the project. > > > To learn more about eMOP visit http://emop.tamu.edu. For more information > about ProQuest’s role in access to and preservation of the world’s > knowledge, visit www.proquest.com. > > > About ProQuest (www.proquest.com) > > ProQuest connects people with vetted, reliable information. Key to serious > research, the company has forged a 70-year reputation as a gateway to the > world’s knowledge – from dissertations to governmental and cultural > archives to news, in all its forms. Its role is essential to libraries and > other organizations whose missions depend on the management and delivery of > complete, trustworthy information. > > ProQuest’s massive information pool is made accessible in research > environments that accelerate productivity, empowering users to discover, > create, and share knowledge. > > An energetic, fast-growing organization, ProQuest includes the ProQuest®, > Bowker®, Dialog®, ebrary®, and Serials Solutions® businesses and notable > research tools such as the RefWorks® and Pivot™ services, as well as > its’ Summon® web-scale discovery service. The company is headquartered > in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with offices around the world. > > --30-- > > Beth Dempsey, for ProQuest > +1 248 349-7810 office > +1 248 915-8160 mobile > beth.dempsey@proquest.com > > > > --Laura Mandell > Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture > Professor, English > Texas A&M University > p: 979-845-8345 > e: mandell@tamu.edu > @mandellc > http://idhmc.tamu.edu -- Laura Mandell Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture Professor, English Texas A&M University p: 979-845-8345 e: mandell@tamu.edu @mandellc http://idhmc.tamu.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 96F18608B; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:49:54 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6687D6063; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:49:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6F7B36034; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:49:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121120084952.6F7B36034@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:49:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.503 fellowships at IATH (?) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 503. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:39:52 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 26.494 fellowships at IATH In-Reply-To: <20121117093357.240342E0F@digitalhumanities.org> Hi! Their page says they don't offer funding: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/other_fellows.html (One wonders what exactly they do offer.) Cheers, Wendell On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 494. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:52:02 +0000 > From: Sarah Wells > Subject: CFP for IATH Fellowships > > > > Dear Fellows, > > Hiya! We're starting to look for applications for the next round of IATH Fellowships, and we'd like to get the word out to as wide an audience as possible. So, we're hoping that you will pass on the attached notice to colleagues whose research you think should or could be a good match with IATH. And I should also note that we are happy to provide support & feedback on ideas and applications. > > Thanks very much for your help! Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns about this process. > > Sincerely yours, > Sarah > > *** Attachments: > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1353087721_2012-11-16_spw4s@virginia.edu_17503.2.jpeg > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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) -- Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5BBC86092; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:51:10 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 252DE6082; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:51:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7EC1E6063; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:51:07 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121120085107.7EC1E6063@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:51:07 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.504 a mortal blow to scholarship in St Petersburg X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 504. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:02:18 +0000 From: Sinead O'Sullivan Subject: FW: A mortal blow to the Classical scholarship in Saint-Petersburg In-Reply-To: ________________________________________ > From: Vladimir I. Mazhuga [vladimirmazhuga@gmail.com] > Sent: 18 November 2012 19:40 > Subject: A mortal blow to the Classical scholarship in Saint-Petersburg Dear colleagues, The departments of Classics, Biblical studies, Byzantine and Modern Greek studies, Applied linguistics and some others are in deadly peril at Saint Petersburg State University. Please, sign the petition issued by Saint Petersburg Classical Gymnasium which is closely connected to the University. The following link opens the web-page in English. http://www.change.org/petitions/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2-%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE-%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F-%D0%B1%D1%8E%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85-%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82-%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC-%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5-%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B1%D0%B3%D1%83#shar The English text of the petition is on the left side of the page, under its Russian version. To see it, just click “Read more” and scroll down to the end of the Russian text. Thank you for your support! _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0EECB6097; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:51:48 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A596092; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:51:48 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 68657608E; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:51:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121120085147.68657608E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:51:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.505 events: politics of play X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 505. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:45:17 -0500 From: Theadora Mills Subject: Call for Papers: Politics of Play *Call for Research Presentations, Workshops and Artworks.* Intersections/Cross-Sections 2013: Politics of Play, Symposium & Exhibition. A Message from the Communication and Culture Graduate Students Association. The York and Ryerson University Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture is excited to announce an open call to graduate students to submit research presentations, workshops and artworks for Intersections/Cross-Sections 2013: Politics of Play. This one-day Symposium and Art Exhibition will focus around the critical examination of the concept of play, approached from a variety of perspectives. With an interdisciplinary lens focused on intersections between politics and play cultures, the 2013 edition of Intersections will feature a relaxed, playful and interactive atmosphere where graduate students can engage in dialogue about their research, present workshops and exhibit artworks “Play is the primary formative element in human culture” - Johan Hunzinga. Parallel to the rise of digital game culture, scholarly investigations of politics, economics, artistic practice, pedagogy, and media representation have drawn from the metaphor of play. In order to facilitate interdisciplinary investigation, the Communication and Culture Graduate Student Association would like to invite graduate students to submit research presentations, workshops, and artworks exploring the concept. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, politics, art & literature, technology, geography, pedagogy, activism, science & nature, digital media, entertainment, popular culture, game studies, performance, history, linguistics, political economy, fan & participatory cultures, architecture, sport &leisure, and more. In order to foster lively dialogue, we invite proposals from any discipline. Questions we will explore include but are not limited to: How do conceptions of play change, adapt and inform social, cultural and political practice? How does IP regulate, sanction, and create new forms of play? How does play articulate itself through nationalism? Does play facilitate change through resistance cultures? How does play facilitate different types of learning? Our Symposium and Exhibition will take place on March 23rd, 2013 at Bento Miso, a collaborative workspace in Toronto's Queen West district. Submission Guidelines: Submissions Due January 15, 2013 Artworks spanning print, new media, video, audio, games, and performance will be considered. We encourage interactive game-oriented artworks. Maximum Presentation Abstract Length -- 300 words. Maximum Length for Workshop Proposals – 500 Words. Artworks – 500 word description, plus links to video documentation and / or maximum of 5 images. (all artwork submissions must include the artwork submission form found at http://intersections2013.wordpress.com) For more information and updates on the Symposium: http://intersections2013.wordpress.com Please send submissions to: politicsofplay2013@gmail.com We look forward to an exciting symposium and exhibition and ask that you please forward this email within your networks. Thank you, Theadora Mills The Communication and Culture Graduate Students Association *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1353357721_2012-11-19_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_19645.3.pdf http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1353357721_2012-11-19_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_19645.2.pdf _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9B6C66092; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:39:28 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FC336082; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:39:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1A7256081; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:39:25 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121120093926.1A7256081@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:39:25 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.506 call for abstracts: Centre for e-Research Seminar X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 506. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:04:31 +0000 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: Centre for e-Research Seminar series: call for abstracts With apologies for cross-postings. The Centre for e-Research (CeRch) at King's College London runs an interdisciplinary seminar programme on alternate Tuesday evenings during term time, alternating with the Department of Digital Humanities seminars. Details are athttp://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/index.aspx. The CeRch seminars provide a platform for discussion of a range of projects, applications, methods and theories spanning the Centre's academic interests in computing, library and archives research, digital culture and digital scholarship. Previous topics have included digital manuscript studies, webometrics, computational creativity, and network analysis, among many others. We now invite proposals for presentations in the Spring Term 2013 CeRch seminar series. Seminars can cover any topic within CeRch's areas of interest and expertise (seehttp://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/about/index.aspx). We particularly welcome proposals with the potential to make innovative use of the facilities in the venue, the Anatomy Museum space on the Strand Campus (seehttp://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/atm/index.aspx). Seminars will be recorded and podcast online. Reasonable travel expenses can be met, along with one night's accommodation in London if necessary. Please submit an abstract of up to 400 words tostuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk by December 14th 2012. --------------------------------------------- Dr. Stuart Dunn Lecturer Centre for e-Research Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel. +44 20 7848 2709 Fax. +44 20 7848 2980 www.stuartdunn.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 48B3B609F; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:40:38 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B1B9609B; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:40:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 582FB6096; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:40:36 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121120094036.582FB6096@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:40:36 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.507 Social Media - Social 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. 507. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:25:20 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Social Media - Social Memory Dear colleagues, Apologies that I have not posted this earlier. The deadline for abstracts/proposals has just passed, but perhaps if you have compelling ideas the deadline will prove elastic. See http://www.collectivememory.net/2012/10/social-media-social-memory-remembering.html for more. Yours, WM > Social Media - Social Memory. Remembering in digitally networked times' Special Issue of Media, Culture and Society (MCS) > > Guest editors: > Christian Pentzold (Chemnitz University of Technology / Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society, Berlin) > Christine Lohmeier (University of Munich) > > Media, Culture & Society editors: > Emily Keightley (Loughborough University) > Philip Schlesinger (University of Glasgow) > > Media and memory are often closely intertwined. From the very start > ofhuman culture, media have been employed to fix, share and store > expressions and impressions of individual and collective > experiences.Taking this continuing twin relation as its point of departure, this > special issue seeks to showcase empirical research that studies the > interplay of contemporary media, social change and acts and artifacts of > memory. > > The editors are seeking contributions that investigate commemoration, > remembrance and memory work as an essential thread in the social and > material patterns of modern culture. > We are especially interested in empirically grounded submissions that > address, but are not limited to, the following questions: > - What can we learn about the interplay of individual and collective memory and the affordances of a media ecology that is more and more digitally networked and increasingly mobile and locative? > - How may we conceptualize and investigate memory taking account of the dynamics of digitisation, networking and mediatization? > - Which methods and approaches are most appropriate for the study of memory work and digital and connective media? > - How are memories materially and semiotically mediated? > - How does memory travel? How can we conceptualise and study memory work in quotidian mobilities as well as in a range of contexts such as transcultural/transnational western and non-western movements, post-colonial contexts, diasporas and the general flows of peoples, goods and ideas? > - What are the dynamics of (counter-)hegemonic discourses of memory in current mediascapes? > - What can we learn about how mediated memories are realised in respect of power, class, ethnicity, religion and gender? > > Please submit an 800 word abstract and a 100 word biographical note to both guest editors, Christian Pentzold and Christine Lohmeier, as an e-mail attachment (.rtf, .doc, .pdf) no later than 16 November, 2012. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by the end of November 2012. Manuscripts should be no more than 8,000 words, including notes and references, be in conformity with Media, Culture & Society style guidelines and should be submitted by 1 May, 2013. For specific manuscript submission guidelines, please go to:http://mcs.sagepub.com/ > > Important dates > > Deadline for abstracts 16 November 2012 > Full paper submission 1 May 2013 > Revised paper submission 31 August 2013 > Issue publication Summer 2014 > > If you have any queries, please contact the guest editors: > Christian Pentzold, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society, Berlin / Chemnitz University of Technology, christian.pentzold@phil.tu-chemnitz.de > Christine Lohmeier, University of Munich, christine.lohmeier@yahoo.co.uk -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id ACFAA6087; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:51:25 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CFD6607F; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:51:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A0F32607E; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:51:24 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121121065124.A0F32607E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:51:24 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.508 bursaries for UK Museums on the Web 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. 508. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:49:31 +0000 From: "Stefan Sinclair, Prof" Subject: Ticket Bursaries for UKMW12 Dear colleagues, The ACH is very pleased to announce the availability of up to 5 ticket bursaries for *any* student/unwaged participants in the UK Museums on the Web 2012 conference. This is part of ongoing ACH initiatives to strengthen connections with GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) communities, which emerged as one of the priorities in our Open Agenda-Setting experiment earlier this year. To apply for one of the ticket bursaries, please send a short email to Eric Johnson at ej9k@virginia.edu by 5pm GMT on Thursday, November 22, 2012 (act now!), indicating any previous attendance at UKMW and briefly describing what you hope to gain from UKMW12 and your interest or involvement in the broader fields of the digital humanities and museums/digital heritage. Preference is given to first-time conference attendees or those who are new (one to three years) in the field. Museums Computer Group (MCG) Museums on the Web The Museums Computer Group (MCG) is a professional society for museum, gallery, archive and higher education professionals who work with museum technologies and digital heritage. The MCG organises the annual UK Museums On The Web (UKMW) conference for people who make museum websites great. UKMW12 will be held in London on 30 November 2012. UKMW12 is about being ‘strategically digital’. Responding to the issues faced by museums today, it's an opportunity to take a step back from the everyday and think strategically about the impact of the digital revolution on museums and digital heritage projects. The sold-out conference brings together speakers from organisations including the Tate, the V&A, UCL, King's College, the Guardian, Strategic Content Alliance, Collections Trust and Caper who'll share their hard-won lessons about implementing digital strategies in museums, and the realities of working with online audiences and platforms. Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is a major professional society for the digital humanities. ACH supports and disseminates research and cultivates a vibrant professional community through conferences, publications, and outreach activities. ACH is based in the US, but boasts an international membership (as of May 2012, representing 21 countries worldwide). The ACH is a member of the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) consortium. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6071C6087; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:53:11 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 361AA607F; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:53:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AD278607E; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:53:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121121065309.AD278607E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:53:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.509 events: digital libraries; space, time, identity; methods; art X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 509. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Schreibman (22) Subject: New Methods/New Perspectives on Humanities Scholarship: A NeDimah/DARIAH Workshop [2] From: C.C.Bissell (24) Subject: The Difference that Makes a Difference 2013 [3] From: "J. Stephen Downie" (231) Subject: CFP: ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2013 [4] From: Matthew Jarron (11) Subject: Digital art for Light Night at the D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:36:16 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: New Methods/New Perspectives on Humanities Scholarship: A NeDimah/DARIAH Workshop In-Reply-To: ***Please recirculate**** New Methods/New Perspectives on Humanities Scholarship: A NeDimah/DARIAH Workshop Tuesday 27 November 2012, 9.00am-3.00pm Trinity Long Room Hub, Dublin, Ireland For registration see http://nedimahdublin2012.eventbrite.com/ Digital technologies have opened up a wealth of methodologies that can augment and enhance more traditional research practice, allowing new ways to engage with the ever-growing web of digital data. This one-day workshop hosted by NeDIMAH with support from DARIAH will provide an introduction to these methods NeDiMAH (Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities) is an ESF-funded network investigating the use and impact of digital methods on arts and humanities research in Europe. As part of the network's ongoing work, Trinity College’s Long Room Hub will be the venue for a free one-day symposium to analyse and evaluate the methods thus far developed within the network, and identify ways in which it can further assist scholarly research being carried out in the Digital Arts and Humanities. This workshop will focus on the core areas which NeDIMAH has been investigating: space and time; information visualisation; linked data and ontological methods; building and developing collections for digital data for research; using large-scale text collections for research; digital scholarly editions; and the impact of digital methods on scholarly publishing. We invite digital humanists at all different career levels, from MPhil students to advanced researchers, to join us for this event. Your experience and feedback is vital to the ongoing work of NeDIMAH and DARIAH. The event is free but registration is required at http://nedimahdublin2012.eventbrite.com/ For further information about NeDimah see http://nedimah.eu; about DARIAH see http://dariah.eu http://dariah.eu/ ; and on DH@TCD see http://dh.tcd.ie/dh -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Long Room Hub Associate Professor in Digital Humanities School of English Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland email: susan.schreibman@tcd.ie phone: +353 1 896 3694 fax: +353 1 671 7114 check out the new MPhil in Digital Humanities at TCD http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digital-humanities/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:38:20 +0000 From: C.C.Bissell Subject: The Difference that Makes a Difference 2013 In-Reply-To: You are invited to "The Difference that Makes a Difference 2013", An interdisciplinary workshop on Information: Space, Time, and Identity. Location: The Open University and the MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK Dates: 8-10 April 2013 Website: http://www.dtmd.org.uk Deadline for one page abstracts - 3rd January 2013. Information has been conceptualised in many different ways in different disciplines, and the DTMD series of workshops is a forum for sharing of those insights . We are keen to involve as many different people, from as many different disciplines, as possible in presenting and participating in the workshop. We invite a wide range of participants to give short (10 minute) presentations on their work as it relates to an understanding of information. There will be six sessions: Over days 1 and 2 the first four sessions consist of a keynote speaker followed by six or seven short presentations (which will have been selected by referees from submitted abstracts) then a panel discussion. 1. Information and Space. The relationship between information and space, 'meaning' in our physical environment, and the information landscapes that go beyond physical space. 2. Information and Time. Both the historic framework of the notion of information, and time as a 'dimension' in information – physics, entropy, information and ‘the arrow of time’. 3. Information and Identity. Identity (race, gender, nationality, class and sexual orientation, for example) as information and, conversely, information as identity. 4. What is information? Why are so many disciplines using informational concepts in their narratives? Is a Universal Theory of Information (UTI) possible? Sessions 5 and 6 on day 3 draw together the insights from the first two days in two ways. First, through art, when the results of the work of the Workshop artist’s collaboration with delegates is presented and discussed. Second, a final keynote speech from Luciano Floridi, Professor of the Philosophy of Information will lead in to a panel discussion with the keynote speakers from the earlier sessions. For more details see the workshop programme: http://www.dtmd.org.uk/programme and the Call for Papers: http://www.dtmd.org.uk/call-for-papers Accepted abstracts will be published in a Workshop Digest which will be made available online prior to the event, and, following the workshop, delegates will be invited to submit papers for special issue of Kybernetes, based on papers presented at the workshop. We hope to see you in Milton Keynes in April. Best wishes, Magnus Ramage and David Chapman on behalf of the Programme Committee: http://www.dtmd.org.uk/committee -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). _______________________________________________ SPSP-members mailing list SPSP-members@philosophy-science-practice.org https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/spsp-members --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:18:54 -0600 From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: CFP: ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2013 In-Reply-To: JCDL 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2013) is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term digital libraries, including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions and organizations; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, distributing, and accessing digital content; theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing; and theory and practice of use of managed content in science and education. JCDL 2013 will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana (USA), 23-25 July 2013. The program is organized by an international committee of scholars and leaders in the digital libraries field and attendance is expected to include several hundreds of researchers, practitioners, managers, and students. IMPORTANT DATES * Full paper submissions due: 28 January 2013 * Short Papers, Panels, Posters, Demonstrations, Workshops, Tutorials due: 4 February 2013 * Doctoral Consortium submissions due: 15 April 2013 * Notification of acceptance for Workshops and Tutorials: 15 March 2013 * Notification for Papers, Panels, Posters, Demonstrations, Workshops, Tutorials: 29 March 2013 * Notification of acceptance for Doctoral Consortium: 6 May 2013 * Conference: 22-26 July 2013 ** Tutorials and Doctoral Consortium: 22 July 2013 ** Main conference: 23-25 July 2013 ** Workshops: 25-26 July 2013 CONFERENCE FOCUS The intended community for this conference includes those interested in all aspects of digital libraries such as infrastructure; institutions; metadata; content; services; digital preservation; system design; scientific data management; workflows; implementation; interface design; human-computer interaction; performance evaluation; usability evaluation; collection development; intellectual property; privacy; electronic publishing; document genres; multimedia; social, institutional, and policy issues; user communities; and associated theoretical topics. JCDL welcomes submissions in these areas. Submissions that resonate with the JCDL 2013 theme of Digital Libraries at the Crossroads are particularly welcome; however, reviews, though they will consider relevance of proposals to digital libraries generally, will not give extra weight to theme-related proposals over proposals that speak to other aspects of digital libraries. The conference sessions, workshops and tutorials will cover all aspects of digital libraries. Participation is sought from all parts of the world and from the full range of established and emerging disciplines and professions including computer science, information science, web science, data science, librarianship, data management, archival science and practice, museum studies and practice, information technology, medicine, social sciences, education and humanities. Representatives from academe, government, industry, and others are invited to participate. JCDL 2013 invites submissions of papers and proposals for posters, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops that will make the conference an exciting and creative event to attend. As always, the conference welcomes contributions from all the fields that intersect to enable digital libraries. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Collaborative and participatory information environments * Cyberinfrastructure architectures, applications, and deployments * Data mining/extraction of structure from networked information * Digital library and Web Science curriculum development * Distributed information systems * Extracting semantics, entities, and patterns from large collections * Evaluation of online information environments * Impact and evaluation of digital libraries and information in education * Information and knowledge systems * Information policy and copyright law * Information visualization * Interfaces to information for novices and experts * Linked data and its applications * Personal digital information management * Retrieval and browsing * Scientific data curation, citation and scholarly publication * Social media, architecture, and applications * Social networks, virtual organizations and networked information * Social-technical perspectives of digital information * Studies of human factors in networked information * Theoretical models of information interaction and organization * User behavior and modeling * Visualization of large-scale information environments * Web archiving and preservation PAPER SUBMISSIONS Paper authors may choose between two formats: Full papers and short papers. Both formats will be included in the proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Full papers typically will be presented in 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Short papers typically will be presented in 10 minutes with 5 minutes for questions and discussion. Both formats will be rigorously peer reviewed. Complete papers are required -- abstracts and incomplete papers will not be reviewed. Full papers report on mature work, or efforts that have reached an important milestone. Short papers will highlight efforts that might be in an early stage, but are important for the community to be made aware of. Short papers can also present theories or systems that can be described concisely in the limited space. Full papers must not exceed 10 pages. Short papers are limited to at most 4 pages. All papers must be original contributions. The material must therefore not have been previously published or be under review for publication elsewhere. All contributions must be written in English and must follow the ACM http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html formatting guidelines (templates available for authoring in LaTex2e and Microsoft Word). Papers are to be submitted via the conference's EasyChair submission page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl13. All accepted papers will be published by ACM as conference proceedings and electronic versions will be included in both the ACM and IEEE digital libraries. POSTER AND DEMONSTRATION SUBMISSIONS Posters permit presentation of late-breaking results in an informal, interactive manner. Poster proposals should consist of a title, extended abstract, and contact information for the authors, and should not exceed 2 pages. Proposals must follow the conference's formatting guidelines and are to be submitted via the conference's EasyChair submission page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl13. Accepted posters will be displayed at the conference and may include additional materials, space permitting. Abstracts of posters will appear in the proceedings. Demonstrations showcase innovative digital libraries technology and applications, allowing you to share your work directly with your colleagues in a high-visibility setting. Demonstration proposals should consist of a title, extended abstract, and contact information for the authors and should not exceed 2 pages. All contributions must be written in English and must follow the ACM http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html formatting guidelines (templates available for authoring in LaTex2e and Microsoft Word), and are to be submitted via the conference's EasyChair submission page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl13. Abstracts of demonstrations will appear in the proceedings. PANELS AND INVITED BRIEFINGS Panels and invited briefings will complement the other portions of the program with lively discussions of controversial and cutting-edge issues that are not addressed by other program elements. Invited briefing panels will be developed by the Panel co-chairs David Bainbridge (davidb@cs.waikato.ac.nz) and George Buchanan (George.Buchanan.1@city.ac.uk) and will be designed to address a topic of particular interest to those building digital libraries -- they can be thought of as being mini-tutorials. Panel ideas may be stimulated or developed in part from synergistic paper proposals (with consensus of involved paper proposal submitters). This year stand-alone formal proposals for panels also will be accepted (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl13); however, please keep in mind that panel sessions are few and so relatively few panel proposals will be accepted. Panel proposals should include a panel title, identify all panel participants (maximum 5), include a short abstract as well as an uploaded extended abstract in PDF (not to exceed 2 pages) describing the panel topic, how the panel will be organized, the unique perspective that each speaker brings to the topic, and an explicit confirmation that each speaker has indicated a willingness to participate in the session if the proposal is accepted. For more information about potential panel proposals, please contact the Panel co-chairs named above. TUTORIAL SUBMISSIONS Tutorials provide an opportunity to offer in-depth education on a topic or solution relevant to research or practice in digital libraries. They should address a single topic in detail over either a half-day or a full day. They are not intended to be venues for commercial product training. Experts who are interested in engaging members of the community who may not be familiar with a relevant set of technologies or concepts should plan their tutorials to cover the topic or solution to a level that attendees will have sufficient knowledge to follow and further pursue the material beyond the tutorial. Leaders of tutorial sessions will be expected to take an active role in publicizing and recruiting attendees for their sessions. Tutorial proposals should include: a tutorial title; an abstract (1-2 paragraphs, to be used in conference programs); a description or topical outline of tutorial (1-2 paragraphs, to be used for evaluation); duration (half- or full-day); expected number of participants; target audience, including level of experience (introductory, intermediate, advanced); learning objectives; a brief biographical sketch of the presenter(s); and contact information for the presenter(s). Tutorial proposals are to be submitted in electronic form via the conference's EasyChair submission page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl13. WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS Workshops are intended to draw together communities of interest -- both those in established communities and those interested in discussion and exploration of a new or emerging issue. They can range in format from formal, perhaps centering on presentation of refereed papers, to informal, perhaps centering on an extended round-table discussions among the selected participants. Submissions should include: a workshop title and short description; a statement of objectives for the workshop; a topical outline for the workshop; identification of the expected audience and expected number of attendees; a description of the planned format and duration (half-day, full-day, or one and a half day); information about how the attendees will be identified, notified of the workshop, and, if necessary, selected from among applicants; as well as contact and biographical information about the organizers. Finally, if a workshop or closely related workshop has been held previously, information about the earlier sessions should be provided -- dates, locations, outcomes, attendance, etc. Workshop proposals are to be submitted in electronic form via the conference's EasyChair submission page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl13. DOCTORAL SUBMISSIONS The Doctoral Consortium is a workshop for Ph.D. students from all over the world who are in the early phases of their dissertation work. Ideally, students should have written or be close to completing a thesis proposal, and be far enough away from finishing the thesis that they can make good use of feedback received during the consortium. Students interested in participating in the Doctoral Consortium should submit an extended abstract describing their digital library research. Submissions relating to any aspect of digital library research, development, and evaluation are welcomed, including: technical advances, usage and impact studies, policy analyses, social and institutional implications, theoretical contributions, interaction and design advances, and innovative applications in the sciences, humanities, and education. See http://jcdl2013.org/doctoral-consortium for a more extensive description of the goals of the Doctoral Consortium and for complete proposal requirements. Doctoral consortium proposals are to be submitted via the conference's EasyChair submission page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl13 IMPORTANT NOTES FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS All contributions must be submitted in electronic form via the JCDL 2013 submission Web page, following ACM http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html?format guidelines and using the ACM template. Please submit all papers in PDF format. JCDL 2013 CO-CHAIRS J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois Robert H. McDonald Indiana University -- ********************************************************** "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 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:20:57 +0000 From: Matthew Jarron Subject: Digital art for Light Night at the D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum In-Reply-To: Dear all, The D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum will be open as part of Dundee's Light Night on Friday 23 November, 9-10pm. As well as our amazing animals from around the world, we will also be premiering the latest acquisition in our Art Funded RENEW project to build a collection of art inspired by D'Arcy's ideas and collections. Daniel Brown is a designer, programmer and artist, specialising in the fields of Creative Digital Technology and Interactive Design and Applied Arts. Since 1999, he has been acknowledged as a pioneer in the new media field. He was chosen as London Design Museum's Designer of the Year in 2004 and since then selected for The Observer's '80 people who will define the next 10 years' and Design Week's Hottest 50 Designers. His clients have included Selfridge's, Sony, the Wellcome Foundation and Saatchi & Saatchi. Like many working in the field of computer art, D'Arcy Thompson's work has been an important influence on Daniel's work: "for me mathematics is the language of nature," he says. Brown began a series called 'On Growth and Form' in 1999 - crafted by complex mathematics rather than by hand, these works use computer code to generate hyper-realistic, never repeating forms that explode hypnotically into patterns before the viewer's eyes. Most recently, a version was acquired by the V&A in 2009. We have commissioned Daniel to create a new generation of the series, using imagery from the collections in the museum. Also on display will be many of the other works acquired so far for the project, including pieces by Will Maclean, Roger Wilson, Bruce Gernand and Henry Moore. We hope to see you on Friday evening. Please enter by the main front door of the Carnelley Building (just behind the University Tower). You can find out about the rest of the Light Night programme at http://www.dundee.com/christmas-light-night-2012.html Best wishes, Matthew Jarron Curator of Museum Services University of Dundee www.dundee.ac.uk/museum http://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1DBFC608D; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:55:51 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E48956081; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:55:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 28B3D607F; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:55:49 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121121065549.28B3D607F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:55:49 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.510 fellowships at IATH: apologies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 510. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Sarah Wells (32) Subject: Re: 26.503 fellowships at IATH (?) [2] From: Wendell Piez (11) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.503 fellowships at IATH (?) [3] From: Willard McCarty (33) Subject: apologies --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:56:13 -0500 From: Sarah Wells Subject: Re: 26.503 fellowships at IATH (?) In-Reply-To: <20121120084952.6F7B36034@digitalhumanities.org> Hiya. I must apologize: the announcement was not intended to be posted on the Humanist Discussion Group. The text was an e-mail that was sent to previous and current IATH Fellows, rather than the larger DH community. The call for proposal notice is for the IATH Resident Fellows program, which is for humanities faculty at the University of Virginia. That said, IATH collaborates regularly with other institutions and with DHers outside of UVA, but that work is funded by outside grant moneys. The only financial support that we can offer is the Resident Fellows program. I'm sorry for the confusion over this! Any questions about our Fellowship program can be sent to me (sarah@virginia.edu) or to Daniel Pitti (dpitti@virginia.edu). Sincerely yours, Sarah Wells IATH Scholarly and Technical Communications Officer ------------------------------------------------------------ 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) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:07:16 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.503 fellowships at IATH (?) In-Reply-To: <20121120084952.6F7B36034@digitalhumanities.org> Willard and HUMANIST: Please excuse my posting, inadvertantly, a message intended for private consumption. (I am sure my friends will forgive me.) (Not cited here out of embarrassment.) Thanks, Wendell -- Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 06:40:06 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: apologies In-Reply-To: <20121120084952.6F7B36034@digitalhumanities.org> My apologies to IATH for posting of an internal announcement. Years ago I was put on the internal mailing list for reasons possibly no one can remember. Since then I've distributed IATH announcements with the intention of informing everyone here about the interesting activities at that famous and important centre in the digital humanities. I've asked to be removed from the internal list but kept on the one intended for the world, so the problem should not recur. Perhaps someday soon (I think it may be quite soon) there will be so much going on that I'll have to stop distributing such notes and announcements, but until then they will continue to appear. Some will remember when those of us involved in this field were so few and so little was available that any news at all was eagerly passed around by whatever means whatever (and often with little attention to quality of spelling, grammar, formatting etc). Those who have read the early numbers of Computers and the Humanities and the Bulletin of the ALLC will have experienced the sense of discovery, akin to walking unsuspecting into a surprise birthday party, of a whole world of activity, going on for years across all the disciplines, suddenly appearing. Now it's such a simple thing, so commonplace as to be annoying, as when you go out of contact for a few days, then return to 500 e-mails. And in the disciplinary, theoretical sense what's to think about? Only, I suppose, how almost invisibly something quite simple has changed everything, made the rare into the everyday and shifted our attention -- to what? 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B4AF06095; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:56:40 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82C206087; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:56:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 993B36087; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:56:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121121065638.993B36087@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:56:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.511 publications: beyond computing; cfp: codicology & palaeography X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 511. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (42) Subject: Digital Humanities: Beyond Computing [2] From: Torsten Schassan (87) Subject: CfP: Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age III --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:59:47 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Digital Humanities: Beyond Computing The Digital Humanities: Beyond Computing edited by Federica Frabetti Culture Machine 12 (2011) http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/issue/view/23 Articles (PDFs) Rethinking the Digital Humanities in the Context of Originary Technicity Federica Frabetti Believing in the (Analogico-)Digital Jake Buckley Humanities Approaches to Interface Theory Johanna Drucker Technics and Violence in Electronic Literature Davin Heckman E-Lit Works as 'Forms of Culture': Envisioning Digital Literary Subjectivity Mauro Carassai The Digital Future of Authorship: Rethinking Originality Kathleen Fitzpatrick Meaning, Semiotechnologies and Participatory Media Ganaele Langlois On the Embodied Aesthetics of Code Scott Dexter, Melissa Dolese, Angelika Seidel, Aaron Kozbelt Glitch/Glitsh: (More Power) Lucky Break and the Position of Modern Technology Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa The Computational Turn: Thinking About the Digital Humanities David M. Berry The Digital Humanities Beyond Computing: A Postscript Gary Hall -- 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, 20 Nov 2012 17:40:13 +0000 From: Torsten Schassan Subject: CfP: Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age III In-Reply-To: <50ABC04A.4010805@hab.de> Call for Papers: Kodikologie und Paläographie im Digitalen Zeitalter III / Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age III August 16, 2012 [German version below] Following up on two previous publications in the series “Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age” (CPDA I, 2009 [1]; CPDA II, 2011 [2]), the Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) wants to continue to document and compare different approaches to scholarly problems in the fields of codicology and palaeography. For this reason the IDE plans to publish a third volume of "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age" and asks for submissions. Topics may cover but are not limited to: - image capturing (multispectral, thermography, etc) - image processing (segmentation, pattern recognition, layout extraction, etc.) - analysis of materials (ink, writing material etc.) - description, identification, and classification of hand, script, or type features - semantic description (application of norm data, RDF, ontologies, etc) - storage, collection, cumulation, and exchange of, and access to information (meta catalogs, portals) - collaborative “Erschließung”, i.e. description / transcription / edition (user generated description/content) - quantitative codicology and bibliography - new ways of presentation (visualisation, mobile apps, integral presentation of images, description, annotation, transcription, edition) We would like to stimulate the exchange between disciplines and user groups by explicitly inviting papers covering non-Western manuscripts, non-manuscript materials, e.g inscriptions, incunabula, etc. Contributions which explore these and similar subjects (cf. previous CfP [3]) are most welcome and can be submitted in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish. We plan to continue our policy of open access publication. Proposals of not more than 500 words should be sent by 22 December 2012 to kpdz-iii@i-d-e.de. Editors of this volume: - Oliver Duntze (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz) - Oliver Hahn (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung) - Torsten Schaßan (Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel) ====================================================== Als Fortsetzung der beiden bereits erschienenen Bände der Serie „Kodikologie und Paläographie im Digitalen Zeitalter (KPDZ I, 2009 [1]; KPDZ II, 2011 [2]) möchte das Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik weiterhin verschiedene Ansätze im Bereich der Kodikologie und Paläographie zu dokumentieren und vergleichen. Aus diesem Grund plant das IDE einen dritten Band der Reihe „Kodikologie und Paläographie im digitalen Zeitalter“ zu publizieren. Wir bitten um Beiträge zu folgenden Themen: - Moderne Verfahren der Bilderfassung (Multispektrafotografie, Thermografie) - Bildverarbeitung (Segmentation, Mustererkennung, Layoutanalyse) - Analyse von Schreibmaterialien (Tinten, Beschreibstoffe etc.) - Beschreibung und Klassifikation von Handschriften, Schreiberhänden oder Drucktypen - Semantische Beschreibung von Handschriften (Normdaten, RDF, Ontologien etc.) - Archivierung, Sammlung, Verknüpfung von Informationen und Katalogdaten (z.B. Metakataloge und Portale) - Kollaborative Erschließung, Beschreibung, Transkription oder Edition - Quantitative Kodikologie und Bibliographie - Neue Verfahren der Präsentation von Forschungsdaten (Visualisierung, Apps, Text-Bild-Synopsen, Annotationsmögichkeiten etc.) Die Publikation soll den interdisziplinären Austausch zwischen ForscherInnen unterschiedlicher Fachdisziplinen anregen. Beiträge zu orientalischen bzw. asiatischen Handschriften oder nicht handschriftlich verfassten Materialien (Inschriften, frühe Drucke etc.) sind ausdrücklich willkommen. Beiträge, die diese oder ähnliche Themen (vgl. vorherigen Call [3]) behandeln können in Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch, Italienisch oder Spanisch eingereicht werden. Wir planen, auch diese Publikation als open access zu veröffentlichen. Wir bitten um abstracts von nicht meht als 500 Worten bis zum 22.12.2012 an die mailadresse kpdz-iii@i-d-e.de. Editoren dieses Bandes: - Oliver Duntze (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz) - Oliver Hahn (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung) - Torsten Schaßan (Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel) [1] http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften/2-kpdz1; http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/volltexte/2009/2939/ [2] http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften/3-kpdz2 http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4337/ [3] http://www.i-d-e.de/call-for-papers-kodikologie-und-palaographie-im-digitalen-zeitalter-ii-codicology-and-palaeography-in-the-digital-age-ii -- Torsten Schassan Digitale Editionen Abteilung Handschriften und Sondersammlungen Herzog August Bibliothek, Postfach 1364, D-38299 Wolfenbuettel Tel.: +49-5331-808-130 (Fax -165), schassan {at} hab.de Handschriftendatenbank: http://diglib.hab.de/?db=mss _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1ADCB609E; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:06:52 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C42E73B40; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:06:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 298C93B40; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:06:48 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121124090648.298C93B40@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:06:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.512 Humanist's down-time X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 512. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 08:51:42 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: an explanation Dear colleagues, You have received no postings from Humanist since 21 November because the server that handles it has been down during this time. And since Humanist is the only way I have of informing everyone about Humanist, no explanation has been forthcoming until now. My thanks to those (or perhaps to him) who fixed the problem. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 58C4660A8; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:12:42 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B88C60A3; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:12:41 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A2D19609E; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:12:40 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121124091240.A2D19609E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:12:40 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.513 novices? critical text editor? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 513. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: maurizio lana (26) Subject: critical text editor: anyone who uses it? [2] From: Andrew Prescott (6) Subject: Novice Digital Humanists --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:15:31 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: critical text editor: anyone who uses it? dear humanists, i would be interested in knowing who uses (or used) CTE critical text editor in order to produce printed critical editions of texts. but also in general i would like to know your general experience - if any - with computer tools for critical editions generations (pure LateX; CollateX; and so on): do they constitute a real advantage over previous methods mainly paper-and-pencil? do they have important drawback which must be known? etc. with thanks for your help. maurizio -- Cumè petali e föi, cumè petali e föi Siam cresciuti tutti insieme dalla stessa venatura D'un ramo, ma poi Cumè petali e föi, cumè petali e föi Siamo stati tutti diramati a piacimento In comprimari ed eroi Vad Vuc, Petali e föi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6XMvKud1Rk) ------- il mio corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università  del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:28:28 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Novice Digital Humanists [A notice to] Novice digital humanists… I recently began a Masters in Digital Arts and Humanities at UCC in Cork, Ireland. I thought it might be a useful exercise to hold a series of Skype or Google+ Hangouts chats with other novice digital humanists, along the lines of Jack Dougherty’s post. This first informal chat would more than likely be on a small group or one-to-one basis (with me or with someone in my class) and an initial “hello”, as we are all of course new to the field. Future conversations may include those who are more advanced in the field of DH. If you are new to DH, have access to Skype or Google+ Hangouts and would like to take part, please fill in the below form. I would love to hear any suggestions (eg: class to class chat) you may have! I will be in contact with regard to the timetable of calls, however if you have a preferred date or time, please let me know and it will be accommodated. Feel free to contact me on Twitter @RoisinAnneOB and include the hashtag #dhnovice. [See http://roisinobrien.com/?p=216 for the form etc.] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1614760AF; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:14:01 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 373C060A9; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:14:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6CC0460A3; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:13:58 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121124091358.6CC0460A3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:13:58 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.514 jobs: CENDARI fellowships; research developer X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 514. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Andrew Prescott (21) Subject: job at DDH, King's College London [2] From: Catherine O'Brien (22) Subject: CENDARI Project Visiting Research Fellows - Call for Applications --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:26:58 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: job at DDH, King's College London Call for applications: Research Developer, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London The Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London is looking for a highly motivated and technically sophisticated individual to join the research and development team. The position will involve data modelling and analysis, and the design and development of both editorial and administrative tools, and public facing web applications, across three research projects in the department’s portfolio. The post is located in the Department of Digital Humanities. The Department is an international leader in the application of technology in research in the arts and humanities, and in the social sciences. It is in the School of Arts and Humanities, and undertakes research on a collaborative basis across discipline, institutional and national boundaries: it has collaborative relationships across King’s College and with a large number of institutions and bodies in the UK and internationally. 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, RDF, 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, SPARQL, 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. For an informal discussion of the post please contact Paul Vetch on 020 7848 1040 or via email at paul.vetch@kcl.ac.uk. The closing date for receipt of applications is 28th November 2012. For more see: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=12519 -- 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:52:32 +0000 From: Catherine O'Brien Subject: CENDARI Project Visiting Research Fellows - Call for Applications CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowships Call for 2013 Fellows CENDARI (Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure) invites applications for its Visiting Research Fellowship Programme for 2013. The fellowships are being funded through the CENDARI project by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for Research. Visiting Research Fellowships are available in the following CENDARI partner institutions * Trinity College Dublin, Ireland * King's College London, UK * National Library of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic * University of Goettingen, Germany * University of Stuttgart and Bibliothek fuer Zeitgeschichte, Germany Two Fellowships in each institution will be awarded, on a competitive basis. These fellowships, which include a stipend for living expenses and travel to and from the host institution, will provide researchers with access to nationally and internationally significant archival collections and specialist knowledge in the two broad thematic areas piloted by CENDARI: * The First World War * Medieval European Culture For more information and to download the information and application form, please go to http://www.cendari.eu/visiting-research-fellowships-2013. The closing date for receipt of applications is 12th December 2012. All applications should be sent by email toinfo@cendari.eu with the title "CENDARI Fellowship 2013" in the email title line. The CENDARI project is funded by the EU's Seventh Framework Programme for Research [cid:image002.png@01CDC897.17AF3E30] [cid:image003.png@01CDC897.17AF3E30] Catherine O'Brien CENDARI Communications Officer Long Room Hub Trinity College Dublin Ireland +353 (0)1 896 2274 www.cendari.eu www.tcd.ie/longroomhub _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7F94E60B6; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:14:52 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E53D16097; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:14:51 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 70F6B60A3; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:14:49 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121124091449.70F6B60A3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:14:49 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.515 results of the Hack X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 515. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:29:55 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Hack Results of the Open Humanities Hack in London 21-22 November are available here: http://okfn.org/events/humanities-hack-november-2012/ Andrew _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1A09A60BB; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:15:12 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C18F60B7; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:15:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3EC3060A9; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:15:10 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121124091510.3EC3060A9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:15:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.516 events: Crane at McGill X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 516. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 03:32:15 +0000 From: "Stefan Sinclair, Prof" Subject: Gregory Crane talk at McGill Dear colleagues, If you happen to be in Montreal Tuesday November 27th, please feel warmly welcome to join us at McGill for a talk by Greg Crane on the Humanities in a Digital Age. Gregory Crane (Tufts / Humboldt) The Humanities in a Digital Age http://digihum.mcgill.ca/event/greg-crane-the-humanities-in-a-digital-age/ Nov. 27, 4pm Leacock 232 (McGill University) - All Welcome! We now live in a pervasively digital world and Humanists have an opportunity to rethink our goals. On the one hand, we can now develop research projects that are broader and deeper in scope than was feasible in print culture. First, we can trace ideas across dozens of languages and thousands of years. Second, the explosion of high-resolution digital representations of source texts, objects, and archaeological data sets has, in some quarters, transformed the traditional (and out of fashion) task of editing. At the same time, the shift to a digital world does not simply allow professors to produce more specialist publications. Rather the explosion in source materials available to a global net public requires advanced researchers and library professionals to draw upon student researchers and citizen scholars as essential collaborators. One possible outcome is a new, decentralized and cosmopolitan republic of letters supporting a global dialogue of civilizations. No particular outcomes are guaranteed and our actions and decisions as Humanists in the present can have far-reaching consequences. Gregory Crane (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/about/who/gregoryCrane) is Professor of Classics and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Winnick Family Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship at Tufts University. He is also Editor in Chief of the Perseus Project. He has been elected a Humboldt Professor in Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig and hopes to establish the first transatlantic laboratory in the Digital Humanities. -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7E28260C1; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:15:47 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D161460BB; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:15:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CC88060A0; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:15:44 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121124091544.CC88060A0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:15:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.517 exhibition: Bess of Hardwick's letters X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 517. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:05:49 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Bess of Hardwick Unsealed - The Letters of Bess of Hardwick, now at the National Archives, from 26 November 2012 to 23 February 2013 Bess of Hardwick (Elizabeth, countess of Shrewsbury) was one of Elizabethan England's most famous figures, an influential matriarch and dynast, lady at Elizabeth I's court, and the builder of great stately homes like Hardwick Hall. For the first time her correspondence is explored in an exciting exhibition at the National Archives. Dukes and spies, queens and servants, friends and lovers - all of the Elizabethan world populates Bess of Hardwick's letters. Bess herself wrote hundreds of letters throughout her life. They were her lifeline to her travelling children and husbands, to the court at London, and to news from the world at large. Unsealed lets Bess and her corre4spondents tell their stories in their own words. The stunning banners and letter facsimiles bring Bess and her correspondents to life, and a series of podcasts discuss the food, fashion and gossip exchanged with Bess's letters. Bess's letters are now housed in many different archives and libraries across the world, including The National Archives. Some of the original letters will be displayed in our new museum 'The Keeper's Gallery' which will open by January 2013. Dr Alison Wiggins will also be giving a free talk on the letters at The National Archives on 29 November at 2pm, and Bess's letters will be on display after the talk. Unsealed is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, and supported by the National Trust and the University of Glasgow. It was created by Anke Timmermann with support from Dr Alison Wiggins at the University of Glasgow, and has been brought to The National Archives with the help of Dr Katherine Mair and Dan Bowmar. Links: AHRC Letters of Bess of Hardwick Project http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/englishlanguage/research/researchprojects/bessofhardwick/ Unsealed: The Podcasts http://www.bessofhardwick.org/listen Dr Alison Wiggin's talk http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/events/bess-of-hardwick.htm -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BDEFA60A4; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:07:41 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F375A3B40; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:07:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 03EB73120; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:07:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121125090739.03EB73120@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:07:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.518 critical text editor X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 518. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:45:39 +0100 From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Re: 26.513 novices? critical text editor? In-Reply-To: <20121124091240.A2D19609E@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Maurizio and other humanists, my colleague Vlado Rezar () at the Department of Classical Philology here in Zagreb used CTE to prepare several quite complicated critical editions for print. We have also exported XML from CTE to include a text in a PhiloLogic database instance. As far as I know, Stefan Hagel, who is the author of CTE, offers quite reliable support for solving problems users may encounter. Main obstacles in working with CTE seem to be its price and licensing schemes (license is sold per machine, quite restrictively). I myself have prepared a critical edition for print --- all the way to the printing press --- using ednotes, a LaTeX package by Uwe Lueck ( http://www.webdesign-bu.de/uwe_lueck/critedltx.html ; a list of texts prepared with ednotes can be found here: http://www.webdesign-bu.de/uwe_lueck/ednworks.html ). I had to work with ca. 15 manuscript and print witnesses (luckily, the text itself was short), and we had to include other LaTeX packages --- but this is what LaTeX is good at. Since Croatian tradition of printing critical editions is nowadays non-existent, any tool which enables the editor to control the process all the way from the first collation to the printer's press is invaluable. Without it, you end up sitting beside the graphic designer or the typesetter and practically hand-crafting a PDF for a book or an article, and it is a once-only process --- next time, you start from scratch again. Of course, you have to invest serious time and patience to learn either LaTeX or CTE (and something else again if you want to draw a stemma codicum) --- I don't think it can be mastered in less than a few months --- but time and patience are necessary requirements for those who work with critical editions anyway. Documentation support for LaTeX on the internet is great -- lots of recipes and hints all over the place -- and personally I'd say that LaTeX, as a more general (and freely available) tool, repays the investment better than CTE. Best, Neven Neven Jovanovic Department of Classical Philology Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb Hrvatska / Croatia > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:15:31 +0100 > From: maurizio lana > Subject: critical text editor: anyone who uses it? > > > dear humanists, > > i would be interested in knowing who uses (or used) CTE critical text > editor in order to produce printed critical editions of texts. > > but also in general i would like to know your general experience - if > any - with computer tools for critical editions generations (pure LateX; > CollateX; and so on): do they constitute a real advantage over previous > methods mainly paper-and-pencil? do they have important drawback which > must be known? etc. > > with thanks for your help. > > maurizio > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D91DD60AF; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:08:27 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5BBD2E1C; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:08:26 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CE36F6097; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:08:24 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121125090824.CE36F6097@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:08:24 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.519 events: digital literary mapping X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 519. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 07:59:59 +0000 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: CeRch seminar: Between the real and the imaginary: Using digital mapping in literary studies Apologies for cross-postings Centre for e-Research Seminar: Between the real and the imaginary: Using digital mapping in literary studies Anouk Lang, University of Strathclyde http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2012-13/between.aspx Tuesday 27th November 2012, 18:15 Anatomy Museum, Strand Campus, King's College London (directions: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/atm/location.aspx) Literary critics are used to grappling with the confrontation between the real and the representational, but applying geospatial technologies to literary texts brings out a host of fresh challenges to contend with while probing the relationship between imagined space and cartographic space. In this paper, I explore how a number of digital mapping tools – ArcGIS, QGIS, Google Earth and the SIMILE projectÂ’s Exhibit tool – can illuminate the work of twentieth-century authors who engaged with modernist culture from positions outside the main Anglo-American and European centres of political and cultural power. These tools not only add help scholars to identify patterns that may not be easily discernible using the tools of conventional literary analysis, but also allow them to specify the ways in which a textÂ’s treatment of place bears on wider questions such as canonicity, influence and cultural nationalism. The Maori writer Witi Ihimaera, for instance, pays homage to the celebrated short stories of his New Zealand literary progenitor Katherine Mansfield, while simultaneously repositioning them, introducing Maori perspectives and places in ways that disrupt the eurocentric nature of MansfieldÂ’s texts. In different ways, the two authors are both concerned with the dialectic between modernity and tradition, a distinction that maps – both geographically and conceptually – onto different kinds of space, and that sets the urban against the rural, and the colonial against the metropolitan. Using geospatial technologies to map the locations in the work of these and other authors can provide a much more precise indication of how they deploy geography as a symbolic resource, which can in turn generate insights into where, and how, non-European cultures and perspectives can be excavated from the canonical texts of high modernism. The seminar will be followed by refreshments. -- --------------------------------------------- Dr. Stuart Dunn Lecturer Centre for e-Research Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel. +44 20 7848 2709 Fax. +44 20 7848 2980 www.stuartdunn.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 245B360BC; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:08:57 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AB4260AF; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:08:56 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4217760A9; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:08:54 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121125090854.4217760A9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:08:54 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.520 a treasure-trove of working papers X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 520. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:24:30 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: CASA Working Papers Many here will find something of interest, I suspect, in the Working Papers series of the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/casa/latest/publications/working-papers. In particular my eye was caught by Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin, "The ethics of forgetting in an age of pervasive computing", CASA Working Paper 92. Undoubtedly those with GIS-related concerns will find much more than that. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8A6EC60CD; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:23:12 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EF756083; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:23:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 90A456069; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:23:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121126062309.90A456069@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:23:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.521 postdoc at MPI Berlin: 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. 521. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 18:00:21 +0100 From: Elaine Leong Subject: Two postdoc fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Department II (Lorraine Daston), announces two postdoctoral fellowships for up to two years, starting date September 1, 2013. Outstanding junior scholars are invited to apply. The fellowship will be awarded in conjunction with the following two Working Group research projects: Historicizing Big Data [http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/projects/projects/DeptII_Aronova_Oertzen_Sepkoski_Historicizing] Science in Circulation [http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/DeptII_Science_in_Circulation/index_html] Candidates should hold a doctorate in the history of science or a related field at the time the fellowship begins; the Ph.D. degree should have been awarded in 2010 or later. The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science is an international and interdisciplinary research institute (website). It is expected that candidates will be able to present their own work and discuss that of others fluently in English. Applications may however be submitted in German, English, or French. Fellowships are endowed with a monthly stipend between 2.100 € and 2.500 € (fellows from abroad) or between 1.468 € and 1.621 € (fellows from Germany). Candidates of all nationalities are welcome to apply; applications from women are especially welcomed. The Max Planck Society is committed to promoting more handicapped individuals and encourages them to apply. Postdoctoral fellows are expected to participate in the research activities at the Institute. Candidates are requested to send a curriculum vitae, publication list, copies of certificates (PhD), research prospectus (maximum 750 words), a sample text, and two reference letters (which may be submitted separately) no later than February 18, 2013 to: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Administration, Postdoc Dpt. II Boltzmannstr. 22 14195 Berlin, Germany Electronic submission is also possible: rheld@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de For questions concerning the research project and Department II, please contact Dr. David Sepkoski; for administrative questions concerning the position and the Institute, please contact Claudia Paaß (paass@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de), Head of Administration, or Jochen Schneider (jsr@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de), Research Coordinator. Candidates may expect a decision by March 18, 2013. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8D57B609E; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:23:59 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDFFC2E0A; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:23:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 05B3D2E13; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:23:56 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121127042357.05B3D2E13@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:23:56 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.522 job in history of computing / digital communication and law at NJIT X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 522. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:31:43 -0500 From: Caitlin Wylie Subject: Job in History of Computing/Digital Communication and Law The Federated Department of History at Rutgers University-Newark and New Jersey Institute of Technology invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured position (rank open), based at NJIT, to begin September 2013. Applicants should be able to present evidence of scholarly accomplishment and effective teaching and should have a Ph.D. in hand by the starting date, with a primary research field that focuses on the digital transformation of the last fifty years, especially in relation to legal and cultural issues such as privacy, piracy, patents, censorship, and the manipulation of “big data.” The successful candidate will contribute substantially to the department’s M.A. concentration in the history of technology, environment, and medicine/health (including the history of communication), with additional opportunities to participate in the Ph.D. track in the history of science, technology, environment and health at Rutgers University at New Brunswick. The successful candidate will also teach in, and serve as associate director of, the department’s growing new undergraduate degree program in Law, Technology and Culture. NJIT and the Newark campus of Rutgers University are located across the street from each other in the University Heights section of Newark, with easy access to the entire metropolitan New York-New Jersey area. Send letter of application, C.V., writing sample, sample syllabi, and three letters of recommendation, as directed at http://njit.jobs, posting #0601235. Questions may be directed to the search committee co-chairs, Profs. Richard Sher (sher@njit.edu) and Neil Maher (neil.maher@njit.edu). Review of applications will begin in December 2012 and will continue until the position is filled. NJIT is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/H/V. https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=45744 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,HK_LOTTO autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3479760CE; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:24:37 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A4675FCF; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:24:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EA9A12E1C; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:24:34 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121127042434.EA9A12E1C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:24:34 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.523 ACH elections now underway X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 523. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:59:13 +0000 From: "Zafrin, Vika" Subject: ACH elections now underway Dear Humanists, ACH elections are now underway! Voting will continue through 7am GMT on 5 December, using our online voting system. This year there are three open seats on the Executive Council. In addition, we are filling a one-year seat on the Executive Council due to an early resignation. (And we congratulate former ACH Exec member Neil Fraistat on his appointment as ADHO chair!) If you are a member in good standing of ACH (or a joint member of ACH and other ADHO constituent organizations) and you haven't received an email ballot, please contact ACH Secretary Vika Zafrin at vzafrin@bu.edu immediately, and we'll look into it together. All best, Vika Zafrin Institutional Repository Librarian Boston University +1 617 358-6370 | http://dcommon.bu.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8CDAE60C7; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:26:40 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F2A42E15; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:26:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DBC412E13; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:26:36 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121127042636.DBC412E13@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:26:36 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.524 events: dictionary interfaces; haptic inferfaces; innovation; women in digital history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 524. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" (21) Subject: The Virtual Object and Haptic Interfaces, C4CC, London WC1X 9NG, 28 November 2012, 2pm [2] From: Shawn Day (22) Subject: Seminar: Innovation and the Humanities, UCD, 14 December [3] From: Laura Mandell (48) Subject: cfp: Women's History in the Digital World [4] From: Julianne Nyhan (31) Subject: Toma Tasovac presents Rethinking Text-Dictionary Interfaces: Deformative Lexical Annotations in Digital Editions --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:29:20 +0000 From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" Subject: The Virtual Object and Haptic Interfaces, C4CC, London WC1X 9NG, 28 November 2012, 2pm Dear All, I thought some of you may find this free event of interest. Please note that booking is essential. * * * An Art, Science and Technology Seminar, co-organised by the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London and the Centre for Creative Collaborations, with the support of King's College London Public Engagement THE VIRTUAL OBJECT AND HAPTIC INTERFACES When: Wednesday, 28th November 2012, 2PM Where: Centre for Creative Collaboration (C4CC), 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG http://www.creativecollaboration.org.uk/where.php With me, Dr Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Lecturer in Digital Art History, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London and Dr David Prytherch, a glass sculptor and Senior Research Fellow in Haptics and Computer Interfaces, User-lab, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, Birmingham City University How real is a virtual object? We will discuss recent developments in haptic computing and its potential for simulating touch experiences of virtual artefacts, particularly museum and heritage objects. The seminar is an opportunity to experience a haptic device first hand in order to enhance a critical understanding of human and machine haptics and the perceptual processes involved. Please visit our ART & SCIENCE OF TOUCH blog at http://artandscienceoftouch.wordpress.com/ and feel free to contribute. Followed by drinks. Please book at http://virtualobject.eventbrite.co.uk I gratefully acknowledge the support of King's College London Public Engagement. Dr Anna Bentkowska-Kafel Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44(0)20 7848 1421 anna.bentkowska@kcl.ac.uk http://bentkowska.wordpress.com/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:17:47 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Seminar: Innovation and the Humanities, UCD, 14 December Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting Please find attached information on the forthcoming seminar on Innovation and the Humanities, which will be held on 14 December 2012, at Nova UCD. 9.00 Registration 9.40 Opening Remarks, Professor Peter Clinch, Vice-President for Innovation, UCD 10.00 ‘Sustainable finance for (humanities) start-ups’, Stuart McLaughlin, CEO, Business to Arts 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break 11.00 ‘UCD Innovation Supports’, Dr. Ciara Leonard, UCD Innovation 11.30 ‘Humanities and Industry: collaboration and transition’, Brian Donovan, Director, Eneclann Ltd. 12.00 – 1.00 Lunch 1.00 ‘Establishing trust: the road the incorporation and the National Folklore Collection’, Dr. Kelly Fitzgerald, Sruth/Irish Folklore Commission 1.15 ‘Monastic Ireland: new directions and developments’ (The Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute for the Study of Irish History and Civilisation, UCD), Dr. Niamh NicGhabhann 1.30 ‘Digital Humanities in Action: Learning About Learning with the Fota and Strokestown Learning Zones’, Dr. Danielle O’Donovan and Jennifer McCrea 2.00 ‘Heritage and Culture: An Engine for Tourism Growth in Ireland?’, Aidan Pender, Director of Strategic Development, Fáilte Ireland 2.30 Round-table discussion with Dr. Marisa Ronan, Dublintellectual, and Dr. Paul Rouse, School of History and Archives, UCD. Chair – Dr. Marc Caball, UCD 3.00 ‘The Challenges of Knowledge Transfer’, Dr. Marc Caball, UCD 3.30 Close This seminar is presented by UCD School of History and Archives, the UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute and Innovation UCD. This is a free event, but registration is essential. Please use this link to the eventbrite system to register:http://innovationandthehumanities.eventbrite.ie/ or email niamh.nicghabhann@ucd.ie If you have any further queries, please don’t hesitate to contact me, With best wishes, Niamh. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:52:56 -0600 From: Laura Mandell Subject: cfp: Women's History in the Digital World The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education http://greenfield.brynmawr.edu/ has issued a Call for Papers: *Women’s History in the Digital World *will take place at Bryn Mawr College in March of 2013, featuring keynote speaker Professor Laura Mandell http://idhmc.tamu.edu/the-director/ , Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture, and Professor of English at Texas A&M. We seek *individual papers or panels* that use digital methods to address topics in women’s history. Projects may address key issues, new work, theoretical approaches and new challenges in the digital realm of historical and cultural research on women. The Women’s History in the Digital World conference will bring together scholars working on women's history projects with a digital component, exploring the complexities of creating, managing, researching and teaching with digital resources. We will explore the exciting vistas of scholarship in women's histories and welcome contributors from across the globe. Papers may address key issues, new projects, theoretical approaches and new challenges in the digital realm of historical and cultural research on women. All thematic areas and time periods are included: this is a chance to share knowledge, network and promote stimulating conversations on women’s history in the context of digital humanities initiatives today. We invite individual papers or panels on new projects, theoretical approaches, teaching, research and new challenges in the digital realm of historical and cultural research on women. *Submission Format:* - Individual papers: please send an abstract (200 words or fewer), and a brief bio (100 words or fewer). - Panels: panels should consist of three presenters and will be scheduled to last 90 minutes to allow time for questions. Submit titles and abstracts (200 words or fewer) for three papers, planning 20 minutes for each. Please also include brief bios (100 words) of each presenter. You may nominate a chair for your panel or we will assign one for your session There is less than a month left to submit! Email all questions and submissions to greenfieldhwe@brynmawr.edu by *December 14th 2012.* *Check the website for further updates or follow us on Twitter @GreenfieldHWE * http://greenfield.blogs.brynmawr.edu/2012/11/16/reminder-call-for-papers-womens-history-in-the-digital-world/ -- Laura Mandell Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture Professor, English Texas A&M University p: 979-845-8345 e: mandell@tamu.edu @mandellc http://idhmc.tamu.edu --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:11:15 +0000 From: Julianne Nyhan Subject: Toma Tasovac presents Rethinking Text-Dictionary Interfaces: Deformative Lexical Annotations in Digital Editions UCLDH is pleased to announce the following lecture by Toma Tasovac on 29th November 2012 in Room G31 Foster Court,* *Gower St, WC1E 6BT London, United Kingdom *Title: *Rethinking Text-Dictionary Interfaces: Deformative Lexical Annotations in Digital Editions *Abstract*: Despite claims about the radical nature of electronic textuality, on-screen texts in digital editions remain largely static. Most annotated digital editions of literary works follow the typographic and editorial conventions of the print medium: they reinforce a clear separation of text and paratext while ignoring the potential of more playful strategies, such as Jerome McGann’s deformative criticism. In this talk I explore a new kind of text-dictionary interface that embeds and animates lexical annotations directly inside the on-screen text. The result is a dynamic, deformative interface that destabilizes the text’s self-enclosed identity and becomes a platform for the user’s cognitive, aesthetic and performative interaction with the digital object. *About the speaker: *Toma Tasovac is the Director of the Center for Digital Humanities (Belgrade, Serbia). Further information about his work is available at http://humanistika.org and http://transpoetika.org The talk will be followed by a reception at 6:30pm, in the Foster Court, Arts and Humanities Staff Common room, UCL. Please register here in order to reserve a place: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/4703134201 ------------------------------ Dr Julianne Nyhan Lecturer in Digital Information Studies University College London * Office:* G42, Foster Court *Email:* j.nyhan@ucl.ac.uk *Web: *http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/julianne-nyhan/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2C93160D3; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:29:58 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A79960CD; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:29:57 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 170682E13; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:29:55 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121127042955.170682E13@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:29:55 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.525 publications: Digital Humanities; Digital Antiquarian X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 525. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Neven Jovanovic (17) Subject: Digital Antiquarian [2] From: Patrick Durusau (23) Subject: Digital_Humanities (MIT Press, Nov. 2012) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:15:39 +0100 From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Digital Antiquarian In-Reply-To: <50925E90.5080607@mccarty.org.uk> Willard, you probably know about this, but just to be sure: http://www.filfre.net/ The Digital Antiquarian Ruminations on the state of some arts by Jimmy Maher > The bulk of the posts here form an historical chronicle of interactive > entertainment, particularly story-focused games (what I like to refer to > as “ludic narratives.”) This project could take years, but > that’s fine; I’m enjoying it immensely, and happy to take my > time poking at digital artifacts that are in many cases virtually > forgotten. As I work my way through history, I’m also trying as much > as possible to share the tools and techniques I use, to help digital > historians who come after me and to help to preserve as much of this > history as possible. -- seems very well and carefully written. Best, Neven --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:45:22 -0500 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Digital_Humanities (MIT Press, Nov. 2012) In-Reply-To: <20121125090854.4217760A9@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, You may already have notice of it but I saw today: Digital Humanities *Authors:* Peter Lunenfeld / Anne Burdick / Johanna Drucker / Todd Presner / Jeffrey Schnapp. *Publication: * The MIT Press, November 2012. http://lab.softwarestudies.com/2012/11/digitalhumanities-book-is-out.html (blog entry) http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digitalhumanities-0 (MIT Press page) Following the link "Open Access Edition" downloads a PDF copy of the book. Hope you are having a great week! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AA73860A8; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:55:35 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E878C2DFC; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:55:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BF4B22E02; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:55:33 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121128085533.BF4B22E02@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:55:33 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.526 critical text editor X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 526. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:20:01 +0100 (CET) From: Wilhelm Ott Subject: Re: 26.513 novices? critical text editor? In-Reply-To: <20121124091240.A2D19609E@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Maurizio Lana, for the second part of your question - "general experience with computer tools for critical editions generations" - you may find some answers at http://www.tustep.uni-tuebingen.de/ed1.html where editors report on their experiences in preparing critical editons with the help of computer tools. At http://www.tustep.uni-tuebingen.de/ed3.html you will find a list of editions prepared and/or typeset with Tustep. Among the most recent ones, you will find listed the 28th edition of "Nestle-Aland: Novum Testamentum Graece", published this September by the German Bible Society (see also www.nestle-aland.com/en/). Best from Tbingen 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 On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:12:40 +0100 (CET) > From: Humanist Discussion Group > Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities > > To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > Subject: [Humanist] 26.513 novices? critical text editor? > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 513. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: maurizio lana (26) Subject: critical text editor: anyone who uses it? [2] From: Andrew Prescott (6) Subject: Novice Digital Humanists --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:15:31 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: critical text editor: anyone who uses it? dear humanists, i would be interested in knowing who uses (or used) CTE critical text editor in order to produce printed critical editions of texts. but also in general i would like to know your general experience - if any - with computer tools for critical editions generations (pure LateX; CollateX; and so on): do they constitute a real advantage over previous methods mainly paper-and-pencil? do they have important drawback which must be known? etc. with thanks for your help. maurizio -- Cum petali e fi, cum petali e fi Siam cresciuti tutti insieme dalla stessa venatura D'un ramo, ma poi Cum petali e fi, cum petali e fi Siamo stati tutti diramati a piacimento In comprimari ed eroi Vad Vuc, Petali e fi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6XMvKud1Rk) ------- il mio corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Universit del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 92BAE60FF; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:57:26 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B14260D0; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:57:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6984460CE; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:57:23 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121128085723.6984460CE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:57:23 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.527 scholarships to DHSI (Victoria) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 527. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:37:00 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Digital Humanities Scholarships from SHARP! Digital Humanities Scholarships from SHARP! The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing http://sharpweb.org/index.php At its 2011 meeting in Dublin, the Executive Committee of SHARP decided to match our contribution to scholarships at Rare Book School (University of Virginia) with a fund to sponsor tuition scholarships for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada). Several tuition scholarships are now available for paid-up members of SHARP to attend their courses June 6-10 2013. For details of the courses, please see http://dhsi.org/. Applications are to be made through the DHSI site at http://dhsi.org/scholarships.php. Students receive a discount on fees, so in the field that asks for ‘Institution/Organization’ please enter either SHARP-Student or SHARP-Non-Student as applicable. DHSI will liaise with SHARP to ensure that membership is up to date. Applicants who are unsuccessful in the scholarship competition might still be eligible for discounts on DHSI tuition fees. http://sharpweb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=384&Itemid=97&lang=en Become a SHARP member: http://sharpweb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33&Itemid=65&lang=en _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3AE5660E6; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:07:38 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A3952E05; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:07:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A3E812E05; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:07:34 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121128090734.A3E812E05@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:07:34 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.528 events: many & diverse X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 528. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: S B Cooper (55) Subject: 10th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation (TAMC13) [2] From: Shawn Day (4) Subject: Early Modern Digital Agendas at the Folger Institute [3] From: Koen Vermeir (41) Subject: conference: Electricity and imagination; Paris, 5 December 2012 [4] From: Neal Stimler (15) Subject: Commons & Digital Humanities in Museums - REMINDER [5] From: Andrew Prescott (140) Subject: Re: [humanities-dev] Looking for comments on a possible ShakeSpeare Hackday / Announcing the Will's World Hack, 5th- 12th December 2012 [6] From: Shawn Day (37) Subject: Digitisation in a Day Workshop at an Foras Feasa 13 Dec 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:24:08 +0000 From: S B Cooper Subject: 10th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation (TAMC13) FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS: TAMC 2013 The 10th annual conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong Important Dates Submission deadline : 11:59 pm EST January 11, 2013 Notification of authors : late February or early March, 2013 Final versions deadline : to be announced soon The TAMC proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series by Springer (http://www.springer.com/lncs). Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Post Conference Publications Special issues of the journals Theoretical Computer Science and Mathematical Structures in Computer Science devoted to a selected set of accepted papers of the conference are planned. Aims and Scope TAMC aims at bringing together a wide range of researchers with interests in computational theory and applications. The main themes of the conference are computability, complexity, and algorithms. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest include: * algebraic computation * algorithmic coding theory * algorithmic number theory * approximation algorithms * automata theory * circuit complexity * computability * computational biology, and biological computing * computational complexity * computational game theory * computational logic * computational geometry * continuous and real computation * cryptography * data structures * design and analysis of algorithms * distributed algorithms * fixed parameter tractability * graph algorithms * information and communication complexity * learning theory * natural computation * network algorithms, networks in nature and society * online algorithms * optimization * parallel algorithms * privacy and security * property testing * proof complexity * quantum computing * randomness, pseudo-randomness * randomized algorithms * streaming algorithms http://www.cs.hku.hk/tamc2013/call.htm --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:21:05 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Early Modern Digital Agendas at the Folger Institute In July 2013, the Folger Institute will offer “Early Modern Digital Agendas” under the direction of Jonathan Hope, Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Strathclyde. It is an NEH-funded, three-week institute that will explore the robust set of digital tools with period-specific challenges and limitations that early modern English literary scholars now have at hand. “Early Modern Digital Agendas” will create a forum in which twenty faculty participants can historicize, theorize, and critically evaluate current and future digital tools and approaches in early modern literary studies—from Early English Books Online-Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) to advanced corpus linguistics, semantic searching, and visualization theory—with discussion growing out of, and feeding back into, their own projects (current and envisaged). With the guidance of expert visiting faculty, attention will be paid to the ways new technologies are shaping the very nature of early modern research and the means by which scholars interpret texts, teach their students, and present their findings to other scholars. This institute is supported by an Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Office of Digital Humanities. For more information, including eligibility guidelines, please visit: http://emdigitalagendas.folger.edu/. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:52:36 +0100 From: Koen Vermeir Subject: conference: Electricity and imagination; Paris, 5 December 2012 In-Reply-To: <50B4C3F4.7080400@yahoo.fr> *Electricity and imagination 5 December 2012, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Laboratoire SPHERE (University Paris Diderot 7 CNRS) *Bâtiment Condorcet, 4 rue Elsa Morante, 75013 Paris Room Mondrian 646A (6th floor) organization:Pierre Cassou-Nogues, Viktoria Tkaczyk, Koen Vermeir guest organizer: Christian Carletti 09:00 - 9:30 Koen Vermeir (SPHERE), Christian Carletti (SPHERE) Electrical machines and imagination 09:30 - 11:00 Paolo Brenni (National Research Council - CNR, Florence) Fairies, Lightnings and Dynamos: Symbols and Allegories in the History of Electricity Ulf Otto (Stiftung Universität Hildesheim) ‘Pandora oder Götter-Funken’. Electricity as Pantomime 11:00 – 11:30 break 11:30 – 1:00 Christine Blondel (Centre Koyré, Paris) Which Representations for Electrical "Healing Machines" in Late 19th Century France: Between Scientific Precision, Consecration and Nightmare. Baptiste Brun (Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) Art brut and electricity : an anti-modern iconography ? 1:00 – 2:30 lunch 2:30 – 4:00 Remko Scha (University of Amsterdam) Electric Power and the Human Body Sam Halliday (Queen Mary, University of London) Bipolarity and Sexuality 4:00 – 4:15 break 4:15 – 5:00 Laura Ludtke (University of Oxford) Electric Lights, New Mesmerism, and the Spectacle of Science in Richard Marsh's The Beetle’ (1897) -- Koen Vermeir Senior Research Fellow CNRS Laboratoire SPHERE (UMR 7219), 5 rue Thomas Mann - Case 7093, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:30:20 -0800 (PST) From: Neal Stimler Subject: Commons & Digital Humanities in Museums - REMINDER In-Reply-To: <50B4C3F4.7080400@yahoo.fr> WHAT: The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums  WHO: CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative | @cunydhi Matthew K. Gold | @mkgoldNeal Stimler | @nealstimlerMichael Edson | @mpedsonWill Noel | @willnoel Christina DePaolo | @tinabean WHEN:Wednesday | November 28, 2012 | 6:30PM-8:30PM EST WHERE: The City of University of New YorkThe Graduate Center Skylight Room (9th Floor, Room 9100)365 Fifth AvenueNew York, NY 10016 USA Google Map: http://goo.gl/maps/xiRpE  DESCRIPTION:This panel will explore the impact of the digital humanities and diverse implications of the formation of commons by museums.  The event is free and open to the public – registration is requested, but not required. Eventbrite Registration: http://commons_dh_museums.eventbrite.com/  It will be also be live streamed. Livestream: http://live.commons.gc.cuny.edu/  LINKS:Complete Information: http://cunydhi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/11/07/wednesday-november-28-the-commons-and-digital-humanities-in-museums/Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/cunydhi/ TWITTER: Hashtag: #cunydhi Best Regards, Neal Stimler & Matthew K. Gold Neal Stimler@nealstimlerneal.stimler@gmail.com Matthew K. Gold@mkgoldmattgold@gmail.com --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:09:54 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Re: [humanities-dev] Looking for comments on a possible ShakeSpeare Hackday / Announcing the Will's World Hack, 5th-12th December 2012 In-Reply-To: <50B4F845.1080103@ed.ac.uk> Sam and the lovely people of the Open-Humanities and Humanities-Dev lists, Thank you for your email about our proposed Shakespeare Hackday. I am emailing as I am delighted to announce that the ShakeSpeare Hackday is going ahead! We had a fantastic responses to our survey - thank you to all who took part - and based on that feedback we have decided that an online hack should take place in the format of a week-long event running from 5th to 12th December 2012. For an introduction of what our hopes for the event are take a look at this video from the Will's World Project Manager Muriel Mewissen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dXw54Wydok We have set up a wiki for the event where we would encourage you to take a look around the wiki and, hopefully, complete the registration form for the event. We will be sending out goodie bags to the first 50 participants to register as an added incentive! Please do also feel free to forward this information on to any colleagues, friends or mailing lists that you think may be interested in taking part. We really do welcome everyone to take part in the hack event whether developers, amateur coders, or those with great ideas to share, such as educators, creative practitioners, Shakespeare fans, etc. *Key Links* You will find a blog post about the event here: http://willsworld.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2012/11/22/join-wills-world-online-hack-5-12-dec-2012/ The wiki is here: http://willsworld.edina.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page And you can register for the event here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGx3ZkZfUW1DV3hZcjB2cl90TnN5b1E6MQ If you have any questions at all about the event please email willsworldhack@gmail.com and one of the Will’s World team – Muriel, Neil or Nicola – will get back to you. We look forward to seeing some of you online very soon and thank you again for supporting the WillÂ’s World Project! Best wishes, Nicola On behalf of: Nicola Osborne, Muriel Mewissen, and Neil Mayo WillÂ’s World Project Team Blog: http://willsworld.blogs.edina.ac.uk/ Hack Event Wiki: http://willsworld.edina.ac.uk/wiki/ Follow @WillsWorldHack on Twitter or use the #willhack hashtag. On 14/11/2012 14:51, Sam Leon wrote: > Dear Nicola, > > This looks fantastic! Do let us know how the concept develops and keep > this list updated with details of the hack. > > Best, > Sam > > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Nicola Osborne > wrote: > > Hi there, > > Myself and my colleagues at EDINA are considering running a hackday > (likely to be December this year) for a project we've been working > on and which I hope may be of interest. The project is called Will's > World and it is a JISC-funded project to build a registry of > metadata about Shakespeare resources across the UK. > > We have been inspired by other excellent hack events we've been to > and are wanting to run our own online hack event. We think that's a > fairly unusual way to do it and we really want some feedback on the > idea and the format from the people we want to be involved - which > might hopefully include some of you. > > The hackday would be open to all (as will the registry) and I am > very much hoping you might able to involved either in giving us some > feedback on the idea, in the event itself or both! > > We've put up a blogpost about our idea here: > http://willsworld.blogs.edina.__ac.uk/2012/10/18/online-hack-__event/ http://willsworld.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2012/10/18/online-hack-event/ > > And the survey we are running to capture feedback is here: > https://www.survey.ed.ac.uk/__willsworldhack/ > > > Please do feel free to forward/share with others - we want to both > get word out about the possible event and capture as much feedback > as possible before we start planning so we can make sure it actually > works well. > > Huge thanks in advance! > > - Nicola. > > -- > Nicola Osborne > Social Media Officer > > EDINA website: > http://www.edina.ac.uk/ > > t: 0131 651 3873 > e: nicola.osborne@ed.ac.uk > > a: EDINA, The University of Edinburgh, Causewayside House, 158-162 > Causewayside, Edinburgh EH9 1PR > > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > -- > Nicola Osborne > Social Media Officer > > EDINA website: > http://www.edina.ac.uk/ > > t: 0131 651 3873 > e: nicola.osborne@ed.ac.uk > > a: EDINA, The University of Edinburgh, Causewayside House, 158-162 > Causewayside, Edinburgh EH9 1PR > > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > > > > -- > Sam Leon > Community Coordinator > Open Knowledge Foundation > http://okfn.org/ > Skype: samedleon > -- Nicola Osborne Social Media Officer EDINA website: http://www.edina.ac.uk/ t: 0131 651 3873 e: nicola.osborne@ed.ac.uk a: EDINA, The University of Edinburgh, Causewayside House, 158-162 Causewayside, Edinburgh EH9 1PR The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:23:39 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Digitisation in a Day Workshop at an Foras Feasa 13 Dec 2012 In-Reply-To: <50B4F845.1080103@ed.ac.uk> “Digitisation in a Day”, 13th December 2012 John G. Keating, Damien Gallagher, Sharon Webb, Aja Teehan Overview: This one day, hands-on, workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to become involved in the digitisation of a real-world guestbook while working with a team experienced in digital humanities and design methodologies, theories and practice. The day’s activities will result in the creation of an on-line, searchable, interactive, digital edition of the guestbook (see figure below). Participants will work in teams, engaging in hands-on digital imaging with high-resolution imaging equipment, project and software requirements analysis, data modeling for humanities research, XML encoding, software design and implementation. The various components that are created will be ingested into a Fedora repository and made available online for the participants. Participants: The workshop will be of interest to professionals such as librarians and archivists, along with researchers, project managers, and D[X]igital Humanities Specialists involved, or planning to be involved, in the creation of digital humanities artefacts. An overview of the entire process will be invaluable to those who are considering committing to a digital humanities project, providing them with the opportunity to participate in the entire process, from start to finish, and to gain an understanding of the planning, work-flow and resources that are required to deliver a digital artefact. Project managers and supervisors who are considering projects in this area, or who will be coming into contact with researchers in the field, may also be interested in attending. For those participants who have a deep understanding of one part of the process this will provide them with an appreciation of the other, necessary, phases in the development, and demonstrate the interdependencies that exist between those phases. Upon completion, participants will be provided with course notes and recommended resources. All hardware and software will be provided at the workshop. Where and When: The workshop will be run in An Foras Feasa’s Teaching and Training Laboratory, on the first floor of the Iontas Building, on the North Campus at NUI, Maynooth. It will run on the 13th of December from 9.30 am to 5 pm, with a one hour lunch. Coffee and lunch will be provided on the premises for all participants. Registration: For those attending from educational or cultural heritage institutions the cost is €100 for the day, for all others the cost is €500. Numbers are limited to 30 participants. Please register by the 7th of December using the registration form provided below. Regretfully, given the limited number of places available, cancellations received after the 7th of December will still incur the registration fee. Sponsored Places: An Foras Feasa is pleased to offer five sponsored places for the workshop. Those wishing to apply should send in their registration form (below), together with a letter detailing the reasons why they are seeking the sponsored place. Registration Form: First Name: Last Name: Title/Position: Institution: E-mail Address: Contact Telephone Number: Contact Address: Dietary Requirements: (please tick all that apply) Gluten Free • Dairy Free • Wheat Intolerant • Vegetarian • Vegan • Fee: (please tick one) Commercial €500 • Cultural Heritage / Education €100 • Payment: (please tick one) I enclose a cheque/postal order/funds transfer details • I would like to request an invoice • I will pay on the day (please note no cash accepted) • Sponsored Place: I am from a cultural heritage or educational institution, and I have enclosed a supporting letter. • Any queries regarding the workshop or attendance should be directed by email to Gemma or Deirdre at aff.training@nuim.ie. We look forward to welcoming you to the day An Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions Tel: 353-1-7086173 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CBD696095; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:57:17 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B8FF6084; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:57:17 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E1E315EDB; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:57:14 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121129095714.E1E315EDB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:57:14 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.529 URIs for classics? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 529. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:30:44 +0100 From: Neven_Jovanović Subject: URIs for classics? Hello, a question on a digital humanities related list -- it was about pointing to precise line, scene, and act of Shakespeare's plays somewhere on the internet -- got me thinking about "canonical" digital versions of classical works in WWW. What versions of the Bible, Dante, Goethe, Montaigne, Cervantes do you know of, that have a system, or a scheme, enabling us to refer to their passages from the outside? That make possible e. g. to let a quotation in one text refer to a reliable manifestation of its source, or to refer our students, or our readers, to a digital source of a quotation we give them (e. g. in teaching materials published on the internet). Yes, I am aware that the "canonicality" of such a source would in many aspects be a chimera, as well as its "reliably manifesting" a source. But still, it would be nice to know that people have made their digital editions URI-referrable. I know that something along these lines exists for e. g. ancient Greek and Latin literature, as "Citation URIs" and "Citation URNs" for Perseus Digital Library texts. And the Internet Shakespeare Editions by the University of Victoria have also been mentioned; this publication enables precise ponters such as: http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/Ham/EM/scene/3.2#tln-1855 (even though I couldn't find the documentation for this feature on their site). But I don't know about other important authors and works. Best, Neven Neven Jovanovic Zagreb, Hrvatska / Croatia _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4890C6096; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:03:39 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 328A55F48; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:03:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A89EF5EDB; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:03:35 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121129100335.A89EF5EDB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:03:35 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.530 events: project management; online conference; commentaries; history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 530. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (16) Subject: TCC 2013 Call for Proposals deadline: 17 December 2012 [2] From: Rebecca Davis (41) Subject: Upcoming NITLE Seminar on Dickinson College Commentaries [3] From: Ray Siemens (9) Subject: DHSI mini Project Management Workshop: 17-18 Jan 2013 [4] From: Seth Denbo (36) Subject: Digital History Seminar: Tue 6 Dec, Jason M. Kelly, 'An Ecology for Digital Scholarship' --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:30:32 -0500 (EST) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: TCC 2013 Call for Proposals deadline: 17 December 2012 18th Annual TCC WORLDWIDE ONLINE CONFERENCE April 16-18, 2013 EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR LEARNING ~ BEST CHOICES & CURRENT PRACTICES ~ Submission deadline: December 17, 2012 CALL FOR PROPOSALS Please consider submitting a proposal for a paper or general session relating to all aspects of educational technology, including but not limited to e-learning, OER, ICT, online communities, social media, augmented reality, educational gaming, faculty & student support, Web 2.0 tools, international education and mobile learning. FULL DETAILS http://tcchawaii.org/call-for-proposals-2013/ MORE INFO Bert Kimura --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:38:55 -0600 From: Rebecca Davis Subject: Upcoming NITLE Seminar on Dickinson College Commentaries Collaborative Digital Scholarship Projects: The Liberal Art of Drupal Date: Thursday, December 6, 3:00-4:00 pm EST Location: Hosted online via NITLE’s videoconferencing platform Growing numbers of liberal arts colleges are creating collaborative digital scholarship projects. Defining the roles of faculty, student, and web developer in the semi-hierarchical world of liberal arts colleges—where pedagogical goals must be constantly kept in mind—can be tricky; Drupal, an open source content management system, helps small colleges manage workflow and collaboration for such projects. In this seminar, members of the team behind the text annotation site Dickinson College Commentaries http://dcc.dickinson.edu/ (faculty director, web developer, and students) discuss the problems, pitfalls, and opportunities of collaborating with Drupal in a liberal arts context. Details: http://www.nitle.org/live/events/154-collaborative-digital-scholarship-projects-the This seminar may be especially interesting to faculty, instructional technologists, librarians, and others interested in creating collaborative digital scholarship projects, as well as to faculty in classical studies and other disciplines that emphasize text. Registration Please register online by Tuesday, December 4, 2012. Participation in NITLE Seminars is open to all active member institutions of the NITLE Network as a benefit of membership and as space allows. No additional registration fee applies. Registration link: http://www.nitle.org/registrations/liberal_art_drupal_registration.php Questions For more information about this event, please contact Rebecca Davis at rdavis@nitle.org. Rebecca Frost Davis, Ph.D. Program Officer for the Humanities National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) 1001 East University Avenue | Georgetown, Texas 78626 http://www.nitle.org | tel. 512 863-1734 | fax 512 819-7684 Twitter: @FrostDavis | Diigo: rebeccadavis | NITLE's Techne Blog: http://blogs.nitle.org For regular updates from NITLE, subscribe to *The NITLE News* http://eepurl.com/bk92v . --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:35:24 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: DHSI mini Project Management Workshop: 17-18 Jan 2013 [from the Digital Humanities Summer Institute] Hi Folks, In response to considerable demand for training in Large Project Planning and Management, instructor Lynne Siemens (U Victoria) is working with DHSI, ETCL, and the UVic Library to offer a 2-day workshop introducing the basic elements of her DHSI syllabus. This offering will cover the basics of project management from project definition to project review upon completion. Topics such as budget setting and controls, risk management, critical path scheduling, software tools, and related Internet resources will also be discussed. Material will be covered through lectures, discussions, and case studies. The workshop will take place 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Thursday 17 January and 9.00 am - 1.00 pm Friday 18 January 2013, on the U Victoria campus in McPherson Library 210. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors and hosts, all spots in this workshop are made available via DHSI Tuition Scholarship, requiring only the payment of a small non-refundable administrative fee ($50 students, $100 non-students). Spots in this workshop are limited, and anticipated to go quickly; please register early http://www.regonline.ca/DHSI-PrjPln . Registration at: http://www.regonline.ca/DHSI-PrjPln Details at: http://dhsi.org/events.php Hope to see you there! --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:31:54 +0000 From: Seth Denbo Subject: Digital History Seminar: Tue 6 Dec, Jason M. Kelly, 'An Ecology for Digital Scholarship' Digital History Seminar *Jason M. Kelly, 'An Ecology for Digital Scholarship'* Tuesday, 4 December 2012, 5:15 pm (GMT) Institute for Historical Research, Bedford Room G37, Senate House, South block, Ground floor and live online at HistorySpot. In 1969, Marshall McLuhan wrote that 'the literati find the new electronic environment far more threatening than do those less committed to literacy as a way of life. When an individual or social group feels that its whole identity is jeopardized by social or psychic change, its natural reaction is to lash out in defensive fury. But for all their lamentations, the revolution has already taken place.' This talk takes McLuhan’s comments as its starting point to frame a discussion of digital history as both an intellectual discipline and a socially embedded practice. Kelly argues that the 'digital turn' demands that historians reconstitute their discipline—not simply because of its methodological challenges, but because digital history exposes fundamental weak points in the academic system. Kelly focuses on the intersection of technology, cultural capital, institutional knowledge, and systems of social power to critique historical scholarship—both in its analogue and digital forms. *Jason M. Kelly* is the Director of the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute (IAHI) and Associate Professor of British History at IUPUI. He is the author of *The Society of Dilettanti: Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment *(Yale University Press and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2010) and has published articles on the history of eighteenth-century masculinity, art, and the Grand Tour in the *Journal of British Studies*, the *Walpole Society*, and the *British Art Journal*. He is the webmaster for the North American Conference on British Studies and a co-editor of H-Albion. With Tim Hitchcock, he edits *History Working Papers*. He current research includes the *Rivers of the Anthropocene* project, an comparative environmental study of international rivers systems since 1750, and a study of the early history of civil rights movements in the Transatlantic world. To keep in touch with the seminar, follow us on Twitter (@IHRDigHist http://twitter.com/@ihrdighist ) or at the hashtag #dhist http://twitter.com/#dhist . _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 059FC60B9; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:05:30 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E30C76096; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:05:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A442A6034; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:05:27 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121129100527.A442A6034@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:05:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.531 exhibited: a Babble Machine; history of the Sydney Opera House X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 531. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: katy price (29) Subject: babble machine [2] From: Willard McCarty (27) Subject: Fwd: A remarkable digital documentary of an Australian icon. --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:49:44 +0000 From: katy price Subject: babble machine Babble Machine : a sound installation made from technology and texts of early radio in britain By Aleksander Kolkowski, Alison Hess and Katy Price In conjuction with the Science Museum exhibition 'The Voice of the BBC' curated by Alison Hess An array of vintage radio horns, receivers, a séance trumpet and suspended objects. Babble Machines were foreseen by H.G. Wells in The Sleeper Awakes (1899) ? radio speakers diffusing propaganda to the workers. The voice of the Babble Machine is interfused with excerpts from the Radio Times and from 1920s domestic drama, thriller and uncanny stories about radio in the home. Babble Machine debuts at Science Museum Lates, London UK, 28 November 2012 and is open: 29 Nov to 2 Dec 2012 12:30 to 5:30pm free admission in association with Queen Mary, University of London Babble Machine would like to thank: Science Museum, South Kensington; Steve Long and Workshop; John Liffen; Sarah Harvey; Tim Boon; George Tiffin. -- -- katy price lecturer in modern + contemporary literature queen mary, university of london office hours: tues 4-5pm / thurs 2.30-3.30pm arts 1, room 3.32a 0207 890 8500 ext 8537 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:49:02 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Fwd: A remarkable digital documentary of an Australian icon. The following seems to me a rather good example of an online picture-book for those who do not have an empty coffee-table and who appreciate more than simply good photographs. I am reminded of what the architect Louis Kahn wrote: "The sun did not know how beautiful its light was, until it was reflected off this building." Yours, WM -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: A remarkable digital documentary of an Australian icon. > Date: 28 Nov 2012 16:30:15 -0800 > From: Sydney Opera House > To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk Opera House Project A partnership between ABC and Sydney Opera House has produced a unique and exquisite digital documentary, which shares emotive stories around the inception, design, construction and performances at Sydney Opera House. You can see over 24 hours of content including more than 70 original interviews, archival video footage, audio written and 3D documentation. The project, for the first time, lets people journey through the exceptional, intricate and emotive stories of one of the most celebrated buildings of the Twentieth Century. The documentary comprises archives to date not held in any single place, through to never-before-released content. EXPLORE NOW http://tracking.wordfly.com/click?sid=OTlfNjU2MF8yNDk4NzBfNjcyMw&l=d04a14b0-b939-e211-a9f0-e41f1345a46a&utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SydneyOperaHouseProject29Nov&utm_content=version_A [...] Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW 2000. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_GREY autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 61DE460FF; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:08:01 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C66926084; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:07:57 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 73B1B6084; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:07:55 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121129100755.73B1B6084@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:07:55 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.532 pubs: cfp history & philosophy of science; DHQ 6.2&3; media management X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 532. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Boaz Miller (32) Subject: Call for Papers - Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science [2] From: Henry Stewart Publications (56) Subject: Journal of Digital Media Management - Contents of issue 1 [3] From: Julia Flanders (46) Subject: DHQ issue 6.2 published, 6.3 in preview --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:33:54 +0000 From: Boaz Miller Subject: Call for Papers - Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science Call for Papers - Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/SpontaneousGenerations/ Spontaneous Generations is an open, online, peer-reviewed academic journal published by graduate students at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto. It has produced six issues and is a well-respected journal in the history and philosophy of science and science studies. We invite interested scholars to submit papers for our seventh issue. We welcome submissions from scholars in all disciplines, including but not limited to HPS, STS, History, Philosophy, Women's Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, and Religious Studies. Papers in any period are welcome. The journal consists of four sections: 1. A focused discussion section consisting of short peer-reviewed and invited articles devoted to a particular theme. The theme for our seventh issue is "Economic aspects of science"* (see a brief description below). Recommended length for submissions: 1000-3000 words. 2. A peer-reviewed section of research papers on various topics in the field of HPS. Recommended length for submissions: 5000-8000 words. 3. A book review section for books published in the last 5 years. Recommended length for submissions: up to 1000 words. 4. An opinions section that may include a commentary on or a response to current concerns, trends, and issues in HPS. Recommended length for submissions: up to 500 words. * Economic Aspects of Science Nearly every discipline in science studies has considered the economics of science in some fashion. Philosophers have long looked to economics as a resource for understanding science. They have considered how individual scientists might economize time and resources in pursuing a variety of epistemic goals, and have considered how competing scientists might spontaneously organize in ways reminiscent of Adam Smith’s invisible hand. More recently philosophers have begun to consider how science’s changing economic context might be affecting scientific norms. Historians have deconstructed the “linear model” whereby scientific progress leads to technological progress, which in turn drives economic prosperity. They have also considered how science's changing economic circumstances, from the patronage relations of the Middle Ages, to the government-driven funding of the Cold War, to the recent trend toward commercial funding, have affected its operation. Economists have considered how science might be important for the economy and what that might imply for science policy. We welcome short papers that explore these and other economic aspects of science, and especially welcome papers looking to make interdisciplinary connections within the economics of science. Case studies that speak to these issues are also welcome. The questions below might help in further guiding potential submissions: * Do philosophers, sociologists, historians, and economists interested in economic aspects of science have anything useful to say to each other? * What should science studies learn from the history, philosophy, or practice of economics? For example, should we be applying the results of behavioral economics to our accounts of how scientists operate? Can these lessons be applied to discussions of, for instance, the value of intellectual property as a motivating factor in scientific fields such as genomics? * Do, must, or should, scientific methods depend on the economic context of scientific research? For example, does the high cost of randomized controlled trials affect the expectation of repeatability in scientific experiments? * What role does Intellectual Property play in science and how has it changed through science's history? Is Intellectual Property just a metaphor, or is it a significant component of an economic system of science? * To the extent that they were ever descriptively accurate, are Mertonian norms under threat? What does this mean for the nature of science? * Is it illuminating to think about science as an economic enterprise? What do we learn about science in doing so? * What does it mean to "commodify" scientific research? Is there a qualitative change underway in what scientists produce? The seventh issue of Spontaneous Generations will appear in September 2013. Submissions for the seventh issue should be sent no later than March 15, 2013. For more details, please visit the journal homepage at http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/SpontaneousGenerations/ Please distribute freely. Apologies for cross-postings. -- Boaz Miller PhD, MA, BSc Postdoctoral Fellow The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Tel Aviv University http://individual.utoronto.ca/boaz --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:42:19 +0000 From: Henry Stewart Publications Subject: Journal of Digital Media Management - Contents of issue 1 JOURNAL OF DIGITAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT *********************************** *Major new peer-reviewed journal for digital asset management professionals - with no advertising *Contents of the inaugural issue - out now - are listed below *Early bird rate still available Dear Colleague, The inaugural issue of Journal of Digital Media Management - the major new peer-reviewed journal for all those involved in the capture, storage and effective application of digital media assets - is out now. A list of its contents can be found below and the early-bird rate is still available. 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Yours sincerely, Simon Beckett Publishing Director PS to subscribe at the early-bird rate please email me at simon@hspublications.co.uk Henry Stewart Publications Russell House, 28/30 Little Russell Street London WC1A 2HN, UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7092 3496; Fax: +44 (0)20 7404 2081 Email: gweny@henrystewart.co.uk North American Subscriptions Office PO Box 361 Birmingham AL 35201-0361, USA Tel: 800-633-4931; Fax: 205-995-1588 Email: hsp@subscriptionoffice.com --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:47:35 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: DHQ issue 6.2 published, 6.3 in preview We're very happy to announce the publication of a new extra-gigantic issue of DHQ (plus issue 6.3 now available as a preview). I'd like to express our particular thanks to all those who have served as peer reviewers for DHQ over the past several years. The feedback they offer is thoughtful, thorough, constructive, and instrumental in helping authors realize the potential of their articles. We are tremendously grateful for their hard work and I know our authors are as well. Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Editor-in-chief, Digital Humanities Quarterly DHQ 6.2 http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ ======================================= Table of Contents Special Cluster: Futures of Digital Studies 2 Editors: Mauro Carassai and Elise Takehana Introduction Mauro Carassai, University of Florida; Elisabet Takehana, LIM College Web 2.0 and the Ontology of the Digital Aden Evens, Dartmouth College Graphic Sublime: On the Art and Designwriting of Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett Joseph Tabbi, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Webbots and Machinic Agency John Johnston, Emory University Stretched Skulls: Anamorphic Games and the memento mortem mortis Stephanie Boluk, Vassar College; Patrick LeMieux, Duke University The Underside of the Digital Field Terry Harpold, University of Florida Articles The Sound of Many Hands Clapping: Teaching the Digital Humanities through Virtual Research Environment (VREs) Craig Bellamy, VeRSI, University of Melbourne, Australia Towards a Conceptual Framework for the Digital Humanities Paul S. Rosenbloom, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California From the Personal to the Proprietary: Conceptual Writing's Critique of Metadata Paul Stephens, Columbia University Do You Want to Save Your Progress?: The Role of Professional and Player Communities in Preserving Virtual Worlds Kari Kraus, University of Maryland; Rachel Donahue, University of Maryland Old Ways for Linking Texts in the Digital Reading Environment: The Case of the Thompson Chain Reference Bible Brent Nelson, University of Saskatchewan; Jon Bath, University of Saskatchewan Towards a Richer Sense of Digital Annotation: Moving Beyond a "Media" Orientation of the Annotation of Digital Objects John Bradley, Kings College London Building A Volunteer Community: Results and Findings from Transcribe Bentham Tim Causer, Bentham Project, University College London; Valerie Wallace, Bentham Project, University College London,and Center for History and Economics, Harvard University Building Better Digital Humanities Tools: Toward broader audiences and user-centered designs Fred Gibbs, George Mason University; Trevor Owens, Library of Congress In One's Own Hand: Seeing Manuscripts in a Digital Age Anna Chen, The University of Texas at Austin Machine Enhanced (Re)minding: the Development of Storyspace Belinda Barnet, Swinburne University of Technology The Design of an International Social Media Event: A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities Geoffrey Rockwell, University of Alberta; Peter Organisciak, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Megan Meredith-Lobay, University of Alberta; Kamal Ranaweera, University of Alberta; Stan Ruecker, Illinois Institute of Technology; Julianne Nyhan, University College London _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 700E02E0B; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:57:22 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A9FE6093; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:57:21 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E56332E0A; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:57:19 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121130065719.E56332E0A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:57:19 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.533 canonical citations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 533. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Anna Jordanous (92) Subject: Re: URIs for classics [2] From: Gaby Divay (14) Subject: great digital Montaigne at UChicago --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:34:08 +0000 From: Anna Jordanous Subject: Re: URIs for classics In-Reply-To: Hi Neven, I am exploring exactly that type of canonical citation for the SAWS project (Sharing Ancient Wisdoms) - how to cite manuscripts/collections within manuscripts/sections or items within collections? The Perseus Digital Library's use of CTS URNs *in a URI format* is proving to be quite an inspiration - Bridget Almas has been extremely helpfu. I prefer to use URIs rather than URNs, so the identifiers can be used for Linked Data, and the CTS URNs implement references and citations in a manner which is familiar to the scholars, rather than imposing a new scheme which doesn't match how scholars already talk about the texts. This scheme should be cross-applicable across Bible references and the others you mention. On this same note, the work of Chris Blackwell and others in the Homer Multitext project on CITE could also be very useful, for expressing the CTS citations in a http-URI format. The documentation is very good for explaining both CITE and CTS. Documentation links: CITE: http://www.homermultitext.org/hmt-doc/ (also CTS: http://cts-demo.appspot.com/demo/examples ) anna -- Anna Jordanous Research Associate Centre for e-Research Department of Digital Humanities King's College London t: +44 (0)20 7848 1988 e: annajordanous@kcl.ac.uk w: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/people/jordanous/ http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/people/jordanous/index.aspx On 29/11/2012 11:00, humanist-request@lists.digitalhumanities.org wrote: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:57:14 +0100 (CET) > From: Humanist Discussion Group > To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > Subject: [Humanist] 26.529 URIs for classics? > Message-ID: <20121129095714.E1E315EDB@digitalhumanities.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 529. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:30:44 +0100 > From: Neven_Jovanovi? > Subject: URIs for classics? > > Hello, > > a question on a digital humanities related list -- it was about > pointing to precise line, scene, and act of Shakespeare's plays > somewhere on the internet -- got me thinking about "canonical" digital > versions of classical works in WWW. > > What versions of the Bible, Dante, Goethe, Montaigne, Cervantes do you > know of, that have a system, or a scheme, enabling us to refer to > their passages from the outside? That make possible e. g. to let a > quotation in one text refer to a reliable manifestation of its source, > or to refer our students, or our readers, to a digital source of a > quotation we give them (e. g. in teaching materials published on the > internet). > > Yes, I am aware that the "canonicality" of such a source would in many > aspects be a chimera, as well as its "reliably manifesting" a source. > But still, it would be nice to know that people have made their > digital editions URI-referrable. > > I know that something along these lines exists for e. g. ancient Greek > and Latin literature, as "Citation URIs" and "Citation URNs" for > Perseus Digital Library texts. And the Internet Shakespeare Editions > by the University of Victoria have also been mentioned; this > publication enables precise ponters such as: > http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/Ham/EM/scene/3.2#tln-1855 > (even though I couldn't find the documentation for this feature on > their site). > > But I don't know about other important authors and works. > > Best, > > Neven > > Neven Jovanovic > Zagreb, Hrvatska / Croatia > > http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/people/jordanous/index.aspx --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:08:57 +0000 From: Gaby Divay Subject: great digital Montaigne at UChicago In-Reply-To: Dear Neven - For Montaigne, there is the exemplary "Montaigne Project" at the University of Chicago: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu.proxy2.lib.umanitoba.ca/efts/ARTFL/projects/montaigne/ Cheers, Gaby ******************************************************* Dr. Gaby Divay Archives & Special Collections, 332E Bldg. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:53:28 -0600 From: Peter Leonard Subject: Job: UChicago Digital Collections Librarian The University of Chicago Library invites applicants for the Digital Collections Librarian. Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Digital Services, the Digital Collections Librarian leads the Library's collection-building activities for locally-created digital materials. Establishes priorities, manages projects, coordinates cross-departmental workflows, participates in identifying digital collection development opportunities, and ensures that our locally-digitized collections are integrated into the overall collections and services. Working with the Library's decentralized digital production environment, the Librarian facilitates communication between staff across the Library working on digital projects and ensures stakeholders remain informed and engaged. Represents activities and needs in the Library's strategic planning and ensures that issues are reflected in broader organizational policies and procedures. Responsible for understanding emerging trends in digital collection creation and management and for modeling innovative solutions that meet the needs of users in an academic research environment. Represents the Library at professional conferences and meetings, and maintains professional networks and collaborative relationships with other libraries. About the Digital Services Division: The Digital Services Division provides leadership and services in support of emerging e-research activities across the University of Chicago campus and is responsible for the creation and ongoing maintenance of the Library's repository of digital collections, research data, and archival material. The Division works with faculty and colleagues from other institutions on collaborative projects such as the faculty-driven Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae digital collection of Renaissance printed images or the Chicago Collections Consortium that is building a portal to collections about Chicago from area museums, libraries, and cultural institutions. Qualifications: Required: A graduate library degree from an accredited library school, commitment to ongoing professional development, minimum of 3 years experience working with digital collections in a library. Familiarity with digital library development software. Knowledge of metadata standards used in digital collections building (e.g., MODS, METS, VRA Core, Dublin Core, etc.); familiarity with digital conversion technologies, standards, and workflows; knowledge of HTML, CSS, and ADA guidelines and ability to work with technical staff who are doing scripting, programming, and systems administration. Ability to work on a Unix/Linux platform. Demonstrated ability to work effectively, cooperatively, and collaboratively with a variety of individuals and groups to build consensus and accomplish initiatives within a variety of deadlines; demonstrated ability to plan, prioritize, coordinate, and implement projects; experience working effectively with staff across the organization to achieve multiple strategic objectives; excellent conceptual, analytic, and organizational skills; excellent written and oral communication skills; comfort working in a decentralized production environment. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Anna Marie Roos (25) Subject: Meeting Reminder: "What's the Matter? The Material Culture of Chemistry", 8 December 2012, Science Museum, London [2] From: Jennifer Kelly (29) Subject: Digital Humanities Research Seminar at NUI Maynooth [3] From: Owen Williams (2) Subject: Early Modern Digital Agendas at the Folger Institute [4] From: S B Cooper (138) Subject: CiE 2013: The Nature of Computation, Milan, Italy, July 1-5, 2013 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:58:05 +0000 From: Anna Marie Roos Subject: Meeting Reminder: "What's the Matter? The Material Culture of Chemistry", 8 December 2012, Science Museum, London The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry presents its 2012 Autumn Meeting: "What's the Matter? The Material Culture of Chemistry" Saturday 8 December Science Museum, London A day of talks, tours and discussion, exploring the rich material culture of alchemy, chemistry and the chemical sciences, hosted by the Science Museum of London. From gold to gunpowder, books to crucibles, we'll explore what objects can teach us about chemistry's past. Events include: *Guided tours of "James Watt and our World" (including Watt's workshop), and "Signs, Symbols, Secrets: An Illustrated Guide to Alchemy." *Talks by guest speakers and guides Registration is £15 (£10 for students and SHAC members). Please register at: http://www.ambix.org The programme may be downloaded at http://events.history.ac.uk/event/show/7561 Questions? Please contact the SHAC Hon. Secretary, Dr Anna Marie Roos: anna.roos@history.ox.ac.uk Anna Marie Roos, Ph.D., F.L.S. The Lister Research Fellow Honorary Secretary, The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry History Faculty, University of Oxford Old Boys' High School, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL Email: anna.roos@history.ox.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:16:18 +0000 From: Jennifer Kelly Subject: Digital Humanities Research Seminar at NUI Maynooth Dear Humanists, The final AFF Digital Humanities Research Seminar for this semester will be delivered by Dr Justin Tonra, Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, The Moore Institute, NUI Galway on Wednesday 05 December 2012. The title of the seminar is 'Forcing serendipity: computing and literary criticism' and it will be held at the usual time of 3pm in the Seminar Room at An Foras Feasa. All are very welcome to attend. 'Forcing serendipity: computing and literary criticism.' Literary criticism has often used serendipitous discovery as the basis from which to make a critical judgment or argument. Do the digital tools that are now available for text analysis provide a means of generating such serendipity? Does this circumstance necessitate a re-thinking of the scope and responsibilities of literary hermeneutics? How does it influence the relationship of textual part to textual whole, and how both are interpreted? Ultimately, can computing and literary criticism complement one another in the task of articulating the meaning in a text, or are the two practices irreconcilable? This seminar will address these topics as they arise in a particular study of the roles of influence and imitation in poetry of the Romantic period. Justin Tonra is an Irish Research Council CARA Postdoctoral Fellow in English at NUI Galway. His research interests are in Book History, Textual Studies, and Nineteenth-Century Literature. Within the Digital Humanities field, he is interested in encoding literary texts, scholarly editions for the web, and algorithmic criticism. Justin has previously held research positions at University College London and the University of Virginia. All best wishes, Jennifer. Dr Jennifer Kelly Project Officer An Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions NUI Maynooth 353 (0)1 4747105 Jennifer.Kelly@nuim.ie --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:36:53 +0000 From: Owen Williams Subject: Early Modern Digital Agendas at the Folger Institute In July 2013, the Folger Institute will offer "Early Modern Digital Agendas" under the direction of Jonathan Hope, Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Strathclyde. It is an NEH-funded, three-week institute that will explore the robust set of digital tools with period-specific challenges and limitations that literary scholars of early modern English now have at hand. "Early Modern Digital Agendas" will create a forum in which twenty faculty participants can historicize, theorize, and critically evaluate current and future digital approaches to early modern literary studies-from Early English Books Online-Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) to advanced corpus linguistics, semantic searching, and visualization theory-with discussion growing out of, and feeding back into, their own projects (current and envisaged). With the guidance of expert visiting faculty, attention will be paid to the ways new technologies are shaping the very nature of early modern research and the means by which scholars interpret texts, teach their students, and present their findings to other scholars. This institute is supported by an Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Office of Digital Humanities. Please visit http://emdigitalagendas.folger.edu/ for more details. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:29:19 +0000 From: S B Cooper Subject: CiE 2013: The Nature of Computation, Milan, Italy, July 1-5, 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS: CiE 2013: The Nature of Computation Logic, Algorithms, Applications Milan, Italy July 1 - 5, 2013 http://cie2013.disco.unimib.it IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline for LNCS: 20 January 2013 Notification of authors: 4 March 2013 Deadline for final revisions: 1 April 2013 CiE 2013 is the ninth conference organised by CiE (Computability in Europe), a European association of mathematicians, logicians, computer scientists, philosophers, physicists and others interested in new developments in computability and their underlying significance for the real world. Previous meetings have taken place in Amsterdam (2005), Swansea (2006), Siena (2007), Athens (2008), Heidelberg (2009), Ponte Dalgada (2010), Sofia (2011) and Cambridge (2012). The Nature of Computation is meant to emphasize the special focus of CIE13 on the unexpected and strong changes that studies on Nature have brought in several areas of mathematics, physics, and computer science. Starting from Alan Turing, research on Nature with a computational perspective has produced novel contributions, giving rise even to new disciplines. Two complementary research perspectives pervade the Nature of Computation theme. One is focused on the understanding of new computational paradigms inspired by the processes occurring in the biological world, while focusing on a deeper and modern understanding of the theory of computation. The other perspective is on our understanding of how computations really occur in Nature, on how we can interact with those computations, and on their applications. CiE 2013 conference topics include, but not exclusively: * Admissible sets * Algorithms * Analog computation * Artificial intelligence * Automata theory * Bioinformatics * Classical computability and degree structures * Cognitive science and modelling * Complexity classes * Computability theoretic aspects of programs * Computable analysis and real computation * Computable structures and models * Computational and proof complexity * Computational biology * Computational creativity * Computational learning and complexity * Computational linguistics * Concurrency and distributed computation * Constructive mathematics * Cryptographic complexity * Decidability of theories * Derandomization * DNA computing * Domain theory and computability * Dynamical systems and computational models * Effective descriptive set theory * Emerging and Non-standard Models of Computation * Finite model theory * Formal aspects of program analysis * Formal methods * Foundations of computer science * Games * Generalized recursion theory * History of computation * Hybrid systems * Higher type computability * Hypercomputational models * Infinite time Turing machines * Kolmogorov complexity * Lambda and combinatory calculi * L-systems and membrane computation * Machine learning * Mathematical models of emergence * Molecular computation * Morphogenesis and developmental biology * Multi-agent systems * Natural Computation * Neural nets and connectionist models * Philosophy of science and computation * Physics and computability * Probabilistic systems * Process algebras and concurrent systems * Programming language semantics * Proof mining and applications * Proof theory and computability * Proof complexity * Quantum computing and complexity * Randomness * Reducibilities and relative computation * Relativistic computation * Reverse mathematics * Semantics and logic of computation * Swarm intelligence and self-organisation * Type systems and type theory * Uncertain Reasoning * Weak systems of arithmetic and applications We particularly welcome submissions in emergent areas, such as bioinformatics and natural computation, where they have a basic connection with computability. Contributed papers will be selected from submissions received by the PROGRAM COMMITTEE consisting of: * Gerard Alberts (Amsterdam) * Luis Antunes (Porto) * Arnold Beckmann (Swansea) * Laurent Bienvenu (Paris) * Paola Bonizzoni (Milan, co-chair) * Vasco Brattka (Munich and Cape Town, co-chair) * Cameron Buckner (Houston TX) * Bruno Codenotti (Pisa) * Stephen Cook (Toronto ON) * Barry Cooper (Leeds) * Ann Copestake (Cambridge) * Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Budapest) * Anuj Dawar (Cambridge) * Gianluca Della Vedova (Milan) * Liesbeth De Mol (Gent) * Jerome Durand-Lose (Orleans) * Viv Kendon (Leeds) * Bjoern Kjos-Hanssen (Honolulu, HI) * Antonina Kolokolova (St. John's NF) * Benedikt Loewe (Amsterdam) * Giancarlo Mauri (Milan) * Rolf Niedermeier (Berlin) * Geoffrey Pullum (Edinburgh) * Nicole Schweikardt (Frankfurt) * Sonja Smets (Amsterdam) * Susan Stepney (York) * S. P. Suresh (Chennai) * Peter van Emde Boas (Amsterdam) The PROGRAMME COMMITTEE cordially invites all researchers (European and non-European) in computability related areas to submit their papers (in PDF format, max 10 pages using the LNCS style) for presentation at CiE 2013. The submission site https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cie2013 is open. We particularly invite papers that build bridges between different parts of the research community. The CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS will be published by LNCS, Springer Verlag. Contact: Paola Bonizzoni - bonizzoni at disco.unimib.it Website: http://cie2013.disco.unimib.it ************************************************************************ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5DF116119; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:03:08 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 914442E0A; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:03:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7DEFE6093; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:03:05 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121130070305.7DEFE6093@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:03:05 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.536 on computational stylistics & so much more X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 536. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:39:57 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: computational stylistics Some here, possibly (as I hope) many, will profit greatly from an article that has just appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly 63.3 (Fall 2012), John Burrows, "A Second Opinion on 'Shakespeare and Authorship Studies in the Twenty-First Century', pp. 355-92. It is a reply to a review article by Brian Vickers as referenced, in SQ 62 (2011): 106-42. For someone like myself who does not follow Shakespeare studies closely the great value of Burrows' article is its thorough exposition of computational stylistics for the non-specialist. For those who are not concerned with that specialism, its importance is as groundwork to the mounting evidence, as Burrows has written elsewhere, that literary style is probabilistic. And that, in my opinion, should have us all pondering what we think our human nature is. But here I verge on a long and complex argument not suitable to the brief exchanges in this medium. I'm working on getting this argument published, but for now I must leave you with your own conclusions about the emerging probabilistic evidence. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C35806122; Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:25:54 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23F3E608E; Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:25:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 48BE52E0D; Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:25:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121201092552.48BE52E0D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:25:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.537 Vickers and Burrows in SQ 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. 537. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:21:11 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: 26.536 on computational stylistics & so much more In-Reply-To: <20121130070305.7DEFE6093@digitalhumanities.org> Il 30/11/2012 08:03, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > Some here, possibly (as I hope) many, will profit greatly from an > article that has just appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly 63.3 (Fall > 2012), John Burrows, "A Second Opinion on 'Shakespeare and Authorship > Studies in the Twenty-First Century', pp. 355-92. It is a reply to a > review article by Brian Vickers as referenced, in SQ 62 (2011): 106-42. > For someone like myself who does not follow Shakespeare studies closely > the great value of Burrows' article is its thorough exposition of > computational stylistics for the non-specialist. ... is it (are they) available online? maurizio ------- il mio corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7677B612B; Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:26:19 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B06136124; Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:26:18 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EAA3C6123; Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:26:15 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121201092615.EAA3C6123@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:26:15 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.538 URIs for classics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 538. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:12:52 +0100 From: Jonathan Gray Subject: Re: 26.529 URIs for classics? In-Reply-To: <20121129095714.E1E315EDB@digitalhumanities.org> Hi Neven, This is something that we've been thinking a lot about in relation to our TEXTUS project [1] at the Open Knowledge Foundation [2]. I've also written several pieces about some of the problems and issues that I've experienced as a humanities researcher here: http://jonathangray.org/2012/02/14/the-citation-conundrum/ http://jonathangray.org/2012/05/28/on-making-digital-editions-of-public-domain-works-for-teaching-and-research/ I'd love to hear more about what others have done in this area! All the best, Jonathan [1] See: http://textusproject.org/ and http://jonathangray.org/2011/12/08/textus-an-open-source-platform-for-working-with-collections-of-texts-and-metadata/ [2] http://okfn.org/ -- Jonathan Gray http://jonathangray.org/ | @jwyg http://twitter.com/jwyg The Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/ | @okfn http://twitter.com/okfn Support our work: okfn.org/support On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 529. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:30:44 +0100 > From: Neven_Jovanović > Subject: URIs for classics? > > Hello, > > a question on a digital humanities related list -- it was about > pointing to precise line, scene, and act of Shakespeare's plays > somewhere on the internet -- got me thinking about "canonical" digital > versions of classical works in WWW. > > What versions of the Bible, Dante, Goethe, Montaigne, Cervantes do you > know of, that have a system, or a scheme, enabling us to refer to > their passages from the outside? That make possible e. g. to let a > quotation in one text refer to a reliable manifestation of its source, > or to refer our students, or our readers, to a digital source of a > quotation we give them (e. g. in teaching materials published on the > internet). > > Yes, I am aware that the "canonicality" of such a source would in many > aspects be a chimera, as well as its "reliably manifesting" a source. > But still, it would be nice to know that people have made their > digital editions URI-referrable. > > I know that something along these lines exists for e. g. ancient Greek > and Latin literature, as "Citation URIs" and "Citation URNs" for > Perseus Digital Library texts. And the Internet Shakespeare Editions > by the University of Victoria have also been mentioned; this > publication enables precise ponters such as: > > http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/Ham/EM/scene/3.2#tln-1855 > (even though I couldn't find the documentation for this feature on > their site). > > But I don't know about other important authors and works. > > Best, > > Neven > > Neven Jovanovic > Zagreb, Hrvatska / Croatia > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: > http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 08ECA6130; Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:26:49 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 442326129; Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:26:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A5827611E; Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:26:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121201092647.A5827611E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:26:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.539 OpenEdition readers? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 539. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:02:28 +0100 From: Marin Dacos Subject: Who are you, OpenEdition readers? Dear colleagues, With over three million visits per month to its platforms, OpenEdition has become an important actor in humanities and social sciences publishing portal, all thanks to you. In 2009, our first survey gave us a chance to identify the Revues.org http://www.revues.org readership, and you shared your ideas and expectations with us. 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The online questionnaire only takes a few minutes to fill in and the OpenEdition team is very grateful for your participation: French : https://survey.openedition.org/index.php?sid=88343&lang=fr English : https://survey.openedition.org/index.php?sid=88343&lang=en Spanish : https://survey.openedition.org/index.php?sid=88343&lang=es Portuguese : https://survey.openedition.org/index.php?sid=88343&lang=pt Best regards, Marin Dacos -- Marin Dacos - http://www.openedition.org Director - Centre for Open Electronic Publishing ** OpenEdition is now a Facility of Excellence (Equipex) ** ** New email : marin.dacos@openedition.org ** CNRS - EHESS - Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) - Université d'Avignon 3, place Victor Hugo, Case n°86, 13331 Marseille Cedex 3 - France Tél : 04 13 55 03 40 Tél. direct : 04 13 55 03 39 Fax : 04 13 55 03 41 Skype : marin.dacos - Gmail video chat : marin.dacos@gmail.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/#!/marindacos _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BCAC5612F; Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:27:56 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E5CA611C; Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:27:56 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EF386608E; Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:27:53 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121201092753.EF386608E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:27:53 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.540 job at Alberta X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 540. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:14:43 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: FW: CWRC Metadata coordinator position In-Reply-To: > From: Susan Brown > > Date: Friday, 30 November, 2012 7:08 AM > Subject: Re: CWRC Metadata coordinator position The Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory is seeking a Data Integrity and Metadata Manager in Edmonton. We're looking for someone with a combination of understanding of metadata standards, technical savvy, and an interest in building innovative research infrastructure. http://www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/S110419248/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D03856130; Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:29:39 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2AFD6129; Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:29:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B27EE611C; Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:29:36 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121201092936.B27EE611C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:29:36 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.541 events: sound; literary criticism X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 541. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (28) Subject: AFF Digital Humanities Research Seminar 5 December - Dr Justin Tonra [2] From: Tanya Clement (7) Subject: CFP: High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship NEH Institute --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:17:23 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: AFF Digital Humanities Research Seminar 5 December - Dr Justin Tonra The final AFF Digital Humanities Research Seminar for this semester will be delivered by Dr Justin Tonra, Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, The Moore Institute, NUI Galway on Wednesday 05 December 2012. The title of the seminar is 'Forcing serendipity: computing and literary criticism' and it will be held at the usual time of 3pm in the Seminar Room at An Foras Feasa. All are very welcome to attend. 'Forcing serendipity: computing and literary criticism.' Literary criticism has often used serendipitous discovery as the basis from which to make a critical judgment or argument. Do the digital tools that are now available for text analysis provide a means of generating such serendipity? Does this circumstance necessitate a re-thinking of the scope and responsibilities of literary hermeneutics? How does it influence the relationship of textual part to textual whole, and how both are interpreted? Ultimately, can computing and literary criticism complement one another in the task of articulating the meaning in a text, or are the two practices irreconcilable? This seminar will address these topics as they arise in a particular study of the roles of influence and imitation in poetry of the Romantic period. Justin Tonra is an Irish Research Council CARA Postdoctoral Fellow in English at NUI Galway. His research interests are in Book History, Textual Studies, and Nineteenth-Century Literature. Within the Digital Humanities field, he is interested in encoding literary texts, scholarly editions for the web, and algorithmic criticism. Justin has previously held research positions at University College London and the University of Virginia. All best wishes, Jennifer. Dr Jennifer Kelly Project Officer An Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions NUI Maynooth 353 (0)1 4747105 Jennifer.Kelly@nuim.ie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:17:59 -0600 From: Tanya Clement Subject: CFP: High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship NEH Institute The HiPSTAS (High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship) project invites applications for its 2013 NEH-funded Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities. The first meeting is May 29 - June 1, in Austin, TX. We encourage a diverse range of librarians, archivists, scholars (including graduate students), and cultural heritage professionals from all types of institutions, disciplinary backgrounds, and expertise, who are interested in working with sound collections and technologies to apply. Members of the American Indian community, in particular, are strongly urged to apply. For more information, please visit http://blogs.ischool.utexas.edu/hipstas/ Tanya Clement Assistant Professor, School of Information University of Texas, Austin tclement@ischool.utexas.edu 512.232.2980 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1D2C06136; Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:32:34 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 353006131; Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:32:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 87D11611C; Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:32:31 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121201093231.87D11611C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:32:31 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.542 pub: Archive Journal 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. 542. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:23:59 -0600 From: Lauren Coats Subject: Archive Journal, Issue 2 The second issue of Archive Journal, focused on undergraduates in the archives, is available online: www.archivejournal.net. What happens in the archival laboratory, a place where students are actively involved in research, stewardship, publication, and exhibits? The new issue addresses this question through case studies featuring students' archive-based projects, a roundtable discussion about the practicalities and value of incorporating archival work into the undergraduate experience, and more. The case studies and discussions showcase students' involvement in creating digital archives and with using digital technologies in archives and special collections. Archive Journal provides a forum for critical reflection on the academic community's deep investments in the selection, description, preservation, digitization, and use of materials in special collections and archives. Read more about the journal here: http://www.archivejournal.net/home/about/. -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 81230E3C; Wed, 5 Dec 2012 14:18:01 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ABE1EB2; Wed, 5 Dec 2012 14:17:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5BDE9E8D; Mon, 3 Dec 2012 07:13:36 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121203061336.5BDE9E8D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 07:13:36 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.543 crowd-sourcing the curriculum? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 543. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 18:12:56 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Crowd sourcing project for our "Intro to digital humanities" course In-Reply-To: <59C42D39-AE41-4973-902B-2984CBA0A3F6@hamilton.edu> > From: Janet Simons > > Date: Friday, 30 November, 2012 1:49 PM > Subject: Re: Crowd sourcing project for our "Intro to digital humanities" course Dear Colleagues, Hi! Hope everyone is well as we begin to wrap up (or in some cases begin) our semesters. We are trying an experiment in our new "Introduction to Digital Humanities" course and attempting to crowd-source and geo-locate information about teaching approaches in the humanities. Our students are asking the question, "Which of the following methodologies are you currently using to teach students in the humanities?" Our students have created a crowd-map using Ushahidi and we are sending you this linkin hopes that you or your colleagues may be able to provide data for our project: https://hamiltonintrodh.crowdmap.com/ We will share the results with everyone at the end of the semester in late Dec. Please forward this to anyone you think might be able to provide our students with data. We thank you in advance! Best wishes for the holidays! Janet Simons & Angel David Nieves Co-Directors, Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) Which of the following methodologies are you currently using to teach students in the humanities? * Archive or Collection Development * Cultural Analytics or Text Analytics * Crowdsourcing * Geospatial Techniques * Virtual Worlds, 3D Modeling, and/or Games * Other? Please include examples as URLs or by uploading documents to www.dropitto.me/dhiHamiltonCollege http://www.dropitto.me/dhiHamiltonCollege use the password “crowdsource.” Thank you! -- Janet Thomas Simons Assoc. Dir. Instructional Technology Co-Director Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) http://www.dhinitiative.org/ 315-859-4424 jsimons@hamilton.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,DATE_IN_PAST_06_12 autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DCC3BEAD; Wed, 5 Dec 2012 14:18:10 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B6AC741; Wed, 5 Dec 2012 14:18:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 621175FF7; Wed, 5 Dec 2012 07:07:11 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121205060711.621175FF7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 07:07:11 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.544 a puzzling silence X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 544. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:06:31 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a puzzling silence Dear colleagues, For the last two days there have been no messages received by the Humanist I see. This silence is so unusual that I suspect a fault somewhere in the newly rejigged software. If you have sent a message to Humanist within the last 2-3 days please let me know directly, to willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk, so that I can make a credible complaint to those who can make a difference. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D3B7FE53; Wed, 5 Dec 2012 23:58:41 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32492E3A; Wed, 5 Dec 2012 23:58:41 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1D9C9E3A; Wed, 5 Dec 2012 23:58:40 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121205225840.1D9C9E3A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 23:58:40 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.545 Humanist down, now (I hope) up X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 545. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:50:53 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanist down Dear colleagues, Humanist has been down since 1 December. I am advised that all should be well now, and that messages sent in the last few days should be coming through. If yours doesn't, please send again. Alas, there is no way to inform everyone that Humanist is down when it is. Such is the logic of things. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 37CAE115B; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:06:33 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FD62E44; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:06:29 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 09C72E41; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:06:26 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121206100627.09C72E41@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:06:26 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.546 bash scripting? print collection usage? 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Patrick Durusau (27) Subject: ....Print Collection Usage,Cornell University Library [2] From: "James O'Sullivan" (22) Subject: Bash Scripting for Digital Humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:03:36 -0500 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: ....Print Collection Usage,Cornell University Library Willard, The full title reads: "Report of the Collection Development Executive Committee Task Force on Print Collection Usage Cornell University Library" (2010). In part it reports that 55% of the collection at Cornell from 1990 to 2010, has never circulated. http://staffweb.library.cornell.edu/system/files/CollectionUsageTF_ReportFinal11-22-10.pdf The report does not reach a conclusion based upon that observation but from the tone of the report, I suspect further investigations were to follow. Have been similar studies of circulation elsewhere? Hope you are having a great week! Patrick PS: I am not suggesting any conclusion could be drawn from an isolated data point, even if it occurs quite frequently. On the other hand, it may be a marker of an interesting area for investigation. -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) 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: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 08:33:34 +0000 From: "James O'Sullivan" Subject: Bash Scripting for Digital Humanities Dear all, I'm wondering if bash scripting is a worthwhile approach to "tool" development in the Digital Humanities? I have been playing around with various scripts for text processing etc etc - not for anything in specific, just to pass the time and brush up on a few things - and I'm wondering if other digital humanists would ever use them? If not, I'd prefer to use a more common scripting / programming language, as I don't like to produce code that doesn't have the best possible potential for reuse. Thoughts? All the very best, James -- *James O'Sullivan * @jamescosullivan http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan ** Web: josullivan.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan http://twitter.com/#%21/jamescosullivan LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan http://www.linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan Facebook: http://facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan http://www.facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan New Binary Press: http://newbinarypress.com/ OpenDAHT: http://opendaht.org/ Submit to *The Weary Blues*: http://thewearyblues.org/submit.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BFE502D67; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:08:12 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B60BDE48; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:08:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 67878E44; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:08:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121206100809.67878E44@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:08:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.547 nominations for aaDH Exec X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 547. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:11:59 +1100 From: Craig Bellamy Subject: Call for nominations for 3 new aaDH Executive Committee positions Dear Humanist, The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) invites nominations for three new Executive Committee positions. The Association seeks to elect *three Ordinary Members* for 3-year terms beginning in 2013. To be eligible, candidates must be current members of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities and willing to advance the field of the Digital Humanities in the region by assisting in the decision making within the aaDH. This includes decisions about how to spend its funding, conference facilitation, and other activities. Early Career Researchers and post-graduate researchers are warmly encouraged to apply. The aaDH is a member of the international umbrella group, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO), and has close ties to the international Digital Humanities community. Committee members meet by Skype and have ongoing email discussions throughout the year. Nominations by current members should be sent to the Secretariat, aaDH, secretariat@aa-dh.org by *18 December 2012*. Please provide a brief (300-word) biographical statement listing your qualifications and work within the Digital Humanities (and we especially welcome an individual who is willing to work as Treasurer of the Association). You may nominate yourself or another. If you nominate another, please confirm with your nominee that s/he is willing to serve and be sure to include their biographical statement and any other required information. The nominations must be endorsed by the aaDH Executive Committee and it will determine the final number of nominees for the three positions on the ballot. The election process will begin soon after the due date for nominations. Please see the Aims and Rules of the Association here: http://aa-dh.org/aim/ . A listing of current members of the Committee is at http://aa-dh.org/comm/. This message is sent to current and prospective aaDH members on behalf of the aaDH Executive Committee. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 06E882D6D; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:09:20 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EED62D67; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:09:20 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A6E7FE48; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:09:18 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121206100918.A6E7FE48@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:09:18 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.548 personal histories 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. 548. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 12:44:27 +0000 From: Tom Brughmans Subject: Personal Histories of CAA film Hi all, We are delighted to announce that the Personal Histories of the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology conference (CAA) film has been edited and is available on the CAA website and Personal Histories project's website: http://caaconference.org/about/history/ http://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/750864 The 2012 edition at Southampton was the 40th anniversary of the CAA conference. We celebrated this event with the “Personal Histories of CAA” session held at the CAA conference venue on Wednesday 28 March, from 2pm to 4pm. At this celebratory session the founders, former chairs and key members of CAA throughout the last 4 decades shared their personal experiences with us. We were honoured that for this event we were able to welcome to Southampton Sue Laflin, Phil Barker, Clive Orton, John Wilcock, Nick Ryan, Paul Reilly and Hans Kamermans, as well as listen to an interview with Irwin Scollar. The session was moderated by the current chair of CAA, Gary Lock. The contributors discussed the advances in the field of archaeological computing fostered by the CAA as well as many personal social experiences. We hope you enjoy this film and the many personal anecdotes it contains. We hope the next 40 years will be equally exciting. Tom Brughmans, Gareth Beale, Pamela Jane Smith Archaeological Computing Research Group University of Southampton McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research University of Cambridge _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0B9282D70; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:10:41 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DD3F1154; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:10:41 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A00B0E44; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:10:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121206101038.A00B0E44@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:10:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.549 events: methods in libraries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 549. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 09:37:48 +0000 From: kcl - digitalhumanities Subject: cfp QQML2013, 5th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference In-Reply-To: <229D68F497124CAF88439D25F313F6CC@giorgosPC> > From: "Secretariat@isast.org" > Date: Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:43 > Subject: cfp QQML2013, 5th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference We invite you to submit a paper /abstract /poster /workshop to the 5th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2013), 4 - 7 June 2013, “La Sapienza” University, Rome Italy. Abstract submission deadline: 20 December 2012. * If you already have submitted your contribution ignore this message. However, you can visit the QQML Journal at: http://www.qqml.net/ Dear Colleagues, It is our great pleasure to announce the 5thQualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2013)at4 - 7 June 2013, “La Sapienza” University, Rome Italy: http://www.isast.org/qqml2013.html Since 2009 QQML has provided an excellent framework for the presentation of new trends and developments in every aspect of Library and Information Science, Technology, Applications and Research. The 5th QQML2013 was scheduled during the previous 4th QQML2012 Conference. It was also decided that the 6thQQML 2014 International Conference will be organized in Istanbul, Turkey. QQML2009, QQML2010, QQML2011 and QQML2012 were successful events both from the number and quality of the presentations and from the post conference publications in Journals and Books. QQML2013 will continue and expand the related topics. Papers are invited for this international conference. The conference will consider, but not be limited to, the following indicative themes: 1. Bibliographic Control 2. Bibliometric Research 3. Change of Libraries and Managerial techniques 4. Changes in Learning, Research and Information needs and Behaviour of Users 5. Climate Change Data 6. Communication Strategies 7. Data Analysis and Data Mining 8. Development and Assessment of Digital Repositories 9. Development of Information and Knowledge Services on the Public Library 10. Digital Libraries 11. Economic Co-operation and Development 12. Energy Data and Information 13. Environmental Assessment 14. Financial strength and sustainability 15. Health information services 16. Historical and Comparative case studies related to Librarianship 17. Information and Data on various aspects of Food and Agriculture 18. Information and Knowledge Services 19. Information Literacy: Information sharing, Democracy and Lifelong Learning 20. Library Cooperation: Problems and Challenges at the beginning of the 21st century 21. Library change and Technology 22. Management 23. Marketing 24. Museums, Libraries and Cultural Organizations 25. Music Librarianship 26. Performance Measurement and Competitiveness 27. Publications 28. Quality evaluation and promotion of info 29. Technology & Innovations in Libraries and their Impact on Learning, Research and Users 30. Technology transfer and Innovation in Library management Special Sessions – Workshops You may send proposals for Special Sessions (4-6 papers) or Workshops (more than 2 sessions) including the title and a brief description at: secretariat@isast.org or from the electronic submission at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractregistration.html You may also send Abstracts/Papers to be included in the following sessions, to new sessions or as contributed papers at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractregistration.html Contributions may be realized through one of the following ways a. structured abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) and presentation; b. full papers (not exceeding 7,000 words); c. posters (not exceeding 2,500 words); d. visual presentations (Pechakucha). These presentations consist of exactly 20 slides, each of which is displayed for 20 seconds. Total presentation time is precisely 6 minutes 40 seconds and so it is important to use the transition feature in PowerPoint to time your presentation exactly. In all the above cases at least one of the authors ought to be registered in the conference. Abstracts and full papers should be submitted electronically within the timetable provided in the web page: http://www.isast.org/importantdates.html The abstracts and full papers should be in compliance to the author guidelines: http://www.isast.org/abstractregistration.html All abstracts will be published in the Conference Book of Abstracts and in the website of the Conference. The papers of the conference will be published in the website of the conference, after the permission of the author(s). Student submissions Professors and Supervisors are encouraged to organize conference sessions of Postgraduate theses and dissertations. Please direct any questions regarding the QQML 2013 Conference and Student Research Presentations to: the secretariat of the conference at: secretariat@isast.org On behalf of the Conference Committee Dr. Anthi Katsirikou, Conference Co-Chair University of Piraeus Library Director Head, European Documentation Center Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information Professionals anthi@asmda.com Professor Carla Basili, Local Co-Chair EnIL - The European network on Information Literacy, co-ordinator Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Istituto di Ricerca sull'Impresa e lo Sviluppo sede di Roma via dei Taurini, 19 - 00185 Roma, Italy _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9CEAE2D6B; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:34:08 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD97115B; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:34:06 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 98BF51154; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:34:05 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121206103405.98BF51154@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:34:05 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.550 events: Loudon exhibition; Biblical, early Jewish & Christian studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 550. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Claire Clivaz (8) Subject: Call for papers in Biblical studies, Early Jewish and Christian Studies [2] From: Doug Reside (12) Subject: NYPL's Dorothy Loudon digital exhibit --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 14:55:13 +0100 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Call for papers in Biblical studies, Early Jewish and Christian Studies Dear all, David Hamidovic (Judaism, Lausanne), Juan Garces (DH, Göttingen) and myself (New Testament, Lausanne) are happy to signal to you two call for papers on Digital Humanities in Biblical studies, Early Jewish and Christian Studies at: - St-Andrews (UK), SBL international meeting, 7-11 July 2013 http://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPaperDetails.aspx?MeetingId=22&VolunteerUnitId=595 - Leipzig (D), EABS meeting, 30 July- 2 August 2013 http://www.eabs.net/site/research-groups/general/digital-humanities-in-biblical-studies-early-jewish-and-christian-studies/ The deadlines are on the 1st of February 2013. Kind greetings Claire Clivaz --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 11:07:44 -0500 From: Doug Reside Subject: NYPL's Dorothy Loudon digital exhibit Some on this list may be interested in the online Dorothy Loudon exhibit which I've curated and which has just launched at: http://exhibitions.nypl.org/dorothyloudon Dorothy Loudon played Miss Hannigan in the original Broadway production of ANNIE. This exhibit includes digitized copies of her rehearsal scripts for ANNIE and it's ill-fated sequel (I kid you not): ANNIE 2: MISS HANNIGAN'S REVENGE! We also have a streaming recording of a 1959 performance at the Tamiment Playhouse which features very early work by the likes of Woody Allen, Fred Ebb, and Jonathan Tunick. Let me know what you think. Doug _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EB1E72D75; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:34:34 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 021802D6D; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:34:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EE30F2D6E; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:34:31 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121206103431.EE30F2D6E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:34:31 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.551 Juxta Commons online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 551. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 15:55:43 -0500 From: Andrew Stauffer Subject: Juxta Commons: online collation competition The NINES http://nines.org team at the University of Virginia is pleased to announce the beta version of Juxta Commons http://juxtacommons.org , now up and running at http://juxtacommons.org Free and open source, Juxta Commons http://juxtacommons.org is an online workspace for comparing multiple versions of a single textual work and sharing visualizations of differences. Many of you may already be familiar with Juxta as a desktop client for textual collation: we have now moved it to the web, in order to allow for easier use and rapid sharing and publication of your results. To that end, we are proposing a CHALLENGE: CREATE and SHARE a collation set and get the MOST UNIQUE VIEWS in one month. You'll win a lovely Juxta Commons commuter coffee mug, plus fame and glory. We will be keeping track via analytics, and we will announce the winner in early January. Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ integration should help you share your collation set, or you can simply forward the shared URL to the world. You can even embed your collation in a webpage or blog posting to ensure more traffic! For example, here is a Juxta Commons collation set comparing two versions of the American Declaration of Independence: http://juxtacommons.org/shares/yY6Wrj Remember that we are still in beta and are particularly interested in load-testing the site, so bear with us if you experience slow-downs. You can send us feedback and bug reports via our Google Group here: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!forum/juxta-dev, or you can send email to technologies@nines.org You can find instructions on how to use Juxta Commons on the site:http://www.juxtacommons.org/take_tour Here is the announcement of the competition on the Juxta Software blog: http://www.juxtasoftware.org/juxta-commons-sharing-competition/ Good luck and thanks for your input! Andy Andrew Stauffer Director, NINES (http://nines.org) Department of English University of Virginia _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9A8602DAD; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:34:47 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2C4E2DA5; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:34:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3E0532D9C; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:34:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121207063445.3E0532D9C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:34:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.552 events: educating curators X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 552. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 13:23:03 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Seminar Professor Michael Moss, Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, University of Glasgow, will give a Department of Digital Humanities seminar on Tuesday 11 December at 6.15pm on ‘Educating Curators for the Twenty-First Century’. The seminar will be held in Room S. -3.01 (the third basement level) in the Strand Building, King’s College London. Refreshments will be served after the seminar and all are welcome. Michael Moss is professor of archival studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow, where he directs the MSc in Information Management and Preservation. He is a non-executive director of the National Archives of Scotland and a member of the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Council on National Records and Archives. He has written widely on archival and historical subjects. His recent publications include: (with James Currall and Susan Stuart) 'Authenticity: a red herring?', Journal of Applied Logic 6(4), 2008; (with James Currall) 'Managing digital assets', Marcia J. Bates and Mary Niles Maack, eds. Encyclopaedia of Library and Information Sciences, Taylor and Francis, 2010; 'Without the data, the tools are useless; without the software, the data is unmanageable'?, Journal of Society of Archivists, April 2010; and 'Brussels Sprouts and Empire: putting down roots', in Dan O'Brien (ed.), The Philosophy of Gardening, Blackwell Wylie, 2010. -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9CEA82DAE; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:37:20 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD8702D9C; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:37:19 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 13F152D9C; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:37:18 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121207063718.13F152D9C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:37:18 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.553 bash scripting X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 553. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Desmond Schmidt (57) Subject: Re: 26.546 bash scripting? [2] From: James Smith (34) Subject: Re: 26.546 bash scripting? print collection usage? [3] From: Mark LeBlanc (12) Subject: Re: 26.546 bash scripting? print collection usage? [4] From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it (12) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.546 bash scripting? print collection usage? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 21:17:19 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 26.546 bash scripting? Hi James, I find that bash scripts tend to become unmanageable beyond a certain length. They have limited facilities for string-handling and code structuring. However, I still find them useful for automating small tasks, gathering simple user input and combining existing tools to produce a result. For example, you could write a simple script to extract columns from a document, or to install an application. But I wouldn't use them for serious tool building in the humanities. Like most people, humanists have a strong distaste for the commandline. The audience has to be someone who likes scripts, such as other developers, or just yourself. Desmond Schmidt eResearch, ITEE University of Queensland, Australia > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 08:33:34 +0000 > From: "James O'Sullivan" > Subject: Bash Scripting for Digital Humanities > > > Dear all, > > I'm wondering if bash scripting is a worthwhile approach to "tool" > development in the Digital Humanities? > > I have been playing around with various scripts for text processing etc etc > - not for anything in specific, just to pass the time and brush up on a few > things - and I'm wondering if other digital humanists would ever use them? > If not, I'd prefer to use a more common scripting / programming language, > as I don't like to produce code that doesn't have the best possible > potential for reuse. > > Thoughts? > > All the very best, > James > > -- > *James O'Sullivan * > @jamescosullivan http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan ** > Web: josullivan.org > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan http://twitter.com/#%21/jamescosullivan > LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan http://www.linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan > Facebook: http://facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan http://www.facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan > > New Binary Press: http://newbinarypress.com/ > OpenDAHT: http://opendaht.org/ > Submit to *The Weary Blues*: http://thewearyblues.org/submit.html --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 08:15:46 -0500 From: James Smith Subject: Re: 26.546 bash scripting? print collection usage? In-Reply-To: <20121206100627.09C72E41@digitalhumanities.org> James, Perhaps this might be a helpful resource? http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s06.html The page discusses some of the history and design of the UNIX environment. It gives a more nuanced answer than a simple yes or no to your question of using bash. -- Jim --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 08:56:05 -0500 From: Mark LeBlanc Subject: Re: 26.546 bash scripting? print collection usage? In-Reply-To: <20121206100627.09C72E41@digitalhumanities.org> RE: Subject: Bash Scripting for Digital Humanities while i enjoy writing bash scripts, i will argue against it, especially given your note about potential usability; i've scripted for many years ... and i while i have no interest in "best language wars" (or even prolonged exchanges on the topic) ... i must say that Python is very impressive; from teaching novices to personally using it for most of my genomics and text analysis research needs, Python is an excellent choice; (note: the caveat is of course if i need a statistical technique, e.g., cluster analysis or classification ... then to 'R' i turn) Mark LeBlanc --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 16:45:34 +0100 (CET) From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.546 bash scripting? print collection usage? In-Reply-To: <20121206100627.09C72E41@digitalhumanities.org> answering J. O'Sullivan question about bash scripts, I would certainly recommend them as (in my opinion) the only serious way to treat texts; I myself have written many of them to form a database of Coptic literary texts and to analyse the syntactis structure of those texts. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tito Orlandi (olim Univ. di Roma La Sapienza) Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare Beniamino Segre - Roma Hiob Ludolf Zentrum (Asien-Afrika-Institut, Univ. Hamburg) Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, Roma http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,FM_SCHOOLING, LOTS_OF_MONEY,URIBL_DBL_REDIR autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1995F2DA4; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:39:00 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CA462DA3; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:38:59 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3B5E12D9C; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:38:57 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121207063857.3B5E12D9C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:38:57 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.554 job at Calgary; postdoc at Leeds X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 554. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Michael Ullyot (8) Subject: Job: Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities, University of Calgary [2] From: Graeme Gooday (28) Subject: JOB: University of Leeds, AHRC Postdoctoral Researcher. Project: Innovating in Combat - telecommunications and intellectual property in the First World War --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 09:11:33 -0700 From: Michael Ullyot Subject: Job: Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities, University of Calgary The Department of English at the University of Calgary invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, effective July 1, 2013. We are seeking candidates with a completed PhD in English or a closely related discipline, a demonstrated scholarly record, intellectual breadth and flexibility, and expertise in Digital Humanities research such as text analysis (algorithmic criticism, corpus linguistics), data visualization, tool development, data curation/mining, GIS, digital editing, social media/networked knowledge. The successful applicant will be able to contribute to the teaching needs of the Department at all levels and will be an active member of the Digital Arts and Humanities working group. Details: < bit.ly/RCTo9L > Deadline: January 31, 2013 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Michael Ullyot, Assistant Professor Department of English, University of Calgary ullyot.ucalgaryblogs.ca/ | @ullyot | 403.220.4656 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 18:47:24 +0000 From: Graeme Gooday Subject: JOB: University of Leeds, AHRC Postdoctoral Researcher. Project: Innovating in Combat - telecommunications and intellectual property in the First World War AHRC Postdoctoral Researcher School of Philosophy, Religion & History of Science, Faculty of Arts, University of Leeds in Collaboration with the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford. Fixed term for 12 months, available from 1 February 2013 Project: 'Innovating in Combat - telecommunications and intellectual property in the First World War' For further details of this post click here To apply for this post click here Alternatively, go to http://jobs.leeds.ac.uk and search for job reference: ARTPR0004 The position is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to enable the results on patent history from Professor Graeme Gooday's previous AHRC research project 'Owning and Disowning Invention,' to be shared with a range of Archives and Museums in the UK. You will work closely with the Oxford Museum of the History of Science and other partner organisations (principally the IET Archives, BT Archives and the Porthcurno Telegraph Museum) to enhance their understanding and deployment of patented telecommunications in their collections, through exhibitions, online resources, staff training, educational activities and outreach work. Details of the 'Owning and Disowning Invention' project can be found at http://owninganddisowninginvention.org/ Details of the Oxford Museum of the History of Science can be found at http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/ With a completed PhD thesis (preferably in a topic relating to history of telecommunications, patents, and/or First World War studies) and a BA and/or Masters in a topic relating to the history of science, technology, and/or medicine, you will have experience of working in a museum context and of communicating to non-academic audiences. University Grade 6 (£24,520 - £29,249 p.a.) It is likely that an appointment will be made no higher than £26,779 p.a. since there are funding limitations which dictate the level at which the appointment can be made. Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Graeme Gooday tel +44 (0)113 343 3274, email g.j.n.gooday@leeds.ac.uk Please note the University is closed for Christmas from Friday 21 December 2012 and reopens on Wednesday 2 January 2013. We are therefore unable to respond to any queries relating to your application during this time. Closing Date: 4 January 2013 Graeme Gooday, Professor of the History of Science and Technology Acting Head of School School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science Woodhouse Lane University of Leeds LEEDS LS2 9JT United Kingdom E-mail: g.j.n.gooday@leeds.ac.uk Phone: 0113 343 3274 FAX: 0113 343 3265 http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/people/20048/philosophy/person/860/graeme_gooday _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 933482DB2; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:40:45 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7D8D2DA9; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:40:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 639912D9C; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:40:43 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121207064043.639912D9C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:40:43 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.555 Folger Digital Texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 555. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 20:15:19 +0000 From: Folger Research Division Subject: Launching Folger Digital Texts Folger Digital Texts Shakespeare's Plays, Cutting-Edge Code A Powerful Research Tool for Scholars The Folger is delighted to announce the launch of Folger Digital Texts. These are reliable, expertly edited, and free digital Shakespeare texts for use by researchers. Starting from the Folger Editions of Shakespeare's works edited by Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine, Folger Digital Texts uses XML to create a highly articulate indexing system. Researchers can read the plays online, download PDFs for offline reading, search a play or the whole corpus, navigate by act, scene, line, or the new Folger Throughline Numbers. In short, every word, space, and piece of punctuation has its own place online. Twelve plays are currently available, and the remainder of the works and poems will be released throughout 2013. The XML-coded files are offered as a free download for noncommercial use by scholars and can be used as the groundwork for digital Shakespeare research projects, app development, and other projects. The Folger Shakespeare Library editions, published by Simon and Schuster, remain available in print and as ebooks and include essays, glosses, notes, and illustrations from the materials in the Folger collections. The Folger Digital Texts team includes Rebecca Niles, editor and interface architect, and Michael Poston, editor and encoding architect. They welcome your feedback at folgertexts (at) folger.edu. Click here to go directly to Folger Digital Texts. Address: Folger Shakespeare Library 201 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003 [...] Phone: Main: (202) 544–4600 Box Office: (202) 544–7077 Membership: (202) 675–0359 Questions & Comments: researchbulletin@folger.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 191502DB6; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:42:15 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EDA22DA3; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:42:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C56F82D9A; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:42:12 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121207064212.C56F82D9A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:42:12 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.556 Creative Commons license for ADHO X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 556. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 14:46:06 -0500 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: ADHO Adopts Creative Commons License for Its Web Site Dear all, On behalf of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), I'm pleased to announce that all content on its web site is now available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ license that will enable individuals and organizations to re-use and adapt ADHO’s documents and resources, so long as ADHO is cited as the source. This is one of an ongoing series of actions this year that are being designed to make ADHO resources more open and available to the larger community. ADHO’s decision to adopt the CC-BY license was prompted by the recognition that through explicitly sharing its work it can have a greater impact, contribute to best practices, and demonstrate its support for open access. Recently the Program Committee for the 2013 Digital Humanities conference revamped http://nowviskie.org/2012/cats-and-ships/ ADHO’s Guidelines for Proposal Authors & Reviewers, making them more inclusive, concrete, and transparent. PC chair Bethany Nowviskie received a request from the organizers of another conference to re-use these guidelines. The ADHO Steering Committee determined that not only should the conference guidelines be made freely available, but its entire web site. In adopting a Creative Commons license for its website, ADHO follows suit with several of its existing publications, including *Digital Studies/Le Champ Numerique*, *Digital Humanities Quarterly*, and *DH Answers*. 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/ Twitter: @fraistat _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 393263A23; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 17:01:16 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 732093A14; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 17:01:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 652563A10; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 17:01:12 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121208160112.652563A10@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 17:01:12 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.557 Folger Digital Texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 557. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 07:16:40 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 26.555 Folger Digital Texts In-Reply-To: <20121207064043.639912D9C@digitalhumanities.org> I did download some of the texts.They appear to be marked up for linguistic analysis. I don't wish to criticise the Folger texts per se, but they do lead me to reflect in general on what the digital humanities have become. Is our Shakespeare (and everything else) really preserved for future generations in forms like this, or is it not now mostly a collection of angle-brackets? One of the advantages of XML has always been its supposed human readability, but the gradual increase in complexity over the years has now reached a point where the plain text format is self-defeating. When even a single line of a play has to be stitched together by virtually joining individually marked-up words how can we any longer pretend that XML is readable by humans? We might as well use a standard binary format. Desmond Schmidt eResearch Lab University of Queensland Australia On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 555. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 20:15:19 +0000 > From: Folger Research Division > Subject: Launching Folger Digital Texts > > > Folger Digital Texts > Shakespeare's Plays, Cutting-Edge Code > A Powerful Research Tool for Scholars > > The Folger is delighted to announce the launch of Folger Digital Texts. These are reliable, expertly edited, and free digital Shakespeare texts for use by researchers. Starting from the Folger Editions of Shakespeare's works edited by Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine, Folger Digital Texts uses XML to create a highly articulate indexing system. Researchers can read the plays online, download PDFs for offline reading, search a play or the whole corpus, navigate by act, scene, line, or the new Folger Throughline Numbers. In short, every word, space, and piece of punctuation has its own place online. Twelve plays are currently available, and the remainder of the works and poems will be released throughout 2013. > > The XML-coded files are offered as a free download for noncommercial use by scholars and can be used as the groundwork for digital Shakespeare research projects, app development, and other projects. > > The Folger Shakespeare Library editions, published by Simon and Schuster, remain available in print and as ebooks and include essays, glosses, notes, and illustrations from the materials in the Folger collections. > > The Folger Digital Texts team includes Rebecca Niles, editor and interface architect, and Michael Poston, editor and encoding architect. They welcome your feedback at folgertexts (at) folger.edu. > > Click here to go directly to Folger Digital Texts. > > Address: > Folger Shakespeare Library > 201 East Capitol Street, SE > Washington, DC 20003 > [...] > Phone: > Main: (202) 544–4600 > Box Office: (202) 544–7077 > Membership: (202) 675–0359 > > Questions & Comments: > researchbulletin@folger.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F07FA3A38; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 17:02:09 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 451773A29; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 17:02:09 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1113C3A24; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 17:02:07 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121208160208.1113C3A24@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 17:02:07 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.558 what is humanities 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="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. 558. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 20:40:59 +0000 From: I-CHASS Subject: What is "Humanities High-Performance Computing"? What is "Humanities High-Performance Computing"? The term "high performance computing" (HPC) is often used interchangeably with "supercomputing." It refers to very fast computers, capable of performing calculations many times faster than standard desktop machines. High Performance Computing is used mainly by scientific disciplines for processing huge amounts of data, data mining, and simulation. That is, using an enormous amount of data to simulate a physical object or series of events. For example, scientists use HPC to simulate hurricanes; the auto industry uses HPC to simulate car crashes; the military uses HPC to simulate explosions. Because of the enormous speed available with HPC, tasks can be done that normal desktop PCs could never tackle. So what do we mean by "HHPC?" Humanities High-Performance Computing (HHPC) refers to the use of high-performance machines for humanities and social science projects. Currently, only a small number of humanities scholars are taking advantage of high-performance computing. But just as the sciences have, over time, begun to tap the enormous potential of HPC, the humanities are beginning to as well. Humanities scholars often deal with large sets of unstructured data. This might take the form of historical newspapers, books, election data, archaeological fragments, audio or video contents, or a host of others. HHPC offers the humanist opportunities to sort through, mine, and better understand and visualize this data. Read more: http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh/resource/humanities-high-performance-computing-resource ~~~ ABOUT I-CHASS The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science (I-CHASS) charts new ground in high-performance computing and the human sciences. Founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and located at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, I-CHASS creates learning environments and spaces for digital exploration and discovery; presenting leading-edge research, computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming to showcase the future of the humanities, arts, and social science. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BCE7D3A38; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 17:03:25 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A926A3A17; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 17:03:24 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B8A1E3A15; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 17:03:22 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121208160322.B8A1E3A15@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 17:03:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.559 pubs: graphical representation; Critical Inquiry 39.2 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="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. 559. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (37) Subject: Critical Inquiry 39.2 (Winter 2013) [2] From: Willard McCarty (83) Subject: the power of graphical representation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:10:45 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Critical Inquiry 39.2 (Winter 2013) [Note esp. Jerome McGann's article, below -- it is wonderful. WM] The “Return” of 3-D: On Some of the Logics and Genealogies of the Image in the Twenty-First Century(pp. 217-246) Thomas Elsaesser Vernacular Metaphysics: On Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line(pp. 247-275) Robert Pippin The Autobiography of Video: Outline for a Revisionist Account of Early Video Art(pp. 276-295) Ina Blom Notes from Babel: Toward a Colonial History of Comparative Literature(pp. 296-326) Siraj Ahmed Philology in a New Key(pp. 327-346) Jerome McGann The Poverty of Philosophy: Realism and Post-Fordism(pp. 347-366) Alexander R. Galloway What Counted as Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance? The History of Philosophy, the History of Science, and Styles of Life(pp. 367-401) Christopher S. Celenza Critical Response I The Little Magazine and the Theory Journal: A Response to Evan Kindley's “Big Criticism”(pp. 402-411) Jeffrey J. Williams II Response to Jeffrey J. Williams(pp. 412-418) Evan Kindley Books of Critical Interest(pp. 419-424) Notice to Contributors(p. 425) -- 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, 07 Dec 2012 17:06:18 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the power of graphical representation The following will explain the origins of the Bombsight Project. But first, knowing that it represents the bombs dropped on London during the Blitz of World War II, simply go to http://bombsight.org/ and try to take in what you see. This is of course not the only instance of now simple, off-the-shelf technologies being deployed to represent something whose effect rather than the means used to deliver it is the point. My point isn't, I hasten to add, partisan, though I live in the place represented. Googling "bombing of Dresden" will give you quite impressive results as well, for example. Rather it is the power all out of proportion to those red dots overlaid on a map that the representation calls forth. From where? Yours, WM -----Original Message----- > From: A JISC announce list. [mailto:JISC-ANNOUNCE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Victoria Reeve > Sent: 07 December 2012 10:01 > Subject: News release: Interactive map shows where Blitz bombs hit News release 7 December 2012 Interactive map shows where Blitz bombs hit A new interactive map of London showing where German bombs landed over the course of eight months during World War II gives new meaning to the word Blitz. Visit the website at http://bombsight.org/ The entire greater city from Egham in the west to Dartford in the east, and from Potters Bar in the north to Caterham in the south appears to be obliterated by the red bomb symbols used to illustrate where a dropped bomb landed. The year-long Jisc-funded mapping project, called Bomb Sight, has just been launched and was devised by geographer Dr Kate Jones, of the University of Portsmouth. She said: "When you look at these maps and see the proliferation of bombs dropped on the capital it does illustrate the meaning of the word Blitz, which comes from the German meaning lightening war. It seems astonishing that London survived the onslaught. "The Bomb Sight project demonstrates the clustering together of lots of different data using the power of geography." Dr Jones chose to focus on the period of the most intensive bombing period in London during WWII, the Blitz. In that period, Germany's Luftwaffe killed thousands and destroyed more than a million homes. The Blitz ended, and with it the fear of a Nazi invasion, in May, 1941 when it became apparent that Britain's spirit would not be broken. The Bomb Sight project uses a slightly longer time-frame for mapping what bombs fell where because it uses maps of the London WWII bomb census, taken between October 1940 and June 1941 and until now only available to view in the Reading Room at The National Archives. The locations of the bombs have been combined with geo-located photographs from the Imperial War Museum and geo-located memories from the BBC's WW2 People's War Archive. Users can manipulate the map and zoom into specific streets or boroughs as well as find out what type of bomb was dropped where. Dr Jones won funding from Jisc to establish the project and has made the website and app available for public use to allow everyone, particularly students and teachers in schools and universities and citizen researchers to discover where the bombs fell and to explore memories and photographs from the period. Paola Marchionni Jisc programme manager said: "Bomb Sight is a fantastic resource and it shows the power of what is possible by mashing up content that resides in different places. The original Blitz maps have been scanned and geo-referenced thanks to the National Archive and testimonials from the BBC have been incorporated together with historical images from the Imperial War Museum to create an interactive teaching and learning resource that is similar to a map sat nav. There will be an augmented reality and mobile version available in December making the resource even more interactive." The website allows people to find out where and what sort of bombs fell in their area, and explore photos and stories from those involved or affected by the war. The associated Android app also gives users an augmented reality view which allows users to point their phone at a street scene and, using the phone's camera and GPS, the app will display the bombs that fell nearby. 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X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 560. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 16:20:04 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: coevolution? Does anyone here know of a critical study of the term "coevolution", especially in its migrations beyond biology? According to Edward McCabe, in his Presidential Address to the American Society of Human Genetics (American Journal of Human Genetics 86 (2010): 311-15), the first use was in a paper by C. J. Modes in 1958; although Darwin had the idea, he used the term "coadaptation". Since the middle of the 20C, "coevolution" as an analogical metaphor has gradually spread to numerous other disciplines, including computer science. (Try searching the ACM Digital Library for the term; you'll find abundant use of it.) Bruce Mazlish, drawing on earlier work by Jerome Bruner, used the idea to describe the interrelated development of machines and humans in his article "The Fourth Discontinuity", Technology and Culture 8.1 (1967), later in his book, The Fourth Discontinuity: the Co-evolution of Humans and Machines (Yale, 1993). Unfortunately in neither place does he look at the idea critically -- nor, as far as I can tell, does anyone else. I want to use the idea, indeed lean rather heavily on it. But Wendell Piez has just pointed out to me that its easy acceptance is problematic, so I am worried. Does anyone here know of such a critical study of the idea, including but not limited to the interrelated development of living and non-living systems? Many thanks for any pointers. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3AC2A3A22; Sun, 9 Dec 2012 11:18:05 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A763A1E; Sun, 9 Dec 2012 11:18:04 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D2B573A14; Sun, 9 Dec 2012 11:18:02 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20121209101802.D2B573A14@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 11:18:02 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.561 events: participatory digital archives X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 561. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 11:12:18 -0500 From: Molly Des Jardin Subject: Participatory Digital Archives Conference at Harvard in January Here at Harvard's Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, we will be having a conference on January 24-25, 2013, entitled "Opportunities & Challenges of Participatory Digital Archives: Lessons from the March 11, 2011 Great Eastern Japan Disaster." This is an event focused on the Digital Archive of Japan's 2011 Disasters, a Harvard initiative which aims to provide access to digital materials on the March 2011 earthquakes and tsunami in Japan. The conference will also include presentations on Harvard's digital archive content partners in Japan, user experiences with the archive, and similar digital archive projects related to crises and disasters. Among those presenting are representatives from Harvard and Japanese institutions, Zeega, the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis, Internet Archive, the Berkman Center, Hypercities, and 18 Days in Egypt. It's free and open to the public, although we do ask participants to register so we have a head count. If you're in the Boston area, please consider checking out the conference! More information, a schedule of events, and registration can be found at the following URL: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/digitalarchivesconference/ The URL of the Digital Archive of Japan's 2011 Disasters is: http://jdarchive.org Best wishes, Molly C. Des Jardin Postdoctoral Fellow / Archive Development Manager Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Harvard University http://www.mollydesjardin.com @mdesjardin _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4BD833A23; Sun, 9 Dec 2012 11:35:18 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF7F3A14; Sun, 9 Dec 2012 11:35:17 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6AE983A10; Sun, 9 Dec 2012 11:35:15 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121209103515.6AE983A10@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 11:35:15 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.562 events: First Italian Conference of Digital Humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 562. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 10:51:57 +0100 (CET) From: "fmeschini@tin.it" Subject: First Italian Conference of Digital Humanities Definitive Programme of the First Italian Conference of Digital Humanities Apologies for cross-posting, this is the definitive programme of the first Italian conference of Digital Humanities which will take place next week in Florence. Also thanks to the European Association for Digital Humanities for kindly supporting this event. Un'agenda per l’informatica umanistica e la cultura digitale. I Convegno Annuale 13-14 dicembre 2012, Firenze Società Dantesca Italiana, Palagio dell’Arte della Lana, Via Arte della Lana 1 13 Dicembre SESSIONE 1 9.00-13.00 Infrastrutture e convergenza. Presiede la sessione Dino Buzzetti 9.00-9.30 Prolusione di Dino Buzzetti, La transizione al digitale: Il ruolo delle Digital Humanities 9.30-10.00 Giovanni Ragone (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”), L’esperienza DIGILAB 10.00-10.30 Maristella Agosti (DEI, Università di Padova), Biblioteche digitali tramodellazione, gestione e valutazione 10.30-10.50 Joris Van Zundert (Huygens Institute for the History of The Netherlands), “It’s live Jim, but not as we know it”. Coping with Living Data 10.50-11.10 Intervallo11.10-11-40 Henk Harmsen (Universiteit van Amsterdam - UvA), DARIAH: The strength of building together. National vs. international infrastructures. Cultural vs. research needs 11.40-12.10 Carlo Meghini (CNR Pisa), Modeling foundations for a cross-domain, cultural heritage infrastructure 12.10-12.30 Andrew Ashton (Center for Digital Scholarship - Brown University, Providence, RI), The Brown Digital Repository: A platform for digital preservation and access 12.30-13.00 Dibattito SESSIONE 2 14.30-16.30 La ricerca, la valutazione e la diffusione dei risultati nell’informatica umanistica. Presiede la sessione Anna Maria Tammaro 14.30-15.00 Prolusione di Tito Orlandi, Problematiche aperte 15.00-15.20 Frédéric Clavert (Centre Virtuel sur la Connaissance de l’Europe), Piattaforme e infrastrutture per la certificazione e l’accreditamento 15.20-15.40 Giovanni Solimine, Chiara Faggiolani (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”), La valutazione della ricerca umanistica fra peer review e bibliometria 15.40-16.00 Gianluca Setti (Università di Ferrara), Gli indicatori bibliometrici ed il loro significato 16.00-16.30 Discussione e conclusioni 14 Dicembre SESSIONE 3 9.00-13.00 Progetti italiani ed esperienze di convergenza multidisciplinare 9.00-10.45 Presiede la sessione Francesca TomasiInterventi di: • Pierluigi Feliciati, Convergere a valle. Lo studio del punto di vista degli utenti dei servizi digitali culturali nell’esperienza del progetto “Una Città per gli Archivi” (Bologna) • Maria Guercio, Cecilia Carloni, Livelli descrittivi, relazioni e contesti di produzione nella Sapienza Digital Library • Francesca Mambelli, Una risorsa online per la storia dell’ate: il database della fototeca Zeri • Maristella Agosti, Lucio Benfante, Nicola Ferro, Marta Manfioletti, Nicola Orio, chiara Ponchia, Gianmaria Silvello, L’apertura di uno strumento digitale per la ricerca umanistica ad un pubblico non specialista: il progetto CULTURA 10.45-11.00 Intervallo 11.00-13.00 Presiede la sessione Fabio CiottiInterventi di: • Gioele Barabucci, Angelo Di Iorio, Fabio Vitali, Stemma codicum: analisi e generazione semi-automatica • Chiara Leoni, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco, Il progetto Visionary Cross: verso un’edizione digitale multimediale e distribuita • Paolo Monella, Più testimoni, più livelli: l’edizione critica digitale del Iudicium coci et pistoris iudice Vulcano di Vespa (Anth. Lat. 199 Riese) • Caterina Bernardini, Envisioning the Digital Future of Literary Translation. A Hands-on Experience at the Whitman Archive • Federico Boschetti, La localizzazione in lingua italiana dell’infrastruttura per lo studio dei classici greci e latini costituita dal Perseus Project 14.30-16.30 Presiede la sessione Federico MeschiniInterventi di: • Antonella Ambrosio, Maria Rosaria Falcone, Il progetto ENARC. Attività didattiche innovative e creazione di archivi digitali • Maurizio Lana, digilibLT - digital library of late-latin texts / biblioteca digitale di testi latini tardoantichi • Michele Mauri, Paolo ciuccarelli, Ruolo dell’Information Visualization nella progettazione di interfacce per archivi digitali eterogenei Marco Giunti, Giuliano Vivanet, Giuseppe Sergioli, Ontologia, semantica e rilevanza dell’informazione negli archivi della Bibliotheca Iuris Antiqui (BIA) 16.30 Trasferimento presso l’Auditorium Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, Via Folco Portinari 5/r 17.00-19.00 Assemblea dei soci _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 52A893A22; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:18:49 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E392D3A07; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:18:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0B46A3A07; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:18:44 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121210061845.0B46A3A07@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:18:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.563 coevolution X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 563. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: maurizio lana (21) Subject: Re: 26.560 coevolution? [2] From: Haines Brown (40) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.560 coevolution? [3] From: Sinai Rusinek (14) Subject: RE: 26.560 coevolution? [4] From: Allison Muri (71) Subject: Re: 26.560 coevolution? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:05:19 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: 26.560 coevolution? In-Reply-To: <20121209101700.86BB13120@digitalhumanities.org> Il 09/12/2012 11:17, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > Does anyone here know of a critical study of the term "coevolution", > especially in its migrations beyond biology? even if it doesn't fit perfectly, you should have a look at Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing. It's a wonderful book of Th. Bardini available in google books. and then there is “Man-Computer Symbiosis” by jcr licklider. what he calls symbiosis could be called coevolution. you probably already know of licklider's article. the book of bardini is all about the development of Engelbart's oNLine System, but everything is read as a coevolution of humans and machines so in fact it could be useful. maurizio ------- il mio corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 10:05:55 -0500 From: Haines Brown Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.560 coevolution? In-Reply-To: <20121209101700.86BB13120@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, I know you seek to generalize the concept beyond bio-evolution, but I believe quite useful nevertheless might be the concept in bio-evolution of "epigenetic" evolution. Put in very general terms, epigenetic evolution suggests that a probable phylogenetic outcome is not determed solely by DNA, but by other factors as well, such as proteins, and even by other organisms. A very nice treatment of epigenetics, including a discussion of human culture, is Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb, Evolution in Four Dimensions (Cambridge [MA], 2005). I cannot help but express my nervousness about any appeal to Jerome Brunner. There are well known problems with phenomenology. His basic distinction of narrative and logical worlds strikes me as contrived and not at all useful. Not only do I have problems with so called "narrative explanation", but Bruner has an unrealistic (a positivist textbook version) of scientificity. Nevertheless, were we to define the world in psychological terms, helpful in this respect would be Vicki Bruce and Mark A. Georgeson and Patrick R. Green, Visual Perception: Physiology, Psychology and Ecology (4th ed., East Sussex, 2004). My personal reactions to your remarks are perhaps best summarized by saying that I'm not at all comfortable with approaching things by means of a cognitive and physical closure that supports explanation simply in terms of causal interactions. This is not the place to explore an alternative to causal explanation that sees it as a one-sided artifact of closure beyond mentioning that systemic closure and causal interactonism are no longer universal presuppositions in physical science. Haines Brown --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 16:07:37 +0000 From: Sinai Rusinek Subject: RE: 26.560 coevolution? In-Reply-To: <20121209101700.86BB13120@digitalhumanities.org> Dear prof. Mccarty, As with most conceptual histories, the first place to look would be among the Germans. The first place would be here: http://www.biological-concepts.com ; the second would be (and here reading German helps) in Georg Toepfer's even more amazing project: Historisches Wörterbuch der Biologie; Geschichte und Theorie der biologischen Grundbegriffe - where a few pages on the concept of "Koevolution" appear in the article on "Evolution". As for migrations of the concept beyond biology, I BCC here Falko Schmieder and Jan Surman, for whom nomadic/inter-disciplinary biological concepts are bread and butter. Good luck! Sinai PS: I posted the question in the "Contributions to the History of Concepts" (https://www.facebook.com/Contributions )Facebook page and will update we get any other references. Sinai Rusinek Polonsky post-doctoral fellow Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Editor Contributions to the History of Concepts --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 13:17:55 -0600 From: Allison Muri Subject: Re: 26.560 coevolution? In-Reply-To: <20121209101700.86BB13120@digitalhumanities.org> I imagine you've already come across Cognition and Technology: Co-Existence, Convergence, and Co-Evolution, ed.Barbara Gorayska, Jacob L. Mey (John Benjamins Publishing, 2004). The following doesn't exactly answer your question, I think. Easy acceptance of the idea of co-evolution of humans and technology could be problematic, but then again, the term has been in use especially since the 90s in cybertheory as well as computer science. For example, " Brian Rotman's "Exuberant Materiality-- De-Minding the Store," Configurations 2.2 (1994). Probably you're aware of Douglas Engelbart's 1992 "Toward high-performance organizations: A strategic role for groupware" explicitly states (also without looking at the idea critically) that "we should become especially oriented to pursuing improvement as a multi-element, co-evolution process. In particular, we need to give explicit attention to the co-evolution of the Tool System and the Human System." http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-132811.html Thierry Bardini's Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing (Stanford 2000) might be of interest. Also, the article "Engelbart's Theory of Technical Evolution" Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 20.4 (2006). On technical evolution, Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus (Stanford University Press, 1998) Also, of course, there is McLuhan, who didn't use the term but certainly described the idea often, e.g.: "The transformations of technology have the character of organic evolution because all technologies are the extension of our physical being. ... Butler...indicated that machines were given vicarious powers of reproduction by their subsequent impact upon the very bodies that had brought them into being by extension. Response to the increased power and speed of our own extended bodies is one which engenders new extensions. Every technology creates new stresses and needs in the human beings who have engendered it. The new need and the new technological response are born of our embrace of the already existing technology -- a ceaseless process" -- Understanding Media, 1964, rpt. 1994 (MIT): 182-3. .................................................... Allison Muri, Associate Professor Department of English Coordinator, Minor in Digital Culture & New Media Interdisciplinary Centre for Culture and Creativity University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK, Canada ph: 306.966.5503 http://artsandscience.usask.ca/profile/AMuri On 2012-12-09, at 4:17 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 560. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 16:20:04 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: coevolution? > > > Does anyone here know of a critical study of the term "coevolution", > especially in its migrations beyond biology? > > According to Edward McCabe, in his Presidential Address to the American > Society of Human Genetics (American Journal of Human Genetics 86 (2010): > 311-15), the first use was in a paper by C. J. Modes in 1958; although > Darwin had the idea, he used the term "coadaptation". Since the middle of > the 20C, "coevolution" as an analogical metaphor has gradually spread to > numerous other disciplines, including computer science. (Try searching the > ACM Digital Library for the term; you'll find abundant use of it.) Bruce > Mazlish, drawing on earlier work by Jerome Bruner, used the idea to describe > the interrelated development of machines and humans in his article "The > Fourth Discontinuity", Technology and Culture 8.1 (1967), later in his book, > The Fourth Discontinuity: the Co-evolution of Humans and Machines (Yale, > 1993). Unfortunately in neither place does he look at the idea critically -- > nor, as far as I can tell, does anyone else. I want to use the idea, indeed > lean rather heavily on it. But Wendell Piez has just pointed out to me that > its easy acceptance is problematic, so I am worried. > > Does anyone here know of such a critical study of the idea, including but > not limited to the interrelated development of living and non-living > systems? > > Many thanks for any pointers. > > 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 760963A32; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:21:36 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B34B53A28; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:21:35 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E55AE3A07; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:21:33 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121210062133.E55AE3A07@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:21:33 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.564 the only correct way to determine the truth X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 564. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 12:34:57 +0100 From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Lambda calculus boolean functions implemented in PHP Here's what seems to me an interesting example of philosophy (logic) expressed in PHP programming language. Equally interesting is the argumentation, as well as using GitHub for a forum in which to present the hypothesis. "For example, the answer to the question _TRUE_('john', 'peter') is john. Now you are probably thinking "You cannot mean this. This is absurd!" I must insist, however, that the answer to the truth of the question about john and peter is john, simply because you mentioned john first. If you supply two alternatives in your question, the first alternative is always the true answer and the second alternative the false one. So, indeed, you decide entirely by yourself what is the truth. Just mention what you prefer, first. You may think that the idea of determining truth and falsehood arbitrarily by essentially leaving the answer to the person asking the question is a problem. It is absolutely not. On the contrary, this is the only correct way to determine the truth." Best, Neven Neven Jovanovic Zagreb, Hrvatska / Croatia _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C2FE73A36; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:46:04 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C2D530A9; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:46:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A3B6E30A9; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:46:01 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121211064601.A3B6E30A9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:46:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.565 Folger Digital Texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 565. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:30:24 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.557 Folger Digital Texts In-Reply-To: <20121208160112.652563A10@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Desmond, and HUMANIST, On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 11:01 AM, you wrote: > I did download some of the texts.They appear to be marked up for > linguistic analysis. I don't wish to criticise the Folger texts per > se, but they do lead me to reflect in general on what the digital > humanities have become. Is our Shakespeare (and everything else) > really preserved for future generations in forms like this, or is it > not now mostly a collection of angle-brackets? One of the advantages > of XML has always been its supposed human readability, but the gradual > increase in complexity over the years has now reached a point where > the plain text format is self-defeating. When even a single line of a > play has to be stitched together by virtually joining individually > marked-up words how can we any longer pretend that XML is readable by > humans? We might as well use a standard binary format. It's a bit startling, but refreshing, to see this question asked. Yet I think the answer is not hard to find if we look around us. There have been several efforts in the open -- and an uncountable number behind closed doors -- to specify a binary format for XML. Advantages for such a format would be compactness and efficiency for certain operations. The W3C has published as a Recommendation (the closest thing they get to a "standard") such a format, EXI (Efficient XML Interchange). But none of these have really taken off. Why? Probably because the problems with text-based XML that are mitigated by a binary XML don't actually hurt so badly (and/or are already dealt with adequately enough by less extreme means, such as data compression formats like zip) to offset the costs of locking in to tools (and perhaps other dependencies) for handling the binary. There are niches in which this isn't the case but of course this merely demonstrates the point: they are niches. In fact one of the advantages of publishing in XML is that your data is ready made for one (and all) of these systems. Every day, resources are devoted to parsing XML (to say nothing of text-based cousins such as HTML) and compiling it into such formats, optimized for processing, indexing and searching. When done correctly, this gives a net savings, and one has the advantages of both worlds. In other words, this isn't really a binary dichotomy (forgive me), a choice between a perfectly transparent text-based format on the one hand, or something perfectly opaque (which may as well be binary) on the other. It was entirely predictable, indeed inevitable, that if XML succeeded as a text-based data format (irrespective of whether it was subsequently recast as a serialization format for an abstract data structure capable of being represented in other forms, which arguably has happened), we would see applications of XML that were not human-readable, at least in the sense that you could open the source files in a text editor and understand and analyze them with no help from any tools or documentation. Nevertheless, XML developers -- who know about such opacity better than anyone, dealing with it at first hand -- can be heard crying in protest every time someone suggests that they should dump the plain-text format and go to something binary. We want to be able to use our tools. And there are plenty of them -- because they are not so hard to build and test, there is a robust commodity market for them, more robust than the markets for tools to handle even standard (or quasi-standard) binaries such as PDF or JPEG. As was known from the start, basing XML on plain text helps solve the chicken-egg problem of having no access to the data at all without the tools, but no way to build tools without access to the data. Now of course I am aware that one need not take even XML for granted (nor do I, as Desmond knows). Yet the availability and affordability of means and methods for handling the format is at least as important as the format itself. Indeed, the latter argument is as often used against XML (in favor of HTML or -- gasp -- binaries such as MS Word format) as in favor of it. So comparing what we have to something that doesn't exist is hardly fair. Indeed, one response to Desmond's question would be to ask which standard binary format (for representing XML data structures or something else) he'd recommend. Then each project or publisher could have the debate on the merits -- as they already do. Note in particular that the Folger Library hasn't just published its texts in XML. It is also publishing more than one styled version, ready for use. And it is encouraging us to do the same (at least non-commercially). It is all this activity, not the XML by itself, that helps preserve Shakespeare for future generations. Cheers, Wendell -- Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_DBL_REDIR autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 141F23A40; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:46:39 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC17A3A36; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:46:37 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BD37D3A32; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:46:35 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121211064635.BD37D3A32@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:46:35 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.566 survey: Reading Experience Database? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 566. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:51:59 +0000 From: Francesca Benatti Subject: Reading Experience Database Survey The World Reading Experience Database (World-RED) project and The Open University's Reading Experience Database (UK-RED) are seeking respondents to a brief online survey (http://bit.ly/RED-survey) organised by *Donelle McKinley, *School of Information Management & Wai-te-ata Press Research Team, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The survey will allow the RED team to: - Understand the needs and objectives of current and future World-RED contributors - Discover how effectively the UK-RED contribution form supports rich data collection and volunteer participation - Identify some alternative approaches to interface design that might better support rich data collection and volunteer participation. The survey is strictly anonymous and will take approximately five minutes to complete. Even if you have never contributed to RED, you are welcome to participate. *About the RED project* The RED project invites volunteers to identify instances of reading in diaries, letters, biographies and memoirs, from private collections, libraries and archives, and contribute their discoveries to the online database. Collecting data about what, where, when and how people read will enable patterns to emerge, and new research questions about the history of reading to be explored. *Benefits of the study* As well as directly contributing to the development of the New Zealand RED (NZ-RED), this study will benefit the Open University Reading Experience Database (UK-RED) project team, who are interested in enhancing the RED, and the World-RED project partners, who are in the early stages of development. The study will also contribute to the strategic planning, development and evaluation of other academic and cultural heritage projects involving volunteers. *Survey participation* This project has been granted ethical approval by the Victoria University of Wellington Human Ethics Committee. Any personal information will be collected for statistical reasons only and no identities will be associated with any responses. The collected data will be stored in a password-protected file for the duration of this study. An official information sheet for participants is included in the online survey. *Research report* In February 2013 the research report will be submitted for marking to Victoria University of Wellington and deposited in the University Library, after which it will become available electronically. Donelle also intends to publish articles based on the data in scholarly journals. A summary of the research findings will be made available on the NZ-RED research blog http://nzredblog.wordpress.com in March 2013. The collected data will be destroyed two years after the conclusion of the research. Should you require further details regarding this project, please contact Donelle McKinley or her research supervisor Dr Sydney Shep. *Please take the survey here:* http://bit.ly/RED-survey *UK-RED* http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/ *NZ-RED* http://nzredblog.wordpress.com *World-RED* http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DFB473A50; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:47:03 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B9373A4C; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:47:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CD0383A46; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:47:01 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121211064701.CD0383A46@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:47:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.567 ACH election results X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 567. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:16:47 +0000 From: "Zafrin, Vika" Subject: ACH election results Dear Humanists, We are pleased to announce the results of the 2012 ACH elections held earlier this month. Elected to serve on the Executive Council for the 2013-2016 term, in alphabetical order, are Brian Croxall, Jennifer Guiliano, and Mia Ridge. Elected for one year, to fill the vacancy created by Neil Fraistat's (already tremendously productive) move to ADHO, is Ernesto Priego. On behalf of the ACH Executive Council, I would like to congratulate the newly elected representatives, and thank all of the candidates for being willing to donate time to the organization. It was a tremendous slate, and we look forward to working with all of you, in ways formal and informal, in the coming year. -Vika Zafrin ACH Secretary Vika Zafrin Institutional Repository Librarian Boston University +1 617.358.6370 | http://dcommon.bu.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4E41C3A4D; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:48:13 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B396A3A40; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:48:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AAC2F3A30; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:48:10 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121211064810.AAC2F3A30@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:48:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.568 events: THATCamp, Western New York X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 568. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:03:22 -0500 From: Paul Schacht Subject: THATCamp Western New York 2013 THATCamp Western New York 2013 will take place February 18-19, 2013 on the campus of the State University of New York at Geneseo. Join us for a two-day unconference of workshops and discussions on all forms of social reading, from open annotation (e.g., Candide 2.0, The Open Utopia) to peer-to-peer review (e.g., Planned Obsolescence, Complex TV). Code for America fellow Eddie Tejeda, the creator of Digress.it and the lead developer of Regulation Room (http://regulationroom.org/), will be among the participants. Registration, which pays your way to lunch both days and to a Monday (2/18) evening reception, is $20. THATCamp Western New York is for people interested in social reading as a tool for scholarship, pedagogy, or public engagement. Anyone is welcome to attend and propose a session. Hope to see you there! Paul Schacht Professor and Chair Department of English Project Director, Digital Thoreau State University of New York at Geneseo Geneseo, NY 14454 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0131C3A5C; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:48:52 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B46C3A4D; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:48:52 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D89393A4C; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:48:50 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121211064850.D89393A4C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:48:50 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.569 Attic Inscriptions Online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 569. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:40:15 +0000 From: Finlay McCourt Subject: Attic Inscriptions Online List members may be interested in a new website designed to make available the inscriptions of Athens and Attica in English translation: www.atticinscriptions.com It is being launched with translations of the 281 inscribed laws and decrees of Athens, 352/1-322/1 BC, which have recently been edited by Stephen Lambert as *IG *II3 1, 292-572. We plan to develop the site, enhancing its functionality and increasing the range of information supplied, and to expand it in due course to include all Attic inscriptions. Finlay McCourt _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 03B543A65; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:50:17 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 614B83A5F; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:50:17 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 07CE53A3A; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:50:15 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121211065016.07CE53A3A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:50:15 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.570 coevolution X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 570. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:55:15 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: coevolution I am enormously grateful to those who have responded to my query about extension of the biological idea of coevolution to non-biological systems. I already knew Bardini's book, Licklider's essay and one or two other things but had not encountered most of the other items mentioned. A brilliant demonstration of how helpful colleagues on Humanist can be. Thank you, all. I had encountered the idea of epigenesis in Jean-Pierre Changeux's "The Epigenetic Variability of Memory", in Nalbantian et al, eds, The Memory Process (2011), but now my machine's searching capabilities show me that I've already gathered in many related items that I had forgotten about. Ah, the variability of memory :-)... And I hasten to add, to reassure Haines Brown, that I also am "not at all comfortable with approaching things by means of a cognitive and physical closure that supports explanation simply in terms of causal interactions", as he said. I am *deeply* puzzled by how humans and machines (or just about any two strands of development) are connected -- how it is that such strands, often from very different origins, become interrelated. Computing provides a very good example of that original separateness, as Michael Mahoney pointed out repeatedly. But it is equally wrong, I think, to deny relatedness. And horribly difficult to talk about such matters simply -- as Einstein said, I think, as simply as possible but not more so. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C46633A14; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:17:12 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F06322DFD; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:17:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9557A311F; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:17:10 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121212071710.9557A311F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:17:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.571 Folger Digital Texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 571. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Patrick Durusau (55) Subject: Re: 26.565 Folger Digital Texts [2] From: Desmond Schmidt (134) Subject: Re: 26.565 Folger Digital Texts --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:49:41 -0500 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 26.565 Folger Digital Texts In-Reply-To: <20121211064601.A3B6E30A9@digitalhumanities.org> Wendell, On 12/11/2012 01:46 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Dear Desmond, and HUMANIST, > > On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 11:01 AM, you wrote: >> I did download some of the texts.They appear to be marked up for >> linguistic analysis. I don't wish to criticise the Folger texts per >> se, but they do lead me to reflect in general on what the digital >> humanities have become. Is our Shakespeare (and everything else) >> really preserved for future generations in forms like this, or is it >> not now mostly a collection of angle-brackets? One of the advantages >> of XML has always been its supposed human readability, but the gradual >> increase in complexity over the years has now reached a point where >> the plain text format is self-defeating. When even a single line of a >> play has to be stitched together by virtually joining individually >> marked-up words how can we any longer pretend that XML is readable by >> humans? We might as well use a standard binary format. > It's a bit startling, but refreshing, to see this question asked. Yet > I think the answer is not hard to find if we look around us. Great answer to binary vs. plain-text but I thought another question was implied. As you know, all text displayed by a computer, stored in either binary or plain-text formats is a presentation of an underlying machine representation. As an XSLT maven, I expected you to point out that the XML displayed to the reader could be as simple or as complex as desired. At one extreme, modern office word processing software conceals fairly complex XML behind a traditional text interface. At the other extreme are "plain" text editors that given the impression the user is seeing "the format" of the text. Not really. The reader is always interacting with a representation of the text, based on a machine level format. It is certainly possible to have an XML encoded text displayed with traditional critical apparatus and edited as such with changes to the underlying XML. Why humanists continue to struggle with "raw" XML as though it is meaningful for the scholarly enterprise as "XML," I cannot say. What is important is capturing their analysis of a text. Their analysis being preserved in XML is important for interchange and legacy preservation, neither of which need to be addressed by working humanists. Those are issues for tool makers. Hope you are having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) 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: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:06:57 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 26.565 Folger Digital Texts In-Reply-To: <20121211064601.A3B6E30A9@digitalhumanities.org> Wendell, I wasn't necessarily thinking of EXI or FastInfoset, but more generally the principle of using a standard binary format, perhaps entirely different to XML, that would encourage interoperability by discouraging tinkering. As it is, with the text exposed in this way, the first thing the recipient of such a file does is modify it for his or her purpose. In principle, having a black box format that was highly interoperable would make the tinkering redundant, and encourage the development of truly interoperable tools that worked upon it. At the moment, XML files in the humanities are proportionally less useful to others the more markup is embedded in them, because they become a specific representation of the work of one researcher, which interferes with the work of another. Desmond Schmidt eResearch Lab, University of Queensland Australia _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0B5153A37; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:17:51 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 603CF3A22; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:17:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AA05F3A22; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:17:48 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121212071748.AA05F3A22@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:17:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.572 open access statement? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 572. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:27:27 +0000 From: John Levin Subject: Statement on Open Access from History Journal editors Dear list, I am writing to bring to your attention a statement on open access from the editors of a number of history journals: http://www.history.ac.uk/news/2012-12-10/statement-position-relation-open-access I'll refrain from commenting immediately, but I find it both disappointing, and rather peculiar (it isn't actually signed, for example). John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 95DF33A30; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:19:35 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F38EA3A14; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:19:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 59B3C311F; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:19:33 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121212071933.59B3C311F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:19:33 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.573 coevolution X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 573. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:49:26 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.570 coevolution In-Reply-To: <20121211065016.07CE53A3A@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard and HUMANIST, On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > And I hasten to add, to reassure Haines Brown, that I also am "not at > all comfortable with approaching things by means of a cognitive and > physical closure that supports explanation simply in terms of causal > interactions", as he said. I am *deeply* puzzled by how humans and > machines (or just about any two strands of development) are connected -- > how it is that such strands, often from very different origins, become > interrelated. Computing provides a very good example of that original > separateness, as Michael Mahoney pointed out repeatedly. But it is > equally wrong, I think, to deny relatedness. And horribly difficult to > talk about such matters simply -- as Einstein said, I think, as simply > as possible but not more so. I agree. Last year I read (most of) Alicia Juarerro's "Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System". It is only tangentially related to this discussion (its main concern is action theory, the branch of philosophy that seeks to distinguish "actions" from other events), but it does a serviceable job of paraphrasing the idea that complex systems suggest a notion of causation that is not simply classical "Newtonian" (material and efficient) cause-and-effect, but rather something closer to Aristotelian formal cause. This is because components in complex systems work to constrain one another, and their functioning is subject to such constraints (this is what it means to be "in a system"). These constraints are not properties of the components per se, but rather of the system in which they are embedded -- which is "more than the sum of its parts" not by virtue of any "spirit" or (material or quasi-material) essence, but by its structured and sometimes (seen from the perspective of an even higher system in which it is embedded) "purposeful" organization. Evidently this has everything to do with the notion of co-evolution you are pondering. So I am suspicious of treatments of technology that consider technological artifacts apart from our uses of them, as if there was actually a "thing" there. My smartphone just chimed, signaling some sort of interaction with the networked world in which it has been embedded, supposedly by and for me, and in which it operates "on its own" -- but I know better. (Hm: is it email from you?) The phone is not a thing as much as it is a set of opportunities, more a playground than a toy. "A set of opportunities bounded and generated by a set of constraints." To me this sounds like the definition of an artistic medium as well as of a biological phenotype. Best regards, Wendell -- Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B93403A46; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:37:17 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F15853A30; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:37:16 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id ABC0A3A28; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:37:15 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121212073715.ABC0A3A28@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:37:15 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.574 coevolution: Juarrero's Dynamics in action X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 574. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 07:26:14 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Juarrero's Dynamics in action For those here who may want to follow up on Wendell Piez's reference to Alicia Juarrero's book, Dynamics in Action (MIT, 1999), note that a (long) condensation by Juarrero and Michael Lissack was published in Emergence 2.2: 24-57 and is available online, at http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/pub/Juarrero(2000)Dynmcs_Action(ECO).pdf. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C7D7DF9D; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:30:50 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8F53EB9; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:30:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6CDD7EB8; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:30:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121213083047.6CDD7EB8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:30:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.575 open access statement X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 575. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:06:48 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: 26.572 open access statement? In-Reply-To: <20121212071748.AA05F3A22@digitalhumanities.org> Il 12/12/2012 08:17, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > I am writing to bring to your attention a statement on open access from > the editors of a number of history journals: > http://www.history.ac.uk/news/2012-12-10/statement-position-relation-open-access > > I'll refrain from commenting immediately, but I find it both > disappointing, and rather peculiar (it isn't actually signed, for > example) as far as i can see, there are two problems: 1) a 36 months embargo is surely too long a period. 2) type of CC license (btw: CC Licenses are now a de facto standard): Finch report requests the adoption of CC-BY licenses (CC-BY are also strongly suggested by EC research funding programs: if you get funds, then you must publish the results under OA licenses, with strong pressure towards CC-BY). while the editors offer only CCBY-NC-ND (attribution, non commercial, no derivatives) i myself i prefer BY-NC-SA (attribution, non commercial, share alike). here is why. i as many other people am doing research in a public system (university). this "system" gives me little money with great difficulty, and globally the public system is reputed an inefficient, waste-prone system. there are people in the decision room which think that it's better not giving me any money as it would be anyway a waste because i am in the public sector and i do research on texts rather than on nanotech (or whatever similar). why should i give away the results of my research under CC-BY? if those results are useless no one has any worries about the license. if those results are useful and someone wants to make money using them, then it's only fair that s/he is obliged to negotiate with me the terms for reuse, and to become aware that my supposedly useless and wasteful research is really something good. maurizio -------Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università  del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 897262DA3; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:33:51 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826132CA1; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:33:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6E53DF85; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:33:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20121213083347.6E53DF85@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:33:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.576 coevolution 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. 576. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 07:07:33 -0500 From: Haines Brown Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.573 coevolution In-Reply-To: <20121212071933.59B3C311F@digitalhumanities.org> > Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:49:26 -0500 > From: Wendell Piez > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.570 coevolution > In-Reply-To: <20121211065016.07CE53A3A@digitalhumanities.org> > > So I am suspicious of treatments of technology that consider > technological artifacts apart from our uses of them, as if there was > actually a "thing" there. I suspect there is a theoretical basis on which to approach this point so that it can be dealt with in a more constructive way. It is to start with the conventional distinction of weak and strong emergence. A weak emergence refers to the outcome of a relation of processes that does not unequivocally reduce to them. In traditional epistemological terms the outcome is characterized as "novel" because it could not have been absolutely predicted. In ontological terms, the outcome is to some degree improbable. Man-machine machine interaction thus has an effect (a "thing") difficult to explain. I don't want to expand on this except to make two points. The first is that weak emergence is universal and results from any relation of processes. This may not be obvious because in the Laplacian tradition deviations from the unequivocally determinant "norm" is dismissed as a meaningless statistical anomaly that need not be explained (the Gaussian distribution is described but not explained). The second is that, despite a great deal of philosophical effort, there is no consensus for how a weakly emergent level can or does influence the properties of its base (here, man and machine). In my own biased view, the whole notion of complexification and emergent level is highly suspect to begin with, as Wendell might be implying. Why are not weakly emergent effects simply improbable changes in the interacting processes themselves? The (arguably) standard answer appeals to a local hidden variable (randomness of basic elements such as molecular motion and genetic mutation, functionalist explanations, hypostatization of relations as in extreme structural realism, etc.) The existence of local hidden variables has been experimentally disproven of late in physics, but non-local hidden variable theories (such as offered by David Bohm) still stand, although are unpopular. For emergence to result in "autonomy" in the sense that an outcome is a "thing" that can influence constituent factors without reducing to them brings up what is known as strong emergence. It is very controversial. It was long dismissed as metaphysical or an appeal to the supernatural (as in the classic case of Henri Bergson). However, the trend of late has been to admit it as a fact, as in biological life and consciousness. For example, it is familiar in "far-from-equilibrium systems". However, attempts to explain strong emergence are not just failures as is the case of weak emergence, for the task has hardly been ventured in any serious way (and I include Prigogine in this assessment). For example, while human social being is a strongly emergent "thing" that can exert an independent influence on its constituent processes, man-machine interaction may not be, and I don't believe it is because it lacks the specific requirements for strong emergence. My point is that one must decide if this "co-evolution" represent a weak or a strong emergence, for they give rise to quite different sets of problems. The former addresses the relation of a base and an emergent level and really should even ask if these cognitive constructs really exist. The latter must addresses how strong emergence can arise in the first place, how something can be "far-from-equilibrium" (or radically improbable in non-thermodynamic terms). Haines Brown _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9F9CE311F; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:36:55 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 832932DEB; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:36:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DB8792DA3; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:36:51 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121213083651.DB8792DA3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:36:51 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.577 Folger Digital Texts --> XML & scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 577. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Pierazzo, Elena" (21) Subject: XML and scholarship (was: Folger Digital Texts) [2] From: Wendell Piez (180) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.571 Folger Digital Texts --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:17:48 +0000 From: "Pierazzo, Elena" Subject: XML and scholarship (was: Folger Digital Texts) In-Reply-To: <20121212071710.9557A311F@digitalhumanities.org> Dear All, I have been reading this thread with increasing irritation as I think it leaves out some crucial points and it shows quite a few misconceptions. It seems that we are increasingly debating whether we like or not XML and whether we prefer plain texts. I think this is not really the point. Not many people actually like XML, and I'm one of them. I confess I do not feel any pang of love when I see an angle bracket. However, I think XML is a very useful tool as it allows me and others to achieve my scholarly goals better than any other tool, and the role of XML for scholarship, and in particular textual scholarship, is the part I think is being left out of this discussion. I was trained as a textual scholar in a very traditional setting, where not even the shade of an angle bracket was in sight. During that time I was growing more and more uncomfortable with the normal practice of silently intervening in the text "normalising" all sorts of features of our heritage texts. XML allowed me and many others like me to embed in the text the documentation of our editorial practice at a level of granularity that no other system was -- and is -- able to do. Furthermore the use of XML according to the TEI Guidelines allowed me and many others to debate our scholarly practice and share our successes and difficulties with a large and growing international community. I have become a much better scholar thanks to the use of XML and the TEI. So, when the the Folger Library made available their XML text they acted following scholarly best practice: to expose their editorial work in a way that other scholars can appreciate and evaluate their editorial work. Plain text has the big disadvantage of hiding under a smooth surface all sorts of editorial intervention, so it is actually false that the plain text does not contain an interpretative level: it does, and in a way that is not recoverable, it does in a non-scholarly way. Unless we are talking about very recent texts, spelling, punctuation, orthographic habits, hyphenation, and capitalisation are all silently introduced by editors. For a Renaissance play we are talking about around 3,000 silent editorial interventions as discovered myself when editing a work of an Italian playwright a few years ago [1]. I think that for Shakespeare we are talking about the same order of magnitude. And I'm not even starting on emendations. It is not true that we have adopted XML because there are a lot of tools and it is an easy solution: we were using SGML when no tools were available apart from the one we were developing ourselves. We were using it because it met the needs of our scholarly practice. Again, if someone does not like to take advantage of the rich XML markup, it is actually quite easy to write a script to strip the markup out; in the case of the Folger Texts they have used TEI, which is a largely known standard which should make it easier to know how to delete the mark up. I think reading the TEI Guidelines and therefore making sense of the markup is a small price to pay for having scholarly edited texts that follow good scholarly practice. I think I can speak for a large part of the community that we will be ready to change technology the moment we are given the opportunity to do our editorial work in a better and scholarly way. We know very well the severe limits of XML but we shall not forget its strengths. Yours Elena [1] I presented these figures at DH2006 in Paris: 'Just different layers? Stylesheets and digital edition methodology'. -- Dr Elena Pierazzo Lecturer in Digital Humanities Department in 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: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:26:12 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.571 Folger Digital Texts In-Reply-To: <20121212071710.9557A311F@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Patrick, Desmond and HUMANIST, You both make excellent points; forgive me for doing my best to encapsulate a response to both in one. I think the differences between our perspectives here amounts to one of emphasis. I for one believe there will never be a black box format, even one "highly interoperable" such as Desmond stipulates, that will make tinkering unnecessary, uninteresting or "redundant". To me, tinkering or the capability of tinkering -- which amounts to subjecting the underlying critical and interpretive work to critical and interpretive judgement -- is the essence of it. It's true this work is technical, and as Patrick suggests will be the work of tool builders not "end users". But I (with perhaps too much idealism) maintain that this distinction is not absolute. (Here we cross threads with Willard's question about "co-evolution".) We are all tool-builders in some ways and end users in others. More to the point, a well-built technology enables us to be tinkerers when we choose to be -- our freedom is not *unnecessarily* constrained by the particular affordances of the interface; rather those constraints are enabling. In other words, I suspect that as soon as Desmond's hypothetical highly interoperable binary sees the light of day, it will be reverse engineered into something more easily hackable -- most likely a plain text serialization. One might take PDF and HTML as examples of the principle here. Despite being (sort of) "standard" and externally specified, PDF is much harder to build tools for; to my mind it is no accident that its application remains a functional silo -- emulating print, with scarce use even of its capacity for hypertext -- while HTML is getting into everything, despite its poor native semantics (or in some ways because of them, insofar as its tags are reduced to hangars for an explicit or implicit ontology represented in 'class' attribute assignments). Moreover, I consider this work of tinkering to be essentially humanistic in nature, or ought to be -- at least in the same way as the work of a doctor, lawyer, engineer or architect should be "humanistic", and additionally (when it comes, for example, to working with the encoding of text of literary or historical interest) humanistic in a narrower sense. The specialist in text encoding must work shoulder to shoulder with the scholar, or the work of both will be limited and impoverished for no good reason other than (I suppose) economics. I acknowledge that none of this directly contradicts your arguments. In particular, Desmond says something really important when he remarks how "at the moment, XML files in the humanities are proportionally less useful to others the more markup is embedded in them, because they become a specific representation of the work of one researcher, which interferes with the work of another". This is indeed a problem -- engendered by XML's success at doing what it does -- ameliorated only by skills in processing XML. (But hey, just let me know if you want help cracking that nut.) The problem is not, however, that the encoding represents specifically one perspective, but rather that its representation almost inevitably hinders others. For now -- Desmond also knows there are alternatives on the horizon. Best regards, Wendell On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 571. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Patrick Durusau (55) > Subject: Re: 26.565 Folger Digital Texts > > [2] From: Desmond Schmidt (134) > Subject: Re: 26.565 Folger Digital Texts > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:49:41 -0500 > From: Patrick Durusau > Subject: Re: 26.565 Folger Digital Texts > In-Reply-To: <20121211064601.A3B6E30A9@digitalhumanities.org> > > Wendell, > > On 12/11/2012 01:46 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > >> Dear Desmond, and HUMANIST, >> >> On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 11:01 AM, you wrote: >>> I did download some of the texts.They appear to be marked up for >>> linguistic analysis. I don't wish to criticise the Folger texts per >>> se, but they do lead me to reflect in general on what the digital >>> humanities have become. Is our Shakespeare (and everything else) >>> really preserved for future generations in forms like this, or is it >>> not now mostly a collection of angle-brackets? One of the advantages >>> of XML has always been its supposed human readability, but the gradual >>> increase in complexity over the years has now reached a point where >>> the plain text format is self-defeating. When even a single line of a >>> play has to be stitched together by virtually joining individually >>> marked-up words how can we any longer pretend that XML is readable by >>> humans? We might as well use a standard binary format. >> It's a bit startling, but refreshing, to see this question asked. Yet >> I think the answer is not hard to find if we look around us. > > Great answer to binary vs. plain-text but I thought another question was > implied. > > As you know, all text displayed by a computer, stored in either binary > or plain-text formats is a presentation of an underlying machine > representation. > > As an XSLT maven, I expected you to point out that the XML displayed to > the reader could be as simple or as complex as desired. > > At one extreme, modern office word processing software conceals fairly > complex XML behind a traditional text interface. > > At the other extreme are "plain" text editors that given the impression > the user is seeing "the format" of the text. Not really. The reader is > always interacting with a representation of the text, based on a machine > level format. > > It is certainly possible to have an XML encoded text displayed with > traditional critical apparatus and edited as such with changes to the > underlying XML. > > Why humanists continue to struggle with "raw" XML as though it is > meaningful for the scholarly enterprise as "XML," I cannot say. What is > important is capturing their analysis of a text. > > Their analysis being preserved in XML is important for interchange and > legacy preservation, neither of which need to be addressed by working > humanists. Those are issues for tool makers. > Hope you are having a great day! > > Patrick > > -- > Patrick Durusau > patrick@durusau.net > Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) > 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: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:06:57 +1000 > From: Desmond Schmidt > Subject: Re: 26.565 Folger Digital Texts > In-Reply-To: <20121211064601.A3B6E30A9@digitalhumanities.org> > > Wendell, > > I wasn't necessarily thinking of EXI or FastInfoset, but more generally > the principle of using a standard binary format, perhaps entirely > different to XML, that would encourage interoperability by discouraging > tinkering. As it is, with the text exposed in this way, the first thing > the recipient of such a file does is modify it for his or her purpose. In > principle, having a black box format that was highly interoperable would > make the tinkering redundant, and encourage the development of truly > interoperable tools that worked upon it. At the moment, XML files in the > humanities are proportionally less useful to others the more markup is > embedded in them, because they become a specific representation of > the work of one researcher, which interferes with the work of another. > > Desmond Schmidt > eResearch Lab, > University of Queensland > Australia > -- Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B24E4EB9; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:47:34 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45906F8E; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:47:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C2E59EB7; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:47:29 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121213084729.C2E59EB7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:47:29 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.578 jobs: at Northeastern, at King's London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 578. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Seif El-Nasr, Magy" (16) Subject: Open rank faculty position at Northeastern in computational social science/digital humanities [2] From: "Brookes, Stewart" (18) Subject: Programmer required for DigiPal Project at DDH, King's College London --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:30:11 +0000 From: "Seif El-Nasr, Magy" Subject: Open rank faculty position at Northeastern in computational social science/digital humanities Open rank Faculty position at Northeastern in computational social science/digital humanities Northeastern University invites applications and nominations at all ranks (Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor) for a cluster of faculty positions in fields encompassed by the Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science. We define the range of relevant disciplines broadly to include study in the humanities or human behavior and developing computational methods applied to these domains. In association with a new multidisciplinary center, the NUlab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, this cluster hire builds on Northeastern’s national prominence in the digital humanities, computational social science, and network science. At the core of NUlab lies new collaborative work across disciplines in the era of big data, digitized texts, visualization, and social media. The premise of the lab is that both the humanities and the social sciences are at the beginning of a paradigm shift driven by the opportunities offered by emerging corpora of large-scale data coupled with enormous computational power. We welcome applications from faculty engaged in research areas and technologies including (but not limited to) geographic information systems, text mining, topic modeling, network analysis, natural language processing, machine learning, gaming, new media, digital curation, and data visualization and design. Cross-disciplinary and cross-college appointments are possible. Inquiries and nominations may be directed to Professor Elizabeth Maddock Dillon > or Professor David Lazer >. (Please put in subject line of any inquiries "Inquiry re DH/CSS search".) Review of applications will begin December 10, 2012, but the search will remain open until all positions are filled. -- Magy Seif El-Nasr, PhD Associate Professor Director of Game Educational Programs and Research at Northeastern Director of the Game Design Program College of Arts, Media, and Design College of Computer and Information Sciences Northeastern University www.northeastern.edu/magy www.northeastern.edu/games --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:31:01 +0000 From: "Brookes, Stewart" Subject: Programmer required for DigiPal Project at DDH, King's College London A new vacancy has come up for a programmer on the DigiPal team (http:/digipal.eu). The position is for 18 months and is for a developer with Python (ideally Django) and relational database skills, preferably also with knowledge of JavaScript/JQuery and AJAX and an interest in interface design, data modelling and medieval manuscripts. You will be working closely with the existing DigiPal team as the principal developer and will be responsible for most of the development work in practice. The appointment is for 100% (full time) and you will be based in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London but dedicated to the DigiPal project . Applications close on 1 January 2013, with interviews planned for soon after that. We are looking for an immediate start, though of course we understand that you may have other commitments. Although the formal contract is 18 months, but an extension to 30 September 2014 is very likely in practice. For further details and to apply, see: http://www.digipal.eu/blogs/news/digipal-developer-job-vacancy/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CC5A8F9D; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:51:08 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09FA6EB9; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:51:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D14A0E63; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:51:06 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121213085106.D14A0E63@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:51:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.579 events: Historical Network Research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 579. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:45:41 +0100 From: Marten_Düring Subject: Call for papers "Historical Network Research" at the XXXIII. Sunbelt Conference, May 21-26 – University of Hamburg, Germany This might be of interest to some of you: *Call for papers “Historical Network Research” at the XXXIII. Sunbelt Conference, May 21-26 – University of Hamburg, Germany* The concepts and methods of social network analysis in historical research are recently being used not only as a mere metaphor but are increasingly applied in practice. In the last decades several studies in the social sciences proved that formal methods derived from social network analysis can be fruitfully applied to selected bodies of historical data as well. These studies however tend to be strongly influenced by concerns, standards of data processing, and, above all, epistemological paradigms that have their roots in the social sciences. Among historians, the term network has been used in a metaphorical sense alone for a long time. It was only recently that this has changed. We invite papers which successfully integrate social network analysis methods and historical research methods and reflect on the added value of their methodologies. Topics could cover (but are not limited to) network analyses of correspondences, social movements, kinship or economic systems in any historical period. Submission will be closing on December 31 at 11:59:59 EST. Please limit your abstract to 250 words. Please submit your abstract here: http://www.abstractserver.com/sunbelt2013/absmgm/ and select “Historical Network Research” as session title in the drop down box on the submission site. Please put a note in the "additional notes" box on the abstract submission form that states Marten During and Martin Stark as the session organizers. For further information on the venue and conference registration see: http://hamburg-sunbelt2013.org/ For any questions regarding the panel, please get in touch with the session organizers. Session organizers: Marten During, Radboud University Nijmegen, martenduering@gmail.com** Martin Stark, University of Hamburg, martin.stark@wiso.uni-hamburg.de Check https://sites.google.com/site/historicalnetworkresearch/ for a detailed bibliography, conferences, screencasts and other resources. -- Dr. Marten Düring Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Personal website http://research.martenduering.com/ Historical Network Research _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BD97F2DA3; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:00:46 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 070912D8B; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:00:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DFBCF122B; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:00:44 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20121214060044.DFBCF122B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:00:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.580 information sharing for UK archives X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 580. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:50:51 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: FW: Introduction to the Digital Preservation Directory and an invitation to join In-Reply-To: <24FDE4042C16EF4BB543A52611A02C5ABF0371B5@winxbeuk06.exchange.xchg> The National Archives has been developing a platform for archives across the UK and Ireland to share information of their digital preservation activities with one another. The directory, DigitalArchivesConnect, is in the form of an open source wiki: http://daconnect.wikispaces.com/Home+page This simple format allows users to add a profile of their organisation and its involvement in digital preservation, and to update and maintain their information. We invite you to submit your own profile, and you can either do this by sending content to me, or adding it yourself using the guidelines on the website: http://daconnect.wikispaces.com/How+to . The preferred format for this content can be found here: http://daconnect.wikispaces.com/space.template.Profile+Details . Do not be shy! We are asking for users at any and every level of digital preservation. Opening up communication on activity will lead to increased confidence on the subject, encourage partnerships and collaboration, and will help identify areas where wider training would be useful. Having promotion and communication in a single location will make knowledge sharing easier as well. Please email me at dac@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk with any comments and questions that you have. Every bit of feedback from you ensures that this directory will be utilised and easily accessible. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1A8902E1B; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:02:29 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CC962D96; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:02:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AE38E2D96; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:02:25 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121214060225.AE38E2D96@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:02:25 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.581 XML & scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 581. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Desmond Schmidt (281) Subject: Re: 26.577 Folger Digital Texts --> XML & scholarship [2] From: Wendell Piez (67) Subject: Re: 26.577 Folger Digital Texts --> XML & scholarship [3] From: Doug Reside (72) Subject: Re: 26.577 Folger Digital Texts --> XML & scholarship --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:07:42 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 26.577 Folger Digital Texts --> XML & scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121213083651.DB8792DA3@digitalhumanities.org> Elena, I actually wasn't advocating a plain text format, only plain text XML versus binary formats including binary XML. But I find it surprising that you argue digital humanists use XML because it meets their scholarly needs and not because it has lots of tools. Scholarly needs cannot be determined by describing how one individual personally uses XML to edit texts. That can only be determined by talking to textual scholars (whether or not they use TEI, and many of them don't) and other classes of user including students, interested members of the public, researchers in other areas and teachers who use texts as an online teaching aid. And those other people are valid users because they are the consumers of what you produce. XML doesn't meet their needs, only software can do that. I am likewise unconvinced by Wendell's argument that tinkering with XML or something like it is a user requirement for digital humanists. Maybe it's what some of them do, but it's not what they really want to do. Users don't intrinsically want to use any particular technology, they just want to get their work done well with the least amount of effort. Patrick actually agrees with me on this: >> Why humanists continue to struggle with "raw" XML as though it is >> meaningful for the scholarly enterprise as "XML," I cannot say. What is >> important is capturing their analysis of a text. The important distinction is thus between the choice of technology you make to get a task done and the task itself. Desmond Schmidt eResearch Lab University of Queensland On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 577. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: "Pierazzo, Elena" (21) > Subject: XML and scholarship (was: Folger Digital Texts) > > [2] From: Wendell Piez (180) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.571 Folger Digital Texts > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:17:48 +0000 > From: "Pierazzo, Elena" > Subject: XML and scholarship (was: Folger Digital Texts) > In-Reply-To: <20121212071710.9557A311F@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear All, > > I have been reading this thread with increasing irritation as I think it leaves out some crucial points and it shows quite a few misconceptions. > > It seems that we are increasingly debating whether we like or not XML and whether we prefer plain texts. I think this is not really the point. Not many people actually like XML, and I'm one of them. I confess I do not feel any pang of love when I see an angle bracket. However, I think XML is a very useful tool as it allows me and others to achieve my scholarly goals better than any other tool, and the role of XML for scholarship, and in particular textual scholarship, is the part I think is being left out of this discussion. > > I was trained as a textual scholar in a very traditional setting, where not even the shade of an angle bracket was in sight. During that time I was growing more and more uncomfortable with the normal practice of silently intervening in the text "normalising" all sorts of features of our heritage texts. XML allowed me and many others like me to embed in the text the documentation of our editorial practice at a level of granularity that no other system was -- and is -- able to do. Furthermore the use of XML according to the TEI Guidelines allowed me and many others to debate our scholarly practice and share our successes and difficulties with a large and growing international community. I have become a much better scholar thanks to the use of XML and the TEI. So, when the the Folger Library made available their XML text they acted following scholarly best practice: to expose their editorial work in a way that other scholars can appreciate and evaluate their editorial work. Plai > n text has the big disadvantage of hiding under a smooth surface all sorts of editorial intervention, so it is actually false that the plain text does not contain an interpretative level: it does, and in a way that is not recoverable, it does in a non-scholarly way. Unless we are talking about very recent texts, spelling, punctuation, orthographic habits, hyphenation, and capitalisation are all silently introduced by editors. For a Renaissance play we are talking about around 3,000 silent editorial interventions as discovered myself when editing a work of an Italian playwright a few years ago [1]. I think that for Shakespeare we are talking about the same order of magnitude. And I'm not even starting on emendations. > > It is not true that we have adopted XML because there are a lot of tools and it is an easy solution: we were using SGML when no tools were available apart from the one we were developing ourselves. We were using it because it met the needs of our scholarly practice. > > Again, if someone does not like to take advantage of the rich XML markup, it is actually quite easy to write a script to strip the markup out; in the case of the Folger Texts they have used TEI, which is a largely known standard which should make it easier to know how to delete the mark up. I think reading the TEI Guidelines and therefore making sense of the markup is a small price to pay for having scholarly edited texts that follow good scholarly practice. > > I think I can speak for a large part of the community that we will be ready to change technology the moment we are given the opportunity to do our editorial work in a better and scholarly way. We know very well the severe limits of XML but we shall not forget its strengths. > > Yours > Elena > > [1] I presented these figures at DH2006 in Paris: 'Just different layers? Stylesheets and digital edition methodology'. > > -- > Dr Elena Pierazzo > Lecturer in Digital Humanities > Department in 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: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:59:04 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 26.577 Folger Digital Texts --> XML & scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121213083651.DB8792DA3@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Elena, I hope it puts you more at ease if we counter that we are not discussing the merits of XML in general vs plain text (sans markup or syntax) in general. Rather, we're speculating freely on the nature and affordances of a non-XML format -- representing more than a sequence of characters, just as XML represents its elements and attributes along with its raw data -- that does not exist (at least not outside the lab). And we're doing so in view of weaknesses in XML that I understand you to freely acknowledge. Desmond says this hypothetical format may as well be a binary, given how opaque XML becomes in application, while I disagree. Patrick says it doesn't really matter, since it's really all about interfaces. I agree with that, except for one reservation, namely that a plain-text serialization -- such as XML gives of its data model(s), which can be represented and stored in other ways besides angle brackets -- is such an interface, and a valuable one (maybe indispensable), mainly because it's so accessible (in tools all the way down to plain-text editors). Whether Desmond and I can come to agree, or decide that our debate is moot, depends largely on what the specific features and affordances of this format are, and in what ways "tinkering" (getting your hands dirty) remains a necessary activity and for whom (researcher in the humanities, developer or whomever). Desmond believes that a capable and robust format should need no tinkering, or at any none that would require access to a text-based serialization. I'm actually willing to agree with this in principle (especially if you define "capable and robust" as requiring no tinkering so deep down :-) -- just as it becomes increasingly possible to work with HTML or even XML (at least for some purposes) without having to see angle brackets. Yet I am skeptical of his hypothesis that the tinkering we do to put the text to our own uses can be cleanly separated from the tinkering that hinders interoperability (even if I agree that this may be worse in XML than it has to be). In view of this, I also think that coupling the data model to a plain-text serialization -- I'd like specifically to see a plain-text *markup syntax* (albeit not XML) -- should be enabling and useful, contributing to the viability of something we're all agreed (I think) would be a non-proprietary technology. Whether this would come at too high a cost (of features or capabilities in the data model, as I think Desmond might argue) I can't actually say -- again, we're arguing about unicorns (or maybe unicorns and basilisks). As Patrick says, it's all about interfaces. Desmond says "this makes my eyes cross: how can you make me do this?" Patrick says "your eyes shouldn't have to cross: we still need better tools." I say "even if your eyes cross, it's actually helpful if someone can get access to the data structures in this form -- partly so they can build better tools." You say "I don't love angle brackets, but I've looked at them a while and my eyes aren't crossing so badly now. And the information in them is essential for me to do my work." I think we are all correct. In particular, I think you and I agree it's worth learning to use the tools we have so we can build better ones. Keep in mind also that there's background to this. All three of us (Desmond, Patrick and myself) turn up in bibliographies of research into data structures and formats that would be more capable than XML, not less, of gracefully describing and working with the kinds of complex structures in which we all are interested. [sp [speaker}SEBASTIAN{]}[line}Ha, ha!{line] [line}What things are these, my Lord Antonio?{line] [line}Will money buy ’em?{sp] [sp [speaker}ANTONIO{]}Very like. One of them{line] [line}Is a plain fish and no doubt marketable.{line]{sp] Cheers, Wendell -- Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:26:00 -0500 From: Doug Reside Subject: Re: 26.577 Folger Digital Texts --> XML & scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121213083651.DB8792DA3@digitalhumanities.org> > So, when the the Folger Library made available their XML text they acted following scholarly best practice: to expose their editorial work in a way that other scholars can appreciate and evaluate their editorial work. Those who have spent time with me at DH conferences have probably been forced to listen to me rail, with varying degrees of tactlessness and un-examined ignorance, against XML/TEI frequently enough that I can almost hear the delete buttons being pounded as folks from the near future see my name in this message header. And it will come as little surprise anyone that I remain suspicious of a hierarchical, syntax-heavy data format like XML for modeling most texts which are, to my mind, more like a stream than a tree. But Eleana's point is a good one, one made frequently by TEI/XML defenders, but one which I hadn't adequately considered until just now. We spend much of our time debating the process of *encoding* TEI, but when I consider TEI as the response from, say, an API call, I begin to see it from a different...angle [sorry...]. Assume I have a text that I've edited using a fancy new tool...forget about how it works, let's just assume its done. Assume, the marked up text is now stored in a database. Again, forget what kind. It's just a database. Now assume I want to dump all of the information about a text out in a form that can be easily used by developers I will never meet. How should I hand off the data? What should that form be? The standard methods are XML and JSON. JSON is cleaner, more compact, and a little easier to parse using modern languages. It's probably the better option for an interchange format. But in the larger scheme of things, its relatively new, and there aren't a lot of good JSON scehma validators out there if I want to ensure that the data that came out of the database is the sort of thing I expected. But there's already a lot of work that's been done in XML. So maybe I just go with XML. Or maybe I'll provide exports to both. I'm not sure it matters. JSON and XML are pretty much functionally equivalent, and I could see good reasons for using either. Now, as the API designer for this database, I need to decide whether to push all the text out in a big blob and stick the metadata in a different data block with offset pointers, or if I should it be embed the tags in the text. As an API designer I should probably allow either. As a consumer of this API, though, I'd probably more often request the embedded markup. If I don't know much about the database structure, embedded tag will make it a bit easier for me to have the data near the metadata so I can figure out exactly how I'm supposed to process the response. Its all pretty subjective of course, and ideally the software we build supports lots of options...but if I only get to chose one canonical interchange format, then maybe embedded tags aren't so bad. Of course, this doesn't answer the question of how the encoding happens. Given what I just wrote, I think it makes the most sense if XML isn't used at all for the actual data entry... But then I think about all of the attempts I and others have made to create "easy to use" XML editors that end up being less functional and harder to use than a simple text editor. Anyone with a modicum of web design experience who has tried to edit HTML in WordPress or Drupal usually starts hunting for the "edit source" button immediately. It feels like there SHOULD be a better kind of data entry tool for text-encoding than an angle bracket editor, but I'm not yet sure what it is. So, after all, (I say on this road to Damascus) maybe TEI/XML isn't _fundamentally_ bad. There is a lot to fix for sure, but as a mechanism for getting entire texts into a system and pushing them out again, it's probably pretty similar to most other solutions I would design, and probably a lot better than many. Most of the time when querying a text I probably just want RDF triples, or even an HTML document, but for those times when I want to "dump data" or "import document", TEI/XML is a pretty good solution. TEI is sometimes treated a bit like organic milk; it's supposed to be more virtuous than other options, but it also can be little more than a sort of meaningless shibboleth into a community. People and government agencies can sniff at your text archives because they aren't TEI conformant, but there is very little regulation to ensure that there is any standardization across documents with the TEI label. Of course, that doesn't mean the very notion of organic milk, or TEI, is useless, I suppose... Doug _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CAC163A0E; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:04:52 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 210D12D96; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:04:52 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 243F62D9E; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:04:50 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121214060450.243F62D9E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:04:50 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.582 coevolution X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 582. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:59:04 +0100 From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" Subject: Re: 26.576 coevolution In-Reply-To: <20121213083347.6E53DF85@digitalhumanities.org> Willard seems to lay a finger on the wound of coevolution in that this term presupposes the interaction between two separate species that will react by coadaptation. Are "humans" and "machines" (the original question) separate species and can we attribute intentionality to machines beyond the metaphoric sphere? Haines Brown and Wendell Piez with their "use-centered approach" to view humans and machines as "things" seem to point into the direction of an ontological, especially cognitive, solution ('"Dinge" are entities that we can think of' Johannes Clauberg, 1660s). Will that be sufficient to save human freedom in the face of human products? To add just a little spice to your interesting discussion, please allow me to quote from a highly readable book, treating the subject of technology within an unusually far-ranging field of view: "Much of what is written on the history of technology is for boys of all ages. This book is a history for grown-ups of all genders. We have lived with technology for a long time, and collectively we know a lot about it. [...] Yet too often the agenda for discussing the past, present and future of technology is set by the promoters of new technologies." (David Edgerton: Shock Of The Old: Technology and Global History since 1900. London: Profile Books, 2006. ISBN 9781861973061). Best regards, Hartmut Krech 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B52233A24; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:05:41 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDED52DEE; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:05:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AE5822DA3; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:05:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121214060538.AE5822DA3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:05:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.583 open access statement X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 583. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Norman Gray (20) Subject: Re: 26.575 open access statement [2] From: Norman Gray (15) Subject: Re: 26.575 open access statement --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:47:57 +0000 From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 26.575 open access statement In-Reply-To: <20121213083047.6CDD7EB8@digitalhumanities.org> Greetings. I was reading the history editors' statement on open access, which recently appeared here This is a rather peculiar statement. Point 2 is: > 2. We will also offer the possibility of ‘green’ publication, ie where an author does not pay an APC, and there is a period of embargo after publication, and subscriptions are charged. The period of embargo we will offer will be 36 MONTHS. I can't find a canonical statement of precisely what constitutes Green OA (the references on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access point to a number of half-definitions), but certainly my impression of Green OA is that it has no embargo period at all. Indeed, since I'm in one of the disciplines covered by arXiv's preprint culture, we have a _negative_ embargo period, in the sense that the preprint will be distributed and read long before the article actually appears, and in extreme cases before the article is even submitted. Thus the authors of this statement appear to be slightly adrift of where the discussion has actually got to. Point 4 includes: > 4. [...] or reuse of parts of an article (text mining). (that's not what text mining is...) > The government has specified that ‘gold’ access is to be given on a CCBY licence, the most permissive form of creative commons licence that there is. This however means that commercial re-use, plagiarism, and republication of an author’s work will be possible, subject to the author being ‘credited’ (but it is not clear in what way they would be credited). Double-dipping, by publishing an article in two places, is generally refused by journals, and not as a matter of copyright. Plagiarism has always been an academic no-no, and as far as I can see 'credit' implies the completely standard academic practice of citation. > We believe that this is a serious infringement of intellectual property rights and we do not want our authors to have to sign away their rights in order to publish with us. Now, I'm not a copyright lawyer, but the point of framing the OA discussion in terms of copyright is precisely so that people can reuse academics' outputs in a non-infringing way -- it uses (almost subversively) the legal technology of IP laws to articulate and enforce the sort of dissemination of their work that most academics surely aspire to. No rights are being signed away; no rights are being infringed. The last part of this sentence is bizarre, in that generally an author will have to sign away their rights to the journal, in a very restrictive way, if they want to publish. I'm not naive about the challenges that the publication world will face as we move in an OA direction -- I'm one of the editors of a journal published by Elsevier (yes, boo hiss etc) which of necessity is arXiv-friendly to the extent of permitting authors to submit to the journal by quoting the arXiv document ID of the article's preprint. These are clearly Interesting Times for journals, and small humanities journals and big STEM journals are going to have different sets of possibly existential problems, but the argument about OA is not really furthered by statements like this quoted one, which frankly verge on the superstitious. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:54:24 +0000 From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 26.575 open access statement In-Reply-To: <20121213083047.6CDD7EB8@digitalhumanities.org> Greetings (open access statement, remark two) Maurizio Lana wrote: > why should i give away the results of my research under CC-BY? if those > results are useless no one has any worries about the license. if those > results are useful and someone wants to make money using them, then it's > only fair that s/he is obliged to negotiate with me the terms for reuse, and > to become aware that my supposedly useless and wasteful research is really > something good. This is a very good point, which I haven't seen articulated before. I also tend to prefer GPL for software and CC-BY-NC for text, not because I want to forbid commercial exploitation, or want to make money out of stuff (fat chance), but because I'd like any commercial users to ask me first. If there was a CC-BY-free-commercial-licence-automatically-on-application, that's the one I'd go for. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B2B4E3A40; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:08:41 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A62D3A0E; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:08:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B62BD3A0E; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:08:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121214060838.B62BD3A0E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:08:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.584 events: popular science; ambiguous technologies; sociology of communications X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 584. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Charles Ess (84) Subject: Deadline extended: CEPE (Computer Ethics: Professional Enquiries), July 1-3, Lisbon, Portugal [2] From: Katy Price (25) Subject: Altered Consciousness, 1918 to 1980 [3] From: Christian Fuchs (58) Subject: Conference Call: ESA 2013 - RN18: Communication, Crisis, Critique and Change --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:58:08 +0000 From: Charles Ess Subject: Deadline extended: CEPE (Computer Ethics: Professional Enquiries), July 1-3, Lisbon, Portugal Call for Papers CEPE 2013- Ambiguous Technologies: Philosophical Issues, Practical Solutions, Human Nature Autónoma University of Lisbon in 2013, in Lisbon (Portugal), July 1st-3rd. http://www.cepe2013.com/ (Note: the Society for Philosophy of Technology (SPT) will hold its 2013 conference - on the theme "Technology in the Age of Information" in conjunction with and immediately following CEPE'13, i.e., July 4-6 in the same venue: http://www.spt2013.com/ . Discounted fees are available to those attend both conferences. Please see the conference websites for additional details.) CEPE'13 will feature a rich list of keynote speakers and topics (see lists below) as well as a "speed mentoring" workshop for younger scholars. Important dates: Extended deadline for paper abstract submission: January 15th, 2013 Abstracts selection: February 15th, 2013 Full papers submission due: May 15th, 2013 Panels/Tracks Submission due: February 15th, 2013 Selection: May 15th, 2013 Keynote Speakers 1. Marty Wolf, Bemidji State University, US (research interest: information ethics and the philosophy of information and computation) 2. Rocci Luppicini, University of Ottawa, Canada (research interest: technoethics and human enhancement) 3. Sylvester Arnab, Coventry University, UK (research interest: immersive technologies for health and learning) 4. Ugo Pagallo, Turin University, Italy (research interest: roboethics and law) 5. Weizenbaum Award Winner (to be announced) Suggested topics - under the conference focus on philosophical issues, practical solutions, human nature are: * Forthcoming technologies (including but not limited to biometrics, memetics, pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing, artificial intelligence, military, nanotechnology, robotics, speckled computing); * Biomedical technology, health and enhancement (including but not limited to artificial vision, body implants, neural interfaces, synaptic sensors); * Technologies of self and consciousness (including but not limited to augmentation, extended memory); * ICT: Philosophy, religion and technical issues (including but not limited to philosophy/history, justice, ethics- intellectual property, responsibility-, religion, engineering- design and reflection); * Technology, gender and culture (including but not limited to education, e-entertainment, computer/video games, media, social networking, serious games); * Environmental and sustainability technologies (including but not limited to green ICT, ICT ecological footprint, sustainable technologies transfer); * ICT vis-à-vis globalisation (including but not limited to ICT4D); * ICT vis-à-vis intercultural dialogue (including but not limited to positive/negative case-studies); * International ethics, law and policy issues (including but not limited to context awareness, cyber security, surveillance). The Organising Committee welcomes interdisciplinary perspectives by researchers and practitioners from computer science, computer ethics, information ethics, information systems, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, biomedical sciences, because a broad spectrum of analysis is intended. For more information on submission procedures, speed mentoring opportunities, and publication plans, please see the conference website, http://www.cepe2013.com/ On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Gonçalo Costa Reginaldo de Almeida (Autónoma University of Lisbon, Portugal) Elizabeth Buchanan (University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA) Arlindo Alegre Donário (Autónoma University of Lisbon, Portugal) Charles Ess (University of Oslo, Norway) Michael Nagenborg (Tübingen University, Germany) Ricardo Borges Santos (Autónoma University of Lisbon, Portugal) == Many thanks, charles ess Associate Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway Tel. +47 228 50404 email: charles.ess@media.uio.no Director, Center for Research on Media Innovations (CeRMI) http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/ Lifetime member, Association of Internet Researchers --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:27:03 +0000 From: Katy Price Subject: Altered Consciousness, 1918 to 1980 Call for expressions of interest Please respond to k.price@qmul.ac.uk A call for papers will be circulated in 2013 'Popular Science, Altered Consiousness and Twentieth-Century Culture' Date: November 2013 (one-day conference to be held on a Saturday) Venue: Queen Mary, University of London Supported by the Centre for the History of the Emotions and the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London This conference will bring together scholars working on altered consciousness in relation to popular science, medicine and literature during the period 1918-1980. The interdisciplinary meeting will initialise a network for future exchange and collaboration between historians of mind science and literary critics. Many literary and popular authors during the mid twentieth-century represented altered states of consciousness in their writing, responding to and participating in research relating to such topics as ESP, clairvoyance, telepathy, mind-altering drugs, psychic therapies, spiritualisms, conversion, revivals, somnambulism, precognition, distraction, group mind, multiple personality, hypnotism, lucid dreaming, Vedanta, hysteria and automatism. What was the continuing legacy of nineteenth-century approaches to mind and spirit? How did work at the fringes of psychiatry and psychology intersect with mind sciences that consolidated their authority during the mid-twentieth century? What are the key interactions between British, European, North American and non-Western sources? Please send queries and expressions of interest to k.price@qmul.ac.uk --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:46:02 +0000 From: Christian Fuchs Subject: Conference Call: ESA 2013 - RN18: Communication, Crisis, Critique and Change European Sociological Association 2013 Conference: Crisis, Critique and Change August 28-31, 2013. Torino, Italy http://www.esa11thconference.eu Full CfP http://www.esa11thconference.eu/media/1/download Call for Abstracts by Research Network 18 - Sociology of Communications and Media Research: Communication, Crisis, Critique and Change Coordinator: Christian Fuchs Communication, Crisis, Critique and Change http://www.esa11thconference.eu/call-for-papers/research-networks/RN18 https://www.facebook.com/events/450441271689391/ Abstracts should not exceed 1750 characters (including spaces, approximately 250 words). Each paper session will have the duration of 1.5 hours. Normally sessions will include 4 papers. For submission, please use the form that shows up when clicking on the links next to the session titles on http://www.esa11thconference.eu/call-for-papers/research-networks/RN18 Abstracts can only be submitted online no later than 1st of February 2013 to the submission platform hosted on the conference website. Abstracts sent by email cannot be accepted. ESA RN18 focuses in its conference stream on the discussion of how crisis, critque and societal changes shape the study of media, communication & society today. The overall questions we want to address are: * Which crises (including the fnancial and economic crisis of capitalism, global wars and conflicts, ecological crisis, the crisis of democracy, legitimation crisis, etc) are we experiencing today and how do they influence media and communication in contemporary society? * What are the major changes of society, the media, and communication that we are experiencing today? * What forms of political critique (political movements) and academic critique (critical studies, critical media sociology, critical theory, etc) are emerging today and are needed for interpreting and changing media, communication and society? ESA RN18 is calling for both general submissions on “Communicaton, Crisis, Critique and Change” that address these questions as wellas more specific submissions that address a number of specific session topics. For detailed session descriptions, please see http://www.esa11thconference.eu/call-for-papers/research-networks/RN18 01RN18. Capitalism, Communication, Crisis & Critique Today This session focuses on how to critically study the connection of capitalism and communication in times of crisis. 02RN18. Communication, Crisis and Change in Europe This session focuses on media and communicaton in Europe in times of crisis and change. We are especially interested in presentations that cover Europe as a whole and go beyond single-country studies 03RN18. Knowledge Labour in the Media and Communication Industries in Times of Crisis 04RN18. Critical Social Theory and the Media: Studying Media, Communication and Society Critically 05RN18. Sociology of Communications and Media Research (open) 06JS18. RN18 Joint session with RN06 Critical Political Economy Critical Political Economy of the Media and Communication in Times of Capitalist Crisis and Change (Chairs: Ian Bruff & Christian Fuchs) 18JS29. RN18 Joint session with RN29 Social Theory Social Theory and Media Sociology Today (Chairs: George Pleios and Csaba Szalo) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DEF0A2D96; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:31:25 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F3E6EBA; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:31:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F0B9FE63; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:31:22 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121214073122.F0B9FE63@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:31:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.585 PhD studentships at King's College London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 585. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:23:39 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: PhD studentships Please note the following PhD studentship opportunities: -- the King's-China Scholarship Council PhD Scholarship Programme, open to citizens and permanent residents of China (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/graduate/funding/database/index.php?action=view&id=308); -- the King's Graduate School International Research Awards, open to international students from any non-EU country (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/pg/funding/sources/gsint.aspx). Either could be applied to the PhD in Digital Humanities. Please forward to any potential applicants. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EF7AB3A37; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:52:10 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2AB43A29; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:52:09 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2DF9C3A28; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:52:08 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121215105208.2DF9C3A28@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:52:08 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.586 XML & scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 586. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Desmond Schmidt (1) Subject: Re: 26.581 XML & scholarship [2] From: Wendell Piez (37) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.581 XML & scholarship --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:00:39 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 26.581 XML & scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121214060225.AE38E2D96@digitalhumanities.org> > Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:26:00 -0500 > From: Doug Reside > Subject: Re: 26.577 Folger Digital Texts --> XML & scholarship > > But then I think about all of the attempts I and others have made to > > create "easy to use" XML editors that end up being less functional and > > harder to use than a simple text editor. Anyone with a modicum of web > > design experience who has tried to edit HTML in WordPress or Drupal > > usually starts hunting for the "edit source" button immediately. It > > feels like there SHOULD be a better kind of data entry tool for > > text-encoding than an angle bracket editor, but I'm not yet sure what > > it is. Doug, I'm glad that someone else recognises the difficulty of this problem. It seems like it ought to be possible to build a graphical editor for TEI-XML, but with 544 or more tags it's impossible to translate all the structures that humanists want to record and represent them all graphically. Simple textual highlighting works, sure, paragraph structures work, but variants, virtual joins, footnotes, links, etc etc? Since you have to represent many tags as raw XML what happens if the user makes a mistake? You'd have to handle that error right there in your online editor, not when the text is sent to the server. You'd have to provide context-sensitive editing, hundreds of pages of explanations as to what each tag signifies, and explain to the user how to fix each mistake. Not a simple task to program, and certainly not a simple task to use it. The user need to have a simple editor cannot be met by XML. You have to think beyond it, and I believe a consensus is now emerging in the digital humanities that at least the properties of text (NOT its versions) can be practically represented as overlapping ranges. There are quite a few projects now exploring this line of research: eComma, CATMA, LMNL, our own standoff properties. It's not rocket science. It's very simple, and it works. Check out our website austese.net/tests/. Everything you see here is done without XML, from the server to the visualisations, comparisons, everything. The only thing that handles XML are the import tools, of course. So I don't believe that XML is actually needed any more to get our work done. Desmond Schmidt eResearch Lab University of Queensland --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:53:13 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.581 XML & scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121214060225.AE38E2D96@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Desmond, On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > I am likewise unconvinced by Wendell's argument > that tinkering with XML or something like it is a user requirement for > digital humanists. Actually I wouldn't put it like this: it puts the cart of tinkering in front of the horse of scholarly requirements. Rather, I'd say that I don't think all of the requirements of scholars working with digital media can be addressed without tinkering (either by themselves or by others addressing their needs), for the foreseeable future and possibly intrinsically. (I haven't decided if digital media per se demand this, due to the generality of algorithmic processes, or whether they're more like, say, print media, and that means and methods will stabilize after a few generations of development. Maybe both potentials are there. This is of course Willard's question in that other thread.) This is precisely because I don't think that any technology can be aligned preemptively with all the needs of scholars. So it's not that scholars must be tinkerers, but that scholarship as a whole will not advance (on a digital platform) without some scholars sometimes tinkering (or at any rate, being party to tinkering). A black-box format that discourages tinkering will inevitably hinder or prohibit some kinds of work even while enabling others. And yes, even an openly specified and standard technology such as XML can become a black box (at least for practical purposes) as it becomes more complex and difficult to learn, and its applications more burdened by implicit knowledge and "lore". I know that at the far side of my argument is the idea that the workman who has not invented his tool does not know how to use it. Yet there is a way in which I believe that. Cheers, Wendell -- Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 18CB03A4F; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:52:41 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60DAD3A47; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:52:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3EFE43A37; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:52:39 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121215105239.3EFE43A37@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:52:39 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.587 text-comparison software? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 587. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:29:48 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: text-comparison software A colleague has asked me the following on behalf of her PhD student: > is there a generally available item of software that would allow > someone (a PhD student of mine to be specific) to compare three texts > (A,B,C) with a view to ascertaining what percentage of overlap there > is between A and B on the one hand and B and C on the other? Trouble > is (at least I expect the trouble is) that he's interested in blocks > of overlapping text not in simple frequency of individual items. He > has the idea that some form of plagiarism software might do what he > wants, but would it? Any suggestions? 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 859383A4F; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:53:30 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D003A4C; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:53:29 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 01B513A17; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:53:27 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121215105328.01B513A17@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:53:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.588 job at Calgary (requested reminder) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 588. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:11:56 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: assistant professor position at Calgary The Department of English at the University of Calgary invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, effective July 1, 2013. We are seeking candidates with a completed PhD in English or a closely related discipline, a demonstrated scholarly record, intellectual breadth and flexibility, and expertise in Digital Humanities research such as text analysis (algorithmic criticism, corpus linguistics), data visualization, tool development, data curation/mining, GIS, digital editing, social media/networked knowledge. The successful applicant will be able to contribute to the teaching needs of the Department at all levels and will be an active member of the Digital Arts and Humanities working group. The Department of English at the University of Calgary is one of the most dynamic research and teaching departments in Canada, with thriving MA and PhD programs and a strong undergraduate program. We encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including members of visible minorities, Aboriginal peoples, and persons with disabilities. For more information about the Department, see our home page: http://www.english.ucalgary.ca. Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a refereed publication or project URL, and evidence of teaching effectiveness. They should arrange to have three confidential letters of reference forwarded directly to: Dr. Bart Beaty, Head Department of English University of Calgary 2500 University Drive NW Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 or by eEmail to the Department Manager, Anne Jaggard: jaggard@ucalgary.ca Original letters of reference must be sent to the address above. Deadline: January 31, 2013 or when the position is filled. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 853DA3A54; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:57:48 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78D6D3A4F; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:57:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E5C313A0F; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:57:44 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121215105744.E5C313A0F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:57:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.589 events: performing arts; geeks; narrative; publishing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 589. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Panayiota Polydoratou (86) Subject: 2nd Call for Papers - Elpub 2013 [2] From: nesi (134) Subject: ECLAP 2013 International Conference - Call for Papers [3] From: Jon Agar (30) Subject: Invitation: Will the Geek Inherit the Earth? + New MSc launch party, STS London [4] From: Jan Christoph Meister (69) Subject: 2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2013) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:09:13 +0200 From: Panayiota Polydoratou Subject: 2nd Call for Papers - Elpub 2013 *Call for Papers* *17th International Conference on Electronic Publishing */*Mining the Digital Information Networks*/ June 13-14, 2013, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden The main theme of the /17th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB, http://www.elpub.net)/ will be extracting and processing data from the vast wealth of digital publishing and the ways to use and reuse this information in innovative social contexts in a sustainable way. We will bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss data mining, digital publishing and social networks along with their implications for scholarly communication, information services, e-learning, e-businesses, the cultural heritage sector and other areas where electronic publishing is imperative. Electronic publishing is continuously changing, inviting new actors and challenging traditional players. New technologies open new ways for individuals, scholars, communities and networks to establish contacts, exchange data, produce information, share knowledge in a large variety of devices, from personal computers to mobile media. There is an urgent need to rethink electronic publishing, in order to develop and use new communication paradigms and technologies. It is a matter of transforming and transmitting information not just into an equivalent of paper but to develop a truly digital format, to allow machine processing and new services, and to face the future of mobile life. The /ELPUB 2013/ conference will focus on key issues concerning the development of methods for gathering and processing information and on the means for making these data useful and accessible for the digital community. To address those questions we need competence and knowledge from many different fields. We welcome submissions from members of the communities whose research is transforming the nature of electronic publishing and scholarly communication. Topics include: *Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery* ·Text Mining (Natural language processing, text harvesting, dynamic formatting) ·Open Data, Open Linked Data (Solutions, methods, tools) ·Web Mining (Knowledge discovery in web documents) ·Association Mining (Knowledge linking, discovery, presentation) ·Information Retrieval (Content search, analysis and retrieval) ·Visualization (Clustering, Graphs, Augmented reality) ·Stream Mining (Video tagging, Audiobook tagging) *Publishing and Access* ·New publishing models (Business models, tools, services and roles) ·Open access (Publishing solutions, mandates, recommendations) ·Mobile information services (e-contents, e-books, etc.) ·Interoperability (Scalability and middleware infrastructure) ·Legal issues (Security, privacy and copyright issues) ·Digital preservation (Cultural heritage, content authentication) ·Semantic web (Metadata, information granularity, digital objects) ·Digital library (Repositories, services, future) *Online Social Networks* ·New digital media (user studies, innovative publishing) ·User interfaces (Multilingual and multimodal interfaces, User generated contents) ·Specific user communities (Services and technology, media and content) ·Personalization technologies (e.g. social tagging, folksonomies, RSS) ·Social interaction analysis (Author collaboration trends, publication trends) ·Security, Privacy and Integrity (Online ethics, Privacy policies, Online censorship) ·Network analysis (Modelling and visualization of science networks) ·Ubiquitous computing (Mobile and social network interactions, RFID book tagging) *Contributions are Invited for the Following Categories:* · Full Research Papers (max: 10 pages) · Full Professional Papers (max: 10 pages) · Extended Abstracts (max: 1,500 words) *Important Dates* September 10, 2012 Submission Site Open January 10, 2013 Submission Deadline (time: 11:59 pm, PST) March 1, 2013 Author Decision Notification March 15, 2013 Submission of Camera-Ready Manuscripts June 13-14, 2013 Conference Date See website for all details: http://www.elpub.net http://www.elpub.net/ Join our community at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Elpub-Conference/255715494465396 Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/ElpubConf http://twitter.com/#%21/ElpubConf LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Elpub-Conference-4170564?home&gid=4170564&trk=anet_ug_hm -- Dr. Panayiota Polydoratou Assistant Professor ATEI of Thessaloniki Department of Library Science and Information Systems 57400 - Sindos Greece tel: +30 2310 013(237) fax: +30 2310 079(185) web: http://www.libd.teithe.gr/polydor --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:53:38 +0100 From: nesi Subject: ECLAP 2013 International Conference - Call for Papers Call For Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ECLAP 2013 Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment 8-10 April 2013 ESMAE/Teatro Helena Sá e Costa Rua da Alegria, 503 - 4000-045 Porto (Portugal) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference web page: http://www.eclap.eu/eclap2013 Call for Papers, Deadline: 31st January 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Information Technology age has facilitated many significant changes in the field of cultural heritage and continues to be a dynamic and exciting forum for the emergence of new possibilities. This wave of change has had particularly significant consequences in the field of the Performing Arts, where the vast potential for digital content and new information technology exploitation continues to reveal itself, opening the doors to new and as-yet-unexplored synergies. Many technological developments concerning digital libraries, media entertainment, and education are now fully developed and ready to be exported, applied, utilized, and cultivated by the public. In the spirit of this vibrant environment, ECLAP is pleased to announce the 2013 Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment. Established by co-funding from the European Commission (ICT-PSP), ECLAP is a Best Practice Network that aims to create a network of experts and media access service for performing arts institutions in Europe, along with an e-library for the performing arts. The ECLAP 2013 conference is open to researchers, professionals, industries, institutions, technicians, and practitioners in the area of performing arts and information technologies, media entertainment, technology enhanced learning, intelligent media systems, acoustic systems, cultural heritage, open data, content management, semantic models, metadata standards, and many others. The ECLAP conference aims to create a forum in which progress-oriented individuals and institutions within the aforementioned professions can find a place to collaborate and present results. We cordially invite all interested groups and individuals to submit proposals for sessions within the event, sessions, papers, posters and exhibitions. Each exhibition session offers space (booths and tables) to host demonstrators. Demo and poster sessions will also be organized. The ECLAP 2013 conference will confirm a keynote-speaker lineup consisting of some of the most salient voices in the field and is currently looking to put together a set of sessions and panels that will conform to a standard of excellence. The conference will comprise selected top-level papers, which will be published complete with ISBN and largely indexed via Springer (pending), and promoted in the most relevant indexing engines. Topics of the General track on Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment include, but are not limited to: -- Media Annotations and tagging, solutions and interfaces -- Media grid processing and semantic computing -- Social media technologies and solutions -- Cross media and multimedia mining -- Mobile solutions and tools -- Multimodal interactive systems -- Recommendations and suggestions, collective intelligence -- Video analysis, indexing and summarization -- Collaborative and cooperative systems -- Multilingual and natural language processing -- Content digitisation & preservation practices -- Content production models and tools -- Linked Open Data, aggregated media -- Indexing and search, filtering, information retrieval, Emotion analysis -- Metadata quality, mapping and ingestion models and tools -- Cloud based solutions -- Production, Consumption, Creative Reuse of digital content -- Creative technologies for cultural Heritage -- Live Performance technologies and solutions -- Audio processing and tools for large events and installations -- 3D and 4D technologies and tools -- Augmented reality solutions -- IPR management systems -- Business models -- Data and media protection Submissions should be original and not submitted and/or published in other journals or conferences. The ECLAP Program Committee members will review the proposals (papers, posters, exhibitions) and select the ones for presentation. Only the papers selected by the Program Committee will be presented at the ECLAP 2013 conference and published in the conference proceedings. Deadlines: -- Submission of Sections: 21 December 2012 -- Submission of papers to the General Track: 31 January 2013 -- Submission of papers to the Workshops/Sessions: 31 January 2013 -- Response to the Authors: 15 February 2013 -- Camera ready version in DOC/Latex with the correct format: 28 February 2013 -- Conference: 8-10 April 2013 For info: info@eclap.eu or visit the ECLAP portal http://www.eclap.eu or main conference page: http://www.eclap.eu/eclap2013 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Prof. Paolo Nesi, Ph.D. University of Florence DISIT-DSI, Department of Systems and Informatics Distributed Systems and Internet Technology Lab Via S. Marta 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy mailto:paolo.nesi@unifi.it mailto:paonesi@gmail.com for mobile communications mailto:paolo.nesi@pec.disit.org for PEC mailto:nesi@dsi.unifi.it http://www.disit.dsi.unifi.it/ http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi http://www.dsi.unifi.it/ http://www.unifi.it/ Office: +39-055-4796523 LAB: +39-055-4796425 Admin: +39-055-4796567 fax: +39-055-4796493, 469 or 363 mobile: +39-335-5668674 skype: nesipaolo ApreToscana Polo Scientifico di Sesto Via Madonna del Piano, 6 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy +39-055-5254629 - fax +39-055-5254639 mailto:paolo.nesi@apretoscana.org mailto:info@apretoscana.org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:23:58 +0000 From: Jon Agar Subject: Invitation: Will the Geek Inherit the Earth? + New MSc launch party, STS London In-Reply-To: <4C89CD8B7711E749B8129FDCEC4816E412CA3F71@DB3PRD0104MB129.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com> Will the Geek Inherit the Earth? What is the place of science in modern society? Who counts as a scientist? What do I have to do get earn that identity? Which activities count as rightfully "scientific" and which activities certainly should not? Panel discussion in the evening Join us in a panel discussion on questions like these, arising from Mark Henderson's book The Geek Manifesto. 21 January 2013, 18:00-20:00 in UCL Roberts Building Foyer We've assembled a panel of thinkers on these questions. We want to bring them, and you, into an open discussion. To discuss the place of science in our society, we will be joined by: * Mark Henderson, author of·The Geek Manifesto * Lisa Jardine, Director of the UCL Centre for Editing Lives and Letters * Geraint Rees, Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience * James Wilsdon, Professor of Science and Democracy, University of Sussex * Jack Stilgoe, UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies (chair) This event is free but please RSVP: sts@ucl.ac.uk or 020 7679 1328 Follow the department on Twitter: @stsucl The UCL Roberts Building is located at the intersection of Torrington Place and Malet Place (map) MSc programme launch party This event celebrates the launch of our new MSc programmes, revamped for 2013, with admissions now underway. * History and Philosophy of Science MSc (link) * Science, Technology, and Society MSc (link) Many of the tutors at the heart of our MSc programme will be at this event. We want you to have a chance to ask about the programme and its opportunities. Also on hand will be our MSc Admissions team, ready to answer questions or arrange a further discussion later. For more information about the MSc programmes, visit www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/msc (link http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/msc ) Why The Geek Manifesto? The Geek Manifesto is our department's OneBook for 2012-13. The OneBook programme aims to increase intellectual integration across our academic programmes and encourages informal learning. Each year, we ask staff and students to read one book in common during the summer, then arrive for the new session ready to discuss both its substance and its broader value. The work comes into use across the curriculum. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:29:31 +0100 From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: 2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2013) In-Reply-To: <4C89CD8B7711E749B8129FDCEC4816E412CA3F71@DB3PRD0104MB129.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com> Dear Colleagues, we'd like to draw your attention to the following: CALL FOR PAPERS 2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2013) 4-6 August 2013 Universitaet Hamburg, Germany http://narrative.csail.mit.edu/ws13/ (a satellite workshop of CogSci 2013: The 35th meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Berlin, Germany, 31 July - 3 August 2013) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Richard Gerrig, Stony Brook University, U.S.A. Inderjeet Mani, Chiang Mai, Thailand Paper Submission: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmn2013 Important Dates: 24 February 2013. Submission deadline. 31 March 2013. Notification. 30 April 2013. Final versions due. 31 July - 3 August 2013. CogSci 2013 in Berlin. 4-6 August 2013. Workshop in Hamburg. Workshop Aims Narratives are ubiquitous in human experience. We use them to communicate, convince, explain, and entertain. As far as we know, every society in the world has narratives, which suggests they are rooted in our psychology and serve an important cognitive function. It is becoming increasingly clear that, to truly understand and explain human intelligence, beliefs, and behaviors, we will have to understand why and to what extent narrative is universal and explain (or explain away) the function it serves. The aim of this workshop series is to address key questions that advance our understanding of narrative and our ability to model it computationally. Special Focus: Cognitive Science This workshop will be an appropriate venue for papers addressing fundamental topics and questions regarding narrative. The workshop will be held as a satellite event of the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (to be held in Berlin 31st July - 3rd August), and so will have a special focus on the cognitive science of narrative. Papers should be relevant to issues fundamental to the computational modeling and scientific understanding of narrative; we especially welcome papers relevant to the cognitive, linguistic, or philosophical aspects of narrative. Cognitive psychological or neuroscientific experimental work which may provide insights critical to computational modeling is appropriate for this workshop, and is encouraged. Discussing technological applications or motivations is not prohibited, but is not required. We accept both finished research and more tentative exploratory work. We invite and encourage submissions either as full papers or position papers, through the workshop's EasyChair website http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmn2013 Accepted papers will be published in an electronic proceedings volume in the series OASIcs (Open Access Series in Informatics, Schloss Dagstuhl). Full papers should contain original research and have to fit within 16 pages in the OASIcs style (plus two pages of references); position papers can report on work-in-progress, research plans or projects and have to fit within four pages in the OASIcs style (plus one page of references). OASIcs webpage: http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/oasics OASICs style: http://drops.dagstuhl.de/styles/oasics/oasics-authors.tgz Programme Committee: Rossana Damiano, Kerstin Dautenhahn, David K. Elson, Mark Finlayson (co-chair), Pablo Gervas, Andrew S. Gordon, Valerie G. Hardcastle, Patrik Haslum, Benedikt Loewe (co-chair), Jan Christoph Meister, Peggy J. Miller, Erik T. Mueller, Livia Polanyi, Marie-Laure Ryan, Timothy Tangherlini, Mariet Theune, R. Michael Young, Atif Waraich, Patrick Henry Winston. Organizers: Mark A. Finlayson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.), Bernhard Fisseni (Universitaet Hamburg & Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Benedikt Loewe (Universitaet Hamburg, Germany & Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Jan Christoph Meister (Universitaet Hamburg, Germany). -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B638B3A60; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:58:26 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B803A54; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:58:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 63B633A57; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:58:24 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121215105824.63B633A57@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:58:24 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.590 Reading East X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 590. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:51:12 -0700 From: Michael Ullyot Subject: Reading East: Irish Sources and Resources Those interested in book history will find this new site at UCD of interest; the Digital Humanities Observatory was involved in its development. yours Michael Ullyot +++++ Reading East: Irish Sources and Resources http://www.ucd.ie/readingeast/ The heart of the website is a catalogue of early modern printed texts that attest to contact between Europe and the East, and that are held in Dublin research libraries. In the catalogue you will find a selection of books about the East, covering a variety of genres, with a detailed description of each text that includes a bibliographical report, copy-specific information, images, and links to relevant online resources. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Michael Ullyot, Assistant Professor Department of English, University of Calgary ullyot.ucalgaryblogs.ca/ | @ullyot | 403.220.4656 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E001B3A40; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:29:40 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E2AEDD; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:29:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 90FC139DB; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:29:37 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121216102937.90FC139DB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:29:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.591 text-comparison software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 591. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jan Rybicki (50) Subject: Re: 26.587 text-comparison software? [2] From: "Patrick T. Rourke" (18) Subject: Re: 26.587 text-comparison software? [3] From: Dot Porter (59) Subject: Re: 26.587 text-comparison software? [4] From: Daniel_Riaño (51) Subject: Re: 26.587 text-comparison software? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 13:24:26 +0100 From: Jan Rybicki Subject: Re: 26.587 text-comparison software? In-Reply-To: <20121215105239.3EFE43A37@digitalhumanities.org> I've been using WCopyFind with interesting results. Best, Jan Rybicki On Dec 15, 2012 10:52 AM, "Humanist Discussion Group" < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 587. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:29:48 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: text-comparison software > > A colleague has asked me the following on behalf of her PhD student: > > > is there a generally available item of software that would allow > > someone (a PhD student of mine to be specific) to compare three texts > > (A,B,C) with a view to ascertaining what percentage of overlap there > > is between A and B on the one hand and B and C on the other? Trouble > > is (at least I expect the trouble is) that he's interested in blocks > > of overlapping text not in simple frequency of individual items. He > > has the idea that some form of plagiarism software might do what he > > wants, but would it? > > Any suggestions? > > 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/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 08:37:43 -0500 From: "Patrick T. Rourke" Subject: Re: 26.587 text-comparison software? In-Reply-To: <20121215105239.3EFE43A37@digitalhumanities.org> The UNIX tool diff, which is available from the command line of any Linux, OS X, or UNIX computer, will show the differences between two texts. In Windows Vista or later it can be done in powershell using compare-object (get-content one.txt) (get-content two.txt) There are a number of text editors that provide diff capabilities, including UltraCompare. Hope this helps! Patrick T Rourke --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:28:49 -0500 From: Dot Porter Subject: Re: 26.587 text-comparison software? In-Reply-To: <20121215105239.3EFE43A37@digitalhumanities.org> Maybe Juxta? It's now on the web: http://juxtacommons.org/ Dot -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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/ MESA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedievalElectronicScholarlyAlliance *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 01:34:07 +0100 From: Daniel_Riaño Subject: Re: 26.587 text-comparison software? In-Reply-To: <20121215105239.3EFE43A37@digitalhumanities.org> wdiff http://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff/ Best wishes, 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 175223A46; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:30:19 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EE133A47; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:30:19 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6961A3A01; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:30:17 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121216103017.6961A3A01@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:30:17 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.592 evaluation methods and current standards? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 592. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:31:06 -0600 From: Sarah L Pfannenschmidt Subject: Call for Participants Dear Colleagues, We hope this finds you well. As you may recall, Dr. Clement and I are looking for participants to help us with a project that focuses on evaluation methods and current standards for digital scholarly projects. Thank you to those who have already given feedback via the survey or in an interview. If you have not had the chance to participate but would like to do so, please visit the following link: https://qtrial.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_b89IXl4msVon4u9 We'll keep the link open for a few more weeks, so it's not too late to share your thoughts. If you would prefer to give an interview instead, please contact Sarah and she will arrange a short interview with you via Skype. Again, thank you for your time and assistance with this project, and best wishes for you and yours in the holiday season, Regards, Sarah Pfannenschmidt, MSIS candidate, University of Texas at Austin School of Information Dr. Tanya Clement, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin School of Information _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 669FC3A49; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:31:40 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 768613A47; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:31:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8C1AC39DB; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:31:37 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121216103137.8C1AC39DB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:31:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.593 graduate research fellowships at Carleton X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 593. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 09:39:48 -0500 From: Brian Greenspan Subject: Doctoral Research Fellowships in Digital Humanities PhD in the Production of Literature Graduate Research Fellowships – Digital Humanities The Department of English Language and Literature is soliciting applications to Carleton University’s PhD in the Production of Literature. Selected candidates will be fully funded for up to five years. Fellowship recipients will have a background in digital humanities research (data visualization, graphics, interface design, and/or textual analysis), and some combination of skills in the areas of rhetorical theory and criticism, comparative literature, and/or critical media and textuality studies (ancient, modern or postmodern texts). Knowledge of more than one language is an asset. The fellowships will be affiliated with the Canada Research Chair inRhetoric and Ethics, and will also include a Research Assistantship associated with the SSHRC-funded project, "Ancient Texts | New Media | Future Ethics." The funding package will consist of a combination of Research Assistant income, scholarly stipend, and Teaching Assistantship, in addition to other opportunities for graduate funding, both internal and external to Carleton University. The dollar figure will be finalized as part of a total funding package upon acceptance to the PhD in the Production of Literature. Other opportunities for international research collaboration, networking, conference participation, etc., are also being planned in the years to come. A brief description the SSHRC project is available here: http://stuartjmurray.com/research/digital_rhetorics To learn more about Carleton’s PhD in the Production of Literature, please visit: http://www3.carleton.ca/english/gradstudies/index.html Please note thedeadline for applications to the PhD program is 1 February 2013. For inquiries about the project, about the Canada Research Chair in Rhetoric and Ethics, or about graduate study at Carleton University, please contact Prof. Stuart J. Murray, rhetoric@carleton.ca. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BA17F3A67; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:32:58 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD9AA3A64; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:32:57 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DE88C39E8; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:32:55 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121216103255.DE88C39E8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:32:55 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.594 XML & scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 594. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 06:42:04 -0500 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 26.586 XML & scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121215105208.2DF9C3A28@digitalhumanities.org> Desmond, >> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:26:00 -0500 >> From: Doug Reside >> Subject: Re: 26.577 Folger Digital Texts --> XML & scholarship >>> But then I think about all of the attempts I and others have made to >>> create "easy to use" XML editors that end up being less functional and >>> harder to use than a simple text editor. Anyone with a modicum of web >>> design experience who has tried to edit HTML in WordPress or Drupal >>> usually starts hunting for the "edit source" button immediately. It >>> feels like there SHOULD be a better kind of data entry tool for >>> text-encoding than an angle bracket editor, but I'm not yet sure what >>> it is. > Doug, > > I'm glad that someone else recognises the difficulty of this problem. > It seems like it ought to be possible to build a graphical editor for > TEI-XML, but with 544 or more tags it's impossible to translate all the > structures that humanists want to record and represent them all > graphically. Simple textual highlighting works, sure, paragraph > structures work, but variants, virtual joins, footnotes, links, etc etc? > Since you have to represent many tags as raw XML what happens if the > user makes a mistake? You'd have to handle that error right there in > your online editor, not when the text is sent to the server. You'd have > to provide context-sensitive editing, hundreds of pages of explanations > as to what each tag signifies, and explain to the user how to fix each > mistake. Not a simple task to program, and certainly not a simple task > to use it. > > The user need to have a simple editor cannot be met by XML. On the contrary, the error is starting from XML rather than the interface for the user. An XML instance is an artifact that records choices made by the user. As far as the complexity of TEI, consider that some of the attributes in OOXML have 200+ different contextual meanings, but bear the same attribute name. MS Word seems to handle that. Another error is assuming that the use of overlapping ranges is somehow less complex than XML in terms of representation. That is to say, whatever structure you came to need explanation in XML, if you are going to represent it with overlapping ranges, doesn't the user need the same explanation? Ah, but no, they most likely don't because with ranges, the semantics that are *explicit* in XML, can be left *implied.* (Not that they must be as I am sure Wendell will be quick to point out. Making semantics explicit is part of the "hardness" of XML but it is also part of what makes it useful. PDF has implied semantics but I would be loath to publish a critical edition using it.) Implied semantics are *lossy* recording of semantics because there can be no accumulation of analysis on top of implied semantics nor any reliable interchange of the underlying artifact. > You > have to think beyond it, and I believe a consensus is now emerging in > the digital humanities that at least the properties of text (NOT its > versions) can be practically represented as overlapping ranges. There > are quite a few projects now exploring this line of research: eComma, > CATMA, LMNL, our own standoff properties. It's not rocket science. It's > very simple, and it works. Check out our website austese.net/tests/. > Everything you see here is done without XML, from the server to the > visualisations, comparisons, everything. The only thing that handles > XML are the import tools, of course. So I don't believe that XML is > actually needed any more to get our work done. A very impressive demonstration, which Humanist readers should enjoy. But the question remains, how are the semantics of the structures documented? I agree "It's very simple and works." but that isn't my issue.* My issue is how 10, 20 or 200 years from now I will be able to make sense of the encoding and leverage further analysis on top of it. If the semantics are implied, ranges or no, I cannot reliably reuse a text. Hope you are having a great weekend! Patrick * We should be mindful that "simple and works" is a poor basis for format/program design. The original presumption of well-formed XML was made in deference to programmers who could write an XML parser in a weekend. It is "simple and works" but fails to account for structures that we can attribute to any text. While I recognize the shortcomings of XML, the loss of explicit semantics, by whatever means, is a cure worse than the disease. -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 922133A0F; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:32:14 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBF1039E2; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:32:13 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 817003120; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:32:12 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121217063212.817003120@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:32:12 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.595 open access statement X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 595. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:20:49 +0000 From: Rob Myers Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.575 open access statement In-Reply-To: <20121213083047.6CDD7EB8@digitalhumanities.org> On 13/12/12 08:30, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > why should i give away the results of my research under CC-BY? To boost citations. - 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 742053A47; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:33:39 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5395B3A33; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:33:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B39FF39E2; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:33:36 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121217063336.B39FF39E2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:33:36 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.596 XML & scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 596. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:09:44 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 26.594 XML & scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121216103255.DE88C39E8@digitalhumanities.org> Patrick, Before going any further we should distinguish between the creation of digital documents for online use and the deliberate assignment of an "explicit semantics" to analog documents that never had any syntactical structure (in the computational sense) when they were created. I think a lot of your objections can be traced to the confounding of these two separate roles for markup. I should also clarify that I'm not talking about a language like Wendell's embedded LMNL, but of a model in which markup ranges are held externally to the text in sets. Since there is no syntax the sets can be freely mixed. I can have one set for recording links to a set of images, another to hold basic textual structure, another for a reference system, another for annotations etc. And I can mix these sets freely and augment them with my own because I have no fear of overlap that is built into the design. You can't do any of this in XML. You can only have ONE set at a time: the ever-increasing complexity of what I want to record must all go into one file, conforming to ONE syntax, along with the text that is obscured by it. > Implied semantics are *lossy* recording of semantics because there can > be no accumulation of analysis on top of implied semantics nor any > reliable interchange of the underlying artifact. I'm not talking about building anything "on top of implied semantics" but on top of text. Semantic markup already performs this role successfully, and standoff properties are based the same basic idea. The underlying artefact is a UniCode text file. Why can't you interchange that? As for the separate markup sets why are they any more or less interchangeable than XML? > * We should be mindful that "simple and works" is a poor basis for > format/program design. The original presumption of well-formed XML was > made in deference to programmers who could write an XML parser in a > weekend. Simplicity is of course the basis all good design. I admit that this was the premise of XML *originally*, but since then the W3C has piled documentation and complexity on top of XML that made it anything but simple. You really should read what Tim Bray said about the "bloated, opaque and insane complexity" of XML Web services already in 2004, or more recently James Clark (2010) on why XML has got out of hand and is now bad at solving the problems it was designed for. And these guys created XML if anyone did. The OOXML specification you mention is over 6,000 pages long. http://blog.jclark.com/2010/11/xml-vs-web_24.html http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/09/18/WS-Oppo > > While I recognize the shortcomings of XML, the loss of explicit > semantics, by whatever means, is a cure worse than the disease. > There is no technological need for "explicit semantics" in cultural heritage texts. It is alien to them. All that matters, as you point out at the start of your post is that we must answer the needs of the user. The chosen technology only has to facilitate that. But XML actually gets in the way. Desmond Schmidt eResearch Lab University of Queensland On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 594. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 06:42:04 -0500 > From: Patrick Durusau > Subject: Re: 26.586 XML & scholarship > In-Reply-To: <20121215105208.2DF9C3A28@digitalhumanities.org> > > Desmond, > >>> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:26:00 -0500 >>> From: Doug Reside >>> Subject: Re: 26.577 Folger Digital Texts --> XML & scholarship >>>> But then I think about all of the attempts I and others have made to >>>> create "easy to use" XML editors that end up being less functional and >>>> harder to use than a simple text editor. Anyone with a modicum of web >>>> design experience who has tried to edit HTML in WordPress or Drupal >>>> usually starts hunting for the "edit source" button immediately. It >>>> feels like there SHOULD be a better kind of data entry tool for >>>> text-encoding than an angle bracket editor, but I'm not yet sure what >>>> it is. >> Doug, >> >> I'm glad that someone else recognises the difficulty of this problem. >> It seems like it ought to be possible to build a graphical editor for >> TEI-XML, but with 544 or more tags it's impossible to translate all the >> structures that humanists want to record and represent them all >> graphically. Simple textual highlighting works, sure, paragraph >> structures work, but variants, virtual joins, footnotes, links, etc etc? >> Since you have to represent many tags as raw XML what happens if the >> user makes a mistake? You'd have to handle that error right there in >> your online editor, not when the text is sent to the server. You'd have >> to provide context-sensitive editing, hundreds of pages of explanations >> as to what each tag signifies, and explain to the user how to fix each >> mistake. Not a simple task to program, and certainly not a simple task >> to use it. >> >> The user need to have a simple editor cannot be met by XML. > > On the contrary, the error is starting from XML rather than the > interface for the user. An XML instance is an artifact that records > choices made by the user. > > As far as the complexity of TEI, consider that some of the attributes in > OOXML have 200+ different contextual meanings, but bear the same > attribute name. MS Word seems to handle that. > > Another error is assuming that the use of overlapping ranges is somehow > less complex than XML in terms of representation. > > That is to say, whatever structure you came to need explanation in XML, > if you are going to represent it with overlapping ranges, doesn't the > user need the same explanation? > > Ah, but no, they most likely don't because with ranges, the semantics > that are *explicit* in XML, can be left *implied.* (Not that they must > be as I am sure Wendell will be quick to point out. Making semantics > explicit is part of the "hardness" of XML but it is also part of what > makes it useful. PDF has implied semantics but I would be loath to > publish a critical edition using it.) > > Implied semantics are *lossy* recording of semantics because there can > be no accumulation of analysis on top of implied semantics nor any > reliable interchange of the underlying artifact. > >> You >> have to think beyond it, and I believe a consensus is now emerging in >> the digital humanities that at least the properties of text (NOT its >> versions) can be practically represented as overlapping ranges. There >> are quite a few projects now exploring this line of research: eComma, >> CATMA, LMNL, our own standoff properties. It's not rocket science. It's >> very simple, and it works. Check out our website austese.net/tests/. >> Everything you see here is done without XML, from the server to the >> visualisations, comparisons, everything. The only thing that handles >> XML are the import tools, of course. So I don't believe that XML is >> actually needed any more to get our work done. > > A very impressive demonstration, which Humanist readers should enjoy. > > But the question remains, how are the semantics of the structures > documented? > > I agree "It's very simple and works." but that isn't my issue.* > > My issue is how 10, 20 or 200 years from now I will be able to make > sense of the encoding and leverage further analysis on top of it. If the > semantics are implied, ranges or no, I cannot reliably reuse a text. > > Hope you are having a great weekend! > > Patrick > > * We should be mindful that "simple and works" is a poor basis for > format/program design. The original presumption of well-formed XML was > made in deference to programmers who could write an XML parser in a > weekend. > > It is "simple and works" but fails to account for structures that we can > attribute to any text. > > While I recognize the shortcomings of XML, the loss of explicit > semantics, by whatever means, is a cure worse than the disease. > > -- > Patrick Durusau > patrick@durusau.net > Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) > 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 418CB3A32; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:47:30 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57A863A14; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:47:29 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 761782E00; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:47:27 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121218064727.761782E00@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:47:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.597 text-comparison software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 597. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:04:29 +0000 From: "John G. Keating" Subject: Comparing blocks of texts! Dear Willard, The Unix diff command (http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/06/linux-file-diff-utilities/) will provide some help with comparing blocks of text. However, if the person is a a Mac user there is a wonderful piece of software called Kaleidoscope from Black Pixel (http://blackpixel.com/apps.html) that is excellent for comparing texts visually. I use it all the time :) Best, John. -- Dr. John G. Keating National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jennifer Edmond (31) Subject: Re: 26.595 open access statement [2] From: maurizio lana (10) Subject: Re: 26.595 open access statement --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:18:46 +0000 From: Jennifer Edmond Subject: Re: 26.595 open access statement In-Reply-To: <20121217063212.817003120@digitalhumanities.org> To support traceability of your results - verifiability being a key element of academic research. Jennifer Edmond On 17 Dec 2012, at 06:32, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 595. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:20:49 +0000 > From: Rob Myers > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.575 open access statement > In-Reply-To: <20121213083047.6CDD7EB8@digitalhumanities.org> > > On 13/12/12 08:30, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> >> why should i give away the results of my research under CC-BY? > > To boost citations. > > - Rob. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:11:41 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: 26.595 open access statement In-Reply-To: <20121217063212.817003120@digitalhumanities.org> Il 17/12/2012 07:32, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > On 13/12/12 08:30, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> why should i give away the results of my research under CC-BY? > To boost citations. do you mean that no one can cite me and my research if i adopt BY-NC-SA? maurizio ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CD60D3A66; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:49:54 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 705513A57; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:49:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3A7A03A33; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:49:51 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121218064951.3A7A03A33@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:49:51 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.599 XML & scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 599. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Patrick Durusau (126) Subject: Re: 26.596 XML & scholarship [2] From: Wendell Piez (82) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.596 XML & scholarship --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:12:23 -0500 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 26.596 XML & scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121217063336.B39FF39E2@digitalhumanities.org> Desmond, On 12/17/2012 01:33 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Patrick, > > Before going any further we should distinguish between the creation of > digital documents for online use and the deliberate assignment of an > "explicit semantics" to analog documents that never had any > syntactical structure (in the computational sense) when they were > created. I think a lot of your objections can be traced to the > confounding of these two separate roles for markup. Thanks for that comment. I don't think of markup as having separate roles for "born digital" or analog documents. But would not have thought to say so save for your comment. Consider that our email exchange is a series of "born digital" documents. It could have easily but more slowly have been a series of hard copy letter exchanges. Assuming we agree that explicit semantics, such as resolving entity references, could be useful, how does using markup differ between the "born digital" and analog documents? > I should also clarify that I'm not talking about a language like > Wendell's embedded LMNL, but of a model in which markup ranges are > held externally to the text in sets. Since there is no syntax the sets > can be freely mixed. I can have one set for recording links to a set > of images, another to hold basic textual structure, another for a > reference system, another for annotations etc. And I can mix these > sets freely and augment them with my own because I have no fear of > overlap that is built into the design. You can't do any of this in > XML. You can only have ONE set at a time: the ever-increasing > complexity of what I want to record must all go into one file, > conforming to ONE syntax, along with the text that is obscured by it. Whether markup is standoff or embedded doesn't impact the attribution of explicit semantics to a text. Any number of linguistic annotation projects use forms of stand off markup. The "one set" problem of XML is an artificial constraint inherited from SGML, mostly due to insufficient understanding of parsing practices current when SGML was written. Still, you have a valid argument that it does exist and if you want multiple sets of markup, all attributing explicit semantics to a text, and use stand off markup to do so, that is a valid choice. But I continue to point out the need for explicit semantics, a bit more on that below. >> Implied semantics are *lossy* recording of semantics because there can >> be no accumulation of analysis on top of implied semantics nor any >> reliable interchange of the underlying artifact. > I'm not talking about building anything "on top of implied semantics" > but on top of text. Semantic markup already performs this role > successfully, and standoff properties are based the same basic idea. > The underlying artefact is a UniCode text file. Why can't you > interchange that? As for the separate markup sets why are they any > more or less interchangeable than XML? Then can you clarify from the documentation at the site I think Humanists readers should review, what explicit semantics are carried in your sets? Are the semantics of all of the TEI semantic markup available? I ask because when I reviewed the documentation, that did not appear to be the case. It isn't simply a matter of interchangeable encoding, such as Unicode that makes a text "interchangeable" in the TEI sense. It is the provision of explicit that allow me to recover, extend, use, disagree with, whatever semantics you have attributed to a text. I think that is closer to the sense of "interchange" in the TEI sense. >> * We should be mindful that "simple and works" is a poor basis for >> format/program design. The original presumption of well-formed XML was >> made in deference to programmers who could write an XML parser in a >> weekend. > Simplicity is of course the basis all good design. I admit that this > was the premise of XML *originally*, but since then the W3C has piled > documentation and complexity on top of XML that made it anything but > simple. You really should read what Tim Bray said about the "bloated, > opaque and insane complexity" of XML Web services already in 2004, or > more recently James Clark (2010) on why XML has got out of hand and is > now bad at solving the problems it was designed for. And these guys > created XML if anyone did. The OOXML specification you mention is over > 6,000 pages long. > > http://blog.jclark.com/2010/11/xml-vs-web_24.html > http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/09/18/WS-Oppo On OOXML being 6,000 pages long, you may want to read my "The 6,000+ Page Myth" at: http://www.durusau.net/publications/6000pagemyth.pdf I re-edited the Word Processing part of OOXML from 1780 pages to 452 pages (reduction of approximately 74%) by: "Compare that with an edited version that changes the line spacing, font size, removes duplicate text, and reformats the listing of references." Even greater savings were possible but I did not want to change any of the substantive text. >> While I recognize the shortcomings of XML, the loss of explicit >> semantics, by whatever means, is a cure worse than the disease. >> > There is no technological need for "explicit semantics" in cultural > heritage texts. It is alien to them. All that matters, as you point > out at the start of your post is that we must answer the needs of the > user. The chosen technology only has to facilitate that. But XML > actually gets in the way. Ah, so our disagreement isn't so much about XML as it is about the requirements for analysis of texts. At least #2 on my list of requirements for a system for analysis of text would be the explicit preservation of semantics of the text as I interpreted it and analysis as I assigned it. In a form that can be reliably interchanged with others. That is others don't have to guess at what I may have meant by a change in fonts, italics or no, bold or no, divisions in the text, alignments or their absence, etc. To lack explicit semantics for textual analysis means scholarship returns to being an episodic enterprise that starts over with every generation guessing what may have been meant by the prior generation and laying the groundwork for their heirs to guess at theirs. I stand by the requirement to meet the needs of users, but users need tools that assist them in stating their analysis of a text, for future generations to agree, disagree or extend. XML doesn't have get in the way of that process. Unless you make a fetish out of users typing XML markup. Hope you are having a great week! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) 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: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:46:13 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.596 XML & scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121217063336.B39FF39E2@digitalhumanities.org> Patrick, Desmond and HUMANIST, It's a temptation to say a great deal more but I'll limit myself today to simply qualifying, and perhaps complicating, a couple of Desmond's most recent points. He says: > I should also clarify that I'm not talking about a language like > Wendell's embedded LMNL, but of a model in which markup ranges are > held externally to the text in sets. Since there is no syntax the sets > can be freely mixed. I can have one set for recording links to a set > of images, another to hold basic textual structure, another for a > reference system, another for annotations etc. And I can mix these > sets freely and augment them with my own because I have no fear of > overlap that is built into the design. You can't do any of this in > XML. You can only have ONE set at a time: the ever-increasing > complexity of what I want to record must all go into one file, > conforming to ONE syntax, along with the text that is obscured by it. There is a bit of an oversimplication of the matter with LMNL here. It's true as far as it goes about the proposed LMNL syntax ("sawtooth" or "sabertooth" syntax, as it's been called), which is indeed an embedded markup syntax. (Except the point about LMNL syntax not allowing free intermixing of sets of ranges over a text. It does. Desmond, who disparages embedded markup altogether, will argue that it won't be practicable or pretty, but that's a different debate.) However, LMNL itself is a model, and the proposed syntax is only one way of representing it. Indeed, any of the other proposed or more or less familiar way of representing ranges over text, including standoff markup and out of line annotations, can be mapped into the LMNL model, which is capable of supporting the same kind of radical concurrency that Desmond describes here. I apologize to any readers who wish to know more, since I don't feel this is the best venue to report on my progress working with what remains an *experiment* in markup and its applications. Desmond continues: > There is no technological need for "explicit semantics" in cultural > heritage texts. It is alien to them. I don't think the question here regards cultural heritage texts as such but rather their digital surrogates and representations. Yet in agreement (I think) with Desmond, it's important to keep in mind that the aspiration of many scholars and initiatives has been to produce encoded texts that are specifically *not* locked into application semantics of any kind, including even display semantics. While this has not been the dominant trend everywhere, the idea of an application-neutral and independent encoding is still strong in initiatives like the TEI -- i.e. an encoding scheme whose semantic bindings are loose and (more or less) freely reconfigured for and in application. Who was it that just quoted Bateson, defining a "bit" as "a difference that makes a difference"? Another way of putting this is that the semantics of an encoding scheme like TEI are its own, and are properly meaningful only within the semantic context of TEI itself; moreover, within that context the need to specify an alignment of TEI descriptive semantics with presentational, procedural or any application semantics is regarded as a system feature, not a bug. Of course this is part of what bothers some people about it (Doug?), and Patrick surely has a point that for most users, having an encoded text as such isn't enough. We need the encoding to present at least enough of an application binding (to something in our system that "means" something and "does" something) to be able to engage the gears (presumably, to display the text without obfuscating syntax and work with it in the ways we want). I guess I'm just old-fashioned in thinking that both are possible -- even while all the ways we want to work with the text may be innumerable. The encoded text can be workable in applications, and yet hackable nonetheless. (Interesting too that while Rome wasn't built in a day, actually look at the history of Rome's building and you'll see a series of incomplete efforts to pave over what went before. Similarly, I doubt that anyone's effort to define one single format To Rule Them All is going to succeed.) And while I happen to agree with Desmond that range models are very promising for all kinds of research applications (including some for which XML is not well-suited), I don't agree that a range model per se is going to solve this problem. On the contrary, it might make it even worse. Or even better, if you regard the "problem" of the specification, implementation and communication of the semantics of our encoding not as a problem at all, but as a set of opportunities. :-) Cheers, Wendell -- Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8AF953A33; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:50:34 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFB7F3A7B; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:50:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DADDF3A6E; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:50:32 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121218065032.DADDF3A6E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:50:32 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.600 job at UCL X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 600. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:00:55 +0000 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Job at UCL - new project at Transcribe Bentham Hi folks, Please circulate to anyone you think is interested, Melissa > The Bentham Project, in association with UCL's Centre for Digital Humanities, is advertising for a postdoctoral Research Associate position, starting 1 February 2013. This post is to work on an exciting European Commission-funded project, led by the University of Valencia, entitled tranScriptorium. The project intends to develop innovative, efficient, and cost-effective solutions for the indexing, search and full transcription of digital images of manuscripts, using modern, holistic Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) software. > > Complementing the ongoing success of the double-award winning crowdsourced transcription initiative, Transcribe Bentham, the postholder will work with tranScriptorium partners (especially colleagues at the University of London Computer Centre) to design and develop an HTR crowdsourcing platform. The postholder will co-ordinate beta testing of the platform to ensure full functionality, recruit volunteers to correct HTR transcripts of manuscript material, analyse the needs of participants and site visitors, and be responsible for the running of the crowdsourcing platform on a day-to-day basis. > > The position is on a 0.6FTE basis, and is available for 21 months in the first instance. The closing date for applications is Friday 4 January 2013, with interviews taking place on Friday 25 January. > > Please consult the job advert via UCL's online application portal at: https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?SID=amNvZGU9MTMwMDMxMCZ2dF90ZW1wbGF0ZT05NjUmb3duZXI9NTA0MTE3OCZvd25lcnR5cGU9ZmFpciZicmFuZF9pZD0wJnBvc3RpbmdfY29kZT0yMjQmcmVxc2lnPTEzNTU3Mzg4MzQtMzkzNDc2OWNkNmVhMzE0OTdmOWU2ZWZjMjUxMzJlYWY1NDllZmQwNw== > > For any further queries, or more information, please contact Laura Allum (l.allum@ucl.ac.uk). ----------------- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DE6003A96; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:51:39 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B51F3A75; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:51:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 61B4F3125; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:51:37 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121218065137.61B4F3125@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:51:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.601 ADHO low-cost memberships X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 601. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:49:07 -0500 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: ADHO's New Low Cost Memberships Dear all, I’m delighted to announce that in an effort to make membership more widely affordable, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), will now offer low-cost membership for students and early career scholars and unwaged or low-waged independent scholars, beginning 2013. Those who join under the program will not receive a subscription to *LLC: the journal of digital scholarship in the humanities, *published by ADHO. ADHO’s membership-only fees will be set at $25, £14, and €20. We're grateful both to Harold Short for leading the negotiations with Oxford University Press for these new rates and to OUP for their willingness to implement them. Those interested in membership for the coming year can join (or re-join) here: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/litlin/access_purchase/price_list.html/ . 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:04:08 +0000 From: "Viglianti, Raffaele" Subject: Reminder: Music Encoding Conference 2013 Dear colleagues, This is a friendly reminder about the Music Encoding Conference. The deadline for submissions is Dec. 31 so please contribute soon. Also, please circulate this notice widely and forgive any cross-postings. http://music-encoding.org/conference For the conference organizers, Raffaele Viglianti PhD Candidate and PG Research Assistant Department of Digital Humanities King's College London WC2B 5RL _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 32FFD39DB; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:55:32 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12A532E04; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:55:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 35EE82DF3; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:55:29 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121219065529.35EE82DF3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:55:29 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.603 text-comparison software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 603. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Daniel Allington (45) Subject: Re: 26.597 text-comparison software [2] From: Trevor Borg (35) Subject: Re: 26.597 text-comparison software --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:35:11 +0000 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: 26.597 text-comparison software In-Reply-To: <20121218064727.761782E00@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard Diff is the obvious starting point on a Unix-like system, but its smallest unit of comparison is the line, which is not ideal for natural language data. I haven't tried Kaleidoscope. A few other options: 1. Microsoft Word's 'merge documents' feature is a surprisingly powerful way of comparing texts, and I know of at least one textual scholar who uses it as his primary tool for witness collation. OpenOffice has a similar feature though I'm not aware of its having been tested to the same extent. 2. Juxta (http://www.juxtasoftware.org/about/) provides visualisations of differences between texts if visualisations are what you're after. It's cross-platform and open source. I've found it to be most useful when dealing with documents that are more similar than they are different (unsurprisingly, since it was designed for witness collation). If you're dealing with a situation where material from one text is distributed randomly throughout another, the visualisations are less easy to read (or at least, they were with the version I'm using; I know the application has been updated since I installed it though I doubt this issue was a priority given its primary purpose). 3. Medite (http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~ganascia/Medite_Project) is extremely powerful, but it is (or used to be) Windows only, so I haven't used it for a while. It also lacks Juxta's visualisations, though I must admit I'm not that big on visualisations. There's a paper here describing Medite and comparing its performance to that of other tools (including Word but not including Juxta, which wasn't available at the time): http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.72.4202 Best Daniel --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:58:34 -0600 From: Trevor Borg Subject: Re: 26.597 text-comparison software In-Reply-To: <20121218064727.761782E00@digitalhumanities.org> There's been some work on this problem at at the Center for Textual Studies and DH @ LU Chicago. See some demos here (https://sites.google.com/a/ctsdh.luc.edu/hrit-intranet/demos). Any of the top ~8 or so, marked `Experimental Image`, might do something like you are looking for. Trevor _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 47DB5311B; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:56:12 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AD4330A9; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:56:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2B9C730A9; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:56:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121219065609.2B9C730A9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:56:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.604 open-access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 604. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:25:18 +0100 From: Miran arnes Subject: Copyright and Wikipedia Wikipedia is a good example of OA contents, offering information under the Creative Commons Attribution&Share-Alike License, so allowing also commercial use and making derivative works, as long as the original authorship (if documented) is credited. This license serves maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials, which is fine and should be accepted with enthusiasm. On the other hand, people who contribute to Wikipedia and sister sites Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, Wikibooks etc. know how rigorous publishing policy rules there concerning uploading photos of encyclopaedic items, which correspond to textual citations. I am afraid this newborn awe of potential-breaking someone's copyright goes too far and is dangerous for the existence of this marvelous project. Here I quote from what I have written about this problem on Meta-Wiki under Requests for comment (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/%22But_woe_to_you,_scribes%22): Lately, the photos of wayside shrines, public buildings, sculptures on public places, information boards, commercial posters along the streets ... get marked suspicious from the legal point of view and then deleted. It is acceptable when warnings and deletion happen in case when files are not equipped with sufficient explanation of authorship or licence; however, my recent experience with deleting exceeds by far my reasonable understanding, as not only individual photos have been deleted but also whole categories of photos. Massive deleting has affected, for instance, a collection of bridges on a certain river, a series of observation towers, hayracks, crafted by an annonimous carpenter, even street lamps. All this stuff is declared art or intellectual product by a zealous Wiki-expert and, as a result, a request for an architect's/artist's/creator's permission is demanded. In most cases, no creator's name could be found. When found, creators are astonished when being asked for a permission. Then they say yes, of course, you may publish your photo. As admin is not satisfied with the copy of a letter and he further demands that the creator fills in a complicated form which would exclude all doubts about the seriousness of his permission, the author stops answering the annoying Wikipedian and hence the photo is deleted. To generalize the new behaviour concerning the authorship: - till recently, intellectual property hasn't been understood so broadly - till recently, no newspaper and no TV have been practising legal protection of items in case - since recently, only on Wikimedia photos of so broadly defined intellectual property present a problem Though I am not enthusiastic about the copyright which is getting more and more aggressive trying to maintain privileges of a few legally well supported, and I prefer the CC-licences much more, I do respect the limitations that copyright exercises upon intellectual products. On the other hand, I put a lot of hope in an alternative view of artistic and other intellectual products, the hope which came true with the Internet and especially with Wikipedia. I used to understand Wikipedia as a metaphor for a civilisation change. Wikipedia embodies the new attitude towards human knowledge which is not about hiding it from users but offering it openly to them. This is what Wikipedia is all about and this is why I find the current awe of copyright on Wikimedia Commons (which behaves »more papal than the Pope«) so strange, sad and dangerous to the information society. The place where an alternative to the copyright should be promoted is becoming the place where the copyright is respected more than anywhere else. In this new Orwellian atmosphere Wikipedians are permanently scared they may brake one or another weird law. The advocating of the most radical interpretation of copyright keeps poisoning the pleasure other users have with Wikipedia, some veterans have even stopped uploading their photos and literally "do not want to have anything with this" any more. Enforcing literal interpretation of law, though it blatantly opposes common sense, reminds us of biblical scribes; in the past, they presented great danger to God's project and nowadays they endanger our endeavour for well informed and responsible society. As Mt 23:13: »But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.« -- miran _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0EA2639DB; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:41:25 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0057030A9; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:41:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 26E34DC1; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:41:23 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121219074123.26E34DC1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:41:23 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.605 XML, TEI and what kind of scholarship? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 605. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:21:46 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: XML, TEI and what kind of scholarship? My King's colleague Elena Pierazzo's message several days ago drew much needed attention to the disciplinary perspective from which the question of markup is considered. She made the valuable point that systematic markup offers the textual editor the ability to record minute decisions at the location in the text where they are made. In the job-defining role as *editor* an editor must decide about this or that variant, mark of punctuation etc, but without markup and the computing which goes with it there is no way of recording decisions at the minute level of detail at which they are made. With it these decisions can be recorded. (Textual editors who know better please contradict.) Another colleague, whose passion is ancient inscriptions, pointed out to me some time ago that markup is similarly well-suited to epigraphy -- because of what she called the "reporting function" of that discipline. The epigrapher witnesses and publishes surviving inscriptional evidence while it still exists, before someone defaces it, carts it away and sells it on the black market, weather wears it away or whatever. The epigrapher provides material for the benefit of other scholars. Markup and associated technologies are a godsend. For the literary scholar, however, interpretation is a different matter, requiring a very different disciplinary style and making very different demands on the technologies we devise to assist it. My 10 or so years devoted to markup (pre-TEI) taught me that it is not in principle well-suited to the literary critic's interpretative practices. Jerome McGann has made this point forcibly numerous times. To a publisher text as an "ordered hierarchy of content objects" makes perfect sense. To a literary critic it is laughable nonsense. To a philosopher it is an interesting hypothesis, I would suppose, whose implications need working out. To an historian it is evidence of people thinking in a particular way at a particular time, raising the question of how they came to think thus. In the digital humanities we are sometimes overly impressed by the portability of our methods and tools. We fail to see that when a method successful in one discipline is ported into another the game it is intended to play is different. The criteria which it must meet and the meaning of the terms in which scholars think are different. Just as platform-independent informational text cannot be known except by means of some platform or other (the term itself is wrong), computing is meaningless to the scholar unless manifested within the basic disciplinary context within which he or she is operating. Crossing the boundary of an epistemic culture successfully involves a complex blend of learning and teaching in what Peter Galison has usefully called a "trading zone" -- for which see Michael E. Gorman, ed., Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise: Creating New Kinds of Collaboration (MIT Press, 2010). I think we still have a great deal to learn by studying and honouring what scholars in various disciplines do. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 27F6F3A17; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:45:30 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDD043A01; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:45:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B229730A9; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:45:26 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121219074526.B229730A9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:45:26 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.606 events: PhD in digital humanities; text, speech, dialogue; Early Modern knowing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 606. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: David Beck (14) Subject: Registration for Scientiae 2013 (Warwick, 18-20 April 2013) [2] From: TSD 2013 (65) Subject: TSD 2013 - Preliminary announcement [3] From: "Pierazzo, Elena" (38) Subject: Becoming a Digital Humanities PhD Student: workshop at King's College London --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:09:50 +0000 From: David Beck Subject: Registration for Scientiae 2013 (Warwick, 18-20 April 2013) Dear all, Registration is now open for Scientiae 2013: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World, a conference to be held at the University of Warwick on 18-20 April 2013. For more information, including the conference programme, and to register please go to http://go.warwick.ac.uk/scientiae The premise of Scientiae, an annual conference series, is that the Scientific Revolution can be considered an interdisciplinary process involving Biblical exegesis, art theory, and literary humanism, as well as natural philosophy, alchemy, occult practices, and trade knowledge. As such, Scientiae 2013 will bring together scholars working in the diverse fields associated with early modern knowledge, all taking early-modern science as their common intellectual object. The conference will offer a forum both for the sharing of research and the sparking of new interdisciplinary investigations, and is open to scholars of all levels. Our keynote speaker will be Stephen Clucas (Reader in Early-Modern Intellectual History at Birkbeck, University of London). Other prominent speakers include: Constance Blackwell, Isabelle Charmantier, Penelope Gouk, Judy Hayden, Kevin Killeen, Sachiko Kusukawa, Vivian Nutton, Claire Preston, Jennifer Rampling, Anna Marie Roos. The 2013 conference will be held in the Arts Centre at the University of Warwick, a campus university located in the heart of England on the Warwickshire border near the city of Coventry - only 20 minutes from Birmingham or an hour from London by train. Accommodation has been pre-booked in on-campus hotels on a bed and breakfast basis, and will be available to members of the conference party at a discounted rate of £73 per night from the 17th to 21st April on a first-come, first-served basis. I encourage early application as accommodation on-campus is strictly limited. The conference fee is £115, to include coffee breaks and lunches on all three days, as well as a conference banquet on the evening of Friday 19th April. The deadline for registration is the 31st January. Best regards, David David Beck Lecturer, History Department, University of Warwick Network Administrator, Early Modern Forum (twitter @EModForum, facebook EMForum) d.c.beck@warwick.ac.uk skype: DavidC.Beck --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:04:08 +0000 From: TSD 2013 Subject: TSD 2013 - Preliminary announcement TSD 2013 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT Sixteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2013) Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic, 1-5 September 2013 http://www.tsdconference.org TSD NEWS The TSD conference fee was significantly reduced. It is organized in parallel with SPECOM. ABOUT CONFERENCE The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno. This year the conference is organized in parallel with the 15th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM). The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). Venue: Plzen (Pilsen), angelo Hotel (city center), Czech Republic TSD SERIES TSD series have evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries) Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling) Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution) Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing) Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection) Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies) Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues) Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling) OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the event will be English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. [...] ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: Ms Anna Habernalova, TSD 2013 Conference Secretary E-mail: tsd2013@tsdconference.org Phone: +420 722 375 005 Fax: +420 377 632 402 - Please, mark the faxed material with capitals 'TSD' on top. TSD 2013 conference web site: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2013 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:38:35 +0000 From: "Pierazzo, Elena" Subject: Becoming a Digital Humanities PhD Student: workshop at King's College London Following the success of last year event, we are glad to announce a second edition of the workshop "Becoming a Digital Humanities PhD Student". Are you thinking of doing a MPhil/PhD in Digital Humanities or Digital Humanities with Hellenic Studies, Classics, Comparative Literature, History, English, French, German, Musics, Cultural Studies? And would you like to study in central London at one of the world top universities? If the answer is yes, come to our event to meet potential supervisors and current PhD students. There will also be a research clinic, andy a drink reception. Additionally, this event is open to all University of London MA and current MPhil/PhD students who would like to add a digital component to their PhD. 23 January 4pm to 8pm in Council Room Strand Campus Programme 4:00-6:00 - PhD Seminar Two current PhD students in Digital Humanities will present the progress of their dissertation: - 4pm Chiara Salvagni:"Digital editions of classical texts: The first book of the Odyssey and its scholia: a possible future with which perspectives and with which possible consequences? (abstract: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/study/pgr/sems/cstalk.aspx) - 5pm Gabrielė Šalčiūtė-­Čivilienė "Rendering Repetition in Literary Translation: Formal (A)symmetries, Narrative Shifts" (abstract: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/study/pgr/sems/gsctalk.aspx) 6:00-8:00 - The PhD in Digital Humanities - Welcome to PhD Programme: Structure and Aims (Professor Willard McCarty) - Being a Digital Humanities PhD Student: Perspectives of two Current Students - Interventions by Prof Andrew Prescott, Dr John Lavagnino, Dr Peter Stokes and Dr Elena Pierazzo 7.00-8.00 Session 2 (Drinks Reception) Research Clinic and Networking Find more details on our website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/study/pgr/workshop.aspx Regards Elena -- Dr Elena Pierazzo Lecturer in Digital Humanities Department in 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DF4FB39E0; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:24:29 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDD4639D4; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:24:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 25B603125; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:24:27 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121220092427.25B603125@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:24:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.607 text-comparison software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 607. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Markus Wust (6) Subject: Re: 26.603 text-comparison software [2] From: Andrew Stauffer (112) Subject: Re: 26.603 text-comparison software --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:39:50 -0500 From: Markus Wust Subject: Re: 26.603 text-comparison software In-Reply-To: <20121219065529.35EE82DF3@digitalhumanities.org> One tool I like for getting a quick overview of differences between two or three text-based documents is Meld (http://meldmerge.org/), which is available for Linux/Unix systems. Markus Wust Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian North Carolina State University Libraries --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:32:47 -0500 From: Andrew Stauffer Subject: Re: 26.603 text-comparison software In-Reply-To: <20121219065529.35EE82DF3@digitalhumanities.org> Just a note to expand on Daniel Allington's mention of Juxta: NINES has recently released a beta version of Juxta Commons (http://juxtacommons.org), a fully-online version of the Juxta collation tool. This is meant eventually to replace the desktop version. Using Juxta Commons, you can upload or link to txt or xml files or webpages, and create comparison sets that can be visualized in multiple ways and shared with others via stable URLs. Juxta Commons can take in and export files marked in TEI parallel segmentation. For example, here is a collation of the two versions of Percy Shelley's satirical ballad "The Devil's Walk" (taken from the Romantic Circles edition), presented via Juxta Commons: http://www.juxtacommons.org/shares/zhCeeg Click on the little icons under the title to see the various visualizations: heatmap, side-by-side, and histogram. Please send me any feedback or questions: I would love to see some interesting collations created by members of this list --- and, for you eager ones, we are currently running a contest for the most-viewed comparison set: http://www.juxtasoftware.org/juxta-commons-sharing-competition Andy Andrew Stauffer Department of English University of Virginia _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 419973A0E; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:27:18 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 897E639DE; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:27:17 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9D0A43125; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:27:15 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121220092715.9D0A43125@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:27:15 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.608 new techniques of external remembering? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 608. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:54:19 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: imagining new techniques of external remembering In his masterful book Marking the Mind: A History of Memory (Cambridge 2008), Karl Danziger describes the situation that first developed when literacy became commonplace and written notes and records began to proliferate. He argues that these notes and records were not first used to replace human memory but challenged it with a rapidly expanding volume of that which needed to be remembered in the mostly oral performances e.g. of courtroom proceedings. He continues: > People who found themselves in these new situations, and who were > faced by tricky demands on their memorial skills, had a use for a new > kind of technology. As the sheer volume of potentially relevant > written material increased, a massive problem developed: how to > summon up this material when it was needed? Nowadays we are > accustomed to using a multiplicity of highly sophisticated finding > aids, from catalogues and indexes to internet searches. In other > words, we make the content of external memory available and > accessible by exploiting the resources of external memory itself. But > in doing so we are benefiting from techniques of literary retrieval > that took many centuries to discover and develop. In classical > antiquity these techniques - which now seem so obvious - had not yet > been thought of at all or were still in their infancy. Finding ways > of turning external memory on itself turned out to be a painfully > slow and difficult process. (p. 61) Danziger shows throughout with admirable subtlety how technologies and conceptions of memory, indeed what is meant by "memory", have interrelated and affected each other. He notes that early computing devices -- the isolated, room-filling machines that once were what "computer" referred to -- strongly imprinted by metaphor how psychologists and others concerned with memory think about what it is. All those techniques that we now have and use mostly thoughtlessly were developed in tandem with the slowly developed possibilities of the codex book. As we struggle to imagine and construct the what we call the "digital textual edition" as well as the digital memory archive, what are we doing that is not simply a digital rehash of our techno-conceptual inheritance? 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4C5253A0E; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:31:59 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C5D639E9; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:31:57 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 44D3839DB; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:31:55 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121220093155.44D3839DB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:31:55 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.609 XML & what kind of scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 609. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Daniel Allington (32) Subject: Re: 26.605 XML, TEI and what kind of scholarship? [2] From: Desmond Schmidt (100) Subject: Re: 26.599 XML & scholarship [3] From: Martin Mueller (153) Subject: Re: 26.605 XML, TEI and what kind of scholarship? [4] From: Wendell Piez (146) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.605 XML, TEI and what kind of scholarship? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:09:22 +0000 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: 26.605 XML, TEI and what kind of scholarship? In-Reply-To: <20121219074123.26E34DC1@digitalhumanities.org> Willard I think that there may be an analogy between releasing the XML markup 'behind' an edition and releasing the source code for an application. Unreadable sources might just as well be closed, and conscientious programmers spend a great deal of effort making sure that their code is human readable. Of course, 'human readable' means 'readable by other programmers', not 'readable by any untrained person'. But this discussion was started by Desmond Schmidt, who is most definitely not 'any untrained person'. As it happens, I disagreed with Desmond until I took it upon myself to look at the actual markup he was referring to - which was an experience akin to opening a Word file in vi. His most salient comment (from my point of view) was 'They [the texts] appear to be marked up for linguistic analysis'. If a programmer looks at source code and can do no more than guess at what might be going on, he or she may quite legitimately question its readability. Shouldn't it be the same when an editor of digital editions looks at somebody else's markup, especially when it's done using an open standard like TEI? And if it can't be the same, isn't it time to question the role of markup? There are many forms of human-unreadable XML - nobody would expect to look at an SVG file and intuit what the picture was, for example - and there may be nothing wrong with the fact that TEI markup is apparently evolving in that direction. But if that's the case, we need reliable and intuitive ways of getting the information we want out of other people's markup. (Which is absolutely not the same thing as writing a script to turn XML into plain text.) You're right that markup enables editors to record decisions, but so does an apparatus criticus - and an apparatus criticus is nothing if not human readable. Best wishes Daniel --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:32:06 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 26.599 XML & scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121218064951.3A7A03A33@digitalhumanities.org> Patrick, I'll comment on a selection of your points, and try to be brief: > how does using markup differ between the > "born digital" and analog documents? In "born-digital" markup is part of what I write. It is a fact. In "born-analog-and-transcribed-to-digital", markup is an interpretation. It is different every time the "transcription" is redone by someone new. In born-digital markup is always the same. Although, as you point out, I may use the same tools in processing both born-digital and born-analog texts, the kinds of interaction between user and text in the two cases will differ significantly. For example, in the born-analog case we often request a facsimile side by side with its transcription so we can verify its accuracy. In the born digital case such a prop would be superfluous. > Whether markup is standoff or embedded doesn't impact the attribution of > explicit semantics to a text. Any number of linguistic annotation > projects use forms of stand off markup. > It is true that "Standoff markup" has been used in linguistics since the early 1990s. And simply removing XML tags from a text and later putting them back doesn't change the status of the markup one iota. It's still a tree and you can still only have one markup set at a time. Being able to change one set for another is an advantage, but having the two stored separately is equally inconvenient, so there is no overall gain in usability. But "standoff properties" are different, because they have no real syntax they can be combined to enrich a text. The advantage is now decisive: I can add markup sets A, C, and E to a text but not B and D, and then format it, or I can choose B, C and D etc. and format that. This is definitely an improvement because it increases flexibility while providing a way to handle the ever-increasing complexity. This cannot be done using embedded forms of markup. > Then can you clarify from the documentation at the site I think > Humanists readers should review, what explicit semantics are carried in > your sets? > > Are the semantics of all of the TEI semantic markup available? All TEI and other XML markup is available because it is imported one-for-one. Elements become ranges and attributes become "annotations" on the ranges. This feature is taken from the LMNL *model*. The format itself is trivial. There is a description at dhtestbed.ctsdh.luc.edu/hritinfrastructure/index.php/stil - not very good perhaps but all I have at present as we continue to concentrate on the software development. > At least #2 on my list of requirements for a system for analysis of text > would be the explicit preservation of semantics of the text as I > interpreted it and analysis as I assigned it. In a form that can be > reliably interchanged with others. > > To lack explicit semantics for textual analysis means scholarship > returns to being an episodic enterprise that starts over with every > generation guessing what may have been meant by the prior generation and > laying the groundwork for their heirs to guess at theirs. > If by this you mean a standard and interchangeable format for describing text hermeneutically I am well aware of the ideals long voiced on the subject. But unfortunately "between the idea and the reality ... falls the shadow." What I see in TEI marked-up texts in practice is this: redefinition of tags that already exist under a different name, new attributes added willy-nilly when other ones already exist for the purpose, output-related information embedded into supposedly reusable and interchangeable texts, misuse of tags for the wrong purposes, and general ignorance of what it says in the Guidelines because people simply don't read them. At the XML level yes we can interchange texts with other XML programs for parsing and searching but can we interchange or interoperate texts at the level of subjective markup? I don't think so. And if you don't believe me read Syd Bauman's excellent piece in Balisage 2011, or Martin Mueller's open letter to the TEI. They know better than I do what they are talking about. http://ariadne.northwestern.edu/mmueller/teiletter.pdf http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol7/html/Bauman01/BalisageVol7-Bauman01.html Wendell, >There is a bit of an oversimplication of the matter with LMNL here. >It's true as far as it goes about the proposed LMNL syntax ("sawtooth" >or "sabertooth" syntax, as it's been called), which is indeed an >embedded markup syntax. (Except the point about LMNL syntax not >allowing free intermixing of sets of ranges over a text. It does. >Desmond, who disparages embedded markup altogether, will argue that it >won't be practicable or pretty, but that's a different debate.) You already know I think the "sawtooth syntax" is not a computer recognisable language because it apparently has no grammar that governs its entire syntax. The equivalence of "has a grammar" and "is computer recognisable" was acknowledged to be already "well known" by Chomsky in 1959. So I don't think the sawtooth syntax can do what you claim. However, I have no significant objection to the LMNL model itself; in fact it is rather clever. >And while I happen to agree with >Desmond that range models are very promising for all kinds of research >applications (including some for which XML is not well-suited), I >don't agree that a range model per se is going to solve this problem. >On the contrary, it might make it even worse. Ranges may not be the answer to everything but they they neatly describe textual properties, and that's a large part of the problem. But I'd agree ranges make markup worse if they are embedded. So just don't embed them. Desmond Schmidt eResearch Lab University of Queensland --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:26:00 +0000 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: 26.605 XML, TEI and what kind of scholarship? In-Reply-To: <20121219074123.26E34DC1@digitalhumanities.org> "Some" may be a useful word to keep in mind in this discussion. Many literary scholars are unlikely to have much use for the TEI, because they also have little use for for the idea of text as a computationally tractable object (CTO). For good and bad reasons, this is unlikely to change anytime soon. From some ultimate perspective it may be "laughable nonsense" to think of a text as an "ordered hierarchy of content objects," but for many purposes, this assumption works well enough, and in a practical world "works well enough often enough" will always trump existential "is." For some literary scholars, text as CTO is an attractive working hypothesis. They use terms like "distant reading," "macro-analysis", or "scalable reading." They tend to be quite bad at talking in a language that their skeptical colleagues feel like listening to. Not for them the wisdom of Bill Clinton's "you must put the corn where the hogs can get at it." On the other hand, those skeptical colleagues are also not very good at preaching beyond the choir. If you think that "text as CTO" is often helpful, the TEI question is inflected differently. It becomes the question "What value does TEI encoding add to the computational tractability of texts?" or "What query potential is created by TEI encoding and how large is the community that can benefit from such encoding?" The NLP folks, who certainly believe in text as CTO, tend to answers those questions with "little or none." And the first thing they do with an encoded text is to throw away the encoding so that they can use their routines on the raw text or add their own annotations. On the other hand, in their excellent _Natural Language Processing with Python_ Bird, Klein, and Loper introduce Conditional Frequency Distribution as their first substantial analytical tool. They teach you how to compare samples from different "genres" in the Brown corpus. From that perspective, TEI encoding offers potentially a powerful tool for enhancing computational tractability: it lets you divide a digital object into its elements and aggregate those elements across different texts. Alas, there are still very few tools that let literary scholars perform those operations. More accurately, there are such tools, but they typically have a much steeper learning curve than literary scholars are willing to cope with "Coarse but consistent" are the guiding words if encoding is to deliver scholarly benefits that go beyond the ad hoc purposes of a particular project. If you want to ponder the 'haecceitas" of a single text or a few texts, you are much better off with a book. The late Philip Stone somewhere quotes a definition of science as "the systematic throwing away of evidence." The point of encoding is not to encode everything in a text, but to mark some features in such a way that a machine can retrieve different occurrences of the "same" feature across more texts than a human could possibly read. Dumb, but fast and accurate retrieval of coarse features across large data sets. Tossing is the cost of keeping in such an enterprise. There is much wisdom in Desmond Schmidt's recent comment that "At the moment, XML files in the humanities are proportionally less useful to others the more markup is embedded in them, because they become a specific representation of the work of one researcher, which interferes with the work of another." Is there a sweet spot of baseline encoding jointly created by scholarly communities for the purpose of supporting "agile data integration" as an "engine that drives discovery"? I quote Brian Athey, a professor of medicine at Michigan, who in the same talk said that "It¹s difficult to incentivize researchers to share data" (http://blog.orenblog.org/2011/07/19/brian-athey-big-data-2011-rdlmw/). I don't know whether there is such a sweet spot. The life scientists by and large believe that there ought to be and work towards it, while recognizing the many difficulties. Many humanists seem to believe that there should not be such a sweet spot in the first place. But that may be their problem. Professor emeritus of English and Classics Northwestern University On 12/19/12 1:41 AM, "Humanist Discussion Group" wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 605. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:21:46 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: XML, TEI and what kind of scholarship? > > >My King's colleague Elena Pierazzo's message several days ago drew much >needed attention to the disciplinary perspective from which the question >of markup is considered. She made the valuable point that systematic >markup offers the textual editor the ability to record minute decisions >at the location in the text where they are made. In the job-defining >role as *editor* an editor must decide about this or that variant, mark of >punctuation etc, but without markup and the computing which goes with it >there is no way of recording decisions at the minute level of detail at >which they are made. With it these decisions can be recorded. (Textual >editors who know better please contradict.) > >Another colleague, whose passion is ancient inscriptions, pointed out to >me some time ago that markup is similarly well-suited to epigraphy -- >because of what she called the "reporting function" of that discipline. >The epigrapher witnesses and publishes surviving inscriptional evidence >while it still exists, before someone defaces it, carts it away and >sells it on the black market, weather wears it away or whatever. The >epigrapher provides material for the benefit of other scholars. Markup >and associated technologies are a godsend. > >For the literary scholar, however, interpretation is a different matter, >requiring a very different disciplinary style and making very different >demands on the technologies we devise to assist it. My 10 or so years >devoted to markup (pre-TEI) taught me that it is not in principle >well-suited to the literary critic's interpretative practices. Jerome >McGann has made this point forcibly numerous times. > >To a publisher text as an "ordered hierarchy of content objects" makes >perfect sense. To a literary critic it is laughable nonsense. To a >philosopher it is an interesting hypothesis, I would suppose, whose >implications need working out. To an historian it is evidence of people >thinking in a particular way at a particular time, raising the question >of how they came to think thus. > >In the digital humanities we are sometimes overly impressed by the >portability of our methods and tools. We fail to see that when a method >successful in one discipline is ported into another the game it is >intended >to play is different. The criteria which it must meet and the meaning of >the >terms in which scholars think are different. Just as platform-independent >informational text cannot be known except by means of some platform or >other >(the term itself is wrong), computing is meaningless to the scholar unless >manifested within the basic disciplinary context within which he or she is >operating. Crossing the boundary of an epistemic culture successfully >involves a complex blend of learning and teaching in what Peter Galison >has >usefully called a "trading zone" -- for which see Michael E. Gorman, ed., >Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise: Creating New Kinds of >Collaboration (MIT Press, 2010). > >I think we still have a great deal to learn by studying and honouring >what >scholars in various disciplines do. > >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/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:43:25 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.605 XML, TEI and what kind of scholarship? In-Reply-To: <20121219074123.26E34DC1@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, I've already said a lot in this thread, much of it I'm afraid too obscure or high-flown to be of much interest to anyone but specialists. But you did ask for comments, and I have two that I think are important. First: while I'm sympathetic with what you say as far as it goes, I don't think it does justice to all the considerable *indirect* benefits of our present efforts. While markup technologies may not offer any means of directly addressing all conceivable (or even all known) requirements of scholarship -- well. What does? Markup technologies may still provide a technological basis for much activity that they do not directly support. Being able to print Shakespeare in editions of tens of thousands surely promotes Shakespeare. Do we fault the technology of print for not helping students memorize the lines or act out the plays? I know this doesn't really speak to your point, but I think it does a disservice to ourselves to forget it. Secondly, and much closer to the ground, I also feel that your criticism is undermined by something you didn't say, namely your implication that markup perforce imposes an OHCO (orderly hierarchy of content objects) view over the text. While this is (mostly) true historically, it is not true necessarily, and other applications of markup are conceivable. (This was evident to me, schooled in literary criticism, the first day I saw a generalized syntax for descriptive text encoding.) Moreover, it is important that we explore these lest we leave a powerful tool on the bench untried. (Just because you've always used your knife for fruit doesn't make it unsuited to cheese.) It should go without saying that such markup would not be XML, which does indeed (due to its grammar) impose an OHCO -- meaning a text must either be reducible to such a hierarchy, or be (entirely) represented by means of such a hierarchy. (And while it's true that a free-form hierarchical database can be used to describe just about anything, there's a big difference between using XML in this way and using it for "markup".) Desmond is on record as opposing the use of embedded markup altogether, for reasons you hint at as well as others. But with respect to how we might better *model* the text and the information a text encodes (defining "text" broadly here), he and I agree on a great deal. The OHCO model is a convenience for some things and no help for others. By no means is it suited to support everything scholars wish to do. But please don't identify markup as such with the OHCO thesis. It wasn't ever thus, and it doesn't always have to be. Indeed, if developing computational methods for data descriptions that do not impose an OHCO is an important part of the project you propose (respecting, learning from and supporting disciplinary practices to which our present tools are unsuited), then we really need to understand which side of the line markup is on -- markup conceived broadly, and not just as SGML/XML -- and whether there might also be applications of markup that have been blocked, not enabled, by our present toolkit. Of course, even markup conceived broadly won't be useful for everything. But I believe we have been blinded by XML to what other kinds of markup might be good for. Yes, I am proposing an avenue for research. Cheers, Wendell -- Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_GREY autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7E9223A30; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:33:06 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF34339E0; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:33:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 92A1039DE; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:33:03 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121220093303.92A1039DE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:33:03 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.610 events: curation; narrative identity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 610. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (46) Subject: Call for contributions - Framing the Digital Curation Curriculum conference, Florence May 2013 [2] From: federica perazzini (2) Subject: New Humanities Seminar Series - Third Meeting --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:56:01 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Call for contributions - Framing the Digital Curation Curriculum conference, Florence May 2013 The DigCurV project is delighted to announce “Framing the digital curation curriculum”, a conference (www.digcur-education.org/eng/International-Conference http://www.digcur-education.org/eng/International-Conference ) to be held from 6th to 7th of May 2013 in Florence (IT), and to open this call for contributions. With the development of an advanced knowledge-based society, digital curation is becoming a central challenge and activity for libraries, archives, museums and other cultural organizations. The need for skilled professionals to manage digital collections is evident in Europe and internationally, yet there are limited numbers of institutions currently offering professional training and education programmes to prepare individuals to work in the field. The objective of the conference is to promote discussion and consensus building amongst stakeholders about the main criteria and requirements necessary to develop training courses for professionals in digital curation in the cultural heritage sector. Results from projects and initiatives actively involved education, training and professional development in the field of digital curation and digital preservation will be presented and discussed. The audience will include policy makers, educators, representatives from institutions involved in vocational training in digital curation, and representatives from professional associations in the cultural heritage and digital libraries sectors. Call for contributions We invite contributions on concrete examples of training initiatives and educational programs in digital curation, illustrating approaches, methodologies, success stories of training addressed to an increasingly qualified workforce of the library, archive, museum and cultural heritage sectors. Topics include but are not limited to: • lifelong learning in digital curation • current trends and initiatives in digital curation education • existing opportunities for professionals • training the trainers • approaches and methodologies • best practices • sustainability of training initiatives • multimodal modes of learning • opportunities and challenges in developing a training curriculum • examination of digital curation/preservation training frameworks (e.g. DigCurV Curriculum Framework) Accepted contributions will be published in the Conference proceedings. Submissions Papers and discussion documents, describing ideas and training initiatives in digital curation, are solicited. Papers presenting original works should not exceed 6 pages. Short papers and posters describing early results and projects are also welcome. Papers and posters should be submitted electronically using EasyChair online submission system: http://digcur-education.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=65c620b5a790d596aecb51627&id=7b6d4a3b08&e=411f40c862. Submissions must be formatted according to the instructions available at: www.digcur-education.org/eng/International-Conference/Call-for-Contributions. Important dates • Submission Deadline: January 31, 2013 • Acceptance Notification: February 15, 2013 • Final version submission: March 15, 2013 • Conference: May 6-7, 2013 • Post-proceedings Publication: June 30, 2013 Target audience • policy makers • professionals in cultural institutions • educational researchers • educators • representatives of national and European associations involved with training in digital curation • digital repository staff at all levels • trainers in digital curation • professional associations in the Archives, Libraries and Museums sectors • individuals interested in training related topics • public sectors employees with responsibility for curating digital files Our mailing address is: Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe (DigCurV) Long Room Hub Trinity College Dublin Dublin, 0 2 Our telephone: 0035318964470 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 07:45:16 +0000 From: federica perazzini Subject: New Humanities Seminar Series - Third Meeting New Humanities research group (http://www.newhumanities.org/) is glad to announce its seminar series dedicated to the exploration of the relationships between hard and soft sciences. Coming soon, our third meeting organized by Prof. Massimo Marraffa titled "Narrative Identity: nature, ontogeny and psychopatology" (http://www.newhumanities.org/seminars/20-december-2012-narrative-identity-nature-ontogeny-and-psychopathology/) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4D8ED3A28; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:35:09 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 576BB39D4; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:35:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6205939D8; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:35:06 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121220093506.6205939D8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:35:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.611 open-access; metrics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 611. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Noiret, Serge" (40) Subject: RE: 26.604 open-access [2] From: Patrick Durusau (26) Subject: Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:54:39 +0000 From: "Noiret, Serge" Subject: RE: 26.604 open-access In-Reply-To: <20121219065609.2B9C730A9@digitalhumanities.org> Thank you Miran for this thoughtful and acute reflection: Wikipedia being the metaphor of our changing world through digital media. I always wondered why, in the context of non-commercial activities in the world of digital publishing, and even when not referring to the CC open licenses, you have to be so scared and so prudent. As an individual author or with a collective authorship enterprise like Wikipedia and derivate, I would opt for a simple sentence connected to the image you publish online. Why ? Reproducing an image from other digital contexts is de facto "quoting" a digital resource: the hypertext may be made of links to a resource or made of resources embedded directly in the new structure and with a caption linking back to the origin of the information re-published. This is what is important in the digital world: acknowledging the origin of the document, the source of the information. This is what is often being lost. I would acknowledge the original context, saying "picture-image (etc.) published by x –if known- name of the author xx –if known- from the following web site xxx at URL xxxx" (or something similar) and I would add, starting the post/essay/article etc.: "The purpose of this post (essay, article, etc.) is not commercial and the author was not aware, when publishing it, if the image reproduced infringe or not some specific copyright law. We –new publisher- would be happy to pay the requested fee or remove the image from the publication if told about and requested to follow unknown copyright law.” Would this candid and also honest declaration, avoid a lot of worries and leave space for authors or owners of specific copyrights to manifest themselves arguing against the publication or the way/context it has been published ? Would this be fair enough ? Nobody has really any interest to proceed with a judicial case in such a context and gentleman’s agreements could be easily found. But again why this should happen for individual, academic, scientific publications in OA and not for profit activities ? In my opinion -and without entering the copyrights jungle (different everywhere)-, who’s creating new contents openly and with no intention to act as a criminal, would not be stopped to be participative, creative and present in the open web. She/he would leave a door open to potential owners of unknown rights to act and ask for fees or removal or different captions/quotations etc.? By the way is this not what is daily happening in the context of the digital social networks without any link to the source of the information published ? So why Wikipedians should behave even worse than commercial editors ? Serge Noiret History Information Specialist, (Ph.D.) The Library - European University Institute Badia Fiesolana, Via dei Roccettini 9 50014 SAN DOMENICO Florence - Italy >+39-0554685-348 >serge.noiret@eui.eu >@sergenoiret >sergenoiret.blogspot.it >European History Primary Sources --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:51:44 -0500 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics In-Reply-To: <20121219065609.2B9C730A9@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, A recent paper that may be of interest to committees that rely on ranking data: Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: simple, easy and tempting. http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0638 The title serves as a sufficient summary. Not that manipulation of citations is new, but the traditional method was to re-order the authors and the paper to some degree and then re-publish. Here the papers were only posted to a project website. Skipping the formal publication step. I first saw this at Michael Mitzenmacher's blog, My Biased Coin, http://mybiasedcoin.blogspot.com/2012/12/put-this-on-my-list.html. Hope you are having a great week! Patrick http://www.blogger.com/profile/02161161032642563814 -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9812A3A4D; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:08:33 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D1E53A30; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:08:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3BB193A28; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:08:29 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121221090829.3BB193A28@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:08:29 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.612 XML & what kind of scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 612. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Patrick Durusau (100) Subject: Re: 26.605 XML, TEI and what kind of scholarship? [2] From: Patrick Durusau (115) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.609 XML & what kind of scholarship [3] From: Wendell Piez (86) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.609 XML & what kind of scholarship [4] From: Desmond Schmidt (43) Subject: Re: 26.609 XML & what kind of scholarship [5] From: Patrick Durusau (29) Subject: The Power of Notation [6] From: drwender@aol.com (30) Subject: Re: 26.605 XML, TEI and what kind of scholarship? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:10:14 -0500 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 26.605 XML, TEI and what kind of scholarship? In-Reply-To: <20121219074123.26E34DC1@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, On 12/19/2012 02:41 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > For the literary scholar, however, interpretation is a different matter, > requiring a very different disciplinary style and making very different > demands on the technologies we devise to assist it. My 10 or so years > devoted to markup (pre-TEI) taught me that it is not in principle > well-suited to the literary critic's interpretative practices. Jerome > McGann has made this point forcibly numerous times. Taking "Marking Texts of Many Dimensions" (http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/jjm2f/blackwell.htm) and "Visible and Invisible Books: Hermetic Images in N-Dimensional Space" (http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/jjm2f/old/nlh2000web.html) as representative of McGann's position generally, I don't see support for the proposition that markup: "...is not in principle well-suited to the literary critic's interpretative practices." Granting use of markup can be pedestrian and unimaginative, not to mention the foolish well-formedness constraint of XML, but I see nothing inconsistent with the use of markup and McGann's conclusion in "Marking Texts of Many Dimensions:" > This model of text-processing is open-ended, discontinuous, and > non-hierarchical.It takes place in a fieldspace that is exposed when > it is mapped by a process of "reading".A digital processing program is > to be imagined and built that allows one to mark and store these maps > of the textual fields and then to study the ways they develop and > unfold and how they compare with other textual mappings and > transactions.Constructing textualities as field spaces of these kinds > short-circuits a number of critical predilections that inhibit our > received, common sense wisdom about our textual condition.First of > all, it escapes crippling interpretive dichotomies like text and > reader, or textual "subjectivity" and "objectivity".Reader -response > criticism , so-called, intervened in that space of problems but only > succeeded in reifying even further the primary distinctions.In this > view of the matter, however, one sees that the distinctions are purely > heuristic.The "text" we "read" is, in this view, an autopoietic event > with which we interact and to which we make our own > contributions.Every textual event is an emergence imbedded in and > comprising a set of complex histories, some of which we each partially > realize when we participate in those textual histories.Interestingly, > these histories, in this view, have to be grasped as fields of action > rather than as linear unfoldings.The fields are topological, with > various emergent and dynamic basins of order, some of them linear and > hierarchical, others not. > It would require imaginative use of HyTime, topic maps or similar methods to approach these requirements. Or perhaps more sophisticated forms of markup that take advantage of topological methods. But conceding that markup could be improved isn't the same as sounding retreat into silent visual representation of literary analysis. Silent visual representation of iterary analysis condemns scholars to the range of works they can read in a working lifetime. There is no indexing of those judgements because there are no recorded judgements to index. For all of their shortcomings, I would prefer to live with indexes and references by others than without them. > To a publisher text as an "ordered hierarchy of content objects" makes > perfect sense. To a literary critic it is laughable nonsense. To a > philosopher it is an interesting hypothesis, I would suppose, whose > implications need working out. To an historian it is evidence of people > thinking in a particular way at a particular time, raising the question > of how they came to think thus. > > In the digital humanities we are sometimes overly impressed by the > portability of our methods and tools. We fail to see that when a method > successful in one discipline is ported into another the game it is intended > to play is different. The criteria which it must meet and the meaning of the > terms in which scholars think are different. Just as platform-independent > informational text cannot be known except by means of some platform or other > (the term itself is wrong), computing is meaningless to the scholar unless > manifested within the basic disciplinary context within which he or she is > operating. Crossing the boundary of an epistemic culture successfully > involves a complex blend of learning and teaching in what Peter Galison has > usefully called a "trading zone" -- for which see Michael E. Gorman, ed., > Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise: Creating New Kinds of > Collaboration (MIT Press, 2010). Perhaps but do you have an example of an observation, judgement, comment, comparison, etc. by a literary critic that, if articulated, cannot be represented in markup? I concede if a literary critic is silent, then there is nothing for markup to represent. But I read Desmond's posts as saying he has statements about texts to be articulated. But that he prefers to do so without the use of markup. I take McGann as arguing that markup needs to become more expressive, so as to capture more of what literary critics want to articulate, not that it should be abandoned in favour of silence. Hope you are having a great week! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) 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: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:38:05 -0500 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.609 XML & what kind of scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121220093155.44D3839DB@digitalhumanities.org> Jerome, On 12/20/2012 04:31 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Patrick, > > I'll comment on a selection of your points, and try to be brief: > >> how does using markup differ between the >> "born digital" and analog documents? > In "born-digital" markup is part of what I write. It is a fact. In > "born-analog-and-transcribed-to-digital", markup is an interpretation. > It is different every time the "transcription" is redone by someone > new. In born-digital markup is always the same. Although, as you point > out, I may use the same tools in processing both born-digital and > born-analog texts, the kinds of interaction between user and text in > the two cases will differ significantly. For example, in the > born-analog case we often request a facsimile side by side with its > transcription so we can verify its accuracy. In the born digital case > such a prop would be superfluous. Certainly the elements required for "born-digital" versus "born-analog-and-transcribed-to-digital" differ, but then the elements for poetry and prose differ as well. But the digital/analog distinction is one of two different starting points of interpretation. For the analog case, there is a visible focus of attention for the interpretative process. In born digital, it isn't visible to others. But both are interpretative processes. >> Whether markup is standoff or embedded doesn't impact the attribution of >> explicit semantics to a text. Any number of linguistic annotation >> projects use forms of stand off markup. >> > It is true that "Standoff markup" has been used in linguistics since > the early 1990s. And simply removing XML tags from a text and later > putting them back doesn't change the status of the markup one iota. > It's still a tree and you can still only have one markup set at a > time. Being able to change one set for another is an advantage, but > having the two stored separately is equally inconvenient, so there is > no overall gain in usability. > > But "standoff properties" are different, because they have no real > syntax they can be combined to enrich a text. Rather say "some" standoff markups don't have "real syntax." I dimly remember the standoff efforts from Henry Thompson's group as having fairly definite notions of "real syntax," even though you could use them together. >> At least #2 on my list of requirements for a system for analysis of text >> would be the explicit preservation of semantics of the text as I >> interpreted it and analysis as I assigned it. In a form that can be >> reliably interchanged with others. >> >> To lack explicit semantics for textual analysis means scholarship >> returns to being an episodic enterprise that starts over with every >> generation guessing what may have been meant by the prior generation and >> laying the groundwork for their heirs to guess at theirs. >> > If by this you mean a standard and interchangeable format for > describing text hermeneutically I am well aware of the ideals long > voiced on the subject. But unfortunately "between the idea and the > reality ... falls the shadow." > What I see in TEI marked-up texts in practice is this: redefinition of > tags that already exist under a different name, new attributes added > willy-nilly when other ones already exist for the purpose, > output-related information embedded into supposedly reusable and > interchangeable texts, misuse of tags for the wrong purposes, and > general ignorance of what it says in the Guidelines because people > simply don't read them. Sorry, I was presuming that markup makes explicit clues already extant in the text. Or rather, it "redefines" them to use your term, in a standard vocabulary. One that frees me from having to re-inspect the text to discover the clues. That TEI or even markup in general has any number of examples of poor usage I don't dispute. I don't see how misuse of markup supports an argument against markup? > At the XML level yes we can interchange texts with other XML programs > for parsing and searching but can we interchange or interoperate texts > at the level of subjective markup? I don't think so. And if you don't > believe me read Syd Bauman's excellent piece in Balisage 2011, or > Martin Mueller's open letter to the TEI. They know better than I do > what they are talking about. > > http://ariadne.northwestern.edu/mmueller/teiletter.pdf > http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol7/html/Bauman01/BalisageVol7-Bauman01.html I read Syd as arguing for blind interchange, a higher standard than interoperability and Martin for the TEI to do a better job of promoting non-curio use of the TEI for encoding texts. Let me close with a brief example that may (may not) be helpful. "New Testament Greek Manuscripts: Variant Readings Arranged in Horizontal Lines Against Codex Vaticanus, Mattew" by Reuben J. Swanson. Sheffield Academic Press, 1995. Swanson concedes the important of the Church Fathers, versions (read early translations), etc., but includes only select Greek sources. A perfectly understandable decision but a visual presentation that means: 1) Subsequent projects will have to re-enter, re-proof and re-align the texts Swanson has already produced. 2) Subsequent projects will have to enter, proof and align their additional texts. 3) Descriptive markup could lessen the costs of both #1 and #2 as well as provide other advantages for searching, analysis, etc. It is important to not confuse the methodology (inline versus standoff markup) with the need for standard vocabularies for "blind interchange" to use Syd's terminology. Swanson has no vocabulary for alignment, it is entirely a visual artifact of his presentation. Hope you are having a great week! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) 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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:57:19 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.609 XML & what kind of scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121220093155.44D3839DB@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, Please forgive a response that is probably of interest only to practitioners and theorists of markup. I pursue this here mainly because I know that some readers are interested, while there are no other public venues (to my knowledge) as well suited for this important discussion as this list. Desmond writes: > But "standoff properties" are different, because they have no real > syntax they can be combined to enrich a text. The advantage is now > decisive: I can add markup sets A, C, and E to a text but not B and D, > and then format it, or I can choose B, C and D etc. and format that. > This is definitely an improvement because it increases flexibility > while providing a way to handle the ever-increasing complexity. This is an important point -- and why I have focused on a model that can be expressed both using a standoff convention, and (what Desmond says is impossible) serialized in a markup syntax. I think the latter is important because: * It makes a good openly-specified interchange format. * It should be useful for many purposes including lightweight applications and pedagogy. * Embedded markup is robust in the face of editorial changes (documents being created, edited or curated), while standoff conventions are not (at least not without a significant infrastructure that must also be specified and built). * Similarly, it is composable, in the (loose) sense that fragments of instances are also instances. * There is no reason the two approaches could not be combined to get benefits of both. Indeed, if standoff properties are assigned to ranges marked inline instead of to offsets in the text itself, the problem of the brittleness of a standoff notation can be reduced. In other words, I regard the "standoff vs embedded" discussion to be a red herring, and mainly unproductive. Until we have an embedded markup technology that can work this way, it is only theoretical; and when we do, it becomes a practical problem amenable to experiment. At the same time, I do agree that an embedded markup syntax should not be absolutely indispensable, certainly not for every purpose. Its main interest to me is as a demonstration of principles, a site of development, and a bridge. Desmond writes further (specifically about the LMNL project): > You already know I think the "sawtooth syntax" is not a computer > recognisable language because it apparently has no grammar that > governs its entire syntax. The equivalence of "has a grammar" and "is > computer recognisable" was acknowledged to be already "well known" by > Chomsky in 1959. So I don't think the sawtooth syntax can do what you > claim. However, I have no significant objection to the LMNL model > itself; in fact it is rather clever. The syntax has a grammar, here: http://lmnl-markup.org/specs/archive/Detailed_LMNL_syntax.xhtml What LMNL does not have is a grammar to describe document structures (as opposed to a markup syntax). In XML terms, this is as if we had a grammar for well-formed markup capable of being parsed -- "computer recognizable" -- without a grammar governing document structures (such as a DTD). As you know, developers work with XML like this every day. In particular, XSLT and XQuery do not require a DTD or any grammar describing documents; and the data model on which they work (the XDM) can be derived from well-formed XML without such a grammar. In practice, it turns out that grammars *to describe document structures* are useful for optimizing certain processes, but are not a sine qua non for processing in general. I freely concede Desmond's (and Chomsky's) point that a computationally tractable syntax (patterned sequence of tokens) will have at least an implicit grammar. But that's not at issue here. At last year's workshop on Data Modeling at Brown and again at Balisage, I demonstrated both lossless conversion back and forth between LMNL syntax and a standoff representation of the model, and (rudimentary, but interesting) applications based on the LMNL data model. So I don't have to argue the theory: I'm parsing the stuff. (And I'll be happy to do so again anywhere I am able to. :-) In other words, this is a complete circuit: edit your tagged text and see the changes reflected in processing. http://balisage.net/Proceedings/vol8/html/Piez01/BalisageVol8-Piez01.html How to validate LMNL to formal constraint sets specified outside its applications remains an area for research. Both grammar-based approaches (such as rabbit/duck grammars or Jeni Tennison's proposed CREOLE language, an extension of RNG) and rules-based approaches (analogous to Schematron for XML) are conceivable. And this is true for any range model, including those represented using standoff conventions. Best regards, Wendell -- Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 05:49:10 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 26.609 XML & what kind of scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121220093155.44D3839DB@digitalhumanities.org> Wendell, Willard is not mistaken. There are no practical markup languages embedded in the text that are not OHCOs, for otherwise they would not be computer recognisable languages. What you are referring to are data structures that can be expressed using markup formalisms such as linking (i.e. using IDs to connect elements). I can represent a complete graph in XML that way but it doesn't mean that the XML language in question has such a structure. It's still a tree. The links themselves aren't part of the language. You can't write a grammatical rule that controls which elements an ID can connect to, or that the target must exist or that the links don't form a directed cycle etc. Since you can't syntax-check any of that, such files should be locked to prevent accidental damage. One way to achieve that is to use a binary format. Like you I find it incredibly limiting to say that humanistic data must be represented by a tree. There are certainly hundreds if not a limitless number of data structures in information science, and our texts are subtly complex things that deserve better analysis than being always hammered into a tree. Why can't we use some of those other data structures to describe text better? Desmond Schmidt eResearch Lab University of Queensland On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > It should go without saying that such markup would not be XML, which > does indeed (due to its grammar) impose an OHCO -- meaning a text must > either be reducible to such a hierarchy, or be (entirely) represented > by means of such a hierarchy. (And while it's true that a free-form > hierarchical database can be used to describe just about anything, > there's a big difference between using XML in this way and using it > for "markup".) > > Desmond is on record as opposing the use of embedded markup > altogether, for reasons you hint at as well as others. But with > respect to how we might better *model* the text and the information a > text encodes (defining "text" broadly here), he and I agree on a great > deal. The OHCO model is a convenience for some things and no help for > others. By no means is it suited to support everything scholars wish > to do. > > But please don't identify markup as such with the OHCO thesis. It > wasn't ever thus, and it doesn't always have to be. --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:36:54 -0500 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: The Power of Notation In-Reply-To: <20121220093155.44D3839DB@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, On the question of markup/notation, "Juggling by numbers: How notation revealed new tricks," http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20728493 may be of interest. The article describes Siteswap, a notation invented in the 1980's to describe juggling moves. It is a numerical notation which lends itself to being searched for patterns. A site with links to more documentation, software to simulate juggling, etc. http://www.siteswap.org/. I mention this in part to follow up on Wendell's suggestion of a program of research on markup broadly defined. What patterns would a notation broader than XML uncover? Any number of us have argued for such cases, using a variety of notations, but the isn't the same as a large body of material subject to common examination and debate over patterns and their usefulness. Hope you are having a great week! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) 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 --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:17:02 -0500 (EST) From: drwender@aol.com Subject: Re: 26.605 XML, TEI and what kind of scholarship? In-Reply-To: <8CFAD2E86C52C7E-AE8-3C650@webmail-m006.sysops.aol.com> Dear Willard, you wrote in 26.605: > My King's colleague Elena Pierazzo's message several days ago drew much > needed attention to the disciplinary perspective from which the question > of markup is considered. She made the valuable point that systematic > markup offers the textual editor the ability to record minute decisions > at the location in the text where they are made. In the job-defining > role as *editor* an editor must decide about this or that variant, mark of > punctuation etc, but without markup and the computing which goes with it > there is no way of recording decisions at the minute level of detail at > which they are made. With it these decisions can be recorded. (Textual > editors who know better please contradict.) Yes, I would contradict that opinion, and not only because there is a kind of technological fallcy behind. Editorial ethics are not dependent from the tolls the editor uses to communicate his results analyzing the textual tradtion, his decisions based upon it and the literary text he proposes to be read. One example, a 'genetic edition' avant la lettre: On my book shelf I'm holding a 1924 test-edition of a worse manuscript - first draft of Fontane's "Effi Briest", ed. by Eduard Behrend - that shows the different layers of correction with typographical means on the left side and in parallel the final text from the first print edition on the right. Surely, Behrend's manuscript for this test-edition (the print job was performed by the typestters of the "Reichsdruckerei") was 'marked-up' in his hand; but would tree processing any more clarity in representation? 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The final nominations appearing in each category will be decided by the nominations committee based on the public suggestions. The voting will be entirely open to the public. To nominate a resource/project/work in one of these categories please go to http://DHawards.org/DHawards2012/nominations The most popular nominations will be put up for public vote in late January and overseen by an international nominations committee http://DHawards.org/DHawards2012/committee Nominations for DH Awards 2012 close on 11 January 2013, voting will take place during late-January. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Charles Ess (50) Subject: Invitation to Onlife Manifesto event - February 8, 2013 - Brussels [2] From: "Sy, Donna (das3yp)" (70) Subject: Rare Book School announces Summer 2013 course schedule [3] From: Shawn Day (11) Subject: CFP: Building infrastructures for archives in a digital world, Dublin, 26-28 June 2013 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:06:55 +0100 From: Charles Ess Subject: Invitation to Onlife Manifesto event - February 8, 2013 - Brussels Dear Humanists, Especially those of you somewhat in the neighborhood might be interested in this event. The "Onlife Manifesto": Being human in a hyperconnected era, February 8, 2013 | 25, avenue de Beaulieu | Brussels What does it mean to be human in the computational era? How can we experience freedom and plurality in a hyperconnected reality? Is the public/private distinction still relevant? How can we endorse and attribute responsibilities in a world where artefacts become agents? It is often thought that philosophy is a luxury for persons who enjoy the beauty of the world of ideas, only. However, answers to philosophical questions such as the ones above, have concrete and direct implications on the design of policy frameworks. The deployment and uptake of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has a radical impact on the human condition, insofar as they modify relationships to ourselves, to others and to the world. In order to explore the policy-relevant consequences of the changes brought about by hyperconnectivity, a group of scholars in anthropology, cognitive science, computer science, engineering, law, neuroscience, philosophy, political science, psychology and sociology initiated a collective thought exercise, the Onlife Initiative. The group, chaired by Prof Luciano Floridi - Professor of Philosophy, UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics at the University of Hertfordshire and Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford- has chosen to publish the Onlife Manifesto, which reviews the referential frameworks on which policies are built. This document will be released on the 8th of February so as to contribute to the debate on the impacts of the hyperconnected era on public spaces, politics and societal expectations. This one-day event will be moderated in the morning by Mr Robert Madelin, Director General of DG CONNECT, and in the afternoon by Mr Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau, Deputy Head of Cabinet of EC Vice President Neelie Kroes, in presence of very distinguished speakers from the academic, non-governmental, business and policy-making worlds. Come, discover and react to the Onlife Manifesto Engage and discuss societal expectations for policy-making in a hyperconnected world! More information on the programme soon | Free registration - Webstreaming foreseen | 120 places available: first come first serve! To register and for information : nicole.dewandre@ec.europa.eu With all best wishes,charles ess -- Associate Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/ University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess@media.uio.no --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 06:23:48 +0000 From: "Sy, Donna (das3yp)" Subject: Rare Book School announces Summer 2013 course schedule Rare Book School announces its 2013 course schedule. Join us this summer as we celebrate 20 years at the University of Virginia, and 30 years in operation! In 2013, RBS will offer courses at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (June–August), the Lillian Goldman Law Library, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Library, and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University in New Haven (June), the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (July) and at the Smithsonian Institution and Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC (October–November). This year RBS adds seven new courses, highlighted with an asterisk below, to our programming. Additionally, RBS is pleased to offer several courses of interest to digital humanists, including “XML in Action: Creating TEI Texts,” taught by David Seaman and “Digitizing the Historical Record,” taught by Andrew Stauffer & Bethany Nowviskie. Other courses, such as “Scholarly Editing: Principles & Practice,” taught by David Vander Meulen, offer traditional bibliographic skills that are highly translatable to digital environments. The online application for Summer courses will be available on the RBS website beginning in January 2013. Detailed course descriptions and advance reading lists are available at http://rarebookschool.org/ Summer 2013 10–14 June in Charlottesville, VA H-30: The Printed Book in the West to 1800, Martin Antonetti L-95: Born-Digital Materials: Theory & Practice, Matthew Kirschenbaum & Naomi Nelson *T-60: The History of 19th- & 20th-Century Typography & Printing, John Kristensen & Katherine McCanless Ruffin H-90: Teaching the History of the Book, Michael F. Suarez, S.J. G-55: Scholarly Editing: Principles & Practice, David Vander Meulen 17–21 June in Charlottesville, VA I-10: History of Printed Book Illustration in the West, Erin C. Blake M-20: Introduction to Western Codicology, Albert Derolez *C-60: Examining the Medical Book: History & Connoisseurship, Stephen Greenberg L-65: Digitizing the Historical Record, Bethany Nowviskie & Andrew Stauffer L-70: XML in Action: Creating Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Texts, David Seaman 17–21 June in New Haven, CT B-40: Medieval & Early Renaissance Bookbinding Structures, Christopher Clarkson L-60: Introduction to Archives for Special Collections Librarians, Jackie Dooley & Bill Landis *M-90: Advanced Seminar: Medieval Manuscript Studies, Barbara A. Shailor C-85: Law Books: History & Connoisseurship, Mike Widener 8–12 July in Charlottesville, VA *C-30: Developing Collections: Donors, Libraries & Booksellers, Tom Congalton, Johan Kugelberg & Katherine Reagan B-10: Introduction to the History of Bookbinding, Jan Storm van Leeuwen H-15: The History of the Book in America, c.1700–1830, James N. Green G-20: Printed Books to 1800: Description & Analysis, David Whitesell M-70: The Handwriting & Culture of Early Modern English Manuscripts, Heather Wolfe 22–26 July in Charlottesville, VA I-20: Book Illustration Processes to 1900, Terry Belanger M-10: Introduction to Paleography, 800–1500, Consuelo Dutschke H-40: The Printed Book in the West Since 1800, Eric Holzenberg L-30: Rare Book Cataloging, Deborah J. Leslie L-25: Reference Sources for Researching Rare Books, Joel Silver B-50: Advanced Seminar in the History of Bookbinding, Jan Storm van Leeuwen 22–26 July in Philadelphia, PA H-25: 15th-Century Books in Print & Manuscript, Paul Needham & Will Noel 29 July–2 August in Charlottesville, VA H-10: History of the Book, 200–2000, John Buchtel & Mark Dimunation *I-40: The Illustrated Scientific Book to 1800, Roger Gaskell C-90: Provenance: Tracing Owners & Collections, David Pearson G-10: Introduction to the Principles of Bibliographical Description, David Whitesell H-50: The American Book in the Industrial Era, 1820–1940, Michael Winship Fall 2013 28 October–1 November in Washington, DC *L-35: Advanced Rare Book Cataloging, Deborah J. Leslie *I-95: Hokusai & Book Illustration, 1800–1879, Ellis Tinios --- Donna A. C. Sy Mellon Fellowship Program Director Rare Book School donna.sy@virginia.edu Rare Book School 2013 course schedule: http://www.rarebookschool.org/schedule/ Rare Book School on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug9JzkQne84 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:43:57 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: CFP: Building infrastructures for archives in a digital world, Dublin, 26-28 June 2013 Call for Papers 'Building infrastructures for archives in a digital world' Conference Dublin, 26. – 28. June 2013 The consortium of the EU-funded project APEx – Archives Portal Europe Network of Excellence – consisting of 28 national archives and ICARUS, is organising a conference to discuss the major challenges archives face on their path into the digital world. It aims at debating the major questions in respective professional fields by evaluating the broad scope of methods and approaches and by gathering experiences and perspectives from related projects conducive to obtaining new insights and visions regarding the further development of the Archives Portal Europe. Additionally, a series of workshops will provide practical knowledge in order to fulfill the preconditions of becoming participants of online platforms and portals. Potential speakers are invited to present a paper (15 min.) within one of the following panels and are asked to send a proposal of their presentation (about 1000 characters) by completing an online form on the APEx website: http://www.apex-project.eu/index.php/component/proforms/paper-submission The deadline for submitting proposals is: 17 February 2013 The submission of a proposal does not imply a guarantee of acceptance. We will inform you about our decision by 15 March 2013 at the latest. The consent of the speakers/authors provided, papers might be published on the Archives Portal Europe or within an anthology accompanying the conference. More information about the conference can be found at: http://www.apex-project.eu/index.php/dublin-conference For further information refer to editor@apex-project.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 432EA3A5B; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:40:34 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A16C3A47; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:40:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9999E3A46; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:40:31 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121222094031.9999E3A46@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:40:31 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.615 XML & what kind of scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 615. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Wendell Piez (94) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.612 XML & what kind of scholarship [2] From: Desmond Schmidt (55) Subject: Re: 26.612 XML & what kind of scholarship --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:17:41 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.612 XML & what kind of scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121221090829.3BB193A28@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Desmond, On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Willard is not mistaken. There are no practical markup languages > embedded in the text that are not OHCOs, for otherwise they would not > be computer recognisable languages. Please understand I write with a great deal of caution and humility, since I am painfully conscious of how much I don't understand about all this. Fools rush in, etc. Yet at the same time, I can't help but feeling as if you keep telling me a unicorn isn't possible, while I am looking out my back window and watching one nibbling flowers in the garden. Working with documents marked up using LMNL syntax isn't theoretical for me: I'm doing it every day to whatever extent I can make time and find faith. (I too have plenty of doubts. They just haven't convinced me that trying this out isn't worth the effort.) Now, you tell me what I'm seeing isn't a unicorn, but something else that simply happens to look and act just like a unicorn. We aren't actually in disagreement about grammars and parsing. As I wrote yesterday, LMNL syntax does have a grammar, and parsing it does yield a tree -- it is a syntax tree, representing the tags in the text. The difference is in what the parser is asked to do with that information -- the "thing" (the model) that the tags in the text are taken to represent, which is instantiated ("built" in memory) and processed in subsequent operations. A LMNL processor builds a range model -- a model exactly aligned in every important respect (that I know of) with every standoff-based model for attributing properties or annotations to text I have seen so far, capable of describing arbitrary ranges with arbitrary properties and annotations. Interestingly, this is done by forgoing what XML does by inferring (from the sequence of tags) hierarchical relations (parent, child, sibling etc.) among elements in the model. ("Element" is a thing in the model. "Tag" is a thing in the syntax.) In LMNL (the model), a range is a range, which may happen to be enclosed by another range, or it may overlap it. All ranges in the document are peers, and it is up to an application to build hierarchies out of them if it wants to. Consequently it has all the properties you like about range models, including that it can support concurrent but disjunct descriptions of the same text; multiple concurrent hierarchies; ranges with the same name overlapping one another ("arbitrary overlap"); etc. > What you are referring to are data > structures that can be expressed using markup formalisms such as > linking (i.e. using IDs to connect elements). I can represent a > complete graph in XML that way but it doesn't mean that the XML > language in question has such a structure. It's still a tree. The > links themselves aren't part of the language. You can't write a > grammatical rule that controls which elements an ID can connect to, or > that the target must exist or that the links don't form a directed > cycle etc. Since you can't syntax-check any of that, such files should > be locked to prevent accidental damage. One way to achieve that is to > use a binary format. Indeed. I accept this -- indeed it describes the internals of many XML processors as well (to say nothing of your web browser), in which the tree itself is represented using pointers. Yet I am nevertheless interested that embedded markup -- once you have a strong two-way mapping between markup syntax and model (as XML has, just barely) -- provides another way to protect this fragile creature (just as XML doesn't ask you to maintain pointers between an element parent and its element children). Internally, it is quite likely that a LMNL processor will maintain a set of linked objects. But does not have to be exposed to the user any more than your binary is. Instead, it can be generated by parsing a set of tags embedded in text (a markup instance). When it has to be edited, it can be edited either through a user interface or API (the way your binary will), or by being serialized as markup, edited and parsed again (the way XML sometimes is -- when it's not simply manipulated as a binary). In other words, the architecture is (as far as I can see) entirely compatible with yours, with one big exception, namely that LMNL offers a serialization format that can be manipulated as plain text, syntax-checked, and parsed. I'm perfectly happy to concede that for many purposes, an embedded markup representation may not prove to be practical (when the markup gets "thick") or necessary (when we have better interfaces than the parsing/serialization cycle). Yet it is nevertheless so useful for so many things that I am just not in a hurry to discard it. Like Patrick, I think examples of markup being used badly say nothing about markup or the potentials of markup -- some of which are not realized in some examples of XML, and others of which are impeded by XML itself. To say that examples of "bad XML" (or examples of XML that you just happen not to like) demonstrate that embedded markup is useless is, to me, like saying that because you can get on the telephone and order a bad pizza to be delivered to your house -- something millions do every day, even though the pizza is bad -- therefore we should never bother with Italian cuisine. Happy New Long Cycle! Cheers, Wendell -- Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 07:28:10 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 26.612 XML & what kind of scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121221090829.3BB193A28@digitalhumanities.org> Wendell, I have read this syntax statement carefully, although I have seen it before. This document describes a tree-structure, like all grammars. It resembles the "Trojan milestones" described by Steven DeRose at Extreme Markup 2004 and also to the "Co-indexing" technique described by Barnard in 1992. The key difference is that you implicitly connect start and end milestones if they immediately follow without resorting to the use of IDs. But any such connections are NOT part of the language. They are the information content of the language. It is like saying that "the cookie jar" is the jar with the cookies inside it when convention states that it is only the glass, lid and shape of the jar. Convention states that the term (computer recognisable) "language" is the thing governed by a grammar. The rest of your syntax specification is in plain English, not grammatical rules, and describes the information content of the language. Since it is exactly mappable, as you point out, to XML, it cannot describe anything more than XML. I don't think this notation would be usable by digital humanists. Apart from serious verification problems which I won't go into here, the modern user is mostly interested in point and click interfaces, in Web-accessible applications, rather than markup tags. We only have to think how to engineer that, and the technology under the hood does not have to (and in my view should not) be human editable whatever it is. The only markup humans can tolerate editing is simple and robust wiki-type tags. But mostly they prefer to use GUIs for editing. Since we clearly need more sophisticated data structures than mere trees that is why I say that binary formats are better. What is provably correct when written by a machine can be provably correct when it is read in by a machine. But letting humans loose on it in the middle is a recipe for trouble. Your main point on why embedded markup is better than standoff (third starred point) is relevant only if we continue to edit markup by hand. Once we let the machine do this automatically this does not matter any more. And with the embedded markup I still don't see how you can combine sets of markup as you can with standoff properties. Desmond Schmidt eResearch Lab University of Queensland On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Desmond writes further (specifically about the LMNL project): >> You already know I think the "sawtooth syntax" is not a computer >> recognisable language because it apparently has no grammar that >> governs its entire syntax. The equivalence of "has a grammar" and "is >> computer recognisable" was acknowledged to be already "well known" by >> Chomsky in 1959. So I don't think the sawtooth syntax can do what you >> claim. However, I have no significant objection to the LMNL model >> itself; in fact it is rather clever. > > The syntax has a grammar, here: > > http://lmnl-markup.org/specs/archive/Detailed_LMNL_syntax.xhtml > > What LMNL does not have is a grammar to describe document structures > (as opposed to a markup syntax). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1AA2C3A73; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:41:11 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C10193A60; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:41:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 75B6D3A5B; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:41:06 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121222094106.75B6D3A5B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:41:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.616 categories for DH Awards? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 616. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:03:13 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Re: 26.613 DH Awards In-Reply-To: <20121221090905.E49F43A46@digitalhumanities.org> Dear James This is an excellent initiative and very much to be welcomed. It does however seem like a very strange selection of categories. I can think for example of one book which has appeared during the year which would be worth nominating, but the DH Publications category doesn't mention books. Likewise, the most important DH online achievements are often digital editions, archives or other online resources, but I cannot see how these fit in. Are these accidental exclusions, or do the categories ned revisiting? With all best wishes Andrew On 21 Dec 2012, at 09:09, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 613. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:26:44 +0000 > From: James Cummings > Subject: Announcing DH Awards! > > Announcing DH Awards 2012! > > Digital Humanities Awards are a new set of annual awards given in > recognition of talent and expertise in the digital humanities > community and are nominated and voted for entirely by the public. > These awards are intended to help put interesting DH resources in > the spotlight and engage DH users (and general public) in the > work of the community. Awards are not specific to geography, > language, conference, organization or field of humanities that they > benefit. There is no financial prize associated with these > community awards. > > The categories for DH Awards 2012 are: > > * Best DH tool or suite of tools: > Nominations for this category should be for a tool or suite of > tools specifically created for and used by members of the DH > community > > * Best DH blog, article, or short publication: > Nominations for this category should be for a short DH > publication (peer-reviewed or not) whether article, blog post(s), > or other publication > > * Best DH visualization or infographic: > Nominations for this category should be for a graphic, > infographic, or visualization created for the DH community > > * Best professional resources for learning about or doing DH work: > Nominations for this category should be for a resource that helps > DH professionals learn about or undertake work in the DH community > > * Best DH project for public audiences: > Nominations for this category should be for a DH project aimed at > use by the general public > > * Best use of DH for fun: > Nominations for this category should be for > projects/resources/sites for DH which are designed to be fun or > inherently playful > > People may make multiple nominations in any category. The final > nominations appearing in each category will be decided by the > nominations committee based on the public suggestions. The voting > will be entirely open to the public. > > To nominate a resource/project/work in one of these categories > please go to http://DHawards.org/DHawards2012/nominations > > The most popular nominations will be put up for public vote in > late January and overseen by an international nominations > committee http://DHawards.org/DHawards2012/committee > > Nominations for DH Awards 2012 close on 11 January 2013, voting > will take place during late-January. > > Happy Holidays, > -James > > -- > Dr James Cummings, james@DHawards.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D6BA63A66; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:45:28 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69C1D3A60; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:45:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DEC813A47; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:45:25 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121222094525.DEC813A47@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:45:25 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.617 events: the body; Early Modern Digital Agendas; CL for literature X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 617. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (85) Subject: JAM 2013: The Body and the Digital - Call for papers [2] From: Owen Williams (33) Subject: ANNC: Early Modern Digital Agendas institute at the Folger [3] From: Anna Kazantseva (25) Subject: preliminary CfP: Second Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:34:59 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: JAM 2013: The Body and the Digital - Call for papers Please find the attached call for papers and performance proposals for the upcoming Journeys Across Media Conference at the University of Reading. Please note the deadline for proposals is 1 February 2013. Many Thanks, The JAM Team Johnmichael Rossi, Gary Cassidy, Edina Husanovic, Shelly Quirk, Matthew McFrederick. Journeys Across Media The Body and The Digital Friday 19 April 2013, University of Reading 2013 will mark the 11^th anniversary of the annual Journeys Across Media (JAM) Conference for postgraduate students, organised by postgraduates working in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading. JAM 2013 seeks to focus on and foster current research relating to the Body and the Digital, as today they are interactive and interdependent facets in the media of film, theatre and television; and more widely, in the areas of performance and art. It is a relationship which continues to develop and redefine cinematic, televisual and theatrical practices. French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty once stated: “The body is our general medium for having a world.” Today, the world of live and screened performance are perceived and received differently, due to the body’s relationship with the digital. Approaches and practices of phenomenology, embodiment, the haptic and the experiential are being re-examined as they continue to encounter digital culture in new ways. Representations and experiences of embodiment are often integral dynamics of theatre, television, film and television, and are preoccupations that can be explored through diverse media or digital influences. This is a call for postgraduates engaging in contemporary discourses and practices relating to the Body and the Digital, to submit papers or practice-based researchfor the JAM 2013 Conference. Topics may include, but are not restricted to: -Interactivity between Digital languages and the Body -Sonic Representations of the Body in Digital Performance -The Digitized Body in Performance -The Role of the Body in Digital Games and Virtual Performance -Post-Colonial Bodies in the Contemporary Moment -Preparing the Body for Performance -Notions of Embodiment (i.e. Violent, Disabled, Explicit) -Traditions of Corporeally focused Film, Theatre and Television -Embodied Spectatorship or Audiences, and Physicality -Phenomenology of the Lived, Performed and Screened Body -The Haunted Body -Politics of the Body -Unconventional and Other Bodies The body, its presence, perceptions and experience, are becoming increasingly underpinned and influenced by the digital age. JAM 2013 will endeavour to open a dialogue about the relationship between the body and digital in contemporary scholarship and practice, posing manyquestions including: How does the body encounter digital media and how do digital media frames position the body – both in mainstream iterations, social media contexts and in art/installation/performance contexts? Furthermore, it will also be worth considering how digital technology has affected the way that humans approach unfamiliar body movement traditions, beyond regional and national borders? JAM 2013 will provide a discussion forum for current and developing research in film, theatre, television and new media. Previous delegates have welcomed this opportunity to gain experience of presenting their work at different stages of their development, while having the opportunity to meet and form contacts with fellow postgraduate students. Furthermore, participants at JAM 2013 have the possibility of being published in the /Journal of Media Practice/. Non-Presenting delegates are also very welcome to attend this conference. _CALL FOR PAPERS deadline: 1 February 2013. Please send a 250-word abstract for a fifteen minute paper and a 50-word biographical note to Johnmichael Rossi, Gary Cassidy, Edina Husanovic, Shelly Quirk, Matthew McFrederick at jam2013@pgr.reading.ac.uk . CALL FOR PRACTICE-BASED WORK deadline: 1 February 2013 Continuing from the success of last year's JAM 2012 Conference: /Time Tells/, which experimented with conference structure to include live performances, film screenings and installations taking place throughout the day, we invite artists working in various mediums to propose presentations of their work, relevant to the conference theme. Please send a 250-word outline describing the piece you are proposing to present, as well as duration and any specific technical/space requirements, and a 50-word biographical note. Relevant images and links to your work would also be helpful. As outlined above please e-mail the Conference organisers at jam2013@pgr.reading.ac.uk . We would appreciate the distribution of this call for papers and wider promotion of this conference through your networks. Journeys Across Media is supported by the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at Reading and the Standing Conference of University Drama Departments. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:09:23 +0000 From: Owen Williams Subject: ANNC: Early Modern Digital Agendas institute at the Folger You may have heard recently about a new Folger resource, Folger Digital Texts http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/ . We are just starting to promote a program that will feature it and other digital tools, resources, and approaches that early modern literary scholars now have at hand. “Early Modern Digital Agendas http://emdigitalagendas.folger.edu/ ” is a three-week institute to be directed by Jonathan Hope, Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Strathclyde, in July 2013. It will create a forum in which twenty faculty and advanced graduate student participants from the U.S. and abroad can historicize, theorize, and critically evaluate current and future digital approaches to early modern literary studies—from Early English Books Online-Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) to advanced corpus linguistics, semantic searching, and visualization theory—with discussion growing out of, and feeding back into, their own projects (current and envisaged). With the guidance of expert visiting faculty , attention will be paid to the ways new technologies are shaping the very nature of early modern research and the means by which scholars interpret texts, teach their students, and present their findings to other scholars. Please visit http://emdigitalagendas.folger.edu/ for more details about this Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. It is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Office of Digital Humanities http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh . I would be happy to answer any questions you may have about the program. Best, Owen Williams, Ph.D.Assistant Director The Folger Institute Folger Shakespeare Library 201 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-1094 202 675 0352 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 22:06:37 -0500 From: Anna Kazantseva Subject: preliminary CfP: Second Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature Second Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature Co-located with NAACL-HLT 2013 June 13 or 14, 2013, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Submission deadline: March 1, 2013 First Call for Papers The amount of literary material available on-line keeps growing rapidly: there are machine-readable texts from libraries, collections and e-book stores, as well as "live" literature such as e-zines, blogs or self-published e-books. We need tools to help navigate, visualize and better appreciate the high volume of available literature. We invite papers on applying state-of-the art NLP methods to literary data. What characteristics of literature make it special? Is it, indeed, a unique type of language data? How should we adapt our tools to find meaning in literary text? What lessons from automatic processing of literature could apply to other types of data? Position papers are welcome, too. Topics of interest (suitably related topics are welcome): - the needs of the readers and how those needs translate into meaningful NLP tasks; - searching for literature; - recommendation systems for literature; - computational modelling of narratives, computational narratology; - summarization of literature; - finding similar books; - differences between literature and other genres as relevant to computational linguistics; - discourse structure in literature; - emotion analysis for literature; - profiling and authorship attribution; - identification and analysis of literature genres; - building and analyzing social networks of characters; - generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry All information, including our excellent program committee, announcements and updates, sits at: https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2013/ Anna, David, Stan _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C6C053A68; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:47:19 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EE42EB9; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:47:19 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E1697EC6; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:47:16 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121222094716.E1697EC6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:47:16 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.618 pubs: lexicons; The Basement X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 618. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (16) Subject: The Basement [2] From: Sabine Thuillier (28) Subject: Greek-Spanish Lexicon and LMPG online: new digital resources --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:35:58 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: The Basement A colleague and friend, Ernesto Priego, pointed me to a wonderful juxtaposition in a basement in Portland, Oregon (where I lived for some years), put online by one Cabel, at http://cabel.me/2012/12/19/the-basement/. Do travel all the way to the end, even if you have pulled down the shutters, turned off your mobile and sworn off contact with the world altogether for the season. You will be rewarded. 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, 21 Dec 2012 18:41:31 +0100 From: Sabine Thuillier Subject: Greek-Spanish Lexicon and LMPG online: new digital resources The members of the Diccionario Griego-Español project (DGE, CSIC, Madrid) are pleased to announce the release of DGE online http://dge.cchs.csic.es/xdge/ (http://dge.cchs.csic.es/xdge/), first digital edition of the published section (α-ἔξαυος) of our Lexicon. Although still in progress, the DGE, written under the direction of Prof. F.R. Adrados, is currently becoming the largest bilingual dictionary of ancient Greek: it already includes about 60,000 entries and 370,000 citations of ancient authors and texts. Simultaneously, we are releasing the edition of LMPG online http://dge.cchs.csic.es/lmpg/ (http://dge.cchs.csic.es/lmpg/), the digital version of the *Lexicon of Magic and Religion in the Greek Magical Papyri*, written by Luis Muñoz Delgado (Supplement V of DGE). The digitization of this smaller Lexicon is considered as a successful prototype of this ambitious digitization initiative: further on DGE online will be improved with similar advanced features, such as the implementation of a customized search engine. Any critics and suggestions on that matter will be very welcome. We hope these new open access dictionaries will be of your interest and will become, to some extent, valuable tools for Ancient Greek studies. Juan Rodríguez Somolinos (Main Researcher) and Sabine Arnaud-Thuillier (responsible for the digital edition) juan.rodriguez@cchs.csic.es sabine.thuillier@cchs.csic.es Diccionario Griego-Español Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo Centro de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, CSIC Albasanz, 26-28 28037 Madrid, SPAIN _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 746C53A68; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:48:24 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A57E03A66; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:48:23 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D7781EC6; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:48:21 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121222094821.D7781EC6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:48:21 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.619 new techniques of external remembering X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 619. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:00:43 +0100 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: 26.608 new techniques of external remembering? In-Reply-To: <20121220092715.9D0A43125@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, Indeed we are most of the times merely grappling with the digital metaphor of the process of externalizing memory and its results. Although I like the digital counterparts of books and the like, at least for me it is disappointing to conclude that we mostly do not reach beyond some sometimes impressively sophisticated skeuomorphisms. Especially as they –I think– tend to eclipse a far harder but potentially far more rewarding challenge: to externalize not what was externalized already, but to externalize the processes of interaction and synthesis. Capturing expression may give us scale of memory, but capturing reasoning may yield scale of mind. With a Christmas greeting for all -- Joris On Thursday, December 20, 2012, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 608. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:54:19 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > > > Subject: imagining new techniques of external remembering > > > In his masterful book Marking the Mind: A History of Memory (Cambridge > 2008), Karl Danziger describes the situation that first developed when > literacy became commonplace and written notes and records began to > proliferate. He argues that these notes and records were not first used > to replace human memory but challenged it with a rapidly expanding > volume of that which needed to be remembered in the mostly oral > performances e.g. of courtroom proceedings. He continues: > > > People who found themselves in these new situations, and who were > > faced by tricky demands on their memorial skills, had a use for a new > > kind of technology. As the sheer volume of potentially relevant > > written material increased, a massive problem developed: how to > > summon up this material when it was needed? Nowadays we are > > accustomed to using a multiplicity of highly sophisticated finding > > aids, from catalogues and indexes to internet searches. In other > > words, we make the content of external memory available and > > accessible by exploiting the resources of external memory itself. But > > in doing so we are benefiting from techniques of literary retrieval > > that took many centuries to discover and develop. In classical > > antiquity these techniques - which now seem so obvious - had not yet > > been thought of at all or were still in their infancy. Finding ways > > of turning external memory on itself turned out to be a painfully > > slow and difficult process. (p. 61) > > Danziger shows throughout with admirable subtlety how technologies and > conceptions of memory, indeed what is meant by "memory", have > interrelated and affected each other. He notes that early computing > devices -- the isolated, room-filling machines that once were what > "computer" referred to -- strongly imprinted by metaphor how > psychologists and others concerned with memory think about what it is. > > All those techniques that we now have and use mostly thoughtlessly were > developed in tandem with the slowly developed possibilities of the codex > book. As we struggle to imagine and construct the what we call the > "digital textual edition" as well as the digital memory archive, what > are we doing that is not simply a digital rehash of our > techno-conceptual inheritance? > > 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/ -- Drs. Joris J. van Zundert *Researcher & Developer Digital and Computational Humanities * Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands *Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences * www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/vanzundert/ ------- *Jack Sparrow: I thought you were supposed to keep to the code. Mr. Gibbs: We figured they were more actual guidelines. * _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_RHS_DOB autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C96A23A4C; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 11:48:57 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CF373A28; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 11:48:55 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2FBA92DEB; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 11:48:53 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121223104853.2FBA92DEB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 11:48:53 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.620 categories for DH Awards X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 620. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:30:52 +0000 From: James Cummings Subject: Re: 26.616 categories for DH Awards? In-Reply-To: <20121222094106.75B6D3A5B@digitalhumanities.org> > Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:03:13 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" > Subject: Re: 26.613 DH Awards > In-Reply-To: <20121221090905.E49F43A46@digitalhumanities.org> > > Dear James > > This is an excellent initiative and very much to be welcomed. > It does however seem like a very strange selection of > categories. I can think for example of one book which has > appeared during the year which would be worth nominating, but > the DH Publications category doesn't mention books. Likewise, > the most important DH online achievements are often digital > editions, archives or other online resources, but I cannot see > how these fit in. Are these accidental exclusions, or do the > categories ned revisiting? Hi Andrew, Thank you for your thoughts. The original list of many more categories that I proposed to the nominations/organisational committee indeed had one that was "Best Book/monograph/edition" or similar. It also had a "Best overall contribution to DH" and a few others. However over the course of discussion we decided that these would be hard the public as a whole to judge and more in the remit of organisations like ADHO to recognise and award in such areas. We definitely wanted this to be something that the public could vote on. We also thought that we should limit the number of categories in this first year to be a small manageable number. The intention is that the categories will change each year -- though I would think that it may be possible that some of them will remain from year to year. For better or worse these are the categories we settled on for this year. It also depends on the nominations we get this year. I would encourage people to submit their nominations! You can nominate any project/resource/tool/etc. that fits into a category -- it doesn't have to be one that you are involved in! I would especially encourage nominations concerning resources not in English or created for non-western uses of DH. Partly these awards are about outreach and it would be a shame, I feel, if it was just the 'usual suspects'. How about this... if you are one of the 'usual suspects', feel free to nominate your own project(s) but you might also consider nominating one in a non-English language/country that you think was well done? The nominations committee will only select from amongst the nominations and not all nominations will make it on to the ballot as we will whittle down the number per category. Please go to http://DHawards.org/ to nominate! As a reminder the categories were: * Best DH tool or suite of tools * Best DH blog, article, or short publication * Best DH visualization or infographic * Best professional resources for learning about or doing DH work * Best DH project for public audiences * Best use of DH for fun So far I believe we've received nominations (though still need more!) for every category except the last one. Surely there are some fun uses of DH out there?! James Cummings james@DHawards.org @DHawards http://DHawards.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_RHS_DOB autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4EE4F3A1E; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 11:49:50 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1E603A54; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 11:49:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4EEBC3A10; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 11:49:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121223104947.4EEBC3A10@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 11:49:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.621 events: the Web; AI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 621. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 02:27:29 +0000 From: ncis-cmsp2012 Subject: WISM'13-AICI'13--CALL FOR PAPERS The 2013 International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining (WISM'13) The 2013 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence (AICI'13) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13-15 August 2013, Guilin, China *** Submission Deadline: 10 March 2013 *** http://wism-aici2013.gxnu.edu.cn/ The 5th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining (WISM'13) and the 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence (AICI'13) will be jointly held form 13-15 August 2013, in Guilin, Guangxi, China. Guilin is one of the most picturesque places in the world, making it one of the most ideal tourist destinations. WISM'13-AICI'13 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of web information systems, web mining, artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, with their applications for addressing world problems of various kinds. Accepted papers will appear in conference proceedings published by Springer's LNCS/LNAI/CCIS.Selected good papers will appear in the Journal of Computational Information Systems, Journal of Information and Computation Science EI Compendex indexed international journals.Accepted papers at WISM'12-AICI'12 are indexed by EI and ISTP. For more information, visit the conference web page or email the secretariat at wism-aici2013@mailbox.gxnu.edu.cn . 2013年Web信息系统与Web挖掘国际会议 (WISM'13)与2013年人工智能与计算智能国际会议 (AICI'13) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2013年8月13-15日, 中国，桂林 *** 论文提交截至日期: 2013年3月10日 *** http://wism-aici2013.gxnu.edu.cn/ 2013年Web信息系统与Web挖掘国际会议 (WISM'13) 和 2013年人工智能与计算智能国际会议 (AICI'13)将于2013年8月13-15日在山水甲天下的桂林举行，会议由广西师范大学承办。WISM'13-AICI'13 旨在为Web信息系统、Web挖掘、人工智能、计算智能以及各种应用领域的专家和研究者提供一个高水平的国际学术论坛。 会议录用的论文将分别由Springer 的LNCS/LNAI/CCIS, 选择优秀的论文将发表在EI检索的国际期刊《Journal of Computational Information Systems》和《Journal of Information and Computation Science》上（会前推荐大约120篇，并在会议召开前发表，与会议论文集不重复发表）。 WISM'13-AICI'13会议所有录用的论文将被EI核心检索。会后选择少量优秀论文，经扩展后推荐到SCI检索的国际期刊《Journal of Web Engineering》。 对于更多的会议信息，请访问会议网站或联系会议秘书处 wism-aici2013@mailbox.gxnu.edu.cn . 2012-12-20 ________________________________ WISM'13-AICI'13 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4C36D3A4D; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:51:16 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 381EC3A54; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:51:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D7BE93A37; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:51:12 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121224115112.D7BE93A37@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:51:12 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.622 events at the MLA X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 622. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 08:57:00 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: DH talks at the MLA Since 1997 the ACH has been documenting DH sessions at the Modern Language Convention. This continues in 2013 with 65 DH sessions. Unlike the earlier years when this list was being complied, these are full sessions devoted to DH (as opposed to earlier years where there was one DH paper in an otherwise non-DH panel). There are two DH-preconference workshops, 'Digital Pedagogy: An Unconference Workshop' and 'Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion: A Workshop for Evaluators and Candidates.'. There is also a masterclass on Saturday evening (Session 639) on using Omeka and WordPress in the classroom. The full list is available here http://ach.org/guide-digital-humanities-talks-2013-mla-convention The ACH-sponsored session is number 260, 'Open Sesame: Interoperability in Digital Literary Studies', chaired by Susan Brown. The ACH is grateful to Mark Sample who graciously allowed us to reproduce his list on the ACH site. -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Long Room Hub Associate Professor in Digital Humanities School of English Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland email: susan.schreibman@tcd.ie phone: +353 1 896 3694 fax: +353 1 671 7114 check out the new MPhil in Digital Humanities at TCD http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digital-humanities/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 011E03A6D; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:51:54 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92D133A73; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:51:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A06433A65; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:51:51 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121224115151.A06433A65@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:51:51 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.623 Happy Christmas 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. 623. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:42:58 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Christmas 2012 Dear colleagues, In case you have forgotten or are new here, I'll explain that every year I write two ceremonial messages, one at Christmas, another for the birthday of Humanist on 7 May. The Christmas event began many years ago, after a cold, snowy and exuberant multi-cultural Solstice celebration at Kensington Market in Toronto that, I thought at the time, marked the end of my involvement with Humanist. But the separation was only temporary, and ever since the remarriage I've taken the opportunity to muse on something too lengthy in the working out for the ordinary working day. So, again today, in the watery, gentle light of a northern hemispheric morning. But before I turn to the annual contemplation in this conducive gloom, allow me to announce the creation late last month of a new Research Group in Digital Humanities at the University of Western Sydney with strong support across the institution. The job-description of its founding Professor in Digital Humanities (level E) will be circulated here and elsewhere early in the new year, with adverts for other posts in the Group to follow later in 2013. This Research Group is the result of many years' thought by Professor Wayne McKenna (outgoing Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research), and work in recent years by Professor Harold Short and myself. It is to be located on the Parramatta Campus in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, with strong ties to the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, the Institute of Culture and Society, the Writing and Society Research Centre and several other parts of UWS. What started me thinking of ruminating this time around, however, was much older, French and philosophical: an observation that Henri Poincaré makes in his preface to Science and Hypothesis (1902). I got to this crucial essay thanks to a seminar paper Peter Galison recently gave at the Museum of Modern Art in celebration of their exhibition, Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925 (http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1291). Galison points out that Poincaré "redrew the picture of science" prevalent at that time, from the immediate prospect of rock-solid certainty "to one where there was always a choice of different systems of description". In his preface Poincaré describes the notion held by "the superficial observer [that] scientific truth is unassailable, the logic of science... infallible [and that] "if scientific men sometimes make mistakes, it is because they have not understood the rules of the game". He then goes on to assert the discovery of "the position held by hypothesis", i.e. how the world looks when one knows only hypothetically. Superficially, he notes, this position leads to the conclusion "that a breath would bring [the solid foundations of science] to the ground". But "To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." I would suppose that no one here finds Poincaré's words surprising, though there may be some for whom "everything is constructed" remains a battle-cry. But I wonder if we (exposed and vulnerable as we are to the idols of the marketplace and to received, unexamined assumptions) have really assimilated the implications of that "position held by hypothesis", however primaeval its realisation, however ancient the articulation. I often wonder if not-knowing is for humans psychologically always a great struggle, often seeming worse than the worst outcome, and so making that "position held by hypothesis" simply too difficult to reach and hold. What I had in mind and clumsily articulated a few days ago in that note on XML & scholarship was the interrelation between ourselves as practitioners of an interdiscipline and all those quite different, hypothetically grounded forms of disciplinary life. What I was getting bothered by were the arguments that consider XML -- or any other tool/method we might hold dear -- absolutely, i.e. without considering the particular contexts into which it enters. My suspicion is that we, standing outside the older disciplines, slip into such absolutisms as to judge a tool or method good or bad because we simply do not see the epistemic cultural particularities by which each disciplinary context differs from the others. The blinkered view is, of course, the fruit of disciplinary training: born into a particular house we come to believe it is the world. But as Stanley Fish pointed out many years ago, there is no being born other than in one house or another. So the point, I'd think, is at minimum to look out the window and see that there are other houses, some quite different, in which behaviours, rules and expectations vary significantly from our own. What for me makes the digital humanities so mind-expanding is the imperative to get out of whatever house-of-origin, visit and learn to feel somewhat at home in many if not all of these other houses. Disciplinary blinkerdom is one level or kind of fixity that hypothesis undermines. Another, perhaps more familiar is what one gets by rewriting Poincaré's sentence from the point of view of the builder: To condemn a technology or to believe it is good for all purposes are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of experiment. It seems to me that computing is fundamentally experimental but that we do not yet properly appreciate what it means to do research and reason in that style. Peirce somewhere said in his typical fashion that "hypothesis" is merely another, somewhat more dignified way of saying "guess". Having made one, we try things out repeatedly to see what happens in disciplined trial and error. The much missed historian David Gooding has described the process as the forming and exercising of *construals*: "flexible, quasi-linguistic messengers between the perceptual and the conceptual.... [that] assimilate the novel to the familiar..." (Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 17.2, 1986, p. 208). If we're onto something, these gradually converge to become a stable interpretation, in the natural sciences some would say, real. Where, for example, does work like this fit into a doctoral dissertation in the humanities? Into a book? What will more of this kind of thing do to scholarship? And if experiment is centrally what computing is for as a way of doing research, how is the digital humanities affected? If we shift emphasis, as I have advocated in the past, from building vending machines that please grant-funded colleagues to building experimental devices that challenge them, at what level of granularity will the products of our building be manifested? Can we expect that as in the laboratory sciences there will be a number of standard instruments supplemented by an indefinite number of special-purpose devices which come and go as research interests shift? (Someone might say, this is what we already have, but do we think of them in this way?) I hear someone saying, or perhaps a chorus shouting, a great dinner (such as many here will eat shortly) is hard enough on the digestion! But permit me a moment longer. Recently at a formal academic event at which a student of mine underwent his doctoral viva/defense, and in a different mode afterwards at the celebratory meal, I thought not for the first time, this is what the academic life is all about, making such things happen. Years ago, during a seminar I taught for a course led by Northrop Frye, I can recall thinking the same, and then reflecting that all the nonsense which institutions of higher education perpetuate in great abundance is at such moments justified. Frye himself used to say that great works of art are done in a state of grace. I include scholarship, even if mostly what we see through the fog is the beginning of a path toward that state of otherwise unimaginable energy and delight. But before foolishness overtakes me utterly, may I wish for you that at Christmas, or its (what do I say?) equivalent, there is at least one such moment of peace and fulfilment? All the best for the holidays! 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0C7B02D8E; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:52:16 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32A4A2D94; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:52:16 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 30EDB2CED; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:52:14 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121227095214.30EDB2CED@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:52:14 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.624 farewell to Christmas X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 624. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:57:43 -0600 (CST) From: Alan Corre Subject: Your Xmas missive. In-Reply-To: <470500903.236753.1356366077586.JavaMail.root@mail12.pantherlink.uwm.edu> A wonderful statement by a very special colleague! I do not have before me the Encyclopedia of Linguistics edited by Philipp Strazny, to which I contributed an article about Zellig Harris--one of the most brilliant minds I ever had the privilege of glimpsing--so I speak from memory, but there I commented that Zellig did not believe in a "God's truth" theory of linguistics. He felt that there were many routes to scientific knowledge. And this was from a man who had read widely in all the social sciences, and gave much food for thought in his (often difficult) works. As the man whose presumptive birthday occurs tomorrow said: "In my father's house are many mansions." (John 14:2) Wise words. Happy New Year, Willard, and thanks for all you do for us. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6DF0E2DF3; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:52:52 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C9E12D96; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:52:51 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0B6DB2D92; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:52:49 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20121227095250.0B6DB2D92@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:52:49 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.625 XML & what kind of scholarship 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. 625. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:33:54 -0500 From: Jay Savage Subject: Re: 26.609 XML & what kind of scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121220093155.44D3839DB@digitalhumanities.org> Desmond, As a reader, I appreciate your point that > In "born-digital" markup is part of what I write. It is a fact. In > "born-analog-and-transcribed-to-digital", markup is an interpretation. > It is different every time the "transcription" is redone by someone > new. In born-digital markup is always the same. Although, as you point > out, I may use the same tools in processing both born-digital and > born-analog texts, the kinds of interaction between user and text in > the two cases will differ significantly. For example, in the > born-analog case we often request a facsimile side by side with its > transcription so we can verify its accuracy. In the born digital case > such a prop would be superfluous. > This seems to me, though, to be mostly a matter of personal (and cultural) discomfort, and not a useful theoretical distinction. One wants a facsimile because one does not tust the transcriber or the technology, not because the technology requires it, and that desire significantly predates the "digital divide": editors have provided facsimiles of various sorts in addition to or in lieu of diplomatic transcriptions since the seventeenth century. That electronic texts increase the types of anxieties facsimiles help alleviate is not surprising. >From a theoretical and practical perspective, though, it is difficult to see what difference is made by the point in the process of digitization at which encoding happens. All CTO texts are, after all, truly "born human," and the information in the human brain has to get into the machine somehow, whither through keypunch or scanning. Introducing paper into the process at various points seems irrelevant. If I print hard copy of a "born digital" text because I find it easier to prof-read on paper and then use the paper copy as the basis for a subsequent text (perhaps because of file corruption, or because my laptop was stolen. I suspect we've all be in that situation occasionally), is the resulting text "born analog and transcribed?" Why, then, does the introduction of paper earlier in the process change the supposed nature of the text? I would argue that this is not a useful distinction, particularly as it artificially collects a number of disparate reproductive techniques under the single, unuseful and unspecific category of "analog." Can a Linofilm-set text from the 1950's really be more usefully compared to a medieval manuscript than to a troff-processed, CRT phototypesetter-set text from the 1970's? Digital texts, like all texts, have textual histories. Parts of those transmission histories for particular texts may include manuscript, hand press, machine press, or digital variants of various kinds. Most texts will shifts between processes many times: manuscript to galley to written notes to final setting, or MS Word file to printed proof to emailed corrections to photoset, ebook, or HTML formatting. Those histories need to be accounted for, and cataloging that metadata is one of the (arguably few) things XML markup is particularly good at, and the so-called "analog" features can be cataloged at least as effectively as the digital ones. Some types of markup may simply form the core of some "born digital" text production, but those texts still require additional markup--that would not normally be considered part of the text proper--to fully integrate them into any of the various systems we use to manage and explore digital texts. Adding that data may happen much sooner for "born digital texts"--in some cases it may even be coincidental with their creation--but that does not mean the processes are logically different than they are for "analog" texts. I would not, for instance, approach the kindle editions of Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" and "Joseph Anton: A Memoir" as appreciably different electronic artifacts, despite the former being set in print from typed and handwritten sources, and the latter composed electronically and released simultaneously in print and ebook formats. Please note I am not arguing that print and manuscript sources are not important to digital editions; they are as crucial to digital editions as they would be to subsequent print editions. Digital editors need to curate the the transmission histories left to them as carefully as any other editors, and scholars of digital texts need to be aware of their environments. It is possible, though, to simply approach an electronic texts as electronic texts, just as one approaches printed books as printed printed books. One's first impulse on encountering a shelf of books is not normally to sort them according to whether the authors submitted manuscripts or typescripts to their publishers. Why, then, ask whether the author of an electronic text used pen and paper, a typewriter, or an electronic keyboard? Best, ---------------------------------------- Jay Savage, Ph.D. Director of Academic Information Technology Services Yeshiva University ITS jsavage1@yu.edu (646) 592-4092 "You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new." --Steve Jobs _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4C44D2DED; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:54:32 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13F912CED; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:54:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 353C5E2D; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:54:28 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121227095428.353C5E2D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:54:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.626 job at Singapore/Nanyang X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 626. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 14:53:19 +0000 From: Erik Cambria Subject: OPENING: Research Assistant @ NUS/NTU We are looking to hire a motivated individual for the position of Research Assistant at the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, under the joint supervision of Erik Cambria and Guangbin Huang. The duration of the position is 12 months, but may be extended an additional 6 months or more. The candidate is expected to start in the first quarter of 2013. The successful candidate will be involved in a project for the application of extreme learning machines (ELM) to sentic computing in order to develop a two-level affective common sense reasoning framework, which will be exploited for tasks such as opinion mining and sentiment analysis. Applicants should have a PhD (or a good honors degree) in Computer Science or similar, as well as relevant experience in conducting research in the field. The ideal candidate should have basic understanding in neural networks, knowledge representation, and natural language processing, and should be able to work independently on such tasks as literature review, programming, and data management. Remuneration will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Interested applicants should send their CV to cambria@nus.edu.sg. For more information about the project, please visit http://sentic.net/sentics. For up-to-date information about this opening, keep an eye on http://sentic.net/elm. Best Regards and Merry Christmas, Erik Cambria and Guangbin Huang _______________________________ Erik Cambria, PhD 康文涵 Research Scientist Temasek Laboratories Cognitive Science Programme National University of Singapore 28 Medical Drive, 117456, Singapore Web: http://sentic.net Email: cambria@nus.edu.sg Twitter: http://twitter.com/senticnet Facebook: http://facebook.com/senticnet _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A3B722F02; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:56:08 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7697A2E00; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:56:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 52148F99; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:56:06 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121228085606.52148F99@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:56:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.627 XML & what kind of scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 627. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 06:24:17 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 26.625 XML & what kind of scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121227095250.0B6DB2D92@digitalhumanities.org> Jay, You seem to be arguing that the process of encoding is somehow neutral because "the information in the human brain has to get into the machine somehow ... Introducing paper into the process at various points seems irrelevant." And you seem to be saying that markup and text is all kind of mixed up and indistinguishable both in the artefacts we edit and the way we edit them. But I still think that distinguishing markup from text, interpretation from fact and analog from digital is worthwhile. Take the example of a 17th century edition of Shakespeare that contains an italic word "really". A 21st century digital humanist transcribes those black marks on a piece of paper as "really" in XML. That's an interpretation. The printer didn't write that code, didn't use the digital medium, didn't choose to mark it with instead of , etc. On the other hand, a 21st century writer who composes a text in which the word "really" is encoded natively in his XML as "really" did in fact write those markup codes, those digital characters. The result is exactly the same, but the status of the two digital texts is entirely different. You seem to be saying that it is easy to move from digital to print and back again. But is that really true? If you format and print an XML text can I recover the XML encoding from the printed artefact? I wouldn't have a hope. I could only re-encode that born-digital text in XML again through an act of interpretation. Even supposing that you had used XML would be an interpretation. We are going to get very confused if we can't distinguish interpretation from the thing being interpreted. Markup added or changed by an editor is interpretation, but physical, analog texts, like born digital texts, are facts. Desmond Schmidt eResearch Lab University of Queensland On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 625. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:33:54 -0500 > From: Jay Savage > Subject: Re: 26.609 XML & what kind of scholarship > In-Reply-To: <20121220093155.44D3839DB@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Desmond, > As a reader, I appreciate your point that > >> In "born-digital" markup is part of what I write. It is a fact. In >> "born-analog-and-transcribed-to-digital", markup is an interpretation. >> It is different every time the "transcription" is redone by someone >> new. In born-digital markup is always the same. Although, as you point >> out, I may use the same tools in processing both born-digital and >> born-analog texts, the kinds of interaction between user and text in >> the two cases will differ significantly. For example, in the >> born-analog case we often request a facsimile side by side with its >> transcription so we can verify its accuracy. In the born digital case >> such a prop would be superfluous. >> > > This seems to me, though, to be mostly a matter of personal (and cultural) > discomfort, and not a useful theoretical distinction. One wants a facsimile > because one does not tust the transcriber or the technology, not because > the technology requires it, and that desire significantly predates the > "digital divide": editors have provided facsimiles of various sorts in > addition to or in lieu of diplomatic transcriptions since the seventeenth > century. That electronic texts increase the types of anxieties facsimiles > help alleviate is not surprising. > > >From a theoretical and practical perspective, though, it is difficult to > see what difference is made by the point in the process of digitization at > which encoding happens. All CTO texts are, after all, truly "born human," > and the information in the human brain has to get into the machine somehow, > whither through keypunch or scanning. Introducing paper into the process at > various points seems irrelevant. If I print hard copy of a "born digital" > text because I find it easier to prof-read on paper and then use the paper > copy as the basis for a subsequent text (perhaps because of file > corruption, or because my laptop was stolen. I suspect we've all be in that > situation occasionally), is the resulting text "born analog and > transcribed?" Why, then, does the introduction of paper earlier in the > process change the supposed nature of the text? > > I would argue that this is not a useful distinction, particularly as > it artificially collects a number of disparate reproductive techniques > under the single, unuseful and unspecific category of "analog." Can a > Linofilm-set text from the 1950's really be more usefully compared to a > medieval manuscript than to a troff-processed, CRT phototypesetter-set text > from the 1970's? Digital texts, like all texts, have textual histories. > Parts of those transmission histories for particular texts may include > manuscript, hand press, machine press, or digital variants of various > kinds. Most texts will shifts between processes many times: manuscript to > galley to written notes to final setting, or MS Word file to printed proof > to emailed corrections to photoset, ebook, or HTML formatting. Those > histories need to be accounted for, and cataloging that metadata is one of > the (arguably few) things XML markup is particularly good at, and the > so-called "analog" features can be cataloged at least as effectively as the > digital ones. > > Some types of markup may simply form the core of some "born digital" text > production, but those texts still require additional markup--that would not > normally be considered part of the text proper--to fully integrate them > into any of the various systems we use to manage and explore digital texts. > Adding that data may happen much sooner for "born digital texts"--in some > cases it may even be coincidental with their creation--but that does not > mean the processes are logically different than they are for "analog" > texts. I would not, for instance, approach the kindle editions of Rushdie's > "Midnight's Children" and "Joseph Anton: A Memoir" as appreciably different > electronic artifacts, despite the former being set in print from typed and > handwritten sources, and the latter composed electronically and released > simultaneously in print and ebook formats. > > Please note I am not arguing that print and manuscript sources are not > important to digital editions; they are as crucial to digital editions as > they would be to subsequent print editions. Digital editors need to curate > the the transmission histories left to them as carefully as any other > editors, and scholars of digital texts need to be aware of their > environments. > > It is possible, though, to simply approach an electronic texts as > electronic texts, just as one approaches printed books as printed printed > books. One's first impulse on encountering a shelf of books is not > normally to sort them according to whether the authors submitted > manuscripts or typescripts to their publishers. Why, then, ask whether the > author of an electronic text used pen and paper, a typewriter, or an > electronic keyboard? > > Best, > ---------------------------------------- > Jay Savage, Ph.D. > Director of Academic Information Technology Services > Yeshiva University ITS > > jsavage1@yu.edu > (646) 592-4092 > > "You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to > them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new." --Steve > Jobs _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1B9FE3119; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:58:39 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25C512DEE; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:58:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4948F2DEE; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:58:36 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121228085836.4948F2DEE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:58:36 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.628 imagining new techniques of external remembering X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 628. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:39:10 -0600 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: imagining new techniques of external remembering "As we struggle to imagine and construct (the) what we call the "digital textual edition" as well as the digital memory archive, what are we doing that is not simply a digital rehash of our techno-conceptual inheritance? - WM" This isn't quite the optimistic response you were looking for since the focus of my thinking about the online world has been primarily on what we are losing and in particular whether print book and paper artifacts themselves are in the process of disappearing. But I suppose it's a glass half-full/half-empty way of looking at things. There are several themes here: (1a) The disappearance of the print book and its replacement not with the eBook, but with the web site. (1b) The question as to whether the web page is in fact the upgraded replacement for the printed page because the web page now does much more than the printed page could do in terms of ability to incorporate other media and live links and as such is the basis for the print book becoming obsolete. I.e., the unit of knowledge may have always been the 'page' rather than the 'book' and now that the page has evolved significantly, the 'book' as a collection of pages is being erased from the future--but is the web site its replacement? (2) The failure to carry over to the web site (as the book's replacement) the two print memory conventions of cataloguing and indexing. I.e., that librarians in general do not create catalog records for web sites--and thereby as a civilization we have absentmindedly abandoned the access to the future of knowledge by subject classifications and all the mechanisms of knowledge access afforded by having lists of works by authors, titles, dates, etc. You can't browse the web by virtually looking at web sites arranged by subject call numbers as you could walk the shelves of a library; nor readily discover the web sites created by the same authors. The lack of cataloging information for web sites makes them almost 'anonymous' and dateless. The 'site index' is not widely used and it is actually more of a 'table of contents' than an index in the book sense of the word. I found one site that seems to be trying to reverse this trend, A Virtual Library of Useful URLs Subject Headings Arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification: 000-999 http://www.aresearchguide.com/15urls.html (3) The disappearance of the print index and its replacement with the keyword search capability of computers without a realization that print indexes had entries that did not necessarily represent words actually in the print document as well as offered hierarchical levels of indexed terms--hence we are becoming 'content blind' since all we now know of online data is its keywords and their Boolean and proximity relationships to each other. The creation of the 'tag' for electronic pages may be an effort to remedy this gap, but it is a throwback to a more primitive stage of indexing in which index values were created by amateurs and not rigorously controlled so that information seekers and information creators could find each other through common descriptive phrases. (5) That the world of paper with text on it may vanish and in the future and it will be hard for people to know what was on paper in the environment in the past. (I recall a Huminist interest in what we should be saving for future study that we are not. Perhaps this is one such bit of knowledge.) Already we may have lost the knowledge of the ecology of print paper from previous decades. What was the paper environment like in the earliest centuries in which paper existed and in the intervening decades when it became inexpensive and ubiquitious in the environment. There were 'editions' of newspapers, for example, 'printings' of books, dust jackets, all things that may disappear along with the knowledge of how common or rare they were in everyday life. Knowledge of what we took for granted as the printed information on the detritus of paper swirling on city streets or as decaying remnants posted on walls and poles, handed out, etc, may all vanish eventually. ... Oh, a typo in the below Humanist post. "Making the Mind: A History of Memory's author is "Kurt" (not "Karl") Danziger. Amazon couldn't find it at first until I tried more complete descriptions. Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 608. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:54:19 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: imagining new techniques of external remembering In his masterful book Marking the Mind: A History of Memory (Cambridge 2008), Karl Danziger describes the situation that first developed when literacy became commonplace and written notes and records began to proliferate. He argues that these notes and records were not first used to replace human memory but challenged it with a rapidly expanding volume of that which needed to be remembered in the mostly oral performances e.g. of courtroom proceedings. He continues: [Hide Quoted Text] People who found themselves in these new situations, and who were faced by tricky demands on their memorial skills, had a use for a new kind of technology. As the sheer volume of potentially relevant written material increased, a massive problem developed: how to summon up this material when it was needed? Nowadays we are accustomed to using a multiplicity of highly sophisticated finding aids, from catalogues and indexes to internet searches. In other words, we make the content of external memory available and accessible by exploiting the resources of external memory itself. But in doing so we are benefiting from techniques of literary retrieval that took many centuries to discover and develop. In classical antiquity these techniques - which now seem so obvious - had not yet been thought of at all or were still in their infancy. Finding ways of turning external memory on itself turned out to be a painfully slow and difficult process. (p. 61) Danziger shows throughout with admirable subtlety how technologies and conceptions of memory, indeed what is meant by "memory", have interrelated and affected each other. He notes that early computing devices -- the isolated, room-filling machines that once were what "computer" referred to -- strongly imprinted by metaphor how psychologists and others concerned with memory think about what it is. All those techniques that we now have and use mostly thoughtlessly were developed in tandem with the slowly developed possibilities of the codex book. As we struggle to imagine and construct the what we call the "digital textual edition" as well as the digital memory archive, what are we doing that is not simply a digital rehash of our techno-conceptual inheritance? 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A8EA0311F; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:01:38 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFFB72DFD; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:01:37 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E76162DEE; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:01:35 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121228090135.E76162DEE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:01:35 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.629 events: H-Net at the AHA X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 629. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:36:43 +0900 From: Charles Muller Subject: CONFERENCE> H-Net at the AHA in New Orleans (Muller) In-Reply-To: <50DD0470.7010606@l.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Dear Colleagues, As many of you know, the "H" in "H-Net" originally stood for "History", with H-Net originally being primarily a network for historians, and still being predominated by history-oriented discussion lists. Therefore, H-Net scholars have traditionally centered their scholarly activities, including reports on H-Net, at the annual meeting of the AHA, which usually occurs early in January. This year's AHA meeting will include several panels that deal with the recent and upcoming changes in H-Net, reflecting the rapid and ongoing shifts in the way that scholars use the web to carry out their research and communication. With the possibility in mind that there are a few Digital Humanists who might attend the AHA, I am appending below a message from Peter Knupfer that outlines some of the highlights of the H-Net-related events. Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it this time. Regards, Chuck -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: New Orleans > Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:52:53 -0500 > From: Peter Knupfer, H-Net Dear friends: I am eager to see you in New Orleans next week! I do not know which of you is able to come beyond those committed to panels, but in the end it will be a wonderful opportunity for us to gather and celebrate. Our events are listed at https://www.h-net.org/hnetat20/ and I enclosed a public Dropbox link to an updated brochure listing all of our events. Several things are worth mentioning: -- the MSU Dean of Social Sciences, Marietta Baba, is expected to be at the conference for the launch of a transatlantic slave database by Walter Hawthorne (also our department chair) in collaboration with Matrix. Two Associate Deans, Pamela Gray and Thomas Summerhill, are also expected. I have invited them and AHA executive director Jim Grossman to our receptions; I do not know if they will attend (our provost resigned today, so my guess is that these folks have other things on their minds). As some of you know, we have been negotiating for over two years to get an agreement with the University. We have made some significant gains in that direction, but getting people to the signing table has been an ordeal; two of the people with that authority will be in this delegation, so it will be an opportunity for them to see what H-Net is about and what the stakes are in this relationship. -- Walter Hawthorne, the MSU History Department chair, will be present. He has been an enthusiastic supporter of H-Net and has bent over backwards to help us; he deserves our gratitude for his efforts. -- We are planning a workshop on Thursday for editors and subscribers interested in learning about the new platform we've built. The system represents a giant step for H-Net and we welcome your engagement in the process. In addition, we have set up "office hours" drop-in rooms on Friday and Saturday so that editors can drop by for instruction and assistance with the system. These are listed on the brochure. -- The receptions on Friday and Saturday night are relatively low-key. We are encouraging a broad attendance and hope that the festivities will be in the informal H-Net tradition. Take some time to meet editors and reminisce. -- Associate Director Heather Hawley will be in New Orleans, as will Dennis Boone, our system administrator and Chief of Fixing Stuff. I hope you'll get the opportunity to meet and thank them for many years of hard labor on behalf of our organization. -- We have reached out to publishers and review editors with invitations to attend the Saturday reception; we will be distributing flyers in the exhibit hall as well. Please encourage past and present review editors for lists you're still affiliated with to attend if they expect to be in town. -- I plan to arrive by late Wednesday afternoon. My cell number is in my signature below. My wife Nancy and one of our daughters, Leta, will be with me; we're staying at the Marriott. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (33) Subject: Re: 26.627 XML & what kind of scholarship [2] From: Wendell Piez (55) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.615 XML & what kind of scholarship [3] From: "Paolo Monella" (38) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.581 XML & scholarship --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:49:52 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: 26.627 XML & what kind of scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121228085606.52148F99@digitalhumanities.org> Desmond: May I suggest one or two ideas? Suppose we define the encoding example that you provide as an instance of "translation" rather than "interpretation"? In this case, the translation of a print convention (italic type) into an electronic convention (XML). But in the case of a translation, we have to ask, for whom is the translating being done? Who is the recipient or "hearer" of the translated language? When you say that "the result is exactly the same," I take it that you mean the result to be the display of italic script on either a computer screen or in a printed document. In that case, our translation (XML) is a language that we're speaking to a machine in order to get it to reproduce something that already exists in print (italic type). In this case, XML is irrelevant except as a way to talk to a machine in order to get it to talk back to us in the way that we want, and the way that we want it to talk back to us is based upon print conventions, not machine conventions. What we're really writing, then, is print -- we're talking back and forth to each other in print, not in coding. We only need coding to talk to a machine so that we can talk to each other through the machine in a way that mimics print. Jim R > Take the example of a 17th century edition of Shakespeare that > contains an italic word "really". A 21st century digital humanist > transcribes those black marks on a piece of paper as > "really" in XML. That's an interpretation. The printer > didn't write that code, didn't use the digital medium, didn't choose > to mark it with instead of , etc. On the > other hand, a 21st century writer who composes a text in which the > word "really" is encoded natively in his XML as "really" > did in fact write those markup codes, those digital characters. The > result is exactly the same, but the status of the two digital texts is > entirely different. > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:17:27 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.615 XML & what kind of scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121222094031.9999E3A46@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Desmond, While there is much more to be said on this topic, I'll limit myself here to the focus of our dispute regarding the utility of markup syntax, with my LMNL experiments as the case (with apologies, again, to readers who aren't following, and an invitation to use the delete key). You make some excellent points about the difference between a formal language and an application built on that language, which generally entails some level of semantics that cannot be represented directly in the formalism (and that therefore rely on constraints enforced by means other than the language's grammar). In LMNL's case, much work will have to be done to bridge this gap. To my mind, however, the principle of being able to serialize into a plain-text format with some level of human intelligibility (in principle if not always in practice) is important enough to make such an effort worth undertaking, at least for the moment, and as much for its instinsic interest as for any supposedly practical purpose. All I want to do is try it! While you tell me I might as well not. There's the essence of our disagreement right there. In particular, you write: > I don't think this notation would be usable by digital humanists. And that may indeed be the case ... depending on who you take "digital humanists" to be. I think my digital humanist is more willing to get their hands dirty than yours, is not shy about reinventing methods, tools and methodologies, and considers a plain text editor to be a useful instrument, not an imposition. And even if no digital humanist is like this, I see benefits to developers who may not themselves be researchers in the humanities, but who build tools, resources, and interfaces for those who are. Then too, I'll freely admit that this entire project is more on the 'R' side of R&D than the 'D' side. I find the basic idea of markup irresistible. I can't help but note that markup is as old as writing: the two emerge together. Use tags written in a plain-text notation, or display little colored icons and widgetry on a screen, or inscribe a printed page with a secret language written in pencil. Of these, which is the most accessible, intelligible, expressive? It depends who you are, I guess, and what you're trying to express to whom. I also see a promising middle ground between a plain-text embedded markup syntax, and a binary format, with LMNL (the model, not the syntax) being equally at home from one end to the other. If I only had the Javascript skills, I'd be building an implementation of LMNL in a browser, modeling ranges using an HTML/RDFa DOM. Would this be a binary? (Is HTML, much as its users may loathe tagging?) Presumably such an application would read and export LMNL in sawtooth notation, or in an XML-based standoff representation (or both, separately or in combination) -- if not in some sort of awful melange of XHTML/JSON -- for purposes of interchange. But to the user, it could work just like the tool you are telling us we need. Cheers, Wendell -- Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:30:27 +0100 From: "Paolo Monella" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.581 XML & scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121214060225.AE38E2D96@digitalhumanities.org> Dear All, I subscribe to Doug's statement (in Humanist 26.581) that "a hierarchical, syntax-heavy data format like XML" does not seem to be the most obvious option "for modeling most texts which are, to my mind, more like a stream than a tree". Of course, also text models that are not tree-shaped can be represented with XML somehow. I can expose the case study of my own project, for which the tree structre of XML can still be an option, yet not the most obvious one. I am working on a digital scholarly edition based on manuscripts. Implementing a model conceived by Tito Orlandi, I am modeling the text of each manuscript as a musical score, i. e. by means of three parallel and aligned sequences of digital entities. At one layer I have a sequence of graphemes, at another layer a sequence of alphabetical letters, and at a third layer a sequence of word-elements (note that the set of graphemes is different, though mappable to, the set of alphabetical letters). Collation between different manuscripts will eventually take place at each layer (word-layer with word-layer etc.). This is, I believe, an example of digital text modeling that does not look like a tree. Rather, it looks like a musical score with three streams that need to be aligned at grapheme-level granularity. Encoding it with XML/TEI is feasible. Python helps me to mark up the text at grapheme-level granularity, and then (through Python) to align the three streams with XML/TEI's linking features: you can see some code in http://www.unipa.it/paolo.monella/lincei/edition.html A range-based model would be much more of a talored suit for that text model, yet XML/TEI can be used too, at least as an output/interchange format, though very cumbersome files are generated. With XML/TEI, one could argue, comes interoperability. But I guess that the question now is: with no easy human-readability nor ability to edit the XML source directly, is it still worth trying to fit a human's suit (XML/TEI) to a Vogon's body (my 'musical score' text model)? Best, Paolo -- Dr Paolo Monella Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare http://www.unipa.it/paolo.monella/lincei _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 33AB739DC; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:14:34 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE843120; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:14:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 93900311A; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:14:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121229101430.93900311A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:14:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.631 collocation, span and theories of 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. 631. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 09:18:03 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: collocation, span and theories of memory I would very much like to understand the historical relation between the idea of "span" in psychology, and so the related distinction between short-term and working memories, and the ideas of "span" and "collocation" in corpus linguistics. I strongly suspect that the former inspired the latter but have not yet found an explicit link. Let me sketch briefly what I have found so far. In the OED psychological span is defined as "Mental extent; the amount of information that the mind can be conscious of at a given moment, or the number of items it can reproduce after one presentation; esp. const. of, as span of apprehension, attention span, consciousness span, etc.". The first occurrence given is from an article in Mind in 1887, where it is clearly used in the spirit of Hermann Ebbinghaus (who began the empirical studies of memorization and recall using nonsense syllables). In 1956 George A Miller, working by then in the context of digital computing, gave a great boost to the idea in his famous paper, "The Magic Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information" (Psychological Review 63.2). According to Alan Baddeley in "Working Memory: Looking Back and Looking Forward" (Nature Reviews: Neuroscience 4, October 2003), Miller, Galanter and Pribram invented the closely related term "working memory" in Plans and the Structure of Behavior (1960), in which the influence of computing is fundamental. Short-term memory is not the same but closely related, in a manner that varies according to theory, though for my purposes the distinction does not matter. What does matter is the teasing correspondence between ideas of memory, often involving context-free words or word-like units, and structures familiar from the architecture of digital computers of the time (memory registers, shifting and storage). Kurt Danziger notes in Marking the Mind (p. 176) that long- and short-term memory are the only two core-concepts having to do with memory that number among the 58 in psychology turned up by a content-analysis study textbooks of the 1990s. In the latter half of the 20th Century there are many publications in the psychology of learning and intelligence-testing, some in journals of education, that deal with attention- and recall-span measured, again in a Ebbinghausian way, in terms of contiguous words remembered. In the glossary to Corpus Concordance Collocation (1991), John Sinclair defines "span" as follows: > ...the measurement, in words, of the co-text [the words on either > side] of a word selected for study. A span of -4, +4 means that four > words on either side of the node [selected] word will be taken to be > its relevant verbal environment. In other words, span is the measure within which collocations normally occur, +4, -4 for modern English, though Sinclair elsewhere notes that it is wise to look more widely. Unfortunately the OED does not record "span" in the linguistic sense. In 1957, a year after Miller sprang his magic number on the world, J. R. Firth proclaimed in "A Synopsis of Linguistic Theory, 1930-1955" , "You shall know a word by the company it keeps!" (reapplying the old Latin injunction, "noscitur e sociis"). He went on to note that "collocation is first suggested as a technical term" in his previously published essay, "Modes of Meaning" (pp. 124-7), also published in Papers in Linguistics 1934-1951 (Oxford, 1957). From the invention of the keyword-in-context concordance (ca 1959, three years after Miller's paper, two after Firth's) we have first in print-out, then on screen something like a display of a short-term memory implying manipulation. From the release of the first truly interactive concordancer (TACT, in 1989) we have something like an implementation of working memory. I know that I am stretching things here, but not beyond the breaking point? There is a larger story to be told from before the digitization of mind by inspiration from physical computing machines -- the stream flows both ways -- but meanwhile I would very much appreciate pointers to anything that shows explicit transfer of ideas from memory studies to literary and linguistic studies. Many thanks in advance. And 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8CA7839E0; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:15:07 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7BBD39DC; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:15:06 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B21DD39D4; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:15:05 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121229101505.B21DD39D4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:15:05 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.632 events: music encoding X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 632. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:56:26 +0100 From: Johannes Kepper Subject: Music Encoding Conference 2013: Deadline extension Dear colleagues, I write to announce that we have slightly extended the deadline for the Music Encoding Conference 2013. Please submit your abstract by January 6. Also, please circulate this notice widely and forgive any cross-postings. If you have any enquiries, please get in touch with me or email conference2013@music-encoding.org. For the conference organizers, Johannes Kepper ------------------------ Dr. Johannes Kepper Wiss. Mitarbeiter BMBF-Project "Freischütz Digital" Musikwiss. Seminar Detmold/Paderborn Gartenstr. 20 32756 Detmold Tel. +49 5231 975665 Mail: kepper@edirom.de ================================================== SECOND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The Music Encoding Conference 2013: Concepts, Methods, Editions 22-24 May, 2013 ================================================== You are cordially invited to participate in the Music Encoding Conference 2013 - Concepts, Methods, Editions, to be held 22-24 May, 2013, at the Mainz Academy for Literature and Sciences in Mainz, Germany. Music encoding is now a prominent feature of various areas in musicology and music librarianship. The encoding of symbolic music data provides a foundation for a wide range of scholarship, and over the last several years, has garnered a great deal of attention in the digital humanities. This conference intends to provide an overview of the current state of data modeling, generation, and use, and aims to introduce new perspectives on topics in the fields of traditional and computational musicology, music librarianship, and scholarly editing, as well as in the broader area of digital humanities. With its dual focus on music encoding and editing in the context of the digital humanities, the Program Committee is happy to announce keynote lectures by Frans Wiering (Universiteit Utrecht), and Daniel Pitti (University of Virginia), both distinguished scholars in their respective fields of musicology and markup technologies in the digital humanities. Proposals for papers, posters, panel discussions, and pre-conference workshops are encouraged. Prospective topics for submissions include: * theoretical and practical aspects of music, music notation models, and scholarly editing * rendering of symbolic music data in audio and graphical forms * relationships between symbolic music data, encoded text, and facsimile images * capture, interchange, and re-purposing of music data and metadata * ontologies, authority files, and linked data in music encoding * additional topics relevant to music encoding and music editing Paper and poster proposals must contain no more than 1000 words and a references section with no more than five relevant bibliographic references. A length requirement for final papers has not yet been determined; however, poster presentations will be limited to 2 pages in the proceedings. Panel sessions may be one and a half or three hours in length. Proposals for panel sessions, describing the topic and nature of the session and including short biographies of the participants, should be no longer than 2000 words. Proposals for pre-conference workshops, to be held on May 21st, must be no longer than 2000 words and must include a detailed syllabus and schedule and a description of space and technical requirements. Detailed submission instructions, including author guidelines and authoritative stylesheets for each submission type, are available on the conference webpage at https://music-encoding.org/conference/submission. All accepted papers, posters, and reports of panel sessions and workshops will be included in the conference proceedings, tentatively scheduled to be published by the end of 2013. Important dates: 31 December 2012: Deadline for abstract submissions 31 January 2013: Notification of acceptance/rejection of submissions 21-24 May 2013: Conference 31 July 2013: Deadline for submission of full papers, posters, etc. for conference proceedings December 2013: Publication of conference proceedings Additional details will be announced on the conference webpage (http://music-encoding.org/conference/2013). If you have any questions, please contact conference2013@music-encoding.org. ------ Program Committee: Ichiro Fujinaga, McGill University, Montreal Niels Krabbe, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, København, Elena Pierazzo, King's College, London Eleanor Selfridge-Field, CCARH, Stanford Joachim Veit, Universität Paderborn, Detmold (Local) Organizers: Johannes Kepper, Universität Paderborn Daniel Röwenstrunk, Universität Paderborn Perry Roland, University of Virginia _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CD9DA3A14; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:15:49 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E1FE39E0; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:15:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8A1F739E2; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:15:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121229101547.8A1F739E2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:15:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.633 pubs: Glottometrics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 633. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:03:19 +0000 From: Ram-Verlag Subject: Glottometrics 24, 2012 *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1356712921_2012-12-28_ram-verlag@t-online.de_1382.2.pdf Just published: Glottometrics 24, 2012 (ISSN 1617-8351) Published by: RAM-Verlag http://www.ram-verlag.eu Abstracts: See attachment please. Glottometrics 24 is available as: - Printed Edition: 30,00 EU plus PP, - CD-Edition: 15,00 EUR plus PP - Internet (PDF-file download): 7,50 EUR If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Desmond Schmidt (50) Subject: Re: 26.630 XML & what kind of scholarship [2] From: Desmond Schmidt (10) Subject: Re: 26.630 XML & what kind of scholarship --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 06:02:14 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 26.630 XML & what kind of scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121229100828.AE0562DEB@digitalhumanities.org> James, > When you say that "the result is exactly the same," I take it that you mean > the result to be the display of italic script on either a computer screen or > in a printed document. No, I meant the encoded characters themselves. This small example - turning an italic print word into its XML equivalent - was meant to illustrate that converting an analog source into digital form is an act of interpretation. But some might ask "why does it matter?" It might not matter much here, but it does in more complex cases, as with variant structures, segments of text that are wrapped with to facilitate their connections to other parts, sections of text that are repeated because of problems representing overlap, texts that are encoded in different ways by different people, etc. We shouldn't forget that all this is interpretation, not what the author wrote. If it was possible to render everything in XML graphically one-for-one in print and back again then we would be able to build an easy to use GUI for TEI, but we can't. Paolo, >With XML/TEI, one could >argue, comes interoperability. But I guess that the question now is: with no >easy human-readability nor ability to edit the XML source directly, is it >still worth trying to fit a human's suit (XML/TEI) to a Vogon's body (my >'musical score' text model)? If a machine is writing the text in this form then you are in a position to verify its correctness at the program level. But if you're not going to edit it manually then I would ask "why XML?" Having it in TEI-XML doesn't give you interoperability at the level of your encoding, unless someone else has a different program that can also process this type of markup. XML-level interoperability just means that someone else can parse it. Even searching is problematic, since the repeated encoding of the same text in a "musical score" format would produce two or three hits per unique item, depending on how similar they were. Wendell, Let me just re-iterate that I think the LMNL data model is cool. It's the only range-based model with annotated ranges, and hence the only one that can import XML without significant data loss. But allowing people to edit markup encourages them to encode their subjective judgements into the actual data format. Then we can only interoperate those texts at the XML or LMNL level, not at the application level. If machines read and write XML they don't do that, and so we can have truly interoperable XML formats like SVG. Do you need to edit your Word files? Your SVG files? Then what's so different about humanists that they need to edit their format? A properly constructed GUI would recognise their need to encode their subjective judgements about the text in a formal and interoperable way. They don't need to see the nuts and bolts of how that works. Desmond Schmidt eResearch Lab University of Queensland --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 11:27:43 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 26.630 XML & what kind of scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121229100828.AE0562DEB@digitalhumanities.org> To avoid wasting people's time with misunderstandings some changes are needed in my last post: "to build an easy to use GUI for TEI, but we can't."->"to build an easy to use GUI editor for TEI, but we can't." "Do you need to edit your Word files?"->"Do you need to edit your Word files in binary?" My mistakes, sorry. Desmond Schmidt eResearch Lab University of Queensland. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 121C639DA; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:39:12 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03BFA3125; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:39:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C7F59311F; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:39:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121230093909.C7F59311F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:39:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.635 collocation, span and theories of 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. 635. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:38:57 -0500 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: 26.631 collocation, span and theories of memory? In-Reply-To: <20121229101430.93900311A@digitalhumanities.org> Willard: You ask: " There is a larger story to be told from before the digitization of mind by inspiration from physical computing machines -- the stream flows both ways -- but meanwhile I would very much appreciate pointers to anything that shows explicit transfer of ideas from memory studies to literary and linguistic studies." There are at least two paths relating to transfer. One is in the area of the "arts of memory." About two feet to my left, there is the book "The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci" published by Penguin. I just dusted it off and browsed through the text--it is a reasonably good introduction to the area. The purpose of the memory palace is to facilitate the transfer from memory to orality or writing. The other path is in the research of "simulation" or "embodiment" theories of mind. -paul On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 631. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 09:18:03 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: collocation, span and theories of memory > > I would very much like to understand the historical relation between the > idea of "span" in psychology, and so the related distinction between > short-term and working memories, and the ideas of "span" and > "collocation" in corpus linguistics. I strongly suspect that the former > inspired the latter but have not yet found an explicit link. Let me > sketch briefly what I have found so far. > > In the OED psychological span is defined as "Mental extent; the amount > of information that the mind can be conscious of at a given moment, or > the number of items it can reproduce after one presentation; esp. const. > of, as span of apprehension, attention span, consciousness span, etc.". > The first occurrence given is from an article in Mind in 1887, where it > is clearly used in the spirit of Hermann Ebbinghaus (who began the > empirical studies of memorization and recall using nonsense syllables). > In 1956 George A Miller, working by then in the context of digital > computing, gave a great boost to the idea in his famous paper, "The > Magic Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for > Processing Information" (Psychological Review 63.2). According to Alan > Baddeley in "Working Memory: Looking Back and Looking Forward" (Nature > Reviews: Neuroscience 4, October 2003), Miller, Galanter and Pribram > invented the closely related term "working memory" in Plans and the > Structure of Behavior (1960), in which the influence of computing is > fundamental. Short-term memory is not the same but closely related, in a > manner that varies according to theory, though for my purposes the > distinction does not matter. What does matter is the teasing > correspondence between ideas of memory, often involving context-free > words or word-like units, and structures familiar from the architecture > of digital computers of the time (memory registers, shifting and > storage). Kurt Danziger notes in Marking the Mind (p. 176) that long- > and short-term memory are the only two core-concepts having to do with > memory that number among the 58 in psychology turned up by a > content-analysis study textbooks of the 1990s. In the latter half of the > 20th Century there are many publications in the psychology of learning > and intelligence-testing, some in journals of education, that deal with > attention- and recall-span measured, again in a Ebbinghausian way, in > terms of contiguous words remembered. > > In the glossary to Corpus Concordance Collocation (1991), John Sinclair > defines "span" as follows: > > > ...the measurement, in words, of the co-text [the words on either > > side] of a word selected for study. A span of -4, +4 means that four > > words on either side of the node [selected] word will be taken to be > > its relevant verbal environment. > > In other words, span is the measure within which collocations normally > occur, +4, -4 for modern English, though Sinclair elsewhere notes that > it is wise to look more widely. Unfortunately the OED does not record > "span" in the linguistic sense. In 1957, a year after Miller sprang his > magic number on the world, J. R. Firth proclaimed in "A Synopsis of > Linguistic Theory, 1930-1955" , "You shall know a word by the company it > keeps!" (reapplying the old Latin injunction, "noscitur e sociis"). He > went on to note that "collocation is first suggested as a technical > term" in his previously published essay, "Modes of Meaning" (pp. 124-7), > also published in Papers in Linguistics 1934-1951 (Oxford, 1957). > > From the invention of the keyword-in-context concordance (ca 1959, > three years after Miller's paper, two after Firth's) we have first in > print-out, then on screen something like a display of a short-term > memory implying manipulation. From the release of the first truly > interactive > concordancer (TACT, in 1989) we have something like an implementation > of working memory. I know that I am stretching things here, but not beyond > the breaking point? > > There is a larger story to be told from before the digitization of mind > by inspiration from physical computing machines -- the stream flows both > ways -- but meanwhile I would very much appreciate pointers to anything > that shows explicit transfer of ideas from memory studies to literary > and linguistic studies. > > Many thanks in advance. And 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D23BC39DC; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:40:43 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F10639DA; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:40:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 039E9311F; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:40:40 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121230094041.039E9311F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:40:40 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.636 cfp: computational folkloristics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 636. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:56:24 +0000 From: "Tangherlini, Timothy" Subject: Call for Papers--special issue of Journal of American Folklore: Computational Folkloristics Computational Folkloristics Call for Papers Special Issue of the Journal of American Folklore edited by Timothy R. Tangherlini Over the course of the past decade, a revolution has occurred in the materials available for the study of folklore. The scope of digital archives of traditional expressive forms has exploded, and the magnitude of machine-readable materials available for consideration has increased by many orders of magnitude. Manynational archives have made significant efforts to make their archival resources machine-readable, while other smaller initiatives have focused on the digitization of archival resources related to smaller regions, a single collector, or a single genre. Simultaneously, the explosive growth in social media, web logs (blogs), and other Internet resources have made previously hard to access forms of traditional expressive culture accessible at a scale so large that it is hard to fathom. These developments, coupled to the development of algorithmic approaches to the analysis of large, unstructured data and new methods for the visualization of the relationships discovered by these algorithmic approaches—from mapping to 3-D embedding, from time-lines to navigable visualizations—offer folklorists new opportunities for the analysis of traditional expressive forms. We label approaches to the study of folklore that leverage the power of these algorithmic approaches “Computational Folkloristics” (Abello, Broadwell, Tangherlini 2012). The Journal of American Folklore invites papers for consideration for inclusion in a special issue of the journal edited by Timothy Tangherlini that focuses on “Computational Folkloristics.” The goal of the special issue is to reveal how computational methods can augment the study of folklore, and propose methods that can extend the traditional reach of the discipline. To avoid confusion, we term those approaches “computational” that make use of algorithmic methods to assist in the interpretation of relationships or structures in the underlying data. Consequently, “Computational Folkloristics” is distinct from Digital Folklore in the application of computation to a digital representation of a corpus. We are particularly interested in papers that focus on: the automatic discovery of narrative structure; challenges in Natural Language Processing (NLP) related to unlabeled, multilingual data including named entity detection and resolution; topic modeling and other methods that explore latent semantic aspects of a folklore corpus; the alignment of folklore data with external historical datasets such as census records; GIS applications and methods; network analysis methods for the study of, among other things, propagation, community detection and influence; rapid classification of unlabeled folklore data; search and discovery on and across folklore corpora; modeling of folklore processes; automatic labeling of performance phenomena in visual data; automatic classification of audio performances. Other novel approaches to the study of folklore that make use of algorithmic approaches will also be considered. A significant challenge of this special issue is to address these issues in a manner that is directly relevant to the community of folklorists (as opposed to computer scientists). Articles should be written in such a way that the argument and methods are accessible and understandable for an audience expert in folklore but not expert in computer science or applied mathematics. To that end, we encourage team submissions that bridge the gap between these disciplines. If you are in doubt about whether your approach or your target domain is appropriate for consideration in this special issue, please email the issue editor, TimothyTangherlini at tango@humnet.ucla.edu, using the subject line “Computational Folkloristics—query”. Deadline for all queries is April 1, 2013. All papers must conform to the Journal of American Folklore’s style sheet for authors. The guidelines for article submission are as follows: Essay manuscripts should be no more than 10,000 words in length, including abstract, notes, and bibliography. The article must begin with a 50- to 75-word abstract that summarizes the essential points and findings of the article. Whenever possible, authors should submit two copies of their manuscripts by email attachment to the editor of the special issue at: tango@humnet.ucla.edu. The first copy should be sent in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format (rtf) and should include the author’s name. Figures should not be included in this document, but “call outs” should be used to designate where figures should be placed (e.g., “”). A list at the end of the article (placed after the bibliography) should detail the figures to be included, along with their captions. The second copy of the manuscript should be sent in Portable Document Format (pdf). This version should not include the author’s name or any references within the text that would identify the author to the manuscript reviewers. Passages that would identify the author can be marked in the following manner to indicate excised words: (****). Figures should be embedded in this version just as they would ideally be placed in the published text. Possible supplementary materials (e.g., additional photographs, sound files, video footage, etc.) that mightaccompany the article in its online version should be described in a cover letter addressed to the editor. An advisory board for the special issue consisting of folklorists and computerscientists will initially consider all papers. Once accepted for the special issue, all articles will be subject to the standard refereeing procedure for the journal. Deadline for submissions for consideration is June 15, 2013. Initial decisions will be made by August 1, 2013. Final decisions will be made by October 1, 2013. We expect the issue to appear in 2014. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0998F39D8; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:37:28 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9B38DC1; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:37:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9DE03ED6; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:37:26 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121231073726.9DE03ED6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:37:26 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.637 XML & what kind of scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 637. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (28) Subject: Re: 26.634 XML & what kind of scholarship [2] From: "Holly C. Shulman" (208) Subject: Re: 26.627 XML & what kind of scholarship --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 11:09:54 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: 26.634 XML & what kind of scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121230093748.476742D79@digitalhumanities.org> Desmond: Why the word "interpretation" rather than "translation," at least in the simple cases? I can see more complex cases being more interpretive. Jim R James, > > > When you say that "the result is exactly the same," I take it that you mean > > the result to be the display of italic script on either a computer > < screen or in a printed document. > > No, I meant the encoded characters themselves. > > This small example - turning an italic print word into its XML > equivalent - was meant to illustrate that converting an analog source > into digital form is an act of interpretation. But some might ask "why > does it matter?" It might not matter much here, but it does in more > complex cases, as with variant structures, segments of text that are > wrapped with to facilitate their connections to other parts, > sections of text that are repeated because of problems representing > overlap, texts that are encoded in different ways by different people, > etc. We shouldn't forget that all this is interpretation, not what the > author wrote. If it was possible to render everything in XML > graphically one-for-one in print and back again then we would be able > to build an easy to use GUI for TEI, but we can't. > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:43:24 -0500 From: "Holly C. Shulman" Subject: Re: 26.627 XML & what kind of scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121228085606.52148F99@digitalhumanities.org> As a historian and documentary editor, I am wondering why the decision was made to render "really" as emphasis rather than as italics or retain them in quotation marks. I am fully aware of why you cannot render handwriting as print or print as electronic type without some sort of editorial intervention, and at least in my world different editors make different decisions. So I'm simply curious about this one as it is not the decision that I, as an editor, would have made -- with or without any reference to theory. Holly Shulman On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 3:56 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 627. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 06:24:17 +1000 > From: Desmond Schmidt > Subject: Re: 26.625 XML & what kind of scholarship > In-Reply-To: <20121227095250.0B6DB2D92@digitalhumanities.org> > > Jay, > > You seem to be arguing that the process of encoding is somehow neutral > because "the information in the human brain has to get into the > machine somehow ... Introducing paper into the process at various > points seems irrelevant." And you seem to be saying that markup and > text is all kind of mixed up and indistinguishable both in the > artefacts we edit and the way we edit them. But I still think that > distinguishing markup from text, interpretation from fact and analog > from digital is worthwhile. > > Take the example of a 17th century edition of Shakespeare that > contains an italic word "really". A 21st century digital humanist > transcribes those black marks on a piece of paper as > "really" in XML. That's an interpretation. The printer > didn't write that code, didn't use the digital medium, didn't choose > to mark it with instead of , etc. On the > other hand, a 21st century writer who composes a text in which the > word "really" is encoded natively in his XML as "really" > did in fact write those markup codes, those digital characters. The > result is exactly the same, but the status of the two digital texts is > entirely different. > > You seem to be saying that it is easy to move from digital to print > and back again. But is that really true? If you format and print an > XML text can I recover the XML encoding from the printed artefact? I > wouldn't have a hope. I could only re-encode that born-digital text in > XML again through an act of interpretation. Even supposing that you > had used XML would be an interpretation. > > We are going to get very confused if we can't distinguish > interpretation from the thing being interpreted. Markup added or > changed by an editor is interpretation, but physical, analog texts, > like born digital texts, are facts. > > Desmond Schmidt > eResearch Lab > University of Queensland -- Holly C. Shulman Editor, Dolley Madison Digital Edition Founding Director, Documents Compass Research Professor, Department of History University of Virginia 434-243-8881 hcs8n@virginia.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9AF7839DB; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:39:17 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D01D2F54; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:39:16 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F40C4ED6; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:39:13 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121231073913.F40C4ED6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:39:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.638 categories for DH Awards X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 638. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 17:00:48 -0500 From: "Holly C. Shulman" Subject: Re: 26.620 categories for DH Awards In-Reply-To: <20121223104853.2FBA92DEB@digitalhumanities.org> Over the holidays I may have missed something here -- but as I read James Cummings, and look at the list, it seems to me to be DH as non-scholarly or technical, with the scholarly work, book, archive, edition, etc., left out. Please someone tell me I am wrong here and simply missed it. Holly Shulman On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 620. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:30:52 +0000 > From: James Cummings > Subject: Re: 26.616 categories for DH Awards? > In-Reply-To: <20121222094106.75B6D3A5B@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:03:13 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" > > Subject: Re: 26.613 DH Awards > > In-Reply-To: <20121221090905.E49F43A46@digitalhumanities.org> > > > > Dear James > > > > This is an excellent initiative and very much to be welcomed. > > It does however seem like a very strange selection of > > categories. I can think for example of one book which has > > appeared during the year which would be worth nominating, but > > the DH Publications category doesn't mention books. Likewise, > > the most important DH online achievements are often digital > > editions, archives or other online resources, but I cannot see > > how these fit in. Are these accidental exclusions, or do the > > categories ned revisiting? > > Hi Andrew, > > Thank you for your thoughts. The original list of many more > categories that I proposed to the nominations/organisational > committee indeed had one that was "Best Book/monograph/edition" > or similar. It also had a "Best overall contribution to DH" and a > few others. However over the course of discussion we decided > that these would be hard the public as a whole to judge and more > in the remit of organisations like ADHO to recognise and award in > such areas. We definitely wanted this to be something that the > public could vote on. We also thought that we should limit the > number of categories in this first year to be a small manageable > number. The intention is that the categories will change each > year -- though I would think that it may be possible that some of > them will remain from year to year. For better or worse these are > the categories we settled on for this year. > > It also depends on the nominations we get this year. I would > encourage people to submit their nominations! You can nominate > any project/resource/tool/etc. that fits into a category -- it > doesn't have to be one that you are involved in! > > I would especially encourage nominations concerning resources not > in English or created for non-western uses of DH. Partly these > awards are about outreach and it would be a shame, I feel, if it > was just the 'usual suspects'. How about this... if you are one > of the 'usual suspects', feel free to nominate your own > project(s) but you might also consider nominating one in a > non-English language/country that you think was well done? The > nominations committee will only select from amongst the > nominations and not all nominations will make it on to the ballot > as we will whittle down the number per category. > > Please go to http://DHawards.org/ to nominate! > > As a reminder the categories were: > > * Best DH tool or suite of tools > * Best DH blog, article, or short publication > * Best DH visualization or infographic > * Best professional resources for learning about or doing DH work > * Best DH project for public audiences > * Best use of DH for fun > > So far I believe we've received nominations (though still need > more!) for every category except the last one. Surely there are > some fun uses of DH out there?! > > James Cummings > james@DHawards.org > @DHawards > http://DHawards.org/ -- Holly C. Shulman Editor, Dolley Madison Digital Edition Founding Director, Documents Compass Research Professor, Department of History University of Virginia 434-243-8881 hcs8n@virginia.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7276339E0; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:41:15 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3393A39DC; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:41:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6547B2F54; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:41:12 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20121231074112.6547B2F54@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:41:12 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.639 collocation, span and theories of 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="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. 639. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:31:01 -0000 From: "Helena Barbas" Subject: RE: 26.635 collocation, span and theories of memory Dear Willard - and all - a Happy New Year I have a paper on the subject connecting literature, the art of memory and computers - http://www.helenabarbas.net/papers/2010_Narrative_Memory_HBarbas.pdf Regards Helena Helena Barbas (PhD) Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas Universidade Nova de Lisboa Av. de Berna, 26-C Lisboa 1069-061 - Portugal http://helenabarbas.net -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: domingo, 30 de Dezembro de 2012 09:39 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9BCD33A07; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 08:58:03 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D50C139E8; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 08:58:02 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7948830A9; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 08:58:01 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130102075801.7948830A9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 08:58:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.640 XML &c X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 640. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 04:56:59 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 26.637 XML & what kind of scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121231073726.9DE03ED6@digitalhumanities.org> James, > Why the word "interpretation" rather than "translation," at least in the > simple cases? I can see more complex cases being more interpretive. because conversion from one medium to another always involves some form of interpretation. Even if you write a program to "translate" Microsoft Word to XML you have to decide when you write the program which source codes get mapped to which target codes. There must be a dozen reasons why something could be in italics. What about foreign words or phrases? You'd want to use , not or . What about stage directions in a play? You'd want to use ... Note that below Holly and I disagree on how to encode italics. Differences of interpretation create real and non-trivial disputes even in "simple cases". Holly, > I am wondering why the decision was > made to render "really" as emphasis rather than as italics or retain them > in quotation marks. Why not? That's what the code is for. (Btw it wasn't meant to be in quotation marks). But there are always several ways to encode the same textual phenomenon. Imagine that you and I are transcribing some printed correspondence. You code italics as and I code it as . Then we push the transcriptions through some software, and get inconsistent output. That's why I don't think we can ever have a "standard" way to mark up texts, that goes beyond a mere vocabulary of pre-defined codes. > So I'm simply curious about this one as it is not the decision > that I, as an editor, would have made Of course everyone makes different decisions about every textual phenomenon that they see. Each transcription thus bears the fingerprint of the person who made it. As long as we encode things this way we can't ever develop general software solutions to editorial problems. Desmond Schmidt eResearch Lab University of Queensland _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7D9463A0E; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 08:59:44 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79D3639E2; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 08:59:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 72B403125; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 08:59:41 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130102075941.72B403125@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 08:59:41 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.641 collocation, span and theories of 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="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. 641. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 19:50:42 -0500 From: Michael Hancher Subject: Re: 26.631 collocation, span and theories of memory? In-Reply-To: <20121229101430.93900311A@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, "Span," originally a spatial term, didn't apply to temporal matters until the sixteenth century. And although we now think of "attention span" as a matter of time, duration, and memory, that concept, too, was at first spatial, not temporal, synchronic, not diachronic. "The question of _the 'span' of consciousness_ has often been asked and answered," William James remarked in 1890, below the rubric "To how many things can we attend at once?" (_Principles of Psychology_ 1:405). He found that "the number of [things] that can be attended to at once is small" (1:406; see also 1:409). For James, attention "span" was simultaneous ("at once") breadth of attention, not duration of attention. Michael Hancher Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 09:18:03 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: collocation, span and theories of memory > > I would very much like to understand the historical relation between the > idea of "span" in psychology, and so the related distinction between > short-term and working memories, and the ideas of "span" and > "collocation" in corpus linguistics. I strongly suspect that the former > inspired the latter but have not yet found an explicit link. Let me > sketch briefly what I have found so far. > > In the OED psychological span is defined as "Mental extent; the amount > of information that the mind can be conscious of at a given moment, or > the number of items it can reproduce after one presentation; esp. const. > of, as span of apprehension, attention span, consciousness span, etc.". > The first occurrence given is from an article in Mind in 1887, where it > is clearly used in the spirit of Hermann Ebbinghaus (who began the > empirical studies of memorization and recall using nonsense syllables). > In 1956 George A Miller, working by then in the context of digital > computing, gave a great boost to the idea in his famous paper, "The > Magic Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for > Processing Information" (Psychological Review 63.2). According to Alan > Baddeley in "Working Memory: Looking Back and Looking Forward" (Nature > Reviews: Neuroscience 4, October 2003), Miller, Galanter and Pribram > invented the closely related term "working memory" in Plans and the > Structure of Behavior (1960), in which the influence of computing is > fundamental. Short-term memory is not the same but closely related, in a > manner that varies according to theory, though for my purposes the > distinction does not matter. What does matter is the teasing > correspondence between ideas of memory, often involving context-free > words or word-like units, and structures familiar from the architecture > of digital computers of the time (memory registers, shifting and > storage). Kurt Danziger notes in Marking the Mind (p. 176) that long- > and short-term memory are the only two core-concepts having to do with > memory that number among the 58 in psychology turned up by a > content-analysis study textbooks of the 1990s. In the latter half of the > 20th Century there are many publications in the psychology of learning > and intelligence-testing, some in journals of education, that deal with > attention- and recall-span measured, again in a Ebbinghausian way, in > terms of contiguous words remembered. > > In the glossary to Corpus Concordance Collocation (1991), John Sinclair > defines "span" as follows: > > > ...the measurement, in words, of the co-text [the words on either > > side] of a word selected for study. A span of -4, +4 means that four > > words on either side of the node [selected] word will be taken to be > > its relevant verbal environment. > > In other words, span is the measure within which collocations normally > occur, +4, -4 for modern English, though Sinclair elsewhere notes that > it is wise to look more widely. Unfortunately the OED does not record > "span" in the linguistic sense. In 1957, a year after Miller sprang his > magic number on the world, J. R. Firth proclaimed in "A Synopsis of > Linguistic Theory, 1930-1955" , "You shall know a word by the company it > keeps!" (reapplying the old Latin injunction, "noscitur e sociis"). He > went on to note that "collocation is first suggested as a technical > term" in his previously published essay, "Modes of Meaning" (pp. 124-7), > also published in Papers in Linguistics 1934-1951 (Oxford, 1957). > > From the invention of the keyword-in-context concordance (ca 1959, > three years after Miller's paper, two after Firth's) we have first in > print-out, then on screen something like a display of a short-term > memory implying manipulation. From the release of the first truly > interactive > concordancer (TACT, in 1989) we have something like an implementation > of working memory. I know that I am stretching things here, but not beyond > the breaking point? > > There is a larger story to be told from before the digitization of mind > by inspiration from physical computing machines -- the stream flows both > ways -- but meanwhile I would very much appreciate pointers to anything > that shows explicit transfer of ideas from memory studies to literary > and linguistic studies. > > Many thanks in advance. And 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/ -- Michael Hancher Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota 207 Lind Hall, 207 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 612–625–5075; fax 612–624–8228 mh.cla.umn.edu ● Google 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F2BBF3A14; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 09:01:14 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D6913A01; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 09:01:13 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6DF3F39E2; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 09:01:11 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130102080111.6DF3F39E2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 09:01:11 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.642 events: sentiment analysis and big social 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="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. 642. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:02:57 +0000 From: Erik Cambria Subject: CFP: WWW MABSDA Submissions are invited for MABSDA (http://sentic.net/mabsda), the WWW13 workshop on sentiment analysis and big social data mining, to be held this May in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The workshop aims to explore the new frontiers of big data computing for opinion mining through Semantic Web ontologies, rules, and services, Linked Data technologies, Web Science applications, knowledge-based systems, adaptive and transfer learning, in order to more efficiently retrieve and extract social information from the Web. ABSTRACT As the Web rapidly evolves, Web users are evolving with it. In an era of social connectedness, people are becoming more and more enthusiastic about interacting, sharing, and collaborating through social networks, online communities, blogs, Wikis, and other online collaborative media. In recent years, this collective intelligence has spread to many different areas, with particular focus on fields related to everyday life such as commerce, tourism, education, and health, causing the size of the Social Web to expand exponentially. The distillation of knowledge from such a large amount of unstructured information, however, is an extremely difficult task, as the contents of today's Web are perfectly suitable for human consumption, but remain hardly accessible to machines. The opportunity to capture the opinions of the general public about social events, political movements, company strategies, marketing campaigns, and product preferences has raised growing interest both within the scientific community, leading to many exciting open challenges, as well as in the business world, due to the remarkable benefits to be had from marketing and financial market prediction. TOPICS MABSDA aims to provide an international forum for researchers in the field of big data computing for opinion mining and sentiment analysis to share information on their latest investigations in social information retrieval and their applications both in academic research areas and industrial sectors. The broader context of the workshop comprehends Semantic Web, Linked Open Data, Web Science, information retrieval, and natural language processing. In addition to paper presentations, an invited talk by Prof Bebo White will stress the interdisciplinary challenges of big social data analysis. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Affective ontologies • Rules for opinion mining • Web Science approaches to sentiment analysis • Linked Data applications for sentiment mining • Sentiment identification & classification • Time evolving opinion & sentiment analysis • Multi-modal sentiment analysis • Multi-domain & cross-domain evaluation • Knowledge base construction & integration with opinion analysis • Transfer learning of opinion & sentiment with knowledge bases • Sentiment topic detection & trend discovery • Social ranking and social network content analysis • Sentic computing • Opinion spam detection INVITED SPEAKER Bebo White is a Departmental Associate (Retired) at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), the high-energy physics and basic energy science laboratory operated by Stanford University. Prior to his retirement, he was permanent staff/faculty at SLAC from 1981 to 2005. While his initial responsibilities at SLAC were in computational physics, in recent years Prof White's work has been dominated by his involvement with World Wide Web technology. He first became involved with WWW development while on sabbatical at CERN in 1989 and was instrumental in establishing the first non-European Web site at SLAC in 1991. TIMEFRAME • February 25th, 2013: Due date for workshop papers • March 13th, 2013: Notification of paper acceptance to authors • April 3rd, 2013: Camera-ready of accepted papers • May 13th, 2013: Workshop date ORGANIZERS • Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore (Singapore) • Yunqing Xia, Tsinghua University (China) • Newton Howard, MIT Media Laboratory (USA) _______________________________ Erik Cambria, PhD 康文涵 Research Scientist Temasek Laboratories Cognitive Science Programme National University of Singapore 28 Medical Drive, 117456, Singapore Web: http://sentic.net Email: cambria@nus.edu.sg Twitter: http://twitter.com/senticnet Facebook: http://facebook.com/senticnet _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E0D153A17; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 09:08:14 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED19E3A07; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 09:08:13 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B32BC3A01; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 09:08:11 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130102080811.B32BC3A01@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 09:08:11 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.643 pubs: Master and Servant in Technoscience (ISR 37.4) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 643. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:51:39 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 37.4 (December 2012) Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 37.4 (December 2012) Master and Servant in Technoscience http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr/latest 1. Master and Servant in Technoscience Krajewski, Markus pp. 287-298(12) [Editorial, freely accessible at the above URL] 2. Letter, Word, and Good Messengers: Towards an Archaeology of Remote Communication Stock, Markus pp. 299-313(15) Some late-medieval illuminations, in which depictions of messengers play an important role, are examined in order to shed light on the images' preoccupation with body and script, and on their attempts at illustrating norms and anxieties regarding messengers and their duties. Cultural production in medieval Europe frequently depicted instances of remote communication and displayed an awareness of its problems and challenges. Distant communication relied on subaltern human agents, who carried written messages and used their own body to store and deliver messages. The pictorial treatments point to a love‐hate relationship of the senders/recipients to the messengers as the necessary third party. Beyond control, out of the eyes of the master, every messenger had the potential of endangering the success of the desired communication. Thus, the images highlight the fragility of a communicative situation dependent on human relays. 3. Little Helpers. About Demons, Angels and Other Servants Canales, Jimena; Krajewski, Markus pp. 314-331(18) In politics as in history, masters accomplish great things, but often, lowly beings such as servants perform those tasks. At times, they subvert them. In science, servant-beings are frequently described as demons and angels. Who are these effective agents? This essay traces parts of the large historical network of persons and places in which "€˜little helpers"€™ service their master's will. It looks at instances were masters try to exorcise the servant-demons who instead of helping them, disturb their plans. By uncovering fragments of this often hidden network, we explore the strange relationship between masters and servants, and the role of earthly and heavenly agents in science. 4. Architect and Service Architect: The Quarrel between Charles Barry and David Boswell Reid Gleich, Moritz pp. 332-344(13) In the course of the reconstruction of the London Houses of Parliament, after a fire destroyed it in 1834, two men, Charles Barry and David Boswell Reid, quarrelled; the far-reaching discoursive and spatial implications of this quarrel, which in retrospect reached a paradigmatic scale, are explored. What unfolds between them is nothing less than a struggle about the principles of a representative and a subservient architecture, between the visible front side and the concealed reverse side of building construction. The history of modern era architecture recognises this building as an iconic centre of power, but it may also be labelled with some justification as an architectural centre of servitude. 5. The Lives of Mechanical Servants Brandstetter, Thomas pp. 345-353(9) The history of two different ways of conceptualising the relationship between man and machines is traced. On the one hand, the machine-as-slave, going back to Aristotle, describes the relation as a purely instrumental one, denying the machine any agency of its own and reducing it to a part or extension of the human subject. On the other hand, the machine-as-servant stresses a horizontal relation instead of a hierarchical subordination, and it distributes agency more evenly between the different actants. Those, in turn, lose their distinctiveness: with the discovery of the category of communication in Butler'€™s Erewhon, man as well as machines become capable of exchanging information, and with the concept of the "€˜margin of indetermination"€™ introduced by Simondon, machines acquire degrees of freedom hitherto reserved for humans. The role of traps in the history of technology is explored. 6. The Extended Body of Stephen Hawking Mialet, Hélène pp. 354-371(18) Science Studies has shown that scientific knowledge is above all about practice. But what happens when a scientist, such as Stephen Hawking, does not have the use of his hands, does not–or cannot–draw pictures and perform many-page-long calculations on paper? Does everything happen "€œin his head"€? Are theories produced "€œtheoretically"€? Yet, though this famous example of a mind dematerialized seems to confirm the cliché better than anyone could hope for, it actually shatters it. Drawing on an extensive and in-depth series of interviews with Hawking, his students, and his colleagues, this paper aims to reconstruct the human, material and machine-based network that enables Hawking to do physics. I call this network his extended body. 7. Review pp. 372-376(5) Cronin, James G. R. Rev. of Beyond the Finite: the Sublime in Art and Science. Edited by Roald Hoffmann and Iain Boyd Whyte -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AA35CDF2; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 09:21:34 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87973DED; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 09:21:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 55089DEB; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 09:21:31 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130103082131.55089DEB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 09:21:31 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.644 XML &c X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 644. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Holly C. Shulman" (83) Subject: Re: 26.640 XML &c [2] From: James Rovira (32) Subject: Re: 26.640 XML &c [3] From: drwender@aol.com (55) Subject: Re: 26.640 XML &c --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 09:19:21 -0500 From: "Holly C. Shulman" Subject: Re: 26.640 XML &c In-Reply-To: <20130102075801.7948830A9@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Desmond, Agreed with all you have said. Also why there will never be any kind of transcription that does not involve interpretation. But I was interested in your decision to interpret "..." as emphasis as I tend toward what I consider a more literal transcription with less editorial intervention. But that said, I am in agreement with you. Holly On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:58 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 640. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 04:56:59 +1000 > From: Desmond Schmidt > Subject: Re: 26.637 XML & what kind of scholarship > In-Reply-To: <20121231073726.9DE03ED6@digitalhumanities.org> > > James, > > > Why the word "interpretation" rather than "translation," at least in the > > simple cases? I can see more complex cases being more interpretive. > > because conversion from one medium to another always involves some > form of interpretation. Even if you write a program to "translate" > Microsoft Word to XML you have to decide when you write the program > which source codes get mapped to which target codes. There must be a > dozen reasons why something could be in italics. What about foreign > words or phrases? You'd want to use , not or rend="italics">. What about stage directions in a play? You'd want to > use ... Note that below Holly and I disagree on > how to encode italics. Differences of interpretation create real and > non-trivial disputes even in "simple cases". > > Holly, > > > I am wondering why the decision was > > made to render "really" as emphasis rather than as italics or retain them > > in quotation marks. > > Why not? That's what the code is for. (Btw it wasn't meant to > be in quotation marks). But there are always several ways to encode > the same textual phenomenon. Imagine that you and I are transcribing > some printed correspondence. You code italics as > and I code it as . Then we push the transcriptions through some > software, and get inconsistent output. That's why I don't think we can > ever have a "standard" way to mark up texts, that goes beyond a mere > vocabulary of pre-defined codes. > > > So I'm simply curious about this one as it is not the decision > > that I, as an editor, would have made > > Of course everyone makes different decisions about every textual > phenomenon that they see. Each transcription thus bears the > fingerprint of the person who made it. As long as we encode things > this way we can't ever develop general software solutions to editorial > problems. > > Desmond Schmidt > eResearch Lab > University of Queensland -- Holly C. Shulman Editor, Dolley Madison Digital Edition Founding Director, Documents Compass Research Professor, Department of History University of Virginia 434-243-8881 hcs8n@virginia.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 10:44:30 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: 26.640 XML &c In-Reply-To: <20130102075801.7948830A9@digitalhumanities.org> Desmond -- Thanks much for the response, but if the output is italics in all cases, how is the encoding interpretation in this case? What you refer to are differences of interpretation of the italicized text itself, a fact which is common to both print and digital media. Italics, obviously, can be used for foreign words, emphasis, stage directions, titles, etc., but this variety of uses pre-existed digital media and is only reflected by it again now. Once the decision to italicize has been made, what difference does it make what code you write to produce italic text? The context I had in mind was digital reproduction of originally printed text, though, with the person doing the encoding having to decide how to encode italic text. Jim R --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 21:14:07 -0500 (EST) From: drwender@aol.com Subject: Re: 26.640 XML &c In-Reply-To: <20130102075801.7948830A9@digitalhumanities.org> “The digital humanities are growing rapidly in response to a rise in Internet use. What humanists mostly work on, and which forms much of the contents of our growing repositories, are digital surrogates of originally analog artefacts. But is the datamodel upon which many of those surrogates are based - embedded markup- adequate for the task?” Desmond Schmidt (2012) The role of markup inthe digital humanities. HistoricalSocial Research, 37(3),pp. 125-146. (Citing the abstract.) Dear Desmond, which word/s should/could be stressed - via italics? -in the parenthesis above:  _embedded_,  _markup_, or both:  _embeddedmarkup_? Trying to understand your arguments I take an example line out of Folger Shakespeare's JC.xml, one of the pretty XML files from which this thread was starting. I'm imagining a little stupid relational database, starting with only 2 tables: the first to store all the stuff in the verse lines that rests when I strip away what is talked about this stuff by markup statements, bewaring only the information given in xml-id; the second table to store those informations about line arrangement that are given in the JOIN entities. Using field separator '@' and line breaks as record separators, the 2 flat files for my tables will show the following 2streams: for Table-I : … w@0074730@A c@0074740@ w@0074750@very c@0074760@ w@0074770@pleasing c@0074780@ w@0074790@night c@0074800@ w@0074810@to c@0074820@ w@0074830@honest c@0074840@c w@0074850@men p@007486@. ... for Table-II :… ftln@0460@verse@0074730@0074860 … I havn't studied the numbering conventions explained in Folger's _refsDecl_ but I suppose that all other markup information in their files – if needed for computational tasks in digital humanities - could also be extracted and suitably stored in some further tables. Therefore I would agree with everyone who abhors the redundancy in heavily tagged literary texts like in Folger's digital Shakespeare. But what you, Desmond, say about fact/interpretation (in german terms, following Hans Zeller: “Befud und Deutung”?) and about the 'native' anolog/digital rupture, I _really_ disagree. I'm hoping to support the points already mentioned by James and Holly adding an example taken from the textual tradition which I best know. In Georg Büchnerr's manuscript for his first play, “Dantons Tod”, we can find some words underlined, f.e. says Danton in replying the statement “Wir und die ehrlichen Leute” (We and the honest men): “Das _und_ dazwischen ist ein langes Wort” (The _and_ between is a long word). The first print editions – first partially in a journal print, then in a book version, both in 1835 and both censored - are showing a spaced word in quotation marks (Das “u n d” dazwischen...). IMHO the interpretation does not begin with my analysis stating (1) the enclosement in quotation marks as expressing a citation relationship to a word in the speech uttered just before - expressible in XML makup via pointer to the appropriate xml-id - and (2) the spacing as signalling a metalinguistic reference to an item in the dictionary. The interpretation begins when the typesetter decides to use both quotation marks and spacing, and perhaps that's a misinterpretation because he wasn't observing the systematic use of underlinement in similar cases. If we search the literary text for further occurrences of the word “Wort” we find in the manuscript the following underlined words: [a. see above] b. "das Wort _Strafe_" c. "das Wort _Blut_" d. "das Wort _Erbarmen_" The prints are not consistent in thiss respect: a. quotation marks + spaced b. no typographical signalling c. (only in the book version)" das Wort: [sic] Blut" (not spaced) d. spaced  If the manuscript were lost as in so many other cases, the so-called facts would be the confusing interpretations by contemporary typesetters. They are really honest men who wish to see 'authentic' versions in digital surrogates, but they can be helped best by a Google-like two-faced transmission of JPEGs + plain text OCR. What comes thereafter in the field of scholarly editions is to debate firstly in terms of good or bad editorial practices depending from the goals tended to be reached with an edition. If we need markup to ship-out editorial information to the addressees (mostly other scholars)? I'm continuing to doubt. Wishing A _very_ pleasing night to honest men   Herbert _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1BD7ADEE; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 09:26:47 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 561B8DE8; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 09:26:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 33A79DE7; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 09:26:44 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130103082644.33A79DE7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 09:26:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.645 fellowship proposals at UIUC X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 645. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 18:23:03 +0000 From: I-CHASS Subject: IACAT Faculty Fellowship Proposals Due Jan. 31, 2013 Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Fellowship proposals due Jan. 31 The Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies (IACAT) is seeking applicants for its Faculty Fellows Program, which provides seed funding for developing long-term research collaborations between University of Illinois faculty and NCSA staff. This year, proposals can be submitted by individuals or by teams of Illinois faculty from a variety of disciplines who are working collaboratively to address areas relevant to NCSA’s strategic plan, including the exploration of large data sets, genomics, and innovative computing. For complete details about the fellowships program, including how to apply, go to http://iacat.illinois.edu/faculty_fellows. Proposals are due Jan. 31. ~~~ Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences faculty are encouraged to apply.~~~ ABOUT I-CHASS The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science (I-CHASS) charts new ground in high-performance computing and the human sciences. Founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and located at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, I-CHASS creates learning environments and spaces for digital exploration and discovery; presenting leading-edge research, computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming to showcase the future of the humanities, arts, and social science. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 16:39:52 +0100 From: Neven_Jovanović Subject: Galaxy in Your Hands Regardless of how the end product looks like (not having Windows, I wasn't able to check), the following software concept sounds quite charmingly medieval. All the best, Neven Jovanovic Zagreb, Croatia -------------------- Perceptual Computing Puts Galaxy in Your Hands http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/perceptual-computing-puts-galaxy-your-hands/ SoftKinetic's Solar System is an augmented reality demo where the user appears to hold the entire universe within the palms of their hands. Users can rotate and scale (zoom) the galaxy by moving both hands in unison. With the sun as the center axis, users can rotate around the galaxy by rotating their hands in any direction. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (47) Subject: digital history lecture [2] From: "Young, John K" (96) Subject: MLA Sessions of Interest for STS Members --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:51:13 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: digital history lecture -------- Original Message -------- > Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 09:39:58 +0000 > From: Seth Denbo *We are welcoming in the new year and kicking off the Digital History Seminar for this term early with a special session to take advantage of a visit to London from a far-flung colleague in digital history. See below for the full details. * Digital History Seminar http://ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/ *Stephen Robertson (University of Sydney) 'Mapping Everyday Life: Digital Harlem, 1915-1930'* Tuesday, 8 January, 2013, 5:15 pm (GMT) * * Holden Room 103, Senate house, South block, First floor, and and live online at HistorySpot . Digital Harlem is the online form of a project to explore everyday life in America'€™s leading black neighbourhood in the 1920s. It grew from a desire for a more detailed understanding of Harlem as a place and from a concern to find ways to examine a large and diverse set of archival and published sources. The site employs a database that integrates a diverse range of material on the basis of geographical location, and connects that material with a real estate map of the neighborhood overlaid on Google Maps. The site is dynamic, allowing the results of users’ searches for events, places and individuals to be displayed on the map, searches to be limited in various ways, including by date, and different searches to be layered on the same map to allow comparisons and show change over time. The site promotes a spatial analysis that highlights the variety of different places that made up the neighborhood, and locating the events and individuals found in 1920s Harlem in the context of those places, capturing something of the complexity of everyday life. *Stephen Robertson* is Associate Professor of American history in the Department of History at the University of Sydney. Since 2003 he has collaborated with Shane White and Stephen Garton to study everyday life in 1920s Harlem. One product of that project is Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars (Harvard University Press, 2010). Another is the Digital Harlem site, awarded the American Historical Association’s Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History and the ABC-CLIO Online History Award of the American Library Association in 2010. With the support of an Australian Research Council grant, the site is currently being extend to examine the 1935 Harlem riot. _____ The Digital History Seminar is part of the extensive programme of seminars http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars hosted by the Institute for Historical Research, and receives additional sponsorship from IHR Digital http://www.history.ac.uk/digital . --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 16:33:02 +0000 From: "Young, John K" Subject: MLA Sessions of Interest for STS Members Dear Members of the STS Community, For those of you attending the MLA convention in Boston this week, please note that the STS-sponsored session, No. 445, will take place on Saturday, Jan. 5, from 8:30-9:45 in the Beacon A room at the Sheraton. Titled “Mobile Texts to Performative Adaptations: Fresh Looks at Editing Medieval and Renaissance Poetry and Music,” this panel will feature talks by H. Wayne Storey (Indiana U), Daniel E. O’Sullivan (U of Mississippi), Victor Coehlo (Boston U.), and Keith Polk (U of New Hampshire), with Dario Del Puppo (Trinity College) serving as chair. In addition, the following sessions should be of interest to STS menbers (numbers refer to program order): January 3 8:30-11 2. Digital Pedagogy: An Unconference Workshop 3. Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion: A Workshop for Evaluators and Candidates 12:00-1:15 15. Transatlantic Book History in the Eighteenth Century 18. Old Wine in New Wineskins: The Collected Works Project in the Digital Age 22. Expanding Access: Building Bridges within Digital Humanities 1:45-3:00 52. Issued from Boston: The National Impact of a Local Print Culture on Slavery-Related Politics 3:30-4:45 84. Publishing Indigeneity: Future, Fact, and Fiction 102. Digital Diasporas 5:15-6:30 130. Archive Fever: New Methodologies and New Questions for United States Literary and Cultural Studies 133. Reading the Invisible and Unwanted in Old and New Media 137. Printing Science 7:00-8:15 148. Surface Reading by Hand: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century British Literature 165. Beyond the PDF: Experiments in Open-Access Scholarly Publishing 167. Digital Humanities and Theory January 4 8:30-9:45 186. Fraud and Forgery in Literary Texts 198. Convenient Histories of the Book: From Manuscript to Digital 10:15-12:00 239. Representing Race: Silence in the Digital Humanities 12:00-1:15 260. Open Sesame: Inoperability in Digital Literary Studies 285. How Many Copies Is Enough? Too Many? Libraries and Shared Monograph Archives 294. The Work of Editing: A Workshop for New and Old Scholarly Editors 1:45-3:30 307. The Dark Side of Digital Humanities 321. Digital and Analogue Critical Editions of Continental Literature? Pros, Cons, Discussion 326. Digital Approaches to Renaissance Texts 328. African American Print Culture Studies 3:30-5:15 339. Sovereignty and the Archive 350. Puerto Rican Print Cultures 353. Avenues of Access: Digital Humanities and the Future of Scholarly Communication 369. The Poetics of Print, 1961-Present 5:15-6:30 371. Visual Literacies: Word and Image in Tudor and Stuart Women’s Works 383. The Archival Turn 384. What Is a Journal? Toward a Theory of Periodical Studies 401. Digital Archives and Their Margins January 5 8:30-9:45 440. How I Got Started in Digital Humanities: New Digital Projects from DHCommons 450. Archaic Returns: Alchemies of Old and New Media 451. Scholarly Journals: New Challenges and Opportunities 10:15-11:30 473. Print and Beyond: Publishing Rossetti, Morris, and the Aesthetes 485. Inventing New Journals: The Pressures for and against New Scholarly Publications 488. Answering the Challenge: The New Variorum Shakespeare in the Digital Age 12:00-1:15 500. Undergrounds and Counterpublics in Nineteenth-Century American Print Culture 507. New Archives, Renewed Access: Research Methodologies in Latin American Collections 522. Crossed Codes: Print’s Memory of the Digital Age, Digital’s Memory of the Age of Print 1:45-3:00 540. The Third Degree: Joint Programs in Languages, Literature, and Libraries 3:30-4:45 574. Problems and Prospects for a Native American Literary Recovery Project 584. Accessing Race in the Digital Humanities: An E-roundtable 586. Scaling and Sharing: Data Management in the Humanities 5:15-6:30 621. Reading, Reading Machines, and Machine Reading 637. Open Access? ECCO, EEBO, and Digital Resources 639. Two Tools for Student-Generated Digital Projects: WordPress and Omeka in the Classroom January 6 8:30-9:45 659. Women Writing in Early Modern Manuscript Studies 667. Beckett’s Manuscripts 669. Social Media and Scholarship: The State of Middle-State Publishing 670. Romantic Media Studies: Means of Reading and Reading for Means 687. British Romantic Books 693. Theorizing Digital Practice, Practicing Digital Theory 10:15-11:30 702. South Asian-izing the Digital Humanities 12:00-1:15 747. Oscar Wilde in Print and Visual Culture 755. Contested Receptions: The Battle of the Books as Battles over Books 760. Bibliography in the Digital Age 1:45-3:00 763. Digital Technology, Environmental Aesthetics, Ecocritical Discourse 795. Literature and Digital Pedagogies Happy new year, John John Young Professor of English Marshall University (304) 696-2349 youngj@marshall.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 42198E01; Fri, 4 Jan 2013 09:55:41 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6174DFC; Fri, 4 Jan 2013 09:55:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F4162DFB; Fri, 4 Jan 2013 09:55:37 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130104085537.F4162DFB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 09:55:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.648 XML &c X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 648. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Desmond Schmidt (25) Subject: Re: 26.644 XML &c [2] From: Jay Savage (142) Subject: Re: 26.627 XML & what kind of scholarship [3] From: Wendell Piez (63) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.644 XML &c [4] From: drwender@aol.com (46) Subject: Re: 26.644 XML &c --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 21:45:13 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 26.644 XML &c In-Reply-To: <20130103082131.55089DEB@digitalhumanities.org> James, > What you refer to are differences of interpretation of the italicized text itself, > a fact which is common to both print and digital media The interpretation is not a "fact" of the printed text. That just has has black marks on a page, whereas the digital text really has an explicit interpretation encoded in digital bytes, which states: "the word 'really' is emphatic". Where is that information in the printed text, and not just in your head as you read it? Herbert, > If the manuscript were lost as in so many other cases, the so-called facts would be the confusing interpretations by contemporary typesetters. If you recall I said that any change of medium for a text involves interpretation, and that's what you are also saying about the Büchner texts. In going from manuscript to print the typesetters had to interpret what they saw just as an XML transcriber has to. And if the manuscript was then lost all we would have would be the printed texts, which would then be our only "facts". And then you'd have to *conjecture* that they were typesetter's misinterpretations rather than what the author wanted. This reminds me of the Byzantine manuscripts of Aeschylus, which are full of interpolations, but they are still facts because in many cases they are all we have. Facts don't have to be true, they can just be things that exist. Desmond Schmidt eResearch Lab University of Queensland --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 11:49:53 -0500 From: Jay Savage Subject: Re: 26.627 XML & what kind of scholarship In-Reply-To: <20121228085606.52148F99@digitalhumanities.org> Hi Desmond, Quite the opposite, actually: I am arguing that markup is never neutral. Whether an originary author/editior/publisher/what-have-you embeds markup 10 seconds after a word is first typed or someone comes along 400 years later makes no difference. Markup is always an act of interpretation, and just as suspect for a contemporary text as for an ancient one. Let me ask three questions (and a number of subquestions). First, why should we care what the author of an electronic text does or does not do or intend? In the case of Shakespeare, you are quite comfortable reviewing and cataloging the physical features as they exist and leaving it at that. Why, confronted with an electronic text, make recourse to questions of authorial intent? Shakespeare's manuscripts (or whatever Hemings and Condell had access to) were marked in ways that led his first readers--his editors--to interpret the text in certain ways that influenced their reading and subsequent typesetting. Perhaps certain words were underlined or capitalized; we will never know for certain, of course, but we can guess based extant 17th-century manuscripts. Other decisions were based the styles of the day and the printer's house style. All of those decisions resulted in a complex bibliographic code designed to communicate information to readers. Your own text, likewise, has markup embedded that you hope will influence readers' interpretation based on their understanding of the conventions and technology of XML parsing. In both Shakespeare's case and your own, whether the intended information is successfully communicated to the reader is quite outside the author's (or editor's) control. Why should we privilege the contemporary author's intentionality more than we do Shakespeare's? Aside from the obvious difference in the technique used (tagging vs. underlining), how is our contemporary markup truly different from Shakespeare's? Even if we do privilege intentionality, is your intention truly more accessible to readers, and less open to interpretation? Do your readers really understand "" means "emphasis" and not just "the the shortcut I use because I know that my XML will eventually be converted to HTML and most web browsers render '' as italic"? Personally, I generally assume the latter. There are certainly conventions for markup, but they are hardly universal. Sceond, staying focused on markup, can we really assume that contemporary authors/editors/publishers control the markup in the texts they produce? I would suggest not. Most electronic texts are marked up programmatically in ways that are only loosely under human control. An author producing a manuscript in Microsoft word never sees the lines of markup insertion triggered byt the "i" button on the toolbar. A majority of users, in fact, would probably be surprised to learn that the "x" in ".docx" even stands for "XML." Most bloggers have no idea what systems like Wordpress do to their formatting behind the scenes. Those that do are normally horrified by what they discover. Even the most careful TEI practitioners are occasionally caught off guard by the idiosyncrasies and "features" of , SAX, etc.. Finally, how is "analog" truly a useful category of text? Are Ojibwe wiigwaasabakoon really more akin to the Illustrated London News than 11 fascicles of the the original New English Dictionary are to the 20 volumes of the Second Edition (OED), which was composed in SGML with IBM's LEXX software and electronically composited before being printed to paper? Again, I would argue not. To me, drawing an arbitrary analog/digital distinction in this way deliberately and problematically elides--for rhetorical purposes--very important distinctions between a wide variety of entirely dissimilar manual and mechanical reproductive technologies, not to mention the distinctions between very different "digital" technologies. It also ignores the obvious similarities and continuities between print and post-print reproduction, and obscures the last fifty years of development in printing technology, where digital devices and methods gradually came to dominate all aspects of printing technology. Is a typescript from a Xerox Memorywriter an analog text, or a digital one? If it is analog, how long does text have to be resident in memory before it becomes digital? What of the OED2? At the same time, can an archived RFC 822 email from 1982 be usefully compared to an contemporary XML-TEI edition simply because they are both "digital"? I would suggest, instead, that we move in the direction of what Katherine Hayles terms Media Specific Analysis that treats myriad reproductive technologies, whether colloquially "analog" or "digital," on their own terms. I may not have been clear in my initial post, but I certainly don't think it is easy to move from digital to print and back again. I think it is very difficult, and that precisely the information you identify is lost. I don't think it is easy to move from manuscript to print and back again, though, either. Nor do I think it is easy to move from flexograph to hand press and back, or from photostat to rotogravure and back. Even moving from manuscript to manuscript we see issues of scribal error and the difficulty of producing faithful diplomatic transcriptions. All transcription and translation are fraught. It's the arbitrary distinction of between "analog" and "digital" that I don't find compelling, precisely because it implies some innate similarity between the various "analog" technologies and between the various "digital" ones. Compositing lines of type in reverse on a stick and creating etched plates from original watercolors seem to me to be at least as transformational encoding a text into XML or scanning an image to JPEG, though. At the same time, converting an HTML text to PDF seems just as transformational as verse from a bible into a commonplace book. All remediation is destructive, even between "analog" media and between "digital" media. We need to not loose sight of that. (I would, though, argue that their *are* certain shared features common to all electronic artifacts at the level of the physical and computed substrates that do not affect this particular discussion of human-readable text and human-interpretable, human-edited markup, and that we should really rethink what we mean by "etext." But that is a conversation for a different day.) In any case, I am deeply uncomfortable with the way that "markup" and "digital" seem to be taken as synonyms in this conversation. They are two very different concepts. Even if we accept the existence of an analog/digital divide, there are many ways to create "digital" texts. Very few of them include structured markup. Even those that do rely on other, more fundamental computed processes. Distinguishing between the subject and object of interpretation with electronic texts is a battle that is lost before it is even begun. The markup itself is already encoded in utf8 or another scheme. There is simply one CTO which we attempt to parse logically into "text" and "markup." Doing that successfully, though, requires a priori knowledge of either the markup or the "plaintext," or preferably both. Likewise, physical texts have been physically marked up for millennia. A great deal of our contemporary XML and HTML markup is, in fact, simply aimed at reproducing typographical conventions. I think one of the real roots of the issue is that the creators of SGML and its derivatives, among others, have assumed that bibliographic features not only have interpretive value, but have consistent, predictable interpretive value. This is demonstrably false, and attempting to assign Berners-Lee-type "semantic" value to markup has been problematic. Physical texts were never "facts." They are complex, messy containers for bibliographic codes that are subject to interpretation. They exist in variants and editions that must be accounted for if their stories are to be told fully. We can't expect electronic texts to be be entirely different and semantically stable. I don't personally find that cause for alarm. It simply recasts and expands familiar questions of text and work, peritext and paratext. Nor do I think that the subjective nature of textual criticism is a reason to despair of computational tractability or open exchange. LMNL is one potentially interesting solution overlapping ranges. TEI provides invaluable contributions in other ares. There are man others, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. The trick, I think, will be to give up on the TEI ideal of One Spec To Rule Them All and put effort instead into developing expertise in translating between specific cases as needed. We do this routinely with many kinds of data, to great profit. We just need to be clear on the true nature of the tenuous relationships (or lack thereof) among the very different concepts of "text," "encoding," "markup," and "meaning." Best, --j ---------------------------------------- Jay Savage, Ph.D. Director of Academic Information Technology Services Yeshiva University ITS jsavage1@yu.edu (646) 592-4092 "You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new." --Steve Jobs --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 13:30:09 -0500 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.644 XML &c In-Reply-To: <20130103082131.55089DEB@digitalhumanities.org> Jim R, Willard, and HUMANIST: On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Humanist Discussion Group sent: > Thanks much for the response, but if the output is italics in all cases, > how is the encoding interpretation in this case? What you refer to are > differences of interpretation of the italicized text itself, a fact which > is common to both print and digital media. Italics, obviously, can be used > for foreign words, emphasis, stage directions, titles, etc., but this > variety of uses pre-existed digital media and is only reflected by it again > now. Once the decision to italicize has been made, what difference does it > make what code you write to produce italic text? This is actually a nice example illustrating an important principle of markup language design and application. To markup old-timers, it's embedded so deeply that we forget it. But as time passes and context changes it's important to revisit the issue. Let's say for purposes of argument that on a far-off planet somewhere they use an encoding scheme called "TEI". (It stands for "Transcribing Evolving Information". This civilization is oriented towards processes, verbs and ambiguity, not things, nouns and fixity, and they like gerunds in their acronyms.) It offers the following element types (in an encoding scheme close enough to XML for our purposes), among others: emph - inline content that is emphasized rhetorically (indicated generally by a typographical shift such as italics appearing in the midst of roman) foreign - inline content receiving a similar typographical distinction in order to indicate the foreign-language origin of a word or phrase title - the title of a literary or creative work appearing in line, possibly distinguished typographically hi - inline content that is typographically distinct, for any reason or for none discernible or worth communicating Jim's question suggests that even if this profusion of possibilities is not problematic (insofar as the categories are weakly specified, arguable, and overlapping), it is unnecessary, because it all comes out in italics in the end, and it's properly up to readers, not the system, to attribute any semantics to any italics (as to any typography) they see. On a practical level, this is fair enough, but only as long as rendering in italics is the only operational effect of this tagging. As soon as we want to distinguish between these cases -- for example, for indexing, text analysis, to color some (not all) of them pink, or for any other purpose -- then the distinctions become meaningful. "Interpretation" (such as the choice between 'emph' and 'foreign'), with all its hazards, becomes "data" (input to the system). If you are crying "tautology" at this, you are right. Assuming you have no such need right now, the question is when or whether that moment ever comes. A related question is whether it is less onerous to prepare for the event now, or wait until it happens to deal with it (or better, make someone else if they care to). Sometimes the need is foreseeable and the labor is comparatively light, but there is always a limit to what you can do. This design problem is especially challenging when using a system that must be wired up in advance. XML is more flexible in this respect than many data processing systems. But because all the elements in an XML document must fit neatly together, it is less flexible than we might sometimes like. Cheers, Wendell -- Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 17:04:31 -0500 (EST) From: drwender@aol.com Subject: Re: 26.644 XML &c In-Reply-To: <20130103082131.55089DEB@digitalhumanities.org> Dear James, you wrote: > The context I had in mind was digital reproduction of originally printed > text, though, with the person doing the encoding having to decide how to > encode italic text. In this (I suppose: scholarly) context the encoding enthusiast can say: "While the traditional book editior remains in the opaqueness of italization, leaving interpretation on the reader side, the encoding scholar makes explicit what s/he supposes to be given implicite in the typographical 'fact'." ('Befdund': italics - 'Deutung': emphasis / foreign language item / ...) In terms of the speech ac theory: In old-fashioned book editions the edited text tends to remain on the level of locuinary acts, reproducing the 'original' (in my discipline: literary) message; this holds also for some digital surrogates, f.e. the CD by-packed to the famous facsimile edition of Kafka's "Der Process" where faxs+transcript are shipped-out as PDF resulting out of a desktop publishing workflow. XML/TEI fasioned digital editions, on the other side,  tend to ask for the illocutionary force too: what the author / typesetter / editor has done by italicizing a span of text? In the course of Desmond's critical view we can now ask (1) how appropriate are those (embedded or stabd-off) descriptions of illocutionary acts? or (2) how reasonable they are taken in their own right as perlocutionary acts in a scholr-to-scholar communication? or (3)  - for me the crucial quwstion - how to judge the costs of blind tagging (without knowledge of the processes later on handling all the pretty XML files)? I'm wondering about the future of this _very_ pleadant thread. With kind regards, Herbert _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D3ED6E03; Fri, 4 Jan 2013 09:56:40 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 146D4E01; Fri, 4 Jan 2013 09:56:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 897C9E01; Fri, 4 Jan 2013 09:56:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130104085638.897C9E01@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 09:56:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.649 pubs: Born Digital X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 649. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 16:27:44 -0600 From: Tanya Clement Subject: new report released: Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories offers recommendations to help ensure the physical and intellectual well being of digital media and files during different stages of the acquisition process. Co-authored by a team of ten archivists and curators from the Beinecke, the Bodleian, the British Library, the Harry Ransom Center, Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, and the Rubenstein Library at Duke, the report is the outcome of a series of conversations about how born-digital materials are acquired and transferred to archival repositories. A draft of Born Digital has been published with MediaCommons Press, an innovative online publisher that allows readers to offer feedback via an easy-to-use commenting interface, and is currently open for comment:http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/borndigital/ The main body of the report surveys the primary issues and concerns related to born-digital acquisitions and is intended for a broad audience with varying levels of interest and expertise, including donors, dealers, and archival repositories, as well as scholars, students, and researchers. Appendices provide information about how to prepare for the unexpected and possible staffing costs, as well as ready-to-use checklists that incorporate recommendations from throughout the report. These recommendations are not meant to be universal and do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the authors' institutions. Rather, they offer broad, useful guidance for donors, dealers, and repository staff involved in the acquisition or transfer of born-digital materials. The report's authors encourage archivists, curators, manuscript dealers, writers, scholars, students, and other custodians of archival materials to read the report, offer feedback, and take part in a discussion with the larger community of people concerned about the acquisition and preservation of born-digital materials. Your comments and suggestions will provide an important level of peer review as the report's authors continue revising and preparing Born Digital for final publication. If you have any questions about the report, please contact Gabby Redwine at gredwine@austin.utexas.edu Tanya Clement Assistant Professor, School of Information University of Texas, Austin tclement@ischool.utexas.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 80551E07; Fri, 4 Jan 2013 10:00:42 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5115E05; Fri, 4 Jan 2013 10:00:41 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 294ABE03; Fri, 4 Jan 2013 10:00:40 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130104090040.294ABE03@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 10:00:40 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.650 backronyms and synapses X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 650. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:51:09 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: backronyms and synapses This morning, reflecting on today's lineup for Humanist, I thought to check on the progress of the IBM/DARPA project, SyNAPSE, i.e. Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics. I had not previously known that backward formation of acronyms (which, one suspects, is how many acronyms are coined) had a term to name it, but it does -- "backronym", which even has a Wikipedia entry. All this would have passed unremarked on Humanist were it not for the progress that SyNAPSE has in fact made since I mentioned it on Humanist some time ago. See http://www.artificialbrains.com/darpa-synapse-program. Note the ultimate aim of the project, > to build an electronic microprocessor system that matches a mammalian > brain in function, size, and power consumption. It should recreate 10 > billion neurons, 100 trillion synapses, consume one kilowatt (same as > a small electric heater), and occupy less than two liters of space. It is illuminating to consider these engineering requirements in light of John von Neumann's detailed comparison of natural and artificial automata in The Computer and the Brain (1958) as to speed, energy requirements and size. Note that the size differential (which von Neumann regarded as crucial) has gone from 1/10**8 in favour of the natural system, which was then that much smaller, to a factor of less than 1/2 (the human brain being ca "of the order magnitude of a liter... i.e. of 10**3 cm", p. 48). In "The NORC and problems of high-speed computing" (on the occasion of the first public showing of IBM's Naval Ordnance Research Calculator in 1954), von Neumann wrote, > In planning new computing machines, in fact, in planning anything > new... it is customary and very proper to consider what the demand > is, what the price is, whether it will be more profitable to do it in > a bold way or in a cautious way, and so on. This type of > consideration is certainly necessary. Things would very quickly go to > pieces if these rules were not observed in ninety-nine cases out of a > hundred. > > It is very important, however, that there should be one case in a > hundred where it is done differently... to write specifications > simply calling for the most advanced machine which is possible in the > present state of the art. I hope that this will be done again soon > and that it will never be forgotten. It seems that von Neumann's hope wasn't in vain. But in light of such developments and especially the emergent desire that drives them, what is our role? 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C6895E05; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 08:21:55 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA56CDF3; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 08:21:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4F078DF0; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 08:21:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130105072152.4F078DF0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 08:21:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.651 XML &c X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 651. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (32) Subject: Re: 26.648 XML &c [2] From: Desmond Schmidt (114) Subject: Re: 26.648 XML &c [3] From: Willard McCarty (19) Subject: contingencies of markup --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 08:42:35 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: 26.648 XML &c In-Reply-To: <20130104085537.F4162DFB@digitalhumanities.org> Desmond: Thanks very much for your reply. We should perhaps take for granted that the very obvious is obvious to everyone. Yes, interpretation is in the individual head of the reader and in the collective heads of all readers and their accepted and known social (print) conventions, which in this case means that italicized text can fill any one of a number of rhetorical functions, which one(s) in any given instance being determined by context. It probably would have helped our discussion, as Wendell said, if we had distinguished between our attempts to render something a certain way on a screen or in a print document (as I've been talking about) and our attempts to create a digitally searchable archive that distinguishes between different uses of italicized text. I'd agree that the latter is always interpretive. I don't think the former necessarily is. Much appreciation for Wendell's post. Jim R On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:55 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote > > James, > > > What you refer to are differences of interpretation of the italicized > text itself, > > a fact which is common to both print and digital media > > The interpretation is not a "fact" of the printed text. That just has > has black marks on a page, whereas the digital text > really has an explicit interpretation encoded in digital > bytes, which states: "the word 'really' is emphatic". Where is that > information in the printed text, and not just in your head as you read > it? > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 07:52:03 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 26.648 XML &c In-Reply-To: <20130104085537.F4162DFB@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Humanist readers, Since we have found a mountain of interpretation in mere italics, it follows that the interpretation in the other markup we add to a text must be huge. This begs what is to me the crucial question: why should we embed this information into the plain text and so confuse it with our own views? Textual interoperability is now an imperative given the development of national and international repositories of digital texts. In purely practical terms what you store in such repositories MUST be reusable by others. I'm not saying that there is no interpretation in plain text. But there is not much if the original text was clear. What people don't dispute is not worth classifying as "interpretation". I'm not saying that text should be plain because we need to encode lots of information about it too. I'm not talking about any specific technology, just the PRINCIPLE that we should keep our interpretations separate from the texts they comment on. Objection: Since text contains some interpretation we can't separate markup from text. Even punctuation is a kind of markup etc. This seems to me to be an argument post factum. We have already encoded our texts in XML and now we want to justify it. We are trying to persuade our non-XML humanist colleagues that XML is just like something they already use, like punctuation. We cling limpet-like to the assertion that there is no line to be drawn in the sand where markup ends. But my argument is purely practical. There IS a useful dividing line that maximises text reusability. It is to remove markup from the text and store it separately. That gives us the ability to: recombine interpretations with the text at any point, for whatever purpose, and to separate our interpretations into various layers: layout structure, morphological analysis, annotations etc. Crucially, it gives us the flexibility to merge different layers of interpretation with the text as needed. As it stands, with embedded markup codes we have to put everything into one encoding at a time. Then other people can't reuse the text without first removing our markup (which is a lot harder than it sounds). What we have now are texts designed for one purpose. But we need multi-purpose texts. If the technology for keeping markup separate from the text simply worked in the way I have described without your being aware of it, wouldn't that be much better? Jay, >In the case of Shakespeare, you are quite comfortable reviewing and >cataloging the physical features as they exist and leaving it at that. Why, >confronted with an electronic text, make recourse to questions of authorial >intent? The difference is quite simply because I can see the interpretations as markup encoded in the text. Those same interpretations (such as "this is emphatic") are not present in the printed text. But I concede your point that any printed text already contains interpretations made by the people who typeset it. >Do your >readers really understand "" means "emphasis" and not just "the the >shortcut I use because I know that my XML will eventually be converted to >HTML and most web browsers render '' as italic"? I agree that Shakespeare or his printer may have intended to encode "emphasis" as italics. But I don't know that for sure. All I know is that there is italics on the page. When I write in a digital text that code is for emphasis. If I make a mistake or I am sloppy that doesn't change the fact that I wrote "this is emphatic". Shakespeare's printer didn't write that. He just wrote "this is italic". >An author producing a >manuscript in Microsoft word never sees the lines of markup insertion >triggered but the "i" button on the toolbar. There's actually a predefined Word character style called "Emphasis", just as in XML. The intended interpretation might be blurred by carelessness on the part of the encoder, but once the fact of the encoding is produced I think it is reasonable to assume that if someone deliberately chose a format called "Emphasis" that they meant it and not any old italics. >Finally, how is "analog" truly a useful category of text? It's a different medium, and even if it is produced from an electronic text the constraints of print still apply. But I'd agree that we are talking about several different media here: typesetting codes for imagesetters, XML, Word, Web, etc. and not just "digital". > Distinguishing between the subject and > object of interpretation with electronic texts is a battle that is lost > before it is even begun. The markup itself is already encoded in utf8 or > another scheme. You almost seem as if you want to say here that other people's interpretative markup added to Shakespeare might as well be treated as if it was Shakespeare. I don't think pointing out cases where it is hard to separate text from markup means that we should just give up the text/markup distinction. It's clear enough in XML: technically, markup is the stuff in angle-brackets plus the formatting white space between markup codes. The rest is "content". Yes, content may contain markup in some esoteric form, but not XML. > Likewise, physical texts have been physically marked up for millennia. Agreed. >Physical texts were never "facts." They are complex, messy containers for >bibliographic codes that are subject to interpretation. As I already stated in my response to Herbert, the word "fact" can mean something that exists, at least in English. It doesn't have to be true. It can also be a frozen repository of old interpretations. A physical text you can touch is quite definitely a fact. Even a digital text in your computer is a fact because you can verify its existence in various ways. Herbert, >(1) how appropriate are those (embedded or stabd-off) descriptions of illocutionary acts? >or (2) how reasonable they are taken in their own right as perlocutionary acts in a scholr-to-scholar >communication? >or (3) - for me the crucial quwstion - how to judge the costs of blind tagging (without knowledge of the processes >later on handling all the pretty XML files)? On 2) I think that this is exactly the point: that these markup codes are for scholar to scholar communication. They are commentaries on the text just like the scholia in ancient manuscripts, the annotated print editions and the critical edition apparatus etc.They are not thing being commented on. On 3) If I understand this point rightly you mean the tendency in humanities computing to encode now and worry about how it will be processed later. It should not be forgotten that we encode texts digitally in order to process them in a computer. Taking account of exactly what the computer can do with our codes is an essential task that is often ignored. Desmond Schmidt eResearch Lab University of Queensland --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:16:20 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: contingencies of markup In-Reply-To: <20130104085537.F4162DFB@digitalhumanities.org> Allow me once again to suggest that in discussions of markup (or any other tool/method) we identify the disciplinary context(s). Are we not *always* assuming such a context even when we talk as if the tool or method applied indifferently to all? Textual editor of Shakespeare, literary critic of Shakespeare, historian of Shakespeare's time or language or whatever -- very different sets of interests, approaches, criteria etc, I would think. What is being encoded & to what end? I cannot see that there can be any neutral or universal standpoint. Assuming one can say what a "formal" method is, how would one think purely in such terms? 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CC711E0D; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 08:31:49 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C22EEE07; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 08:31:48 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 625CEE05; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 08:31:46 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130105073146.625CEE05@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 08:31:46 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.652 "digital materiality"? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 652. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 22:25:42 +0000 From: "James O'Sullivan" Subject: Digital Materiality Happy New Year fellow digital humanists - I require some help from you all in placing the cherry on something that I've been working on (a bit last minute to my shame)... I need a one word / phrase answer to the following - what comes to mind when I say "digital materiality"? 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (20) Subject: Digital Humanities seminar, Kings College London [2] From: Graham Diprose (61) Subject: Final Reminder: Deadline 18th January: EVA London 2013 Call for Proposals --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 11:40:01 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Digital Humanities seminar, Kings College London Department of Digital Humanities public seminar ‘Medieval Manuscripts as Truly Open Data’ Dr Will Noel, Director of the Special Collections Center and founding director of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Thursday 10 January at 6.15pm in the Anatomy Museum, 6th Floor, King’s Building, Strand Campus, King’s College London. All welcome. Dr Noel is a distinguished historian of medieval art and manuscripts, whose publications include studies of the Harley Psalter, Utrecht Psalter and the Oxford Bible. As Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Dr Noel was responsible foe a ground-breaking project using innovative imaging and computing techniques to recover a text of Archimedes which had been erased in the thirteenth century, which he has described in his recent book, The Archimedes Codex: Revealing the Secrets of the World’s Greatest Palimpsest. Dr Noel has recently been appointed to direct the University of Pennsylvania’s new special collections facility which opens this year and will include a digital media lab for experimentation in the digital humanities. He is also the founding Director of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, the endowment for which included a landmark collection of 287 medieval and renaissance manuscripts. 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 13:48:56 +0000 From: Graham Diprose Subject: Final Reminder: Deadline 18th January: EVA London 2013 Call for Proposals ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS LONDON 2013 > > Monday 29th July - Wednesday 31st July 2013 > Venue: British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA > > www.eva-london.org > > CALL FOR PROPOSALS > Deadline: 18th January 2013 > > *Visualising* > Ideas and concepts in culture, heritage the arts and sciences: digital > arts, sound, music, film and animation, 2D and 3D imaging, European > projects, archaeology, architecture, social media for museums, heritage and > fine art photography, medical visualisation and more > > OFFERS OF PAPERS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND WORKSHOPS by 18th January 2013 > > A feature of EVA London 2013 is its varied session types. We invite > proposals of papers, demonstrations, short performances, workshops or panel > discussions. Demonstrations and performances will be an important part of > this year's conference. We especially invite papers or presentations on > topical subjects, and the newest and cutting edge technologies and > applications. > > EVA London 2013 will include a digital art exhibition. > > Only a summary of the proposal, on up to one page, is required for > selection. This must be submitted electronically according to the > instructions on the EVA London website. Proposals may be on any aspect of > EVA London's focus on visualisation for arts and culture, heritage and > medical science, broadly interpreted. Papers are peer reviewed and may be > edited for publication as hard copy and online. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (35) Subject: digital materiality [2] From: { brad brace } (2) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.652 "digital materiality"? [3] From: Erik Hanson (38) Subject: Re: 26.652 "digital materiality"? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:56:20 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: digital materiality James O'Sullivan asks in Humanist 26.652, > I need a one word / phrase answer to the following - what comes to mind > when I say "digital materiality"? For me what first comes to mind is puzzlement: the phrase seems oxymoronic. This leads to questions: is the writer being cute? how can (digital) information be material? in what sense? is he referring to the materiality of digital circuitry? the representation of material things in abstract form? Does "digital humanities" have this thought-stopping power? Personally I like oxymoronic challenges. But I'd also admit to somewhat of an allergic reaction to deliberate, learned obscurantisms, which were all the rage when High Theory ruled (too much "look at me", too seldom rewarding when one actually looked into the matter). This is not to accuse O'Sullivan of indulging in them, only to suggest a possible reaction. I exercise a severe rule on myself and hope always to obey it: if I adore the cleverness or elegance of an expression, then it must go. A very Protestant attitude, I suppose :-). But how about metaphysical poetry? Heidegger's violation of language in a deliberate attempt to liberate himself from the philosophical tradition he inherited? The medieval cloaking of truth in order to reveal truth, deliberately making the text obscure so that the reader had to grapple with it? Being unclear because clarity would deceive? I'd suppose that because of when and where we are, we are having to invent a language or at least terminology in which to discuss the collision of digital with humanities. What comes to mind is Clifford Geertz's (I presume) agonized statement in "Thick Description" that, "We are reduced to insinuating theories because we lack the power to state them" (Interpretation of Cultures, p. 24). 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 06:36:47 -0800 (PST) From: { brad brace } Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.652 "digital materiality"? In-Reply-To: <20130105073146.625CEE05@digitalhumanities.org> Oxymoron /:b --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 10:36:14 -0500 From: Erik Hanson Subject: Re: 26.652 "digital materiality"? In-Reply-To: <20130105073146.625CEE05@digitalhumanities.org> First thing that comes to my mind is "platform studies." But that comes to my mind a lot. @erik_a_hanson _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2531FE69; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 07:01:38 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69E6BE71; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 07:01:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 62863E54; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 07:01:35 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130107060135.62863E54@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 07:01:35 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.655 "digital materiality" X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 655. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Arianna Ciula (111) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.654 "digital materiality" [2] From: Haines Brown (30) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.654 "digital materiality" [3] From: whitney trettien (140) Subject: Re: 26.654 "digital materiality" [4] From: "Raabe, Wesley" (64) Subject: Re: 26.654 "digital materiality" [5] From: Ales Vaupotic (108) Subject: Re: 26.654 "digital materiality" [6] From: "James O'Sullivan" (143) Subject: Re: 26.654 "digital materiality" [7] From: Stanislav Roudavski (19) Subject: RE: 26.654 "digital materiality" --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 17:53:48 +0800 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.654 "digital materiality" In-Reply-To: <20130106073541.ED48EE1A@digitalhumanities.org> What comes to mind to me are two things: - the power of something digital to evoke something material i.e. think of a digital artefact being here and everywhere, present but not touchable, albeit, exactly because of its attempt to represent something else, something 'other', it brings us back to (evoked, mirrored, lost) materiality. - the digital environment as a medium, a world with its own rules and therefore with its own materiality (from touching screens to all sort of interfaces). My two pennies. Arianna Ciula On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 654. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Willard McCarty (35) > Subject: digital materiality > > [2] From: { brad brace } (2) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.652 "digital materiality"? > > [3] From: Erik Hanson (38) > Subject: Re: 26.652 "digital materiality"? > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:56:20 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: digital materiality > > > James O'Sullivan asks in Humanist 26.652, > >> I need a one word / phrase answer to the following - what comes to mind >> when I say "digital materiality"? > > For me what first comes to mind is puzzlement: the phrase seems > oxymoronic. This leads to questions: is the writer being cute? how can > (digital) information be material? in what sense? is he referring to the > materiality of digital circuitry? the representation of material things > in abstract form? Does "digital humanities" have this thought-stopping > power? > > Personally I like oxymoronic challenges. But I'd also admit to somewhat > of an allergic reaction to deliberate, learned obscurantisms, which > were all the rage when High Theory ruled (too much "look at me", > too seldom rewarding when one actually looked into the matter). > This is not to accuse O'Sullivan of indulging in them, only to > suggest a possible reaction. > > I exercise a severe rule on myself and hope always to obey it: if I > adore the cleverness or elegance of an expression, then it must go. A > very Protestant attitude, I suppose :-). But how about metaphysical > poetry? Heidegger's violation of language in a deliberate attempt > to liberate himself from the philosophical tradition he inherited? The > medieval cloaking of truth in order to reveal truth, deliberately making > the text obscure so that the reader had to grapple with it? Being > unclear because clarity would deceive? > > I'd suppose that because of when and where we are, we are having > to invent a language or at least terminology in which to discuss the > collision of digital with humanities. What comes to mind is Clifford > Geertz's (I presume) agonized statement in "Thick Description" > that, "We are reduced to insinuating theories because we lack the > power to state them" (Interpretation of Cultures, p. 24). > > 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, > University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews > (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist > (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 06:36:47 -0800 (PST) > From: { brad brace } > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.652 "digital materiality"? > In-Reply-To: <20130105073146.625CEE05@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Oxymoron > > /:b > > > > --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 10:36:14 -0500 > From: Erik Hanson > Subject: Re: 26.652 "digital materiality"? > In-Reply-To: <20130105073146.625CEE05@digitalhumanities.org> > > > First thing that comes to my mind is "platform studies." But that comes to my mind a lot. > > @erik_a_hanson --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 06:28:52 -0500 From: Haines Brown Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.654 "digital materiality" In-Reply-To: <20130106073541.ED48EE1A@digitalhumanities.org> > James O'Sullivan asks in Humanist 26.652, > > > I need a one word / phrase answer to the following - what comes to > > mind when I say "digital materiality"? What comes to mind is that the expression begs a question. I base this on three suppositions: a) In the physical sciences material reality is widely understood as referring to what makes a difference (I would argue in terms of probability) independent of consciousness. So the mind-matter dichotomy is only a distinction in probability of matter. b) Materialism is an ontological monism that sees mind as an emergent form of matter. It is widely felt that consciousness is a strongly emergent domain of the material structures of cognitive processing. As such it is material, but its effect on the rest of matter, including cognitive processing, can be highly improbable. c) Out of ignorance, I assume that "digital" refers to an effect of informed action that improbably shapes matter in a socially useful way. So it seems to me that whoever used the expression had a point in mind that the two words do not adequately convey. Perhaps the point was that the digital world has sufficient "autonomy" to shape human behavior recursively. If so, I'm not sympathetic. In my jaundiced view, "recursion", whether cognitive or otherwise is useful jargon that does not support the philosophically dubious positions it is meant to imply. That is, consciousness can have a highly improbable effect, but not digital technology itself other than as a mediation of consciousness. Haines Brown --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 08:24:09 -0500 From: whitney trettien Subject: Re: 26.654 "digital materiality" In-Reply-To: <20130106073541.ED48EE1A@digitalhumanities.org> If digital materiality is a cute oxymoron, please tell that to the noisy CPU fan that incessantly huffs hot air from my poorly thermoregulated laptop. Try as it might, it can't seem to keep all this digital information cool enough. For me, 'digital materiality' calls to mind Matt Kirschenbaum's distinction between the forensic and formal materiality of computational environments (in *Mechanisms*); the excellent work being done in platform studies and critical code studies, most recently in *10 Print; *trends in media archaeology, especially on the environmental devastation produced by our "information" culture (Jussi Parikka has compiled a helpful list of articles in *Medianatures http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Medianatures *); the archival notion of "digital objects"; and the work of DH-inflected book historians, such as Johanna Drucker or Alan Galey, both of whom have written elegantly on the concept of materiality as it pertains to (electronic, digital) media. I'm not sure how to squeeze this answer into one word or phrase; but then I have a sneaking suspicion the original question was a set-up. : ) A side note: digital humanities has, historically, suffered from its tendency to conflate all aspects of digital culture into an impoverished notion of "electronic information." This has led to a plague of poorly-designed interfaces (a misunderstanding of formal materiality?) and has occluded opportunities for the field to engage with digital technologies as charged with (sometimes troubling) politics, and with deep histories. Thinking through the phrase 'digital materiality' in recent years has helpfully clarified and redirected the field. warm wishes, whitney -------------------- whitneyannetrettien.com @whitneytrettien --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 13:58:55 +0000 From: "Raabe, Wesley" Subject: Re: 26.654 "digital materiality" In-Reply-To: <20130106073541.ED48EE1A@digitalhumanities.org> I do not have one word. But both Lisa Gitelman (_Scripts, Grooves_) and Matthew Kirschenbaum (_Mechanism_) have offered thoughtful provocations on materiality of language. Gitelman is concerned with recorded language in Edison's phonograph. While Kirschenbaum is more directly concerned with materiality of digital media, I think it is fruitful to pair the two because of the emphasis on the human gaze as a marker for the detection of physical materiality. According to Gitelman, the illegibility of recorded language was a key argument for allowing the new phonograph industry to keep for itself royalties that would otherwise have accrued to artists and sheet music publishers. In Congressional testimony for the 1909 Copyright Act, by the Edison Company¹s CEO and patent attorney Frank L. Dyer said, ³Edison himself had once spent many long hours in his laboratory trying to read phonograph records. After recording the letter a, ŒHe examined with a microscope each particular indentation and made a drawing of it, so that at the end of two or three days he had what he thought was a picture of the letter ³a².¹ But when he compared two records of the letter a, he found that Œthe two pictures were absolutely dissimilar¹ ² (Brylawski and Goldman 286). That Edison could not ³read² the groove was critical to Dyer¹s testimony because the debate on the 1909 Copyright Act turned in part on the distinction between reading and writing. Given Edison¹s fruitless gaze at the illegible groove, Dyer ³assured members of Congress that [Edison¹s] phonographic products were not copies of Œwritings¹ because they could not be Œread¹ ² {Gitelman 132}. In our own moment, when digital textuality is prominent, the material traces of inscription on a hard drive are again revealed to be invisible at the level of material reality, and two illustrative figures in Matthew Kirschenbaum¹s Mechanisms offer the reader a chance to gaze Edison-like into the paradoxical materiality at the heart of digital inscriptions. A fundamental property of magnetic media is that ³even data that has been been overwritten continues to resonate as a result of the ongoing oscillation of the physical field² {66}. To illustrate this property, known as hysteresis, Mechanisms includes two graphical figures, which employ magnetic force microscopy to show two images of a computer bit at 4 X .5 microns, one before and one after the data is erased, the latter of which is blurred because it has ³no definite magnetization² but still contains ³imperfectly overwritten² or ³shadow² data {62, 65}. The images illustrate the paradoxical materiality of the digital trace, which Kirschenbaum explains by distinguishing between two types of materiality, forensic and formal. The former, forensic materiality, ³rests upon the principle of individualization [Š] the idea that no two things in the physical world are ever exactly alike² {10}. Digital environments, by contrast, exhibit formal materiality, ³an abstract projection supported and sustained by its capacity to propagate the illusion (or call it a working model) of immaterial behavior: identification without ambiguity, transmission without loss, repetition without originality² {Kirschenbaum 11}. And in a delicious doubling of ironies, not only is the data recorded on the hard drive palimpsestic because ³data recording in magnetic media is finally and fundamentally a forensically individualized process,² Kirschenbaum's illustrative figures for forensic materiality, visible bibliographically in Mechanisms as graphical representations, are not visible in the material world: they are ³invisible to wave length optics even under the most extreme magnification² and are ³not optical magnifications but force-feedback renderings² {66, 67, 68}. So the materiality of the digital trace (like the materiality of linguistic sound groove and the visual trace of matter at the atomic level) is paradox all the way down. Yesterday at MLA session, Mara Mills (NYU) offered an intriguing presentation on history of OCR, and she argued for feedback between identification of blindness as a disability marked by the inability to read printed text and the early 20-C. development of reading machines. Wesley Raabe Kent State University wraabe@kent.edu --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 16:19:02 +0100 From: Ales Vaupotic Subject: Re: 26.654 "digital materiality" In-Reply-To: <20130106073541.ED48EE1A@digitalhumanities.org> I think that "digital materiality" could be construed as conceptually close to Foucault's materialism of discourse, e.g. (from L’ordre du discours --- http://www.scribd.com/doc/32347244/Michel-Foucault-L-Ordre-Du-Discours) "Disons que la philosophie de l'événement devrait s'avancer dans la direction paradoxale aupremier regard d'un matérialisme de l'incorporel." All the best wishes Aleš Vaupotič --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 16:41:53 +0000 From: "James O'Sullivan" Subject: Re: 26.654 "digital materiality" In-Reply-To: <20130106073541.ED48EE1A@digitalhumanities.org> Sincerest thanks to all for your replies. In response to Professor McCarty, I would agree that hardware is clearly material. Software is perhaps more problematic considerig its ephemeral state of being. Yet to deny the power that software holds over the senses would be a mistake – if materiality is that which gives something presence, defines it as an object of being, simply a “thing” that exists, doing so by governing our senses and drawing personal and individualised responses to that upon which our attention is focused, surely a digital manifestation may be considered material? If the codex and the iPad are material, why not the operating system? In this sense, we see how digital constructs also satisfy the practical instantiation definition of materiality, and why it is that they hold such significance in relation to what we might perceive as materiality. Matt Kirschenbaum offers a convincing summary of all that might be discussed on this matter: “platform, interface, data standards, file formats, operating systems, versions and distributions of code, patches, ports, and so forth,” he says, is precisely “the stuff electronic texts are made of” (Kirschenbaum 2001). If I was to offer my own definition, it might go something like this: digital materiality refers to those components, both hardware and software, which interact within themselves and with the senses of their users to achieve the semantic purpose of digital constructs and artistry. Best regards, James -- *James O'Sullivan * @jamescosullivan http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan ** Web: josullivan.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan Facebook: http://facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan New Binary Press: http://newbinarypress.com/ OpenDAHT: http://opendaht.org/ Submit to *The Weary Blues*: http://thewearyblues.org/submit.html --[7]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 05:07:18 +0000 From: Stanislav Roudavski Subject: RE: 26.654 "digital materiality" In-Reply-To: <20130106073541.ED48EE1A@digitalhumanities.org> Maybe "assemblage theory"? --- Beyond this official answer to the original post, "emergent materiality" also comes to mind. Both are in discussion in design and architecture. Here is my paper that is concerned with the latter. http://www.academia.edu/2368574/Emergent_Materiality_though_an_Embedded_Multi-Agent_System I was also impressed to encounter such a radical position on language purity: "if I adore the cleverness or elegance of an expression, then it must go". Should this type of action also be outlawed as "clever" and "elegant" by this line of reasoning? Can actions be oxymoronic? :) For a contrasting attitude towards academic writing, have a look at my paper on this subject (not only in architecture and design, see its references) here: http://www.academia.edu/455074/Transparency_or_Drama_Extending_the_Range_of_Academic_Writing_in_Architecture_and_Design Hope this is of interest, Stanislav --- Dr Stanislav Roudavski Senior Lecturer in Digital Architectural Design, Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia stanislav.roudavski@cantab.net http://stanislavroudavski.net/ http://elsewarecollective.com/ +61 (3) 8344 3360 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7AA19ED0; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 07:05:16 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22BA2EA9; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 07:05:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1E15CE69; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 07:05:13 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130107060513.1E15CE69@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 07:05:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.656 events: big data & arts; publishing; play X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 656. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Panayiota Polydoratou (85) Subject: Deadline extension - Elpub 2013 final CfP [2] From: Theadora Mills (53) Subject: Reminder: CFP Politics of Play Deadline Jan 15 [3] From: Doug Reside (47) Subject: CFP: Big Data and the Performing Arts --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:15:10 +0200 From: Panayiota Polydoratou Subject: Deadline extension - Elpub 2013 final CfP Since a few days back we have received several inquiries about moving the submission deadline for the Elpub 2013 conference. In order to comply with this request we have decided to move the deadline a few days forward to the 20^th of January. We hope this will give everybody sufficient time to complete papers for submission. Best Regards, Panayiota Polydoratou, Program Committee Chair *Call for Papers* *17th International Conference on Electronic Publishing **/Mining the Digital Information Networks/* June 13-14, 2013, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden The main theme of the /17th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB, http://www.elpub.net)/ will be extracting and processing data from the vast wealth of digital publishing and the ways to use and reuse this information in innovative social contexts in a sustainable way. We will bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss data mining, digital publishing and social networks along with their implications for scholarly communication, information services, e-learning, e-businesses, the cultural heritage sector and other areas where electronic publishing is imperative. Electronic publishing is continuously changing, inviting new actors and challenging traditional players. New technologies open new ways for individuals, scholars, communities and networks to establish contacts, exchange data, produce information, share knowledge in a large variety of devices, from personal computers to mobile media. There is an urgent need to rethink electronic publishing, in order to develop and use new communication paradigms and technologies. It is a matter of transforming and transmitting information not just into an equivalent of paper but to develop a truly digital format, to allow machine processing and new services, and to face the future of mobile life. The /ELPUB 2013/ conference will focus on key issues concerning the development of methods for gathering and processing information and on the means for making these data useful and accessible for the digital community. To address those questions we need competence and knowledge from many different fields. We welcome submissions from members of the communities whose research is transforming the nature of electronic publishing and scholarly communication. Topics include: *Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery* --Text Mining (Natural language processing, text harvesting, dynamic formatting) --Open Data, Open Linked Data (Solutions, methods, tools) --Web Mining (Knowledge discovery in web documents) ----Association Mining (Knowledge linking, discovery, presentation) ----Information Retrieval (Content search, analysis and retrieval) ----Visualization (Clustering, Graphs, Augmented reality) --Stream Mining (Video tagging, Audiobook tagging) *Publishing and Access* --New publishing models (Business models, tools, services and roles) --Open access (Publishing solutions, mandates, recommendations) --Mobile information services (e-contents, e-books, etc.) --Interoperability (Scalability and middleware infrastructure) --Legal issues (Security, privacy and copyright issues) --Digital preservation (Cultural heritage, content authentication) --Semantic web (Metadata, information granularity, digital objects) --Digital library (Repositories, services, future) *Online Social Networks* --New digital media (user studies, innovative publishing) --User interfaces (Multilingual and multimodal interfaces, User generated contents) --Specific user communities (Services and technology, media and content) --Personalization technologies (e.g. social tagging, folksonomies, RSS) --Social interaction analysis (Author collaboration trends, publication trends) --Security, Privacy and Integrity (Online ethics, Privacy policies, Online censorship) --Network analysis (Modelling and visualization of science networks) --Ubiquitous computing (Mobile and social network interactions, RFID book tagging) *Contributions are Invited for the Following Categories:* --Full Research Papers (max: 10 pages) --Full Professional Papers (max: 10 pages) --Extended Abstracts (max: 1,500 words) *Important Dates* --September 10, 2012 Submission Site Open --January 20, 2013 Submission Deadline (time: 11:59 pm, PST) --March 1, 2013 Author Decision Notification --March 15, 2013 Submission of Camera-Ready Manuscripts --June 13-14, 2013 Conference Date See website for all details: http://www.elpub.net http://www.elpub.net/ Join our community at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Elpub-Conference/255715494465396 Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/ElpubConf http://twitter.com/#%21/ElpubConf LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Elpub-Conference-4170564?home&gid=4170564&trk=anet_ug_hm --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 11:26:13 -0500 From: Theadora Mills Subject: Reminder: CFP Politics of Play Deadline Jan 15 *Call for Papers: Intersections/Cross-Sections Conference Politics of Play* *Submission Deadline: January 15, 2013* *Conference Date: March 23, 2012* The York and Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture is excited to announce an open call to graduate students to submit research presentations, workshops and artworks for Intersections/Cross-Sections 2013: Politics of Play. This one-day Symposium and Art Exhibition will focus around the critical examination of the concept of play, approached from a variety of perspectives. With an interdisciplinary lens focused on intersections between politics and play cultures, the 2013 edition of Intersections will feature a relaxed, playful and interactive atmosphere where graduate students can engage in dialogue about their research, present workshops and exhibit artworks. “Play is the primary formative element in human culture” - Johan Hunzinga. Parallel to the rise of digital game culture, scholarly investigations of politics, economics, artistic practice, pedagogy, and media representation have drawn from the metaphor of play. In order to facilitate interdisciplinary investigation, the Communication and Culture Graduate Student Association would like to invite graduate students to submit research presentations, workshops, and artworks exploring the concept. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, politics, art & literature, technology, geography, pedagogy, activism, science & nature, digital media, entertainment, popular culture, game studies, performance, history, linguistics, political economy, fan & participatory cultures, architecture, sport &leisure, and more. In order to foster lively dialogue, we invite proposals from any discipline. Questions we will focus on include but are not limited to: How do conceptions of play change, adapt and inform social, cultural and political practice? How does IP regulate, sanction, and create new forms of play? How does play articulate itself through nationalism? Does play facilitate change through resistance cultures? How does play facilitate different types of learning? Our Symposium and Exhibition will take place on March 23rd, 2013 at Bento Miso, a collaborative workspace in Toronto's Queen West district. * * *Submission Guidelines: *Artworks spanning print, new media, video, audio, games, and performance will be considered. We encourage interactive game-oriented artworks. * Maximum Presentation Abstract Length -- 300 words. * Maximum Length for Workshop Proposals – 500 Words. * Artworks – 500 word description, plus links to video documentation and / or maximum of 5 images. (all artwork submissions must include the artwork submission form found at http://intersections2013.wordpress.com) *For more information and updates on the Symposium: * http://intersections2013.wordpress.com *Please send submissions to:* politicsofplay2013@gmail.com *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1357489922_2013-01-06_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_17302.3.pdf http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1357489922_2013-01-06_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_17302.2.pdf --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 22:25:36 -0500 From: Doug Reside Subject: CFP: Big Data and the Performing Arts I hope that some on this list may be interested in submitting a proposal. -- http://www.tla-online.org/events/conferences/tlaplenarycfp.html BIG DATA AND THE PERFORMING ARTS The emergence of large digitized collections of humanities resources has made it possible to meaningfully address research questions that previously would have taken many lifetimes to answer. However, theater historians have undertaken relatively little of this kind of work. Despite large datasets of digitized theater reviews, industry news, and production information [cast lists in Playbill Vault or Internet Broadway Database], theater scholars have by and large continued to do close readings of texts and events – and have not yet attempted what Franco Moretti has called distant reading: analyzing not one small set of texts, but an entire corpus of digitized data. Some primary examples of large digitized datasets include the Google Books corpus leading to the Google N-Grams viewer, which allows researchers to trace the frequency of words and phrases over two centuries of printed text. An MIT project is currently mining repositories of digitized sheet music to uncover patterns in chords and melodic motions over time. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University of Toronto are tracking articles in historical newspapers published during the Influenza outbreak of 1918 in order "to understand how newspapers shaped public opinion and represented authoritative knowledge during this deadly Pandemic." These projects employ methods similar to those developed for research in the sciences in order to expand our understanding of topics of primary interest to humanities scholars. This field is ripe for exploration. Possible Plenary themes may include: Thought experiments designed to provoke project proposals Narratives describing completed or in-progress research Analysis of the existing digitized corpus of possible interest to theater scholars Critiques of the assumptions and methodologies of Big Data research in the arts and humanities Applications of cultural data in instruction Libraries' role in access, storage, and distribution Participants may wish to examine Franco Moretti's book, Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History, as well as the Digging into Data funding program website [sponsored by numerous international granting bodies]: http://www.diggingintodata.org/Home/AwardRecipients2011/tabid/185/Default.aspx Please submit a one-page Proposal as an e-mail attachment by February 15, 2013 to: Doug Reside, TLA Plenary Chair Digital Curator of the Performing Arts New York Public Library for the Performing Arts _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 66087ED8; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 07:06:16 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B06CAE89; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 07:06:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EAB1FE71; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 07:06:13 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130107060613.EAB1FE71@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 07:06:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.657 pubs: Journal of Digital Culture & Electronic Scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 657. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 00:23:03 +0000 From: "Journal of Digital Culture & Electronic Scholarship" Subject: CFP: Journal of Digital Culture and Electronic Scholarship The *Journal of Digital Culture and Electronic Scholarship* welcomes submissions of scholarly articles between 5,000 – 8,000 words in length. Well researched and appropriately referenced positional papers will also be considered. Shorter 2,000 – 4000 word articles with a focus on methodologies, experimentation, development, digital project description or review, as well as other more technical subject matters, are eligible for consideration. 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It is offered in both print and electronic formats, the latter as open access. http://jdces.org/ Sincerest thanks. -- *Journal of Digital Culture and Electronic Scholarship* http://jdces.org Twitter: @jdces_updates http://twitter.com/jdces_updates _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C752BE46; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 07:59:29 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A6B0E0B; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 07:59:29 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 50A16E08; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 07:59:27 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130108065927.50A16E08@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 07:59:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.658 "digital materiality" X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 658. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Simpson, Grant Leyton" (4) Subject: RE: 26.654 "digital materiality" [2] From: Maureen Guarcello (111) Subject: Re: 26.654 "digital materiality" --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 13:33:21 +0000 From: "Simpson, Grant Leyton" Subject: RE: 26.654 "digital materiality" In-Reply-To: <20130106073541.ED48EE1A@digitalhumanities.org> I'm puzzled that Willard and Brad jump to "oxymoron" as the word that comes to mind. For me, the word is "Kirschenbaum." Matt's wonderful book _Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination_ does a wonderful job demonstrating exactly why we should regard "digital" as a form of material. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 09:11:57 -0800 From: Maureen Guarcello Subject: Re: 26.654 "digital materiality" In-Reply-To: <20130106073541.ED48EE1A@digitalhumanities.org> Good day all, James, this is a difficult question because fully operationalizing the term could limit future possibilities within the digital disciplines. However, my research and inclination (with the heavy influences of Matthew Kirschenbaum and Isaac Asimov's works) is that digital materiality is us; the human component required to keep the digital work consistent, accurate in form and function, and to preserve and develop the instruments, both physical and immaterial, to continue the work. In short, digital materiality constitutes the human element. My best, Maureen -- Maureen Guarcello Doctoral Graduate Assistant Department of Leadership Studies University of San Diego 619-260-4600, extension 2120 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5AD0CE38; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:00:26 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E29E15; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:00:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 783DAE08; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:00:22 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130108070022.783DAE08@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:00:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.659 XML &c X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 659. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 15:47:31 +1100 From: Nick Thieberger Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.651 XML &c I don't particularly care about the epistemology of markup or anti-markup. As a researcher who has 23,000 pages of manuscript images to deal with I would happily use whatever system (inline or stand-off) works best and has tools associated with it. My initial work is encoding sufficient of the text to make it discoverable and tractable, and I am using TEI XML because I understand how to do that and there is some support. If a standoff tool can do the same I would use it. I have tried using Catma and it is not that tool. I'm confident that the XML that apparently clutters up the text can be extracted any time I want and converted to stand-off markup should the day arrive when it seems useful to do that. So I invite suggestions about how to deal with a collection of manuscript images and their textual versions that is not XML and that works now. Thanks, Nick Thieberger _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A5C94E8B; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:03:41 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69323E4A; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:03:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BFD9CE0B; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:03:37 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130108070337.BFD9CE0B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:03:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.660 postdocs at Nanyang; studentships at Hull; job at Northeastern X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 660. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (40) Subject: PhD Scholarships at the University of Hull [2] From: Arianna Ciula (9) Subject: Nanyang Technological University of Singapore: postdoctoral fellowships in DH [3] From: Ryan Cordell (52) Subject: Job: Digital Humanities or Computational Social Science --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 12:51:07 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: PhD Scholarships at the University of Hull > From: Toni Sant > > Date: 3 January 2013 10:30:43 GMT > To: > > Subject: PhD Scholarships at the University of Hull > Reply-To: "International (Digital) Curation Education" > > > > The University of Hull's Graduate School is offering a number of Postgraduate Scholarships, which include options related to the Media & Memory Research Initiative (MaMRI) http://www.hull.ac.uk/mamri through the School of Arts & New Media on the University's Scarborough Campus, within the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences. > > The two main areas related to MaMRI's aims are: > > * Digital Archiving and Heritage > * Digital Media and Memory Studies > > In essence, we are looking for proposals related to the following areas of supervisory expertise: > > * Technologies of Memory > * Technologies of Collaboration (especially wikis and blogs) > * Mediated Memory Storage, Dissemination and Analysis > * Archiving Variable Media and/or Digital Data > * Histories of Electronic Media Technology > * Digital Curation > > Potential applicants in these areas are encouraged to contact Dr Toni Sant to discuss the suitability of their research proposal ahead of application submission. > > The closing date for ALL applications is 11th January 2013. > > Further details, including online application form, available from the MaMRi website at http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/mamri/scholarships2013.aspx > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > Dr Toni Sant > Director of Research > > School of Arts and New Media > University of Hull - Scarborough Campus > Filey Road, Scarborough - YO11 3AZ > > http://www.hull.ac.uk/mamri --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 11:27:40 +0800 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: Nanyang Technological University of Singapore: postdoctoral fellowships in DH Dear colleagues, The Nanyang Technological University of Singapore is promoting postdoctoral fellowships in Digital Humanities (rather specific areas but open to interpretation). See the call available at http://humanities.academickeys.com/seeker_job_display.php?dothis=display&job[IDX]=42965-HU130107w-6e&oid=787333 Deadline: 1st of March 2013 Best, Arianna Ciula --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:22:29 -0500 From: Ryan Cordell Subject: Job: Digital Humanities or Computational Social Science In-Reply-To: <50EB9713.6060005@gmail.com> [NB applications are still being accepted. --WM] Northeastern University, Boston, MA Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Digital Humanities https://neu.peopleadmin.com/postings/22578 *Division/College:*College of Social Sciences and Humanities *FT/PT:*Full Time *Position Summary:* Northeastern University invites applications and nominations at all ranks (Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor) for a cluster of faculty positions in fields encompassed by the Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science. We define the range of relevant disciplines broadly to include study in the humanities or human behavior and developing computational methods applied to these domains. In association with a new multidisciplinary center, the NUlab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, this cluster hire builds on NortheasternÂ’s national prominence in the digital humanities, computational social science, and network science. At the core of NUlab lies new collaborative work across disciplines in the era of big data, digitized texts, visualization, and social media. The premise of the lab is that both the humanities and the social sciences are at the beginning of a paradigm shift driven by the opportunities offered by emerging corpora of large-scale data coupled with enormous computational power. We welcome applications from faculty engaged in research areas and technologies including (but not limited to) geographic information systems, text mining, topic modeling, network analysis, natural language processing, machine learning, gaming, new media, digital curation, and data visualization and design. Cross-disciplinary and cross-college appointments are possible. *Qualifications:* PhD required by August 28, 2013. *Additional Information:* To apply visit the College of Social Sciences and Humanities website at:http://www.northeastern.edu/cssh/and click on the Faculty Positions button. Applicants should be prepared to attach a letter of interest, a statement on teaching, a CV, a statement of current and future research plans, and a writing sample of no more than fifty pages. Candidates should also be prepared to enter information, including an e-mail address, for three references. For those individuals who are using a dossier or folio service, please indicate the names of the three references but enter the e-mail address of the folio service for each reference. Inquiries and nominations may be directed to Professor Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (E.Dillon@neu.edu) or Professor David Lazer (d.lazer@neu.edu). Review of applications will begin December 10, 2012, but the search will remain open until all positions are filled. To be considered for this position please visit our web site and apply on line at the following link:Careers@Northeastern http://apptrkr.com/304646 Northeastern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Educational Institution and Employer, Title IX University. Northeastern University particularly welcomes applications from minorities, women and persons with disabilities. Northeastern University is an E-Verify Employer. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D3666EB6; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:08:40 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBA6DE46; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:08:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A704AE0B; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:08:37 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130108070837.A704AE0B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:08:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.661 events: sound; TEI; arts funding X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 661. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (23) Subject: Digital R&D Fund for the Arts Collaborative Workshop [2] From: Julia Flanders (22) Subject: call for participation: Taking TEI Further workshops in 2013 [3] From: Tanya Clement (55) Subject: HiPSTAS CFP deadline extended to February 1 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 13:09:56 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Digital R&D Fund for the Arts Collaborative Workshop The Digital R&D Fund for the Arts is a £7 million fund to support collaboration between organisations with arts projects, technology providers, and researchers. Full details can be found on thewebsite. We are looking for projects that use digital technology to enhance audience reach and/or develop new business models for the arts sector. With a dedicated researcher or research team as part of the three-way collaboration, learning from the project can be captured and disseminated to the wider arts sector. We are hosting a collaborative workshop to help organisations develop their projects further and for researchers to network and meet potential project partners. The workshop will be held on the 30th January 2013 at Nesta, 1 Plough Place, London. Please email digital-rnd@nesta.org.uk if you are interested in attending this collaborative workshop. Please note: the workshops are not mandatory and you can still submit an application to the Fund without attending one. Please refer to the necessary eligibility criteria for applicants and partners for the Fund. If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to get in contact. Many thanks, Heather Williams Knowledge Exchange Relationship Manager Tel: 01793 41 6041Email: h.williams@ahrc.ac.uk Arts and Humanities Research Council | Polaris House | North Star Avenue | Swindon | SN2 1UJ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 12:33:22 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: call for participation: Taking TEI Further workshops in 2013 The Brown University Women Writers Project is now accepting applications for our next round of three advanced NEH-funded institutes on "Taking TEI Further": Taking TEI Further: TEI Customization Brown University, May 8-10, 2013 Guest instructor: Trevor Muñoz, University of Maryland Application deadline: February 15, 2013 Taking TEI Further: Teaching with TEI Brown University, August 21-23, 2013 Guest instructor: Jacqueline Wernimont, Scripps College Application deadline: June 1, 2013 Taking TEI Further: Publishing and Transforming TEI Data Brown University, December 11-13, 2013 Guest instructor: David Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh Application deadline: September 1, 2013 **Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant, up to $1000 for graduate student participants.** These seminars assume a basic familiarity with TEI, and provide an opportunity to explore specific topics in more detail, in a collaborative workshop setting. 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 share information about their projects with 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). A basic knowledge of the TEI Guidelines and some prior experience with text encoding will be assumed. For more detailed information and to apply, please visit http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/seminars/ Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Brown University --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 20:43:22 -0500 From: Tanya Clement Subject: HiPSTAS CFP deadline extended to February 1 High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship Deadline: EXTENDED to February 1, 2013 http://blogs.ischool.utexas.edu/hipstas/cfp/ The HiPSTAS project invites applications for its 2013 NEH-funded Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities. At the first four-day meeting (“A-Side”), held at the iSchool at UT May 29 – June 1, 2013, participants will be introduced to essential issues that archivists, librarians, humanities scholars, and computer scientists and technologists face in understanding the nature of digital sound scholarship and the possibilities of building an infrastructure for enabling such scholarship. At this first meeting, participants will be introduced to advanced computational analytics such as clustering, classification, and visualizations. We encourage a diverse range of librarians, archivists, scholars (including graduate students), and cultural heritage professionals from all types of institutions, disciplinary backgrounds, and expertise, who are interested in working with sound collections and technologies to apply. Members of the American Indian community, in particular, are strongly urged to apply. About the project: Librarians and archivists need to know what scholars and students want to do with sound artifacts in order to make these collections more accessible; as well, scholars and students need to know what kinds of analysis are possible in an age of large, freely available collections and advanced computational analysis and visualization. To this end, the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin and the Illinois Informatics Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have received an NEH Institutes in Advanced Technologies in the Digital Humanities grant to host two rounds of an NEH Institute on High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship (HiPSTAS). Humanists interested in sound scholarship, stewards of sound collections, and computer scientists and technologists versed in computational analytics and visualizations of sound will develop more productive tools for advancing scholarship in spoken text audio if they learn together about current practices, if together they create new scholarship, and if they consider the needs, resources, and possibilities of developing a digital infrastructure for the study of sound together. HiPSTAS participants will include 20 humanities junior and senior faculty and advanced graduate students as well as librarians and archivists from across the U.S. interested in developing and using new technologies to access and analyze spoken word recordings within audio collections. The collections we will make available for participants include poetry from PennSound at the University of Pennsylvania, folklore from the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at UT Austin, speeches from the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Presidential Museum in Austin, and storytelling from the Native American Projects (NAP) at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. Sound archivists from UT at Austin, computer scientists and technology developers from I3 at Illinois, and representatives from each of the participating collections will come together for the HiPSTAS Institute to discuss the collections, the work that researchers already do with audio cultural artifacts, and the work HiPSTAS participants can do with advanced computational analysis of sounds. For more about the project: http://blogs.ischool.utexas.edu/hipstas/ Tanya ClementAssistant Professor, School of Information University of Texas, Austin tclement@ischool.utexas.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7735AE54; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:10:46 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60DD5E08; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:10:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3AD9EE08; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:10:44 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130108071044.3AD9EE08@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:10:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.662 pubs: Journal of Scholarly Publishing 44.2 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="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. 662. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 16:39:04 +0000 From: UTP Journals Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing 44. 2, January 2013 Now available online… Journal of Scholarly Publishing Volume 44, Number 2, January 2013 http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/r2770810247r/ This issue contains: Stakeholders, Service, and the Future of University Press Publishing Richard Brown Stakeholder theory is a useful framework for understanding any industry, and I contend that university presses should focus their energies and attention on managing stakeholders and creating value for stakeholders. But while this focus is necessary, it is not sufficient. I propose that a commitment to service through entrepreneurship underlies university press relationships with primary stakeholders. University presses should therefore (a) strategically seek the widest possible access for value-added content through (b) creative delivery channels in order to help scholarly communities of practice advance their teaching, learning, and research. This will, I hope, (d) result in sufficient revenue to allow the organization to grow and flourish (e) in order to serve communities of practice and the academy and society more effectively. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/l138h3514m482712/?p=5f62d5838e0245358a36f51164004e06&pi=0 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44.2.001 The Wisconsin Magazine of History: A Case Study in Scholarly and Popular Approaches to American State Historical Society Publishing, 1917–2000 Ryan Schumacher This article examines the history of American historical societies by focusing on the Wisconsin Magazine of History (WMH), published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (now known as the Wisconsin Historical Society). The first half of the paper relates the history of American state historical societies and their publishing ventures until the founding of the WMH in 1917. The first American state historical societies were private organizations of elite men, and their publications were meant to notify similar organizations of their proceedings. The advent of public state historical organizations opened membership to a much broader segment of society, but the professionalization of the study of history in the late nineteenth century brought about a more rigorous approach to the writing of history. Throughout the twentieth century, the SHSW and similar organizations have sought to balance an appeal to a broad public and a scholarly approach to history in publications such as the WMH. By examining issues of the WMH from 1917 to 2000, as the author has done in the second half of the paper, one can see how the publication, with audiences clearly in mind, tilted toward one side of this balance or the other in its design and content. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/l358331540664ug5/?p=5f62d5838e0245358a36f51164004e06&pi=1 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44.2.002 What Makes a Working Paper in Economics Publishable? A Tale from the Scientific Periphery Aurora A. C. Teixeira Research on scientific production and publications in the field of economics has positively boomed in the last few years. However, hardly any attention has been dedicated to the production of working papers and the consequences they may have within the institutions where they are produced. This paper provides a detailed analysis of the working papers produced and published from an institution that is relatively peripheral in terms of its production of research in economics. It mainly explores the probability of the working papers being published in peer-reviewed journals. Through the use of an extensive series of these working papers, produced between 1985 and the end of 2005, and through the estimation of a logistic regression model, it was concluded that the probability of international publication increases significantly when the working paper is recent and co-written with a researcher from a foreign institution. Such evidence suggests that for success in the ‘publish or perish’ world of scientific research, one has to be integrated into an international scientific network. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/lt34q26147776727/?p=5f62d5838e0245358a36f51164004e06&pi=2 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44.2.003 Caveat Publicatur William W. Savage, Jr. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/l1868732k712762x/?p=5f62d5838e0245358a36f51164004e06&pi=3 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44.2.004 Book Reviews G. 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Gump http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/l3233485827167j6/?p=5f62d5838e0245358a36f51164004e06&pi=4 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44.2.170 Remembering Morris Philipson http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/l63q38304u48n713/?p=5f62d5838e0245358a36f51164004e06&pi=5 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44.2.007 The Consequences of a Life in Scholarly Publishing* Morris Philipson There is a set of values and goals that endures in scholarly publishing through the vagaries of format innovations, changing market conditions, and shifting intellectual fashions: a commitment to the idea of ideas; dedication to the essentials of communication, even at the price of hiding our part as publishers in the equation; and an appreciation of the power of transforming thought. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (69) Subject: Re: 26.658 "digital materiality" [2] From: Adrian Miles (13) Subject: Re: 26.655 "digital materiality" [3] From: Willard McCarty (39) Subject: digital materiality [4] From: Matthew Kirschenbaum (84) Subject: Re: 26.658 "digital materiality" [5] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (14) Subject: digital materiality and decay [6] From: drwender@aol.com (61) Subject: Re: 26.652 "digital materiality"? [7] From: Jean-François_Blanchette (61) Subject: Re: 26.658 "digital materiality" --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 09:52:51 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Re: 26.658 "digital materiality" In-Reply-To: <20130108065927.50A16E08@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, In respect of the 'digital materiality' discussion, certainly Matthew Kirschenbaum laid to rest the idea that the digital is in some respects ethereal, incorporeal and ephemeral, and I would endorse all those who have drawn attention to the fundamental correctives offered by Matt. Isn't the next question, then, how has this view of the digital as in some way incorporeal and elusive taken such a strong hold? Possibly it is partly because we tend to think of the bit as a mysterious invisible object, rather than as a unit off measurement (we don't seem to have quite the same problem with electricity, possibly because it will bite us if we aren't careful with it). But probably an even more important reason why we see the digital as immaterial is the way in which users are kept remote from the physical aspects. Whenever you go into a server room, there can be no doubt about the materiality of the digital, often with the material lying in pieces on the floor. But we rarely go into server rooms, they are often quite distant and when things go wrong it often seems very mysterious as to why. The way in which computing service managers keep things at a distance adds to the mystery of the whole thing for many academic users. Although the materiality of the digital daily becomes more evident with our obsession with new devices of all types continues to grow, I fear this mysterious aspect of the digital is likely to take a greater hold of our imagination over the next few years, with the growth of the cloud. To users the cloud will seem remote and mysterious, but of course the cloud has a very substantial material presence, such as Apple's huge 500,000 square foot data centre in Maiden, North Carolina. The physical impact of these data centres is very considerable - Greenpeace for example has been very critical of Apple for taking vast quantities of electricity for its Maiden facility from a local grid supplied by coal and gas-fired power stations: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/07/13/greenpeace-apple-strange-math/ The Greenpeace Report, 'How Dirty is Your Data', describes the deceptive immateriality of the digital very well: "This societal shift to moving 1s and 0s instead of atoms and mass has the potential to significantly reduce our footprint on the planet and achieve a more sustainable model for housing the soon-to-be 7 billion neighbours we share it with. However, since the ‘cloud’ allows our digital consumption to be largely invisible, arriving magically with the tap of the ‘refresh’ button in our inboxes or onto our smartphones and tablets for immediate access, we may fail to recognise that the information we receive actually devours more and more electricity as our digital lives grow. The data centres that house this explosion of digital information currently consume more than 3% of US electricity, and approximately 1.5% to 2% of global electricity, growing at a rate of approximately 12% annually.4 Electronic devices account for 15% of home electricity use, and are predicted to triple by 2030, equivalent to the electricity demand of the US and Japan residential market combined".. The Greenpeace Report is available here: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/publications/reports/How-dirty-is-your-data/ 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 21:13:48 +1100 From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 26.655 "digital materiality" In-Reply-To: <20130107060135.62863E54@digitalhumanities.org> hi all A simple example I use with undergraduates. In a lecture I ask "What rhymes with shop and you buy at the butchers?" Someone answer's "chop". I repeat this until the whole room replies with "chop", I then ask "what do you do at a green light?" And the room replies "stop". Most have no awareness of the error until I point out that they would have failed their driving test. The point? That there is a material facet to language that is present, easily able to disrupt logic, reason, the rationale, that it has its own pleasures of the body (it can be carnal and corporeal) and its own resistances. After all only some things rhyme with each other, intonation can fundamentally change meaning, and as Derrida in Limited Inc demonstrated, even accurate quotation is no guarantor of the integrity or sovereignty of reason. (Or I could use Kristeva and her notion of the chora as a way to think about a materiality outside of the rational.) These material aspects have qualities and they push back, offer resistance on their own terms (it is not my decision to not write with my biro on my window, I might think it is but that's just foolishness, the inability of ink to stick to glass has already decided 'my' decision for me so it just seems like I've decided that I'll write on my school desk instead of the school window). In many ways it is what it means to be an artist in any medium, to live with the materiality of your medium so you learn how to listen to it. In relation to the digital a quick list of its materiality? The materiality of code, the screen, pixels, the affordances of code, mouse, interaction, screen. The tactility of each. Bandwidth, perhaps the biggest materiality of all. It can also be glitch, it can also be the specific systematic modes of thinking that geeks internalise, or have already have which is why we are geeks, that is then not recognised as deeply informing what is done but is also deeply part of the materiality of the digital. ("Of course you can't make that red, you haven't selected anything yet!") So for me it is definitely not an oxymoron, if only literally as I ponder the carbon footprint of Google. -- an appropriate closing Adrian Miles Program Director Bachelor of Media and Communication (Honours) RMIT University - www.rmit.edu.au http://vogmae.net.au/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:03:43 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: digital materiality In-Reply-To: <20130107060135.62863E54@digitalhumanities.org> Perhaps "information" has lost through use the problematic edge it has had as the name of the abstract essence which, during the Information Age, we were seeing absolutely everywhere. The linguist Geoffrey Nunberg, in "Farewell to the Information Age" (note the title! read the paper at people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nunberg/farewell.pdf), described it in the abstract meaning it then had acquired as > a term that incorporates assumptions of nobility and transferability > in its meaning, so that it seems foregone that content will be > preserved intact when its material and social supports are stripped > away... [It is] indifferent not just to the medium it resides in but also to > the kind of representation it embodies... Would it be correct to say that having moved far away from the knowledge Shannon and Weaver had, of how "information" could be transmitted and faithfully received by cleverly designed, emphastically physical equipment, or having grown up in the Information Age, we at one time came to believe in the reality of this transcendent ghost? Matt Kirschenbaum's book and much else besides (e.g. the developments in philosophy reflected by Andy Clark's Supersizing the Mind) have done much to concretize the look and feel of what after all is not a ghost. This is at least where my take on "digital materiality" got its oxymoronic, metaphorical flavour. But let me ask this back: if "digital" in this conjunction has no taste of that flavour any more, thanks to Matt et al, why are we making such a big deal of it? To be prosaic aren't we saying that *in a sense* the digital is material? Isn't the subject here what that sense is? Wouldn't it be a great loss if we could only see Babbage's machine as a big PC with a limited range of functions? Or Turing's machine as a mathematical specification that filtered through McCulloch's and Pitt's model of the brain became the basis for von Neumann's abstract description of that PC? 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, 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, 8 Jan 2013 08:32:02 -0500 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 26.658 "digital materiality" In-Reply-To: <20130108065927.50A16E08@digitalhumanities.org> For me the word that comes to mind is *human.* That's because computers, like all technologies, are the artifacts of human endeavor. Because we live in a fallen world, these artifacts are inevitably and invariably material. The specific argument I put forward in Mechanisms is that computers are material technologies built and engineered (indeed, exquisitely so) to propagate an illusion, or working model, of immateriality. Thus the fan Whitney mentions, dissipating the heat of the circuits. My own work in this area is heavily influenced by Johanna Drucker and Jerome McGann, who taught me to think about the importance of materiality in *all* textual production. Kate Hayles has written a book called Writing Machines that does much the same. The more recent influx of work associated with the Media Archaeology movement in Germany, as well as developments such as platform studies (mentioned by Erik) and software studies in the US has continued to the conversation (see MIT Press catalog's especially). For Media Archaeology, Jussi Parikka's recent book of the same name is the place to start, and a volume of Wolfgang Ernst's writings, Digital Memory and the Archive, has just been translated into English and published by Minnesota. There is an enormous amount of important and serious and longstanding work in this area. It certainly shouldn't be subjected to ridicule in a serious academic seminar or treated with throwaway comments like "oxymoronic." Best, Matt -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://mkirschenbaum.net and @mkirschenbaum on Twitter Track Changes tumblr: http://trackchangesbook.tumblr.com/ --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:46:46 -0500 (EST) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: digital materiality and decay In-Reply-To: <20130108065927.50A16E08@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, The thread on digital decay reminds me of a snippet I read recently in the Globe and Mail. Quebec is touting its cool climate, plentiful water supply, relatively cheap, clean and reliable electricity supply and attractive high-tech talent pool as reasons that make the province the ideal place for the high-heat generating, energy-hungry data warehouses. If we are prone to the apocalyptic mode we are liable to see in such plugs memento mori. And shudder at possible power cuts. Francois Lachance Scholar-at-large http://berneval.blogspot.ca --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:49:23 -0500 (EST) From: drwender@aol.com Subject: Re: 26.652 "digital materiality"? In-Reply-To: <20130105073146.625CEE05@digitalhumanities.org> Hearing the news 1 hour ago (dradio.de 13:^8 MEZ) James O'Sullivan's question resp. this thread came to mind: "digitale Buschbrände" (digital wildfires) was identified as one of the global risks in WEF's today published study to discuss on WEF's meeting in the end of january. After a more or lesss difficult search now I can cite from the report a nice example for another kind of 'digital materialty': "When a musician travelling on United Airlines had his claim for damages denied on a guitar that baggage handlers had allegedly broken, he wrote and performed a song – “United Breaks Guitars” – and uploaded it to YouTube, where it has been viewed more than 12 million times. As the video went viral, United Airlines stock dropped by about 10%, costing shareholders about US$ 180 million." [http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2013/risk-case-1/digital-wildfires-in-a-hyperconnected-world/ Cheers, hw --[7]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 13:07:15 -0800 From: Jean-François_Blanchette Subject: Re: 26.658 "digital materiality" In-Reply-To: <20130108065927.50A16E08@digitalhumanities.org> I am similarly puzzled by the opposition between the digital and the material. Indeed, one might ask, if the digital isn't material, what can it possibly consist of? With apologies for self-promotion, Johanna Drucker, Matt Kirschenbaum, and I debated the issue in a panel on "New Models of Digital Materialities at DH11: http://dh2011abstracts.stanford.edu/xtf/view?docId=tei/ab-263.xml Building on Matt's insighful work, I have further explored the question in a paper called "A Material History of Bits." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.21542/abstract http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/blanchette/papers/materiality.pdf Jean-François -- Jean-François Blanchette, Associate Professeur Dept. of Information Studies, UCLA http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/blanchette _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 39CF4EDD; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:36:56 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99820ED0; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:36:55 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 92AF9EA9; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:36:53 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130109063653.92AF9EA9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:36:53 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.664 XML &c 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. 664. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 12:12:14 -0500 (EST) From: drwender@aol.com Subject: Re: 26.659 XML &c Nick, you wrote "So I invite suggestions about how to deal with a collection of [23,000] manuscript images and their textual versions that is not XML and that works now."Unknowing the goals of your actual? project, I presume that - in a first step you will transcribe only a sample of pages resp. significant portions of text - you understand as "textual versions" the final state per page (as defined f.e. by the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project) - you would like to find co-workers for attacking such an amount of materials (in awareness of the 'uptake' problem identified f.e. by Kathleen Fitzpatrock in "Planned Obsolescence") then: I would suggest a repository of the "textual versions" as simple as Michael Hart's Project Gutenberg in the good old times of plain vanilla ascii. - Why not? Greetings, Herbert _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 92DEDEDE; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:37:40 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EBA2EA9; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:37:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 50DC2EA9; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:37:37 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130109063737.50DC2EA9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:37:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.665 report: digital humanities at the MLA X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 665. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 16:47:19 -0500 From: Michael Hancher Subject: (Some) digital humanities at the MLA convention There were 795 sessions at this year's MLA convention in Boston, of which 66 significantly engaged the Digital Humanities; these were listed by Mark Sample at http://www.samplereality.com/2012/10/17/digital-humanities-at-mla-2013/. I attended several of them. (I also organized one.) Some attracted large audiences, and thoughtful commentary. For example: * William Pannapacker, "On the Dark Side of the Digital Humanities,"*Chronicle of Higher Education* (an eye-witness account): http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/01/05/on-the-dark-side-of-the-digital-humanities/ * Rafael Alvarado, "Are MOOCs Part of the Digital Humanities?" (an armchair view): http://transducer.ontoligent.com/?p=992 * Serena Golden, "The MLA's Big (Digital) Tent," *Inside Higher Ed *(another eye-witness account): http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/01/07/mla-discussions-how-digital-communications-can-help-level-playing-field Golden draws special attention to the launch of MLA Commons ( http://commons.mla.org/), a new social-media site intended to improve communication and collaboration among MLA members. I signed on before the official launch, but by the time I stopped by the MLA Commons booth to pick up my free T-shirt, they were all gone. (I did get one of the two remaining stickers.) The web interface is still being refined, but the result should prove useful for many people. The first substantial text published at MLA Commons is *Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology*, ed. Kenneth M. Price and Ray Siemens (http://dlsanthology.commons.mla.org/). Another well-received launch was the open-access edition of *Debates in the Digital Humanties*, ed. Matthew K. Gold (University of Minnesota Press), one year after its appearance in print. New chapters will be added online later this year (http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/). During the final session of the conference, Sunday afternoon, I attended a session on "Literature and Digital Pedagogies" ( http://www.mla.org/program_details?prog_id=795&year=2013), while Doug Armato, director of the University Minnesota Press, presented a paper in a different session about the interface between online blog publication and book publication, "Considering Serial Scholarship and the Future of Scholarly Publishing" ( http://www.uminnpressblog.com/2013/01/from-mla-2013-considering-serial.html ). The session that I organized for the MLA Discussion Group on Lexicography, "Digital Dictionaries," was reported or commented on via Twitter by more than a dozen people, some of whom were not even in the room (one was in the UK). Ben Zimmer, one of the speakers, later organized the program listing and the 79 tweets in a legible format at http://storify.com/visualthesaurus/digital-dictionaries-panel-mla-2013. Yesterday another member of the audience, Colleen Ross, posted a more detailed reflection on the presentations at her blog, "Word of Mouth" ( http://colleenross.org/). *Vox audita perit, littera scripta manet*. -- Michael Hancher Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota 207 Lind Hall, 207 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 612–625–5075 mh.cla.umn.edu ● Google Plus ● @MichaelHancher _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8BE64ED8; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:40:44 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87F86ED1; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:40:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C03E1E86; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:40:40 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130109064040.C03E1E86@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:40:40 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.666 events: historical text; citation; gaming; DH in New England X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 666. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Christian Thomas (58) Subject: Call for participation: DTA-/CLARIN-D-Conference and Workshops on Historical Text Corpora [2] From: Gabriel Bodard (55) Subject: Seminar: 21st Century Citation and Practical Quotation in a Digital Library (January 17th) [3] From: John Unsworth (24) Subject: Call for papers: Days of DH [4] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (35) Subject: Game Conference in Japan --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:41:11 +0100 From: Christian Thomas Subject: Call for participation: DTA-/CLARIN-D-Conference and Workshops on Historical Text Corpora In-Reply-To: <50EC3757.30200@bbaw.de> Dear humanists, we would like to invite you to the DTA-/CLARIN-D-Conference and Workshops, held on February 18th-19th, 2013, at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jägerstr. 22/23, Berlin (Germany). ********************************** Title: Historische Textkorpora für die Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. Fragestellungen und Nutzungsperspektiven Contact: Deutsches Textarchiv (http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de), dta@bbaw.de Please register until: January 31st, 2013 For further information see: http://www.bbaw.de/veranstaltungen/2013/februar/historische_textkorpora Conference/Workshop language: German ********************************** Description: Zum Thema „Historische Textkorpora für die Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. Fragestellungen und Nutzungsperspektiven“ veranstalten die Projekte „Deutsches Textarchiv“ und „CLARIN-D“ gemeinsam eine zweitägige Konferenz mit begleitenden themenbezogenen Workshops. Auf der Konferenz werden Fragen behandelt, die im Zusammenhang mit dem Aufbau, der Pflege und linguistischen Anreicherung sowie der Nutzung historischer Textkorpora stehen. Themen sind die notwendige und wünschenswerte Größe und Güte von Korpora, Verfahren und Qualität der linguistischen Annotation und Kriterien für die Auswahl und Zusammensetzung solcher Korpora. Dabei wird betrachtet, wie ein optimales Verhältnis dieser Anforderungen für den Aufbau solcher Korpora hergestellt werden kann, auch hinsichtlich der Bedürfnisse verschiedener Benutzergruppen und der Nachnutzbarkeit solcher Ressourcen über den unmittelbaren Forschungszweck hinaus. Ein weiterer Aspekt ist, wie historische Korpora verschiedener Herkunft interoperabel und damit gemeinsam nutzbar gemacht werden können. Diese Fragen sollen allgemein, aber auch im Hinblick auf konkrete Projekte und Ressourcen erörtert werden. Ergänzend zur Konferenz werden zwei Workshops veranstaltet: Workshop1 legt das von der BBAW geleitete CLARIN-D-Arbeitspaket 5 (AP 5: Dienste und Ressourcen) zugrunde und wird eine Einführung zu den Diensten der CLARIN-D-Infrastruktur bieten, welche den Aufbau und die Analyse von Sprachressourcen unterstützen. Workshop 2 knüpft an die Erfahrungen des Kurationsprojekts 1 der CLARIN-D-Facharbeitsgruppe 1 und des DTA-Erweiterungsmoduls DTAE an und vermittelt, auf welche Weise existierende oder neue Sprachressourcen mit den Hilfsmitteln des DTA CLARIN-D- konform aufbereitet oder erstellt werden können. ********************************** Best wishes, Christian Thomas -- Christian Thomas Deutsches Textarchiv Koordinator CLARIN-D Kurationsprojekt 1 der F-AG 1 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 www.clarin-d.de/de/fachspezifische-arbeitsgruppen/f-ag-1-deutsche-philologie/kurationsprojekt-1.html -- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:01:15 +0000 From: Gabriel Bodard Subject: Seminar: 21st Century Citation and Practical Quotation in a Digital Library (January 17th) In-Reply-To: <50EC3757.30200@bbaw.de> Please find below the details of a joint Classics/Digital Humanities seminar in King's College London next week: ------------------------------------------------------------------- *21st Century Citation and Practical Quotation in a Digital Library* Professor Christopher W. Blackwell (Furman University) Thursday January 17th, 13:00 Room B.7, Classics Department, King's College London The heart of humanist scholarship is “quotation”, reproduction plus citation. Reproduction lets us focus on an object of study—a word, a verse. Citation saves us from having to reproduce more than we need, while still affording access to an object-of-study’s larger context. Citations are concise. If done correctly, they allow graphs of knowledge to survive across technological revolutions. Christopher Blackwell will talk about citation as implemented for the Homer Multitext. This is a 21st Century model of unambiguous, machine-actionable citation of texts, data, and images. This presentation will be both conceptual and practical. It will describe a decade-long process of refactoring and separation of concerns toward a generic and highly flexible approach to a complex digital library problem. It will end with demonstrations of tools that allow efficient citation of details on images, and tools for adding to html documents citations of texts, images, and data that can automatically resolve to the quotations they cite. All tools and data developed by the Homer Multitext are freely available under open content licenses and are as platform agnostic as possible. [ Christopher W. Blackwell is the Louis G. Forgione University Professor at Furman University, in Greenville, South Carolina, USA. With Neel Smith he is a Project Architect of the Homer Multitext, a project of the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University under the Editorship of Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott. ] ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr Gabriel BODARD Researcher in Digital Epigraphy Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL T: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 F: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 E: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 16:38:22 -0500 From: John Unsworth Subject: Call for papers: Days of DH In-Reply-To: <50EC3757.30200@bbaw.de> Days of DH 2013 Boston-Area Days of DH 2012 A Celebration of Digital Humanities Work in New England The “Boston Area Days of DH” will comprise two events in Boston over a five-day span in March and will celebrate innovative work being done in New England’s rapidly-growing digital humanities community. The events will coincide with centerNet‘s annual, international “Day of DH,” and feature the work of both up-and-coming and established DH scholars in the region. Capping off the event will be a grants workshop run by officers from the NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities. All those interested in DH in the New England region are encouraged to submit a proposal or simply attend. We are coordinating CFPs between the two events as we expect (and will encourage) significant overlap in attendance between the two events. Proposals can be sent for either event or both but will only be accepted for one. Please indicate in your proposal if you intend it for a particular event or for both. “Digital Humanities: The Next Generation” • Sponsor: the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science • Location: Simmons College, Boston • Friday and Saturday, March 15 and 16, 2013 • Deadline: February 1, 2013 This two-day symposium will focus on the work of younger digital humanities scholars in New England–graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty–in order to highlight and showcase their work, and introduce them to each other and to the community. Presentations on pertinent DH tools, resources, projects, and solutions will alternate with facilitated discussions on salient themes, like “DH and graduate education, varieties of DH, DH and the creative arts, DH and library collaboration, etc.,” with the goal being a program that is compelling and rewarding for the next generation of DH scholars. We’ll encourage presenters to consider hands-on (or technology-intensive) and “flipped” presentations (with introductory material offered online, in advance, and the symposium content more hands-on and project-focused). We also plan to publish the best materials produced for and during the event in a digital humanities journal. This event is made possible by the Allen Smith Fellows Program. Please send proposals of 400 words to David Wedaman at wedaman@brandeis.edu by February 1, 2013. Event: Boston-Area “Days of DH” with NEH Office of Digital Humanities Workshop • Sponsor: The NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks at Northeastern University • Location: Northeastern University • Date: March 18 – 19, 2013 • Deadline: February 1, 2013 The digital humanities community in the Boston area is rapidly growing — with new centers, new hiring, and an array of new DH projects. To celebrate and facilitate this renaissance of digital humanities work in the Boston area, the newly founded NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks at Northeastern University will host a “Boston-Area DH Day” on March 18 & 19, 2013. The event will include: • An NEH Office of Digital Humanities grants workshop, facilitated by ODH staff; • A one-day methods workshop (with specific focus on textual analysis, network visualization, and GIS); • A joint keynote address given by Julia Flanders Julia Flanders (Brown University) andMatthew L. Jockers (University of Nebraska—Lincoln) • Forums for Boston-area DHers to present their work to each other and solicit feedback or collaboration. The organizing committee for “Boston-Area DH Day” welcomes proposals for #4 above. We seek presenters from the Boston area (roughly defined as driving distance from the city) who are interested in sharing and discussing their current DH projects. We hope for a diverse array of presentations that will reflect the scope of the field. Please send proposals of 400 words to Ryan Cordell at r.cordell@neu.edu by February 1, 2013. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 17:30:03 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Game Conference in Japan In-Reply-To: <50EC3757.30200@bbaw.de> *** International Conference on Japan Game Studies 2013 *** Main Organizer: Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies, Ritsumeikan University Co-organizers: Prince Takamado Japan Centre, University of Alberta Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts, University of Alberta GRAND Network of Centres of Excellence Dates: May 24-26, 2013 Venue: Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Kinugasa Campus Conference website: www.ptjc.ualberta.ca We are pleased to announce the international Conference on Japan Game Studies 2013 to be held at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, May 24-26, 2013. This conference is collaboratively organized by Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies, the Prince Takamado Japan Centre, and the Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts, University of Alberta with support from the GRAND Network of Centres of Excellence. The conference is the second collaboratively organized conference focusing broadly on Japanese game culture, education and industry. We invite a broad range of papers dealing with game culture, education and games and the Japanese game industry from the perspectives of humanities, social sciences, business or education. The range of topics has typically included (but is not limited to): • Cross cultural study of games and toys • Localization of games • Assessment of educational aspects of games • Preservation of games and game culture • Understanding player culture • Game industry (in Japan and transnationally) • Games and transmedia phenomena • Games of chance Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words via email to ptjc@ualberta.ca, before February 15, 2013. Figures, tables and references, which do not count towards the 500 words, may be included on a second page. Please submit your anonymized abstract (and supporting second page) in PDF format with a just title. The following information should be in the accompanying email message: Title of paper, Name of author(s), Affiliation(s), Address(es), Phone (and Fax) number(s), and Email address(es). Notification of acceptance will be send out by March 1, 2013. Abstracts will be accepted in English. For more information, please visit the website at www.ptjc.ualberta.ca, or contact Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies, Ritsumeikan University at rcgs@st.ritsumei.ac.jp. Conference Co-Chairs: Mitsuyuki Inaba, College of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University Kaori Kabata, Prince Takamado Japan Centre, University of Alberta Program committee: Kazufumi FUKUDA, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University Koichi HOSOI, College of Image Arts and Sciences, Ritsumeikan University Masaharu MIYAWAKI, College of Law, Ritsumeikan University Akinori NAKAMURA, College of Image Arts and Sciences, Ritsumeikan University Geoffrey Rockwell, Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts, University of Alberta Masayuki UEMURA, College of Image Arts and Sciences, Ritsumeikan University Shuji WATANABE, College of Image Arts and Sciences, Ritsumeikan University Hiroshi YOSHIDA, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1D3B6F84; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:41:16 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45F5CED8; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:41:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 90DF5ED8; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:41:13 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130109064113.90DF5ED8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:41:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.667 on good and bad web design X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 667. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:27:03 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: good and bad web design A current article in the New York Times, Art & Design section, will interest many here: Alice Rawsthorn, "What constitutes good and bad web design?", 6 January 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/07/arts/design/what-constitutes-good-and-bad-web-design.html?src=recg. Thanks to Marilyn Deegan for the pointer. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id ACC3BE56; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:06:47 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 475FBE15; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:06:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 68684E09; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:06:44 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130110080644.68684E09@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:06:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.668 events: scholarly editions; information; book history; markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 668. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Centre for e-Research (28) Subject: CeRch research seminar on Tuesday 15th January, 6.15pm [2] From: "Dr. Katherine D. Harris" (70) Subject: CFP: SHARP Digital Showcase [3] From: C.C.Bissell (35) Subject: workshop on Information: Space, Time, and Identity [4] From: Tommie Usdin (37) Subject: Balisage 2013 Call for Participation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:48:09 +0000 From: Centre for e-Research Subject: CeRch research seminar on Tuesday 15th January, 6.15pm Dear all, This Tuesday 15th January sees the first of this term's seminars for the Centre for e-Research Seminar Series at King's College London: *Unpacking the draft page: time, space and gamification of digital scholarly editions* *Elena Pierazzo, King's College London* 15 January 2013, 6.15pm Anatomy Museum Space, Strand Campus More details in the attached PDF and at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2012-13/unpacking.aspx The seminar will be followed by wine and nibbles. Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is requested: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2139968704 Hope to see you there. Details of the full programme for this term's seminar series will be announced soon; details of future seminars confirmed so far are at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2012-13/201213prog.aspx Regards, Anna Jordanous PS Apologies for any cross-postings -- Anna Jordanous, Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL, UK *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1357747021_2013-01-09_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_20841.2.pdf --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 10:15:20 -0800 From: "Dr. Katherine D. Harris" Subject: CFP: SHARP Digital Showcase Dear All, Please consider submitting to the SHARP Digital Showcase CFP. The organizers have created this special session to allow for more convergence between Digital Humanities/Studies and history of the book. Many of you just presented some interesting book-history-skewed early projects at the Modern Language Association. The organizers are looking for a wide range of newly instantiated to fully-funded projects to demo. Also, SHARP is a very cool conference -- lots of the "stuff" discussed at every panel. Proposal due January 25. See below for details. http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/SHARP2013/SHARP2013_papers.html *NEW! Call for Proposals: Digital Project Showcase* PDF Copy [image: PDF file] http://devsceti.library.upenn.edu/SHARP2013/SHARP13_DPS_CFP.pdf The Organizing Committee for the Philadelphia SHARP Conference 2013 announces a second Call for Proposals: for digital projects related to book history and bibliography. These may include but are not limited to research tools, apps and software, bibliographies or databases, corpora of media or texts, digitization initiatives, remediations, and interactive interfaces. We will exhibit up to 20 of these projects in a free-form session in which participants will be able to share their digital and new media work with an audience of nearly 300 conference delegates (faculty, librarians, administrators, independent scholars, graduate students). The Showcase will be held between 12 and 3pm on Saturday, July 20, 2013. The conference runs from Thursday, July 18 to Sunday, July 21, 2013. We welcome submissions on all aspects of SHARP's purview: authorship, reading, and publishing. We particularly encourage proposals of new or recent work, as well as proposals directly relevant to the conference theme, "Geographies of the Book." (For more on the theme, please visit the Theme http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/SHARP2013/SHARP2013_theme.html page on this site.) The deadline for proposals is Friday, January 25, 2013, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (GMT +5h). To submit, please email the SHARP 2013 Program Committee at sharpupenn2013@gmail.com with a brief introduction (up to 400 words) of your project/tool/software. Questions that may be addressed include: - what were the origins of your project; what are its theoretical underpinnings and its goals? - what are the historical period and geography/ies covered? - what determined its design? what tools and software were used? if your project *is* a tool or software, how does it benefit book historians and/or bibliographers? - how did the digital or media component(s) of your project enable, strengthen, or transform the materials and methods under consideration? what new questions were raised? - how might this approach or tool be scaled up, appropriated, or reused in other contexts? Please be sure to name all participants and institutions involved. Participants will be expected to provide their own hardware for demonstrations (PCs/Macs, tablets, drives, sound systems, etc.). The conference's Local Arrangements Committee will provide logistical assistance (tables, chairs, extension cords, Internet access) but cannot offer tech support. Those who have submitted papers to the main conference program may also submit project proposals to the Digital Projects Showcase, but, with consideration for program planning and maximal participation, will only be selected for one or the other. One participant for each proposal must be(come) a member of SHARP prior to the conference. Some financial assistance may be available; in the past we have been able to fund between 10-15% of all travel grant requests. If you wish to apply for a travel grant, please include a statement of up to 150 words explaining how much funding you are requesting and why. Please contact the SHARP Program Committee with any questions by email at sharpupenn2013@gmail.com or by phone at +1.347.6SHRP13 (+1.347.647.7713). We look forward to your submissions and to showcasing our changing digital landscape in Philadelphia next July. ***** Kathy Harris Tenured Assistant Professor of English San Jose State University http://triproftri.wordpress.com --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 10:05:31 +0000 From: C.C.Bissell Subject: workshop on Information: Space, Time, and Identity Keynote speakers & extended deadline for DTMD 2013 An interdisciplinary workshop on Information: Space, Time, and Identity. We are delighted to announce the confirmed keynote speakers for DTMD 2013: Luciano Floridi: Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire and Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford Holger Schnädelbach: Senior Research Fellow, Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham John Monk Emeritus Professor of Digital Systems at the Open University Pedro C. Marijuán: Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud (I+CS), Zaragoza, Spain Carson Grubaugh: Information Artist Liesbet van Zoonen: Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Loughborough University, and Erasmus University Rotterdam For more information see http://www.dtmd.org.uk/ We are also extending the deadline for the receipt of one-page abstracts to 1st February. Original Call for Papers: You are invited to The Difference that Makes a Difference 2013, An interdisciplinary workshop on Information: Space, Time, and Identity. Location: The Open University and the MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK Dates: 8-10 April 2013 Website: http://www.dtmd.org.uk Information has been conceptualised in many different ways in different disciplines, and the DTMD series of workshops is a forum for sharing of those insights . We are keen to involve as many different people, from as many different disciplines, as possible in presenting and participating in the workshop. We invite a wide range of participants to give short (10 minute) presentations on their work as it relates to an understanding of information. There will be six sessions: Over days 1 and 2 the first four sessions consist of a keynote speaker followed by six or seven short presentations (which will have been selected by referees from submitted abstracts) then a panel discussion. 1. Information and Space. The relationship between information and space, 'meaning' in our physical environment, and the information landscapes that go beyond physical space. 2. Information and Time. Both the historic framework of the notion of information, and time as a 'dimension' in information – physics, entropy, information and ‘the arrow of time’. 3. Information and Identity. Identity (race, gender, nationality, class and sexual orientation, for example) as information and, conversely, information as identity. 4. What is information? Why are so many disciplines using informational concepts in their narratives? Is a Universal Theory of Information (UTI) possible? Sessions 5 and 6 on day 3 draw together the insights from the first two days in two ways. First, through art, when the results of the work of the Workshop artist’s collaboration with delegates is presented and discussed. Second, a final keynote speech from Luciano Floridi, Professor of the Philosophy of Information will lead in to a panel discussion with the keynote speakers from the earlier sessions. For more details see the workshop programme: http://www.dtmd.org.uk/programme and the Call for Papers: http://www.dtmd.org.uk/call-for-papers Accepted abstracts will be published in a Workshop Digest which will be made available online prior to the event, and, following the workshop, delegates will be invited to submit papers for special issue of Kybernetes, based on papers presented at the workshop. We hope to see you in Milton Keynes in April. Best wishes, Magnus Ramage and David Chapman on behalf of the Programme Committee: http://www.dtmd.org.uk/committee --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 20:01:18 -0500 From: Tommie Usdin Subject: Balisage 2013 Call for Participation Balisage is where people interested in descriptive markup meet each year in August for informed technical discussion, occasionally impassioned debate, good coffee, and the incomparable ambience of one of North America's greatest cities, Montreal. We welcome anyone interested in discussing the use of descriptive markup to build strong, lasting information systems. Practitioner or theorist, tool-builder or tool-user, student or lecturer -- you are invited to submit a paper proposal for Balisage 2013. As always, papers at Balisage can address any aspect of the use of markup and markup languages to represent information and build information systems. Possible topics include but are not limited to: * XML and related technologies * Non-XML markup languages * Big Data and XML * Implementation experience with XML parsing, XSLT processors, XQuery processors, XML databases, XProc integrations, or any markup-related technology * Semantics, overlap, and other complex fundamental issues for markup languages * Case studies of markup design and deployment * Quality of information in markup systems * JSON and XML * Efficiency of Markup Software * Markup systems in and for the mobile web * The future of XML and of descriptive markup in general * Interesting applications of markup In addition, please consider becoming a Peer Reviewer. Reviewers play a critical role towards the success of Balisage. They review blind submissions -- on topics that interest them -- for technical merit, interest, and applicability. Your comments and recommendations can assist the Conference Committee in creating the program for Balisage 2013! How: * Submit full papers in XML to * See the Instructions for Authors (http://www.balisage.net/authorinstructions.html) and Tag Set and Submission Guidelines (http://www.balisage.net/tagset.html) for details. * Apply to the Peer Review panel (http://www.balisage.net/peer/ReviewAppForm.html) Schedule: 15 March 2013 - Peer review applications due 19 April 2013 - Paper submissions due 19 April 2013 - Applications due for student support awards due 21 May 2013 - Speakers notified 12 July 2013 - Final papers due 5 August 2013 - Pre-conference Symposium on XForms 6-9 August 2013 - Balisage: The Markup Conference Help us make Balisage your favorite XML Conference. See you in Montreal! -- The Balisage 2013 Conference Committee ====================================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2013 mailto:info@balisage.net August 6-9, 2013 http://www.balisage.net Preconference XForms Symposium August 5, 2013 ====================================================================== _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3871EEDE; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:12:01 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77CD6ED0; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:12:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 204A2ED0; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:11:59 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130110101159.204A2ED0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:11:59 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.669 "digital X"? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 669. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:30:34 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: digital X? The query for reactions to the phrase "digital materiality" generated what seems to me a surprising degree of interest. My question is now what other collocates of "digital" are particularly worth considering? To see what might leap from the screen at me I went to Antoinette Renouf's WebCorp (http://www.webcorp.org.uk/live/). As you might be able to predict from a trawling of the Web, the heavy hitters tend not to surprise: (1) photographic terms, such as "cameras", "photography"; (2) related terms of digital media; (3) technological terms. At the 30th place was "digital humanities", also not surprisingly. Others relatively high on the list were "culture", "Editions" (because of Adobe) and so on. To pursue this any further we'd need a frequency list organized by strangeness, uneasiness, degree of upset or whatever one might call "interest" when being less bland, more self-consciously, bravely vulnerable. So, let me ask, apart from "materiality" what strikes sparks against "digital"? My choice would be "memory". 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 484B5F84; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:49:56 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FF34EDB; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:49:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CC988ED8; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:49:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130111044952.CC988ED8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:49:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.670 "digital X" X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 670. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:24:51 +0000 From: Mark Davies Subject: RE: 26.669 "digital X"? In-Reply-To: <20130110101159.204A2ED0@digitalhumanities.org> For more on collocates of "digital", see: http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/?c=coca&q=20373300 Collocates by genre, based on the 450 million word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) http://corpus.byu.edu/coha/?c=coha&q=20373311 Collocates by decade, based on the 400 million word Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) Mark Davies ============================================ Mark Davies Professor of Linguistics / Brigham Young University http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu/ ** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases ** ** Historical linguistics // Language variation ** ** English, Spanish, and Portuguese ** ============================================ > -----Original Message----- > From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist- > bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion > Group > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 3:12 AM > To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > Subject: [Humanist] 26.669 "digital X"? > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 669. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:30:34 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: digital X? > > > The query for reactions to the phrase "digital materiality" generated what > seems to me a surprising degree of interest. My question is now what other > collocates of "digital" are particularly worth considering? > To see what might leap from the screen at me I went to Antoinette Renouf's > WebCorp (http://www.webcorp.org.uk/live/). As you might be able to > predict from a trawling of the Web, the heavy hitters tend not to > surprise: (1) photographic terms, such as "cameras", "photography"; (2) > related terms of digital media; (3) technological terms. At the 30th place was > "digital humanities", also not surprisingly. Others relatively high on the list > were "culture", "Editions" (because of Adobe) and so on. > > To pursue this any further we'd need a frequency list organized by > strangeness, uneasiness, degree of upset or whatever one might call > "interest" when being less bland, more self-consciously, bravely vulnerable. > > So, let me ask, apart from "materiality" what strikes sparks against "digital"? > My choice would be "memory". > > 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_DBL_REDIR autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 64054F8A; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:51:32 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8889F89; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:51:29 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3B0DEF86; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:51:28 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130111045128.3B0DEF86@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:51:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.671 pubs: Digital Humanities Pedagogy X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 671. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:40:38 +0800 From: "Brett D. Hirsch" Subject: Book Launch: Digital Humanities Pedagogy Dear Humanists, I trust you all had a safe and suitably festive break. I'm pleased to announce the launch of _Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics_, published by Open Book Publishers this past December 2012. The entire volume, comprising 16 chapters, is free to read in its entirety online. Of course, libraries and individuals are also able to purchase the collection in print (paperback and hardback) and electronic (PDF, epub, mobi) formats. "_Digital Humanities Pedagogy_ is a compelling and important collection of work on different aspects of pedagogy in the digital humanities, raising an extremely timely set of questions for instructors, advisors, and administrators alike." ~ Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Scholarly Communication, Modern Language Association Academic institutions are starting to recognize the growing public interest in digital humanities research, and there is an increasing demand from students for formal training in its methods. Despite the pressure on practitioners to develop innovative courses, scholarship in this area has tended to focus on research methods, theories and results rather than critical pedagogy and the actual practice of teaching. The essays in this collection offer a timely intervention in digital humanities scholarship, bringing together established and emerging scholars from a variety of humanities disciplines across the world. The first section offers views on the practical realities of teaching digital humanities at undergraduate and graduate levels, presenting case studies and snapshots of the authors’ experiences alongside models for future courses and reflections on pedagogical successes and failures. The next section proposes strategies for teaching foundational digital humanities methods across a variety of scholarly disciplines, and the book concludes with wider debates about the place of digital humanities in the academy, from the field’s cultural assumptions and social obligations to its political visions. _Digital Humanities Pedagogy_ broadens the ways in which both scholars and practitioners can think about this emerging discipline, ensuring its ongoing development, vitality and long-term sustainability. For more details, to order copies, or to read the book online, visit http://bit.ly/RHzhX7 . Best wishes, Brett -- Dr Brett D. Hirsch ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow Research Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies The University of Western Australia http://www.notwithoutmustard.net/ Coordinating Editor, Digital Renaissance Editions http://digitalrenaissance.uvic.ca/ Co-Editor, Shakespeare http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/shakespeare _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DB987F8D; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:58:04 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B39FBF84; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:58:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A4354ED8; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:58:01 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130111045801.A4354ED8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:58:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.672 books in which you might take an interest X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 672. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dylan Hester (33) Subject: Variations on the Body [2] From: Dylan Hester (57) Subject: Vampyroteuthis Infernalis [3] From: Dylan Hester (30) Subject: Biogea [4] From: Dylan Hester (35) Subject: Two Lessons on Animal and Man/Humanist --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:11:48 -0600 From: Dylan Hester Subject: Variations on the Body Renowned philosopher Michel Serres finds the origins of knowledge in the movement of the body VARIATIONS ON THE BODY By Michel Serres Translated by Randolph Burks University of Minnesota Press | 152 pages | 2012 ISBN 978-1-937561-06-2 | paperback | $22.95 Back in print World-renowned philosopher, Michel Serres writes a text in praise of the body and movement, in praise of teachers of physical education, coaches, mountain guides, athletes, dancers, mimes, clowns, artisans, and artists. Variations on the Body describes the variations, the admirable metamorphoses that the body can accomplish. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Michel Serres is one of the rare contemporary philosophers to propose an open vision of the world founded on an alliance between the humanities and science. Randolph Burks is a Michel Serres scholar and translator. For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/variations-on-the-body Please email me if you have any questions. -- Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 skinn077@umn.edu v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 -- Dylan Hester Marketing Assistant --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:47:01 -0600 From: Dylan Hester Subject: Vampyroteuthis Infernalis Pondering the human condition while examining the vampire squid from hell VAMPYROTEUTHIS INFERNALIS: A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste By Vilém Flusser and Louis Bec Translated by Valentine A. Pakis University of Minnesota Press | 104 pages | 2012 ISBN 978-0-8166-7822-8 | paperback | $19.50 ISBN 978-0-8166-7821-1 | cloth | $60.00 Series: Posthumanities, volume 23 How far apart are humans from animals—even the “vampire squid from hell”? Scientist/philosopher/provocateur, Vilém Flusser uses this question as a springboard to dive into a literal and a philosophical ocean. Part scientific treatise, part spoof, part philosophical discourse, part fable, Vampyroteuthis Infernalis offers a unique posthumanist philosophical understanding of phenomenology and opens the way for a nonphilosophy of life. PRAISE FOR VAMPYROTEUTHIS INFERNALIS: "A classic available in English at last, this collaboration between Vilém Flusser and Louis Bec is a pioneering exploration of uncharted territory in the realm of animal cognition, philosophy and art. At once inquisitive and whimsical, this unclassifiable book brings together some of the best work of two cutting-edge thinkers that were not only geographic but also intellectual neighbors." —Eduardo Kac "Vampryoteuthis Infernalis is a unique work that is at once literary and philosophical, poetic and scientific, and it nicely combines the imaginative fancy of the beast fable with elements of science fiction and horror. Flusser’s work is a hybrid creature, a marvelous and monstrous text that mirrors the fantastical creature it describes. The Vampyroteuthis holds a wonderfully strange and unhuman mirror up to the human and in so doing opens the way for a strange and novel non- philosophy of life." —Eugene Thacker, author of After Life ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Vilém Flusser (1920–1991) was born in Prague; emigrated to Brazil, where he taught philosophy and wrote a daily newspaper column; and later moved to France. Among his many books translated into English are Does Writing Have a Future?, Into the Universe of Technical Images, and Writings, all from Minnesota. Louis Bec is an artist who lives and works in Sorgues, France. He is the founder of the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste. Valentine A. Pakis is adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/vampyroteuthis-infernalis http://upress.umn.edu/book-division/series/posthumanities Please email me if you have any questions. Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 skinn077@umn.edu v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 -- Dylan Hester Marketing Assistant --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:09:15 -0600 From: Dylan Hester Subject: Biogea BIOGEA By Michel Serres Translated by Randolph Burks University of Minnesota Press | 236 pages | 2012 ISBN 978-1-937561-08-6 | paperback | $22.95 Back in print Biogea is a mixture of poetry, philosophy, science, and biography exemplary of the style that has made Michel Serres one of the most extraordinary thinkers of his age. His philosophical and poetic inquiry sings in praise of earth and life, what he names singularly as Biogea. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Michel Serres is one of the rare contemporary philosophers to propose an open vision of the world founded on an alliance between the humanities and science. Randolph Burks is a Michel Serres scholar and translator. For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/biogea Please email me if you have any questions. Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 skinn077@umn.edu v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 -- Dylan Hester Marketing Assistant --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:14:12 -0600 From: Dylan Hester Subject: Two Lessons on Animal and Man/Humanist The increasingly influential French philosopher presents the history of philosophical discourse in regard to humans, animals, and the vegetal TWO LESSONS ON ANIMAL AND MAN By Gilbert Simondon Translated by Drew S. Burk University of Minnesota Press | 92 pages | 2012 ISBN 978-1-937561-01-7 | paperback | $19.95 As a philosopher of technology, Gilbert Simondon’s work has a place at the forefront of current thinking in media, technology, psychology, and philosophy. In this introduction to Simondon’s oeuvre, the reader has access to the grounding of one of the most fundamental and critical questions that has been the focus of philosophy for millennia: the relationship between man and animal. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Gilbert Simondon (1924–1989) was a French philosopher of technology whose work continues to attract new interest within a variety of academic fields. ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR: Drew S. Burk is an American cultural theorist and translator of contemporary French philosophy. For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/two-lessons-on-animal-and-man Please email me if you have any questions. -- Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 skinn077@umn.edu v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 -- Dylan Hester Marketing Assistant _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 00E5EF99; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:59:08 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DAEBF8F; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:59:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 87682F8D; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:59:05 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130111045905.87682F8D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:59:05 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.673 more "digital X" X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 673. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:30:35 +0100 From: Patrick Sahle Subject: Re: 26.669 "digital X"? In-Reply-To: <20130110101159.204A2ED0@digitalhumanities.org> actually, I'm working with exactly the expression of "digital X" in researching and reporting on curricular developments in the DH. "X" here stands for the traditional subjects. Like philology, literature studies, history, archaeology, philosophy etc. Thus describing and distinguishing that DH as a teaching program might on the one hand be "itself" and on the other hand the digital transformation of "something else" = X. Best, Patrick _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DBC6FF86; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:59:41 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28FF5E17; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:59:41 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D388EE14; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:59:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130112095938.D388EE14@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:59:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.675 pubs: Taming Text X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 675. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:28:36 -0500 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Taming Text Released Willard, /Taming Text/, by Grant S. Ingersoll, Thomas S. Morton, and Andrew L. Farris has been released by Manning Publications. http://www.manning.com/ingersoll/ From the publishers webpage: > /Taming Text/is a hands-on, example-driven guide to working with > unstructured text in the context of real-world applications. This book > explores how to automatically organize text using approaches such as > full-text search, proper name recognition, clustering, tagging, > information extraction, and summarization. The book guides you through > examples illustrating each of these topics, as well as the foundations > upon which they are built. > Hope you are looking forward to a great weekend! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3191CED7; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:15:36 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 482EBE81; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:15:35 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 02FDFE73; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:15:32 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130114091533.02FDFE73@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:15:32 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.676 new special interest group: GO::DH X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 676. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:44:11 -0500 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: Announcing GO::DH Dear all, On behalf of The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), I'm delighted to announce the creation of our first Special Interest Group: Global Outlook::Digital Humanities (GO::DH) and to invite your participation. GO::DH is a Community of Interest whose purpose is to address barriers that hinder communication and collaboration among researchers and students of the Digital Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Heritage sectors across and between High, Mid, and Low Income Economies. The core activities of GO::DH are Discovery, Community-Building, Research, and Advocacy. Its goal is to leverage the complementary strengths, interests, abilities, and experiences of participants through special projects and events, profile and publicity activity, and by encouraging collaboration among individuals, projects, and institutions. It is founded on the principle that work is being done in many countries and regions and that we all have much to learn from each other. Participation in GO::DH is open to all who share its aims. If you are interested in participating in this initiative, you can visit the GO::DH website http://www.globaloutlookdh.**org/ http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/ , join the GO::DH mailing list (http://listserv.uleth.ca/**mailman/listinfo/** globaloutlookdh-l http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/globaloutlookdh-l ), or follow it on Facebook or Twitter (@globaloutlookdh). 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/ Twitter: @fraistat _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8C202EDB; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:16:40 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5D2F21; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:16:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0D00DEA4; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:16:37 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130114091638.0D00DEA4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:16:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.677 PhD DH school in Lausanne & Bern X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 677. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:36:05 +0100 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: PhD DH school in Lausanne and Bern (CH) Dear all, With my colleagues Frédéric Kaplan (EPFL, CH) and Dominique Vinck (Unil, CH) and about 15 PhD students, we have started last Friday a new experiment in Switzerland: meetings for PhD students in Humanities, Social Sciences and ICT. We are convinced that this generation of «born digital» PhD students will build the new academic world, beyond the boundaries provoked by the achievement of the printed culture at the 19th century. You will find a full French summary by Cecil Armand (PhD Student, ENS Lyon) on her blog (http://dhlyon.hypotheses.org/47) and a short one on mine (http://claireclivaz.hypotheses.org/215). The information for the next meetings stands on dhlausanne.ch, the informal blog of the DH'ers in Lausanne. Welcome also to the first Swiss DH summer school in Bern, 26-29 june 2013 : dhsummerschool.ch Such experiments are important steps before to welcome you for the DH 2014 in Lausanne (6-12 July 2014). All the best Claire Clivaz _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 36277F21; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:20:21 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68BC9EA4; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:20:20 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AADB3E73; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:20:18 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130114092018.AADB3E73@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:20:18 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.678 evils of convenience (& problems of volume) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 678. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:07:48 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the evils of convenience Roly Keating, Chief Executive of the British Library, has warned in today's Financial Times, "Beware the Google convenience store: PhD students are limiting their analytical abilities", that online resources are seducing researchers away from primary sources. He cites, > the findings of a study last year which reveal that today’s > generation of doctoral students are working in a research environment > increasingly dominated by online journal articles and other published > research materials, rather than primary resources such as newspapers, > data sets, archives and manuscripts. This is damaging their analytical abilities, he says. See (prepare yourself) http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/421a27b4-33fb-11e2-9ae7-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Ftechnology_science%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct&ftcamp=crm/email/2013114/nbe/ScienceEnvironment/product#axzz2HwD96wCU for more. Mr Keating overlooks the fact that the meaning of the term "primary sources" varies rather significantly by discipline, indeed that for some disciplines the primary/secondary distinction doesn't work terribly well if at all. But more important, more widely affective if less obvious in its immediacy, I would think, is the superabundance of these (secondary) sources. When, given how easy it is to find worthy things to read, and how easily one's interests can spread into several disciplines, do you call a halt to the collection of materials to be read? More importantly, does this situation of superabundance signal a new way of thinking about being well informed? 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A01C8ED7; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:35:37 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE5B5E34; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:35:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 03C9FE34; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:35:35 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130115073536.03C9FE34@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:35:35 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.679 "forensics" a magic word? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 679. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:08:32 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: forensics I like to notice words and probe what they're doing, especially what they're doing that tends to pass unnoticed. A word may give us a big push in some direction or other without our knowing we've been pushed. In the linguist J. R. Firth's day, he thought, one of those was "plan". In "The Technique of Semantics" (Transactions of the Philological Society 1935: p. 69), he notes that, > One of the magic words of the age is plan. The mere use of this > word and its derivatives releases certain forces of opinion and > experience and gives the word weight. Its association with certain > influential contexts gives it a power over us in this age of > uncertainty. This, I suspect, is an observation which always works for one or a few words at any given time. And what age is not an age of uncertainty? (See Anthony Giddens' discussion of risk in Modernity and Self-Identity.) On occasion such a "magic word" betrays what an author has in mind but does not want to say, does not realise he or she is saying. It is a tool we can use to get further than we would by just following a person's argument. Ian Hacking uses this tool with great subtlety to powerful effect in his analysis of psychological language in Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory, for example. I wonder if for us one such word is the term of law and legal investigation, "forensic", in the OED's only full definition, "Pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law; suitable or analogous to pleadings in court." I wonder further if when used in an argument having nothing to do with courts of law and their proceedings "forensic" (in a culture saturated by CSI and its kind) this word does not push us toward easier acceptance of an argument as law-like, scientific, safely dangerous, culturally sexy? Court-room metaphors are ancient and powerful -- at least from the time of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures. ("I know that my redeemer liveth" sounds in my mind, with Handel's music, of course.) I am not saying I think they're illegitimate, only asking if we want to own to all the work they do in the 21st Century discourse of the digital humanities? But in any case we can derive much enjoyment from spotting those "magic words", as Firth called them. 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8B82AEE2; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:38:26 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99F58E3E; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:38:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9FDFBE34; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:38:23 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130115073823.9FDFBE34@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:38:23 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.680 job at the National Archives, London; PhD studentship at Queen's Belfast X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 680. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (19) Subject: PhD Studentship at Queens University Belfast [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (11) Subject: Job Vacancy- Digital Preservation Analyst Developer, The National Archives (UK), London --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:23:05 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: PhD Studentship at Queens University Belfast PhD Scholarship (DEL Strategic Award) Interactive Documentary School of Creative Arts Queen’s University Belfast An investigation into, and the design of, interactive software appropriate for use in the Prisons Memory Archive, which is a collection of filmed interviews inside Northern Irish prisons (www.prisonsmemoryarchive.com). The PhD student will address the methodological challenge of designing the most appropriate interactive software so that users will become co-creators of narratives and meanings, rather than simply be exposed to a linear documentary. By involving users as editors and by offering pathways that integrate varied and contrasting memories, the software encourages a witnessing of the ‘other’ experiences, which is crucial in addressing the legacy of a conflicted past and will be of use in other post conflict societies. The applicant should have previous knowledge of software design and experience working with the moving image. Application online at https://dap.qub.ac.uk/portal/user/u_login.php For further information, please contact: Professor Cahal McLaughlin c.mclaughlin@qub.ac.uk 028 90973634 or Dr Paul Ell, paul.ell@qub.ac.uk 028 90973408 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:04:36 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Job Vacancy- Digital Preservation Analyst Developer, The National Archives (UK), London > From: "Clipsham, David" > > Subject: Job Vacancy- Digital Preservation Analyst Developer, The National Archives (UK), London [UNCLASSIFIED] > Date: 14 January 2013 16:49:53 GMT Job Purpose Are you seeking to develop a career in a world leading institution using your skills and experience to influence an entire field of computer science? Building on our award winning experience in the preservation of digital records, we are developing a new Digital Records Infrastructure (DRI) to sustain our rapidly increasing digital collection. At the heart of this system are our internationally acclaimed PRONOM and DROID tools. Significant analysis and development will be needed to enhance the PRONOM / DROID toolkit as records in new file formats come to the archives for preservation. To be successful in this role you will need to draw on your experience in computer science analysis and development to deliver practical, pragmatic enhancements to these tools and systems that focus the processes of file format identification, validation, and property extraction; you will need to direct the work of others to do the same. We are seeking to recruit an analyst developer to lead this work on the PRONOM / DROID toolkit for use inside DRI and elsewhere around the world. The focus of work on PRONOM will be to deliver a new version based on the open linked data paradigm to enhance our ability to collaborate with other archives internationally. The focus of the DROID work will be to enhance the ability to identify text based file formats; other work to develop small “plug –in tools” for the DRI to validate and extract properties from a variety of file formats and developing an overall roadmap for the toolkit will make up the bulk of the remaining work. The role will also provide day-to-day detailed technical advice to the rest of the Digital Preservation team as required. Underpinning the delivery and development of the toolkit will be focused and detailed technical analysis often in the areas of bit and byte manipulation. The analysis and conclusions will inform policy and practice at The National Archives, the wider archive sector and across government. The National Archives has a reputation in this field of international academic significance to which you will contribute. Your successful analysis may result in publication in peer reviewed academic publications. £38,000 p/a. Further information here: http://ig24.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_nationalarchives01.asp?s=PyAxDIfSqHTyVvHqn&jobid=64413,9852215965 David David Clipsham File Format Signature Developer 0208 876 3444 x2319 The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 90B6CF86; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:43:34 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 664C4E71; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:43:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2469FE3E; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:43:31 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130115074331.2469FE3E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:43:31 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.681 events: epigraphy; the arts; Darwin's correspondence; 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. 681. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Graham Diprose (36) Subject: Deadline 18th January: EVA London 2013 Last Call for Proposals [2] From: "Tupman, Charlotte" (33) Subject: EpiDoc Workshop, London, April 22-25, 2013 [3] From: "Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.)" (42) Subject: London Digital Humanities Group Meeting, 12 February: The Darwin Correspondence Project [4] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (35) Subject: London Seminar, 17 January --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:06:20 +0000 From: Graham Diprose Subject: Deadline 18th January: EVA London 2013 Last Call for Proposals ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS LONDON 2013 Monday 29th July - Wednesday 31st July 2013 Venue: British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA www.eva-london.org CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: 18th January 2013 *Visualising* Ideas and concepts in culture, heritage the arts and sciences: digital arts, sound, music, film and animation, 2D and 3D imaging, European projects, archaeology, architecture, social media for museums, heritage and fine art photography, medical visualisation and more OFFERS OF PAPERS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND WORKSHOPS by 18th January 2013 A feature of EVA London 2013 is its varied session types. We invite proposals of papers, demonstrations, short performances, workshops or panel discussions. Demonstrations and performances will be an important part of this year's conference. We especially invite papers or presentations on topical subjects, and the newest and cutting edge technologies and applications. EVA London 2013 will include a digital art exhibition. Only a summary of the proposal, on up to one page, is required for selection. This must be submitted electronically according to the instructions on the EVA London website. Proposals may be on any aspect of EVA London's focus on visualisation for arts and culture, heritage and medical science, broadly interpreted. Papers are peer reviewed and may be edited for publication as hard copy and online. Other presentations may be published as summaries or as papers. If your proposal is a case study, we will be looking for discussions of wider principles or applications using the case study as an example. A few bursaries for EVA London registration fees will again be available if you don't have access to grants. *********************************************************** As a guide for the subject areas EVA London 2013 welcomes, see http://stuartdunn.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/wordle-keywords.jpg *********************************************************** 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*EVA Organising Committee* --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:50:09 +0000 From: "Tupman, Charlotte" Subject: EpiDoc Workshop, London, April 22-25, 2013 We invite applications for a 4-day training workshop on digital text-markup for epigraphic and papyrological editing, to be held in the Institute for Classical Studies, London. The workshop will be taught by Gabriel Bodard (KCL), James Cowey (Heidelberg) and Charlotte Tupman (KCL). There will be no charge for the teaching, but participants will have to arrange their own travel and accommodation. EpiDoc (epidoc.sf.net) is a set of guidelines for using TEI XML (tei-c.org) for the encoding of inscriptions, papyri and other ancient documentary texts. It has been used to publish digital projects including the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias and Tripolitania, the US Epigraphy Project, Vindolanda Tablets Online and Curse Tablets from Roman Britain, Pandektis (inscriptions of Macedonia and Thrace), and the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri. The workshop will introduce participants to the basics of XML and markup and give hands-on experience of tagging textual features and object description in EpiDoc as well as use of the tags-free Papyrological Editor (papyri.info/editor). No technical skills are required to apply, but a working knowledge of Greek or Latin, epigraphy or papyrology and the Leiden Conventions will be assumed. The workshop is open to participants of all levels, from graduate students to professors or professionals. To apply for a place on this workshop please email gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk with a brief description of your reason for interest and summarising your relevant skills and background, by Friday March 1st, 2013. -- Dr. Charlotte Tupman Project Research Associate Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 7145 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:39:30 +0000 From: "Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.)" Subject: London Digital Humanities Group Meeting, 12 February: The Darwin Correspondence Project All are warmly invited to the below meeting. London Digital Humanities Group Meeting 12 February 2013 5.15, Room S264, Senate House, Malet Street, London 'The Darwin Correspondence Project: an academic enterprise deeply embedded in a Library setting' Dr Sophie Defrance (University of Cambridge) The Darwin Correspondence Project is working in Cambridge University Library to publish in hard copy the complete Correspondence of Charles Darwin. More than 15,000 currently known letters written by or to Darwin will be published, in full, by 2022. Although the primary reason for the project and its main work has been to transcribe and edit Darwin's correspondence for publication, the Project is maintaining and constantly improving a website at the address www.darwinproject.ac.uk. Its contents aim at making it possible to use the material as the basis for education at all levels, and for informed research by the general public. An important part of the work of the Darwin Correspondence Project is, in turn, to transform Darwin's letters into a coherent correspondence. This includes: locating and evaluating missing letters, the creation and maintenance of metadata at an item level, and the creation of new interfaces for the retrieval of items in the correspondence. The online database of letter summaries and transcriptions, and linked biographical information, is a major primary resource provided by the site. The seminar will present the Project structure, funding and subsequent objectives and will evoke how the embedded work done by the project team attract users to the library and insure a solid base of users for the website. All are welcome. To confirm your attendance, please complete the form at goo.gl/7HBys Dr Simon Dixon Digital Humanities and Special Collections Manager David Wilson Library University of Leicester University Road Leicester. LE1 7RH T: +44(0)116 252 2056 E: snd6@le.ac.uk W: http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/about/staff/academicliaison/simon-dixon Winner of the 2012 THE Award for Outstanding Library Team Elite Without Being Elitist Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/uniofleicester --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:44:40 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: London Seminar, 17 January 17 January 2013 (Thursday) Venue: Room 234 (Senate House) Time: 17:30 - 19:30 Dr David Berry (University of Swansea): 'Critical Digital Humanities' Digital Humanities have been criticised, perhaps unfairly, for being narrow and lacking cultural critique, most notably by Geert Lovink and Alan Liu. In this paper I want to look at the way in which digital humanities as a field of research can address these critiques. This ranges from the particular research agendas that have become prominent within digital humanities itself, and which are strongly related to prior research interests drawn (or not) from the humanities themselves, and to the new research agenda that is driven primarily in relation to big data, gamification, MOOCs, and the so-called “industrialised” digital humanities. Whilst digital humanities have created critical versions of archives, tools, platforms, etc. and have begun to explore approaches to the use of the computational, how should digital humanities respond to the issues raised by the computational in society, economics, politics, or culture. Does the call for "more hack, less yack", calling for digital humanists to "do" rather than "talk", imply a reluctance to engage critically, or can discussions informed by the hashtag #transformDH, for example, help us to develop a more critical digital humanities. In what ways can hacking and "building" be undertaken in a critical vein and how can these "critical" practices inform theoretical discussions of digital humanities? 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 42A80F90; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:47:52 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E8A6EBA; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:47:51 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F1199E8B; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:47:48 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130115074748.F1199E8B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:47:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.682 pubs: curation; forensics & 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="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. 682. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 2, Research Data Curation Bibliography [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (61) Subject: Digital Forensics and Preservation: New Report Released --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:05:28 +0000 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 2, Research Data Curation Bibliography Digital Scholarship has released version 2 of the Research Data Curation Bibliography. This selective bibliography includes over 200 English-language articles and technical reports that are useful in understanding the curation of digital research data in academic and other research institutions. It has doubled in size since version 1. http://digital-scholarship.org/rdcb/rdcb.htm Most sources have been published from 2000 through 2012; however, a limited number of earlier key sources are also included. The bibliography includes links to freely available versions of included works. If such versions are unavailable, italicized links to the publishers' descriptions are provided. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. Digital Scholarship has also released an XHTML version of its 2012 book, the Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works. This selective bibliography, which has live links, presents over 650 English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. Note that the links have not been updated since 6/11/2012. http://digital-scholarship.org/dcbw/dcbw.htm In addition to this website, the Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works is available as a paperback (98 pages, $9.95, ISBN 1477497692 and ISBN-13: 9781477497692), an open access EPUB file, 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://digital-scholarship.org/about/overview.htm Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen) this message: http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/rcdb2.htm http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/dcb-web.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://digital-scholarship.org/cwbprofile.htm http://digital-scholarship.org/about/overview.htm --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:31:13 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Digital Forensics and Preservation: New Report Released > From: William Kilbride > Subject: Digital Forensics and Preservation: New Report Released > Date: 14 January 2013 15:28:04 GMT Dear All, I’m delighted to announce the release of ‘Digital Forensics and Preservation’ by Jeremy Leighton John of the British Library – the latest in our popular Technology Watch Report series. ‘Digital forensics is associated in many people’s minds primarily with criminal investigations’, explained the author, ‘but forensic methods have emerged as an essential source of tools and approaches for digital preservation, specifically for protecting and investigating evidence from the past.’ ‘There are three basic principles in digital forensics: that the evidence is acquired without altering it; that this is demonstrably so; and that analysis is conducted in an accountable and repeatable way. Digital forensic processes, hardware and software have been designed to ensure compliance with these requirements.’ ‘Forensic technologies allow archivists and curators to identify confidential content, establish a proper chain of custody, transfer data without changing it and detect forgeries and lost items. They can extract metadata and content, enable efficient indexing and searching, and facilitate the management of access.’ Cal Lee from the University of North Carolina, an authority on applying digital forensics to archival collections welcomed the report. ‘Those who know Jeremy Leighton John's work will not be surprised that he provides a great deal of food for thought in this report. Jeremy has been a pioneer in the application of digital forensics to archival collections, and he has thought deeply about the implications of these activities.’ The report will be especially useful to those collecting and managing personal digital archives. The diversity of objects and intricacy of their relationships make personal digital archives highly complex. Almost anything may appear in such an archive, from poet’s drafts, astronomer’s datasets, digital workings of mathematicians, and notes of political reformers. With their diverse content, organization and ancestry, personal digital archives are the epitome of unstructured information and serve as a test bed for refining preservation techniques more generally. This is the fourth report in the DPC Technology Watch Series to have been commissioned with Charles Beagrie Ltd as series editors: recent titles have included Preserving Email, Preserving Digital Sound and Vision, and IPR for Digital Preservation. Four more reports are in development: Preservation, Trust and E-Journals; Preserving Computer Aided Design; Web Archiving; and Preservation Metadata. The series editor has been supported by an Editorial Board drawn from DPC members and peer reviewers who have commented on the text prior to release. The Editorial Board comprises William Kilbride (Chair), Neil Beagrie (Principal Investigator and Managing Editor for the series), Janet Delve (University of Portsmouth), Sarah Higgins (Archives and Records Association), Tim Keefe (Trinity College Dublin), Andrew McHugh (University of Glasgow), Dave Thompson (Wellcome Library). This latest report and the full set of DPC Technology Watch Reports can be accessed online at: http://www.dpconline.org/publications/technology-watch-reports All best wishes, William --Dr William Kilbride FSA Executive Director Digital Preservation Coalition @WilliamKilbride 44 (0)141 330 4522 http://www.dpconline.org/ william@dpconline.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_RHS_DOB autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 53DD6F96; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:49:28 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6966EE2; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:49:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C9965EBA; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:49:26 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130115074926.C9965EBA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:49:26 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.683 on open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 683. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Patrick Durusau (35) Subject: Overreaching and Aaron Swartz [2] From: Andrew Prescott (13) Subject: Open Access Publication [3] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (14) Subject: Open Access --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:44:07 -0500 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Overreaching and Aaron Swartz Willard, I don't doubt overreaching by prosecutors was a major cause of the recent loss of Aaron Swartz. But, we should not be too quick to blame only the prosecutors in an effort to absolve ourselves from some share of responsibility. Most of us have voted for or supported government officials who made violation of intellectual property laws criminal acts. Members of the public are paying the expenses of protecting the private intellectual property owners. Backing up that protection with the power of the state to imprison. We have participated in the creation of a privileged class and state apparatus to serve it. We all regret the loss of Aaron Swartz, but we put the gun in the hand of prosecutors who pulled the trigger. If we seriously regret losing Aaron, decriminalizing all intellectual property laws is a first step in demonstrating our regret. Not tweaking the overburden of IP laws, not attempting to redraw the boundaries of privilege and fair use, all of which are important steps, but steps that can wait. The first step is to remove the whip of the state from the hands of intellectual property owners. The rest will naturally follow. Hope you are at the start of a great week! Patrick PS: There is a memorial site for Aaron Swartz: http://www.rememberaaronsw.com/ -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) 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: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:49:12 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Open Access Publication A further intervention from the Royal Historical Society: http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/RHSPresidentE-letterJanuary2013.pdf 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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:21:41 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Open Access *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1358188322_2013-01-14_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_27027.2.pdf This letter from the Forum for Archives and Records Management in Education and Research to the Minister for Universities and Science is worth noting together with the RHS letter [in the previous number of Humanist]. 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 http://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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A87D1E3E; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:23:50 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C249E12; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:23:48 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EEBC9E11; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:23:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130116062345.EEBC9E11@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:23:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.684 forensics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 684. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:03:07 -0500 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 26.679 "forensics" a magic word? In-Reply-To: <20130115073536.03C9FE34@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, I subtitled my book "the forensic imagination" and offered a coda with the same name wherein I lay out a set of aesthetic and epistemological valences for the term. I'd prefer not to try the patience of the list by recapitulating the material here. Matt On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 679. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:08:32 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: forensics > > > I like to notice words and probe what they're doing, especially what > they're doing that tends to pass unnoticed. A word may give us a big > push in some direction or other without our knowing we've been pushed. > In the linguist J. R. Firth's day, he thought, one of those was "plan". > In "The Technique of Semantics" (Transactions of the Philological > Society 1935: p. 69), he notes that, > >> One of the magic words of the age is plan. The mere use of this >> word and its derivatives releases certain forces of opinion and >> experience and gives the word weight. Its association with certain >> influential contexts gives it a power over us in this age of >> uncertainty. > > This, I suspect, is an observation which always works for one or a few > words at any given time. And what age is not an age of uncertainty? > (See Anthony Giddens' discussion of risk in Modernity and Self-Identity.) > > On occasion such a "magic word" betrays what an author has in mind > but does not want to say, does not realise he or she is saying. It is a > tool we can use to get further than we would by just following a person's > argument. Ian Hacking uses this tool with great subtlety to powerful > effect in his analysis of psychological language in Rewriting the Soul: > Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory, for example. > > I wonder if for us one such word is the term of law and legal > investigation, "forensic", in the OED's only full definition, > "Pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law; suitable or > analogous to pleadings in court." I wonder further if when used in an > argument having nothing to do with courts of law and their proceedings > "forensic" (in a culture saturated by CSI and its kind) this word does > not push us toward easier acceptance of an argument as law-like, > scientific, safely dangerous, culturally sexy? > > Court-room metaphors are ancient and powerful -- at least from the time > of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures. ("I know that my redeemer > liveth" sounds in my mind, with Handel's music, of course.) I am not > saying I think they're illegitimate, only asking if we want to own to > all the work they do in the 21st Century discourse of the digital > humanities? But in any case we can derive much enjoyment from spotting > those "magic words", as Firth called them. > > 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, > University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews > (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); > 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 -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://mkirschenbaum.net and @mkirschenbaum on Twitter Track Changes tumblr: http://trackchangesbook.tumblr.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9FF84EBA; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:25:33 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 036AFE52; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:25:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C0B82E4A; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:25:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130116062530.C0B82E4A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:25:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.685 call for nominations: Book Reviews Editor, ISR X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 685. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:14:53 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: call for nominations Call for nominations and expressions of interest: Book Reviews Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews www.isr-journal.org The journal Interdisciplinary Science Reviews is an international quarterly journal devoted to conceptual bridge-building among the disciplines of the physical, biological and social sciences, engineering and technology, mathematics, medicine, humanities and arts. ISR seeks out contributions that measure up to the highest excellence in scholarship but that also speak to an audience of intelligent non-specialists. It actively explores the differing trajectories of the disciplines and practices in its purview, to clarify what each is attempting to do in its own terms, so that constructive dialogue across them is strengthened. It focuses on individual and collaborative research across disciplines that nevertheless respects disciplinary variation. Most issues of ISR are thematic and are the immediate responsibility of guest editors who are expert in the disciplinary areas of the designated theme. Submissions are normally peer-reviewed in the usual double-blind manner. The position The Book Reviews Editor is responsible for working with the Editor and guest editors and with publishers to assemble reviews of books across the disciplines but, whenever possible, related to the theme of the issue. Approximately ten per cent of each issue, that is, nine or ten pages, is allocated to book reviews. The format may range from extended "essay reviews" to more concise reviews of single or groups of books. The position is without remuneration. It offers the opportunity to work with leading figures in helping to bring greater understanding and prominence to work across the scientific, humanistic and artistic disciplines. Interested individuals should contact the Editor. Professor Willard McCarty, FRAI Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews www.mccarty.org.uk/ willard.mccarty@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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3E0C0EE2; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:26:43 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87A29EB6; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:26:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 043F0E86; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:26:39 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130116062640.043F0E86@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:26:39 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.686 research grant, history of technology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 686. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:44:13 -0500 From: Andrew Butrica Subject: Pam Laird Research Grant The Mercurians, a Special Interest Group of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), is offering the Pam Laird Research Grant, a grant of US$1,000 to defray the cost of travel and housing to use a research collection. The Mercurians began meeting in 1986 for the purpose of generating networks between people who share work and interests in the history of communication technologies, defining the field broadly. Our activities include publishing a semi-annual newsletter, Antenna, meeting during annual SHOT conferences, organizing paper sessions for SHOT meetings, and pursuing contacts between meetings via our Google Groups list. The newsletter serves both as a clearing house for readers and an informal forum for their ideas. We have added this new initiative to encourage and reward high-caliber research in the history of communication technologies. One of the Mercurians’ missions is to encourage scholarship in the history of communication technologies. There is no travel grant program (either within or outside SHOT) that we are aware of dedicated to supporting scholarship on the history of communication technologies. While the history of communication technology literature is vast and always growing, the quality of the research effort or resulting publication too often falls short of scholarly expectations. In general, the travel grant is awarded in alternating years. We already have awarded two such travel grants during the 2011 SHOT annual meeting in Cleveland. The next grant (or grants) will be announced during the 2013 SHOT meeting in Portland, Maine. Eligibility The grant is intended for and limited to junior scholars­meaning either current graduate students or recent postgraduates (no more than three years beyond the terminal degree in their field). Requirements and Application Only travel to an appropriate archival collection to carry out research on an aspect of the history of communication technology, broadly defined, will be supported. The archive can be open to the public, private, or even closed, provided that necessary permissions have been obtained from the archive. Complete the application form (available at: http://www.mercurians.org/grant-form.doc) and e-mail it and a curriculum vitae (no longer than 3 pages) as attachments to the Mercurians c/o abutrica@earthlink.net Your curriculum vitae should include pertinent publications, fellowships, or accomplishments relevant to your proposed research, and professional societies and affiliations. The deadline for submitting an application for the inaugural grant is May 1, 2013. For further information or questions, please contact Andrew Butrica at abutrica@earthlink.net or visit our website: www.mercurians.org Andrew J. Butrica, Ph.D. Research Historian Voice: (301) 656-3486 Fax: (301) 656-3486 (please call first) E-mail: abutrica@earthlink.net "Il faut cultiver nôtre jardin." Voltaire, Candide. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 17826ED0; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:28:55 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 295D0ED7; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:28:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4581CE4A; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:28:53 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130116062853.4581CE4A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:28:53 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.687 calls for submissions: Anvil; Journal of Digital Culture & Electronic Scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 687. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Lisa Spiro (69) Subject: Deadline for Anvil's Built Upon CFP extended [2] From: "Journal of Digital Culture & Electronic Scholarship" (19) Subject: CFP: Journal of DigitalCulture and Electronic Scholarship 1 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:36:31 -0600 From: Lisa Spiro Subject: Deadline for Anvil's Built Upon CFP extended Anvil Academic, a digital publisher for the humanities, announces that the deadline for proposals to its Built Upon series has been extended to January 31, 2013. The Built Upon series encourages authors to investigate and invigorate pre-existing digital tools and collections in developing their own scholarly arguments or pedagogical projects. What we’re looking for Our main focus is work–in whatever form–that is imaginative and innovative in its approach to the possibilities of digital publication. Such innovation can take place at the level of either form or content (or both). For instance, a project might answer pressing questions about how specific digital tools (say topic models or network visualizations) inform critical inquiry writ large. Or they might deploy such tools to contribute pioneering responses to core, field-specific discussions, or explore new approaches to scholarly arguments that take advantage of the affordances of digital publication. We want the Built Upon series to be an incubator and an accelerator of humanities innovation–a space where the craft, artistry, and objective rigor of humanistic pursuits find new and surprising modes of expression. Key themes and partners We have identified three broad themes for Built Upon and have commitments to participate from leading digital archives and web-based tools within these clusters: - Civil War America: partners include Valley of the Shadow http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/ , Civil War Washington http://civilwardc.org/ , The People’s Contest http://peoplescontest.psu.edu/ and the University of Florida Digital Collections’ Florida and the Civil War http://ufdc.ufl.edu/wbts - 19th-Century Studies: partners include many of the NINES http://www.nines.org/ federated projects, and the University of Florida Digital Collections’ The Parkman Dexter Howe Library http://ufdc.ufl.edu/howe1 and Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature http://ufdc.ufl.edu/juv - Classical Studies: partners include Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ , ORBIS http://orbis.stanford.edu/ , and Homer Multitext http://www.homermultitext.org/ Contributors should "build upon" one or more digital collections*--including but not limited to partner collections*. Submission guidelines Since we aim to expand the possibilities of digital scholarship, we are open to any work that advances both traditional and digital scholarship and breaks new ground in its use of digital collections. We expect that authors will make their own work open to commentary and discussion and respond to other projects in the cluster. In your 500-1000 word proposal, please *describe*: - the project’s argument and scholarly significance - digital collections/ tools you intend to use (and how you would like to use them) - anticipated audience - potential technical approaches When evaluating submissions, reviewers will be looking for projects that: - define and develop emerging conversations within a field - offer a creative and critical contribution to the field, taking advantage of the capabilities of digital technologies to, for example, embed media, foster interactivity, facilitate commentary and conversation, enable readers to query and explore supporting evidence, and/or construct new structures for argumentation - advance interdisciplinary approaches and/or methodologies - employ innovative formats and appropriate technology - are feasible and sustainable Please submit your proposal and CV(s) via email to Fred Moody, Anvil editor, at fmoody@anvilacademic.org. For more information about the Built Upon series, please see http://anvilacademic.org/submission-guidelines/built-upon-series-cfp/ Anticipated timeline - January 31, 2013: 500-1000 word proposal due - February 20, 2013: Review of proposals completed and authors notified of status of their proposals - May 20, 2013: Completed draft project due --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:47:53 +0000 From: "Journal of Digital Culture & Electronic Scholarship" Subject: CFP: Journal of DigitalCulture and Electronic Scholarship 1 Dear Reviewers, Please find attached a CFP for the first issue of the *Journal of Digital Culture and Electronic Scholarship*. We would appreciate if you could circulate this among relevant students and colleagues, and encourage submissions. Of course - tweets, blog posts etc are also of use! Submissions are also welcome from yourselves, but of course will be subject to the same peer review process as standard contributors. My hope is that we can all contribute to the building of a new international and open platform for the dissemination of digital scholarship. Sincerest thanks, James -- *Journal of Digital Culture and Electronic Scholarship* http://jdces.org Twitter: @jdces_updates http://twitter.com/jdces_updates *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1358287021_2013-01-15_editor@jdces.org_21811.2.pdf _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 947F010CD; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:22:43 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0D27F90; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:22:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 59F66F8E; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:22:41 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130117092241.59F66F8E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:22:41 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.688 forensics of terminology? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 688. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:05:22 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: forensics of terminology I would have a critical essay at least as long and as solid as Matt Kirschenbaum's "Coda: The Forensic Imagination" on each term we find ourselves using, or like Geoffrey Nunberg's historically informed "Farewell to the Information Age". Do we have anything up to this mark on "collaboration"? "archive"? "memory"? -- indeed, as Jerry McGann has said, "text"? What are our other Firthian magic words? I now imagine a series of doctoral dissertations in digital philology, which would fit nicely into our PhD in Digital Humanities programme. Applications would be most welcome. My note on "forensics" was intended as an initial nudge, prompted by a long-standing unrest at the poor, ill-nourished state of the vocabulary of the digital humanities. That we should not yet have a robust language for what we do is hardly surprising, but that doesn't make it any the less of a problem. A second prompt came from my discovery of Kurt Danziger's Naming the Mind: How Psychology Found its Language (London: Sage, 1997). In the initial chapter of that book he recounts an experience attempting to design a seminar in psychology at an Indonesian university with an Indonesian colleague. Neither scholar could recognise the terms used by the other nor understand why he would ask the questions he was asking. All the basic equipment of thought about what we call psychological phenomena, what these phenomena are and so forth, both discovered to be utterly different across the two cultures: > ...his topics were not only unfamiliar to me, I found his description > of them hard to follow. They did not seem to me to constitute natural > domains, and the questions to which they led seemed to be based on > assumptions I could not share. Then he pointed out that I too was > making a few assumptions which he found equally difficult to accept. > In drawing up our list of topics and in formulating our questions > about them we were both taking a lot for granted, but agreement on > what was to be taken for granted proved quite elusive. It became > obvious that if we were to have a joint seminar it would quickly turn > into a discussion of philosophical, not psychological, issues. That > was not what I had had in mind. (p. 2) Quite quickly we find ourselves on the comparative terrain explored so brilliantly by Geoffrey Lloyd, e.g. in Cognitive Variations: Reflections on the Unity and Diversity of the Human Mind (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007). But, as Danziger says, the immediate questions for a discipline that finds itself on such uncertain terrain, lies with its own discourse. So, again: what are our key terms? What do we mean by them? How are our meanings ours? 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2A525114D; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:24:04 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F814F99; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:24:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AF6B2F96; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:24:01 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130117092401.AF6B2F96@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:24:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.689 post-doc at Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 689. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:59:57 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities Five College Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities With generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Five Colleges, Incorporated invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Digital Humanities beginning in the academic year 2013-14. The position will be based at one of the consortiumÂ’s associated institutions (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith colleges and the University of Massachusetts Amherst). While the Ph.D. field and the eventual assigned department(s) are open, we especially seek candidates engaged in interdisciplinary work in the humanities who bring to their research and teaching the theoretical, methodological, and technical practice of digital technologies. Along with fluency in the intellectual and theoretical challenges posed by the emerging field of digital humanities, we expect candidates to have experience in computational approaches to interpretation, whether the interpretive focus rests on performances, architectural or urban settings, texts, images, and/or other artifacts. Expertise could be in geographic information systems, visualization, text-mining or other modes of computer or internet-based work, as well as new modes of presenting work in electronic formats. This position is part of a Five College initiative to support exceptionally promising young scholars, offering an opportunity to pursue teaching and research for two years. The fellow will teach two undergraduate courses each year, one each semester. (There will be a home institution and one other campus where teaching will occur, both to be determined such that the successful candidateÂ’s field of specialization can be best supported with mentors.) Because this post-doctoral program is designed to provide the fellow with valuable teaching experience and time to complete and publish research prior to seeking a full-time tenure-track position, the fellow will also be expected to pursue an independent research program vigorously. The fellow will fully participate in one of the nationÂ’s most vibrant academic collaborations, with support from colleagues and library and research facilities at all five campuses, each located within 20 minutes drive of the others. The fellow will be paired with research and teaching mentors in closely related fields and will be an active participant in the Five College Digital Humanities Project (https://www.fivecolleges.edu/dh) with the opportunity to collaborate with scholars engaged with the Digital Humanities Initiative at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. This postdoctoral fellowship is a full-time salaried appointment ($50,000) with excellent benefits and $5,000 in research support each year. It is open only to recent Ph.D. recipients; the fellow must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. by September 2013 and no earlier than June 2010. Review of applications will begin January 30, 2013, and continue until the position is filled. Apply at: https://secure.interfolio.com/apply/20723. Dana Leibsohn Faculty Director, 5 College Digital Humanites Art Department, Smith College Northampton, MA 01063 -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,DEAR_SOMETHING autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E00B7114D; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:27:55 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 089F1F99; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:27:55 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 89B5AF96; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:27:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130117092752.89B5AF96@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:27:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.690 events: i-Society; European Summer School; culture & CS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 690. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: kcl - digitalhumanities (38) Subject: FW: Call for abstracts: 11th Conference on Culture and Computer Science at Pergamonmuseum Berlin, Germany [2] From: Elisabeth Burr (44) Subject: "Culture & Technology" - European Summer School in Digital Humanities: bursaries for partner universities [3] From: David Brown (144) Subject: Call for Papers: International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2013)! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:48:46 +0000 From: kcl - digitalhumanities Subject: FW: Call for abstracts: 11th Conference on Culture and Computer Science at Pergamonmuseum Berlin, Germany In-Reply-To: <6566E54A-DB3E-4618-AAF6-FB17F71A9762@htw-berlin.de> > From: Julia Heisig > > Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2013 12:20 > Subject: Call for abstracts: 11th Conference on Culture and Computer Science at Pergamonmuseum Berlin, Germany Dear Sir or Madam, The University of Applied Sciences Berlin (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin) organizes the annual scientific conference "Culture and computer science". The 11th edition of the conference series brings into focus best practice examples, challenges, and future trends in the fields of visualisation and interaction. Please find more information at our website: http://inka.htw-berlin.de/kui/13/about Main topics are: * Visualisation and Interaction Technologies * System of information, visualization and communication in urban spaces * Interactive multimedia solutions for museums, theaters, concert halls, exhibitions, etc. * Interactive systems in cultural and creative industries * Municipal and touristic information system * Digital exhibitions, science centers, museums and galleries * Virtual reconstructions * augmented reality * Media architecture, digital extension of buildings and urban districts * Position and context-sensitive services * documentation, visualization and interaction in museums and archives * Game-based information processing * Digital storytelling * Multimedia guides * further research activies and reference implementations related to the topic "visualization, exploration, interaction" You will find a call for papers at the website. Proposals for oral presentations, posters, or demonstrations can be submitted in German or English language before January 31, 2013. Abstracts (1-3 DIN A4 pages) must contain title, author(s), the scope of the paper, emphasize on new advances, theories and/or applications and include an analysis of results and findings. We would be delighted if you would send in an abstract. Best regards, Julia Heisig ___________________________________ Julia Heisig M.A. Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW) Berlin Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Projekt FKI | Forschungsgruppe INKA Postanschrift: Wilhelminenhofstr. 75 A | 12459 Berlin Besucheranschrift: TGS | Ostendstraße 25 Gebäude 2 Eingang Slabystraße | 12459 Berlin Tel. +49 30 50193629 julia.heisig@htw-berlin.de --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:46:17 +0100 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: "Culture & Technology" - European Summer School in Digital Humanities: bursaries for partner universities In-Reply-To: <6566E54A-DB3E-4618-AAF6-FB17F71A9762@htw-berlin.de> We are happy that we can announce that there will be bursaries which should cover accommodation during the 4th European Summer School in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology" (end of July - beginning of August 2013, exact dates will be announced shortly) for participants coming from the following universities: Bulgaria: Sofiski Uniwersitet Sw. Kliment Ochridski Poland: Uniwersytet Wroclawski Uniwersytet Jagiellonski w Krakowie Rumania: Universitatea Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca Russia: Moskowski gosudarstwenny uniwersitet im. M. W. Lomonosowa Sankt-Peterburgski gosudarstwenny uniwersitet Kazanski gosudarstwenny uniwersitet Slovenia: Univerza v Ljubljani Cech Republic:Univerzita Karlova v Praze Ukraine: Kiewski nazionalny uniwersitet im. Tarasa Schewtschenko Belarus: Beloruski gosudarstvenny uniwersitet People who belong to these universities, whether as (doctoral) students, researchers or faculty and are interested in taking part in the Summer School are requested to send a mail to esu_ct@uni-leipzig.de subject: ESU DH C & T 2013: partner universities, stating the university they belong to and their status, as soon as possible, so that we get an idea of how many people might come from these universities. Please note: The mail you send does not mean that you will get a place at the Summer School. There will be an application process as every year. More information will be available shortly at: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ Best, Elisabeth Burr ---------- Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft - Direktorin - 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: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:49:53 +0000 (GMT) From: David Brown Subject: Call for Papers: International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2013)! In-Reply-To: <6566E54A-DB3E-4618-AAF6-FB17F71A9762@htw-berlin.de> CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************************** International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2013), 24-26 June, 2013 University of Toronto, Hart House, Toronto, Canada www.i-society.eu ********************************************************************************* The i-Society is a global knowledge-enriched collaborative effort that has its roots from both academia and industry. The conference covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to information society, which includes technical and non-technical research areas. The mission of i-Society 2013 conference is to provide opportunities for collaboration of professionals and researchers to share existing and generate new knowledge in the field of information society. The conference encapsulates the concept of interdisciplinary science that studies the societal and technological dimensions of knowledge evolution in digital society. The i-Society bridges the gap between academia and industry with regards to research collaboration and awareness of current development in secure information management in the digital society. The topics in i-Society 2013 include but are not confined to the following areas: *New enabling technologies - Internet technologies - Wireless applications - Mobile Applications - Multimedia Applications - Protocols and Standards - Ubiquitous Computing - Virtual Reality - Human Computer Interaction - Geographic information systems - e-Manufacturing *Intelligent data management - Intelligent Agents - Intelligent Systems - Intelligent Organisations - Content Development - Data Mining - e-Publishing and Digital Libraries - Information Search and Retrieval - Knowledge Management - e-Intelligence - Knowledge networks *Secure Technologies - Internet security - Web services and performance - Secure transactions - Cryptography - Payment systems - Secure Protocols - e-Privacy - e-Trust - e-Risk - Cyber law - Forensics - Information assurance - Mobile social networks - Peer-to-peer social networks - Sensor networks and social sensing *e-Learning - Collaborative Learning - Curriculum Content Design and Development - Delivery Systems and Environments - Educational Systems Design - e-Learning Organisational Issues - Evaluation and Assessment - Virtual Learning Environments and Issues - Web-based Learning Communities - e-Learning Tools - e-Education *e-Society - Global Trends - Social Inclusion - Intellectual Property Rights - Social Infonomics - Computer-Mediated Communication - Social and Organisational Aspects - Globalisation and developmental IT - Social Software *e-Health - Data Security Issues - e-Health Policy and Practice - e-Healthcare Strategies and Provision - Medical Research Ethics - Patient Privacy and Confidentiality - e-Medicine *e-Governance - Democracy and the Citizen - e-Administration - Policy Issues - Virtual Communities *e-Business - Digital Economies - Knowledge economy - eProcurement - National and International Economies - e-Business Ontologies and Models - Digital Goods and Services - e-Commerce Application Fields - e-Commerce Economics - e-Commerce Services - Electronic Service Delivery - e-Marketing - Online Auctions and Technologies - Virtual Organisations - Teleworking - Applied e-Business - Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) *e-Art - Legal Issues - Patents - Enabling technologies and tools *e-Science - Natural sciences in digital society - Biometrics - Bioinformatics - Collaborative research *Industrial developments - Trends in learning - Applied research - Cutting-edge technologies * Research in progress - Ongoing research from undergraduates, graduates/postgraduates and professionals Important Dates: Paper Submission Date: February 20, 2013 Short Paper (Extended Abstract or Work in Progress): February 01, 2013 Notification of Paper Acceptance /Rejection: March 15, 2013 Notification of Short Paper (Extended Abstract/Work in Progress) Acceptance /Rejection: February 20, 2013 Camera Ready Paper and Short Paper Due: March 31, 2013 Workshop/Tutorial Proposal Submission: February 15, 2013 Notification of Workshop/Tutorial Acceptance: March 01, 2013 Special Track Proposal Submission: February 05, 2013 Notification of Special Track Acceptance/Rejection: February 25, 2013 Poster/Demo Proposal Submission: March 31, 2013 Notification of Poster/Demo Acceptance: April 10, 2013 Participant(s) Registration (Open): January 01, 2013 to June 15, 2013 Early Bird Attendee Registration Deadline: January 01, 2013 to March 31, 2013 Late Bird Attendee Registration Deadline: April 01, 2013 to June 15, 2013 Conference Dates: June 24-26, 2013 For more details, please visit www.i-society.eu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9D1BE2C60; 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:38:37 +0000 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The January/February 2013 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Greetings: The January/February 2013 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains five articles and a lengthy report on the CNI Fall Membership Meeting. The 'In Brief' column presents five short pieces and excerpts from recent press releases. In addition you will find news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in the 'Clips and Pointers' column. This month, D-Lib features the Yale Center for British Art, the largest collection of British art outside the United Kingdom. The articles include: Institutional Repositories: Exploration of Costs and Value Article by C. Sean Burns, Amy Lana and John M. Budd, University of Missouri 'Oh, you wanted us to preserve that?!' Statements of Preservation Intent for the National Library of Australia's Digital Collections Article by Colin Webb, David Pearson and Paul Koerbin, National Library of Australia A Technical Framework for Resource Synchronization Article by Martin Klein, Robert Sanderson and Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Simeon Warner and Bernhard Haslhofer, Cornell University; Carl Lagoze, University of Michigan; Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University Archiving and Recovering Database-driven Websites Article by Michael Rumianek, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Deutschland & Global Village GmbH, Voerde, Deutschland Planting the Green Seeds for a Golden Harvest: Comments and Clarifications on "Going for Gold" Article by John Houghton, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia and Alma Swan, Key Perspectives, Truro, United Kingdom 2012 CNI Fall Membership Meeting: Scholarship for the Future Conference Report by Carol Minton Morris, DuraSpace See the In Brief column for more reports on conferences and workshops. D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the January/February 2013 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AD79010C2; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:58:50 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72874F90; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:58:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 39AFEF8E; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:58:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130118065847.39AFEF8E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:58:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.692 forensics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 692. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (95) Subject: Re: 26.688 forensics of terminology? [2] From: Alan Galey (52) Subject: Re: 26.688 forensics of terminology? [3] From: David R (17) Subject: Forensics --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:24:02 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Re: 26.688 forensics of terminology? In-Reply-To: <20130117092241.59F66F8E@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, The thought that immediately crossed my mind in reading your comment was Raymond Williams's 'Keywords'. This of course was originally intended as a lengthy appendix to 'Culture and Society'. Williams's forensic dissection of these keywords was one of the foundations of the British intellectual tradition of cultural studies, and has helped transform the wider study of literature. I think it is fascinating and totally appropriate that a recent Stanford exercise in quantitative reading (recently discussed by Alan Liu) should revisit Williams's 'Keywords'. But Williams was of course concerned with historical terminology, and your suggestion is more about a critical examination of the terminology we use in our rhetoric in support of the digital humanities. You are right that we unthinkingly take over certain words as central to our approach without any very deep analysis or reflection on how we use them. Looking at those words critically might make us rethink many aspects of the ways we approach our developing subject. In recent talks (on my blog, digitalriffs.blogspot.com) I've tried to suggest that we use words like 'project', 'collaboration' and 'interdisciplinary' rather unthinkingly, and these words could do with the kind of rigorous analysis you suggest (which my initial forays certainly do not represent). Other words we should analyse perhaps are: 'team', 'access', 'curation', 'discovery', 'academic', 'scholarly', 'rigorous'. Another interesting one here, with many Wiliams overtones, is 'crowd'. Maybe we should establish a wiki to share such digital humanities keywords. In my view, such reflective analysis of terms and concepts which are increasingly becoming all pervasive should be one of the major things that the humanities brings to a digital world. 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 On 17 Jan 2013, at 09:22, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 688. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:05:22 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: forensics of terminology > > > I would have a critical essay at least as long and as solid as Matt > Kirschenbaum's "Coda: The Forensic Imagination" on each term we find > ourselves using, or like Geoffrey Nunberg's historically informed "Farewell > to the Information Age". Do we have anything up to this mark on > "collaboration"? "archive"? "memory"? -- indeed, as Jerry McGann has said, > "text"? What are our other Firthian magic words? I now imagine a series of > doctoral dissertations in digital philology, which would fit nicely into our > PhD in Digital Humanities programme. Applications would be most welcome. > > My note on "forensics" was intended as an initial nudge, prompted by a > long-standing unrest at the poor, ill-nourished state of the vocabulary > of the digital humanities. That we should not yet have a robust language > for what we do is hardly surprising, but that doesn't make it any the > less of a problem. > > A second prompt came from my discovery of Kurt Danziger's Naming the > Mind: How Psychology Found its Language (London: Sage, 1997). In the > initial chapter of that book he recounts an experience attempting to > design a seminar in psychology at an Indonesian university with an > Indonesian colleague. Neither scholar could recognise the terms used by > the other nor understand why he would ask the questions he was asking. > All the basic equipment of thought about what we call psychological > phenomena, what these phenomena are and so forth, both discovered to be > utterly different across the two cultures: > >> ...his topics were not only unfamiliar to me, I found his description >> of them hard to follow. They did not seem to me to constitute natural >> domains, and the questions to which they led seemed to be based on >> assumptions I could not share. Then he pointed out that I too was >> making a few assumptions which he found equally difficult to accept. >> In drawing up our list of topics and in formulating our questions >> about them we were both taking a lot for granted, but agreement on >> what was to be taken for granted proved quite elusive. It became >> obvious that if we were to have a joint seminar it would quickly turn >> into a discussion of philosophical, not psychological, issues. That >> was not what I had had in mind. (p. 2) > > Quite quickly we find ourselves on the comparative terrain explored so > brilliantly by Geoffrey Lloyd, e.g. in Cognitive Variations: Reflections > on the Unity and Diversity of the Human Mind (Oxford: Clarendon Press, > 2007). But, as Danziger says, the immediate questions for a discipline > that finds itself on such uncertain terrain, lies with its own discourse. > > So, again: what are our key terms? What do we mean by them? How are our > meanings ours? > > 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, > University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews > (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); > www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:05:51 -0500 From: Alan Galey Subject: Re: 26.688 forensics of terminology? In-Reply-To: <20130117092241.59F66F8E@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, I've found the Routledge New Critical Idiom series of books to be helpful in chasing down the histories of terms. Recently I read Anne Whitehead's fine entry on Memory (2009), which serves as a gateway drug for yet more addictive stuff like Nora, Ricoeur, and Carruthers. What I like about these books is that they're written not to be the last word on their topic, but the first word (as it were) for students or more advanced researchers looking laterally to other fields. "Archive(s)" is a trickier term, and even going back to a sober, professional archives glossary for a stable origin will likely yield a three-part definition along the lines of records/building/institution. However, I'd suggest that looking for the origins of terms needs to be balanced by considering their destinations, too, in the spirit of philology and forensics alike -- and Raymond Williams, who's hovering at the edge of this discussion. In that spirit, I'd recommend three readings as an aggregate starting-point for understanding the term "archive": -- Marlene Manoff, “Theories of the Archive from Across the Disciplines,” Portal: Libraries and the Academy 4.1 (2004): 9–25. -- Andrew Prescott, “The Textuality of the Archive,” in What Are Archives? Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives: A Reader, ed. Louise Craven (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2008) -- Michael J. O'Driscoll, “Derrida, Foucault, and the Archiviolithics of History,” in After Poststructuralism: Writing the Intellectual History of Theory, ed. Tilottama Rajan and Michael O'Driscoll (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002) That gives the reader a potent concoction of critical theory, history, and the literature of archivists themselves -- the latter, especially, too often goes unread by non-archivists. (Fun fact about archival studies: like DH, it's a field that has an open-access journal as one of its top 2 or 3 journals: http://journals.sfu.ca/archivar/) This is all very much on my mind recently as I'm working on a book chapter that attempts to bridge the worlds of archival theory (by archivists), archival theory (by poststructuralists, some of whom are archivists), and textual scholars. As a non-archivist myself, who came to the term through Derrida, I've had my eyes opened by teaching archives students and being down the hall from archives scholars in an iSchool. There's much to learn from that field. One last meta-comment about something you said in your original post, Willard: "That we should not yet have a robust language for what we do is hardly surprising." There's a lot of invisible weight resting on the word "we" in this statement. It's what I call a "load-bearing pronoun" when I discuss critical reading with my students. Perhaps one could say that a plural sense of identity helps one to find the robust language you're seeking? Best, Alan -- Alan Galey Assistant Professor University of Toronto individual.utoronto.ca/alangaley/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:42:51 -0500 From: David R Subject: Forensics In-Reply-To: <20130117092241.59F66F8E@digitalhumanities.org> A brief note: we might use the term forensic historian (for instance) to describe work in historical methods or documentation that is of such calibre as to be admissible in a court of law. The point is that it meets the legal-judicial field's standards -- whether "clear, convincing, and unequivocal" or "beyond reasonable doubt", depending on the matter (and obviously, only in common law systems). At the same time, such forensic work is also accountable to the standards of its own profession -- the historical methodology in this example. With no room for error, such a forensics is obliged to recognize what is establish as fact, and what is probable, possible or deduced. It does not advocate; it assesses to the highest standard possible. (It is therefore challengable by an opponent on all of these terms and bases, as well.) Perhaps the common (non-legal) use of this term implies a specialization in micro-study -- in history, the history of the everyday (Alltasgeschichte), which sifts and describes the granularity of actions and events from the lowest possible level, a realm with which few professional historians occupy themselves for very long. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9302B2C57; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:01:55 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C33B2F8E; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:01:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 799ECF8E; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:01:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130118070152.799ECF8E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:01:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.693 jobs at Cambridge; postdoc at the Five Colleges X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 693. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dana Leibsohn (12) Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowship/Digital Humanities, Five Colleges Inc. (USA) [2] From: Jenna Ng (33) Subject: Two research associate jobs at Cambridge University (0.2) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:07:52 -0500 From: Dana Leibsohn Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowship/Digital Humanities, Five Colleges Inc. (USA) Dear Colleagues, The Five Colleges consortium (Massachusetts) is currently searching for a postdoctoral fellow in digital humanities (the position is for two years, and involves both teaching and research). I would appreciate your help in circulating the call. If you have questions about the position, please write to me directly. Many thanks, Dana Leibsohn Faculty Director, 5C Digital Humanities Department of Art, Smith College dleibsoh@smith.edu *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1358419921_2013-01-17_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_18981.2.pdf --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:06:08 +0000 From: Jenna Ng Subject: Two research associate jobs at Cambridge University (0.2) In-Reply-To: We are recruiting two early career research associates - one in multi-media programming; the other in digital anthropology or sociology - to work part-time on "Digital Bridges: 'Have you lost your password?'", based at the University of Cambridge. Directed by Professor Simon Goldhill (CRASSH) with Dr Jenna Ng (CRASSH) as the project leader, this project is co-funded and co-sponsored by the AHRC and the Palace Theatre at Watford, a leading regional theatre. The Palace Theatre, under the directorship of Brigid Larmour, has noticed that there is very little theatrical exploration of the new digital world and has consequently commissioned three writers to produce pieces, going into rehearsals in the summer of 2013, on the role of the digital in society. The three playwrights are Stacey Gregg, E.V. Crow and Gary Owen (three young but successful writers whose work has been performed at the Royal Court, The Bush and the National Theatre of Wales). The goal is to establish a network of creative exchange between new digital research and its potential for drama through a discussion between theatre practitioners and active researchers in the digital world, leading to performances in the theatre and pre- and after-show discussions with theatre makes, academics and audiences. This exchange will also involve training for our early career academics first in the interface between research and the creative arts, specifically with regard to theatre, and, second, in the issue of science and society - how the public can be intelligently and creatively informed about the consequences and implication of scientific development. Applicants should be high-calibre early career researchers (within 8 years of the award of their PhD, or have submitted their thesis and be awaiting examination). Please see http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/89/vacancies.htm for more information, including application procedure. Application deadline is *12 noon, 25 January 2013.* Best /jn _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AAF2E2C5D; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:04:19 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE672C57; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:04:18 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5E2C710C2; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:04:17 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130118070417.5E2C710C2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:04:17 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.694 courses: palaeography; computational logic X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 694. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Bertram Fronhöfer (49) Subject: European Master's Program in Computational Logic [2] From: Wim Van-Mierlo (14) Subject: InScribe project launch --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:00:21 +0000 From: Bertram Fronhöfer Subject: European Master's Program in Computational Logic Dear all, I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that fresh Erasmus Mundus scholarships are available for Non-European AND European students who enroll in our European Master's Program in Computational Logic in the fall of 2013. The deadline for application is 31 January, 2013. More details are given below. In particular, I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that we are able to provide grants to EU-students for doing their project at the National ICT of Australia (NICTA). Please spread this information as wide as possible among friends and colleagues, at your old universities and the places, where you currently live and work. Many thanks -- Steffen ******************************************************************************************************* The European Master's Program in Computational Logic We are glad to announce to you the possibility to join our European Master's Program of Computational Logic. This program is offered jointly at the Free-University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy, the Technische Universität Dresden in Germany, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal and the Technische Universität Wien in Austria. Within this program you have the choice to study at two /three of the four European universities. In addition, you can do your project work at the National ICT of Australia (NICTA). You will graduate with a MSc in Computer Science and obtain a joint degree. Information on the universities and the program including the application procedure is provided here: http://www.emcl-study.eu/home.html Language of instruction is English. Tuition fees are 3.000 EUR (for non-European students) and 1.000 (for European students) per year. We would like to draw your attention to the ERASMUS-MUNDUS scholarship program. The ERASMUS-MUNDUS consortium offers 2-year scholarships up to 48.000 EUR for non-EU students and up to 23.000 EUR for EU students of our European Master's Program in Computational Logic. More information on the scholarship program is available from: http://www.emcl-study.eu/fileadmin/emcl_booklet_tree/ma_em_grant.html Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions. Kind regards -- Steffen Hölldobler Prof. Dr. Steffen Hoelldobler International Center for Computational Logic Technische Universität Dresden 01062 Dresden, Germany phone: [+49](351)46 33 83 40 fax: [+49](351)46 33 83 42 email: sh@iccl.tu-dresden.de -- Dr.rer.nat.habil. Bertram Fronhöfer TU Dresden Department of Computer Science International Center for Computational Logic 01062 Dresden, Germany Tel.: +49 (0)351 463 39095 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:47:43 +0000 From: Wim Van-Mierlo Subject: InScribe project launch InScribe: Palaeography Learning materials, a new online training platform InScribe is an online course for the study of Palaeography and Manuscript Studies developed by several of the institutes within the School of Advanced Study (including the Institute of Historical Research and Institute of English Studies), with support from Senate House Library and Exeter Cathedral Library & Archives. Devised by Prof Michelle Brown (IES) and Dr Jane Winters (IHR), InScribe aims to support the teaching of Palaeography and Manuscript Studies at a postgraduate level. At present we are releasing the introductory module which introduces some basic notions about Palaeography and provides an overview of the evolution of script in the medieval period (with particular reference to the English context). Similarly, it gives students the chance to transcribe text from a selection of newly digitised manuscripts from Senate House Library and Exeter Cathedral Library & Archives. Later in the year, new modules will be released that will provide advanced training on Diplomatic, Script and Translation, Codicology and Illumination. The introductory module is free of charge. To know more about InScribe click here (http://www.history.ac.uk/research-training/courses/online-palaeography). ************************** Best wishes. Zoe Miss Zoe Holman INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES School of Advanced Study | University of London Senate House | Malet Street | LONDON WC1E 7HU Phone: +44 (0)207 862 8680 | zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk The School of Advanced Study at the University of London is the UK's national centre for the facilitation and promotion of research in the humanities and social sciences. The University of London is an exempt charity in England and Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (reg. no. SC041194). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1B24B2C5D; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:07:37 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87440F8E; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:07:35 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 30FACF8E; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:07:33 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130118070733.30FACF8E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:07:33 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.695 events: sustainable technologies; causality in interaction; 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. 695. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susana Nascimento (24) Subject: Lisbon Summer School * July 8-12 * STTF2013 ISCTE-IUL [2] From: "Pierazzo, Elena" (18) Subject: TEI Conference and Members Meeting 2013: Rome (Italy) 2-5 October [3] From: Russell Pearce (21) Subject: CFP -Inputs/Outputs: Inter-disciplinary Approaches to Causality in Engagement, Immersion, Presence and Related Concepts in Performance and Human Computer Interaction --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:04:36 +0000 From: Susana Nascimento Subject: Lisbon Summer School * July 8-12 * STTF2013 ISCTE-IUL SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY FUTURES: FROM COLLABORATIVE DESIGN TO DIGITAL FABRICATION STTF2013 Summer School * July 8-12 * ISCTE-IUL University Institute of Lisbon [ sttf2013.iscte-iul.pt http://sttf2013.iscte-iul.pt/ ] [ facebook.com/sttf2013 http://facebook.com/sttf2013 ] [ twitter.com/sttf2013 ] STTF2013 invites you to apply for a one week intensive programme of social and technical methods, in a transdisciplinary environment that will engage participants in both conceptual and practical activities with all four pillars of sustainability as background. STTF2013 is intended for Master and PhD students, researchers, and professionals from STS, Product and Service Design, Social Sciences and Humanities, Architecture and Engineering, Communication and Media, Environmental Studies, Economics and Management, Computer Sciences, and others. Regardless of individual experience, everyone will have the opportunity to work in sociotechnical processes of design, construction and discussion of concrete objects, through Introductory Sessions, Masterclasses and Hands On Workshops. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS > Jerry Ravetz (University of Oxford UK) > Liz Sanders (MakeTools US) > Tomas Diez (FabLab Barcelona ES) > Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne FR) > Alex Schaub (FabLab Amsterdam NL) IMPORTANT DATES > Application Deadline – APRIL 1 > Notification of Selected Participants – APRIL 15 > Early Registration and Payment Deadline – MAY 1 > Late Registration and Payment Deadline – JUNE 1 FIND OUT MORE > For more information on How To Apply, Fees, Programme, Speakers, or Venue, please visit our website http://sttf2013.iscte-iul.pt > STTF2013 is a joint initiative of VitruviusFabLab-IUL (Digital Fabrication Laboratory) and CIES-IUL (Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology), research units of ISCTE-IUL http://www.iscte-iul.pt/en/home.aspx (University Institute of Lisbon) > For any additional inquiries, contact us at sttf2013@iscte.pt or call CIES-IUL Front Desk +351 210 464 018 Best regards, STTF2013 Scientific and Organizing Committee --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:27:51 +0000 From: "Pierazzo, Elena" Subject: TEI Conference and Members Meeting 2013: Rome (Italy) 2-5 October Dear All, On behalf of the TEI Board, I'm delighted to inform you that the TEI Conference and Members Meeting 2013 will take place in at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". The local committee is chaired by Fabio Ciotti, on behalf of the AIUCD - the Italian Associazione per l'Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale, in collaboration with the research Centre DIGILAB Sapienza. The Programme Committee is chaired by Arianna Ciula. News about the Call for Paper will follow shortly. The Conference and Members' Meeting will take place from 2 to 5 October, will start with the usual wealth of workshop (CFP to follow) and will include SIG meetings. Please save the date! It is indeed our great pleasure to be able to hold our annual conference in Italy and in particular in Rome, where the use of TEI has been strong since the TEI's early days and I really hope many of you will be able to come and enjoy the delights of a rich and vibrant the intellectual environment, the extraordinary artistic treasures of of the Eternal City and the legendary food (I can personally vouch for all of the above!). Best Elena -- Dr Elena Pierazzo Lecturer in Digital Humanities Department in 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: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:38:21 +0000 From: Russell Pearce Subject: CFP -Inputs/Outputs: Inter-disciplinary Approaches to Causality in Engagement, Immersion, Presence and Related Concepts in Performance and Human Computer Interaction Conference Call for Papers INPUTS / OUTPUTS: Inter-disciplinary Approaches to Causality in Engagement, Immersion, Presence and Related Concepts in Performance and Human Computer Interaction Deadline for contributions 22nd February 2013 26 June 2013 Brighton, UK Engagement is much sought after in the public discourse of politics, theatre and education. Immersion, presence, and motivation attract further research to the engagement continuum. The goal of this symposium is to inspire an interdisciplinary spectrum of academics, practitioners and funders interested in deeper engagement (and related terms) toward novel collaborative solutions and projects. By mixing practitioners and researchers from arts, media and science, the conference will offer a platform for adaptation of discoveries made in other disciplines. The title “Inputs/Outputs” concerns the interaction between ‘sender’ and ‘receiver’. Examples of human-centred inputs are computer games, immersive theatre, novels, music, and classroom lessons; examples of outputs are emotions, memories, neural activities, physiological changes, and motivated behaviours. The rationale for the symposium is to improve the models for understanding the relationship between cause (pre-designed or scripted interventions) and effects (emotions, memories, neural activities) engendered in the audience or end-user. In interactive experiences, proposing causal relationships is made more difficult as human responses are sometimes conflated with causes. The symposium will focus its inter-disciplinary discourse on teasing apart scripted factors (inputs to the audience) that elicit or cause states like engagement, and on the human, observable effects that result from states like engagement (outputs from the audience). We welcome submissions on the central questions of the conference: * • The relationship between physical, emotional, and intellectual engagement * • Results from assessment and quantification of engagement in different fields * • Methodologies and modalities for measuring engagement in different fields Other relevant topics include: rapport, immersion, ‘presence’, hypnotic absorption, neuroscience of engagement, interactional synchrony, engagement during interactivity in HCI, social signal processing, games, and the arts. Presentations should take the form of posters or 15-minute papers. We also welcome proposals for workshops or panels. For posters and individual papers, please submit a 250-word abstract as well as a short biographical note of 100 words. For panel and workshop proposals, please provide a brief outline of the session’s aims together with abstracts and biographical notes for each speaker and for the proposed panel chair or discussants. Please bear in mind that the conference is an interdisciplinary platform, and that submissions should be easily understood by an audience from outside of your discipline. All proposals should be emailed as pdf to the organisers at io-conf@sussex.ac.uk. All proposals will be acknowledged and successful contributions confirm no later than 15 March 2013. For information about speakers and programme, please visit www.inputs-outputs.org http://www.inputs-outputs.org . Russell Pearce Carina Westling Harry Witchel _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 572B1114C; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:59:12 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DF7010CD; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:59:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F40CBF91; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:59:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130118075909.F40CBF91@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:59:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.696 pubs: crowd-sourcing; what is the digital humanities? 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (130) Subject: a handy what-is [2] From: Stuart Dunn (31) Subject: Engaging the Crowd with Humanities Research --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:46:39 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a handy what-is A colleague has pointed me to the final section of Burdick et al, Digital Humanities (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2012), "A Short Guide to the Digital_Humanities" (http://jeffreyschnapp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/D_H_ShortGuide.pdf) as providing a handy statement for answering the commonplace question, what is it? You will know this question, from colleagues, parents, friends, who have heard the hype and now want to get to the reality, or at least to an explanation. This statement is very good to have. I suggest, however, that while as handy as advertised it needs, at least among practitioners, to be more of that fuel for the ongoing fire we have been stoking for years. It needs to be read and commented on critically. That's what I want to do here, in a preliminary sort of way, to invite further attempts to take it seriously. For years we've been attempting to locate the digital humanities under this and former names amidst the disciplines of the humanities, and like our colleagues in computer science worrying the question of whether it is one thing, namely a discipline, or an amalgam of various things, or merely a ragbag collection. Usually we do this with the implicit belief that the academic company we're wanting to join and be respected by consists of established and principled entities that if not given by God at the foundation of the world are at least permanent, coherent, stable members of the academy. According to some they are quite old-fashioned, perhaps even decrepit, in bad need of rejuvenation by upstart technologies, but still they occupy a venerable place in the academic taxonomy. But testimony from the greats of these disciplines, e.g. Clifford Geertz's contribution to the Charles Homer Haskins lecture series of the American Council of Learned Societies (www.acls.org/pubs/haskins/), tell us that disciplines are not like that; they are starting points, sets of conventions, epistemic cultures, if you will, that are in constant development, and as we know are historically contingent entities -- if "entity" is not too ontologically firm for them. The anxieties we in the digital humanities have over getting institutionally recognized, as individuals even more of getting hired by an institution to do something scholarly, drive us, I'd suppose, to rush possessively at definitive statements of identity and fervently embrace them. I diagnose a widespread fever to put on the blazer emblazoned with its badge of identity on the breast pocket, talk about who is in, who out etc. Having written more than one of these manifestos of identity myself (I think my earliest, fully conscious one dates to September 1996) and having shared those anxieties personally for many years, I am deeply sympathetic to the drive and one's susceptibility to it. But I think, for what it's worth, that we are capable of more than being driven. We're capable of reflecting critically on the tempting stimuli. Let me start things off with a few quotations and suggestions for further discussion, starting with the question of disciplinary coherence. > Digital Humanities is less a unified field than an array of convergent > practices that explore a universe in which print is no longer the primary > medium in which knowledge is produced and disseminated. Is English a unified field, for example? Looking in from the outside, for those of us who have only an outside view, does this solidly established discipline make sense? (There's a vast literature worrying this question, testifying that it is a question.) Whatever may be meant by "a universe", is this an adequate characterisation of what is done under the name digital humanities? Perhaps "practices" includes thinking, reasoning in a certain way or ways, theorising and the like? Is knowledge a thing that we produce in a medium? And I wonder, is the perceived dis-unity of the digital humanities a particular reflection of the fact that especially in some places it's much easier to colonise it from the security of an established discipline than to grow it on its own. > Digital tools, techniques, and media have expanded traditional concepts > of knowledge in the arts, humanities and social sciences Ok, this occurs in the context of a statement that for good reasons of brevity has no room for drawing out the implications of the claim so confidently asserted, for saying how these traditional concepts have been expanded, indeed what these concepts are. But we have all witnessed such claims being made as if they were simply and obviously true (which they are not, either simply or obviously). So, I'd think, we should be working hard to figure out what can actually be attributed to our tools, techniques and media. And as almost always it's exceedingly difficult to avoid technological determinism: tools, techniques and media don't do anything on their own. What about the effects going the other way, from the disciplines to the technologies? What about effects affecting both but coming from neither? > the humanities as traditionally understood Here, as in the preceding, the word "traditional" jumps out at me -- I'd call it, with reference to Firth, a negatively magic word in some contexts. In particular, what do we mean when in the context of a progressivist statement we call something "traditional"? Here is the danger that we read in or read into what is said the suggestion that the modified thing is passé, outmoded, in need of help, repair, renewal etc. Of course all knowledge practices, being not things but ways of acting, need renewal as much as living creatures do, though perhaps not at the same pace. What implications are we accepting that we'd probably not own up to if they were made explicit? > The challenges include addressing fundamental questions such as: How can > skills traditionally used in the humanities be reshaped in multimedia > terms? That's a question. But what about this one: how can our current manifestations of multimedia environments be reshaped better to respond to and aid skills traditionally used in the humanities? Not one-way traffic, indeed not even primarily, I'd think. > What is the place of humanitas in a networked world? How does the networking of the world sort with and affect our guiding ideal of humanitas? "What is the place of..." leaves open the possibility that humanity (named in Latin, with implications interesting to ponder) has no place in the networked world. Now *that's* something worth picking apart, the more so as the implications get more fearful. > Building on the first generation of computational humanities work, more > recent Digital Humanities activity seeks to revitalize liberal arts > traditions... If a generation marks a ca 30 year period, then indeed a generation has passed, though not all of those of that generation have packed up and gone away. And, as noted, the widespread use of the Web (from the mid 1990s, though it was introduced almost simultaneously with the end of the Cold War) made an enormous change. But I think that while the new name for the activity, coined in 2004 or so, is useful, the tendency to relegate the previous activity under its old names to an unimportant past, a few of whose time-lined achievements are mentioned in this statement, is a serious if not fatal blow to disciplinary self-understanding. We need and don't yet have a genuine history of the field. Indeed, parts of that history would be truly inspirational if they were known, e.g. early computer art. And again, I am very wary indeed of statements to the effect that the digital humanities will revitalise the humanities, or as here, the liberal arts traditions. Whenever I hear this said, I wonder if those who say it have much appreciation for the wonderful, mind-changing, revitalising work going on in the traditional fields unaffected in any obvious way by the digital humanities. I would argue that the digital humanities might just come alive in the intellectual sense if it paid attention to the life in those humanities. Enough from me, perhaps more than enough. But let the arguing commence. 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:15:51 +0000 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: Engaging the Crowd with Humanities Research Dear all, Last month we published a research review for the AHRC's Connected Communities programme, 'Crowd-Sourcing Scoping Study: Engaging the Crowd with Humanities Research': http://crowds.cerch.kcl.ac.uk/wp-uploads/2012/12/Crowdsourcing-connected-communities.pdf. The aim was to assess the impact of crowd-sourcing methods and technologies in the humanities, most or all of which have been enabled by the Web, and to consider what kind of scholarly outcomes they have enabled. It seemed that such activities work best when they succeed in developing thriving and interacting communities with a shared purpose. The premise of our argument is that it is possible to observe patterns in which such communities thrive (although we did not seek to make definitive statements about what these patterns are), and that they are in turn dependent on the correct combinations of asset type (the content or data forming the subject of the activity), process type (what is done with that content), task type (how it is done), and the output type (the thing produced) desired. We would be very happy to have any feedback on the report. Stuart Dunn -- ---------------------------------- Dr Stuart Dunn Lecturer Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2709 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 Email: stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk Blog: http://www.stuartdunn.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C2B9910C2; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:09:31 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E712EE2; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:09:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0C7C0EDB; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:09:28 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130118090929.0C7C0EDB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:09:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.697 job at King's College London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 697. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:58:53 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society at King's College London The Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries and the Department of Digital Humanities are seeking jointly to appoint a lecturer in Digital Culture and Society. Closing date for applications is 19 February 2013. See http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=12760 for the complete advert. The successful applicant may have expertise in any area of digital culture, but applicants with an interest in gaming studies or the internet in newly industrialising countries (particularly China, but also Brazil, India or Russia) will be particularly welcome. The successful applicant must show an ability to contribute to the Research Excellence Framework submission, and to contribute to the international excellence of the two departmentsÂ’ research and teaching. The appointment will be made, dependent on relevant qualifications, within the Grade 6 or 7 scale, currently £31,331 to £45,941, per annum plus £2,323 per annum London Allowance. For an informal discussion of the post please contact Dr Tim Jordan, Head of Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries via email at timothy.jordan@kcl.ac.uk and you may arrange a time to speak. -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_DBL_SPAM autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3DFBC10C2; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:28:56 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CC80F89; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:28:55 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D60D7EDD; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:28:53 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130119092853.D60D7EDD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:28:53 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.698 MA studentships at King's College London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 698. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:55:05 +0000 From: Abigail Woods Subject: up to 5 MA studentships available at Kings College London Up to five full MA studentships will be offered by the History Department at Kings College London to excellent students taking the MA in Science, Technology and Medicine in History on a full-time basis. These awards will be based on academic achievement and promise, and are available to UK, EU and overseas students. They will cover a full fee waiver and a maintenance bursary. For details of the MA programme see https://www.kcl.ac.uk/prospectus/graduate/index/name/science-history/alpha/GHI/header_search//keyword/history We will also be offering a single four-year Hans Rausing MA + PhD studentship, on terms equivalent to those for AHRC studentships, for an outstanding student intending to progress from the MA to undertake a PhD in our department in the history of science and/or technology. Applications should be made by email to Dr. Anna Maerker [anna.maerker@kcl.ac.uk], the admissions tutor for this MA, following formal application to the MA through the King's admissions system. This should consist of a brief c.v. focused on tertiary educational achievement, and a supporting statement of approximately 300 words outlining your reasons for wishing to pursue this MA. Applications must be received no later than 15 May 2013, and successful applicants will be notified by 15 June 2013. For enquiries concerning the Rausing studentship please contact Professor David Edgerton [d.edgerton@imperial.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_DBL_SPAM autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 840532C5A; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:29:50 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0655110CD; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:29:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CB7B010CD; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:29:48 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130119092948.CB7B010CD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:29:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.699 call for nominations: Bowers Prize X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 699. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:50:15 +0000 From: "Young, John K" Subject: STS Bowers Prize Dear colleagues, The Society for Textual Scholarship (www.textualsociety.org) is seeking nominations for the Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize, for an outstanding essay in textual studies substantially published for the first time during the two years prior to the Society's biennial conference. Essays published in periodicals, critical books, and collections by diverse hands are eligible for the Bowers Prize. If part of a longer work, the significance of the essay must be independent of that context. The prize is presented at the biennial conference and carries a cash honorarium of $500. We are seeking nominations for articles published in either 2011 or 2012. Please contact the chair of the Bowers prize committee, Dr. Gabrielle Dean, at gnodean@jhu.edu, by Jan. 25, 2013. Thanks, John John Young Professor of English Marshall University (304) 696-2349 youngj@marshall.edu marshall.edu/english Executive Director, Society for Textual Scholarship John Young Professor of English Marshall University (304) 696-2349 youngj@marshall.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_DBL_SPAM autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 63B7710C2; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:31:47 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8280EF89; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:31:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 32094F90; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:31:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130119093145.32094F90@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:31:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.700 events: literature & crowdsourcing; politics of play; books X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 700. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Wim Van-Mierlo (30) Subject: London Rare Books School -- Applications Open [2] From: Simon Mahony (70) Subject: Seminar: world literature, intertextuality and crowdsourcing [3] From: millst@yorku.ca (55) Subject: Call for Papers Politics of Play --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:41:18 +0000 From: Wim Van-Mierlo Subject: London Rare Books School -- Applications Open > From: Christopher A. Adams [mailto:returne@gmail.com] > Sent: 17 January 2013 17:17 > Subject: [SHARP-L] London Rare Books School -- Applications Open Applications are now invited for London Rare Books School (LRBS), taking place 24 - 28 June 2013 and 1 - 5 July 2013. The application form is available from the Institute of English Studies website. Courses are £600, and a £100 deposit is requested upon application. A limited number of bursaries are available. Placements are offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Courses may be taken for academic credit. The courses are taught by internationally renowned scholars associated with the Institute's Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, using the unrivalled library and museum resources of London, including the British Library, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Senate House Libraries, and many more. All courses stress the materiality of the book, and each class is restricted to a maximum of twelve students. Applications should be submitted to IESEvents@sas.ac.uk. The course programme is below. For further details, see the LRBS website. WEEK ONE: 24 – 28 June, 2013 The Book in the Ancient World Children’s Books, 1470 – 1980 An Introduction to Bibliography Mapping Land and Sea before 1900 The Medieval Book The Printed Book in Europe, 1450 – 2000 Type and its Uses, 1455 – 1830 WEEK TWO: 1 – 5 July, 2013 The Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian Book, c600 – 1050 European Bookbinding, 1450 – 1820 The History and Practice of Hand Press Printing, 1450 – 1830 The History of Libraries from the Middle Ages to the Present An Introduction to Illustration and its Technologies Modern First Editions: Dealing, Collecting and the Market Modern Literary Manuscripts --- Christopher Adams IES Administrative Assistant christopher.adams@sas.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7862 8675 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:34:33 +0000 From: Simon Mahony Subject: Seminar: world literature, intertextuality and crowdsourcing A Digital Classicist friend Annette Gessner from Gottingen is giving a presentation at King's College, London very soon and details follow: (apologies if you already have this) --------------------------------------- The tool GERTRUDE - world literature, intertextuality and crowdsourcing 29 January 2013, 6.15pm Anatomy Museum Space, Strand Campus *(Directions to the Anatomy Museum http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/atm/location.aspx )* *Annette Gessner,* *Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities* Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is requested: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5177008572 Abstract All kinds of texts are linked by citations, paraphrases, allusions, winged words or other textual concordances (or "text re-use"). But to try and find out how many intertextual relations there are, you'd have to spend a lot of time and energy. In the Göttingen sub-project of eTRACES, a 3 years long project funded by the BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung), we want to address this issue of the humanities by bringing it to the field of the digital humanities. In our project, computer-scientists and researchers from the humanities are working together as a team: Prof. Gerhard Lauer from German literature, the Classicist Annette Geßner and the computer scientist Christian Kötteritzsch are working closely together with the natural language processing department of the Leipzig university. Using modern text-mining approaches, the main goal is to create a tool to automatically find text re-use and develop a digital environment - especially suited for digital editions - to evaluate and annotate those automatically found and manually added textual relations. The name of this tool is "Göttingen E-Research Text Re-Use for Digital Editions" or in short as an acronym GERTRUDE. The text corpus we currently work with is from zeno.org, containing German literature from 1500 to 1900. Focusing on the so called world literature we try to find e.g. traces of the Luther-Bible or Goethe's Faust in literature. Furthermore we aim to research how a computer-based approach affects the humanist's work: How can it help us find and evaluate text re-use? How does it affect on the one hand the time that has to be spent and on the other and the accuracy of the automatically found results versus manually found results? And especially: How is a user affected by using a computer tool that generates results automatically? On the one hand it might be taking away an objective view, on the other perhaps it gives insights that are new and unexpected (Serendipity-effect). To explore these questions the GERTRUDE-tool is designed for crowdsourcing and will be brought to all kinds of users, starting with students who will first be asked to find manual re-use of for instance the bible and after that to use the tool. The work flow will in both approaches be monitored and compared as well as the results. Biography After studying Latin, history and Ancient Greek at the Universities of Dresden and Leipzig, Annette worked at the University of Leipzig in the eAQUA-Project from 2008 till 2011. She was working in subproject 4.2, which dealt with automatically detecting Platonic secondary tradition. The interest in textual re-use and it's detection remained in her focus, so currently she's working at the GCDH in the Göttingen subproject of the project eTRACES (2011-2014). Here we try to find re-use of important works of world literature (like the Bible) in the text corpus of zeno.org. -- Simon Mahony Teaching Fellow Programme Director MA/MSc Digital Humanities[1] UCL Centre for Digital Humanities[2] Department of Information Studies University College London Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT Tel: 020 7679 0092 Fax: 020 7383 0557 s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/simon-mahony/ [1] www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/courses/mamsc [2] www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:21:14 -0500 From: millst@yorku.ca Subject: Call for Papers Politics of Play Call for Papers: Intersections/Cross-Sections Conference Politics of Play REVISED Submission Deadline: February 1, 2013 Conference Date: March 23, 2013 The Communication and Culture GSA has received several requests to extend the deadline for submissions, with respect to Ontario scholarship deadlines. Please note that the submission deadline has been extended to February 1st. The conference date remains the same. Thank you and we look forward to a great conference. The York and Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture is excited to announce an open call to graduate students to submit research presentations, workshops and artworks for Intersections/Cross-Sections 2013: Politics of Play. This one-day Symposium and Art Exhibition will focus around the critical examination of the concept of play, approached from a variety of perspectives. With an interdisciplinary lens focused on intersections between politics and play cultures, the 2013 edition of Intersections will feature a relaxed, playful and interactive atmosphere where graduate students can engage in dialogue about their research, present workshops and exhibit artworks. "Play is the primary formative element in human culture" - Johan Hunzinga. Parallel to the rise of digital game culture, scholarly investigations of politics, economics, artistic practice, pedagogy, and media representation have drawn from the metaphor of play. In order to facilitate interdisciplinary investigation, the Communication and Culture Graduate Student Association would like to invite graduate students to submit research presentations, workshops, and artworks exploring the concept. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, politics, art & literature, technology, geography, pedagogy, activism, science & nature, digital media, entertainment, popular culture, game studies, performance, history, linguistics, political economy, fan & participatory cultures, architecture, sport &leisure, and more. In order to foster lively dialogue, we invite proposals from any discipline. Questions we will focus on include but are not limited to: How do conceptions of play change, adapt and inform social, cultural and political practice? How does IP regulate, sanction, and create new forms of play? How does play articulate itself through nationalism? Does play facilitate change through resistance cultures? How does play facilitate different types of learning? Our Symposium and Exhibition will take place on March 23rd, 2013 at Bento Miso, a collaborative workspace in Toronto's Queen West district. Submission Guidelines: Artworks spanning print, new media, video, audio, games, and performance will be considered. We encourage interactive game-oriented artworks. * Maximum Presentation Abstract Length -- 300 words. * Maximum Length for Workshop Proposals – 500 Words. * Artworks – 500 word description, plus links to video documentation and / or maximum of 5 images. (all artwork submissions must include the artwork submission form found at http://intersections2013.wordpress.com) For more information and updates on the Symposium: http://intersections2013.wordpress.com Please send submissions to: politicsofplay2013@gmail.com *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1358522821_2013-01-18_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_15922.3.pdf http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1358522821_2013-01-18_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_15922.2.pdf _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.3 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,FR_ALMOST_VIAG2, URIBL_DBL_SPAM autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5C0562C67; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:32:16 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F35452C61; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:32:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9ACD92C60; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:32:14 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130119093214.9ACD92C60@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:32:14 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.701 open access to Internet Archaeology 1-21 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 701. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:55:51 +0000 From: Judith Winters Subject: Internet Archaeology issues 1-21 now open access I am very pleased to announce that Internet Archaeology http://intarch.ac.uk/ 's back catalogue (up to and including issue 21) is now Open Access. That's more than half of all our published content now freely available. As of this week, a low-cost subscription will be required only for content in issues 22 onwards, except where Open Access http://intarch.ac.uk/open_access.html has already been enabled in these later issues. It is IA policy http://intarch.ac.uk/authors/edpol.html#funding to enable Open Access on all content when article development costs are met with the longer term aim of making the whole of IA open. As a result of this move, the cost of access to articles for individuals has been reduced to £7.50 for individuals (permanent access). Having demonstrated a serious effort to move in this direction, the journal will look to its future authors for the funds to cover article development costs (via grant-giving/funding bodies or other research sponsors). But if you have no access to funding, then this is not an obstacle to a publication in IA. Your article would be subject to subscription during this transition but of course this is subject to change with a stepped increase in OA uptake and/or other external developments. Please feel free to email me if you have any queries. With best wishes Judith -- Judith Winters Editor, Internet Archaeology http://intarch.ac.uk @IntarchEditor https://www.facebook.com/internet.archaeology Department of Archaeology, University of York YO1 7EP EMAIL DISCLAIMER http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_DBL_SPAM autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 107B5114C; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:47:48 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25759F84; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:47:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0CB8EEDD; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:47:44 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130121064745.0CB8EEDD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:47:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.702 prejudice and ignorance? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 702. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:31:49 +0100 From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Waiting for God(o)h Dear all, I am sending this message both to Humanist and GO::DH mailing lists. So apologies for deliberate cross-posting. First I’d like to congratulate all those colleagues that have made possible the GO::DH initiative, to which I was very happy to offer immediately my collaboration. As you perhaps already know I've been critical of the present DH scenario (see http://www.academia.edu/1932310/Towards_a_Cultural_Critique_of_Digital_Humanities) I’ve quickly drafted a list of reflections and questions that I think will be of interest to both communties. I am aware that my list is by no means exhaustive, and above all does not offer well-structured arguments or imply easy solutions to the problems. So I’d be very grateful if you could expand/criticize/improve it. 1) The first issue I’d like to raise is very well-known, and we’ve been discussing it on Humanist for a long time (a probe of the Humanist archive will prove useful on this), and that is the problem of cultural and linguistic dominance. Despite all the efforts of our academic community, a regrettable tendency persists to consider any event at which English is spoken as "international" and anything else as only "national". Far too many conferences, initiatives, books, research projects, etc. which happen outside the “core” countries (USA, Canada, UK, sometimes Australia) go unnoticed even when presented or written in English. Information only flows one way, and too often it appears as if the hidden agenda is to incorporate and absorb rather than collaborate. My question is: how much are our Anglo-American colleagues aware that the lingua franca and its connected scientific discourses are proprietary, just like most of the technology (i.e. software, search engines, etc.) built upon it? And how can we free ourselves from this mutual prejudice and at the same time giving up in our efforts to foster a truly “equal” communication? To be amicably provocative: shall I claim my universal right, as non-native speaker, to speak badly a foreign language without being openly or implicitly discriminated? Is it an anarchist’s dream to imagine a world free from (the guardians of) Grammar? At the dawn of Humanae Litterae, Latin was the non-proprietary lingua franca, and cultural authority was built on classical texts (whose authors were no longer able to “correct” you…) rather than on the triad Finance-Technology-Weapons. 2) One of the first problems that stems from linguistic-cultural dominance is that of institutional governance. I will never reach your level of linguistic skills (this email cost me days of work and then I asked a native speaker to revise it). So how can I compete with my native speaker colleagues when it is time to - for example - participate in a public debate or election? Are democracy and participation language-proof instruments or rather the essence of linguistic practice? 3) I think that the Low-Mid-High income pattern adopted by the GO::DH group puts on an economic basis something that is not strictly dependent on money. In general, culture and knowledge are not directly bound to income. Sometimes they generate income, but we do not treat knowledge the same as any other commodity, firstly because it is a dynamic concept, and secondly because you cannot trade it *universally* (your knowledge on how to fix a Harley Davidson is not exchangeable with my knowledge of Swahili, etc.). So I think that to say you want to establish collaborations with "low income" countries is a risky way of categorizing and stressing differences rather than imagining peer-to-peer relationships (as if we were speaking of knowledge and not of commodities). I know the GODH (forgive us!) group didn't mean that, but I'm questioning the way they are presenting the initiative. To an external but old DHer like me, it sounds like another attempt to find 'international' legitimacy without really tackling the geopolitical issues involved. 4) Epistemic (in)justice. This is arguably an expansion of point 1). People in different cultures have different ways of expressing ideas. It is widely known that international journals and conferences reject papers because they do not meet certain rhetorical and stylistic standards. But where are these standards designed? Too often problems are not merely stylistic, but involve cultural, social and political aspects. In the last fifteen years, I've edited four collections of international essays (3 out of 4 were DH texts) and I became very sensitive to this problem. As an Italian epistemologist working in France has recently argued "among the many epistemic injustices that we commit in academia, one of the strongest is linguistic injustice ... . Some of [our] arguments may appear less convincing than those coming from an Oxford educated philosopher because the style of writing and structuring of thoughts we have learned is radically different." [http://social-epistemology.com/2012/09/07/gloria-origgi-reply-to-paul-faulkners-comments/] 5) I will spare you the issue of the mechanisms of political representation, but as I argued in my Köln paper I think we have much to learn from (and experiment with) the treatment of knowledge as a commons. Much of the criticism about the cultural biases of DH (i.e. how it can benefit or harm the collective good) may be understood from this perspective. I suggest you to read Teresa Numerico’s paper on the CCEH website: http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/files/Numerico.pdf In conclusion, I really hope that GO::DH will finally become an opportunity to address at least some of these problems in a spirit of collaboration, intellectual generosity and cultural sensibility. All the best Domenico _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_DBL_SPAM autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1B9B52C65; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:48:52 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 927522C5F; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:48:51 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A82842C5E; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:48:49 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130121064849.A82842C5E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:48:49 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.703 pubs: diffusion of innovation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 703. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:18:09 -0700 From: Maryanne Wynne Subject: Diffusion of innovation Dear Humanist readers, For those of you interested in the diffusion of innovation, you may want to take a look at a fictional treatment by Stan Ruecker in his novel "Green World http://www.amazon.com/Green-World-ebook/dp/B00B29FD0K/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1358713930&sr=8-2&keywords=stan+ruecker ," which he's made available on Amazon for Kindle and the Kindle app for iPhone. Best regards, Maryanne -- Maryanne Wynne, Executive Director Community Engagement Studies Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta 2-416 Enterprise Square 10230 Jasper Avenue Tel: 780-492-8444 Cell: 780-887-6317 Fax: 780-492-0627 mwynne@ualberta.ca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_DBL_SPAM autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9ADB22C95; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:29:04 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B20CE5E; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:29:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CA450E5B; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:29:00 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130122062900.CA450E5B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:29:00 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.704 waiting for God(o)h X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 704. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:32:39 -0700 From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Re: Waiting for God(o)h Domenico sent out some really excellent questions (and warnings) about the type of project GO::DH is involved in to both humanist and the globaloutlookDH list (if you are interested in the latter, you can find out more about joining here: http://globaloutlookdh.org/). Since Domenico's work has in fact greatly influenced our thinking, his challenges are extremely useful in helping as part of the ongoing process of defining the project. For those that are interested, here are the comments I forwarded to the globaloutlookDH list. -dan ---------------------- Hi Domenico, As you know, I'm really glad you joined GO::DH (and have now provided us with a great way of pronouncing it), in part because your work is one of the things that really got me thinking about this. I've got some comments (but not answers) picking up some of your threads below. On 13-01-20 10:29 AM, Domenico Fiormonte wrote: > Dear all, > > I am sending this message both to Humanist and GO::DH mailing lists. > So apologies for deliberate cross-posting. > > First I’d like to congratulate all those colleagues that have made > possible the GO::DH initiative, to which I was very happy to offer > immediately my collaboration. > > As you perhaps already know I've been critical of the present DH > scenario (see http://www.academia.edu/1932310/Towards_a_Cultural_Critique_of_Digital_Humanities) > I’ve quickly drafted a list of reflections and questions that Ithink > will be of interest to both communties. I am aware that my list is by > no means exhaustive, and above all does not offer well-structured > arguments or imply easy solutions to the problems. So I’d be very > grateful if you could expand/criticize/improve it. > > 1) The first issue I’d like to raise is very well-known, and we’ve > been discussing it on Humanist for a long time (a probe of the > Humanist archive will prove useful on this), and that is the problem > of cultural and linguistic dominance. Despite all the efforts of our > academic community, a regrettable tendency persists to consider any > event at which English is spoken as "international" and anything else > as only "national". Far too many conferences, initiatives, books, > research projects, etc. which happen outside the “core”countries > (USA, Canada, UK, sometimes Australia) go unnoticed even when > presented or written in English. Information only flows one way, and > too often it appears as if the hidden agenda is to incorporate and > absorb rather than collaborate. > > My question is: how much are our Anglo-American colleagues aware that > the lingua franca and its connected scientific discourses are > proprietary, just like most of the technology (i.e. software, search > engines, etc.) built upon it? And how can we free ourselves from this > mutual prejudice and at the same time giving up in our efforts to > foster a truly “equal” communication? > > To be amicably provocative: shall I claim my universal right, as > non-native speaker, to speak badly a foreign language without being > openly or implicitly discriminated? Is it an anarchist’s dream to > imagine a world free from (the guardians of) Grammar? At the dawn of > Humanae Litterae, Latin was the non-proprietary lingua franca, and > cultural authority was built on classical texts (whose authors were no > longer able to “correct” you…) rather than on the triad > Finance-Technology-Weapons. As a native English speaker, I'm not necessarily in the best position to comment on what the best approach to dealing with this problem is. I do know that it is something that is coming up more and more frequently, in part again due to your influence as well as that of others, however. At ADHO, for example, an issue that has not yet been answered but is front and centre at the moment involves cultural normalisation of academic discourse: it is not just that English becomes a norm linguistically, it is that Anglo-American norms as to how things like abstracts are to be composed becomes a de facto norm (see your point 5). Alex, Marcus, Titi, and I discussed this a number of times during our debates about putting together GO::DH. The approach we came up with as a start for this list was to encourage people to use the language they feel works for the context they are in. We also hope to encourage people who share that language to translate or paraphrase contributions as a community service when they feel it is appropriate or useful. This can be done simply as part of a given thread. This approach is based on the idea that many of us have some reading knowledge of more than one language and can sometimes follow the basic sense of what we are reading. If something is particularly difficult, we might find a paraphrase helpful, but may not need a full translation. And of course sometimes only a full translation will work. We took this approach to publicising the initiative and are taking to translating the website; it's even been used once or twice already on the list. Mostly the direction has been English --> other languages; but there have been a couple of times already on the list where the original language was not English and members of the list have decided whether or not things needed translated. One advantage of this approach, it seems to me--especially when we are dealing with material that was not originally written in English--is that it at least begins to let native English speakers in on the point you discuss above: what it feels like to not be a native speaker of the dominant language in a conversation; and it normalises the idea that we need to pay attention in our professional language use (whether English or something else) to the needs of others who are not native speakers. I doubt it is a perfect approach and one of the things I've learned already at GO::DH is that the mix of experiences /always/ produces improvements. But that was our starting point. > > 2) One of the first problems that stems from linguistic-cultural > dominance is that of institutional governance. I will never reach your > level of linguistic skills (this email cost me days of work and then I > asked a native speaker to revise it). So how can I compete with my > native speaker colleagues when it is time to - for example - > participate in a public debate or election? Are democracy and > participation language-proof instruments or rather the essence of > linguistic practice? This is a really serious issue and one that I'm not quite sure what to do about. When we put together the call for volunteers we tried to emphasise how important linguistic and cultural diversity of experience is for a group like this. But that doesn't eliminate the "competition" problem you mention and I'm sure it impacts the willingness and confidence of volunteers who are not (near) native English speakers. We discussed this in the very initial stages of putting the original proposal together. We thought then that one way of acknowledging the issue might be by making cross-linguistic/regional/cultural collaboration a fundamental part of our organisation. So now that we have an executive, for example, we had been thinking that one proposal might be that all offices at GO::DH be led by a pair of people drawn from different regions, linguistic communities, and/or types of economies. So instead of a single webmaster, we might have two webmasters, drawn from more than one region, language, cultural population. We thought this might get really interesting if, as seems likely, we also end up organising things in part by region. Let's say we had a Europe working group. Under this principle, it would be chaired by somebody from Europe AND somebody from somewhere else--from Africa, perhaps, or China. Same would be true of a Caribbean workgroup or one focussing on North or South America. > > 3) I think that the Low-Mid-High income pattern adopted by the GO::DH > group puts on an economic basis something that is not strictly > dependent on money. In general, culture and knowledge are not directly > bound to income. Sometimes they generate income, but we do not treat > knowledge the same as any other commodity, firstly because it is a > dynamic concept, and secondly because you cannot trade it > *universally* (your knowledge on how to fix a Harley Davidson is not > exchangeable with my knowledge of Swahili, etc.). > So I think that to say you want to establish collaborations with "low > income" countries is a risky way of categorizing and stressing > differences rather than imagining peer-to-peer relationships (as if we > were speaking of knowledge and not of commodities). I know the GODH > (forgive us!) group didn't mean that, but I'm questioning the way they > are presenting the initiative. To an external but old DHer like me, it > sounds like another attempt to find 'international' legitimacy without > really tackling the geopolitical issues involved. This is an absolutely central question, I think. Again, I can only tell you what our thinking was. How things play out in the future, we can't know. The first point is that we are not using income level to describe cultures or knowledge. We are using it to map a communications and collaborative disconnect. For whatever reason (and I'm not competent to say why), the DH world is currently divided along a line that corresponds to high income economies vs. all other types of economies (this is something I got from your work, in fact); all national scholarly societies who are members of ADHO are based in high income economies; most individual members of ADHO-supported or acknowledged DH mailing lists come from those same economies; funding from the agencies ADHO members most often turn to is also generally staying within this divide (with an increasing number of exceptions). A founding premise of GO::DH is that this division by income level should not be intrinsic to our discipline or our research practice. In other words, the impulse behind what we are doing was in fact to address the very fact you note: there is no intrinsic reason why the income level of your economy should dictate your ability to work with, learn from, and teach others doing similar work (beyond any specific infrastructure or political restrictions, of course). Our second founding principle is that GO::DH is not an aid programme. That is to say it is not an asymmetrical attempt by people in high income economies to help people in mid and low income economies. Instead it is a community of interest for people who want to break down the barriers that seem to be preventing us from collaborating as symmetrically as possible with each other on a global basis. Absolutely key to this approach is the recognition that we are peers. People have different skills, abilities, resources, and, perhaps most importantly, experiences: our idea is that participation in a forum that allows us to share these skills, abilities, resources, and experiences improves everybody's ability to use technology in the research, teaching, art, and advocacy. In fact I think this is probably the best thing about this list already: the exchange is improving everybody's understanding already. The actual GO::DH proposal was massively improved and sharpened by the exchange of experiences we had at the Cuba meeting Ray arranged; the minimal computing group that is starting to form comes directly out of a similar sharing of resources, ideas, and especially experience. So I think you are exactly right about the dangers of both seeing this as an aid programme and using income difference as an explanation of cultural difference or scientific ability rather than simply a way identifying the locus of a communications gap that does not need to exist. I would disagree, for this reason, with your analogy. We are not trying to create a place where knowing how to fix a Harley Davidson can be exchanged for a knowledge of Swahili. Rather we are trying to set up a place where motorcycle mechanics can help improve each others practice by sharing their different experiences and knowledge of different models: Harley vs. Hero Honda, for example. Or a place where linguists might improve their typological knowledge by sharing knowledge with experts in a wide variety of different languages and language families. This is why it is crucial that we understand ourselves as peers: we are collectively helping each other by sharing our specific knowledge, experience, and (different types of) resources. > > 4) Epistemic (in)justice. This is arguably an expansion of point 1). > People in different cultures have different ways of expressing ideas. > It is widely known that international journals and conferences reject > papers because they do not meet certain rhetorical and stylistic > standards. But where are these standards designed? Too often problems > are not merely stylistic, but involve cultural, social and political > aspects. In the last fifteen years, I've edited four collections of > international essays (3 out of 4 were DH texts) and I became very > sensitive to this problem. > As an Italian epistemologist working in France has recently argued > "among the many epistemic injustices that we commit in academia, one > of the strongest is linguistic injustice ... . Some of [our] arguments > may appear less convincing than those coming from an Oxford educated > philosopher because the style of writing and structuring of thoughts > we have learned is radically different." > [http://social-epistemology.com/2012/09/07/gloria-origgi-reply-to-paul-faulkners-comments/] I think something like GO::DH should make us aware of this and keep it front and centre: certainly it seems to me to be part of sharing experience. As I mentioned above, this is an increasingly commented upon issue. I can't see us hindering discussion of it, at the very least. > > 5) I will spare you the issue of the mechanisms of political > representation, but as I argued in my Koln paper I think we have much > to learn from (and experiment with) the treatment of knowledge as a > commons. Much of the criticism about the cultural biases of DH (i.e. > how it can benefit or harm the collective good) may be understood from > this perspective. I suggest you to read Teresa Numerico’s paperon the > CCEH website: http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/files/Numerico.pdf > In conclusion, I really hope that GO::DH will finally become an > opportunity to address at least some of these problems in a spirit of > collaboration, intellectual generosity and cultural sensibility. I think this is what we are hoping to do. At least it is what I'm interested in. As I say, the above are comments rather than answers: your essay in the Koln dialogues was actually one of the starting points for my thinking about the specific construction of GO::DH and it has informed my contributions to the work that has gone on since then--which is probably why there's something for all 5! But I think it is easy to fall into the traps you point out, and some of the most significant may not be open to "solution" rather than simply awareness. All you can do is your best! > > All the best > > Domenico > > _______________________________________________ > globaloutlookdh-l mailing list > globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca > http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/globaloutlookdh-l > -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_DBL_SPAM autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0BD182C9E; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:29:48 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A69712C99; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:29:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 64CB62C98; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:29:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130122062945.64CB62C98@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:29:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.705 job at King's College London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 705. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:32:58 +0000 From: "Spence, Paul" Subject: Research Developer post at King's College London (Gascon Rolls project) Research Developer post at King's College London (Gascon Rolls project): 6 months fixed term contract The Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London is looking for a highly motivated and technically sophisticated individual to join the research and development team. The position will involve data modelling and analysis, plus the design and development of both editorial and administrative tools and public facing web applications, for the second phase of the Gascon Rolls (1317-1468) project, currently being carried out in collaboration with the University of Bordeaux in France. The focus of the work will be on the exploration of historical/technical issues in adapting historical data to wider digital frameworks, the application of geospatial and data mining approaches, new modes of visualisation and multi-device publishing, and the development of a French interface for the project. Closing date for applications is 12 February 2013. See below for full details: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=12763 The project website is at http://www.gasconrolls.org/index.html ---------------------------------------- Paul Spence Senior Lecturer Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL paul.spence@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/research/index.aspx Twitter: @dhpaulspence (English)/@hdpaulspence (castellano) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_DBL_SPAM autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A89552C9B; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:31:51 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34575EBA; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:31:51 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 49E20E5B; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:31:49 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130122063149.49E20E5B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:31:49 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.706 events: cognitive futures of the humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 706. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:26:51 +0000 From: "Fagan, Annalisa" Subject: Cognitive Futures of the Humanities Dear colleagues, Re. Cognitive Futures of the Humanities, April 4-6 2013 Registration for this international conference is now open, with early-bird rates available for a limited time. Full details are available from the conference website: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/cognitive-humanities/ Confirmed plenary speakers include the following distinguished scholars: Peter Stockwell (University of Nottingham) Ellen Spolsky (Bar Ilan University ) Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis) Lisa Zunshine (University of Kentucky) Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve University) Elena Semino (Lancaster University) RATIONALE AND CONTEXT This first major conference provides a forum in order to bring together researchers from different humanities disciplines, whose work relates to, informs, or is informed by aspects of the cognitive, brain and behavioural sciences. It aims to address, in various ways, the following questions: what is the ‘cognitive humanities’? In what ways is knowledge from the cognitive sciences changing approaches to language, literature, aesthetics, historiography and creative culture? How have practices in the arts and humanities influenced the cognitive sciences, and how might they do so in the future? This conference will facilitate the exchange of new, innovative research at the intersection of established disciplines, such as philosophy, linguistics, literary studies, art history and cultural studies. The ‘cognitive revolution’ has begun to make an impact on how humanists think about language, identity, embodiment and culture, in fields such as cognitive poetics, narratology, phenomenology and literary theory. This conference will assess the state of the field now and ask what new directions lie open for cognitive humanities research. If the cognitive sciences ask fundamental questions about the very nature of the ‘human' that underpins the humanities, what new forms of knowledge and research practice might be produced in an emerging area called the ‘cognitive humanities’? How can the field be mapped? What methodological opportunities exist, and what value do cognitive paradigms add to traditional modes of inquiry? How may interests particular to the humanities, such as fiction and the imagination, influence the development of research in the cognitive sciences? In addressing these questions, the conference will generate exciting new communication across disciplines and help define an emerging international research community. The conference is associated with an international research network on the ‘Cognitive Futures in the Humanities’, which is supported by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), awarded to Dr. Peter Garrett (Durham, UK), and Prof. Vyv Evans (Bangor, UK). The project manager is Dr. Matt Hayler (Exeter, UK). 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:59:32 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: waiting, acting While the problems that Domenico Fiormonte points to are serious, it's not as if nothing can be done, and not as if some are failing to do what they can. Changing the world so that everyone or more realistically a sufficient majority has facility in many languages is a long-term project, I won't say an impossible one, but one demanding enough that entire careers would have to be dedicated even to make a dent in the dominance of our lingua franca -- and note the irony in that term. I, for one, while lamenting my limitations in regard to languages, have other things to do while I still can do them. When walking through the British Museum or into the British Library I reflect on the fact that I am enjoying the fruits of empire. The same would be true of a stroll into the BNF, the Vatican Library, the New York Public Library, the great library in St Petersburg, once the Alexandrian Library and so on. I'm moved to reflect that all money is blood money, and without that money there would be no such libraries. Thinking further on it I am amazed that we have any such libraries at all. Would we if scholarship anywhere at any time did not serve empire or could be used for the purpose? Much worse is the poverty of access in countries, such as Bulgaria, where the research tradition is strong, the knowledge of ancient languages impressive, to say the least, and the scholars highly motivated but in which there is no funding for books or subscriptions to online services. Here is something to be done by humane digital humanists, no? As editor of an English-language journal and receiver of dissertation proposals and chapters I see a fair bit of English written by highly intelligent non-native speakers. Usually, with a fair bit of hard work I make sure gets done, the English that is submitted is well worth reading if somewhat off in its command of idiom. The networked world makes this easier to accomplish. At the same time, of course, the automatic translation tools push crudely in the opposite direction. Long ago a teacher in an English class read to us youngsters some poetry written by a Korean lad who had just learned English but hadn't get absorbed most idioms and some grammatical conventions. This teacher pointed out what amazing and powerful beauty came from this lad's verse -- was it in spite of the errors or because of them? Some years later I had a Nigerian man in an English composition class whose grammatical mistakes would have caused him to fail had his brilliant mind not shone through (or by means of?) the terrible grammar. Four decades after the fact I can still remember one of his compositions. It's a rapidly changing world, and we're at the centre of it. It's good to have problems raised so that we remain aware of what needs doing with our digital tools and methods, don't you think? 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_DBL_SPAM autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 42A132C9F; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:13:34 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07CAA2CA1; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:13:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E25C72C9D; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:13:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130123111330.E25C72C9D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:13:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.708 events: historical text; mining data; curation; libraries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 708. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "J. Stephen Downie" (28) Subject: DEADLINE EXTENSION: CFP for ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2013 [2] From: Julia Flanders (22) Subject: call for applications: Digital Humanities Data Curation institutes [3] From: Christian Thomas (85) Subject: Program now available: DTA-/CLARIN-D-Conference and Workshops on Historical Text Corpora [4] From: "Jordanous, Anna" (109) Subject: 2nd Mining Humanistic Data Workshop ::. Call for papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:08:50 +0000 From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: DEADLINE EXTENSION: CFP for ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2013 Dear Colleagues The following submission deadlines for the 2013 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) have been extended: Full paper submissions are due 4 February 2013 Short paper, panel, poster, demonstration submissions are due 8 February 2013. Workshop and tutorial demonstration submissions are due 15 February 2013. For more information, please refer to the complete CFP at http://jcdl2013.org/call-for-papers. The JCDL is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical and social issues. This year's conference will be held in Indianapolis, IN from July 22-26. We welcome submissions on the wide range of topics of interest in Digital Libraries worldwide. On behalf of the JCDL 2013 Planning Committee, J. Stephen Downie, Conference Co-chair -- ********************************************************** "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, 22 Jan 2013 12:28:27 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: call for applications: Digital Humanities Data Curation institutes Applications are now being accepted for the first Digital Humanities Data Curation Institutes Workshop. Dates: June 24-26, 2013 Location: The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Instructors: Trevor Munoz (University of Maryland), Julia Flanders (Women Writers Project, Brown University), and Dorothea Salo (School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Application Deadline: February 15, 2013 Travel funding is available. The three-day workshop will provide a strong introductory grounding in data curation concepts and practices, focusing on the special issues and challenges of data curation in the digital humanities. Learning will be largely case-based, supplemented by short lectures, guest presentations, and practical exercises. All participants will also have access to an online resource for sharing knowledge about data curation for the humanities. This resource will build on material from the existing DH Curation Guide (http://guide.dhcuration.org/). Participants will learn how to: • Model humanities data for sustainable computational research • Identify, assess, and mitigate risks to their data • Evaluate tools and systems for working with data from a curatorial perspective • Plan and implement data management during all phases of a project's lifecycle • Leverage data curation skills to improve scholarly publications, grant applications, and promotion dossiers • Understand and stay current with the landscape of data curation research The Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute workshops are aimed at humanities researchers — whether traditional faculty or alternative (alt-ac) professionals — as well as librarians, archivists, other information professionals, and advanced graduate students. For more information and to apply, please visit: http://dhcuration.org/institute/ Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Co-managing editor, DH Curation Guide --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:47:38 +0100 From: Christian Thomas Subject: Program now available: DTA-/CLARIN-D-Conference and Workshops on Historical Text Corpora In-Reply-To: <50EC3E17.3090404@bbaw.de> Dear humanists, again, with apologies for cross-posting: The program for the DTA-/CLARIN-D-Conference and Workshops, held on February 18th-19th, 2013, at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jägerstr. 22/23, Berlin (Germany) is now available: www.deutschestextarchiv.de/doku/workshop2013 Best wishes Christian Thomas Am 08.01.2013 16:41, schrieb Christian Thomas: > > Dear humanists, > > with apologies for cross-posting, > > we would like to invite you to the DTA-/CLARIN-D-Conference and > Workshops, held on February 18th-19th, 2013, at the Berlin-Brandenburg > Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jägerstr. 22/23, Berlin (Germany). > > ********************************** > > Title: Historische Textkorpora für die Geistes- und > Sozialwissenschaften. Fragestellungen und Nutzungsperspektiven > > Contact: Deutsches Textarchiv (http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de), > dta@bbaw.de > > Please register until: January 31st, 2013 > > For further information see: > http://www.bbaw.de/veranstaltungen/2013/februar/historische_textkorpora > > Conference/Workshop language: German > > ********************************** > > Description: > Zum Thema „Historische Textkorpora für die Geistes- und > Sozialwissenschaften. Fragestellungen und Nutzungsperspektiven“ > veranstalten die Projekte „Deutsches Textarchiv“ und „CLARIN-D“ > gemeinsam eine zweitägige Konferenz mit begleitenden themenbezogenen > Workshops. > > Auf der Konferenz werden Fragen behandelt, die im Zusammenhang mit dem > Aufbau, der Pflege und linguistischen Anreicherung sowie der Nutzung > historischer Textkorpora stehen. Themen sind die notwendige und > wünschenswerte Größe und Güte von Korpora, Verfahren und Qualität der > linguistischen Annotation und Kriterien für die Auswahl und > Zusammensetzung solcher Korpora. Dabei wird betrachtet, wie ein > optimales Verhältnis dieser Anforderungen für den Aufbau solcher Korpora > hergestellt werden kann, auch hinsichtlich der Bedürfnisse verschiedener > Benutzergruppen und der Nachnutzbarkeit solcher Ressourcen über den > unmittelbaren Forschungszweck hinaus. Ein weiterer Aspekt ist, wie > historische Korpora verschiedener Herkunft interoperabel und damit > gemeinsam nutzbar gemacht werden können. Diese Fragen sollen allgemein, > aber auch im Hinblick auf konkrete Projekte und Ressourcen erörtert > werden. > > Ergänzend zur Konferenz werden zwei Workshops veranstaltet: Workshop1 > legt das von der BBAW geleitete CLARIN-D-Arbeitspaket 5 (AP 5: Dienste > und Ressourcen) zugrunde und wird eine Einführung zu den Diensten der > CLARIN-D-Infrastruktur bieten, welche den Aufbau und die Analyse von > Sprachressourcen unterstützen. Workshop 2 knüpft an die Erfahrungen des > Kurationsprojekts 1 der CLARIN-D-Facharbeitsgruppe 1 und des > DTA-Erweiterungsmoduls DTAE an und vermittelt, auf welche Weise > existierende oder neue Sprachressourcen mit den Hilfsmitteln des DTA > CLARIN-D- konform aufbereitet oder erstellt werden können. > > ********************************** > > Best wishes, > Christian Thomas > -- Christian Thomas Deutsches Textarchiv Koordinator CLARIN-D Kurationsprojekt 1 der F-AG 1 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 www.clarin-d.de/de/fachspezifische-arbeitsgruppen/f-ag-1-deutsche-philologie/kurationsprojekt-1.html -- --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:18:43 +0000 From: "Jordanous, Anna" Subject: 2nd Mining Humanistic Data Workshop ::. Call for papers In-Reply-To: > From: Ioannis Karydis > > Date: Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:53 AM > Subject: [MUSIC-IR] 2nd Mining Humanistic Data Workshop ::. Call for papers 2nd Mining Humanistic Data Workshop **Call for papers** Date: 14 September 2013 VENUE: Athina Pallas Village 5 star (4 seasons) Hotel and Conference Center, Neos Marmaras, Halkidiki GREECE http://www.athena-pallas.gr/ Conference web Site: http://www.mhdw.org/2013/ Special Issues: Extended versions of selected papers from the workshop will be peer reviewed for potential publication in the International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining (IJDWM) journal http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-data-warehousing-mining /1085 Workshop Aim The abundance of available data that is retrieved from or is related to the areas of Humanities and the human condition challenges the research community in processing and analyzing it. The aim is two-fold: on the one hand, to extract knowledge that will help understand human behavior, creativity, way of thinking, reasoning, learning, decision making, socializing and even biological processes; on the other hand, to exploit the extracted knowledge by incorporating it into intelligent systems that will support humans in their everyday activities. The nature of humanistic data can be multimodal, semantically heterogeneous, dynamic, time and space-dependent, and highly complicated. Translating humanistic information, e.g. behavior, state of mind, artistic creation, linguistic utterance, learning and genomic information into numerical or categorical low-level data is a significant challenge on its own. New techniques, appropriate to deal with this type of data, need to be proposed and existing ones adapted to its special characteristics. The workshop aims to bring together interdisciplinary approaches that focus on the application of innovative as well as existing data matching, fusion and mining and knowledge discovery and management techniques (like decision rules, decision trees, association rules, ontologies and alignments, clustering, filtering, learning, classifier systems, neural networks, support vector machines, preprocessing, post processing, feature selection, visualization techniques) to data derived from all areas of Humanistic Sciences, e.g. linguistic, historical, behavioral, psychological, artistic, musical, educational, social etc., Ubiquitous Computing and Bioinformatics. Ubiquitous Computing applications (aka Pervasive Computing, Mobile Computing, Ambient Intelligence, etc.) collect large volumes of usually heterogeneous data in order to effect adaptation, learning and in general context awareness. Data matching, fusion and mining techniques are necessary to ensure human centred application functionality. An important aspect of humanistics centers around managing, processing and computationally analyzing Biological and Biomedical data. Hence, one of the aims of this workshop will be to also attract researchers that are interested in designing, developing and applying efficient data and text mining techniques for discovering the underlying knowledge existing in Biomedical data, such as sequences, gene expressions and pathways. Workshop Topics The workshop topics include but are not limited to: *Humanistic Data Collection and Interpretation *Data pre-processing *Feature Selection *Supervised learning of humanistic knowledge *Clustering *Fuzzy modeling *Heterogeneous data fusion *Knowledge Representation and Reasoning *Linguistic Data Mining *Historical Research *Educational Data Mining *Music Information Retrieval *Data-driven Profiling/ Personalization *User Modeling *Behavior Prediction *Recommender Systems *Web Sentiment Analysis *Social Data Mining *Visualization techniques *Integration of data mining results into real-world applications with humanistic context *Ontologies, ontology matching and alignment *Mining Humanistic Data in the Cloud *Game Data Mining *Virtual-World Data Mining *Speech and Audio Data Processing *Data Mining Techniques for Knowledge Discovery *Biomedical Data Mining *Protein structure prediction Submission All papers should be submitted through easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mhdw2013). Papers should be submitted either in a doc or in a pdf form and they will be peer reviewed by at least 2 academic referees. Papers should not exceed 10 pages. Contributing authors must follow the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) instructions for authors (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Publication Accepted papers will be presented orally in the conference for 20 minutes and they will be published in the Proceedings of the main event. Registration fees and benefits for the workshops' participants are exactly identical with the ones of the main EANN 2013 event (http://delab.csd.auth.gr/eann2013/index.php). ------------- List reminder: ------------- 0. ISMIR 2012 will take place in in Porto (Portugal) October 8th-12th, 2012. The web site of the conference is at http://ismir2012.ismir.net/ 1. Please do not send HTML documents to the list 2. Please do not send attachments (pictures, Word, etc.) to the list 3. 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The collective web sites of the ISMIR conferences and all past proceedings are at http://www.ismir.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_DBL_SPAM autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 766532CA0; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:00:06 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8B02ED8; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:00:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6A00DE5B; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:00:04 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130124090004.6A00DE5B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:00:04 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.709 events: literary & cultural criticism X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 709. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:38:46 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: New Voices 2013 Conference: Diversities in Literary and Cultural Criticism New Voices, 2013 Multidisciplinary Postgraduate and Early Career Scholars’ Conference 2013 Diversities in Literary and Cultural Criticism 13-15 June 2013, NUI Maynooth Call for Papers The theme of the fifteenth annual New Voices conference is Diversities. New Voices seeks papers and panel sessions that explore diversities, as an object of literary and cultural study, or as a mode of methodological, technological and theoretical practice. The range of frameworks being deployed within the study of Irish literature and culture has never been so diverse. This conference seeks to provide a space for the consideration of the rich diversity of critical, theoretical and technological reading practices being advanced by postgraduate and early career scholars who are researching in academic institutions in Ireland, or working on topics pertaining to Ireland in institutions abroad. We seek proposals for papers and panel sessions that examine how the field of Irish studies has benefited from the application of new modes of theoretical enquiry, while also considering the extent to which the field has resisted, or remained sceptical of, such analytic approaches. Is the practice of analysing Irish literature and culture one that now necessitates an interdisciplinary approach or has literary studies always been multidisciplinary? While New Voices seeks to address Irish literature and culture, we are also particularly interested in the research of postgraduates and early career scholars that addresses Irish literature and culture in comparative or global contexts. Above all, New Voices aims to provide a space for the recognition of the diversity of current postgraduate and early career research being carried out in the field of the humanities in Ireland. Confirmed Plenary Speakers: Professor Christopher Morash, National University of Ireland Maynooth Dr Anne Mulhall, University College Dublin Professor Ed Madden, University of South Carolina Dr Íde Corley, National University of Ireland Maynooth We welcome papers on topics including but by no means limited to:  Literary and cultural narratives of the diaspora  Post-feminist and Post-Queer? Readings and realities  Representations of ethnic diversity in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland  Irish literature as World literature? Comparative contexts  Visual cultures and diverse perceptions  Religion and Trauma: Emergent historical narratives  Cultural memory – collective and individual memory  Time and space – nostalgia and futurity in contemporary texts  Family life – representations of the family in literature  Theory, Text and Technology – Digital humanities & new media We are interested in receiving abstracts for twenty minute papers from postgraduate and postdoctoral scholars working in the areas of literature, drama, film, visual art, cultural studies, new media, performance studies, sociology, philosophy, comparative studies, history and politics amongst others. The deadline for abstracts has been extended to February 28th, 2013. Abstracts should be 250-300 words, and include affiliation and a short biography. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:45:20 +0000 From: Albert Lloret Subject: Digital Philology 1.2 (Fall 2012) Dear Colleagues, The first themed issue of Digital Philology (vol. 1, n. 2, Fall 2012) came out earlier this month. Guest-edited by Tracy Adams, this exciting new number is devoted to explore the links between “Devotion and Emotions in the Middle Ages,” or rather, in the editor’s own words “the work to which our medieval forebears put what we today think of as emotions: how they used emotions for making sense of human nature, keeping the peace, educating communities, marking social distinctions.” The current issue of Digital Philology also includes a manuscript study and three reviews of digital resources. You may access DPh 1.2 on-line through Project Muse at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/toc/dph.1.2.html We are accepting submissions for the 2014 and 2015 open issues. You may find our call for papers, as well as some authorial guidelines, at: http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/guidelines.html Sincerely, Albert Lloret Albert Lloret, PhD Assistant Professor Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Spanish and Portuguese University of Massachusetts 433 Herter Hall 161 Presidents Drive Amherst, MA 01003 Managing Editor Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 72EB72CB1; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:16:10 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AABF7E56; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:16:09 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 432EDE56; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:16:07 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130125061607.432EDE56@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:16:07 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.711 multi-lingual sites? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 711. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:52:26 +0000 From: John Levin Subject: Multi-lingual DH websites Dear humanists, Does anyone know of any DH websites / projects that are available in two or more languages? I'm mainly interested in sites that are available in modern languages, but links to sites that handle translation from ancient languages (Greek, Latin, for example) are of interest as well. Thanks for your help, john -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 101772CB3; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:17:35 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40E782CAA; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:17:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DA849E4A; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:17:32 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130125061732.DA849E4A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:17:32 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.712 PhD studentship at Queen's Belfast X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 712. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:51:29 +0000 From: Cahal McLaughlin Subject: PhD Scholarship Interactive Documentary In-Reply-To: <20130124090031.B21CA2CA7@digitalhumanities.org> Apologies if cross posting. PhD Scholarship (DEL Strategic Award) Interactive Documentary School of Creative Arts Queen’s University Belfast An investigation into, and the design of, interactive software appropriate for use in the Prisons Memory Archive, which is a collection of filmed interviews inside Northern Irish prisons (www.prisonsmemoryarchive.com). The PhD student will address the methodological challenge of designing the most appropriate interactive software so that users will become co-creators of narratives and meanings, rather than simply be exposed to a linear documentary. By involving users as editors and by offering pathways that integrate varied and contrasting memories, the software encourages a witnessing of the ‘other’ experiences, which is crucial in addressing the legacy of a conflicted past and will be of use in other post conflict societies. The applicant should have previous knowledge of software design and experience working with the moving image. Application online at https://dap.qub.ac.uk/portal/user/u_login.php Deadline: February 21st 2013 For further information, please contact: Professor Cahal McLaughlin c.mclaughlin@qub.ac.uk 028 90973634 or Dr Paul Ell, paul.ell@qub.ac.uk 028 90973408 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CEC552CB6; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:21:25 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CDD42CB5; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:21:24 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B6011EA9; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:21:22 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130125062122.B6011EA9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:21:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.713 events: values; archaeology; creative & critical; AI & poetry; classics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 713. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ruth Aylett (57) Subject: AI and Poetry **Extended deadline to Jan 28th** [2] From: Jenna Stidwill (59) Subject: CFP: Interface 2013 Creative and Critical Approaches in the Digital Humanities [3] From: "Brughmans T." (67) Subject: Workshop on agent-based modelling in archaeology at CAA2013 [4] From: Gabriel Bodard (34) Subject: London seminars 2013: Call for Papers [5] From: "mattbrown@utdallas.edu" (36) Subject: CFP: Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology Conference // Theme: Values in the Science and Practice of Medicine --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:06:29 +0000 From: Ruth Aylett Subject: AI and Poetry **Extended deadline to Jan 28th** Symposium: Artificial Intelligence and Poetry AISB 2013 2nd-5th April 2013 University of Exeter, Exeter, England *****EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE 28th JANUARY***** http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ruth/ai&p.html CALL FOR PAPERS OVERVIEW Poetry represents a valuable domain for AI, exemplifying fundamental aspects of creativity which, in the view of proponents of Lady Lovelaceís objection that computers can do nothing original, focus strongly the differences between machines and humans. Poetry also exemplifies hard problems of practical AI, in natural language generation, expressive speech and non-verbal behaviour. This one day workshop will provide strong opportunities for synergies amongst researchers and practitioners in AI, Literature, Performance Arts, Philosophy and Psychology. TOPICS WILL INCLUDE: * AI generated poetry; * AI performance of poetry; * expressive voice and body language for poetry performance; * history of mechanical/algorithmic poetry generation and performance; * socio-technical aspects of AI & poetry; * philosophical aspects of AI & poetry; * evaluating AI poetry systems. We explicitly exclude human poetry about AI. SUBMISSIONS We are seeking submissions of original: * papers; * recordings, videos and performances accompanied by written documentation; that fit well with the symposium theme and topics. Papers/documentation should be no more than 6 pages in length in the AISB convention format ñ see below. Electronic submissions should be made via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aip13 At least one author of each accepted submission will be required to register and attend the symposium to present their work. Download PDF example Download LaTeX Download MS Word PUBLICATION All papers/documentation from the AISB convention will be published in the AISB proceedings, with an ISBN number. Authors of papers must sign a copyright declaration (to follow). However, this declaration is not exclusive - it gives AISB the right to publish the paper, but does not prevent the author from publishing it in other venues. After the Workshop, participants will be invited to submit definitive versions of their paper/documentation for inclusion in a special issue of the journal Artificial Intelligence and Society. IMPORTANT DATES 28th January 2013 : Submission deadline 18th February 2013: Deadline for notifications sent to authors 4th March 2013 : Camera ready copies due 2nd-5th April 2013: Symposium PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University, co-organiser; * Simon Colton, Imperial College, London * Pablo Gervas Universidad Computense de Madrid; * Kevin Knight , University of Southern California; * Ian McDonough, poet, Edinburgh; * Chris Newell, University of Hull; * Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University, co-organiser; * Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS; * Geraint Wiggins, Queen Mary, University of London. CONTACT DETAILS Prof Greg Michaelson/Prof Ruth Aylett Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, EH14 4AS G.Michaelson@hw.ac.uk/ruth@macs.hw.ac.uk 0131 451 3422/4189 (phone) 0131 451 3732 (FAX) -- Ruth Aylett Professor of Computer Science Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK Tel: 44-131-451-4189 Fax: 44-131-451-3327 http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ruth/ "Life is beautiful" --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:55:02 -0500 From: Jenna Stidwill Subject: CFP: Interface 2013 Creative and Critical Approaches in the Digital Humanities In-Reply-To: Call for Papers (Deadline: Feb. 25, 2013) *Interface 2013: Creative and Critical Approaches in the Digital Humanities * Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada May 3-5^2013 The digital humanities explores how emerging digital forms of scholarly inquiry and new ways to assess and to organize knowledge transform the creative and critical methods humanities scholars use to approach their objects of study. Thoughtful in play, interdisciplinary in engagement, utopian in spirit, transformational in intent, digital humanists "imagine new couplings and scalings that are facilitated both by new models of research practice and by the availability of new tools and technologies" (The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0). The goal of this conference is to highlight the variety of digital approaches, both creative and critical, praxis and theory-based, that scholars are bringing to bear on traditional concerns across the humanities. In addition to traditional conference presentations, organizers are planning a number of workshops on game development and digital tool exploration. A selection of papers may be published in an edited collection following the conference. Possible topics may include: - Game studies - Digital pedagogies - Collaborative scholarship - Archive meets the database - Digital circulation, content curation, and the "long tail" - Translation and remediation - Tool or project development - Hypertextuality and digital narratives - Social Media - Hacktivism - Surveillance and privacy - Software and platform studies - The spatial turn - Critically engaged artistic work Interface 2013 is part of an annual series of graduate student-run conferences presented by theInstitute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture http://www1.carleton.ca/icslac/ (ICSLAC) at Carleton University. ICSLAC is an interdisciplinary culture studies department that houses the PhD in Cultural Mediations. This conference is supported by: Carleton University's Hyperlab, French Department, Center for Transnational and Cultural Analysis, Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs, the Graduate Student Association, and the School for Studies in Art and Culture. Contact: interfaceconference2013@gmail.com Website: http://interface2013.wordpress.com Please distribute CFP widely *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1359039721_2013-01-24_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_30448.2.pdf -- Jenna Stidwill PhD Student Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture Carleton University jstidwil@connect.carleton.ca jstidwill@hotmail.com --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:05:35 +0000 From: "Brughmans T." Subject: Workshop on agent-based modelling in archaeology at CAA2013 In-Reply-To: Dear all, We would like to draw your attention to a workshop on agent-based modelling in archaeology as part of the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference Ever wondered what all this complex systems talk in archaeology is about, or how to design your own sophisticated simulation model? Then this might be for you: We will organise a workshop on complex systems and agent-based simulations models in archaeology at the CAA Conference in Perth, Australia, this March. Places are still available but Early Bird Registration to the conference ends on Thursday February 7th, so hurry up to get a discount! The workshop itself is free of charge. The workshop will take place on Monday March 25th and will consist of a morning and an afternoon session. At the end of the day you will be able to design and program your own simulation model to help you answer your research questions in archaeology or related social sciences - guaranteed ... Registration for the conference at: http://www.caa2013.org/drupal/registration Registration to the workshop will be announced on the CAA website soon, but you can already reserve a seat by contacting Carolin at cv275@cam.ac.uk For further information see the abstract below. A flyer with a detailed programme is also available and can be requested from the organisers. Hope to see you there. Best wishes, Carolin, Iza, Tom and Eugene Carolin Vegvari (Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge) Iza Romanowska (Institute for Complex Systems Simulation, University of Southampton) Tom Brughmans (Archaeological Computing Research Group, University of Southampton) Eugene Ch'ng (IBM Visual and Spatial Technology Centre, University of Birmingham) WORKSHOP ABSTRACT W1: Complex Systems and Agent-Based Modelling in Archaeology Chairs: E. Ch'ng, C. Vegvari Discussants: I. Romanowska, T. Brughmans Modelling in various forms has always been an integral part of archaeology. In the broadest sense, archaeology is the study of human activities in the past, and a model is a simplified representation of reality. As a map is a useful abstract of the physical world that allows us to see aspects of the world we chose to, so a computational model distils reality into a few key features, leaving out unnecessary details so as to let us see connections. Human societies in their environmental context can be considered as complex systems. Complex systems are systems with many interacting parts, they are found in every hierarchy of the universe, from the molecular level to large planetary systems within which life and humanity with its cultural developments occur. Formal modelling can help archaeologists to identify the relationships between elements within a complex socio-environmental system in that particular hierarchy. Simulating large populations and non-linear interactions are computationally expensive. In recent years, however, the introduction of new mathematical techniques, rapid advances in computation, and modelling tools has greatly enhanced the potential of complex systems analysis in archaeology. Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) is one of these new methods and has become highly popular with archaeologists. In Agent-Based Modelling, human individuals in ancient societies are modelled as individual agents. The interaction of agents with each other and with their environment can give rise to emergent properties and self-organisation at the macro level - the distribution of wealth within a society, the forming of cohesive groups, population movements in climate change, the development of culture, and the evolution of landscape use are among the examples. Thus, the application of Agent-Based Models to hypothesis testing in archaeology becomes part of the question. The ability to construct various models and run hundreds of simulation in order to see the general developmental trend can provide us with new knowledge impossible in traditional approaches. Another advantage of agent-based models over other mathematical methods is that they can easily model, or capture heterogeneity within these systems, such as the different characteristics (personalities, gender, age, size, etc), preferences (coastal, in-land, food, fashion), and dynamics (microstates of position and orientation). We would like to invite archaeologists new to complex systems and Agent-Based Modelling for an introductory workshop on Complex Systems and Agent-Based Modelling in archaeology. The workshop introduces the concept of Complexity in archaeology, drawing relationships between Information, Computation and Complexity. The practicality of the workshop leads beginners in building simple agent- based models and provides a means to build more complex simulations after. Participants knowledgeable in Complexity wishing to gain insights on real-world applications of Complexity will benefit from this workshop. Participants will get the opportunity to experiment with simple models and draw conclusions from analysis of simulations of those models. Programming experience is not required as the workshop leads beginners from the ground up in modelling tools. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:26:03 +0000 From: Gabriel Bodard Subject: London seminars 2013: Call for Papers In-Reply-To: The Digital Classicist London seminar series, which provides a forum for research into the ancient world that employs digital research methods, invites submissions for Summer 2013. We warmly welcome contributions from students as well as established researchers and practitioners. Themes could include digital text, semantics and linguistics, imaging and visualization, linked data, open access, geographic analysis, information science and serious gaming, although this list is by no means exhaustive. While we welcome high-quality application papers discussing individual projects and their immediate context, the series also hopes to accommodate broader theoretical consideration of the use of digital technology in ancient studies. Presentations should have an academic research agenda relevant both to classicists, ancient historians or archaeologists, and to information specialists or digital humanists. The seminars will run on Friday afternoons at 16:30, from June to early August in the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London. There is a budget to assist with travel to London (usually from within the UK, but please enquire if you’re coming from further afield). To submit a paper for consideration for the Digital Classicist London Seminars, please email an abstract of 300-500 words to gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk, by midnight UTC on March 22nd, 2013. More information will be found at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD Researcher in Digital Epigraphy Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL T: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 E: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:11:05 +0000 From: "mattbrown@utdallas.edu" Subject: CFP: Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology Conference // Theme: Values in the Science and Practice of Medicine In-Reply-To: Announcing the 3rd Annual Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology Conference May 22-24, 2013 At the Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology The University of Texas at Dallas Keynote Speakers: * Kristen Intemann, Montana State University * Adrienne Asch, Yeshiva University Science, technology, and medicine unquestionably have a major impact on our lives. We live with constant technological innovation and scientific discovery, and this changes the conditions that we live in and the way we understand ourselves and the world we live in. Science, technology, and medicine are thus entangled with our values, our culture, and our politics, and they have an important impact on policymaking and action. We invite proposals for papers that engage with these issues from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical approaches, including philosophy of science, technology, and medicine, epistemology, ethics and political philosophy, history, science and technology studies, policy studies, and natural and social sciences. We will consider proposals for individual papers, but also thematic panel sessions and more informal formats. Please feel free to contact us early to discuss potential panel formats at values@utdallas.edu We are especially interested and will give preference to proposals that fit this year's target theme: Values in the Science and Practice of Medicine. Suggested topics include: * Biases in Medical Research * Harms and Benefits of Medical Patents * Critiques and Proposals for Evidence-Based Medicine Standards * Sex and Gender in Medical Research or Practice * Compassion and Profit in Healthcare * Healthcare Justice * The Value of Primary Care * Problems of Medicalization * Theorizing Disability and Disease For contributed papers, please submit a 250-500 word abstract. For symposia and other multi-participant panels, submit an abstract up to 250 words describing the panel and descriptions of up to 100 words describing each participant’s contribution. Conference Information Website: http://www.utdallas.edu/c4v/2013-conference-values-in-science/ Submit proposals at: http://tinyurl.com/ScienceValues2013 Send any questions to: values@utdallas.edu Submissions are due February 20 The Center for Values will also organize a one day workshop prior to the conference on the Appraisal and Creation of Ethics Codes for Science. Details to be announced on our website soon. Workshop participants are encouraged to participate in the conference and vice versa. The Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology is fully committed to fairness and to enabling scholars to participate in this meeting. If you have a disability and require accommodations in order to fully participate, or if you have ideas for how we can increase the accessability of our meeting, please do not hesitate to contact us. Please feel free to forward this message. -- Matthew J. Brown Director, Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology School of Arts & Humanities // The University of Texas at Dallas 800 W Campbell Road, JO31 // Richardson, TX 75080 http://utdallas.edu/~mattbrown // http://utdallas.academia.edu/MatthewBrown _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 93C3F2CC0; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:22:16 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93E482CBD; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:22:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6AF802CB6; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:22:13 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130125062213.6AF802CB6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:22:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.714 pubs: Human IT X 2 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============8708535294686353138==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============8708535294686353138== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 714. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.dhhumanist.org/ Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:43:16 +0100 From: "Veronica Johansson" Subject: Two new issues of Human IT Dear all, Two new issues of Human IT, 11.2 and 12.1, are now available. 11.2 is a thematic issue containing a collection of state-of-the-art Nordic perspectives on information literacies research and conceptualisations, all written in English and overseen and introduced by our two guest editors Anna Hampson Lundh and Jenny Lindberg: http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-11/index.htm 12.1 is a regular issue that nonetheless displays a strong thematic relationship among its contributions in that all are concerned with forms and functions of ICT mediated communication and written in Swedish - with notable exception for Isto Huvila's in-depth review in English of the anthology "Paradata and Transparency in Virtual Heritage: http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-12/index.htm Wishing you many joyful readings, Veronica Johansson, editor Human IT ---11.2 Information literacies theme issue, Table of contents:--- * Anna Hampson Lundh & Jenny Lindberg Information Literacies: Concepts, Contexts and Cultural Tools. Introduction to the Special Issue of Human IT. [Open section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-11/ahljl.htm * Camilla Moring Newcomer Information Practice: Negotiations on Information Seeking in and Across Communities of Practice. [Open section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-11/cm.htm * Anna Lundh, Birgitta Davidsson & Louise Limberg Talking About the Good Childhood: An Analysis of Educators’ Approaches to School Children’s Use of ICT. [Open section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-11/albdll.htm * Jan Nolin Learning Technologies that Are Not Meant for Learning: A Critical Discussion of Learning Objects. [Refereed section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-11/jn.htm * Louise Limberg, Olof Sundin & Sanna Talja Three Theoretical Perspectives on Information Literacy. [Open section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-11/llosst.htm * Mikael Alexandersson & Louise Limberg Changing Conditions for Information Use and Learning in Swedish Schools: A Synthesis of Research. [Open section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-11/mall.htm ---12.1 Table of contents:--- * Editorial http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-12/index.htm * Claus Persson Dialog- och diskussionssamhällen: socialt entreprenörskap och IKT för en alternativ samhällsform [Societies of Dialogue and Discussion: Social Entrepreneurship and ICT for an Alternative Form of Society]. [Open section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-12/cp.htm * Lotta Collin Ett decennium av webbdiskussion: en jämförande analys av interaktionen i tvÃ¥ diskussionsforum pÃ¥ webben 2001, 2006 och 2011 [A Decade of Web Discussion: A Comparative Analysis of the Interaction in Two Discussion Fora on the Web 2001, 2006 and 2011] . [Refereed section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-12/lc.htm * Amelie Hössjer Sammanbunden närvaro: om umgänge pÃ¥ distans och medieväxling mellan familjemedlemmar [Connected Presence: On Interaction across Distance and Media Exchange among Family Members]. [Refereed section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-12/ah.htm * Isto Huvila The Unbearable Complexity of Documenting Intellectual Processes: Paradata and Virtual Cultural Heritage Visualisation [The Unbearable Complexity of Documenting Intellectual Processes: Paradata and Virtual Cultural Heritage Visualisation]. [Book Review]http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-12/ih.htm Veronica Johansson Redaktör / Editor Human IT e-mail: veronica.johansson@hb.se website: http://my.hb.se/wps/myportal/research/researchers/veronica-johansson Tel: + 46 (0) 33 - 435 59 68 Mobile: + 46 (0) 70 - 33 44 538 Adress: Institutionen biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap/ Bibliotekshögskolan (BHS) Högskolan i BorÃ¥s Allégatan 1 501 90 BorÃ¥s Address: Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS) University of BorÃ¥s Allégatan 1 S- 501 90 BorÃ¥s Sweden --===============8708535294686353138== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php --===============8708535294686353138==-- Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 27A762CB5; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:46:49 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43DA0F9A; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:46:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F27EB2C5A; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:46:44 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130126094644.F27EB2C5A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:46:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.715 multi-lingual sites X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 715. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (53) Subject: Re: 26.711 multi-lingual sites? [2] From: Claire Clivaz (43) Subject: Re: 26.711 multi-lingual sites? [3] From: Frédéric_Clavert (56) Subject: Re: 26.711 multi-lingual sites? [4] From: Anna Jordanous (42) Subject: Re: Multi-lingual DH websites [5] From: James Rovira (47) Subject: Re: 26.711 multi-lingual sites? [6] From: Martin Holmes (14) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.711 multi-lingual sites? [7] From: Ken Price (52) Subject: Re: 26.711 multi-lingual sites? [8] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (14) Subject: Re: 26.711 multi-lingual sites? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:30:37 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Re: 26.711 multi-lingual sites? In-Reply-To: <20130125061607.432EDE56@digitalhumanities.org> It is a standard requirement for DH resources developed in Wales to be available in both Welsh and English. Examples are: http://www.casgliadywerincymru.co.uk/Home http://eira.llgc.org.uk http://www.dafyddapgwilym.net/ 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 On 25 Jan 2013, at 06:16, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 711. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.dhhumanist.org/ > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:52:26 +0000 > From: John Levin > Subject: Multi-lingual DH websites > > Dear humanists, > > Does anyone know of any DH websites / projects that are available in two > or more languages? I'm mainly interested in sites that are available in > modern languages, but links to sites that handle translation from > ancient languages (Greek, Latin, for example) are of interest as well. > > Thanks for your help, > > john > > -- > John Levin > http://www.anterotesis.com > http://twitter.com/anterotesis --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:44:18 +0100 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Re: 26.711 multi-lingual sites? In-Reply-To: <20130125061607.432EDE56@digitalhumanities.org> Dear John, Such a point is regularly in discussion in our DH activities in Lausanne (CH). A good English translation for everything would mean a lot of means for us... So we try sometimes to translate entirely a website (www.unil.ch/digitalera). Or we translate just a part of it (www.dhlausanne.ch). In my blog, I write bilingual or in French or in English, depending on the topic, and the public I have in mind: http://claireclivaz.hypotheses.org/ My English is as it is... We would need of course more needs to do a good job. But trying to communicate internationally is more important than to wait until we have the means. That is my experiment. At another level, to work in Switzerland (at the Swiss level) requires to be comfortable in German, French, English and often Italian. So we are only a few colleagues in DH able to take the «Swiss relationship» level in charge, and that it is also problematic sometimes. I accepted to be a member of the ADHO-MLMC committee, because I am every day concerned by that point. All the best, Claire Clivaz --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:57:14 +0100 From: Frédéric_Clavert Subject: Re: 26.711 multi-lingual sites? In-Reply-To: <20130125061607.432EDE56@digitalhumanities.org> Dear John our website on the European integration history is available in two languages - English and French: http://www.cvce.eu/. The thematic collections that we publish can be available in more than two languages in our in beta testing redesigned website, ex: http://redesign2013.cvce.eu/recherche/unit-content/-/unit/a7b75b14-91dc-48dd-9df0-a0d51a9edfefwhich will be later also publish in portuguese. Then the documents themselves can be in several languages. This one is in three languages: http://redesign2013.cvce.eu/recherche/unit-content/-/unit/3941c9b0-d6c4-4a2c-b842-34fc75add012/79741dc3-534b-4d40-8a5a-a7959200c801#5c586461-7528-4a74-92c3-d3eba73c2d7d_fr&overlay Best, Frédéric Clavert -- Docteur en histoire contemporaine > Hjalmar Schacht, financier et diplomate > Les banquiers centraux dans la construction européenne > L'histoire et le numérique http://www.clavert.net/wordpress/?cat=5 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:54:46 +0000 From: Anna Jordanous Subject: Re: Multi-lingual DH websites In-Reply-To: Hi John, the SAWS project (Sharing Ancient Wisdoms) is a DH collaborative project looking at collections of wise sayings in manuscripts: http://www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk/ These manuscripts were often copied into different languages by scribes, as well as being rendered in different dialects or edited over time as part of the scribal copying process. We look at and record relationships between manuscripts (including translation-based relationships) written in Ancient Greek and Arabic, as well as Spanish, Latin, Syriac, and potentially also other languages, and add into this mix the provision of translations into Modern English. I'd be happy to supply more information if you are interested, please do feel free to get in touch. Regards, Anna -- Anna Jordanous Research Associate Centre for e-Research Department of Digital Humanities King's College London t: +44 (0)20 7848 1988 e: annajordanous@kcl.ac.uk w: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/people/jordanous/ http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/people/jordanous/index.aspx --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 08:37:18 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: 26.711 multi-lingual sites? In-Reply-To: <20130125061607.432EDE56@digitalhumanities.org> The following is not really a DH site in any current sense of the word but is rather something of a literary and cultural ezine started in the 1990s, I think, that attempted to translate its works into as many of the world's languages as possible: http://www.towerofbabel.com/map/ The link is to the original iteration of the site, Babel 1.0. It's current version is a blogroll mainly in English. Jim R -- 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 --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 08:45:09 -0800 From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.711 multi-lingual sites? In-Reply-To: <20130125061607.432EDE56@digitalhumanities.org> On 13-01-24 10:16 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Does anyone know of any DH websites / projects that are available in two > or more languages? I'm mainly interested in sites that are available in > modern languages, but links to sites that handle translation from > ancient languages (Greek, Latin, for example) are of interest as well. This site is in English, French and Russian. It has a wide readership in Russia because of that: http://www.siberianexpedition.ca/ Cheers, Martin -- Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (mholmes@uvic.ca) --[7]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:10:26 -0600 From: Ken Price Subject: Re: 26.711 multi-lingual sites? In-Reply-To: <20130125061607.432EDE56@digitalhumanities.org> Dear John Levin and all: The Walt Whitman Archive (whitmanarchive.org) offers full-length translations of Leaves of Grass in German, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. In addition, in May of 2011, a group of translators and scholars from six different countries met in Iowa City to discuss Whitman in translation. Sponsored by the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at The University of Iowa, the Obermann Humanities Seminar ("Walt Whitman International: Translation and the Digital Archive") set out to explore how translations of Whitman's work could most effectively become a key component of the online Walt Whitman Archive. The Archive had already begun to make translations of Whitman's work available on the site, but we wanted to investigate ways that translation itself could become a useful tool in understanding Whitman's poetry. We studied all known translations of the poem "Poets to Come" in French, German, Italian, Polish, and Spanish. The results of that work are available at http://whitmanarchive.org/published/foreign/index.html A new project devoted to Whitman's "Song of Myself" is now underway: The International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, in cooperation with the Whitman Archive and supported by a grant from the United State Department of State, has created the Whitman Web, a site devoted to translations of Whitman’s 1881 version of “Song of Myself” in multiple languages (currently including Persian, Russian, Ukrainian, German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese). A new section of the poem, with commentary by Ed Folsom and Christopher Merrill and with a recording in English by Eric Forsythe and a recording in Persian by Sholeh Wolpe, is being posted each week, starting in the fall of 2012 and continuing through the fall of 2013 until all 52 sections appear. This site features the first full translation of “Song of Myself” into Persian. The Whitman Web may be accessed here /iwp.uiowa.edu/whitmanweb/en/section-1 Eventually this work on "Song of Myself" will be incorporated into the Whitman Archive. Best, Ken Kenneth M. Price co-director, Walt Whitman Archive www.whitmanarchive.org/ Hillegass University Professor Department of English University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0333 402-472-0293 On Jan 25, 2013, at 12:16 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: --[8]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:41:11 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: 26.711 multi-lingual sites? In-Reply-To: <20130125061607.432EDE56@digitalhumanities.org> Dear John Levin, Some bilingual sites I can think of in Canada include: Montreal Life Stories - http://www.lifestoriesmontreal.ca/ CSDH/SCHN - http://csdh-schn.org/ Congress 2012 of the Humanities and Social Sciences - http://www.congress2012.ca/ Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/ The first two are DH related. The second two are umbrella groups. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 616BD2CBD; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:07:26 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D6F42CAA; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:07:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 725C12C5A; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:07:23 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130126100723.725C12C5A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:07:23 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.716 enthusiasm for anxiety? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 716. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:32:45 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: enthusiasm, relief, anxiety I have a question which needs a fair bit of context. But I hope the context will at least prove interesting in itself. Douwe Draaisma notes in the Epilogue to Metaphors of Memory (Cambridge 2000) that for what we now consider psychological phenomena, metaphors have over time, since Plato, acquired "an increasingly technical character". He notes that from Robert Hooke (1635-1703) onward what has remained constant throughout their metamorphosis "is the enthusiasm with which these artificial memories were presented", each promising proof that the relevant material agency was plausibly involved. Thus for Plato's wax tablet and other like metaphors the proof was that memories were inscribed in the mind; for Locke's storehouse metaphor, that they were permanently stored away somewhere, like objects in a storehouse. Throughout the long historical parade of potential explanations by analogy what has been meant by "memory" has changed with the conceptual means provided. One's immediate impression, then, is of great variety in how memory has been conceived. But, Draaisma cautions, this impression is in part deceptive. "The general conclusion must be", he says, "that the continual variation of terms and metaphors suggests more change than there actually is. Our conceptions of memory are always mixed with the technologies used as metaphors and appear to change completely with each new successive image. But after a while, the familiar features show through again, and the similarities are recognized" (222-3). To paraphrase what the AI folks say about their goal but reverse its polarity, there is no evidence whatever that the computational metaphor is the one finally to cap this history with a final answer. Draaisma suggests that what's new with computing is the emphasis on the *transformation* of that which we witness and then remember -- on the process of remembering (though this was before-his-time F. C. Bartlett's main thing in the early 20C). He asks us to compare the static engram of the photographic and phonographic metaphors, for example. The fact that we're still acting largely as if our state-of-the-art external, artificial memory were a photo album only shows how little of computing's potential we're prepared to recognize. But what I am interested in here is the recurrent enthusiasm -- enthusiasm for a final answer, which burns brightly in the future-tensed expressions of discovery and promotion, then gradually fades into present-tensed inadequacy. My question is, *what are we being enthusiastic for* in this habitual promotion of a technological final answer? Who has written well about this -- about, to put the matter more bluntly, the relationship between enthusiasm and anxiety? 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 33A232CC4; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:08:32 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F322A2CBF; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:08:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 045FC2CBD; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:08:28 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130126100829.045FC2CBD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:08:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.717 events: narrative; tools for text X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 717. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Joris van Zundert (66) Subject: CFP: 18-19 April 2013 Workshop "Easy Tools for Difficult Texts?" [2] From: Bernhard Fisseni (82) Subject: CfP(2): Computational Models of Narrative 2013, Hamburg --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:12:28 +0100 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: CFP: 18-19 April 2013 Workshop "Easy Tools for Difficult Texts?" Call for papers, ISCH COST Action IS1005 Medieval Europe - Medieval Cultures and Technological Resources, Working Group 2, Manuscripts and textual tradition, to be hosted at Huygens ING, Den Haag, Netherlands, on 18-19 April 2013. "Easy Tools for Difficult Texts?" Medieval manuscripts and codices are notoriously difficult to convince to become well behaved inhabitants of the digital scholarly ecosystem. Meanwhile over the last decades many digital local computerized services, web based tools, and stand alone applications have been developed to create, publish, and analyze digital representations of manuscript and printed text. Although such tools have been trying to accommodate for medieval manuscripts –and sometimes were even solely developed for that purpose– a true convenient and intuitive means of re-representing medieval text in the digital medium seems elusive. The nature of medieval texts –ambiguous, uncertain, instable, often of unknown origin and descent, of puzzling function and context, damaged, fragmented, still unconventional in their multiplicity of form, format, language, orthography, typography, and script– poses an ultimate challenge to creators and users of digital tools wishing to produce useful and reliable digital counterparts to these medieval sources of knowledge and testimonies of intellectual creativity. The Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands and the COST Action IS1005 "Medieval Europe" are organizing a two-day workshop that seeks to gather a number of experts in methodologies and tool creation around the complex issue of transferring medieval manuscripts to a digital medium. The workshop, to be held at the Huygens Institute in The Hague on 18 and 19 April 2013, will create an overview of the state of the art of tool development, and of the difficulties and extreme requirements medieval manuscript poses to digital methods and techniques. The first day will consist of introductions and demonstrations, as well as thorough methodological reflection on a number of tools highly visible in the field of digital textual scholarship. The second day will consist of theoretical and methodological focused papers and the creation of an inventory of common difficulties and unsupported features essential to digital philology of medieval manuscripts. We invite all interested experts to submit an abstract for a proposed paper of no more than 500 words. We urge authors of proposals to include relevant literature references (not counted as word count), to assist the audience in its orientation in this more technical part of the field. Send your abstract to congres@huygens.knaw.nl , before 15 February 2013. Please mention “COST Workshop” in the subject field. Presenters will be reimbursed (according to the rules of the COST organisation) for their travel and accommodation expenses. Since the budget is restricted, however, we can only accommodate a limited number of people. If you are under the happy circumstance that you would not have to rely on funding by COST, please let us know, so that we can fit in more presenters. The proceedings of the workshop will be published. For further information, you can write to congres@huygens.knaw.nl . Again, please mention “COST Workshop” in the subject field. Workshop Organizers: Mariken Teeuwen (Huygens ING) Joris van Zundert (Huygens ING) Caroline Macé (Catholic University Leuven) -- Drs. Joris J. van Zundert *Researcher & Developer Digital and Computational Humanities * Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands *Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences * www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/vanzundert/ ------- *Jack Sparrow: I thought you were supposed to keep to the code. Mr. Gibbs: We figured they were more actual guidelines. * --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:23:39 +0100 From: Bernhard Fisseni Subject: CfP(2): Computational Models of Narrative 2013, Hamburg SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2013) 4-6 August 2013 Universitaet Hamburg, Germany http://narrative.csail.mit.edu/ws13/ (a satellite workshop of CogSci 2013: The 35th meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Berlin, Germany, 31 July - 3 August 2013) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Richard Gerrig, Stony Brook University, U.S.A. Inderjeet Mani, Chiang Mai, Thailand Paper Submission: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmn2013 Important Dates: 24 February 2013. Submission deadline. 31 March 2013. Notification. 30 April 2013. Final versions due. 31 July - 3 August 2013. CogSci 2013 in Berlin. 4-6 August 2013. Workshop in Hamburg. Workshop Aims Narratives are ubiquitous in human experience. We use them to communicate, convince, explain, and entertain. As far as we know, every society in the world has narratives, which suggests they are rooted in our psychology and serve an important cognitive function. It is becoming increasingly clear that, to truly understand and explain human intelligence, beliefs, and behaviors, we will have to understand why and to what extent narrative is universal and explain (or explain away) the function it serves. The aim of this workshop series is to address key questions that advance our understanding of narrative and our ability to model it computationally. Special Focus: Cognitive Science This workshop will be an appropriate venue for papers addressing fundamental topics and questions regarding narrative. The workshop will be held as a satellite event of the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (to be held in Berlin 31st July - 3rd August), and so will have a special focus on the cognitive science of narrative. Papers should be relevant to issues fundamental to the computational modeling and scientific understanding of narrative; we especially welcome papers relevant to the cognitive, linguistic, or philosophical aspects of narrative. Cognitive psychological or neuroscientific experimental work which may provide insights critical to computational modeling is appropriate for this workshop, and is encouraged. Discussing technological applications or motivations is not prohibited, but is not required. We accept both finished research and more tentative exploratory work. We invite and encourage submissions either as full papers or position papers, through the workshop's EasyChair website http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmn2013 We also invite you to submit an abstract soon so that we can gauge the number of submissions we can expect. Accepted papers will be published in an electronic proceedings volume in the series OASIcs (Open Access Series in Informatics, Schloss Dagstuhl). Full papers should contain original research and have to fit within 16 pages in the OASIcs style (plus two pages of references); position papers can report on work-in-progress, research plans or projects and have to fit within four pages in the OASIcs style (plus one page of references). OASIcs webpage: http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/oasics OASICs style: http://drops.dagstuhl.de/styles/oasics/oasics-authors.tgz **The CMN workshop series is organizing a special issue on "Computational Models of Narrative", which will appear in the 2014 volume of the Journal of Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC, http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/). The deadline for final papers will be in late 2013. Authors of top workshop papers will be encouraged to expand their work and submit to the special issue.** Programme Committee: Rossana Damiano, Kerstin Dautenhahn, David K. Elson, Mark Finlayson (co-chair), Pablo Gervas, Andrew S. Gordon, Valerie G. Hardcastle, Patrik Haslum, Benedikt Loewe (co-chair), Jan Christoph Meister, Peggy J. Miller, Erik T. Mueller, Livia Polanyi, Marie-Laure Ryan, Timothy Tangherlini, Mariet Theune, Emmett Tomai, Atif Waraich, Patrick Henry Winston, R. Michael Young. Organizers: Mark A. Finlayson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.), Bernhard Fisseni (Universitaet Hamburg & Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Benedikt Loewe (Universitaet Hamburg, Germany & Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Jan Christoph Meister (Universitaet Hamburg, Germany). -- Dr. Bernhard Fisseni Uni Hamburg, Fachbereich Mathematik, Bereich Mathematische Logik und interdisziplinäre Anwendungen der Logik, Projekt 'What makes stories similar?' 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:14:30 +0000 From: "Customer-services@rodopi.nl" Subject: New publication: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (Edited by Wim Van Mierlo, associate editor Alexandre Fachard) The following is a new publication which might interest you. At the moment it is offered with 30% discount until March 1st, 2013*. More information at info@rodopi.nl The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship Edited by Wim Van Mierlo, associate editor Alexandre Fachard Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, NY 2013. 318 pp. (Variants 10) ISBN: 978-90-420-3632-1 Paper ISBN: 978-94-012-0902-1 E-Book Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=VARIANTS+10 This volume is the 10th issue of Variants. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Manfred Thaller (10) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.715 multi-lingual sites [2] From: John Levin (32) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.715 multi-lingual sites [3] From: maurizio lana (21) Subject: Re: 26.711 multi-lingual sites? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:01:44 +0100 From: Manfred Thaller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.715 multi-lingual sites In-Reply-To: <20130126094644.F27EB2C5A@digitalhumanities.org> Dear John, http://www.monasterium.net/, dealing with European medieval charters, and http://www.mom-ca.uni-koeln.de, the collaborative Virtual Research Environment connected to it, are both available in 11 modern European languages. As the translations of this projects are provided by volunteers, the coverage of the translations is quite differetn for inidvidual languages. Best, Manfred Thaller --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:39:15 +0000 From: John Levin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.715 multi-lingual sites In-Reply-To: <20130126094644.F27EB2C5A@digitalhumanities.org> First of all, thanks to everyone who replied to my query, both on and off list. It is much appreciated, not only for helping me with my current concerns, but also diverting me towards new and interesting sites and subjects. Procrastination in the guide of work gives such a warm feeling! Secondly, just FYI, my original inquiry was prompted by both Domenico Fiormonte's recent post on this list, on the geopolitics of DH, and my work on a website about european history. So my interest is both practical and theoretical. Finally, I'd like to mention a talk given at the Open Economics Workshop held late last year in Cambridge, by Toby Green of OECD publishing. http://openeconomics.net/2013/01/25/first-open-economics-international-workshop-recap/ The OECD have two official languages, english and french, and given the amount they publish, this is already a lot of work. However, they endeavour to publish summaries in many other languages, in order to make discovery easier for non-anglo/franco-phones. This has paid dividends in terms of web traffic and general awareness. I would therefore encourage everyone to consider getting their abstracts translated; journal editors should certainly take some initiative in this area. John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:07:31 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: 26.711 multi-lingual sites? In-Reply-To: <20130125061607.432EDE56@digitalhumanities.org> Il 25/01/2013 07:16, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > Does anyone know of any DH websites / projects that are available in two > or more languages? I'm mainly interested in sites that are available in > modern languages, but links to sites that handle translation from > ancient languages (Greek, Latin, for example) are of interest as well. see digilibLT - digital library of late latin texts, www.digiliblt.unipmn.it: italian and english. no translation of ancient texts because while the texts are free from IPR (their authors are dead from more than 70 years) the translations are protected by intellectual property laws (a translation more than 70 years old is not so interesting or useful). maurizio ------- il corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw la biblioteca digitale: http://www.digliblt.unipmn.it/ ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 451022CC6; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:04:47 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74AEF2CB5; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:04:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DEC4E2CB1; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:04:44 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130127110444.DEC4E2CB1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:04:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.720 memory projects? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 720. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:08:33 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: critical, self-reflective memory projects? I would very much appreciate recommendations of online memory projects in which close attention has been paid to the affordances provided for individual users to do memory work, including the formation and moulding of postmemories (Hirsch) and the making of personal narratives. I would be particularly grateful for pointers to projects in which design and critique have been published and reflected on. Who has gone beyond putting stuff online and indexing it? Where and how have they gone there? In Cahal McLaughlin's call for a PhD student to work on the Prison Memory Archive (http://prisonsmemoryarchive.com/, Humanist 26.712), he speaks of > the methodological challenge of designing the most appropriate > interactive software so that users will become co-creators of > narratives and meanings, rather than simply be exposed to a linear > documentary. By involving users as editors and by offering pathways > that integrate varied and contrasting memories, the software > encourages a witnessing of the ‘otherÂ’ experiences, which is crucial > in addressing the legacy of a conflicted past and will be of use in > other post conflict societies. This looks to me like the beginning of something very important. I want to find more of the same, especially if it is accompanied by commentary. 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4BE0A2CC9; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:06:36 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23A702CB8; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:06:35 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 40D452CB5; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:06:33 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130127110633.40D452CB5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:06:33 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.721 enthusiasm for X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 721. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:34:33 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 26.716 enthusiasm for anxiety? In-Reply-To: <20130126100723.725C12C5A@digitalhumanities.org> Willard's is an interesting question ("what are we being enthusiastic for"), worth reflection because in my own career, teaching poems (WHAT A POEM SAYS: THREE FUNDAMENTAL MODES OF POETRY, the title of my Honors Seminar these past 4 years, for Frosh, at UCLA), I have continually to remark that metaphor is the elusive Loki of language, what fills the Grail, holy or not, of language itself. I find that newspaper reports quoting his or that scientist on a new discovery, say, show them most often expressing themselves, rather unconsciously, or un-selfconsciously, in metaphor. Most colorful, or blatant if you will. in the bad poetry of the Sportswriter. But...without developing a cogent, or reponsive argument, I would suggest that we are, a species haunted from birth by the sense of temporal transience, hour to hour, if not always moment to moment, enthusiastic in all these changes for ... salvation. That word may, if unpacked or dissected, may contain a basket of metaphors, much as the ancient unit, the atom, seems now to "contain" scads of sub-particles, and lately ending with some notion that the foundation particle recently traced, or evidenced in fact, the Higgs boson seems "exist" for an infinitesimally [almost] transient bit of "Time" itself. As for memory, last week report of the experiments started by two Brits over beers in Hambury has resulted in the actual feat of using the structure of DNA, or DNAs? to carry the 0's and 1's of computer "language"...meaning the metaphor of expression with the tongue? and that a pretty big library can be stored, permanently? in some powdered DNA mailed from Silicon Valley [metaphor?] to the UK, and opened on a computer. Google might store by that means the world's very archives in trunk? Which, of course, Stanislaw Lem would have been happy to write a fable about that trunks loss, say on Mars, or a rough landing on a planet in the next galaxy over. That colonialist fancy for Home sapiens is itself a metaphor in action for "Salvation.." Is there such a thing ... ? Jascha Kessler On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 2:07 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > My question is, *what are we being enthusiastic for* -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D4DCA2CB8; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:17:19 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B23F84; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:17:18 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 01096F85; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:17:16 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130128061717.01096F85@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:17:16 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.722 memory projects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 722. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:57:00 -0500 From: Molly Des Jardin Subject: Re: 26.720 memory projects? In-Reply-To: <20130127110444.DEC4E2CB1@digitalhumanities.org> Two projects that immediately come to mind are Harvard University's Digital Archive of Japan's 2011 Disasters (JDArchive, http://jdarchive.org), and 18 Days in Egypt (http://18daysinegypt.com). The JDArchive is a massive undertaking, seeking to provide a search interface for a myriad of digital archives on the Japan 2011 disasters, including archived websites on the Internet Archive, as well as multimedia available on Japanese digital archives. It goes beyond search and display of results, however, in that it features both testimonials about the disasters themselves submitted by users, as well as a collections feature. The collections feature encourages users to create their own narratives about the disasters by collecting relevant items from the archive via topic, annotating them with essays, and sharing their collections with others, either through a link (for private collections) or by making them public on the site. Currently, the site contains over 60 collections on various subjects, from seawalls to the activities of strawberry farmers post-disaster, and is actively soliciting users to create more narrative collections. 18 Days in Egypt is a space for users to create their own multimedia narratives of the Egyptian revolution using items from across the web, including YouTube videos, photographs from Flickr, audio, tweets, and even their own Facebook status updates. It allows users to narrate these stories using text and arrangement of the media within their narratives, and displays these narratives on the site. I'm not sure if work has been written about these archives specifically, but at least one researcher has incorporated results from the JDArchive into her study of the use of social media regarding the disaster (including a collection of about 800,000 tweets provided by Hypercities). A major international symposium recently took place regarding participatory digital archives at Harvard, centering on the JDArchive, its content partners, and its users, as well as similar participatory archives created regarding current events and crises. A full video recording of the conference will soon be posted online. Best, Molly Des Jardin Archive Development Manager, JDArchive Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University @mdesjardin http://www.mollydesjardin.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2407E2CC9; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:18:29 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 707BF2CAA; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:18:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A673D10CD; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:18:26 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130128061826.A673D10CD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:18:26 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.723 events: computational linguistics for literature 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. 723. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:50:10 -0500 From: Anna Kazantseva Subject: 2nd CfP: 2nd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature Second Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature Co-located with NAACL-HLT 2013 June 13 or 14, 2013, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Submission deadline: March 1, 2013 Second Call for Papers The amount of literary material available on-line keeps growing rapidly: there are machine-readable texts from libraries, collections and e-book stores, as well as "live" literature such as e-zines, blogs or self-published e-books. We need tools to help navigate, visualize and better appreciate the high volume of available literature. We invite papers on applying state-of-the art NLP methods to literary data. What characteristics of literature make it special? Is it, indeed, a unique type of language data? How should we adapt our tools to find meaning in literary text? What lessons from automatic processing of literature could apply to other types of data? Position papers are welcome, too. Topics of interest (suitably related topics are welcome): - the needs of the readers and how those needs translate into meaningful NLP tasks; - searching for literature; - recommendation systems for literature; - computational modelling of narratives, computational narratology; - summarization of literature; - finding similar books; - differences between literature and other genres as relevant to computational linguistics; - discourse structure in literature; - emotion analysis for literature; - profiling and authorship attribution; - identification and analysis of literature genres; - building and analyzing social networks of characters; - generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry All information, including our excellent program committee, announcements and updates sits at: https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2013/ Anna, David, Stan _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0DDC22CC7; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:21:09 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D15D2CC3; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:21:09 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D2614F9B; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:21:07 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130128062107.D2614F9B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:21:07 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.724 pubs: DHCommons, a new journal X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 724. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:23:07 -0500 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: centerNet's New Journal: DHCommons Dear all, centerNet is delighted to announce that two of its sponsored projects, DHCommons and arts-humanities.net, will merge under the DHCommons moniker. The two sites' databases of digital humanities projects will be combined, becoming the hub for people to find projects and organizations to find people. This expanded *DHCommons* will include an overlay journal, which will be centerNet's official ADHO-sponsored publication. * *The overlay journal concept on which the new publication will be based was proposed by the arts-humanities.net transition committee chaired by Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta). Using the underlying database architectures of *arts-humanities.net* and the DHCommons website, the journal will provide much-needed peer-review of mid-stage digital humanities projects. The decision to move in this new direction acknowledges and responds to technological and philosophical changes that gradually are transforming promotion and tenure criteria in the academy. By peer reviewing digital humanities projects, the new * DHCommons* will provide useful guidance about potential collaborations as projects develop. Peer-reviewed assessments will help address one of the biggest problems the field faces in the academy’s reward system, which has had a hard time knowing how to evaluate DH work. Our thanks to the *arts-humanities.net* transition committee for its thoughtful recommendations and to the board of *DHCommons* for rising to this occasion. We hope to have an editorial staff and international advisory board in place by Spring and look forward to a public launch this Fall. Katherine Walter and Neil Fraistat Co-chairs, centerNet --Neil Fraistat Professor of English & Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-5896 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ Twitter: @fraistat _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2738D2CE2; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:36:44 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 314722CE1; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:36:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 90A5B2CDE; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:36:41 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130129073641.90A5B2CDE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:36:41 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.725 multilingual sites X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 725. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" (14) Subject: Re: 26.719 multi-lingual sites [2] From: Alex Gil (7) Subject: Re: 26.719 multi-lingual sites --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:53:11 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: Re: 26.719 multi-lingual sites In-Reply-To: <20130127110250.ABF332CAF@digitalhumanities.org> I'm writing to share two more multilingual DH projects, in response to John Levin's query: Prism is a student-created tool for "crowd-sourcing interpretation," designed by participants in the Praxis Program, our team-based graduate DH internship at the Scholars' Lab. Last year's Praxis fellows provided Spanish, French, German, and English interfaces to Prism, and this year's student team is likely to continue the trend: http://prism.scholarslab.org/ More news about the Praxis Program is available here: http://praxis.scholarslab.org Neatline is a set of plugins for created interlinked timelines, annotated maps, and narrative sequences as an interpretive layer on top of an Omeka collection. It was also produced by the Scholars' Lab at UVa Library, and is available in French, German, Russian, Spanish, Dutch, and English. We've invited Neatline users to help us expand this language set by using the Transifex service, described here: http://neatline.org/2012/07/31/translating-neatline/ And you'll find Neatline itself (which was presented at DH 2012 in Hamburg) here: http://neatline.org Best, Bethany Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed., PhD Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVa Library Assoc. Director, Scholarly Communication Institute President, Association for Computers & the Humanities nowviskie.org | scholarslab.org | uvasci.org | ach.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:00:29 -0500 From: Alex Gil Subject: Re: 26.719 multi-lingual sites In-Reply-To: <20130127110250.ABF332CAF@digitalhumanities.org> Hi John, You should also check out GlobalOutlookDH, of which Domenico is part of: http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/. Our site is new, but we are already localizing it in a few modern languages. Hopefully the number of languages will increase with an increase in translation volunteers. All the best, Alex. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 974E22CE2; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:37:19 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A23062CE0; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:37:18 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5BD00F84; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:37:16 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130129073716.5BD00F84@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:37:16 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.726 memory projects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 726. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:02:13 +0000 From: "Ulman, H. Lewis" Subject: Memory projects Hi, Willard. You may be interested in The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives, "a publicly available archive of personal literacy narratives in a variety of formats (text, video, audio) that together provide a historical record of the literacy practices and values of contributors." Most of the 3,577 narratives that currently comprise the archive draw on memory. In early March, my colleagues and I will be releasing an edited collection of "curated exhibits" from the archive through Computer and Composition Digital Press http://ccdigitalpress.org that should provide the sort of backstory and critical reflection you seek. Best wishes, Lewis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ H. Lewis Ulman, Associate Professor Director, Digital Media Studies Co-Director, the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN) Department of English The Ohio State University 353 Denney Hall 164 West 17th Avenue Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: (614) 292-2275 <> E-mail: ulman.1@osu.edu WWW: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/ulman1/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 93BD02CB8; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:00:02 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D0842C9C; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:00:01 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 43C7C2C98; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:59:59 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130130075959.43C7C2C98@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:59:59 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.727 open access? (UK historians) 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. 727. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:03:30 +0000 From: "Horrocks, Sally M. (Dr.)" Subject: UK Open Access Publishing Debate Dear Colleague, As you may be aware, since the summer the government and funding councils have begun incorporating requirements for articles published in journals to be made freely accessible. In order to understand the implications of these moves for the discipline of history, HistoryUK is conducting a survey charting the publication patterns of individual historians. We would be grateful if you would click on the link below and complete the online survey. It is open to all who produce historical research. With a C.V. to hand it should not take more than 10 minutes. Answers are anonymous. The survey will remain open until 20 February. The survey can be interrupted and resumed at a later date by use of the save button and can be found by clicking: http://tinyurl.com/b5tryx2 Please feel free to circulate this link. Many thanks for your time. Best Wishes, Dr Andrew Dilley Dr Keith McLey Co-Convenors, HistoryUK For those seeking further information, see: *HistoryUK Open Access Policy: http://myblogs.informa.com/jvc/files/2012/11/History-UK-Open-Access-Publishing-Briefing-and-Strategy-22-Nov-2012.pdf *Statement by History Journal Editors: http://www.history.ac.uk/news/2012-12-10/statement-position-relation-open-access *RHS: http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/RHSPresidentE-letterJanuary2013.pdf *http://thedisorderofthings.com/2012/12/04/open-access-hefce-ref2020-and-the-threat-to-academic-freedom/ *An Excellent blog post: http://thedisorderofthings.com/2012/12/04/open-access-hefce-ref2020-and-the-threat-to-academic-freedom/ *And for the latest from HEFCE: http://www.acss.org.uk/docs/Open%20Access%20event%20Nov%202012/OAConferenceHubbardtalkNov2012.htm *RCUK: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/outputs.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D56CF2CD8; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:00:34 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 315102CB8; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:00:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 590442CB0; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:00:32 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130130080032.590442CB0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:00:32 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.728 award for visualisation in classics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 728. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:45:17 -0800 From: Fred Moody Subject: Prize competition with cash award Please note the launch today of the "Visualizing Classics" prize at Anvil Academic Publishing. We are looking for compelling data-visualization works of scholarly research in the classics, undertaken during calendar year 2013. For details, please visit http://anvilacademic.org/submission-guidelines/visualizing-the-classics/ Thanks much, Fred Moody -- Fred Moody Editor, Anvil Academic 206-601-1992 Twitter: @MoodyFred fmoody@anvilacademic.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 47D5F2CDA; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:04:17 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0E6C2CC6; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:04:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1AFEE2CC3; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:04:13 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130130080414.1AFEE2CC3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:04:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.729 events: narrative; sound; creative engagement X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 729. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Bernhard Fisseni (81) Subject: CfP(2): Computational Models of Narrative 2013, Hamburg (updated) [2] From: Tanya Clement (39) Subject: CFP: High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship [3] From: Shawn Day (103) Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES: DRHA 2013 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:03:17 +0100 From: Bernhard Fisseni Subject: CfP(2): Computational Models of Narrative 2013, Hamburg (updated) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2013) 4-6 August 2013 Universität Hamburg, Germany http://narrative.csail.mit.edu/ws13/ (a satellite workshop of CogSci 2013: The 35th meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Berlin, Germany, 31 July - 3 August 2013) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Richard Gerrig, Stony Brook University, U.S.A. Inderjeet Mani, Chiang Mai, Thailand Paper Submission: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmn2013 Important Dates: 24 February 2013. Submission deadline. 31 March 2013. Notification. 30 April 2013. Final versions due. 31 July - 3 August 2013. CogSci 2013 in Berlin. 4-6 August 2013. Workshop in Hamburg. Workshop Aims Narratives are ubiquitous in human experience. We use them to communicate, convince, explain, and entertain. As far as we know, every society in the world has narratives, which suggests they are rooted in our psychology and serve an important cognitive function. It is becoming increasingly clear that, to truly understand and explain human intelligence, beliefs, and behaviors, we will have to understand why and to what extent narrative is universal and explain (or explain away) the function it serves. The aim of this workshop series is to address key questions that advance our understanding of narrative and our ability to model it computationally. Special Focus: Cognitive Science This workshop will be an appropriate venue for papers addressing fundamental topics and questions regarding narrative. The workshop will be held as a satellite event of the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (to be held in Berlin 31st July - 3rd August), and so will have a special focus on the cognitive science of narrative. Papers should be relevant to issues fundamental to the computational modeling and scientific understanding of narrative; we especially welcome papers relevant to the cognitive, linguistic, or philosophical aspects of narrative. Cognitive psychological or neuroscientific experimental work which may provide insights critical to computational modeling is appropriate for this workshop, and is encouraged. Discussing technological applications or motivations is not prohibited, but is not required. We accept both finished research and more tentative exploratory work. We invite and encourage submissions either as full papers or position papers, through the workshop's EasyChair website http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmn2013 We also invite you to submit an abstract soon so that we can gauge the number of submissions we can expect. (Submitting an abstract is possible without submitting the full paper at the same time.) Accepted papers will be published in an electronic proceedings volume in the series OASIcs (Open Access Series in Informatics, Schloss Dagstuhl). Full papers should contain original research and have to fit within 16 pages in the OASIcs style (plus two pages of references); position papers can report on work-in-progress, research plans or projects and have to fit within four pages in the OASIcs style (plus one page of references). OASIcs webpage: http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/oasics OASICs style: http://drops.dagstuhl.de/styles/oasics/oasics-authors.tgz **The CMN workshop series is organizing a special issue on "Computational Models of Narrative", which will appear in the 2014 volume of the Journal of Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC, http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/). The deadline for final papers will be in late 2013. Authors of top workshop papers will be encouraged to expand their work and submit to the special issue.** Prize for Best Student Paper on Cognitive Science The best student paper in cognitive science submitted to CMN 2013 will win an award funded by the Cognitive Science Society. The award consists of a cash prize of 250 USD and one year of free membership in the Cognitive Science Society. The selection will be made by the CMN 2013 programme committee. Programme Committee: Rossana Damiano, Kerstin Dautenhahn, David K. Elson, Mark Finlayson (co-chair), Pablo Gervas, Andrew S. Gordon, Valerie G. Hardcastle, Patrik Haslum, Benedikt Loewe (co-chair), Jan Christoph Meister, Peggy J. Miller, Erik T. Mueller, Livia Polanyi, Marie-Laure Ryan, Timothy Tangherlini, Mariet Theune, Emmett Tomai, Atif Waraich, Patrick Henry Winston, R. Michael Young. Organizers: Mark A. Finlayson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.), Bernhard Fisseni (Universitaet Hamburg & Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Benedikt Loewe (Universitaet Hamburg, Germany & Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Jan Christoph Meister (Universitaet Hamburg, Germany). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:11:52 -0600 From: Tanya Clement Subject: CFP: High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship DUE: February 1, 2013 http://blogs.ischool.utexas.edu/hipstas/cfp/ First meeting: Austin, TX May 29 – June 1, 2013 The HiPSTAS project invites applications for its 2013 NEH-funded Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities. At the first four-day meeting (“A-Side”), held at the iSchool at UT May 29 – June 1, 2013, participants will be introduced to essential issues that archivists, librarians, humanities scholars, and computer scientists and technologists face in understanding the nature of digital sound scholarship and the possibilities of building an infrastructure for enabling such scholarship. At this first meeting, participants will be introduced to advanced computational analytics such as clustering, classification, and visualizations. We encourage a diverse range of librarians, archivists, scholars (including graduate students), and cultural heritage professionals from all types of institutions, disciplinary backgrounds, and expertise, who are interested in working with sound collections and technologies to apply. Members of the American Indian community, in particular, are strongly urged to apply. HiPSTAS participants will include 20 humanities junior and senior faculty and advanced graduate students as well as librarians and archivists from across the U.S. interested in developing and using new technologies to access and analyze spoken word recordings within audio collections. The collections we will make available for participants include poetry from PennSound at the University of Pennsylvania, folklore from the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at UT Austin, speeches from the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Presidential Museum in Austin, and storytelling from the Native American Projects (NAP) at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. Sound archivists from UT at Austin, computer scientists and technology developers from I3 at Illinois, and representatives from each of the participating collections will come together for the HiPSTAS Institute to discuss the collections, the work that researchers already do with audio cultural artifacts, and the work HiPSTAS participants can do with advanced computational analysis of sounds. For more about the project: http://blogs.ischool.utexas.edu/hipstas/ Tanya Clement Assistant Professor, School of Information University of Texas, Austin tclement@ischool.utexas.edu --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:21:45 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES: DRHA 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES Forthcoming DRHA 2013 Conference: University of Winchester DRHA 2013: Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts Reconceptualising Digital Creativity; Re-mapping Behaviour, Engagement and the way we Archive in the 21st Century; Date: Sunday 21st July - Wednesday 24th July 2013. The theme of this conference will focus on the need to re-conceptualize the ways in which we engage with digital technology in particular regard to the speed with which we are exposed to new technologies. As societies around the world face fundamental ecological, demographic and economic changes, we are forced to re-evaluate our relationship with natural and digital resources. Also, as the next generation of digital natives start to design new interactive futures, the old paradigms of knowledge exchange, and social interaction are making way for socialized gaming and crowd sourcing. The focus for this conference will be to re-imagining new and contemporary ways for designing digital engagement, looking at possible events and social practices that lay just around the corner. Interdisciplinary processes are assumed strategies in this conference so that we can focus on how we can, using contemporary technology, map the emerging digital and social landscape · Assess and engagement · Managing the shift demographically from passivity to interactivity · Digital Architectonics, designing the future · Generating subjective and objective understanding through a performance paradigm · Digital mobility; imaging, GPS and mobile technologies · Somatics; mapping interior spaces · Open sources and social mediation · Digital mapping of new theories and territories · Holography and communication · Blurring the boundaries between performances inside and outside · Mapping liminal and liminoid structures in new digital rituals · Access to digital archives of the preservation local and global knowledge · Interdisciplinarity, interactivity and performance · Using digital resources in collaborative creative work, teaching and learning and scholarship · Dance and interactive technologies · Mapping new model of business with reference to sustainability · Virtual worlds, virtual robots and the gaming industry There will be a selection of papers from the conference, which will be published in an issue of the peer reviewed journal BST: Body, Space & Technology this year. For over 10 years Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA) continues to be a key gathering for all those are influenced by the digitization of cultural activity, recourses and heritage in the UK. This includes: Scholars, teachers, artists, publishers, librarians, curators or archivists who all wish to extend and develop access and preservation regarding digitized information rendered from contemporary culture and scholarship; the information scientist seeking to apply new scientific and technical developments to the creation, exploitation and management of digital resources. Keynote speakers will include. 1. Janet H. Murray Professor - Graduate Program in Digital Media School of Literature, Communication and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology 2. Johnny (Sue) Golding is the BIAD Professor of Philosophy & Fine Art and Director of the Centre for Fine Art Research (CFAR), The School of Art, Birmingham City 3. Robert Pratten co-founder and Managing Director at Transmedia Storyteller Ltd 4. Dr Hugh Denard - Assistant Professor in Digital Arts and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin We invite original papers, panels, installations, performances, workshop sessions and other events that address the conference theme, with particular attention to the theme of ‘Re-mapping Behaviour, Engagement and the way we Archive’. We encourage proposals with innovative and non-traditional session formats. Short presentations, for example work-in-progress, are invited for poster presentations. Anyone wishing to submit a performance or installation should visit the conference Website. Details will be posted soon on the conference website www.winchester.ac.uk/DHRA For information about the spaces and technical equipment and support available, please check the website for details. All the proposals, whether papers, performance or poster presentation, should reflect the critical engagement that lies at the heart of DRHA. Proposal to post on the Softconf website: http://www.softconf.com The deadline for submissions will be 31 March 2013. Abstracts should be between 600 - 1000 words. Letters of acceptance will be sent by 15th of May 2013, when the conference registration will be opened. Conference Fees Accommodation with en-suite facilities our outline pricing for delegates are as follows: · Full conference fee with en-suite accommodation (Incl. Accommodation & all meals £390 · Conference fee without accommodation (excl. conference dinner) £180 · Conference fee without accommodation (incl. conference dinner) £190 Day Delegates · Sunday 21st July £40 · Monday 22nd July £60 · Tuesday 23rd (excl. conference dinner) £60 · Tuesday 23rd (incl. conference dinner) £70 · Wednesday 24th July £40 Discounted Postgraduate Fees · Full Conference with en-suite accommodation (University Room) £260 · Sunday 21st July £30 · Monday 22nd July £40 · Tuesday 23rd (excl. conference dinner) £40 · Tuesday 23rd (incl. conference dinner) £50 · Wednesday 24th £30 Dr Olu Taiwo DRHA 2013 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 333612CE3; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:06:15 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62A122CDF; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:06:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5493F2CD8; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:06:13 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130130080613.5493F2CD8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:06:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.730 pubs: digital humanities in libraries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 730. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:01:41 -0500 From: Alex Gil Subject: New Issue: Journal of Library Administration Hi all, I'm happy to announce a special issue of the JLA, Digital Humanities in Libraries: New Models for Scholarly Engagement http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wjla20/current edited by Barbara Rockenbach, Director of Humanities And History Libraries at Columbia University, with contributions from many important current voices in the world of digital humanities and libraries. As Barbara points out in the introduction "Collectively, the articles in this collection answer the questions 'Why Libraries and Why Librarians?' in the context of DH support." The issue promises to open new conversations and contribute to ongoing conversations in library administration. I hope you find it as useful and enlightening as I did. Many of the articles exist open-access elsewhere, and I encourage you to seek them out if you don't have access to Taylor & Francis Online. Best, Alex Gil, Ph.D. Digital Scholarship Coordinator Columbia University Libraries http://www.elotroalex.com/ | @elotroalex _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BD3F92CE2; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:07:49 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16A0F2C9C; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:07:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 608D32C9C; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:07:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130130080747.608D32C9C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:07:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.731 new MA at Northern Iowa X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 731. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:14:14 -0600 From: "A. Lamberti" Subject: Call for applications to new M.A. program related to digital humanities The University of Northern Iowa Department of Languages and Literatures is accepting applications for its M.A. English program, including emphases in Literature, Creative Writing, and English Studies. The latter is a new emphasis that offers students the opportunity to customize their learning experience in the English field--such as a focus on digital humanities. See the Graduate College’s application instructions and the Department’s application instructions at http://www.grad.uni.edu/admission/ and http://www.uni.edu/langlit/admissions-grad CONTACT INFORMATION: Dr. A. P. Lamberti Associate Professor Professional Writing Program Coordinator Interim English Graduate Programs Coordinator Department of Languages and Literatures University of Northern Iowa _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B9A6F2CEB; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:21:57 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D3D62CE1; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:21:56 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7C0472CDD; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:21:54 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130131072154.7C0472CDD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:21:54 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.732 text-analysis in the news X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 732. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:17:36 -0200 From: "dennis c.l." Subject: Re: 26.722 memory projects In-Reply-To: <20130128061717.01096F85@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, interesting article published in the New York Times Prof. dennis c.l. - retired Dickens, Austen and Twain, Through a Digital Lens by STEVE LOHR Jan. 26, 2013 ANY list of the leading novelists of the 19th century, writing in English, would almost surely include Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Mark Twain. But they do not appear at the top of a list of the most influential writers of their time. Instead, a recent study has found, Jane Austen, author of “Pride and Prejudice, “ and Sir Walter Scott, the creator of “Ivanhoe,” had the greatest effect on other authors, in terms of writing style and themes. These two were “the literary equivalent of Homo erectus, or, if you prefer, Adam and Eve,” Matthew L. Jockers wrote in research published last year. He based his conclusion on an analysis of 3,592 works published from 1780 to 1900. It was a lot of digging, and a computer did it. The study, which involved statistical parsing and aggregation of thousands of novels, made other striking observations. For example, Austen’s works cluster tightly together in style and theme, while those of George Eliot (a k a Mary Ann Evans) range more broadly, and more closely resemble the patterns of male writers. Using similar criteria, Harriet Beecher Stowe was 20 years ahead of her time, said Mr. Jockers, whose research will soon be published in a book, “Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History” (University of Illinois Press). These findings are hardly the last word. At this stage, this kind of digital analysis is mostly an intriguing sign that Big Data technology is steadily pushing beyond the Internet industry and scientific research into seemingly foreign fields like the social sciences and the humanities. The new tools of discovery provide a fresh look at culture, much as the microscope gave us a closer look at the subtleties of life and the telescope opened the way to faraway galaxies. “Traditionally, literary history was done by studying a relative handful of texts,” says Mr. Jockers, an assistant professor of English and a researcher at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska. “What this technology does is let you see the big picture — the context in which a writer worked — on a scale we’ve never seen before.” Mr. Jockers, 46, personifies the digital advance in the humanities. He received a Ph.D. in English literature from Southern Illinois University, but was also fascinated by computing and became a self-taught programmer. Before he moved to the University of Nebraska last year, he spent more than a decade at Stanford, where he was a founder of the Stanford Literary Lab, which is dedicated to the digital exploration of books. Today, Mr. Jockers describes the tools of his trade in terms familiar to an Internet software engineer — algorithms that use machine learning and network analysis techniques. His mathematical models are tailored to identify word patterns and thematic elements in written text. The number and strength of links among novels determine influence, much the way Google ranks Web sites. It is this ability to collect, measure and analyze data for meaningful insights that is the promise of Big Data technology. In the humanities and social sciences, the flood of new data comes from many sources including books scanned into digital form, Web sites, blog posts and social network communications. Data-centric specialties are growing fast, giving rise to a new vocabulary. In political science, this quantitative analysis is called political methodology. In history, there is cliometrics, which applies econometrics to history. In literature, stylometry is the study of an author’s writing style, and these days it leans heavily on computing and statistical analysis. Culturomics is the umbrella term used to describe rigorous quantitative inquiries in the social sciences and humanities. “Some call it computer science and some call it statistics, but the essence is that these algorithmic methods are increasingly part of every discipline now,” says Gary King, director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard. Cultural data analysts often adapt biological analogies to describe their work. Mr. Jockers, for example, called his research presentation “Computing and Visualizing the 19th-Century Literary Genome.” Such biological metaphors seem apt, because much of the research is a quantitative examination of words. Just as genes are the fundamental building blocks of biology, words are the raw material of ideas. “What is critical and distinctive to human evolution is ideas, and how they evolve,” says Jean-Baptiste Michel, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. Mr. Michel and another researcher, Erez Lieberman Aiden, led a project to mine the virtual book depository known as Google Books and to track the use of words over time, compare related words and even graph them. Google cooperated and built the software for making graphs open to the public. The initial version of Google’s cultural exploration site began at the end of 2010, based on more than five million books, dating from 1500. By now, Google has scanned 20 million books, and the site is used 50 times a minute. For example, type in “women” in comparison to “men,” and you see that for centuries the number of references to men dwarfed those for women. The crossover came in 1985, with women ahead ever since. In work published in Science magazine in 2011, Mr. Michel and the research team tapped the Google Books data to find how quickly the past fades from books. For instance, references to “1880,” which peaked in that year, fell to half by 1912, a lag of 32 years. By contrast, “1973” declined to half its peak by 1983, only 10 years later. “We are forgetting our past faster with each passing year,” the authors wrote. JON KLEINBERG, a computer scientist at Cornell, and a group of researchers approached collective memory from a very different perspective. Their work, published last year, focused on what makes spoken lines in movies memorable. Sentences that endure in the public mind are evolutionary success stories, Mr. Kleinberg says, comparing “the fitness of language and the fitness of organisms.” As a yardstick, the researchers used the “memorable quotes” selected from the popular Internet Movie Database, or IMDb, and the number of times that a particular movie line appears on the Web. Then they compared the memorable lines to the complete scripts of the movies in which they appeared — about 1,000 movies. To train their statistical algorithms on common sentence structure, word order and most widely used words, they fed their computers a huge archive of articles from news wires. The memorable lines consisted of surprising words embedded in sentences of ordinary structure. “We can think of memorable quotes as consisting of unusual word choices built on a scaffolding of common part-of-speech patterns,” their study said. Consider the line “You had me at hello,” from the movie “Jerry Maguire.” It is, Mr. Kleinberg notes, basically the same sequence of parts of speech as the quotidian “I met him in Boston.” Or consider this line from “Apocalypse Now”: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” Only one word separates that utterance from this: “I love the smell of coffee in the morning.” This kind of analysis can be used for all kinds of communications, including advertising. Indeed, Mr. Kleinberg’s group also looked at ad slogans. Statistically, the ones most similar to memorable movie quotes included “Quality never goes out of style,” for Levi’s jeans, and “Come to Marlboro Country,” for Marlboro cigarettes. But the algorithmic methods aren’t a foolproof guide to real-world success. One ad slogan that didn’t fit well within the statistical parameters for memorable lines was the Energizer batteries catchphrase, “It keeps going and going and going.” Quantitative tools in the humanities and the social sciences, as in other fields, are most powerful when they are controlled by an intelligent human. Experts with deep knowledge of a subject are needed to ask the right questions and to recognize the shortcomings of statistical models. “You’ll always need both,” says Mr. Jockers, the literary quant. “But we’re at a moment now when there is much greater acceptance of these methods than in the past. There will come a time when this kind of analysis is just part of the tool kit in the humanities, as in every other discipline.” _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7E8D22CED; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:23:09 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F4B62CDC; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:23:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9E8E12CB2; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:23:04 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130131072304.9E8E12CB2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:23:04 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.733 text-analysis survey? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 733. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:04:00 +0000 From: Emma Tonkin Subject: survey: text mining/analysis Dear all, If your work or interests include text mining/analysis (applied computational linguistics, information extraction, visualisation, content-based analysis, pattern discovery, etc. on textual resources), we would like to invite you to fill out this short survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/textmining The aim of this short survey is to learn more about worldwide text mining activity, tools and services, perspectives on text mining and barriers to text mining. The anonymised results of the survey will be made available online. We'd like to hear from respondents worldwide, working in many different languages and disciplines. We'd very much appreciate your help. Regards, Emma _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 844952CF0; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:26:06 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE8582CE4; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:26:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3770E2CDC; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:26:01 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130131072601.3770E2CDC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:26:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.734 multilingual sites: half-automated translation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 734. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:08:56 +0100 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Re: 26.725 multilingual sites: half-automatized translation In-Reply-To: <20130129073641.90A5B2CDE@digitalhumanities.org> Dear list, Here is a try to find a way to do fast and with efficiency with the question of a bilingual scholarly production (French and English). I produced a French blog article on «Comment éviter les retours des travers de l'Age Classique dans les DH?» (http://claireclivaz.hypotheses.org/235) I did an automatized English translation with this tool (thank you to Elisabeth Blurr and the ADHO-MLMC committee for the link): http://www.bing.com/translator/ Then I ask to an academic native speaker to check the automatized translation (many thanks to Jim Wilcox). And I have got this result: «How to avoid the return of the Classical Age in the Digital Humanities?»; http://claireclivaz.hypotheses.org/242 Efficient? Reactions? Opinions? In any case, it was easy, fast, not expansive. All the best, Claire Clivaz _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7E1682CF6; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:26:43 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 368B12CED; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:26:41 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2113F2CF0; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:26:40 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130131072640.2113F2CF0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:26:40 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.735 open-access publishing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 735. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:51:51 +0000 From: John Levin Subject: The Open Library of Humanities Dear list, In the light of the recent discussion about OA, and in particular the debates concerning the Finch report and its implementation in the UK, I think the following news will be of interest. The Open Library of Humanities website is now live: http://www.openlibhums.org The aim of the OLH is "to build a low cost, sustainable, Open Access future for the humanities and social sciences"; specifically an OA publishing system akin to the Public Library of Science, but for the humanities. They have issued a "pledge to publish", calling for anyone interested to pledge "to publish a paper with us in our first year." (APCs will be waived for signatories, should that model be adopted.) http://www.openlibhums.org/get-involved/pledge-to-publish/ (To declare an interest, I have been co-opted onto the internationalisation sub-group.) John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7E2BF2CFA; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:29:30 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1EE22CF1; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:29:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AE4762CF0; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:29:25 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130131072925.AE4762CF0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:29:25 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.736 events: graduate research; GIS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 736. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Anouk Lang (52) Subject: Two-day workshop on "GIS software for the Digital Humanities" [2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (46) Subject: Digging the Digital --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:37:51 +0000 From: Anouk Lang Subject: Two-day workshop on "GIS software for the Digital Humanities" In-Reply-To: <1F943C50E37E194BB891501E163237A801A4E9A32030@E2K7-MS2.ds.strath.ac.uk> GIS software for the Digital Humanities: A free two-day workshop Lancaster University, 11-12th April, 2013 Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are becoming increasingly used by historians, archaeologists, literary scholars, classicists and others, however adoption of the technology has been hampered by a lack of understanding of what GIS is and what it has to offer to these disciplines. This free workshop, sponsored by the ERC’s Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places project and hosted by Lancaster University, provides an introduction to the use of GIS software aimed specifically at researchers from the humanities and arts. Outline syllabus: In an intensive two days we will introduce the basics of GIS software from a humanities perspective. The course assumes no prior knowledge of GIS software but a basic competence in computing is needed. We will provide hands-on training in ArcGIS, the most widely used commercial GIS software package. Other software will also be discussed. The course will cover: how GIS software represents geographically features; the basics of GIS functionality; using GIS to produce high-quality maps; using GIS as a database; getting point data into GIS; and exporting data to Google Earth. Who should come? This event will provide a short but intensive introduction to GIS software. It will be relevant to post-graduate students and early career academics who can subsequently develop these skills in their own research. It will also be suitable for more senior academics, grant-holders and managers who want a brief introduction to GIS software to allow them to manage GIS projects. Over the summer we will be hosting a four-day summer school (15-18th July 2013) which will allow us to explore topics in more depth and to which participants can bring their own data, we do not recommend attending both events as there will be significant overlap. The workshop builds on a one-day seminar held in Lancaster in November 2012. People who participated in this are encouraged to attend although attendance at this or similar events is not a requirement. How much will it cost? The workshop is free and includes lunch and refreshments, all other costs must be borne by the participants. Accommodation on Lancaster University’s campus includes: Guest rooms ( http://www.lancs.ac.uk/conferences/campus-bed-breakfast) from £35 per night or the Lancaster House Hotel ( http://www.classicbritishhotels.com/hotel/lancaster-house) from £87 per night. Please do not book accommodation until your place on workshop has been confirmed. How do I apply? Places are limited, as part of registering please include a brief description (max 200 words) of your research interests and what you want to gain from the workshop. The deadline for applications is Friday 1st of March. Please email a booking form (attached) to: I.Gregory@lancaster.ac.uk. For more details of this and subsequent events see: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/spatialhum or contact Ian Gregory at the above email address. *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1359550021_2013-01-30_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_14806.2.doc --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:17:46 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Digging the Digital In-Reply-To: <1F943C50E37E194BB891501E163237A801A4E9A32030@E2K7-MS2.ds.strath.ac.uk> The University of Alberta Humanities Computing Graduate Student Association is pleased to announce a call for abstracts for its annual conference: "Digging the Digital 2013: Graduate Research in Digital Humanities" Date: Saturday, April 6, 2013 Location: Alumni House, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB Website: http://diggingdigital2013.wordpress.com Keynote Speakers: TBA. The Humanities Computing Programme at the University of Alberta invites proposals for a graduate student conference aimed at showcasing current humanities scholarship involved with computing and digital processes. We seek graduate scholars who are exploring the intersection of humanities and any digital process, to enhance or inform their discipline. The broad scope of this conference reflects the numerous categories of Humanities Computing / Digital Humanities, including librarians involved with digital work, researchers engaging online communities, artists employing digital tools, and design teams using new technologies. As an interdisciplinary field, the digital humanities naturally imply research from a broad spectrum of backgrounds, including culture, language, and literature. Therefore, we encourage papers from a variety of disciplines at the graduate student level. Proposals for individual papers as well as hour-long panel proposals organized by topic will be considered. We are also accepting full panels, digital demonstrations, round table sessions, and posters. There is a possibility that presentations may be accepted as papers published in an inaugural edition of an upcoming digital humanities student journal. Topics may include, but are not restricted to: multimedia tools in academia humanities computing and the internet text analysis (XML, hypertext, TEI, etc.) cyberculture posthumanism cyborg in culture and literature electronic texts digital libraries knowledge management collaborative creation and crowd sourcing digitization of literature online art, virtual worlds, interactive soundscapes social media gaming technologies for accessibility open-source culture artificial intelligence digital storytelling Semantic Web GIS legal issues of digitization cloud computing Please submit an abstract of 200-words describing individual papers, either as a Word file or a PDF attachment, in addition to contact information (including name, institutional affiliation, degree level, and email) and a short 100 word biography to hucostudentgroup@gmail.com by February 25, 2012. The conference organizers will notify presenters of their acceptance as soon as possible following the February 25th, 2012 deadline for abstracts. There are no registration fees for this conference. If you have any questions regarding the application process or conference details, please contact the organizing committee at: hucostudentgroup@gmail.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A4D612CFD; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:33:39 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 764FF2CEC; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:33:37 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 977D72CEB; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:33:35 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130131073335.977D72CEB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:33:35 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.737 pubs: report from Ithaka S+R X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 737. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:48:46 -0500 From: Heidi McGregor Subject: Sustaining our Digital Future: Latest Report from Ithaka S+R ITHAKA (www.ithaka.org) is a not-for-profit organization that helps the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. We provide innovative services that benefit higher education, including Ithaka S+R, JSTOR, and Portico. > From: IthakaSR > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 8:15 AM > Subject: Sustaining our Digital Future: Latest Report from Ithaka S+R Sustaining our Digital Future—Latest Report from Ithaka S+R "Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content" is a new report by Ithaka S+R aimed at helping digital projects thrive. With funding from the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance (SCA), the Canadian Heritage Information Network, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Ithaka S+R is conducting a multi-year research program to shed light on common challenges associated with sustaining digital projects beyond implementation and provide guidance and tools to help administrators, project leaders, librarians, and funders ensure that projects continue to grow. We invite you to read this initial report funded by SCA, which provides a close look at three institutions in the United Kingdom. Our research confirms how fragmented the digital landscape is at universities and other organizations, how little the topic of post-build sustainability comes up at the higher levels of administration, and, as a result, just how much risk is present and felt in the current system. "It's a wakeup call for us all," said Andrew Green, chief executive and librarian at the National Library of Wales. "It's essential reading for anyone in the business of access to digital content." The report, complete with effective recommendations, is now available, as is a Sustainability Health Check Tool for Digital Content Projects, which helps people take the pulse of projects and ascertain what the projects could use to be even more successful. We hope you find this work useful, and we welcome your questions and insights. Please contact us at info@sr.ithaka.org. ---- Contact Us 151 East 61st Street New York, NY 10065 www.sr.ithaka.org info@ithaka.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DE840E3B; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:18:28 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38079DDC; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:18:26 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C9583DC5; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:18:23 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130201051823.C9583DC5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:18:23 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.738 open-access publishing: APC X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 738. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:18:16 +0000 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: 26.735 open-access publishing In-Reply-To: <20130131072640.2113F2CF0@digitalhumanities.org> Dear John Thanks very much for the invitation. I'm sure you will get many signatures far more valuable than mine, but I wanted to say that what holds me back from signing up is the APC issue. I understand that it will be waived for signatories, but, like many researchers, I'm deeply uncomfortable with APCs per se, whether or not they directly affect me as an individual. The mission statement declares that 'APCs are waiverable', but it doesn't explain under what circumstances, the 'OLH Model' page states that 'PLOS waive[s]... charges', but also that your initiative is unaffiliated with PLOS, and you write 'should that model be adopted', which suggests that APCs may not be used at all (which I would welcome, obviously). Could we have some clarity on this so that potential signatories know exactly what they will have endorsed? Best wishes Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Centre for Language and Communication The Open University On 31 Jan 2013, at 07:26, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 735. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:51:51 +0000 > From: John Levin > Subject: The Open Library of Humanities > > Dear list, > > In the light of the recent discussion about OA, and in particular the > debates concerning the Finch report and its implementation in the UK, I > think the following news will be of interest. > > The Open Library of Humanities website is now live: > http://www.openlibhums.org > > The aim of the OLH is "to build a low cost, sustainable, Open Access > future for the humanities and social sciences"; specifically an OA > publishing system akin to the Public Library of Science, but for the > humanities. > > They have issued a "pledge to publish", calling for anyone interested to > pledge "to publish a paper with us in our first year." (APCs will be > waived for signatories, should that model be adopted.) > http://www.openlibhums.org/get-involved/pledge-to-publish/ > > (To declare an interest, I have been co-opted onto the > internationalisation sub-group.) > > John > > -- > John Levin > http://www.anterotesis.com > http://twitter.com/anterotesis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id ED499E69; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:19:11 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0579EE0B; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:19:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 92680DE7; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:19:08 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130201051908.92680DE7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:19:08 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.739 how to plan a digital humanities centre? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 739. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:53:42 -0500 From: Mike Stumpf Subject: DH Centre Resources Needed Hello All, I am doing research for a proposed centre for digital humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough and I was looking for additional resources to help with planning. I have already read Diane Zorich's "A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States", published by the Council on Library and Information Resources in 2008, the SPEC Kit 326 on Digital Humanities, published by the Association of Research Libraries in 2011, and several smaller articles. However, I was wondering if anyone knew of other studies similar to Zorich's which detail the creation, organization, and operation of centers designed for digital humanities. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Mike Stumpf _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EA5BD2C5A; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:20:05 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 978ACE3B; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:20:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 92068E0B; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:20:01 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130201052001.92068E0B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:20:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.740 jobs at Galway X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 740. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:39:29 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Two Research Technologist posts, AHSSRB, National University of Ireland, Galway An exciting opportunity has arisen for two research technologists to become involved at the beginning of an important interdisciplinary research initiative in Humanities and Social Sciences. The National University of Ireland, Galway is seeking to fill two full-time, fixed term positions as Humanities and Social Sciences Research Technologists with the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Building (AHSSRB). These positions are funded by the Higher Education Authority, under the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions, cycle 5 (PRTLI5) and are available from 1 March 2013 to contract end-date of 31 December 2016. For more information: http://www.nuigalway.ie/media/nuigalwayie/content/files/hr/research-technologist-posts.docx --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Academy House, --- 19 Dawson Street --- Dublin 2 IRELAND --- about.me/shawnday --- Tel: +353 (0)1 609 0696 --- s.day@dho.ie --- http://dho.ie --- @iridium _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E6EF02CF9; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:21:33 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E00E69; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:21:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8E55EE4A; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:21:29 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130201052129.8E55EE4A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:21:29 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.741 events: digital spaces; digital humanities in New England X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 741. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (22) Subject: DDH Seminar 5 Feb [2] From: Julia Flanders (20) Subject: Boston Days of DH, March 18-19: registration now open --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:31:18 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: DDH Seminar 5 Feb Digging deeper into digital spaces: The methodological challenges for Digital Humanities and Digital Social Sciences Location Anatomy Museum, King's Building 6th Floor, Strand Campus, King's College London Category Seminar When 05/02/2013 (18:15-20:00) Dr Sarah Louise Quinnell, Maudsley Learning The potential to use social media to collect rich data that can generate new insights excites researchers from across disciplinary boundaries and methodological divides. To develop a holistic understanding of human interactions and behaviours in the digital sphere we need to employ a mixed methods approach: Quantitative methods allow researchers to reveal and follow patterns of posts and responses by users of digital media sites and communities. But at some point we need to ask “why?” in order to discern users’ motivation, understand the significance of behaviours and learn how the experience is significant to their personal or professional lives. Qualitative methods have the ability to do so. Qualitative research approaches allow us to dig below the surface to explore how, why or what, and to explore relationships and connections not readily evident in Big Data—which is why I’ve taken to describing it as Deep Data. This seminar looks at the differences in methodological approach taken by the Digital Humanities and Digital Social sciences and considers the challenges posed to both and the opportunities offered for collaboration in getting to grips with both big and deep data. It looks at whether big digital data sets are changing the way we do research, what data visualisations offer social researchers and the challenges and ethical dimensions posed by social media to quantitative researchers looking to draw robust samples. Dr Sarah-Louise Quinnell gained her PhD from the Geography Department at King’s College London in 2010. She is currently a researcher and training consultant working with Maudsley Learning. Her research interests focus on exploring how professionals engage in digital spaces for learning and development and the methodological challenges posed to researchers engaged in the digital sphere. 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:24:53 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Boston Days of DH, March 18-19: registration now open Registration is now open for Boston-Area Days of DH 2013: A Celebration of Digital Humanities Work in New England Northeastern University March 18-19, 2013 Keynote presentation by Matthew L. Jockers and Julia Flanders Timed to coincide with centerNet's annual, international Day of DH, this two-day event will include: * a grants workshop hosted by Brett Bobley (Director, NEH Office of Digital Humanities) * lightning talks on DH projects from the Boston area * featured presentations * workshops on GIS, network visualization, and text analysis It will be a wonderful opportunity to learn more about digital humanities and DH projects in the greater Boston area, and to meet up with people from the region. For more information and to register, please visit: http://nulab.neu.edu/events/dhdays2013/ Registration is free; please register by February 20! Please circulate widely! Best wishes, Julia (on behalf of the Days of DH organizing team) 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DEE542CFD; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:22:40 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E28DCE; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:22:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CD4082C5A; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:22:35 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130201052235.CD4082C5A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:22:35 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.742 pubs: 18C science from the Cambridge Digital Library X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 742. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:12:16 +0000 From: "S.J. Schaffer" Subject: Cambridge Digital Library : launch of Board of Longitude manuscripts The Cambridge Digital Library now hosts some samples of manuscript materials digitized under the JISC-supported project 'Navigating Eighteenth Century Science and Technology: the Board of Longitude', developed in collaboration with the AHRC project 'The Board of Longitude 1714-1828: science, innovation and empire in the Georgian world'. Visit: http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/longitude Early release of this sample set is in part designed to get user feedback for the main launch at the end of July 2013. It's expected changes will be made in response to user experience: email comments to Huw Jones at the Cambridge University Library on hej23@cam.ac.uk The Cambridge Digital Library will release further important materials soon, including the Darwin-Hooker correspondence. To keep updated with additions to the Digital Library, click on the "Keep me informed" link on the top left of the page. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2F3502CA9; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 10:16:50 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DCC510CD; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 10:16:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B23B110CD; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 10:16:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130202091645.B23B110CD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 10:16:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.743 how to plan a digital humanities centre X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 743. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Unsworth (40) Subject: Re: 26.739 how to plan a digital humanities centre? [2] From: Willard McCarty (44) Subject: Re: 26.739 how to plan a digital humanities centre? [3] From: "Krivickas, Jennifer (krivicjh)" (13) Subject: check out Columbia [4] From: Neil Fraistat (59) Subject: Re: 26.739 how to plan a digital humanities centre? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 00:43:09 -0500 From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 26.739 how to plan a digital humanities centre? In-Reply-To: <20130201051908.92680DE7@digitalhumanities.org> Mike, Studies are very useful, but they represent a precipitate. In addition to reading them, you should look around for what you consider to be successful currently operating examples of DH centers, and invite some consulting from their leadership. They're generally a helpful group... John On Feb 1, 2013, at 12:19 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 739. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:53:42 -0500 > From: Mike Stumpf > Subject: DH Centre Resources Needed > > > Hello All, > > I am doing research for a proposed centre for digital humanities at the > University of Toronto Scarborough and I was looking for additional > resources to help with planning. I have already read Diane Zorich's "A > Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States", published by > the Council on Library and Information Resources in 2008, the SPEC Kit 326 > on Digital Humanities, published by the Association of Research Libraries > in 2011, and several smaller articles. However, I was wondering if anyone > knew of other studies similar to Zorich's which detail the creation, > organization, and operation of centers designed for digital humanities. > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thank you, > > Mike Stumpf > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:39:02 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Re: 26.739 how to plan a digital humanities centre? In-Reply-To: <20130201051908.92680DE7@digitalhumanities.org> Broadly speaking, since colleagues first gathered together to do something about computing in the humanities, there has been a slow development from non-academic support groups, in computing centres and then in libraries, to academic units. In planning a new centre I think it's worth asking what happened to several once prominent centres in order to avoid their fate. Getting a support centre started has never been easy. I certainly don't want to trivialise the effort involved. But an initiative to create a support centre does not raise the question of academic legitimacy as does the proposal to found an academic department, research group or centre. In countries with a tenure system this legitimacy is an enormous hurdle mostly not yet overcome. My understanding at the lowest levels of administration I could achieve is that the tenure system forces a long-term commitment of funding and so makes things serious in the way that things do when the people who control the money are involved. I don't think it's any accident that where tenure dominates the scene, jobs in our field tend almost always (or to date always?) to be created in existing departments, usually English. But by the historical argument I would make, planning for an academic unit is in the medium to long-term the only option that makes any sense. It makes sense because it is planning for something that will survive the inspection of the money-hungry, who sooner or later will notice. Consider the fates of the non-academic centres at Bergen, Oxford, Toronto and Rutgers-Princeton, i.e. CETH, for example. (How many of us here recognise what great things once happened at those places in our field?) Note in Geoffrey Rockwell's vivid though brief account of what happened to the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at Toronto (in his oral history interview in DHQ 6.3, www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/6/3/000135/000135.html) how vulnerable a non-academic operation can be, whatever its standing among those who understand what it is trying to do. There's a more important point to make, I think, though it may seem to utilitarians merely philosophical. Simple service, in the sense of unquestioningly delivering what others think they want (not teaching them or collaborating with them to realise what they might be wanting if only they knew enough) is profoundly damaging to the digital humanities as a field of scholarly endeavour. To quote Nietzsche's Zarathustra it is "that which must be overcome" if we are to realise the enormous intellectual potential of computing for the humanities *and* the humanities for computing. 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 16:17:25 +0000 From: "Krivickas, Jennifer (krivicjh)" Subject: check out Columbia In-Reply-To: <20130201051908.92680DE7@digitalhumanities.org> Hi Check out Columbia U/Barbara Rockenbach http://library.columbia.edu/indiv/dhc.html https://directory.columbia.edu/people/search Tell her Jen Krivickas sent you:) ------- Jennifer H. Krivickas Head of the DAAP Library University of Cincinnati 5480 Aronoff Center for Design and Art PO Box 210016 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0016 t: 513.556.1319 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 11:26:32 -0500 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: Re: 26.739 how to plan a digital humanities centre? In-Reply-To: <20130201051908.92680DE7@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Mike, I'm not aware of any other such report about digital humanities centers, but centerNet is currently putting together material that will be useful in this regard, and we hope within the next six months to have a team of volunteer consultants in place to help those thinking of beginning a center. In this meantime, please feel free to contact Kay Walter or me directly with any questions you might have. Best, Neil On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 739. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:53:42 -0500 > From: Mike Stumpf > Subject: DH Centre Resources Needed > > > Hello All, > > I am doing research for a proposed centre for digital humanities at the > University of Toronto Scarborough and I was looking for additional > resources to help with planning. I have already read Diane Zorich's "A > Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States", published by > the Council on Library and Information Resources in 2008, the SPEC Kit 326 > on Digital Humanities, published by the Association of Research Libraries > in 2011, and several smaller articles. However, I was wondering if anyone > knew of other studies similar to Zorich's which detail the creation, > organization, and operation of centers designed for digital humanities. > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thank you, > > Mike Stumpf > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: > http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php > -- Neil Fraistat Professor of English & Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) 0301 Hornbake Library North University of Maryland 301-405-5896 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ https://twitter.com/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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3874D2CF6; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 10:17:52 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11F81D92; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 10:17:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A35B9EA4; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 10:17:48 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130202091748.A35B9EA4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 10:17:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.744 open-access publishing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 744. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:58:45 +0000 From: John Levin Subject: Re: 26.738 open-access publishing: APC In-Reply-To: <20130201051823.C9583DC5@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Daniel, The Open Library of the Humanities is still in the early planning stages; I believe that no decision has been made as to APCs. The ideal route for the OLH is institutional subsidy, so that APCs don't factor at all. This is something the OLH are actively investigating In a personal capacity: I quite understand your concern with APCs, and I share them. They put power into the hands of an already corrupting bureaucratic strata in the universities; they may be detrimental to any form of meritocracy in academe; they can be exploited by unscrupulous publishers; and so on. But for my part I have no hesitation in getting involved in the OLH even without this matter being settled. For quite simply the old way is not working for the creators or the public, and the publishers - including 'learned societies' and journals - are actively working against both. The OLH is currently the best prospect for resolving this situation. Yours John > > Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:18:16 +0000 > From: Daniel Allington > Subject: Re: 26.735 open-access publishing > In-Reply-To: <20130131072640.2113F2CF0@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear John > > Thanks very much for the invitation. I'm sure you will get many signatures far more valuable than mine, but I wanted to say that what holds me back from signing up is the APC issue. I understand that it will be waived for signatories, but, like many researchers, I'm deeply uncomfortable with APCs per se, whether or not they directly affect me as an individual. The mission statement declares that 'APCs are waiverable', but it doesn't explain under what circumstances, the 'OLH Model' page states that 'PLOS waive[s]... charges', but also that your initiative is unaffiliated with PLOS, and you write 'should that model be adopted', which suggests that APCs may not be used at all (which I would welcome, obviously). Could we have some clarity on this so that potential signatories know exactly what they will have endorsed? > > Best wishes > > Daniel > > Dr Daniel Allington > Centre for Language and Communication > The Open University -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 19A3B2D0A; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 10:18:31 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 620862C92; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 10:18:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D912011CA; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 10:18:28 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130202091828.D912011CA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 10:18:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.745 simulating the brain X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 745. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:45:18 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: simulating the brain Some here will have heard of the European project to simulate the human brain, recently funded at 1.19 billion euro. See Gary Marcus, "We are not yet ready to simulate the brain", in the Financial Times for 31 January, http://tinyurl.com/d9ze2tm. 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, SUBJECT_NEEDS_ENCODING,SUBJ_ILLEGAL_CHARS autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 136F32CD1; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 16:50:45 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 066382CF1; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 16:50:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9EEE22CC8; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 16:50:42 +0100 (CET) Subject: 26.746 Lisa Lena Opas-H�nninen From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130202155042.9EEE22CC8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 16:50:42 +0100 (CET) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 746. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:31:56 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen Dear colleagues, I have just received word from Bethany Nowviskie, President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), that a long-time dear friend, Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen, has died after a long illness. Lisa Lena and I had not been in touch for some time, so I did not even know that she was ill. Some will remember that she hosted the digital humanities conference in 2008, in Oulu, Finland, where a good number of us enjoyed a traditional Finnish sauna, a large and very festive meal and the usual intellectual feast. Her generosity of spirit and magnanimity were at their usual high pitch then as usual. I got to know Lisa Lena well during the Princeton Summer Seminar, held by Susan Hockey's Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH), at which she was one of the usual teaching staff. It was my practice then to bring from Toronto a portable coffee-maker and brew very strong coffee early in the morning, either in Lisa Lena's room or my own, I forget which. The odour of the brewing coffee invariably drew nearby attendees from their Princeton dorm rooms for a cup or two. I don't remember who all was there -- except Espen Ore, grateful for coffee strong enough to satisfy his European taste. So, during that very special time at Princeton I woke up in such company. It is hard to ask for better. I met Lisa Lena on many occasions after that, but the dorm-room brewing will remain the setting in which I remember her. It was there, I think, that I heard her tales of growing up as an ambassador's daughter in various parts of the world. Very exotic, that seemed to me. She was a friend. The fact that I will never see her again is a great personal loss. I'm afraid I have no other personal details to share, except to pass on Bethany's recollection that she was "the first one on the dance floor at our conference banquets". (I, if I appeared at all, was certainly one of the last!) Any who wish to share recolllections of her are welcome to do so here. My condolences to her husband Heikki. 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E91122D02; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 08:28:59 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88FCC2D16; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 08:28:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1A4D92CFF; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 08:28:56 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130204072857.1A4D92CFF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 08:28:56 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.747 how to plan a digital humanities centre X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 747. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 16:56:56 -0500 From: Angel Nieves Subject: Re: 26.743 how to plan a digital humanities centre In-Reply-To: <20130202091645.B23B110CD@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Mike -- I have never posted to the discussion group, but I felt strongly about underscoring Willard's thoughtful response. At Hamilton, a small liberal arts college in Upstate NY, we have been able to get a "center" started only because we made a decision early on that the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) must be tied into the curriculum in order to be viable over the long term. As we were working to develop DHi (www.dhinitiative.org) we simultaneously developed a proposal for a new undergraduate minor in Cinema and New Media Studies, where faculty who were already doing DH related work could fold their research into some aspect of its courses and where we might work to develop future courses focused primarily on DH topics, etc. Drawing the distinctions between service and scholarship are critical to the success of any center. Ensuring that the "higher-ups" in administration see a DH center as a site of training faculty to do actually do DH related work themselves (not simply pass the work off to graduate or undergraduate students) and as a place to promote digital scholarship (broadly defined) is also a careful balancing act. Janet Simons (DHI's Co-Director), and/or I, would be happy to provide some guidance. Peace -- Angel On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 743. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: John Unsworth > (40) > Subject: Re: 26.739 how to plan a digital humanities centre? > > [2] From: Willard McCarty > (44) > Subject: Re: 26.739 how to plan a digital humanities centre? > > [3] From: "Krivickas, Jennifer (krivicjh)" > (13) > > Subject: check out Columbia > > [4] From: Neil Fraistat > (59) > Subject: Re: 26.739 how to plan a digital humanities centre? > > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 00:43:09 -0500 > From: John Unsworth > Subject: Re: 26.739 how to plan a digital humanities centre? > In-Reply-To: <20130201051908.92680DE7@digitalhumanities.org> > > Mike, > > Studies are very useful, but they represent a precipitate. In addition to > reading them, you should look around for what you consider to be successful > currently operating examples of DH centers, and invite some consulting from > their leadership. They're generally a helpful group... > > John > > On Feb 1, 2013, at 12:19 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 739. > > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > > > > > Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:53:42 -0500 > > From: Mike Stumpf > > Subject: DH Centre Resources Needed > > > > > > Hello All, > > > > I am doing research for a proposed centre for digital humanities at the > > University of Toronto Scarborough and I was looking for additional > > resources to help with planning. I have already read Diane Zorich's "A > > Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States", published by > > the Council on Library and Information Resources in 2008, the SPEC Kit > 326 > > on Digital Humanities, published by the Association of Research Libraries > > in 2011, and several smaller articles. However, I was wondering if > anyone > > knew of other studies similar to Zorich's which detail the creation, > > organization, and operation of centers designed for digital humanities. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Mike Stumpf > > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:39:02 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: Re: 26.739 how to plan a digital humanities centre? > In-Reply-To: <20130201051908.92680DE7@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Broadly speaking, since colleagues first gathered together to do something > about computing in the humanities, there has been a slow development from > non-academic support groups, in computing centres and then in libraries, to > academic units. In planning a new centre I think it's worth asking what > happened to several once prominent centres in order to avoid their fate. > > Getting a support centre started has never been easy. I certainly don't > want > to trivialise the effort involved. But an initiative to create a support > centre does not raise the question of academic legitimacy as does the > proposal to found an academic department, research group or centre. In > countries with a tenure system this legitimacy is an enormous hurdle mostly > not yet overcome. My understanding at the lowest levels of administration I > could achieve is that the tenure system forces a long-term commitment of > funding and so makes things serious in the way that things do when the > people who control the money are involved. I don't think it's any accident > that where tenure dominates the scene, jobs in our field tend almost always > (or to date always?) to be created in existing departments, usually > English. > But by the historical argument I would make, planning for an academic unit > is in the medium to long-term the only option that makes any sense. It > makes > sense because it is planning for something that will survive the inspection > of the money-hungry, who sooner or later will notice. Consider the fates of > the non-academic centres at Bergen, Oxford, Toronto and Rutgers-Princeton, > i.e. CETH, for example. (How many of us here recognise what great things > once happened at those places in our field?) Note in Geoffrey Rockwell's > vivid though brief account of what happened to the Centre for Computing in > the Humanities at Toronto (in his oral history interview in DHQ 6.3, > www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/6/3/000135/000135.html) how vulnerable a > non-academic operation can be, whatever its standing among those who > understand what it is trying to do. > > There's a more important point to make, I think, though it may seem to > utilitarians merely philosophical. Simple service, in the sense of > unquestioningly delivering what others think they want (not teaching them > or > collaborating with them to realise what they might be wanting if only they > knew enough) is profoundly damaging to the digital humanities as a field of > scholarly endeavour. To quote Nietzsche's Zarathustra it is "that which > must > be overcome" if we are to realise the enormous intellectual potential of > computing for the humanities *and* the humanities for computing. > > 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, > University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews > (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); > www.mccarty.org.uk/ > > > > > --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 16:17:25 +0000 > From: "Krivickas, Jennifer (krivicjh)" > Subject: check out Columbia > In-Reply-To: <20130201051908.92680DE7@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Hi > > Check out Columbia U/Barbara Rockenbach > http://library.columbia.edu/indiv/dhc.html > https://directory.columbia.edu/people/search > > Tell her Jen Krivickas sent you:) > ------- > Jennifer H. Krivickas > Head of the DAAP Library > University of Cincinnati > 5480 Aronoff Center for Design and Art > PO Box 210016 > Cincinnati, OH 45221-0016 > t: 513.556.1319 > > > > > --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 11:26:32 -0500 > From: Neil Fraistat > Subject: Re: 26.739 how to plan a digital humanities centre? > In-Reply-To: <20130201051908.92680DE7@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear Mike, > > I'm not aware of any other such report about digital humanities centers, > but centerNet is currently putting together material that will be useful in > this regard, and we hope within the next six months to have a team of > volunteer consultants in place to help those thinking of beginning a > center. > > In this meantime, please feel free to contact Kay Walter or me directly > with any questions you might have. > > Best, > Neil -- Mr. Angel David Nieves, Ph.D. Associate Professor & Director, American Studies Program Co-Director/Co-PI, Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant Associate Editor, *Fire! The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies* **Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, USA http://www.angeldavidnieves.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BEF6B2D7A; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 08:30:05 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 165962D02; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 08:30:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DAD5E2D00; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 08:30:03 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130204073003.DAD5E2D00@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 08:30:03 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.748 translators for centerNet? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 748. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 23:23:04 -0500 From: "Bauer, Jean" Subject: centerNet call for translations centerNet has recently updated its website (http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/), and we are looking for volunteers to translate the new pages. If you are interested in helping us with this important international outreach, please contact centerNet Secretary Jean Bauer at jean_bauer@brown.edu Thank you for your assistance. --Jean Bauer-- -- Jean Bauer Digital Humanities Librarian Brown University Library jean_bauer@brown.edu (401)863-5120 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 27DD72D1C; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 08:33:39 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 016ED2D00; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 08:33:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0AAAE2CFF; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 08:33:35 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130204073336.0AAAE2CFF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 08:33:35 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.749 events: ethics; speech X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 749. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Michal Gishri (25) Subject: REMINDER: 2013 Speech Processing Conference - CALL FOR PAPERS [2] From: Charles Ess (130) Subject: Call for hosting proposals - first joint CEPE-ETHICOMP conferences, June-July 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 10:45:52 +0000 From: Michal Gishri Subject: REMINDER: 2013 Speech Processing Conference - CALL FOR PAPERS --------- Call for Papers --------- All interested parties are invited to submit an abstract in a general call for papers for the 2013 Speech Processing Conference held at the Afeka Academic College of Engineering on July 1-2, 2013. Authors of selected abstracts will submit a full paper to be presented during the main conference, on Wednesday, July 1, 2013. The conference keynote will be presented by Prof. C.H. Lee of the Georgia Institute of Technology Paper proposals from researchers, vendors, developers and providers of speech processing technologies can cover, but are not limited to, any of the following topics: - Speech Recognition - Speaker Identification/Verification/Diarization - Speech Transcription - Speech Analytics - Keyword Spotting - Speech Enhancement - Voice-User Interface - Human-Machine Interaction - Text-to-Speech - Speech technology integration with other technologies such as: NLP and AI - Other... (if no appropriate category) Abstracts can describe research, products, services and/or case studies relevant to any of the speech processing related topics listed above. Abstracts and final papers will be submitted via a secure online submission form. - Abstracts should be 300-500 words. - Final papers should be 3-4 pages. - All abstracts, final papers and presentations must be in English. Abstract submission deadline: February 15, 2013 via online submission form Acceptance notifications: March 25, 2013 Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2013 Presentation slide submission deadline: June 20, 2013 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:59:42 +0100 From: Charles Ess Subject: Call for hosting proposals - first joint CEPE-ETHICOMP conferences, June-July 2014 Dear Humanists, With the usual apologies for duplicates and cross-postings, please send this along to potentially interested colleagues and/or institutions. == Call for Proposals: Conference hosting, first joint CEPE-ETHICOMP conferences, June-July 2014 Important dates: Expressions of interest due: March 31, 2013 Full proposals due: May 31, 2013 The Organizing Committee for CEPE / ETHICOMP´14: Charles Ess (University of Oslo; President, INSEIT), Conference Chair Shalini Kesar (Southern Utah University); Programme Chair Elizabeth Buchanan (University of Wisconsin-Stout; Executive Director, INSEIT) Bernd Carsten Stahl (De Montfort University; Chair, ETHICOMP Steering Committee) Direct submissions to: Charles Ess, Conference Chair: Background Since 1995 the ETHICOMP conference series has provided a forum to discuss the ethical and social issues surrounding Information and Communication Technology. Over 900 papers have been presented at 12 conferences by individuals from all parts of the world. But ETHICOMP is more than this ­ it is an interdisciplinary community dedicated to exploring issues and seeking ways forward. The next ETHICOMP conference will take place in June 2013 in Kolding, Denmark (see http://www.sdu.dk/en/Om_SDU/Institutter_centre/Idk/ethicomp2013 ) The CEPE (Computer Ethics: Professional Enquiries) conferences are international fora promoting dialogue between moral philosophy and the field of information and communication technology (ICT).  They are sponsored by the International Society for Ethics in Information Technology (INSEIT), founded in 2000 with a focus on the ethical issues in and surrounding ICT. The next CEPE conference will take place in Lisbon in July 2013. (see http://www.cepe2013.com/ In the summer of 2014 (June/July), the ETHICOMP and CEPE conferences will hold their first joint conferences. While each conference series has developed its distinctive culture, identity, and primary areas of focus ­ both conferences have established traditions of fostering interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue concerning important ethical issues shaping the information society. Both conferences clearly share common interests in ethics and computing. Both conferences maintain a high academic standard: contributions are peer reviewed, published in conference proceedings, and sometimes inspire journal special issues.  In light of these shared interests and purposes, we have agreed to hold our 2014 conferences jointly ­ ideally, at the same physical location, with perhaps some overlapping conference experiences (e.g., a shared keynote, reception, and/or conference track).   By doing so, we anticipate that the interdisciplinary goals of both organizations will be met even more powerfully and enjoyably. At the same time, we hope to realize some economies of scale through such an approach, thereby making more efficient use of increasingly scarce resources. (Each conference typically runs for ca. 2 to 2.5 days.  For planning purposes, we are beginning with the assumption of joint conferences taking place over 4-5 days, in either mid-to-late June or early-to-mid July, 2014, depending on local logistics, etc.) Invitation We seek expressions of interest and/or proposals from individuals and/or institutions interested in hosting CEPE-ETHICOMP¹14 and taking primary responsibility for local organization and conference logistics. The proposal should contain the following headings:     Name and contact detail of lead individual     Name and short description of host organization     Prior experience in hosting and organizing conferences     Clear statement of support from the host organization(s) ­ including, e.g., in-kind contributions of conference venue, AV/IT technical support, and so forth Initial suggestions and ideas regarding accommodation possibilities, including budget alternatives for graduate students; hospitality arrangements (e.g., receptions, conference dinners, etc); and other logistical support (e.g., available public transit, nearby international airport(s), etc.) Potential applicants are encouraged to contact any member of the Organizing Committee during the preparation of their applications. Tasks The successful applicants will work with the conference Organizing Committee, Conference Chair, and Programme Chair during the preparation of the conferences.  Their main tasks will be: Preparation of venue Preparation of schedule (in collaboration with Programme chair) Organisation of accommodation and social programme, including requisite transportation arrangements Development of the budget for the conference Dialogue with the Organizing Committee and Programme Chair regarding the development of conference tracks, themes, track chairs, etc. Selection Criteria The Organizing Committee will review proposals in light of: advance indication of institutional support on the part of the individual(s) putting forward the proposal a geographical location that has not recently been represented as a conference location ease of access to the conference venue/location in terms of easy and economic forms of transportation value for money, i.e. ability to keep conference cost low for participants a large enough venue to hold the prospective numbers of attendees (estimated between 120-180 total) a team of both younger scholars ­ including graduate students ­ and more senior scholars, with interests in ethics and ICT as well as in effective organization of all logistical aspects of the conference (e.g., hosting, rooms and bookings, associated conference proceedings, etc.). Those interested in submitting a proposal for hosting are encouraged to contact Charles Ess and/or any other member of the Organizing Committee with any questions, requests for clarification, etc. Many thanks in advance, Charles Ess Associate Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Lifetime member, Association of Internet Researchers Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/ University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess@media.uio.no _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D50642D89; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:07:23 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 668AC2D80; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:07:22 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 655012D15; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:07:20 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130205070720.655012D15@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:07:20 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.750 multi-lingual sites; open-access publishing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 750. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Virginia Knight (13) Subject: Re: 26.734 multilingual sites: half-automated translation [2] From: Daniel Allington (44) Subject: Re: 26.744 open-access publishing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 09:15:31 +0000 From: Virginia Knight Subject: Re: 26.734 multilingual sites: half-automated translation In-Reply-To: <20130131072601.3770E2CDC@digitalhumanities.org> The Lied and Song Texts page (http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/), which crowdsources texts and translations, currently states that: "The archive indexes 72,042 texts with 15,752 translations to English, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and others." Virginia Knight -- Dr. Virginia Knight, Senior Technical Researcher IT Services R & D/Institute for Learning and Research Technology University of Bristol, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1HH Tel: +44 (0)117 331 4385 (note new number March 2012) virginia.knight@bristol.ac.uk http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/aboutus/staff?search=cmvhk http://volley.blogs.ilrt.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 09:23:28 +0000 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: 26.744 open-access publishing In-Reply-To: <20130202091748.A35B9EA4@digitalhumanities.org> Dear John Thanks very much for the clarification. I agree with your analysis of the likely results of introducing APCs, which I fear would be worse than what we have now (particularly given the political direction from which pressure is coming). I'm less convinced by your characterisation of 'the publishers', but that is a side issue. The important thing is to do our best to ensure that the coming changes result in a system that is less and not more corrupt than the old one. And to me, it seems that one of the most important aspects of that effort must be resistance towards any kind of 'pay to say' model in scholarly publishing. That is obviously your intention, so -- once the OLH is out of the early planning stage -- I am confident that I will be able to sign up. Best wishes Daniel On 2 Feb 2013, at 09:17, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 744. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:58:45 +0000 > From: John Levin > Subject: Re: 26.738 open-access publishing: APC > In-Reply-To: <20130201051823.C9583DC5@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear Daniel, > > The Open Library of the Humanities is still in the early planning > stages; I believe that no decision has been made as to APCs. > > The ideal route for the OLH is institutional subsidy, so that APCs don't > factor at all. This is something the OLH are actively investigating > > In a personal capacity: > > I quite understand your concern with APCs, and I share them. They put > power into the hands of an already corrupting bureaucratic strata in the > universities; they may be detrimental to any form of meritocracy in > academe; they can be exploited by unscrupulous publishers; and so on. > > But for my part I have no hesitation in getting involved in the OLH even > without this matter being settled. For quite simply the old way is not > working for the creators or the public, and the publishers - including > 'learned societies' and journals - are actively working against both. > The OLH is currently the best prospect for resolving this situation. > > Yours > > John > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 013CC2D92; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:07:44 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFEB22D89; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:07:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4FB942D73; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:07:41 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130205070741.4FB942D73@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:07:41 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.751 how to plan a digital humanities centre X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 751. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:10:41 +0000 From: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: 26.743 how to plan a digital humanities centre In-Reply-To: <20130202091645.B23B110CD@digitalhumanities.org> On 02/02/13 09:16, Humanist Discussion Group, Willard in particular, wrote: [...] > Consider the fates of the non-academic centres at Bergen, Oxford, > Toronto and Rutgers-Princeton, i.e. CETH, for example. (How many of > us here recognise what great things once happened at those places in > our field?) I would just note that the institutionalising of digital humanities need not always be from a 'centre'. Whilst it is true that Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit evolved, a number of years ago, into a broader-based set of services for research support within the University (though retaining staff and expertise at the time), the University of Oxford remains a significant and one of the largest participants in digital humanities research and engagement, embedded within a broad range of subjects and in partnership with key academic support services (but 'owned' by the Humanities Division). The de-centralised nature of the activity is, for example, gathered together virtually via http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/ . Of course, it is possible that to get to this level of integration, you first need a 'centre' (you certainly need champions amongst senior members)... Mike -- Dr Michael Fraser | Director of Infrastructure Services | IT Services | University of Oxford _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 86FE42D9C; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:08:24 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4324E2D92; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:08:23 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 615DA2D8D; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:08:21 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130205070821.615DA2D8D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:08:21 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.752 vote for awards? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 752. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:25:32 +0000 From: James Cummings Subject: Announcing DH Awards 2012 open for voting! In-Reply-To: <510FEC71.4000609@it.ox.ac.uk> It is my pleasure to announce that the DH Awards 2012 is open for voting! Digital Humanities Awards are a new set of annual awards given in recognition of talent and expertise in the digital humanities community and are nominated and voted for entirely by the public. These awards are intended to help put interesting DH resources in the spotlight and engage DH users (and general public) in the work of the community. Awards are not specific to geography, language, conference, organization or field of humanities that they benefit. There is no financial prize associated with these community awards. There were many nominations and the international nominations committee took quite awhile to review and debate each nomination. We're sorry if your nomination was not included. Please see http://dhawards.org/faqs/ for this and other frequently asked questions. Anyone is allowed to vote, yes anyone, but please only vote once. Please cast vote at http://dhawards.org/dhawards2012/voting/ before midnight (GMT) on Sunday 17 February 2013 when voting will be closed. Good luck! James Cummings, Craig Bellamy, Sheila Brennan, Marjorie Burghart, and Kiyonori Nagasaki james@dhawards.org -- Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk Academic IT Services, University of Oxford _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B0EC22D93; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:10:03 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E56722D80; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:10:02 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7F7152D18; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:10:01 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130205071001.7F7152D18@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:10:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.753 postdoc at Illinois X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 753. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 19:26:47 +0000 From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" Subject: Postdoctoral Research Opportunity with HTRC In-Reply-To: <6FEEBCEA03E6E146A613342936F4403F71A2E3A4@CHIMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> The HathiTrust Research Center http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc (HTRC) is funding a postdoctoral position for up to three years at the University of Illinois. This position will be located at both at the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship http://cirss.lis.illinois.edu/ (CIRSS) at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) and the University Library’s Scholarly Commons http://www.library.illinois.edu/sc/ . The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary group of faculty and doctoral students formulating the research agenda and the future of the HTRC and will design services within the Scholarly Commons for scholars using the HTRC. The successful candidate may also choose to participate in the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc . Possible areas for postdoctoral research include but are not limited to: digital humanities, data curation, data modeling, metadata, machine learning, data mining, and text analysis. For the complete job announcement and applications details, please visit https://jobs.illinois.edu/search-jobs/job-details?jobID=27892&job=postdoctoral-research-associate-graduate-school-of-library-and-information-science-p1300007. To discuss this post informally, candidates may contact J. Stephen Downie, Professor and Associate Dean for Research at GSLIS, Co-Director of the HathiTrust Research Center (jdownie@illinois.edu). -- Megan Finn Senseney Project Coordinator, Research Services Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel Street Champaign, Illinois 61820 Phone: (217) 244-5574 Email: mfsense2@illinois.edu http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/services/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DC00B2D94; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:14:22 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7B962D80; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:14:21 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 324072D1B; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:14:20 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130205071420.324072D1B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:14:20 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.754 events: performing arts; summer school in Bern X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 754. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Enrico Natale (27) Subject: DH Summer School Switzerland (Bern 26-29 June 2013) - Registration is open [2] From: nesi (119) Subject: ECLAP 2013 International Conference - Call for Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 12:34:34 +0100 From: Enrico Natale Subject: DH Summer School Switzerland (Bern 26-29 June 2013) - Registration is open Dear list subscribers, Allow me to draw your attention to the DH SUMMER SCHOOL SWITZERLAND (Bern 26-29 June 2013) Registration for the first edition of the Digital Humanities Summer School Switzerland is now open ! The summer school, organized by infoclio.ch in cooperation with several universities and research institutions, will take at the university of Bern the 26-29 June 2013. Please visit our Registration page. Senior international scholars will lecture in all major aspects of Digital Humanities. In addition to the plenary courses, the Summer School offers a selection of parallel workshops on various DH topics and tools. See the programme and the course schedule for more detailed informations. There are 60 places available. Registration deadline: 15 April 2013. Book your place now. All Best, Enrico Natale Infoclio.ch Hirschengraben 11 Postfach 6811 3001 Bern Tel: +41 31 311 75 72 @infoclio Digital Humanities Summer School, University of Bern, 26-29 june 2013. New: compas.infoclio.ch New: rousseauonline.ch --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:17:31 +0100 From: nesi Subject: ECLAP 2013 International Conference - Call for Papers C A L L F O R P A P E R S ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ECLAP 2013 Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment 8-10 April 2013 ESMAE/Teatro Helena Sá e Costa - Porto (Portugal) Rua da Alegria, 503 - 4000-045 Porto (Portugal) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference web page: http://www.eclap.eu/eclap2013 Call for Papers, Deadline EXTENDED: 11 February 2013 In response to great demand the deadline for submission of proposals for presentations at the ECLAP 2013 Conference has been extended to February 11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Information Technology age has facilitated many significant changes in the field of cultural heritage and continues to be a dynamic and exciting forum for the emergence of new possibilities. This wave of change has had particularly significant consequences in the field of the Performing Arts, where the vast potential for digital content and new information technology exploitation continues to reveal itself, opening the doors to new and as-yet-unexplored synergies. Many technological developments concerning digital libraries, media entertainment, and education are now fully developed and ready to be exported, applied, utilized, and cultivated by the public. In the spirit of this vibrant environment, ECLAP is pleased to announce the 2013 Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment. Established by co-funding from the European Commission (ICT-PSP), ECLAP is a Best Practice Network that aims to create a network of experts and media access service for performing arts institutions in Europe, along with an e-library for the performing arts. The ECLAP 2013 conference is open to researchers, professionals, industries, institutions, technicians, and practitioners in the area of performing arts and information technologies, media entertainment, technology enhanced learning, intelligent media systems, acoustic systems, cultural heritage, open data, content management, semantic models, metadata standards, and many others. The ECLAP conference aims to create a forum in which progress-oriented individuals and institutions within the aforementioned professions can find a place to collaborate and present results. We cordially invite all interested groups and individuals to submit proposals for sessions within the event, sessions, papers, posters and exhibitions. Each exhibition session offers space (booths and tables) to host demonstrators. Demo and poster sessions will also be organized. The ECLAP 2013 conference will confirm a keynote-speaker lineup consisting of some of the most salient voices in the field and is currently looking to put together a set of sessions and panels that will conform to a standard of excellence. The conference will comprise selected top-level papers, which will be published complete with ISBN and largely indexed via Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, and promoted in the most relevant indexing engines. Topics of the General track on Performing Arts,Media Access and Entertainment include, but are not limited to: -- Media Annotations and tagging, solutions and interfaces -- Media grid processing and semantic computing -- Social media technologies and solutions -- Cross media and multimedia mining -- Mobile solutions and tools -- Multimodal interactive systems -- Recommendations and suggestions, collective intelligence -- Video analysis, indexing and summarization -- Collaborative and cooperative systems -- Multilingual and natural language processing -- Content digitisation & preservation practices -- Content production models and tools -- Linked Open Data, aggregated media -- Indexing and search, filtering, information retrieval, Emotion analysis -- Metadata quality, mapping and ingestion models and tools -- Cloud based solutions -- Production, Consumption, Creative Reuse of digital content -- Creative technologies for cultural Heritage -- Live Performance technologies and solutions -- Audio processing and tools for large events and installations -- 3D and 4D technologies and tools -- Augmented reality solutions -- IPR management systems -- Business models -- Data and media protection Submissions should be original and not submitted and/or published in other journals or conferences. The ECLAP Program Committee members will review the proposals (papers, posters, exhibitions) and select the ones for presentation. Only the papers selected by the Program Committee will be presented at the ECLAP 2013 conference and published in the conference proceedings. The submission has to be performed by uploading in PDF format to the OCS Springer system [LINK: http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/ocs/home/ECLAP2013]. REGISTRATION IS NEEDED. Deadlines EXTENDED:-- Submission of papers to the General Track: 11 February 2013 -- Submission of papers to the Workshops/Sessions: 11 February 2013 -- Conference: 8-10 April 2013 For info: info@eclap.eu or visit the ECLAP portal http://www.eclap.eu or main conference page: http://www.eclap.eu/eclap2013. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Prof. Paolo Nesi, Ph.D. University of Florence DISIT-DSI, Department of Systems and Informatics Distributed Systems and Internet Technology Lab Via S. Marta 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy mailto:paolo.nesi@unifi.it mailto:paonesi@gmail.com for mobile communications mailto:paolo.nesi@pec.disit.org for PEC mailto:nesi@dsi.unifi.it http://www.disit.dsi.unifi.it/ http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi http://www.dsi.unifi.it/ http://www.unifi.it/ Office: +39-055-4796523 LAB: +39-055-4796425 Admin: +39-055-4796567 fax: +39-055-4796493, 469 or 363 mobile: +39-335-5668674 skype: nesipaolo ApreToscana Polo Scientifico di Sesto Via Madonna del Piano, 6 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy +39-055-5254629 - fax +39-055-5254639 mailto:paolo.nesi@apretoscana.org mailto:info@apretoscana.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_GREY autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 59DDD2D9C; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:18:43 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE2B52D7B; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:18:41 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D3A6C2D1B; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:18:39 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130205071839.D3A6C2D1B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:18:39 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.755 pubs: the arts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 755. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 06:48:07 +0000 From: Tzafnat Shpak Subject: Call for a Newly Emerged Special Issue on the Arts In-Reply-To: CFP JVWR Issue on the Arts At the end of the year (2012) we looked at all past unpublished submissions to find the best papers for the Assembled issue. We had more than 50 submissions. Apparently, we had several unique papers connecting virtual worlds and the arts. Thus we have decided to make a special issue about "Arts and Virtual Worlds" as Volume 6 No. 2 (due for publication around June 2013 -- this year!) So... We are looking for 1-2 co-editors for this issue -- if you have an interest and background in the field as well as experience in academic editing, please let us know by sending your CV and a cover letter to tzafnat.shpak@jvwresearch.org. Also: if you have a ready FULL art-related paper that you think may fit this issue, please submit it ASAP (deadline: 20-Feb-2013). Current authors, who have already submitted relevant papers will be notified, as their papers start the review process. New authors are invited to submit papers that are innovative, original, and contribute to the advancement of understanding of the arts as it applies to virtual worlds. Papers will be considered by the Guest Editorial Board and reviewed by expert referees using our double -open policy. Double-open policy means that in general, authors do not need to anonymize their papers, and reviewers identity is also known to authors. For more details about it see JVWR site --> About JVWR --> For Authors --> Our double-Open Policy. Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit full papers via the JVWR publishing system (see www.jvwreserach.org http://www.jvwreserach.org > about for > authors). > Accepted papers will be published online in Volume 6, Number 2 of the > Journal, 2013. > Deadlines and Timeline > Please use the Journal publishing system (login at the top right of the > journal site, state that your submission is for the Arts issue.) Tentative Deadlines * Authors submit full paper: 15 February, 2013* Editors send reviewers’ feedback on the paper, and indication of acceptance or rejection: 15 March 2013 * Submission of revised paper (if necessary): 1 April 2013 * Editors’ decision and comments for accepted papers: 15 April 2013 * Authors submission of final version: 30 April 2013 * Staff editors & authors work till planned publication date: 15 June 2013 Further Information The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is an online, open access academic journal that engages a wide spectrum of scholarship and welcomes contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that intersect virtual worlds research. The field of virtual worlds research is a continuously evolving area of study that spans across many disciplines and the JVWR editorial team looks forward to engaging a wide range of creative and scholarly work. For any information regarding this call, please contact:Tzafnat Shpak, Coordinating Editor tzafnat.shpak@jvwresearch.org We are also happy to let you know of the following: * Save the dates: JVWR event in Milan, Italy at ICIS 2013. So -- mark your calendars around December 16-18, 2013 (http://icis2013.aisnet.org/). * Check our web site's special page on events for updates in our field. * Review past issues on our website's special all issues cover view page. * We welcome you to join our Facebook page 'theJVWR' * Follow us @theJVWR on Twitter * And/or subscribe to our mailing list (on the top left of http://www.jvwreserach.org). We wish us all a healthy and productive year. Tzafnat Shpak Coordinating Editor Prof. Yesha Y. Sivan Managing Editor _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 514862DBE; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:19:30 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6758C2DA8; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:19:29 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 493492DA5; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:19:26 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130205071927.493492DA5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:19:26 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.756 outreach: Around DH in 80 Days X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 756. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 09:58:02 -0500 From: Alex Gil Subject: Around DH in 80 Days It is my pleasure to introduce to you one of our first pilot projects at GO::DH http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/ , Around DH in 80 Days! AroundDH hopes to be a fun way to introduce the work of colleagues around the world to those who are just starting out. Everyday for 80 days we will visit a group or projects across the globe. An editorial board will select a total of 80 groups or projects out of master list created by volunteers like you. Groups in the list will be approached to describe themselves and highlight their work in 200 words or less. We will do our best to bring attention to digital scholarship outside of Canada, Europe, the US and Japan. In that sense, we are departing from a broad and inclusive vision of DH. Besides the audience of new comers, the global scope of the tour should also attract some of the more seasoned DH’ers. The greatest challenge of the editorial board is to balance the geographical margins with the greatest-hits of the northern mainstream. The greatest hope of the project is to paint enough of a broad picture of digital humanities to redefine it in the process. Thus, AroundDH can be read not only as a tour of the globe, but also as a dance around the periphery of DH. The project began as an email experiment. One email was sent daily from my outbox to all the librarians in the H&H division at Columbia with the subject “The DH Daily.” Everyday, our librarians, who are in the middle of a 2-year professional development program to become the consultation arm of our Digital Humanities Center at Columbia, would visit a different DH center or project. Others outside of Columbia heard about the experiment and wanted to be included in the email list. The appeal was the small dosages. Like the librarians, the rise of DH across the land has brought crowds of DH-curious academic professionals and students to our doors asking, where do I begin?’ At the same time that the emails were going out, I was slowly but surely becoming part of the conversations around Global Outlook DH. There we were trying to discover as much as we could about the world outside the fields of vision of the member-nations of the ADHO. Eventually these two sets of concerns blend into one, and thus was born the idea for Around DH in 80 days. The project is currently being developed by Ryan Cordell’s Doing Digital Humanities http://ryan.cordells.us/s13dh/ graduate class (#s13dh). You are still welcome to contribute to our global list. After Ryan’s class develops the first stage of the project, the project will be passed around the world for refinement and translation. Around DH indeed! If you or your team would like to volunteer to translate the project once it’s ready, and/or become part of the editorial board that makes the final decisions for inclusion, please send me a line . N.B. As you will notice from our Google Spreadsheet, the project is not a replacement for CenterNet. On the contrary, our goal is to try to expand that list as much as possible! All the best, Alex. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 30F1A2D73; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 08:11:14 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57F6E2CDD; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 08:11:13 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A7C3F2CDD; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 08:11:11 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130206071111.A7C3F2CDD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 08:11:11 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.757 job at VU 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. 757. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 11:47:05 +0100 From: Jeroen Smid Subject: Vacancy Digital Humanities Computer Scientist/Computational Linguist The Axiom group http://axiom.vu.nl at the Network Institute/Faculty of Philosophy at the VU University Amsterdam has a vacancy for a Computer Scientist / Computational Linguist (Digital Humanities, post-master or postdoc level) f/m. For 1.0 fte for a fixed period of 6 months. ** ** Full advertisement text: http://www.vu.nl/nl/Images/1.2013.00030%20-%20Wijsbegeerte%20Computer%20Scientist%20Computational%20Linguist_tcm9-318840.pdf _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EB0AD2D8C; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 08:12:40 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 093322CF2; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 08:12:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8B6102CDD; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 08:12:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130206071238.8B6102CDD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 08:12:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.758 events: summer school; GLAM; Spanish 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. 758. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Center for Comparative Studies" (12) Subject: Convocatoria I Congreso Internacional HDH2013 [2] From: Enrico Natale (12) Subject: Digital Humanities Summer School, Bern, 26-29 june 2013 (bis) [3] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (15) Subject: Event --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 14:07:58 +0100 From: "Center for Comparative Studies" Subject: Convocatoria I Congreso Internacional HDH2013 El comité organizador del primer Congreso Internacional de la HDH (Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas. Sociedad Internacional ), con el título: Humanidades Digitales: desafíos, logros y perspectivas de futuro tiene el placer de hacer pública la convocatoria de este encuentro científico, que se celebrará los días 9-12 de julio de 2013 en la Universidade da Coruña. Más información sobre este evento puede encontrarse en la página: http://hdh2013.humanidadesdigitales.org Agradecemos su atención y rogamos que difunda la noticia. Un cordial saludo, Comité organizador del Congreso HDH2013 *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1360070221_2013-02-05_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_25572.2.pdf --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 14:21:21 +0100 From: Enrico Natale Subject: Digital Humanities Summer School, Bern, 26-29 june 2013 (bis) Sorry for re-posting, but I forgot in my previous message to provide some links to this event ! DIGITAL HUMANITIES SUMMER SCHOOL SWITZERLAND (University of Bern 26-29 June 2013) Registration for the first edition of the Digital Humanities Summer School Switzerland is now open ! http://www.dhsummerschool.ch Registration page: http://www.dhsummerschool.ch/?page_id=16 Programme: http://www.dhsummerschool.ch/?page_id=53 There are 60 places available. Registration deadline: 15 April 2013. Best regards, Enrico Natale www.infoclio.ch --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 16:27:58 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Event GLAM-WIKI 2013 is a global conference for the GLAM sector (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) offering an exciting programme for sector professionals, volunteers in Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement, and anyone interested in open content in the cultural sector. It builds on the success of our conference at the British Museum in November 2010. GLAM-WIKI 2013 is organised by Wikimedia UK, the charity that supports the Wikimedia movement in the UK, in association with Europeana and generously hosted by the British Library. Because of this we have been able to keep ticket prices very low, at £15-40, including lunch and refreshments. The conference will take place at the British Library, London, on Friday to Sunday 12-14 April 2013. The whole programme is three days, with Sunday being an unconference day with a parallel hackathon. For an updated programme please check the event page. Confirmed speakers include Michael Edson, the Director of Web and New Media Strategy at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, and Lizzy Jongma, Data Manager at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. We will also have speakers from Europeana, the British Library and the Open Knowledge Foundation, among others. The Friday will have 1 to 3 tracks of talks, presentations and panel discussions and Saturday will focus on workshops and demonstrations. Sunday will have an unconference for a flexible programme of further discussions on topics decided by the participants, together with a hackathon track. There will be a programme of events outside the conference for attendees. To attend, please register here (http://glamwiki2013.eventbrite.co.uk/). If you are interested in presenting, please see the Call for papers. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A38882D92; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 08:13:33 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E55B2D8E; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 08:13:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9665B2D18; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 08:13:31 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130206071331.9665B2D18@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 08:13:31 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.759 pubs: an unusual collaboration; medical records X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 759. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (51) Subject: an unusual case of collaboration and multiple authorship [2] From: Lauren Kassell (20) Subject: CASEBOOKS PROJECT: PERSON PAGES AND MORE MANUSCRIPT IMAGES RELEASED --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:37:52 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: an unusual case of collaboration and multiple authorship The extended body of Stephen Hawking Stephen Hawking is a household name, known by many for his book A Brief History of Time and his extensive work relating to black holes. The Extended Body of Stephen Hawking by Hélène Mialet, published in the recent issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, focuses on the machines, devices, and people who enable him to conduct his work (what Mialet calls his ‘extended bodyÂ’). Mialet held interviews with Hawking, his assistants and colleagues, physicists, engineers, writers, journalists, archivists, and artists taking into account HawkingÂ’s daily activities, including his lecturing and scientific writing. She begins the article by asking two questions ‘What can we say about theoretical work when no visible traces can be seen?Â’ and ‘Is it true that he needs nothing more than a ‘goodÂ’ head to think?Â’ Although Hawking, like Einstein, is often referred to in the popular press as a ‘lone geniusÂ’, Mialet concludes that he is just the opposite. Because of his disability many of the motor and cognitive operations normally unseen by the ethnographer are delegated and incorporated in other bodies. In this sense, his disability serves to highlight the collaboration involved in his theoretical work. The notion of collaboration is nothing unique in science, and this is the case for most professors who work with a collection of students. Mialet argues that HawkingÂ’s disability acts as a magnifying glass that reveals the collaborative network, ‘the extended body,Â’ that we normally donÂ’t see. The article The Extended Body of Stephen Hawking is available in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Volume 37, Issue 4. This issue is entitled ‘Master and Servant in TechnoscienceÂ’ and explores the ongoing relationship between man and machine. The issue is edited by Markus Krajewski of Bauhaus University, Weimar. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews actively explores the differing trajectories of the disciplines and practices in its purview, to clarify what each is attempting to do in its own terms, so that constructive dialogue across them is strengthened. It focuses whenever possible on conceptual bridge-building and collaborative research that nevertheless respects disciplinary variation. The next issue of the journal in March will be edited by Philip Ball and Matthew Jarron and will discuss the theme DÂ’arcy Thompson and his legacy. Volume 37.4 of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews is available via ingentaconnect at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr/2012/00000037/00000004 Read MialetÂ’s article for free until 1st March at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr/2012/00000037/00000004/art00006 For more information about the journal visit www.maneypublishing.com/journals/isr -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:23:04 +0000 From: Lauren Kassell Subject: CASEBOOKS PROJECT: PERSON PAGES AND MORE MANUSCRIPT IMAGES RELEASED The Casebooks Project http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk The digital edition of Simon Forman's medical records (1596-1603) now has more features. 'Person pages' link the astrologer's clients/patients across the records. Images of four of the six volumes of Forman's manuscripts are now accessible. More features for working with Forman's records, and Richard Napier's casebooks for 1597-1603, will follow soon. For examples of person pages, we recommend: Alice Blague: http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk/view/person/PERSON1037 Thomas Conyears: http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk/view/person/PERSON1928 Emilia Lanier: http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk/view/person/PERSON4449 Please send feedback, queries etc. to hps-casebooks@lists.cam.ac.uk Dr Lauren Kassell Department of History & Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge Free School Lane Cambridge CB2 3RH www.hps.cam.ac.uk +44 1223 767173 --- Pembroke College Cambridge CB2 1RF www.pem.cam.ac.uk +44 1223 330897 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 073E62D0D; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 09:17:24 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0063B2CCC; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 09:17:24 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 36D9B2CD9; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 09:17:22 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130206081722.36D9B2CD9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 09:17:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.760 resending: an unusual collaboration X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 760. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:18:43 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: resend: an unusual collaboration [This is a resending of Humanist 26.759.1, which as I received it had all the single quotation marks, apostrophes and the two accented characters in Hélène Mialet's name replaced by code unpleasant to read, thus "Hélène" etc. Knowing what this message said (in some sense I won't try to define) I failed to look at it before sending it. Apologies! --WM] The extended body of Stephen Hawking Stephen Hawking is a household name, known by many for his book A Brief History of Time and his extensive work relating to black holes. The Extended Body of Stephen Hawking by Hélène Mialet, published in the recent issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, focuses on the machines, devices, and people who enable him to conduct his work (what Mialet calls his 'extended body'). Mialet held interviews with Hawking, his assistants and colleagues, physicists, engineers, writers, journalists, archivists, and artists taking into account Hawking's daily activities, including his lecturing and scientific writing. She begins the article by asking two questions 'What can we say about theoretical work when no visible traces can be seen?' and 'Is it true that he needs nothing more than a 'good' head to think?' Although Hawking, like Einstein, is often referred to in the popular press as a 'lone genius', Mialet concludes that he is just the opposite. Because of his disability many of the motor and cognitive operations normally unseen by the ethnographer are delegated and incorporated in other bodies. In this sense, his disability serves to highlight the collaboration involved in his theoretical work. The notion of collaboration is nothing unique in science, and this is the case for most professors who work with a collection of students. Mialet argues that Hawking's disability acts as a magnifying glass that reveals the collaborative network, 'the extended body,' that we normally don't see. The article The Extended Body of Stephen Hawking is available in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Volume 37, Issue 4. This issue is entitled 'Master and Servant in Technoscience' and explores the ongoing relationship between man and machine. The issue is edited by Markus Krajewski of Bauhaus University, Weimar. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews actively explores the differing trajectories of the disciplines and practices in its purview, to clarify what each is attempting to do in its own terms, so that constructive dialogue across them is strengthened. It focuses whenever possible on conceptual bridge-building and collaborative research that nevertheless respects disciplinary variation. The next issue of the journal in March will be edited by Philip Ball and Matthew Jarron and will discuss the theme D'arcy Thompson and his legacy. Volume 37.4 of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews is available via ingentaconnect at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr/2012/00000037/00000004 Read Mialet's article for free until 1st March at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr/2012/00000037/00000004/art00006 For more information about the journal visit www.maneypublishing.com/journals/isr -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7D3422D8F; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 16:41:21 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4FFC2D82; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 16:41:20 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9911E2D80; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 16:41:18 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130206154118.9911E2D80@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 16:41:18 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.761 job in digital culture at King's College London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 761. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:26:49 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: job in digital culture at King's College London A reminder: a job is being advertised for a Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society to be appointed jointly to the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries and the Department of Digital Humanities. The deadline for application is 19 February. See http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AFV645/lecturer-in-digital-culture-and-society/ for details. 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.5 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY, LOTTO_AGENT autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0429B2CE7; Thu, 7 Feb 2013 06:40:28 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 735FF2CD2; Thu, 7 Feb 2013 06:40:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A287B2CD0; Thu, 7 Feb 2013 06:40:25 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130207054025.A287B2CD0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 06:40:25 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.762 cash awards for work on democracy (U.S.) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 762. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 17:38:39 +0000 From: Sheryl Grant Subject: Digital Media Challenge Offers $100,000 in Prizes For Fresh Ideas on Democracy Greetings all, Today marks the launch of a new digital media challenge that seeks to start a national conversation on ideas and solutions to improve American democracy, with cash prizes for the most fresh and creative submissions. Looking@Democracy http://lookingatdemocracy.org/ is a national competition offering a total of $100,000 in prize money for short, provocative media submissions designed to spark a national conversation about why government is important to our lives, or how individuals and communities can come together to strengthen American democracy. Launching today, February 4, 2013, the challenge will award $25,000 for First Place along with significant prizes for 2nd and 3rd place as well as categories and awards for People’s Choice and Emerging Artists. Examples of welcome submissions would be addressing a critical topic that is absent from the national debate, looking at data and exploring the stories behind them, or highlighting an aspect about democracy taking place on a local level. By making submissions in any digital format welcome, the challenge hopes to engage with independent media makers, investigative reporters, students, graphic designers and artists - anyone with creative ideas to help engage Americans and shift the political discussion in a fresh and engaging way. Looking@Democracy is a project of the Illinois Humanities Council (IHC), with support from the MacArthur Foundation. Through new initiatives and past work, the two organizations have shown their commitment in providing platforms for more people to understand and participate in the democratic system through creative means. “Given our perception that the political system has failed to adequately address major issues confronting the nation, MacArthur seeks to stimulate discussion about the future of the Republic and invests in promising ideas to help enhance democratic ideals, institutions, and practices,” said MacArthur President Robert Gallucci. “This new public competition is all about engaging citizens and encouraging them to apply their creative talents and offer their ideas to strengthen American democracy.” “So much of our information today is shared electronically, whether it be through videos, podcasts, graphic art, or even through mobile phone apps,” said Kristina Valaitis, Executive Director of the Illinois Humanities Council. “With Looking@Democracy, we hope to harness the potential of digital media to welcome new voices and start conversations about real, reasonable ways to improve our nation, our communities, and our lives.” A panel of expert judges from media and non-profits will judge the submissions, which include Maria Hinojosa of Public Radio’s Latino USA, Filmmaker Byron Hurt (Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes) and Ian Inaba, film director (American Blackout) and Executive Director of the Citizen Engagement Laboratory. Looking@Democracy submissions will be accepting submissions today through April 30, 2013. View fullchallenge rules and sumbission information. Sheryl Grant Director of Social Networking HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition Duke University 114 South Buchanan Blvd. Smith Warehouse Durham, NC 27708 sheryl.grant@duke.edu www.hastac.org http://www.hastac.org/ /competitions www.dmlcompetition.net http://www.dmlcompetition.net/ www.twitter.com/dmlComp http://www.twitter.com/dmlComp https://www.facebook.com/DMLcomp http://www.scoop.it/t/badges-for-lifelong-learning _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 01E422CF2; Thu, 7 Feb 2013 06:42:28 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E65E82CD2; Thu, 7 Feb 2013 06:42:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 50EEC2CD2; Thu, 7 Feb 2013 06:42:26 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130207054226.50EEC2CD2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 06:42:26 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.763 events: TEI further; making meaning; robot love X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 763. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Julia Flanders (23) Subject: call for participation and date change: Taking TEI Further [2] From: Paul Fyfe (33) Subject: "Cultures, Contexts, Images, & Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, & Networked Worlds" CFP for SAMLA Fall 2013 [3] From: Centre for e-Research (36) Subject: CeRch seminar: All you need is Robot Love (Blay Whitby) - Tues 12th Feb, KCL, London --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 08:42:03 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: call for participation and date change: Taking TEI Further The deadline is approaching for applications to the introductory TEI customization workshop in the NEH-funded "Taking TEI Further" institutes. Please note that the dates for the "Publishing and Transforming TEI Data" seminar have been changed. Taking TEI Further: TEI Customization Brown University, May 8-10, 2013 Guest instructor: Trevor Muñoz, University of Maryland Application deadline: February 15, 2013 Taking TEI Further: Teaching with TEI Brown University, August 21-23, 2013 Guest instructor: Jacqueline Wernimont, Scripps College Application deadline: June 1, 2013 Taking TEI Further: Publishing and Transforming TEI Data Brown University, November 20-22, 2013 [note the date change!!] Guest instructor: David Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh Application deadline: August 15, 2013 **Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant, up to $1000 for graduate student participants.** These seminars assume a basic familiarity with TEI, and provide an opportunity to explore specific topics in more detail, in a collaborative workshop setting. 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 share information about their projects with 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). A basic knowledge of the TEI Guidelines and some prior experience with text encoding will be assumed. For more detailed information and to apply, please visit http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/seminars/ Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Brown University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 11:42:28 -0500 From: Paul Fyfe Subject: "Cultures, Contexts, Images, & Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, & Networked Worlds" CFP for SAMLA Fall 2013 Dear all: you may be interested in this call for papers for the Fall 2013 convention of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association convention (Nov 8-10, Atlanta, GA). The theme is "Cultures, Contexts, Images, and Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds." According to my colleague and SAMLA president Kathleen Yancey, they are especially interested in proposals from the digital humanities community. For additional details, see their website with announcements here: http://samla.memberclicks.net/ The keynote speaker will be Katherine Hayles, Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at Duke University, whose works include _My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts_ (The University of Chicago P), _Writing Machines_ (The MIT Press), and _How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics_ (University of Chicago Press). Her current project, _Making, Critique: A New Paradigm for the Humanities_, proposes a new intellectual model for the humanities, which she calls Comparative Media Studies and which is located in the twin activities of making objects and of critique. SAMLA hopes this conference will encourage dialogues surrounding the intersections between literatures, languages, rhetorics, and media—problematizing boundaries between print and digital, between reading and writing, between scholarship and pedagogy, between text and image, between institutional and vernacular; and between critique and making. At the same time, SAMLA continues to be interested in sessions of all kinds addressing disciplinary interests. Thank you for your consideration. -- Paul Fyfe Assistant Professor English, History of Text Technologies Florida State University http://hott.fsu.edu --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 18:33:42 +0000 From: Centre for e-Research Subject: CeRch seminar: All you need is Robot Love (Blay Whitby) - Tues 12th Feb, KCL, London Dear all, this Tuesday (12th Feb) we have Blay Whitby giving a talk for the Centre for e-Research Seminar Series at King's College London: *Tuesday, **12 February 2013, 6.15pm * *Centre for e-Research Seminar:****All You Need is Robot Love* (*Blay Whitby*) Hosted by Centre for e-Research, Digital Humanities, King's College London Location: Anatomy Museum Space, 6th Floor King's Building, Strand Campus, King's College London *(Directions to the Anatomy Museum http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/atm/location.aspx )* ** http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2012-13/robot.aspx Abstract: Applications for robots and AI technology in caring roles are numerous and often surprisingly successful. Companion robots, robot nannies, and smart homes are near-to-market technologies. Computer Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is funded by the NHS as a treatment for a number of psychiatric disorders. One writer (David Levy) has predicted marriage to robots by 2050. Employing robots and AI technology in caring applications seems ethically to be preferred to employing them in highly destructive military roles. However a specific ethical question is prompted by caring technology: what exactly are we trying to achieve by displacing humans from these roles? ****Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is requested: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5339342116/ The seminar will be followed by wine and nibbles. Hope to see you there for what should be a very entertaining and thought-provoking talk, Anna Jordanous (CeRch) PS Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message through cross-posting -- Anna Jordanous Centre for e-Research (CeRch) Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL www: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5CD1E2D1F; Thu, 7 Feb 2013 06:44:55 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A4452CDC; Thu, 7 Feb 2013 06:44:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 690D02CD2; Thu, 7 Feb 2013 06:44:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130207054452.690D02CD2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 06:44:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.764 latency? building confidence? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 764. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Levin (17) Subject: Latency [2] From: Willard McCarty (27) Subject: building confidence? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:17:33 +0000 From: John Levin Subject: Latency Dear List, Have there been any studies of the reduction over time of latency in the use of computers? I recall hearing - and cannot find the reference, even with googling - that whereas once computer time had to be booked, with the advent of the personal computer the reduction in time-delay led to a major transformation in working procedures. Trying something new out was easier, quicker, and with fewer overheads, meaning that more ideas, and more left-field ideas, were tested. The quantitative change thereby led to a qualitative change. Any refs, any studies, anyone knows of? Thanks in advance, John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:31:07 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: building confidence? Yesterday in our PhD Seminar (a fortnightly event in which PhD students in digital humanities present their ongoing work) the question of building confidence in technical work came up in each of the two talks. It might seem that this is a simple question simple to answer: a technique or device instantiating either works or not. But when interpretation is involved, whether something has worked can be quite unclear. This is especially true when the device or technique is a "black box", either because, like a neural network, no one knows exactly what happens within, or because the audience one is addressing, e.g. palaeographers, do not have the technical training to understand what is on view or to follow an explanation. Of course the problem occurs in trying to understand any complex procedure hidden from view, e.g. how a palaeographer comes up with a judgment that manuscript X was written at place Y probably in or around date Z. So perhaps this is really a question about interdisciplinary research which properly speaks to all the disciplines concerned. But how to *we* build confidence once the awe of apparent magic and the charm of bold claims have dissipated? 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CA9AC2CC3; Fri, 8 Feb 2013 12:01:12 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA8C32CAA; Fri, 8 Feb 2013 12:01:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1398F2CA6; Fri, 8 Feb 2013 12:01:08 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130208110109.1398F2CA6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 12:01:08 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.765 jobs: professorships at Darmstadt; MA studentships at Salford X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 765. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Sabine Bartsch (69) Subject: 2 Professorships (W3 and W2) in Digital Philologies [2] From: Yuwei Lin (97) Subject: AHRC studentship for MA Social Media, University of Salford, UK --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:24:21 +0100 From: Sabine Bartsch Subject: 2 Professorships (W3 and W2) in Digital Philologies The Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies of Technische Universität Darmstadt seeks to fill the following vacancies 2 Professorships (W3 and W2) in Digital Philologies In the past ten years, the Department has established the Digital Humanities with foci in English Corpus and Computational Linguistics as well as German Computer Philology. Throughout this period, the Department has consolidated its position in the digital humanities through internationally networked research activities and the installation of a bilingual Master of Arts program Linguistic and Literary Computing. The specific profile of Digital Humanities as Digital Philologies is going receive further impetus by the installation of a cluster of three professorships representing this discipline. Together with the already existing professorship for German Computational Philology (Andrea Rapp), the two new professorships will form a philology-based cluster of Digital Humanities at TU Darmstadt: (1) W3 Linguistics with a focus on corpus and computational linguistics and (2) W2 Literary Studies and Cultural Studies with a focus on Digital Literary Studies / Digital Cultural Studies. The prospective postholders are expected to have a succinct research profile in the Digital Humanities and to fully represent the field in research as well as teaching in the courses of studies offered by the department (Master of Arts Linguistic and Literary Computing, Master of Arts Germanistik, Joint Bachelor of Arts Germanistik, Master of Education German, Lehramt an Gymnasien Deutsch). They should furthermore take responsibility for the introduction of a Bachelor of Arts program Digital Philologies. Expertise in at least two of the following research foci must be demonstrated respectively: (1) W3 Linguistics with a focus on corpus and computational linguistics (Code-No. 514) Empirical methods in linguistics Quantitative and qualitative methods in corpus and computational linguistics Digital lexicography Text and discourse linguistics Scientific communication Linguistic register and variety studies (2) W2 Literary Studies and Cultural Studies with a focus on Digital Literary Studies/Digital Cultural Studies (Code-No. 515) Literary studies and digital text analysis plus its teaching Visualisation Literary studies as cultural studies Book history, materiality research Textuality Digital scholarly editing Processes of digitalisation, digital treatments of cultural heritage data Traditions and orders of knowledge networks and knowledge visualisation Applicants are expected to hold a Habilitation or a track record of equivalent scientific work relevant to one of the research profiles described above. A proven record of excellent teaching at university level is likewise expected. Furthermore, openness for interdisciplinary collaboration and experience in acquiring research funding are expected. The position is tenured with a remuneration package commensurate with experience and qualifications, following the German "W-Besoldung". The regulations for employment are specified under §§ 61 and 62 HHG (Hessisches Hochschulgesetz). The Technische Universität Darmstadt intends to increase the number of female faculty members and encourages female candidates to apply. In case of equal qualifications applicants with a degree of disability of at least 50 or equal will be given preference. Applications using code number 514/515 (including a CV, list of publications, copies of relevant diplomas, a record of teaching activities and academic accomplishments) are to be sent to the Dean of the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Frau Prof. Dr. phil. M. Knodt, Marktplatz 15, Residenzschloss, 64283 Darmstadt. Code. No. 514 or 515 Application deadline: 24-Feb-2013 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 20:33:48 +0000 From: Yuwei Lin Subject: AHRC studentship for MA Social Media, University of Salford, UK Dear all, The School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford is offering an AHRC Professional Preparation Masters Award in Film, Digital and Media Production (fees and funding, £13.6k, untaxed), for an October 2013 start. MA in Social Media is amongst the eligible courses. Details are below. The deadline for applications is 8 March 2013 (5.00pm). Your must submit your AHRC case for support and portfolio of your creative written work by email to Deborah Woodman [d.woodman@salford.ac.uk], College of Arts & Social Sciences by 5pm on 8 March 2013. More information can be found at http://www.salford.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/fees-and-funding/ahrc-studentships/masters-award-in-film,-digital-and-media-production For more information about the MA Social Media course at the University of Salford (UK) can be found at http://www.salford.ac.uk/courses/social-media If you have any questions about MA Social Media, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the Programme Leader Dr. Yuwei Lin at [y.lin {at} salford.ac.uk]. Thank you. ================================== AHRC Professional Preparation Masters Award ================================== AHRC Studentships are available only to UK and EU students. To be eligible for a full studentship award (fees plus maintenance stipend) a student must have been ordinarily resident in the UK for at least three years prior to the start of the course. British citizenship or holding a British passport in itself does not satisfy the residential eligibility requirement. To be eligible for the full award, EU Nationals must satisfy the UK residency requirement. EU Nationals who do not meet the residency requirement are eligible for a fees-only award, provided that they have been ordinarily resident in the EU for at least three years prior to the start of their proposed course. Full information on AHRC eligibility criteria can be found here http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Funding-Opportunities/Pages/Funding-Opportunities.aspx If you are unsure about eligibility please contact us prior to submitting your application. How to apply To apply for an AHRC Masters award you must complete the following: * The University online postgraduate admissions application form (http://www.salford.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/applying/applying-for-taught-courses) for your chosen MA course (please see list of eligible courses at http://www.salford.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/fees-and-funding/ahrc-studentships/masters-award-in-film,-digital-and-media-production). Your transcripts and references will be included in this. * A case for support of no more than 500 words. * A 15 page portfolio of your creative written work (either a sinlge complete piece or a number of extracts). You must submit your online application by 5pm on 8 March 2013. Your must submit your AHRC case for support and portfolio of your creative written work by email to Deborah Woodman (d.woodman@salford.ac.uk), College of Arts & Social Sciences by 5pm on 8 March 2013. Further guidance for completion of the outline research proposal This is a key document in assessing your application. In preparing this statement you should consider the following (you may wish to use these as subheadings): Professional Preparation scheme 1. How will taking this course contribute to your career aims? * State briefly why you wish to pursue this course * How will the course support your future career aims? 2. Brief description of the course of study * How does the course relate to practice in your chosen field and how will it be of benefit to you in developing your career? This will enable you to convey your interest in the course of study * Major project/dissertation: give a brief description of the area in which you anticipate doing your major project/dissertation. 3. Preparation and previous experience * Give an indication of any previous professional experience in your field of study (including relevant paid and voluntary work) * Give an indication of the training and preparation you have already undertaken that is relevant to your proposed study, how this training has prepared you for the course and your future career, and what further training you will require References You should provide two references as part of your online application. These should be from individuals who are in a position to assess your suitability for postgraduate study and the appropriateness of the course to your career/research goals. As competition for these awards is so fierce, you are strongly advised to ask your referees to consider the guidance notes for referees provided (http://www.salford.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/fees-and-funding/ahrc-studentships/guidance-notes-for-referees-professional-preparation-masters-studentships). The selection process All applications will be assessed by a panel of senior academics from within the subject area and shortlisted candidates will be invited for interview in early April 2013. Timetable: 8 March 2013 (5.00pm) - Deadline for Applications March 2013 - Short-listing April 2013 - Interviews for Short-listed Applicants April/May 2013 - Applicants informed of outcomes and nominations forwarded to AHRC The final offer of an AHRC Studentship is subject to confirmation by AHRC. Please direct all other enquiries to the College of Arts & Social Sciences. Deborah Woodman Tel. 0161 295 5876 Email: d.woodman@salford.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_GREY autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 882AC2CC7; Fri, 8 Feb 2013 12:02:35 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34DDA2CAA; Fri, 8 Feb 2013 12:02:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DA5092C8E; Fri, 8 Feb 2013 12:02:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130208110230.DA5092C8E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 12:02:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.766 events: at the British Academy in March X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 766. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 09:57:09 +0000 From: "Goddard, Kevin" Subject: March events at the British Academy In-Reply-To: <0.0.2F.A61.1CE05172B038E7A.0@mta17315.pur3.net> March events Leaping out of the Page: The Use of Diagram in Greek Mathematics The Lecture in Classics and Ancient History given by Professor Reviel Netz, Standford University Thursday 14 March 2013, 6 - 7.15pm, followed by a reception Why did Greek mathematicians rely so heavily on the diagram and why on a diagram of a very particular kind? This lecture surveys some of the recent research into Greek mathematical diagrams, bringing out the peculiarities of this unique artifact, and finally situates its use and its meaning within the larger patterns of the roles text, and images, played in ancient Greek writing as a whole. Please click here for further information FREE. Seats allocated on a first come, first served basis. Between Art and Science: Music as Performance The Aspects of Art Lecture given by Professor Nicholas Cook FBA, University of Cambridge Wednesday 20 March 2013, 6 - 7.15pm, followed by a reception Media Partner: BBC Music Magazine Musicologists have traditionally treated music as, in essence, a form of sounded writing. Informed by interdisciplinary performance studies, this lecture explores what musicology might look like if it was built on the idea of music as performance. On the one hand this implies a new focus on music's social dimensions. On the other it creates scope for the use of quantitative approaches derived from music psychology and music information retrieval. Putting forward the idea of 'augmented listening', Professor Cook aims to show how technology can serve to advance the understanding of music as a cultural phenomenon and human experience. Please click here for further information FREE. Seats allocated on a first come, first served basis. Deciding by Default: How Law Makes Things Automatic The Maccabaean Lecture in Jurisprudence given by Professor Cass Sunstein, Harvard Law School Thursday 21 March 2013, 6 - 7.15pm, followed by a reception This lecture explores why many of our most important decisions are made by default. Whether or not we notice them, default rules are omnipresent; they nudge us every day. They establish settings for mobile phones, rental car agreements, computers and much more. They also establish our legal rights because the law frequently says what happens if no one does anything. Less intrusive than a command or a mandate, default rules have a large impact on our lives, even though they allow us to go our own way. The best way to select default rules is generally to ask what informed people would choose. Personalized default rules might reduce the problems with one-size-fits-all defaults and thus provide big benefits in the face of inertia or complexity. Please click here for further information FREE. Seats allocated on a first come, first served basis. Sensory Substitution and Augmentation Conference Tuesday 26, Wednesday 27 & Thursday 28 March 2013, 9am to 5.30pm, 9.30am to 5.30pm & 9.30am to 1pm Since the 1960s, scientists have created sensory substitution and augmentation devices that try to replace, enhance or create a sense by exploiting another sense. For example, in tactile-vision, stimulation of the skin by vibrating pins, driven by input to a camera, is used to try to replace the ordinary sense of vision. This conference brings together the neuroscientists and psychologists developing these devices and studying the brains and behaviour of subjects who use them. The limits and possibilities of these technologies will be investigated, and the nature of perceptual experience and sensory interaction explored, in collaboration with philosophers. Please click here for further information FREE but registration required Sensory Substitution and Augmentation Public Demonstration event Thursday 28 March 2013, 4.30 - 7.30pm At this demonstration event, psychologists and neuroscientists will be demonstrating their latest sensory substitution and augmentation devices. Experts will be on hand to explain the technology, the theory behind it, their aspirations for the future, and to answer questions. Please click here for further information FREE but registration required Additional events are often added to the programme. To find out more visit: www.britac.ac.uk/events The British Academy 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH 020 7969 5200 britac.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,T_FRT_PROFILE2 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CA4392CCF; Fri, 8 Feb 2013 12:03:55 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B398B2CDA; Fri, 8 Feb 2013 12:03:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 370892CAA; Fri, 8 Feb 2013 12:03:51 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130208110351.370892CAA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 12:03:51 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.767 a disciplinary parallel X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 767. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:49:40 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a disciplinary parallel Roger Smith, in Between Mind and Nature: A History of Psychology (Reaktion, 2013), describes how psychology was used in Germany in an effort to revive philosophy, as follows: > In Germany and in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1900, there was > specialist activity in psychology but few university positions > reserved for psychologists. This apparently paradoxical situation > grew out of the way psychological interests developed in the > philosophical faculty. Crucial in the mid-nineteenth century was a > perception, widespread among the young and intellectually ambitious, > that pure philosophy, exemplified by Hegel, had failed to advance in > the way the sciences - physics, chemistry, physiology, and also > philology and history - had advanced. It appeared necessary either to > jump on board the sciences or to adapt scientific methods to renew > philosophy. Psychology was the beneficiary, and most directly so when > scholars used the methods of experimental physiology for the study of > sensation and hence mental processes in general. All the same, > philosophy remained of high status and firmly embedded in the > institutional fabric of the universities. The result was a tension > between lose who thought philosophy must have priority as the > fundamental discipline and those for whom new experimental methods > had proved their superiority as the way to make progress. There was > to be no formal separation of psychology as a separate discipline in > the nineteenth century, though psychologists did establish specialist > societies, journals and training at an advanced level. As we have > seen, students from around the world came for this training. Whal > they look back home, however, was what they wanted to take and not > necessarily the German philosophical project of which psychology was > so often a part. This was notably true for North Americans. (pp. 79-80) He then goes on to consider the work of Helmholtz and the work he inspired: > Instruments had an important role in these studies. There was an > intimate relationship between what instruments made it possible to > observe and measure and what sort of research scientists undertook. > Helmholtz, who worked in physical as well as psycho-physiological > optics, developed the ophthalmoscope to look at the retina at the > back of the eye. Mathias Hipp, a watchmaker, made a chronoscope in > the 18405 (an instrument able to measure time intervals to a > thousandth of a second), and without this reaction-time research > would have been inconceivable. The ability to use such instruments > became a hallmark of the trained scientific psychologist, and this > skill separated the scientist from the armchair psychologist - the > amateur: Indeed, instrumentation was such a feature that later > observers referred to 'brass instrument psychology': and for sceptics > this was more of a compliment to the proficiency of German precision > engineering than to the psychological results. The use of instruments > made psychology a scientific occupation even if it did not create > scientific knowledge. (p. 81) These days we often hear of the digital humanities as a way of reviving the humanities, with I would suppose much the same outcome. We hear of instrumentation allowing scholars to do what would otherwise be inconceivable &c. And some, unswept away by sweeping claims, question whether any real knowledge is coming out of all this. I wonder, how often, and to what degree, has this pattern been repeated? 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DDAA52CB1; Sat, 9 Feb 2013 09:21:08 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E77F2CA5; Sat, 9 Feb 2013 09:21:06 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 150072C96; Sat, 9 Feb 2013 09:21:05 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130209082105.150072C96@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 09:21:05 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.768 events: linguistic annotation; large 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. 768. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Secretariat ALLEA (24) Subject: Scientific Symposium | 29 April 2013 | Berlin [2] From: Stefanie Dipper (110) Subject: Call for Papers: LAW VII & ID --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 15:01:50 +0000 From: Secretariat ALLEA Subject: Scientific Symposium | 29 April 2013 | Berlin In-Reply-To: <51150F7C.50505@allea.org> Invitation to the scientific symposium "Management of large data corpora" on 29 April 2013 in the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Dear colleagues, We would like to draw your attention to the scientific symposium “Management of Large Data Corpora”, presented by the All European Academies (ALLEA), which will be held in the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin on Monday, 29 April 2013. International experts will discuss the current and future opportunities and challenges that arise from the digitisation of research data and research results. The symposium will provide insights into different perspectives and approaches on how scientific and research organisations can best seize the chances of data digitisation, particularly regarding large data corpora. The symposium begins at 5 pm and concludes at around 8.30 pm with a small reception following the scientific part of the evening, in order to continue the discussions and exchanges with and between experts and participants. Admission to the event is free. We would be grateful for confirmation of attendance to secretariat@allea.org . Please feel free to disseminate the invitation among interested individuals and institutions and please visit our website (www.allea.org) for background information on related topics and for the download of ALLEA publications. You will soon receive more detailed information about the event’s programme and speakers. We very much look forward to welcoming you to the symposium at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities on 29 April 2013 and to discussing with you the opportunities and challenges of digitisation in science and research. Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further assistance. Yours sincerely, Professor Günter Stock President ---------------------------------------------- All European Academies (ALLEA) c/o Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Jägerstr. 22/23 D-10117 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30 325 98 73 72 Fax: +49 (0)30 325 98 73 73 www.allea.org http://www.allea.org ALLEA, the federation of All European Academies, was founded in 1994 and currently brings together 52 Academies in more than 40 countries from the Council of Europe region. Member Academies operate as learned societies, think tanks and research performing organisations. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 18:26:50 +0100 (CET) From: Stefanie Dipper Subject: Call for Papers: LAW VII & ID In-Reply-To: <51150F7C.50505@allea.org> The 7th Linguistic Annotation Workshop & Interoperability with Discourse (LAW VII & ID) Sponsored by the ACL Special Interest Group on Annotation (SIGANN) Held in Conjunction with the 51st Annual Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (ACL'13) Sofia, Bulgaria August 8-9 2013 http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/law7-id Important dates --------------- 26 Apr 2013: Submission deadline 24 May 2013: Notification of Acceptance 7 June 2013: Camera-ready paper due 8-9 August 2013: Workshop in Sofia, Bulgaria Workshop overview ----------------- Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of supervised methods for statistical natural language processing. It also provides valuable data for evaluation of both rule-based and supervised systems and can help formalize and study linguistic phenomena. The LAW provides a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, etc. This year, a significant part of the workshop will focus on the special theme of Interoperability with Discourse. Submissions ----------- We welcome submissions of long (8 pages) and short (4 pages) papers, posters, and demonstrations, relating to any aspect of linguistic annotation, including: (a) Annotation procedures: * Innovative automated and manual strategies for annotation * Machine learning and knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus annotation * Creation, maintenance, and interactive exploration of annotation structures and annotated data (b) Annotation evaluation: * Inter-annotator agreement and other evaluation metrics and strategies * Qualitative evaluation of linguistic representation (c) Annotation access and use: * Representation formats/structures for merged annotations of different phenomena, and means to explore/manipulate them * Linguistic considerations for merging annotations of distinct phenomena (d) Annotation guidelines and standards: * Best practices for annotation procedures and/or development and documentation of annotation schemes * Interoperability of annotation formats and/or frameworks among different systems as well as different tasks, frameworks, modalities, and languages (e) Annotation software and frameworks: * Development, evaluation and/or innovative use of annotation software frameworks (f) Annotation schemes: * New and innovative annotation schemes * Comparison of annotation schemes Workshop Theme -------------- We encourage submission of papers relating to this year's theme, Interoperability with Discourse. We are particularly interested in the comparison and interoperability of different models and techniques used for and in conjunction with discourse annotation, focusing on any of the following goals: (a) Creation of new insights within the field of discourse (by juxtaposing two or more points of view as reflected by different annotation schemes or annotation techniques). (b) Fostering interoperability between pragmatic and semantic phenomena in discourse, ranging from functional categories (e.g. methods, results, hypotheses,etc.) to traditional discourse relations (connectives, anaphora, metonymies, etc.) (c) Connecting syntactic, semantic and pragmatic layers of annotation. (d) Working towards a framework, representation standards, tools and methods that will allow the integration and co-existence of current and future discourse-related annotation schemes. Workshop Challenge ------------------ This year's workshop continues the tradition of the LAW Challenge, established last year, which provides funding for travel etc. to the individual or team that best meets a set of criteria. This year, the judges will give special consideration to papers closely related to the workshop theme, i.e., (1) integrating functional discourse annotation from one or more corpora with other types of annotation; and (2) demonstrating how interoperability can increase the understanding of the discourse. However, all papers addressing annotation interoperability or integration will be considered. For further information, please visit http://nactem.ac.uk/law7-id/. Submission Information ---------------------- The papers should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest for the workshop. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop, and will be published in the workshop proceedings. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the workshop must not be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Submissions must be in PDF and formatted using the ACL 2013 style files, available at http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/law7-id/. The maximum length is eight (8) pages of content for long papers or four (4) pages of content for short papers, posters, and demonstrations, plus up to two (2) pages of references. Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not include the authors' names and affiliations, and self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." should be replaced with citations such as "Smith (1991) previously showed ...". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Authors of papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information on the START online submission page. Authors of accepted papers must notify the program chairs within 10 days of acceptance if the paper is withdrawn for any reason. Submission site: https://www.softconf.com/acl2013/LAWVII-ID/. Submission deadline: 26 April 2013, 23:59 GMT. Papers submitted after the deadline will not be reviewed. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:10:52 +0000 From: "Warwick, Claire" Subject: Job at UCL Dear Humanists, The UCL Department of Information Studies is advertising a new post at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level in LIS, ideally with a link to Information Science. We have quite deliberately not been very specific about fields; we would welcome applications from good candidates from a wide range of relevant backgrounds. If anyone would like to discuss the post informally they should contact Vanda Broughton on v.broughton@ucl.ac.uk. Details of the post can be found here: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AFY555/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-library-and-information-science/ The closing date is 4 March. Best wishes, Claire _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 67CDC2CC2; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:40:17 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DB122CB5; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:40:16 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C54ABF9A; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:40:14 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130211064014.C54ABF9A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:40:14 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.770 events: archaeological network analysis; diplomatics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 770. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Georg Vogeler (35) Subject: CfP: Digital Diplomatics 2013, Paris nov. 2013 [2] From: Tom Brughmans (59) Subject: Connected Past @ SAA 2013 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 10:46:29 +0100 From: Georg Vogeler Subject: CfP: Digital Diplomatics 2013, Paris nov. 2013 Dear list, CfP: Digital Diplomatics 2013: What is Diplomatics in the Digital Environment? Diplomatics has changed fundamentally in the last few decades due to dramatic developments in information technology. While consolidating itself as an autonomous science with its own centuries-old theory, methodology, analytical processes and tools, focused on research on medieval and early modern legal documents, it has also grown into an interdisciplinary field, expanding its area of inquiry to all kinds of textual traditions, documentary forms and creation processes through the use of sophisticated digital tools. "We shape our tools, and then our tools shape us", said Marshal McLuhan. Following the two conferences on Digital Diplomatics that took place in 2007 in Munich and 2011 in Naples, this conference, to be held in Paris, 14-16th november 2013, has the goal to further the scholarly reflection on the way in which diplomatics has developed as a result of both the opportunities offered by digital tools to study historical documents and the challenges presented by born digital documents and by the need to understand their structure and of the complex digital environments in which they reside. You can find the full call for papers with all the necessary informations on how to send in your proposal at http://www.cei.lmu.de/digdipl13/call-for-papers. The deadline is set to 2013, March 15. We are looking forward to your proposals! in the name of the program committee: Georg Vogeler ------------------------------------- Dr. Georg Vogeler Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung in den Geisteswissenschaften Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz Merangasse 70 - A-8010 Graz Tel. +43 (0)316 380 - 8033 Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik http://www.i-d-e.de Association Paléographique Internationale - Culture . Écriture . Société (APICES) http://www.palaeographia.org/apices/apices.htm --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:11:04 +0000 From: Tom Brughmans Subject: Connected Past @ SAA 2013 Dear all, Some of you might be interested in two archaeological network analysis events at the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) conference in Hawaii in April 2013. The first is a paper session titled 'The Connected Past: critical and innovative approaches to networks in archaeology', held the evening of April 4, chaired by Tom Brughmans and Barbara Mills, with Ian Hodder as a discussant. The session abstract and the list of speakers can be found below, and the full abstracts of all papers can be found on The Connected Past website: http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/saa-2013/ Presentations: Mark Golitko and Gary Feinman: Network analysis of Classic and Postclassic obsidian distribution in Mesoamerica. Herb Maschner, Jennifer Dunne and Spencer Wood: Food-webs as network tools for investigating historic and prehistoric roles of humans as consumers in marine ecosystems. Ethan Cochrane: Artifact Classification and Networks: A Case Study from the Southwest Pacific. Shawn Graham: Reanimating Networks with Agent Modeling. Barbara Mills, Matthew Peeples, Wm. R. Haas, Jr., Lewis Borck and Jeffery Clark: Multiscalar Perspectives on Social Networks in the Late Prehispanic Southwest. Tom Brughmans and Simon Keay, Graeme Earl: Just points and lines? Exploratory network analysis from a Roman archaeology perspective. Tim Kohler, Stefani Crabtree and Michael Berry: Secrets of the Southwest Solved by Walkative Tree Rings. Angus Mol, Corinne Hofman and Menno Hoogland: Remotely Local: A network model of the 14th century settlement of Kelbey’s Ridge, Saba. Fiona Coward: Getting to grips with the very earliest social networks: the challenges of using network methodologies to tackle Palaeolithic datasets. Koji Mizoguchi: Prestige goods and social hierarchization revisited: A formal network approach to the hierarchization of intercommunal relations in the Middle Yayoi period in northern Kyushu, Japan. The second event is a discussion forum moderated by Angus Mol titled 'Re-connecting the past: the future of social network analysis in archaeology' the afternoon of April 5. We hope to see many of you there! Tom Brughmans and Barbara Mills & The Connected Past international steering committee http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/ Session Abstract: Over the last decade the number of published archaeological applications of network methods and theories has increased significantly. This session will build on this increasing interest in networks among archaeologists by highlighting a number of research themes that deserve further exploration. Firstly, it aims to illustrate how particular archaeological research contexts can drive the selection and adaptation of formal network methods from the wide range of existing approaches, where possible through interdisciplinary collaboration. Secondly, papers in this session will address the role archaeological data can play in network methods, the decisions we are faced with when defining nodes and ties, and how our theoretical approaches can be expressed through formal methods incorporating empirical data. Thirdly, the session will address the compatibility of network theories and methods. Lastly, the potential of incorporating materiality within existing network approaches and the study of long-term network evolution will be discussed. This session will address these themes through methodological or theoretical papers, and will further illustrate the potential of a networks perspective for archaeology in a number of innovative case-studies. It hopes to illustrate that approaches with an interdisciplinary scope but dominated by archaeological research contexts yield the most critical and useful archaeological network studies. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9F0522CD6; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:26:29 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB33DF85; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:26:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3BFD0EDE; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:26:27 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130212062627.3BFD0EDE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:26:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.771 job in the Digital Preservation Coalition X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 771. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:17:56 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Vacancy / secondment with the DPC > From: William Kilbride > > Subject: Vacancy / secondment with the DPC > Date: 11 February 2013 10:09:28 GMT Dear All, As you may know we are advertising just now a post with the DPC to work on the 4C project and to assist with communications. The closing date is 1200 on Friday. Please can I ask you to forward a link to anyone that you think would do it well and / or has impressed you. It’s a great job: http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/vacancies/954-vacancy--secondment-opportunity-at-the-dpc Thanks, William -- Dr William Kilbride FSA Executive Director Digital Preservation Coalition @WilliamKilbride 44 (0)141 330 4522 http://www.dpconline.org/ william@dpconline.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 631FA2CDE; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:27:46 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 858422CD3; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:27:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 16ED52CCB; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:27:43 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130212062743.16ED52CCB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:27:43 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.772 events: Darwin Correspondence Project X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 772. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:48:47 +0000 From: "Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.)" Subject: Reminder: London Digital Humanities Group Meeting, 12 February, The Darwin Correspondence Project In-Reply-To: <7722595275A4DD4FA225B92CDBF174A101A7F6645920@EXC-MBX3.cfs.le.ac.uk> All are warmly invited to the below meeting. London Digital Humanities Group Meeting 12 February 2013 5.15, Room S264, 2nd Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London ‘The Darwin Correspondence Project: an academic enterprise deeply embedded in a Library setting’ Dr Sophie Defrance (University of Cambridge) The Darwin Correspondence Project is working in Cambridge University Library to publish in hard copy the complete Correspondence of Charles Darwin. More than 15,000 currently known letters written by or to Darwin will be published, in full, by 2022. Although the primary reason for the project and its main work has been to transcribe and edit Darwin’s correspondence for publication, the Project is maintaining and constantly improving a website at the address www.darwinproject.ac.uk. Its contents aim at making it possible to use the material as the basis for education at all levels, and for informed research by the general public. An important part of the work of the Darwin Correspondence Project is, in turn, to transform Darwin’s letters into a coherent correspondence. This includes: locating and evaluating missing letters, the creation and maintenance of metadata at an item level, and the creation of new interfaces for the retrieval of items in the correspondence. The online database of letter summaries and transcriptions, and linked biographical information, is a major primary resource provided by the site. The seminar will present the Project structure, funding and subsequent objectives and will evoke how the embedded work done by the project team attract users to the library and insure a solid base of users for the website. All are welcome. If you have not already done so, please complete the form at goo.gl/7HBys to confirm your attendance. Dr Simon Dixon Digital Humanities and Special Collections Manager David Wilson Library University of Leicester University Road Leicester. LE1 7RH T: +44(0)116 252 2056 E: snd6@le.ac.uk W: http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/about/staff/academicliaison/simon-dixon Winner of the 2012 THE Award for Outstanding Library Team Elite Without Being Elitist Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/uniofleicester _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BB2FD2CEB; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:28:46 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB8712CDA; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:28:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C2281EDE; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:28:43 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130212062843.C2281EDE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:28:43 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.773 propose a course for DHSI? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 773. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:53:41 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Propose a 'Community' Course for DHSI 2014? Propose a 'Community' Course for DHSI 2014? http://dhsi.org/events.php#2014 Excited as we are about the DHSI’s 2013 meeting (still some time away), at the same time as we’re making preparations for the 400+ DHSIers that will join us in this year, we’re also beginning to think about our meeting in 2014! As part of that, we are now receiving proposals for courses to be offered in 2014 in our ‘Tools & Methods’ and ‘Seminars & Consultations’ areas. Those who have been to DHSI will know that we have a number of core offerings that we repeat annually (and sometimes even more often than that) and a number of community-proposed offerings that rotate from year to year (with some repeated courses from among that group). Here, we’re hoping for proposals for new community offerings. If you’re interested in proposing a community offering for DHSI 2014, we’d welcome hearing from you! We’re very happy to consider any and all proposals members of our community might wish to bring forward. Suggestions made by DHSIers in the past have indicated that there’s particular interest in the areas of social media, new media in digital literary / historical / language studies, crowdsourcing, serious gaming, computer-assisted language learning, humanities data visualisation, electronic publishing, augmented reality and immersive environments, and new approaches to scholarly editing, among others. Especially, we’re interested in proposals for offerings that are highly interactive pedagogically, employing hardware that participants can readily access (i.e. their own laptop computers, with standard or easily acquired peripherals) and software that is readily available (for download onto those laptops). One quick hint, too: many of those who submit proposals try out some of their ideas at the previous year's DHSI unconference and colloquium sessions. We’re not asking for too much in advance: a proposal should be no more than one page + CV, and should take the shape of the below: 1. Proposed title 2. One paragraph description, including the intended audience (something similar to what's found on http://dhsi.org/courses.php) 3. Summative day-by-day overview, given the 5-day DHSI format (in a half-page) 4. Instructor’s CV And, for better or worse, our pockets aren’t deep: we can’t promise much more than glory (plus your travel, local lodging, and a free meal or two ;) for those who offer our community courses ... but can generously extend something that all DHSIers value: the opportunity to engage with an excellent community, one that every year gets broader, deeper, and much richer in its Digital Humanities engagement! Please be in touch with your proposals for 2014 before 1 June 2013, sending them to Ray Siemens at siemens@uvic.ca. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DD78C2CE5; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:50:41 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F7C72CD8; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:50:41 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 12EAF2CD6; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:50:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130213055039.12EAF2CD6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:50:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.774 journals in digital aesthetics? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 774. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:20:22 +0000 From: "James O'Sullivan" Subject: Good journals for papers on digital aesthetics? Dear all, Could anyone suggest some journals appropriate for the publication of papers with a focus on digital aesthetics? Both publications with a focus on such from a cultural theoretical perspective, as well as those interested in more technically-founded research, are required. Sincerest thanks in advance for any suggestions. James _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5E52F2CEF; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:51:29 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A38162CE5; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:51:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 77F732CDB; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:51:27 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130213055127.77F732CDB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:51:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.775 memorial for Lisa Lena X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 775. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:07:54 -0500 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: Online Memorial for Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen Dear all, The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites those of you who knew Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen to contribute your memories and photos to an online memorial established on CaringBridge: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/lisalena 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/ Twitter: @fraistat _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9042B2CE9; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:54:17 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A592CD8; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:54:16 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 01DF72CD6; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:54:13 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130213055414.01DF72CD6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:54:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.776 events: history & philosophy of computing; book history; text, speech, dialogue X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 776. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Liesbeth De Mol (50) Subject: CfP HaPoC 2013, 28-31 October, ENS, Paris [2] From: TSD 2013 (53) Subject: TSD 2013 - First Call for Papers [3] From: Ray Siemens (14) Subject: CFP: SHARP roundtable on Book History and Digital Humanities at MLA 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:55:20 +0100 From: Liesbeth De Mol Subject: CfP HaPoC 2013, 28-31 October, ENS, Paris CALL FOR PAPERS, 2nd International CONFERENCE on the HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF COMPUTING (HaPoC 2013) 28th - 31st October 2013 Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. with a special session on "Computing and the Arts" at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs http://hapoc2013.sciencesconf.org We are happy to announce that the 2nd International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC 2013) will take place from the 28th to the 31st of October 2013 at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris (France). The birth of the computing and its sciences has often been the topic of philosophical and historical reflection. The HaPoC-conferences have decided to bring together the historical and the philosophical viewpoints. They want to create an environment for a true interdisciplinary convergence around computer science, reenforcing research on the science(s) of computing and its history and stimulating a theoretical dialogue between these domains. To furter this dialogue HaPoC has chosen to have no parallel sessions. Our invited speakers are: Janet Abbate; Bernard Chazelle (tbc); Walter Dean; Nathan Ensmenger; Jean-Yves Girard; Barbara Liskov (tbc); Margit Rosen and Franck Varenne. HaPoC 2013 is the follow-up conference to HaPoC 2011 (Gent, Belgium). Please check out the website of HaPoC 2013 for more information on the conference: http://hapoc2013.sciencesconf.org For HaPoC 2013 we welcome contributions from logicians, philosophers and historians of computing as well as from philosophically aware computer scientists and mathematicians. Topics include but are not limited to: 1. Approaches to the notion of computing a. History and Philosophy of Computability b. History and Philosophy of Computation c. History and Philosophy of Programming d. History and Philosophy of the Computer 2. Applications and uses of Computing a. History and Epistemology of the use of Computing in the sciences b. Computing and the Arts : historical and conceptual issues c. Social, ethical and paedagogical aspects of Computing We cordially invite researchers working in a field relevant to the main topics of the conference to submit a short abstract of approximately 200 words and an extended abstract of at most a 1000 words (references included) to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hapoc2 Abstracts must be written in English and anonymized. Please note that the format of uploaded files must be .pdf or .doc. The submission deadline is: April 30th, 2013 Best regards, the organisers, Maarten Bullynck (Paris 8& SPHERE) Jean-Baptiste Joinet (Lyon 3, IRPhil& CIRPHLES) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:44:50 +0000 From: TSD 2013 Subject: TSD 2013 - First Call for Papers Sixteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2013) Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic, 1-5 September 2013 http://www.tsdconference.org TSD NEWS The TSD conference fee was significantly reduced. It is organized in parallel with SPECOM. ABOUT CONFERENCE The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno. This year the conference is organized in parallel with the 15th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM). The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). Venue: Plzen (Pilsen), angelo Hotel (city center), Czech Republic TSD SERIES TSD series have evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries) Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling) Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution) Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing) Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection) Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies) Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues) Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling) OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the event will be English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:33:05 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: CFP: SHARP roundtable on Book History and Digital Humanities at MLA 2014 In-Reply-To: CFP: MLA Chicago, 2014 SHARP will sponsor a roundtable on Book History and Digital Humanities at the MLA 2014: http://www.mla.org/cfp_detail_5779 The relationships between book history and digital humanities. Short presentations on new scholarship in book history and DH, archival materials, learning DH skills, etc. 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Lise Jaillant (ljaill01@interchange.ubc.ca). --- Lise Jaillant Ph.D. candidate English Department University of British Columbia 397 - 1873 East Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 Canada ljaill01@interchange.ubc.ca http://www.lisejaillant.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D17382CE3; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:10:51 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A41952CDE; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:10:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B934D2CD7; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:10:49 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130214081049.B934D2CD7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:10:49 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.777 jobs: citizen science developer at Oxford; professor at Western Sydney X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 777. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Mark Hedges (30) Subject: Vacancy for citizen science developer, University of Oxford [2] From: Willard McCarty (57) Subject: professorship at Western Sydney --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:46:52 +0000 From: Mark Hedges Subject: Vacancy for citizen science developer, University of Oxford Vacancy at University of Oxford Citizen Science Developer Department of Astrophysics, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford Grade 7: £29,541 - £36,298 p.a. The University of Oxford is looking to recruit a citizen science research software developer as part of a joint project between the Department of Physics and the Imperial War Museum’s Lives of the First World War project. Building on the success of high-profile citizen science projects such as Galaxy Zoo, Planet Hunters, Old Weather and the rest of the Zooniverse platform, the successful candidate will lead the development of a ‘citizen history’ project. As the lead front-end developer for the project you will work with the rest of the Zooniverse development team and be involved at all stages of the build - initially gathering requirements from the academic team and understanding the dataset involved before building and deploying a high-traffic site. This is an exciting opportunity for a talented developer to work on a high-visibility project. This is a full-time position for 12 months, commencing 1 April 2013 or soon thereafter. Strong HTML/CSS/Javascript skills are required, along with an understanding of user interface design. A background in developing highly-usable interfaces for web applications and experience of working with a modern web framework such as Ruby on Rails would be an advantage. A degree in computer science or equivalent. The postholder would be situated in the Beecroft Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (BIPAC) in the Department of Physics. Only applications received by midday on 5 March 2013 can be considered. You will be required to upload a CV including links to examples of development work, and the names and addresses of two referees as part of your online application. For more details see: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_display_in_irish=N&p_company=10&p_refresh_search=Y&p_process_type=&p_recruitment_id=106395&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_internal_external=E&p_applicant_no= --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:46:27 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: professorship at Western Sydney Professor in Digital Humanities, School of Humanities & Communication Arts University of Western Sydney Ref 134/13 http://careers.uws.edu.au/Current-Vacancies Applications are invited for the continuing position of Professor (Academic Level E) from scholars with outstanding teaching and research strengths in Digital Humanities. The position will be responsible for providing academic leadership and for developing research and teaching programs in the Digital Humanities. As the Professor in Digital Humanities, you will be responsible for leading and developing the new Digital Humanities Research Group (DHRG). You will have a PhD and a demonstrable record of excellent teaching and high quality international publications in the area of Digital Humanities, and success in obtaining competitive research funding and delivery on the projects. You will bring with you management and leadership skills, and experience in generating and managing large collaborative and interdisciplinary projects. You will be responsible for the DHRGÂ’s intra- and inter-institutional relations, and for the development of both a strategic and 3-year operational plan for the Research Group. The School The School of Humanities and Communication Arts brings together scholars with interdisciplinary research interests in the following fields: advertising, anthropology, Asian studies, cultural studies, graphic design, history, international relations, journalism, linguistics and modern languages, literature and literary studies, media and visual studies, media production, music recording and performance, music therapy, philosophy, photography, political and social theory, religious studies, and web design. Their research intersects with the focal areas of a range of University Research Institutes and Centres: The Institute for Culture and Society, The MARCS Institute, The Religion and Society Research Centre, and the Writing and Society Research Centre. In the area of Digital Humanities, the School will be working in very close collaboration with the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics and with the eResearch team. In addition to researchers from the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, the Digital Humanities Research Group is expected to incorporate researchers from the technology disciplines, primarily from the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, and to develop close links with the UWS eResearch Team. The School operates in a multi-campus environment and the successful applicant is expected to teach on all campuses on which the School operates in face-to-face teaching delivery and/or through blended learning technologies. This position will be located at the Parramatta campus. Remuneration Package: Academic Level E AUD$189,215 p.a. (comprising Salary AUD$160,629, 17% Superannuation and Leave Loading) Position Enquiries: Professor Peter Hutchings, (61 2) 9772 6167; p.hutchings@uws.edu.au -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 275F92CF4; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:11:37 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 707E22CED; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:11:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 985C52CEB; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:11:34 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130214081134.985C52CEB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:11:34 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.778 invitation: Early Modern studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 778. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:08:26 -0700 From: Michael Ullyot Subject: Early Modern Digital Collaboratory Dear all: I invite you to join a group on MLA Commons for digital humanists studying early modern texts and culture, principally in English: http://commons.mla.org/groups/emdc-the-early-modern-digital-collaboratory/ Its three purposes are: 1 / to foster scholarly collaborations among early modern DHists; 2 / to pose and answer questions specific to our research objects; and 3 / to propose and test ways for current tools and resources to address our joint and several problems. I've begun the group blog with a post http://emdc.commons.mla.org/ on the group's mandate. yours Michael (Ullyot) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Michael Ullyot, Assistant Professor Department of English, University of Calgary ullyot.ucalgaryblogs.ca/ | @ullyot | 403.220.4656 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 416C42CFA; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:18:58 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B0D72CF1; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:18:56 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 729662CE7; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:18:54 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130214081854.729662CE7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:18:54 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.779 events: historical GIS; TEI; culture; ecosystems X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 779. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stuart Dunn (66) Subject: CeRch seminar via video link: Zephyr Frank, Stamford University: Layers, Flows, Intersections: Historical GIS for 19th-century Rio de Janeiro [2] From: Arianna Ciula (60) Subject: 2013 Annual Conference and Members' Meeting of the TEI Consortium: Call for Workshops and Tutorials [3] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (64) Subject: International Conference on Culture and Computing [4] From: Mark Hedges (40) Subject: CfP: IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 24-26 July 2013, Palo Alto, California. --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:48:11 +0000 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: CeRch seminar via video link: Zephyr Frank, Stamford University: Layers, Flows, Intersections: Historical GIS for 19th-century Rio de Janeiro Layers, Flows, Intersections: Historical GIS for 19th-century Rio de Janeiro Zephyr Frank, Stamford University Tuesday, February 19th, 18:15 GMT Old Anatomy Museum, Strand Campus, King's College London -- or anywhere This seminar will be streamed live from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Digital Innovation Lab to the OId Anatomy Museum, King's College London, with questions and discussion across both sites after. It will also be possible for PC users anywhere to view the talk remotely, and participate via live chat (joining instructions at the end of this email). Details, including directions to the ATM: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2012-13/layers.aspx Abstract A digitized map of 1866 Rio de Janeiro, with historically accurate renderings of streets and property parcels, provides the setting in which more than 300,000 historic records including names, addresses, and other detailed information have been organized in a database and plotted in space to reveal interconnections, networks, movement, and change over time. The digitized maps and data created by the project provide the spatially-oriented resources for dynamic visualizations. In particular, it is possible to explore movement, social networks, and the intensity of urban experience through the use of GIS-based visualization techniques. This paper argues for the use of these techniques as an aide to understanding historical experience as "felt and lived" in a rich spatial context. Biography Zephyr Frank is Associate Professor of Latin American history at Stanford University, where he has taught since 2000. His research interests include quantitative methods for social and economic history, the application of GIS techniques in historical analysis, and the study of literature in relation to social and cultural history. His research has appeared in the pages of the Journal of Economic History, Comparative Studies in Society and History, the Journal of Social History, and the Journal of Latin American Geography, among other venues. He is a founding member of the Spatial History Project and the current director of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) at Stanford University. If attending the event at KCL, please register here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5177028632. The seminar will be followed by refreshments. To participate remotely: Remote Real Time (PC) PC users who wish to participate remotely in real time may use this link: https://meet.ad.unc.edu/plach/R437FWKZ . Participants will need an updated version of Silverlight, and will need to download Microsoft Lync Attendee for video and audio access (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15755). Internet Explorer is the recommended web browser for participating remotely. Remote Real Time (Mac) We apologize that we cannot support remote Mac users at this time. Post-Event Recording We will be recording the talk for anyone who cannot participate remotely during the event. We will make the recording available on both the DIL and KCL websites within about twenty-four hours of the event. --------------------------------- Dr. Stuart Dunn Lecturer Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Email: stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk Tel. +44 (0)20 7848 2709 Fax. +44 (0)20 7848 2980 Blog: http://stuartdunn.wordpress.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:08:12 +0800 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: 2013 Annual Conference and Members' Meeting of the TEI Consortium: Call for Workshops and Tutorials In-Reply-To: Call for Workshops and Tutorials The Linked TEI: Text Encoding in the Web 2013 Annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium 2-5 October 2013 Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy * Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2013 * Workshop dates: 30 September - 2 October 2012 Conference website: http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/ The Programme Committee of the 2013 Annual Conference and Members Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI – http://www.tei-c.org) Consortium invites proposals for educational tutorials or workshops to precede the conference. The goal of the tutorials is to give an opportunity to learn more about the use of TEI markup under the guidance of experienced instructors and practitioners, whereas workshops are an opportunity for specific groups to meet and work together on a TEI related subject. Workshops and tutorials range in length from a single morning or afternoon to a maximum of two days. Tutorials are run on a cost-recovery basis: a separate fee is charged of participants that is intended to cover the costs of running the tutorial. Workshops are expected to be free of charges. If you are interested in proposing either a workshop or a tutorial for the 2013 Members’ Meeting and Conference, please contact meeting@tei.org ***as early as possible*** and submit your proposal before 31 March 2013 via Conftool, the availability of which will be announced shortly. Expressions of interest should include as much as possible of the following information (the committee is willing to work with proposers in developing their proposals): * Topic * Rationale explaining why this topic is likely to draw sufficient attention of the TEI community * Length of the event * Infrastructural requirements - (In the case of a tutorial) ---- * Proposed instructor or slate of instructors including brief discussion of relevant experience ---- * Preliminary budget of your anticipated costs (if any) - (In the case of a workshop) ---- * Core list of people who are likely to participate, keeping in mind that workshops are by essence open for participation ---- * Organisational and infrastructure costs (e.g. coffee breaks and the like) will be determined later in conjunction with the local organising committee Tutorial proposals will be evaluated by the programme committee primarily on the basis of their likely appeal to the TEI community, the quality of the proposed instructors and method of instruction, and cost. Please send queries to meeting@tei-c.org. For the Programme Committee Arianna Ciula 2013 TEI Conference and Members Meeting Programme Committee: Marjorie Burghart Lou Burnard Fabio Ciotti Arianna Ciula (chair) Gianfranco Crupi Sebastian Rahtz --- If you are not a member yet join the TEI or encourage your institution/project to become one at http://members.tei-c.org/ --- --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:35:33 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: International Conference on Culture and Computing In-Reply-To: Call for Papers The International Conference on Culture and Computing (Culture and Computing 2013) Date: September 16-18, 2013 Venue: Nakagawa Hall, Suzaku Campus, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan http://www.media.ritsumei.ac.jp/culture2013/ Culture and Computing is a new research area which aims to overcome different cultural issues in international communities using information and communication technologies (ICT). There are various research directions in the relations between culture and computing: to archive cultural heritages via ICT (cf. digital archives), to empower humanities researches via ICT (cf. digital humanities), to create art and expressions via ICT (cf. media art), to realize a culturally situated agent (cf. cultural agent), to support multi-language, multi-cultural societies via ICT (cf. intercultural collaboration), and to understand new cultures born in the Internet and Web (cf. net culture). The International Conference on Culture and Computing provides an opportunity to share research issues and discuss the future of culture and computing, which has been held in cultural cities including Kyoto, Japan (2010, 2011) and Hangzhou, China (2012). The fourth conference (Culture and Computing 2013) will be back to Kyoto, the cultural heart of Japan, organized with an exhibition on the integration of state of the art cultural computing technologies and Japanese traditional culture, along with a number of co-located events. To understand the proceedings at the previous conferences, please visit below. http://www.astem.or.jp/virtual-lab/culture/conference Papers are solicited on any aspect on the intersection of culture and computing, but all papers are expected to be suitable for a multidisciplinary audience. We have Main Track and Special Track sessions. The Main Track will present a collection of academic research results. Examples of suitable paper topics for the Main Track include: - Archiving cultural heritages - Information environments for humanity studies - Art and design by information technologies - Digital storytelling - Intercultural communication and collaboration - Culturally situated agents and simulations - Game and culture - Analysis of new culture in the Internet and Web - Culture and brain science - VR (virtual reality) application for culture - Digital libraries for cultural materials - Sound archiving of intangible cultural properties The Special Tracks are collections of short papers, and are organized for the purpose of encouraging discussions in hot areas. We have Special Tracks for "Digital Humanities" and "Culture based Media Art & Music" at this conference. Please visit the following page for the paper topics of the Special Tracks: http://www.media.ritsumei.ac.jp/culture2013/special_paper.html * Paper/Poster Submitted papers/posters must report original work that has not been previously published. A full paper with a limit of six (6) pages and a special track paper with a limit of two (2) pages should be submitted by the paper submission deadline. A poster with a limit of two (2) pages should be submitted by the poster submission deadline. Papers/posters should follow the formatting instructions for publishing with IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services. All submitted papers/posters will be reviewed by three distinguished researchers in the area of culture and computing. Accepted papers/posters will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society and will be included in the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL). - Paper Main Track papers (full papers) and Special Track papers (short papers) should be submitted electronically with an abstract (150 words) via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=culture2013 Submissions (PDF) must be written in English and must not exceed 6 pages for Main Track and 2 pages for Special Track in Conference Publishing Services (CPS)'s Standard template. - Poster Posters (Main Track and Special Track) should be submitted electronically via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=culture2013 Submissions (PDF) must be written in English and must not exceed 2 pages in Conference Publishing Services (CPS)'s Standard template. * Important Dates - Main Track Papers: Abstracts due: April 5th, 2013 Papers due: April 12th, 2013 Author notification: May 22nd, 2013 Camera ready due: June 20th, 2013 Posters: Posters due: April 19th, 2013 Author notification: May 22nd, 2013 Camera ready due: June 20th, 2013 - Special Track Papers: Abstracts due: April 5th, 2013 Papers due: April 12th, 2013 Author notification: May 22nd, 2013 Camera ready due: June 20th, 2013 Posters: Posters due: April 19th, 2013 Author notification: May 22nd, 2013 Camera ready due: June 20th, 2013 [...] --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:50:52 +0000 From: Mark Hedges Subject: CfP: IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 24-26 July 2013, Palo Alto, California. In-Reply-To: Subscribers to the Humanist may be interested in this conference, and particularly in the Digital Humanities track. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for papers – IEEE DEST: IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 24-26 July 2013 – Palo Alto, California, USA. http://dest2013.digital-ecology.org/ http://dest2013.digital-ecology.org/ http://dest2013.digital-ecology.org/ Digital ecosystems may be defined as open, loosely coupled, demand-driven, self-organising collaborative environments where diverse agents (both human and computer-based) form temporary (or longer term) coalitions for specific purposes or goals. The essence of digital ecosystems is the creation of value by making connections through collective intelligence, promoting collaboration instead of unbridled competition and using ICT as a catalyst for producing networked-enriched communities. IEEE DEST 2013 aims to stimulate co-innovation by a collaborative mix of researchers and innovation adopters from academia, industry, NGOs, and public authorities. The unique venue is located in the heart of Silicon Valley, with its legendary research and innovation ecosystem, fuelled by the unique spirit and entrepreneurship of The Valley and The Bay Area. We encourage papers from the digital humanities community, in particular for the track on Digital Humanities Ecosystems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Virtual research environments - Human interaction with complex environments: perceptions, expectations and engagement - Interaction between human researchers, computer agents and digital information - Cultural and political issues around the adoption of, and adaptation to, computer-mediated communication and information sharing - Collective intelligence - Architectures and infrastructures - Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems - Distributed models for digital repositories and data management - Online collaboration: technological and human issues *Important Dates* Paper Submission: 25 March 2013 Author Notification: 22 Apr 2013 Camera Ready Version: 15 May 2013 Conference: 24-26 July _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 090242CFF; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:20:31 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 305ED2CF6; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:20:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B10052CEB; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:20:29 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130214082029.B10052CEB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:20:29 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.780 prizes: Open Humanities Awards X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 780. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:32:55 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Announcing the Open Humanities Awards - €15,000 of prizes on offer Begin forwarded message: > From: Sam Leon > Subject: [open-humanities] Announcing the Open Humanities Awards - €15,000 of prizes on offer > Date: 13 February 2013 14:59:14 GMT > > The Open Knowledge Foundation in association with the Digital Humanities Quarterly is excited to announce the launch of the first ever Open Humanities Awards. There are €15,000 worth of prizes on offer for 3-5 projects that use open content, open data or open source tools to further humanities teaching and research. Whether you’re interested in patterns of allusion in Aristotle, networks of correspondence in the Jewish Enlightenment or digitising public domain editions of Dante, we’d love to hear about the kinds of open projects that could support your interest! > > The Awards will be judged by a distinguished cast of eminent Digital Humanists including Professor Stefan Gradmann (Humboldt University), Dr Susan Schreibman (Trinity College Dublin). Professor Andrew Prescott (Kings College London), Professor David Robey, (University of Oxford), Dr Melissa Terras (University College London), > Nicole Coleman (Stanford University Humanities Center), Dr Laurent Romary (INRIA). > > To apply and for more information visit openhumanitiesawards.org and feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the Awards. Deadline is 12th March 2013, so get going and good luck! > > All the best, > Sam Leon > > -- > Sam Leon > Project Manager > Open Knowledge Foundation > http://okfn.org/ > 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6CF962CD2; Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:30:07 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C3652CC5; Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:30:06 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1141D2CB2; Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:30:04 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130215083005.1141D2CB2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:30:04 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.781 jobs 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="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. 781. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:47:10 -0500 From: Gregory Crane Subject: Possible Digital Humanities Jobs in Leipzig Possible Jobs in Digital Humanities at Leipzig [Please forward] http://sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates/2013/02/14/possible-jobs-in-digital-humanities-at-leipzig/ The Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities and Department of Computer Science at the University of Leipzig is looking for candidates for two possible collaborating research groups, one focused on reinventing scholarly communication for Greek and Latin, as a case study for historical languages in general, with the other helping the University Library develop methods to manage and visualize billion of words and associated annotations of many kinds. Details of the funding are being finalized but positions will ideally start in May 2013 and with an initial one year contract that could be extended to a second year that could include one semester residence at a US university. Candidates must have received their most recent degree no sooner than January 4, 2011. Current degree candidates may also be considered. We are building a team includes varied backgrounds, with team members having expertise in Greek and Latin, in software analysis and development, and in working with metadata models that are relatively well established (TEI XML, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, CIDOC CRM) and that are just beginning to be exploited (e.g., the full potential of the Europeana Data Model). Project members should be prepared to participate in all forms of intellectual life, including research, both within the humanities and the information sciences, and software development, supervising student researchers, delivering presentations before specialist and general audiences, writing, and participation in teaching activities. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:09:17 +0000 From: Erik Cambria Subject: TUTORIAL: Sentic Computing (IEEE-SSCI-13, WWW-13, IADIS-ICWI-13) A tutorial on sentic computing will be delivered at the IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Agents (this April in Singapore), the World Wide Web conference (this May in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil), and the IADIS International Conference WWW/INTERNET (this October in Fort Worth, Texas). For more information, please visit the respective conference websites. AIMS AND SCOPE The focus of the tutorial is sentic computing [1], a multi-disciplinary approach to sentiment analysis at the crossroads between affective computing and common sense computing, which exploits both computer and social sciences to better recognise, interpret, and process opinions and sentiments over the Web. The main aim of the tutorial is to discuss ways to further develop and apply publicly available [2] sentic computing resources for the development of applications in fields such as big social data analysis [3], human-computer interaction [4], and e-health [5]. To this end, the tutorial will provide means to efficiently handle sentic computing models, e.g., the Hourglass of Emotions [6], techniques, e.g., sentic activation [7], tools, e.g., SenticNet [8] and IsaCore [9], and services, e.g., Sentic API [10]. The tutorial will also include insights resulting from the forthcoming IEEE Intelligent System Special Issue on Concept-Level Opinion and Sentiment Analysis [11] and a hands-on session to illustrate how to build a sentic-computing-based opinion mining engine step-by-step. [1] Cambria, E. & Hussain, A. (2012). Sentic Computing: Techniques, Tools, and Applications, Springer: Dordrecht, Netherlands — http://sentic.net/sentics [2] SenticNet resources — http://sentic.net/downloads [3] Cambria, E., Grassi, M., Hussain, A. & Havasi, C. (2012). Sentic computing for social media marketing, Multimedia Tools and Applications 59(2): 557-577 [4] Cambria, E. & Hussain, A. (2012). Sentic album: Content-, concept-, and context-based online personal photo management system, Cognitive Computation 4(4): 477-496 [5] Cambria, E., Benson, T., Eckl, C. & Hussain, A. (2012). Sentic PROMs: Application of sentic computing to the development of a novel unified framework for measuring health-care quality, Expert Systems with Applications 39(12): 10533-10543 [6] Cambria, E., Livingstone, A. & Hussain, A. (2012). The hourglass of emotions, in A. Esposito, A. Vinciarelli, R. Hoffmann & V. Muller (eds), Cognitive Behavioral Systems, Vol. 7403 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 144-157 [7] Cambria, E., Olsher, D. & Kwok, K. (2012). Sentic activation: A two-level affective common sense reasoning framework, AAAI, Toronto, pp. 186-192 [8] Cambria, E., Havasi, C. & Hussain, A. (2012). SenticNet 2: A semantic and affective resource for opinion mining and sentiment analysis, FLAIRS, Marco Island, pp. 202-207 [9] Cambria, E., Song, Y.,Wang, H. & Howard, N. (2013). Semantic multi-dimensional scaling for open-domain sentiment analysis, IEEE Intelligent Systems, doi: 10.1109/MIS.2012.118 [10] SenticNet API — http://sentic.net/api [11] IEEE IS Special Issue on Concept-Level Opinion and Sentiment Analysis — http://computer.org/intelligent/cfp2 BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION As the Web rapidly evolves, Web users are evolving with it. In an era of social connectedness, people are becoming more and more enthusiastic about interacting, sharing, and collaborating through social networks, online communities, blogs,Wikis, and other online collaborative media. In recent years, this collective intelligence has spread to many different areas, with particular focus on fields related to everyday life such as commerce, tourism, education, and health, causing the size of the Social Web to expand exponentially. The distillation of knowledge from such a large amount of unstructured information, however, is an extremely difficult task, as the contents of today’s Web are perfectly suitable for human consumption, but remain hardly accessible to machines. The opportunity to capture the opinions of the general public about social events, political movements, company strategies, marketing campaigns, and product preferences has raised growing interest both within the scientific community, leading to many exciting open challenges, as well as in the business world, due to the remarkable benefits to be had from marketing and financial market prediction. Mining opinions and sentiments from natural language, however, is an extremely difficult task as it involves a deep understanding of most of the explicit and implicit, regular and irregular, syntactical and semantic rules proper of a language. Existing approaches mainly rely on parts of text in which opinions and sentiments are explicitly expressed such as polarity terms, affect words and their co-occurrence frequencies. However, opinions and sentiments are often conveyed implicitly through latent semantics, which make purely syntactical approaches ineffective. In sentic computing, whose term derives from the Latin sentire (root of words such as sentiment and sentience) and sensus (intended both as capability of feeling and as common sense), the analysis of natural language is based on affective ontologies and common sense reasoning tools, which enable the analysis of text not only at document-, page- or paragraph-level, but also at sentence-, clause-, and concept-level. In particular, sentic computing involves the use of AI and Semantic Web techniques, for knowledge representation and inference; mathematics, for carrying out tasks such as graph mining and multi-dimensionality reduction; linguistics, for discourse analysis and pragmatics; psychology, for cognitive and affective modeling; sociology, for understanding social network dynamics and social influence; finally ethics, for understanding related issues about the nature of mind and the creation of emotional machines. TUTORIAL PROGRAM I) Introduction II) New Avenues in Sentiment Analysis Research - From Heuristics to Discourse Structure - From Coarse- to Fine-Grained Analysis - From Keywords to Concepts III) Sentic Computing Models - The Hourglass of Emotions - AffectiveSpace IV) Sentic Computing Techniques - Sentic Medoids - Sentic Activation - Sentic Panalogy V) Sentic Computing Tools - SenticNet - IsaCore - Sentic Neurons VI) Building a Sentic Engine - Sentic Parser - Sentic API - Application Samples VII) Conclusion TARGET AUDIENCE AND PREREQUISITES The target audience includes researchers and professionals in the fields of sentiment analysis, Web data mining, and related areas. The tutorial also aims to attract researchers from industry community as it covers research efforts for the development of applications in fields such as commerce, tourism, education, and health. We expect the audience to have basic computer science skills, but psychologists and sociologists are also very welcome. Participants will learn not only state-of-the-art approaches to concept-level sentiment analysis, but also sentic computing techniques and tools to be used for practical opinion mining. Best Regards, Erik Cambria PS: if you are attending WWW13, please also consider submitting to MABSDA (http://sentic.net/mabsda) by 28th February. _______________________________ Erik Cambria, PhD 康文涵 Research Scientist Temasek Laboratories Cognitive Science Programme National University of Singapore 28 Medical Drive, 117456, Singapore Web: http://sentic.net Email: cambria@nus.edu.sg Twitter: http://twitter.com/senticnet Facebook: http://facebook.com/senticnet _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E20532CD1; Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:52:18 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E97442CB1; Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:52:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5BA0D2CB1; Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:52:14 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130216075214.5BA0D2CB1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:52:14 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.783 short-term fellowships for study in India, Japan X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 783. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:16:40 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: ECR & PhD AHRC Grants for Short-Term, International Research Fellowships in India or Japan > From: AHRC ips > Subject: ECR & PhD AHRC Grants for Short-Term, International Research Fellowships in India or Japan > Date: 15 February 2013 17:09:38 GMT Dear Colleague, The Arts and Humanities Research Council’s International Placement Scheme (IPS) is an exciting scheme, offering funded, short, overseas research fellowships for Early Career Researchers and PhD students. The 2013 application deadline has recently passed; however, due to interest in two of the placement organisations, Sarai and NIHU, we are temporarily re-opening the scheme for applications. We have also extended the eligibility requirements so that early career researchers are no longer required to hold current AHRC/ESRC funding. We think the research interests of NIHU and Sarai may be of interest to you and/or the researchers in your institution, so have attached more information below. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions. Kind Regards, Allie Brown AHRC IPS Co-ordinator 01793 416074 ips@ahrc.ac.uk AHRC INTERNATIONAL PLACEMENT SCHEME RE-OPENS FOR APPLICATIONS The AHRC has re-opened the 2013/14 International Placement Scheme (IPS) for applications to Sarai http://www.sarai.net/about-us , India and National Institutes For The Humanities http://www.nihu.jp/e/ (NIHU), Japan. Eligibility requirements have also been extended to include non-AHRC funded Early Career (ECR) applicants. The IPS will not be re-opening for 2013/14 applications to Library of Congress or The Huntington Library. ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL PLACEMENT SCHEME The IPS is an annual scholarship scheme. It offers arts and humanities researchers up to six month, funded research fellowships at AHRC international partner institutions . The IPS is open to PhD students and Early Career Researchers. PhD students are required to have current AHRC-funding. This requirement has been lifted for ECRs, who just need to meet the standard ECR and AHRC eligibility requirements (Section 3: Eligibility). IPS fellows receive £600-£800 for flights costs, plus a monthly living allowance of £1000. 2013/2014 IPS placements are available between July 2013 – September 2014. ABOUT SARAI Based in Delhi, Sarai is a vibrant research centre, part of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies http://www.csds.in/index.php , (CSDS) one of India’s leading research institutes. Sarai’s commitment to interdisciplinarity brings together international researchers in: cultural studies; digital culture; film and cinema studies; media history, research, theory and practices; contemporary art; performance; urban and city studies; politics of developing countries; empirical sociology; free and open source software; social usage of software; the politics of information and communication, online communities and web-based practices; the urban experience in South Asia: history, environment, culture, architecture and politics. Sarai’s own research projects in these areas add to its substantial archive collections http://www.sarai.net/resources/archive on urban space and media culture. “The work of Sarai’s practitioners and visiting fellows brings together creative practice and research better than most places I know in the UK.” Professor John Caughie, University of Glasgow ABOUT NIHU NIHU is made up of six Inter-University Research Institutes which collectively support academic research on culture and the humanities: • International Research Centre for Japanese Studies • National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics • National Institute of Japanese Literature • National Museum of Ethnology http://www.minpaku.ac.jp/english/ • National Museum of Japanese History • Research Institute for Humanity and Nature NIHU’s institutes are national repositories of cultural materials; they offer world-class research facilities for scholars with an interest in exploiting the extensive collections they hold. “Receiving the IPS award was crucial to my doctoral studies.” “I have made close friendships and contacts.” “Spending 4 months in Kyoto was an amazing experience.” NIHU IPS alumni HOW TO APPLY The Sarai and NIHU IPS application deadline is 21st March 2013. Applications must be made via the RCUK Je-S system. More information on the scheme, eligibility, past awards, plus comprehensive guidance on how to apply can be found on the AHRC IPS webpages. For queries not answered by the guidance documents, please contact Allie Brown at the AHRC on ips@ahrc.ac.ukor 01793 416074. The 2014/15 IPS full competition will open from approximately autumn/winter 2013. New institutions may be added and eligibility may be further revised. Please monitor our website for details. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CF1492CDD; Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:55:08 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C9112CC7; Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:55:06 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0CF0D2CC5; Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:55:04 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130216075505.0CF0D2CC5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:55:04 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.784 events: discourse & dialogue; crowdsourcing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 784. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Dunn, Stuart" (30) Subject: Crowdsourcing event in Oxford [2] From: "Jason Williams (MSR)" (21) Subject: SIGDIAL 2013 CONFERENCE : 22-24 August 2013 : Metz, France --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:05:50 +0000 From: "Dunn, Stuart" Subject: Crowdsourcing event in Oxford In-Reply-To: <66C9AAF594B32E478512A0F63A874EFE08FBAB@MBX04.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk> > Subject: Crowdsourcing event in Oxford > Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:40:38 +0000 > From: Kathryn Eccles Dear all, You are warmly invited to the following event: Digital Impacts: Crowdsourcing in the Arts and Humanities Tuesday 9 April 2013, 10.00-17.00 Location: Ship Street Centre, Jesus College, Oxford Registration: You can register here. There is a registration fee of £20 to cover lunch and refreshments. About the workshop: This one-day workshop will showcase digital crowdsourcing projects in the Arts and Humanities, and discuss the impact of such initiatives. 'Impact' is a broad term, which encompasses issues connected to community, digital curation, public engagement and knowledge exchange. Key questions will include: * What does impact mean in this environment? * What types of impacts can be achieved by crowdsourcing initiatives? * How can crowdsourced resources balance quality control and peer review? * What are the impacts of devolving key processes away from core teams and institutions to public participants? * What impacts do crowdsourcing initiatives have on participants and to what extent is it possible to influence this? Speakers: Dr Laura Carletti (Tate Art Maps, University of Nottigham), Dr Tim Causer (Transcribe Bentham, UCL), Dr Stuart Dunn (King's College, London), Dr Kathryn Eccles (OII, Convenor), Andrew Greg (Your Paintings, Public Catalogue Foundation), Kimberly Kowal (Georeferencer, British Library), Kate Lindsay (University of Oxford), Dr Chris Lintott (Zooniverse, University of Oxford), Mia Ridge (Open University), Alice Warley (Your Paintings, Public Catalogue Foundation). Full details available here: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/?id=573 Please share with any interested colleagues. Dr Kathryn Eccles Research Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St Giles Oxford OX1 3JS Telephone (+44 (0) 1865 287210 Fax (+44 (0) 1865 287 211 http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=138 http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=100 Twitter: @KathrynEccles Please note I work on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:26:44 +0000 From: "Jason Williams (MSR)" Subject: SIGDIAL 2013 CONFERENCE : 22-24 August 2013 : Metz, France In-Reply-To: <66C9AAF594B32E478512A0F63A874EFE08FBAB@MBX04.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk> SIGDIAL 2013 CONFERENCE 14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference14/ Metz, France 22-24 August 2013 Note: SigDial 2013 will start one day earlier than previously announced, and will run 2.5 days this year. CALL FOR PAPERS The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialog to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing with a series of thirteen successful previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest areas of discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group on discourse and dialog for both ACL and ISCA. Topics of Interest We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation or analytical work on discourse and dialog including but not restricted to the following themes and topics: - Discourse Processing and Dialog Systems - Corpora, Tools and Methodology - Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling - Dimensions of Interaction - Applications of Dialog and Discourse Processing Technology For a detailed list, see the complete list of topics of interest on the SIGDIAL 2013 website. Special Theme: Discourse and Dialogue in Social Media Processing language in social media has attracted a noticeable amount of interest in recent years. Language in this new kind of media offers many opportunities and challenges, from the point of view of discourse and dialogue. To start with, an astounding amount of conversational data is created each day on Twitter and Facebook, but also on many blogs. Additionally, social media provides a window into a variety of human behaviors that rarely appear in the controlled data sets our community is accustomed to work with. We invite submissions on all aspects of discourse and dialogue processing of language as used in a variety of social media platforms, from Twitter and Facebook, to any type of blogs, micro-blogs, collaborative wikis, and multimedia sharing sites. We particularly welcome contributions that highlight new insights into discourse and dialogue phenomena in this new genre, or describe new discourse and dialogue processing models emerging from it. INVITED SPEAKERS Dr Jerome R. Bellegarda, Apple Inc, USA Prof Bonnie L. Webber, University of Edinburgh, 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3396E2CE7; Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:56:09 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC782CDD; Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:56:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 802772CD1; Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:56:06 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130216075606.802772CD1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:56:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.785 ADHO now socially mediated X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 785. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:21:03 -0600 From: Lisa Spiro Subject: ADHO Establishes Social Media Presence To better reach members and the broader digital humanities community, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is now sharing news and updates via Twitter (@ADHOrg), Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/AllianceofDigitalHumanitiesOrganizations) and Google + (https://plus.google.com/u/0/105806705242570224568/posts), as well as RSS (http://www.adho.org/rss.xml). Follow ADHO via your favorite social media venue-- and stay in touch! If you would like to help tweet or post for ADHO in languages besides English, please contact Lisa Spiro, ADHO's Communications Officer, at lisamspiro@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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BFFB12CCE; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 08:58:43 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F219F2CB5; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 08:58:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 89F252CB5; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 08:58:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130217075838.89F252CB5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 08:58:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.786 events: Early Modern Digital Agendas at the Folger X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 786. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:38:26 +0000 From: Owen Williams Subject: Early Modern Digital Agendas institute deadline two weeks away Please forward as appropriate: Are you a scholar of early modern English, or do you facilitate projects that involve Renaissance English literature? Do you want to learn more about current work in digital humanities or need to consider your next steps in developing your approach? In July 2013, the Folger Institute will offer “Early Modern Digital Agendas http://emdigitalagendas.folger.edu/ ” under the direction of Jonathan Hope, Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Strathclyde. It is an NEH-funded, three-week institute that will explore the robust set of digital tools with period-specific challenges and limitations that early modern English literary scholars now have at hand. “Early Modern Digital Agendas” will create a forum in which twenty faculty, graduate student, and alt-ac participants can historicize, theorize, and critically evaluate current and future digital approaches to early modern literary studies—from EEBO-TCP to advanced corpus linguistics, semantic searching, and visualization theory—with discussion growing out of, and feeding back into, their own projects (current and envisaged). With the guidance of expert visiting faculty , attention will be paid to the ways new technologies are shaping the very nature of early modern research and the means by which humanists interpret texts, teach students, and present their findings to others. This institute is supported by an Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Office of Digital Humanities. Eligibility: Faculty, advanced graduate students, and non-teaching staff (including librarians, administrators, and other alt-ac people) are welcome to apply. Applicants need not be U.S. citizens. All admitted participants will receive a stipend of $2,625. All applications must be submitted by 4 March 2013. Please visit http://emdigitalagendas.folger.edu/ for more information. Questions? Please contact institute@folger.edu. Best, Owen Williams, Ph.D. Assistant Director The Folger Institute Folger Shakespeare Library 201 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-1094 202 675 0352 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 575B42CC6; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:59:17 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FC0C2CAC; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:59:16 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 69B6E2CA6; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:59:14 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130217095914.69B6E2CA6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:59:14 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.787 computer 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. 787. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:48:14 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: computer memory I hope you will forgive me for repeating in a somewhat different way a question I asked not so long ago. Perhaps this time the articulation will be better, perhaps a chord will be struck. In Rewriting the Soul Ian Hacking speculates that perhaps computer memory is a lineal descendant of the arts of memory, i.e. an assignment of information within a structure that makes that information easy to produce quickly when needed and thereby bestows an advantage. These arts, once powerful and widely practiced, worked on the basis of the storehouse metaphor of memory. This metaphor is still with us, deeply intertwined with our unexamined thinking about memory and indeed modelled by calculating and computing machinery for a long time. So I would say in response to Hacking that computer memory is a lineal descendant of the memory arts because it was designed to be that way by those who thought with this metaphor, and that this design, reflected back to us by our machinery, reinforces the metaphor to such a degree that we forget (pun intended) it is a metaphor. But forensic examination (as I think Matt Kirschenbaum would say) shows that the storehouse metaphor is a gross simplification of what our machinery actually does. Very sophisticated engineering has gone into the design of circuitry that reliably creates output to match input exactly, reliably makes noisy electronics into crisp digital bits. Fragmentation of files on a hard disc is just one example of backroom activity we tend not to think about. Those who know more about how the machinery actually works can doubtless provide more and perhaps better examples of how badly the storehouse metaphor fits reality. Furthermore those who specialise in the study of biological memory nowadays would not argue for that metaphor either. For a number of decades now they have argued against the information processing model of storage and retrieval and for a creative, narratological remembering. From a psychodynamic perspective Hacking's book is the best I know on what this means. To my question, then. Let us say that in remembering we tell ourselves stories. Let us say we work internally more like an ancient bard reciting an epic poem preserved only in the retelling than like a clerk fetching a document from a filing cabinet. (Substitute "under construction" for "on the tip of my tongue" .) Thanks to software we can model that. The bard, let us say, used a carved stick -- not so soft as the software, not so quick to be changed, recarved, added to. What would a "memory archive" look like if it were less an archive as archivists know it, more of an intimate storytelling companion? More like the typical audience at a performance of Arabic music. 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 99D472CD7; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:00:17 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D44E82CCA; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:00:16 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 732C12CC3; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:00:15 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130217100015.732C12CC3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:00:15 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.788 events: epistemology of data selection and analysis X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 788. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 12:17:29 +0000 From: Koray Karaca Subject: Workshop on "The Epistemology of Data Selection and Analysis Procedures in Physics, " March 7-9, 2013, Wuppertal University The research collaboration "Epistemology of the LHC" organizes an interdisciplinary workshop entitled "The Epistemology of Data Selection and Analysis Procedures in Physics," which will take place at Wuppertal University from March 7-9, 2013. The workshop will bring together physicists, philosophers of science as well as historians and sociologists of science. The aim is a better understanding of processes of data handling, such as selection or reduction, with a certain but not exclusive focus on the physical sciences. Talks will be given by Sibylle Anderl, Allan Franklin, Gerd Grasshoff, Giora Hon, Hannes Jung, Koray Karaca, Michael Kraemer, Martina Merz, Margaret Morrison, Kent Staley, Wolfgang Wagner, and Adrian Wüthrich. Information on the program of the workshop and talks to be given can be found on the webpage: http://www.lhc-epistemologie.uni-wuppertal.de/workshop-2013.html The workshop is open to visitors. No fee is charged, but registration is required. If you wish to attend the workshop as a visitor, please send an e-mail to Koray Karaca: karaca "at" uni-wuppertal.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6A5CE2C9B; Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:53:55 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74DB52C8F; Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:53:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E2DA92C8E; Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:53:51 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130218075351.E2DA92C8E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:53:51 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.789 events: London Seminar; Open Annotation Data Model X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 789. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Smith (25) Subject: Meeting Announcement: Open Annotation Data Model Public Rollouts [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (25) Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 21 Feb --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 06:51:23 -0500 From: James Smith Subject: Meeting Announcement: Open Annotation Data Model Public Rollouts We are pleased to announce three public meetings introducing the Open Annotation Data Model Community Specification. These day-long public rollouts, carried out in concert with the Annotation Ontology and the Open Annotation Collaboration, and made possible by generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will inform digital humanities and sciences computing developers, curators of digital collections and scholars using digital content about the W3C Open Annotation Community Group’s work. Participants will learn about the data model’s core features and advanced modules through tutorials, a showcase of existing implementations, Q&A sessions with community implementers and live demonstrations. Topics will include: The Open Annotation Data Model, The W3C Open Annotation Community Group, Existing implementations, Developer tools & resources. Rollout times and places: U.S. West Coast Rollout – 09 April 2013 at Stanford University U.S. East Coast Rollout – 06 May 2013 at the University of Maryland U.K. Rollout – 24 June 2013 at the University of Manchester There is no registration fee but RSVP (online) is required. RSVP for a rollout near you by visiting: http://www.openannotation.org/RolloutInfo.html -- Jim Smith Software Architect, MITH --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:53:59 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 21 Feb London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship Professor Murray Pittock FRSE (University of Glasgow): 'Framing Images: digitizing the creation of memory in the case of Robert Burns' Venue: Room 234, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU Time: 17:30 - 19:30, Thursday, 21 February Robert Burns was one of the most commemorated of all poets. The AHRC funded project ‘Robert Burns: Inventing Tradition and Securing Memory, 1796-1909’ created a digital classification of material objects commemorating Burns to explore the way in which material culture affected the reception of Burns’s poetry and the development of his reputation. The project explored such issues whether textual and material cultures diverge or converge in the significance they grant to the reputation of a poet. The study of the objects suggested that material culture did have a significant effect on the reception of Burns. It appears that the legend of Burns’s relationship with Highland Mary was constructed by his biographers from objects such as statues and snuff boxes rather than from written documents. The Burns project suggests that the digital exploration of texts cannot be restricted to manuscript and printed sources but must also seek to explore the reproduction of texts in material culture. Murray Pittock is Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Arts of the University of Glasgow, where he is Bradley Professor of English Literature. He has worked at the universities of Manchester (where he was the first professor of Scottish literature at an English university), Edinburgh, Oxford, Aberdeen and Strathclyde, and has held visiting appointments at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Charles University, Prague, Trinity College, Dublin, Auburn and Yale. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the English Association, the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Arts and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland among other bodies. His recent books include The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism (2011), Robert Burns in Global Culture (2011), The Myth of the Jacobite Clans: the Jacobite Army in 1745 (2009) Scottish and Irish Romanticism (2008) and The Road to Independence? Scotland Since the Sixties (2008, Catalan edition 2009, launched by the First Minister in Barcelona). Admission free; all welcome. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8E4BA2CCA; Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:27:57 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDC4F2CC3; Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:27:56 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6F8912CAF; Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:27:55 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130218092755.6F8912CAF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:27:55 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.790 a PhD in it? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 790. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:43:57 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a PhD topic Thanks to the Bryn Mawr Classical Review (http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/), I have just this morning learned of Michael Squire's 2011 book, The Iliad in a Nutshell: Visualizing Epic on the Tabulae Iliacae (Oxford), reviewed by Fred W Jenkins (Dayton). Jenkins explains that, > The Tabulae Iliacae have never been widely known or studied among > classicists. They are miniature marble tablets, typically with > images on one side and some form of text on the other, although > sometimes image and text are combined on the recto. Many deal with > themes from Homer and the epic cycle; others present the deeds of > Herakles or chronicles of Greek and Roman history. Jenkins concludes by saying that, "This is a remarkable and challenging book, full of learning and imagination", but notes room for improvement, specifically "neglect of the historical tablets", and the irony that the argument for paying attention to these tablets has to be made in words. It seems to me that there's an opportunity here for a very interesting doctoral project, building on Squire's work but making the case even more effectively in a digital edition which not only includes the images but explores digital means of studying and presenting them. The Blake Archive comes to mind. I wish we had a studentship to offer for the purpose in the PhD in Digital Humanities programme at King's. Alas we do not. But a proposal to undertake this project from someone with the right background would certainly be very welcome. 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id ACECC2CCE; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:25:54 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA93E2CBD; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:25:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 59A9C2CAC; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:25:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130219072552.59A9C2CAC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:25:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.791 job at Zooniverse X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 791. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:21:32 +0000 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Job at the Zooniverse, working on the Imperial War Museums' WW1 project Hi folks, There is an excellent job working with the IWM and Zooniverse that would suit a DH person down to the ground. "We’re looking for someone who can build beautifully in HTML5/CSS/Javascript, and who has an understanding of user interface design. If they’re good at working with large and diverse teams, that’d be a bonus too as they’ll be the main point of contact between Zooniverse and IWM. A background in developing highly-usable interfaces for web applications and experience of working with a modern web framework such as Ruby on Rails would be an advantage, as would a history in citizen science, history, science or any combination of the three." Closing date 5th March http://blog.zooniverse.org/2013/02/18/were-hiring-come-help-us-build-citizen-history/ M ----------------- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 94B0C2CCF; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:27:41 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B7072CB9; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:27:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 50E9F2CAC; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:27:36 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130219072736.50E9F2CAC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:27:36 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.792 Digital Humanities Awards X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 792. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:12:08 +0000 From: James Cummings Subject: Digital Humanities Awards 2012: Results! In-Reply-To: <512298E3.1090809@it.ox.ac.uk> Digital Humanities Awards 2012 Results The winners of the Digital Humanities Awards 2012 are as follows. Once '€˜accidental'€™ duplicates were removed there were 4101 ballots cast by members of the public over two weeks voting for one or more of the categories. The full list of sites nominated is still available on the website. Sorry if your favoured resource did not win. Open public votes are popularity contests and some of the contestants certainly did seem to campaign more than the others. Feedback I have received indicates that this has raised awareness of DH in the wider community and awareness of little known projects inside the DH community. The candidates were nominated by the public and voted for by the public. The winners of the awards receive no cash prize, only the respect and honour of the DH community. They can also use the icons available at http://dhawards.org/dhawards2012/results/ on their websites if they wish. Congratulations to all the winners! Thanks to all those who voted! *Best DH tool or suite of tools* Winner: Omeka http://omeka.org/ 1st Runner Up: Paper Machines https://github.com/chrisjr/papermachines 2nd Runner Up: Isidore http://www.rechercheisidore.fr/ Total votes in category: 877 *Best DH blog, article, or short publication* Winner: Digital Humanities Now http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/ 1st Runner Up: Leonardo Flores: “I ♥ E-Poetry” http://leonardoflores.net/ 2nd Runner Up: Will Self (et al.): “‘Kafka’s Wound’: Re-imagining the Literary Essay for the Digital Age” http://www.thespace.lrb.co.uk/ Total votes in category: 1494 *Best DH visualization or infographic* Winner: A Thousand Words: Advanced Visualization for the Humanities http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-projects/a-thousand-words 1st Runner Up: e-Diasporas Atlas http://maps.e-diasporas.fr/ 2nd Runner Up: ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World http://orbis.stanford.edu/ Total votes in category: 1099 *Best professional resources for learning about or doing DH work* Winner: Digital Humanities Tool Box http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-humanities-tool-box 1st Runner Up: Livingstone’s 1871 Field Diary: A Multispectral Critical Edition: Project History, pages starting from http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/1871diary/initial_history.htm 2nd Runner Up: Bamboo DiRT http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/ Total votes in category: 1048 *Best DH project for public audiences* Winner: CEISMIC: Canterbury Earthquake Digital Archive http://www.ceismic.org.nz/ 1st Runner Up: La Biblioteca Virtual de la Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango http://www.banrepcultural.org/blaavirtual/indice 2nd Runner Up: Dickens Journals Online http://www.djo.org.uk/ Total votes in category: 3161 *Best use of DH for fun* Winner: The Future of the Past http://newspapers.wraggelabs.com/fotp/ 1st Runner Up: DigitalNZ magic squares http://wraggelabs.com/shed/magicsquares/ 2nd Runner Up: 10 PRINT ebooks https://twitter.com/10print_ebooks Total votes in category: 911 Dr James Cummings DH Awards (Founder) -- james@DHAwards.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E69F12CD1; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:30:37 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E092C96; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:30:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 19C4F2CAC; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:30:34 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130219073034.19C4F2CAC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:30:34 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.793 events: narrative; CL for literature; museums; complex networks X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 793. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Sébastien_Soubiran (33) Subject: UMIS 2013 University of St Andrews CALL FOR PAPERS [2] From: Bernhard Fisseni (81) Subject: CfP(3): Computational Models of Narrative 2013, Hamburg [3] From: Anna Kazantseva (26) Subject: Final CfP: Second Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature [4] From: Maximilian Schich (38) Subject: CFP: Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks at Netsci2013 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:24:07 +0100 From: Sébastien_Soubiran Subject: UMIS 2013 University of St Andrews CALL FOR PAPERS > De : Marta C Lourenco > Objet : UMIS 2013 University of St Andrews CALL FOR PAPERS > Date : 17 février 2013 21:46:03 UTC+01:00 > > Research in Museums: Museums in Research > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > The eighth biennial University Museums in Scotland conference will be held in the University of St Andrews on 31st October and 1st November 2013. > > This conference will focus on the role of museums in academic research and how it can be fostered and managed. > > There is a long tradition of scholarly research on museum collections, and much recent research focusing on visitor studies and the social role of museums. The place of research in museums and the value of museums to researchers is coming under scrutiny, with the attitude of different institutions to its role and value increasingly divergent. > > Questions to be addressed could include how links can be fostered between researchers, students and museums; the role of museums in developing funded research projects; the development of local, national and international research partnerships and collaborations; the role of museums in public engagement with research; whether museums based in academic institutions have a special role; the impact of the Research Excellence Framework; and the place of museum staff as researchers. > > Proposals are invited for individual papers of 20 minutes. Proposals should take the form of a maximum 250 word outline of the topic to be covered and the name and contact details of the proposer. All proposals must be received by 31st March 2013, with the conference booking form available from May 2013. > > The conference is being hosted by the University of St Andrews. The University has three Accredited museums: MUSA (The Museum of the University of St Andrews), the Gateway Galleries (temporary exhibitions) and the Bell Pettigrew Museum (zoology), plus the MUSA Collections Centre, an open-access store and research centre. The Heritage, Chemistry and Historic Scientific Instrument Collections are Recognised Collections of National Significance. > http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/museum/ > > More information is available from, and proposals should be sent to: > > Dr Helen C. Rawson > Senior Curator and Acting Director > Museum Collections Unit > 87 North Street > University of St Andrews > St Andrews > Fife, UK > KY16 9AE > 01334 462413 > hcr1@st-andrews.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:37:31 +0100 From: Bernhard Fisseni Subject: CfP(3): Computational Models of Narrative 2013, Hamburg THIRD AND FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2013) 4-6 August 2013 Universitaet Hamburg, Germany http://narrative.csail.mit.edu/ws13/ (a satellite workshop of CogSci 2013: The 35th meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Berlin, Germany, 31 July - 3 August 2013) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Richard Gerrig, Stony Brook University, U.S.A. Inderjeet Mani, Chiang Mai, Thailand Paper Submission: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmn2013 Important Dates: 24 February 2013. Submission deadline. 31 March 2013. Notification. 30 April 2013. Final versions due. 31 July - 3 August 2013. CogSci 2013 in Berlin. 4-6 August 2013. Workshop in Hamburg. Workshop Aims Narratives are ubiquitous in human experience. We use them to communicate, convince, explain, and entertain. As far as we know, every society in the world has narratives, which suggests they are rooted in our psychology and serve an important cognitive function. It is becoming increasingly clear that, to truly understand and explain human intelligence, beliefs, and behaviors, we will have to understand why and to what extent narrative is universal and explain (or explain away) the function it serves. The aim of this workshop series is to address key questions that advance our understanding of narrative and our ability to model it computationally. Special Focus: Cognitive Science This workshop will be an appropriate venue for papers addressing fundamental topics and questions regarding narrative. The workshop will be held as a satellite event of the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (to be held in Berlin 31st July - 3rd August), and so will have a special focus on the cognitive science of narrative. Papers should be relevant to issues fundamental to the computational modeling and scientific understanding of narrative; we especially welcome papers relevant to the cognitive, linguistic, or philosophical aspects of narrative. Cognitive psychological or neuroscientific experimental work which may provide insights critical to computational modeling is appropriate for this workshop, and is encouraged. Discussing technological applications or motivations is not prohibited, but is not required. We accept both finished research and more tentative exploratory work. We invite and encourage submissions either as full papers or position papers, through the workshop's EasyChair website http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmn2013 We also invite you to submit an abstract soon so that we can gauge the number of submissions we can expect. (Submitting an abstract is possible without submitting the full paper at the same time.) Accepted papers will be published in an electronic proceedings volume in the series OASIcs (Open Access Series in Informatics, Schloss Dagstuhl). Full papers should contain original research and have to fit within 16 pages in the OASIcs style (plus two pages of references); position papers can report on work-in-progress, research plans or projects and have to fit within four pages in the OASIcs style (plus one page of references). OASIcs webpage: http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/oasics OASICs style: http://drops.dagstuhl.de/styles/oasics/oasics-authors.tgz The CMN workshop series is organizing a special issue on "Computational Models of Narrative", which will appear in the 2014 volume of the Journal of Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC, http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/). The deadline for final papers will be in late 2013. Authors of top workshop papers will be encouraged to expand their work and submit to the special issue. Prize for Best Student Paper on Cognitive Science The best student paper in cognitive science submitted to CMN 2013 will win an award funded by the Cognitive Science Society. The award consists of a cash prize of 250 USD and one year of free membership in the Cognitive Science Society. The selection will be made by the CMN 2013 programme committee. Programme Committee: Rossana Damiano, Kerstin Dautenhahn, David K. Elson, Mark Finlayson (co-chair), Pablo Gervas, Andrew S. Gordon, Valerie G. Hardcastle, Patrik Haslum, Benedikt Loewe (co-chair), Jan Christoph Meister, Peggy J. Miller, Erik T. Mueller, Livia Polanyi, Marie-Laure Ryan, Timothy Tangherlini, Mariet Theune, Emmett Tomai, Atif Waraich, Patrick Henry Winston, R. Michael Young. Organizers: Mark A. Finlayson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.), Bernhard Fisseni (Universitaet Hamburg & Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Benedikt Loewe (Universitaet Hamburg, Germany & Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Jan Christoph Meister (Universitaet Hamburg, Germany). --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:52:00 -0500 From: Anna Kazantseva Subject: Final CfP: Second Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature Second Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature Co-located with NAACL-HLT 2013 June 13 or 14, 2013, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Submission deadline: March 1, 2013 Final Call for Papers (Apologies for multiple postings) The amount of literary material available on-line keeps growing rapidly: there are machine-readable texts from libraries, collections and e-book stores, as well as "live" literature such as e-zines, blogs or self-published e-books. We need tools to help navigate, visualize and better appreciate the high volume of available literature. We invite papers on applying state-of-the art NLP methods to literary data. What characteristics of literature make it special? Is it, indeed, a unique type of language data? How should we adapt our tools to find meaning in literary text? What lessons from automatic processing of literature could apply to other types of data? Position papers are welcome, too. Topics of interest (suitably related topics are welcome): - the needs of the readers and how those needs translate into meaningful NLP tasks; - searching for literature; - recommendation systems for literature; - computational modelling of narratives, computational narratology; - summarization of literature; - finding similar books; - differences between literature and other genres as relevant to computational linguistics; - discourse structure in literature; - emotion analysis for literature; - profiling and authorship attribution; - identification and analysis of literature genres; - building and analyzing social networks of characters; - generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry All information, including our excellent program committee, announcements and updates, sits at: https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2013/ Anna, David, Stan --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:58:01 -0600 From: Maximilian Schich Subject: CFP: Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks at Netsci2013 *CFP: * We are delighted to invite submissions for *Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks** **--- 4th Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci2013* taking place in Copenhagen at DTU -- Technical University of Denmark, on Tuesday, June 4, 2013. *Submission:* For submission instructions please go to: http://artshumanities.netsci2013.net/ Deadline for submission: *March 31, 2013*. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by *April 8, 2013*. *Abstract:* The overall mission of the symposium is to bring together pioneer work in the overlap of arts, humanities, network research, data science, and information design. The 2013 symposium will leverage interaction between those areas by means of keynotes, a number of contributions, and a high-profile panel discussion. In our call, we are looking for a diversity of research contributions revolving around networks in culture, networks in art, networks in the humanities, art about networks, and research in network visualization. Focusing on these five pillars that have crystallized out of our previous meetings, the 2013 symposium strives to make further impact in the arts, humanities, and natural sciences. Running parallel to the NetSci2013 conference, the symposium provides a unique opportunity to mingle with leading researchers in complex network science, potentially sparking fruitful collaborations. As in previous years, selected papers will be published in print, both in a Special Section of Leonardo Journal MIT-Press and in a dedicated Leonardo eBook MIT-Press. Cf. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007S0UA9Q Best regards, The AHCN2013 organizers, Maximilian Schich*, Roger Malina**, and Isabel Meirelles*** artshumanities.netsci@gmail.com * Associate Professor, ATEC, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA ** Executive Editor at Leonardo Publications, France/USA *** Associate Professor, Dept. of Art + Design, Northeastern University, USA _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5C02B2CE7; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:31:06 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2852CDA; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:31:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9718C2CD7; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:31:03 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130219073103.9718C2CD7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:31:03 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.794 on rude remarks & 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. 794. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:07:53 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: rude remarks Some here will enjoy, and perhaps profit from, Paul Basken's "How Rude! Reader Comments May Undermine Scientists' Authority", Chronicle of Higher Education, 18/2/13, http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/how-rude-reader-comments-may-undermine-scientists-authority/32071?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en. WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 664CB2CCA; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:29:03 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18FBEF86; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:29:02 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4F3C1EDE; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:29:00 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130220062900.4F3C1EDE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:29:00 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.795 digital humanities awards; computer 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="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. 795. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (17) Subject: Re: 26.792 Digital Humanities Awards [2] From: "Zafrin, Vika" (24) Subject: Re: 26.787 computer memory? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:38:53 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: 26.792 Digital Humanities Awards In-Reply-To: <20130219072736.50E9F2CAC@digitalhumanities.org> I'm aware that this last one is in the category of "best use of DH for fun," but it's also a cautionary tale. It's very impressive graphically, but it fails as a site that's ultimately designed to yield text results because the articles themselves are at least sometimes very badly edited, and the site design pushes off readable content to a slim column on the right. The emphasis of the site seems to be on the visual effects themselves. Overall, though, very impressive. Jim R > *Best use of DH for fun* > Winner: The Future of the Past http://newspapers.wraggelabs.com/fotp/ > 1st Runner Up: DigitalNZ magic squares > http://wraggelabs.com/shed/magicsquares/ > 2nd Runner Up: 10 PRINT ebooks https://twitter.com/10print_ebooks > Total votes in category: 911 > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:15:38 +0000 From: "Zafrin, Vika" Subject: Re: 26.787 computer memory? In-Reply-To: <20130217095914.69B6E2CA6@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, >The bard, let us say, used a carved stick -- not so soft as >the software, not so quick to be changed, recarved, added to. What would >a "memory archive" look like if it were less an archive as archivists >know it, more of an intimate storytelling companion? More like the >typical audience at a performance of Arabic music. As usual, your question leads down too many rabbit holes for me to write a coherent response in the time available. But this did bring up one concrete thought: that of bit-level preservation via checksum monitoring. A checksum is a string of letters and numbers computed based on the specific placement of ones and zeroes in a file‹the carved stick of that file. In bit-level preservation, we make two or more copies of that file, make sure that the original checksums of the copies are identical to one another, and then check again later. If the checksum of one or more of the files has changed, that means bit rot has occurred, and we can fix that by overwriting with a copy whose checksum is unchanged. If in remembering we tell ourselves stories, then we are separated from our memories by those stories. In much the same way, we're separated from our data by the checksums. -Vika Vika Zafrin Institutional Repository Librarian Boston University +1 617.358.6370 | http://dcommon.bu.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E805F2CDE; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:29:38 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 398FB2CCF; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:29:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DF9822CCE; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:29:36 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130220062936.DF9822CCE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:29:36 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.796 MP3 tagging software? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 796. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:35:48 +1300 From: John Egenes Subject: MP3 tagging software needed I'm looking for freeware (or very cheapware) MP3 metadata tagging software that will allow my students to tag their MP3 recorded sound FX files with more than the normal Artist/Title/Genre type tags. I need keywords so that, once they upload them to our server, I can easily sort them into different types of sounds. This is for building a library of found sounds that can be used to create soundscapes. So, if anyone has experience with that sort of thing, I'd certainly appreciate any tips as well. We can spring for a site license if necessary, though I'd rather stick with open source software if possible. This will be used by entry level music technology university students. Thanks a lot. best, john _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EE4AB2CCF; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:48:20 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 200D0F96; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:48:20 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 361C5F86; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:48:18 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130220064818.361C5F86@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:48:18 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.797 Stop Calling It '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. 797. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:32:50 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Stop Calling It 'Digital Humanities" I have a suggestion for a new title to William Pannapacker's "Stop Calling It 'Digital Humanities And 9 other strategies to help liberal arts colleges join the movement", Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 Feb, http://chronicle.com/article/Stop-Calling-It-Digital/137325/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en. My new title is, "Stop thinking of it as support for the humanities, start thinking of it as disciplined ways of doing research". The word "support" is, as we say in polite company when wishing to dispatch something or someone to the underworld, unfortunate. Pannapacker does make some good points. I'll mention only one, his first after the title: > A persistent criticism of the digital-humanities movement is that it > is elitist and exclusive because it requires the resources of a major > university (faculty, infrastructure, money), and is thus more suited > to campuses with a research focus. Academics and administrators at > small liberal-arts colleges may read about DH and, however exciting > it sounds, decide that it ill suits their teaching mission. The fault here lies with promotion of factory-style scholarship (the label once applied to physics when Louis Alvarez set up his operation at Berkeley) as the only way research in the digital humanities can be done, joining the Big Science movement in expectation of largesse. Big collaborative teams are not for everyone nor the way to do every kind of research with computing. Laboratory instruments are for the individual researcher as well as for the big project. The emphasis on size, larger the better, is not only macho and even then untrue, but more importantly it obscures what is actually going on where the intellectual rubber meets the road of data. There you don't even need a single computer, not absolutely and necessarily. You need the ability to reason and the ability to observe what's happening to your reasoning. But then there's the word "movement" in his first paragraph. Cannot we do away with the megaphones and so on? At what table do we want to sit, what conversations join? If we are to discuss the digital humanities in social terms, then I would think the important questions are ones that direct attention to the dignity of scholarly practice and the making of collegial relationships with the other disciplines. How do we gain the respect of others? How do we show ourselves to be worth the candle in a time when there's not enough candle wax? I'd say that unless we think of such things while building the digital humanities we'll only empower the backlash of which Pannapacker speaks. In the bad old days (mid 1960s to mid 1990s) we were ignored. Now we have the attention of the academy. What are we going to do with it? 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9B7522CE2; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:49:47 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C42D0EDE; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:49:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6351FF96; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:49:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130220064945.6351FF96@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:49:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.798 reminder: professorships at Darmstadt X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 798. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:47:54 +0100 From: Sabine Bartsch Subject: 2 Professorships (W3 and W2) in Digital Philologies In-Reply-To: <511380D5.7020802@linglit.tu-darmstadt.de> REMINDER ----------------------- The Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies of Technische Universität Darmstadt seeks to fill the following vacancies 2 Professorships (W3 and W2) in Digital Philologies In the past ten years, the Department has established the Digital Humanities with foci in English Corpus and Computational Linguistics as well as German Computer Philology. Throughout this period, the Department has consolidated its position in the digital humanities through internationally networked research activities and the installation of a bilingual Master of Arts program Linguistic and Literary Computing. The specific profile of Digital Humanities as Digital Philologies is going receive further impetus by the installation of a cluster of three professorships representing this discipline. Together with the already existing professorship for German Computational Philology (Andrea Rapp), the two new professorships will form a philology-based cluster of Digital Humanities at TU Darmstadt: (1) W3 Linguistics with a focus on corpus and computational linguistics and (2) W2 Literary Studies and Cultural Studies with a focus on Digital Literary Studies / Digital Cultural Studies. The prospective postholders are expected to have a succinct research profile in the Digital Humanities and to fully represent the field in research as well as teaching in the courses of studies offered by the department (Master of Arts Linguistic and Literary Computing, Master of Arts Germanistik, Joint Bachelor of Arts Germanistik, Master of Education German, Lehramt an Gymnasien Deutsch). They should furthermore take responsibility for the introduction of a Bachelor of Arts program Digital Philologies. Expertise in at least two of the following research foci must be demonstrated respectively: (1) W3 Linguistics with a focus on corpus and computational linguistics (Code-No. 514) Empirical methods in linguistics Quantitative and qualitative methods in corpus and computational linguistics Digital lexicography Text and discourse linguistics Scientific communication Linguistic register and variety studies (2) W2 Literary Studies and Cultural Studies with a focus on Digital Literary Studies/Digital Cultural Studies (Code-No. 515) Literary studies and digital text analysis plus its teaching Visualisation Literary studies as cultural studies Book history, materiality research Textuality Digital scholarly editing Processes of digitalisation, digital treatments of cultural heritage data Traditions and orders of knowledge networks and knowledge visualisation Applicants are expected to hold a Habilitation or a track record of equivalent scientific work relevant to one of the research profiles described above. A proven record of excellent teaching at university level is likewise expected. Furthermore, openness for interdisciplinary collaboration and experience in acquiring research funding are expected. The position is tenured with a remuneration package commensurate with experience and qualifications, following the German "W-Besoldung". The regulations for employment are specified under §§ 61 and 62 HHG (Hessisches Hochschulgesetz). The Technische Universität Darmstadt intends to increase the number of female faculty members and encourages female candidates to apply. In case of equal qualifications applicants with a degree of disability of at least 50 or equal will be given preference. Applications using code number 514/515 (including a CV, list of publications, copies of relevant diplomas, a record of teaching activities and academic accomplishments) are to be sent to the Dean of the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Frau Prof. Dr. phil. M. Knodt, Marktplatz 15, Residenzschloss, 64283 Darmstadt. Code. No. 514 or 515 Application deadline: 24-Feb-2013 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_GREY autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 65D6A2CE2; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:57:39 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10C88F96; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:57:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5C954EDE; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:57:36 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130220065736.5C954EDE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:57:36 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.799 events: software design; archives & memory; networks; progress; XML X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 799. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Maximilian Schich (38) Subject: CFP: Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks at Netsci2013 [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (33) Subject: Workshop on Demystifying Software Design [3] From: Tommie Usdin (44) Subject: Native XML user interfaces symposium [4] From: "HASTAC" (34) Subject: Keynotes Announced for HASTAC 2013 - Register today! [5] From: Marijana Tomić (42) Subject: Conference and School on Records, Archives and Memory Studies --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:58:01 -0600 From: Maximilian Schich Subject: CFP: Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks at Netsci2013 CFP: We are delighted to invite submissions for Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks --- 4th Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci2013 taking place in Copenhagen at DTU -- Technical University of Denmark, on Tuesday, June 4, 2013. Submission: For submission instructions please go to: http://artshumanities.netsci2013.net/ Deadline for submission: March 31, 2013. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by April 8, 2013. Abstract: The overall mission of the symposium is to bring together pioneer work in the overlap of arts, humanities, network research, data science, and information design. The 2013 symposium will leverage interaction between those areas by means of keynotes, a number of contributions, and a high-profile panel discussion. In our call, we are looking for a diversity of research contributions revolving around networks in culture, networks in art, networks in the humanities, art about networks, and research in network visualization. Focusing on these five pillars that have crystallized out of our previous meetings, the 2013 symposium strives to make further impact in the arts, humanities, and natural sciences. Running parallel to the NetSci2013 conference, the symposium provides a unique opportunity to mingle with leading researchers in complex network science, potentially sparking fruitful collaborations. As in previous years, selected papers will be published in print, both in a Special Section of Leonardo Journal MIT-Press and in a dedicated Leonardo eBook MIT-Press. Cf. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007S0UA9Q Best regards, The AHCN2013 organizers, Maximilian Schich, Roger Malina, and Isabel Meirelles artshumanities.netsci@gmail.com Associate Professor, ATEC, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Executive Editor at Leonardo Publications, France/USA Associate Professor, Dept. of Art + Design, Northeastern University, USA --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:17:36 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Workshop on Demystifying Software Design The ICT Knowledge Transfer Network of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Technology Strategy Board are organising the following free event, which may be of interest: Demystifying Software Design Wednesday, 6 March 2013 from 09:30 to 16:30 (GMT) London, United Kingdom The context The need for new and better software is all around us. Many people are being asked to commit funds and resources to new software projects without understanding what 'good' looks like and how to successfully challenge and work with software engineers. Often, software seems like a 'dark art' with its own language and approaches that are often incomprehensible to non-software engineers. Our aims The TSB and ICT KTN would like to invite you to a workshop in central London to: 1. Hear inspiring and though provoking talks from those inside and outside the software 2. Find out about the best way to work with software engineers and what good software design looks like 3. Learn what questions you need to ask to make sure you get what you want out of software 4. Learn the tell tale signs of failure (before it is too late!) 5. Have some software language, process and outcomes demystified 6. Find new approaches to commissioning software that are easier and less time consuming than current approaches. We will also be discussing future TSB competitions in Software Development and how you (and your software developers) can benefit from Government funding, thus bringing down the cost of your software Further details can be found at: http://mdsd.eventbrite.co.uk along with details of how to register for the event. 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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:10:17 -0500 From: Tommie Usdin Subject: Native XML user interfaces symposium CALL FOR PARTICIPATION International Symposium on Native XML user interfaces a one-day symposium preceding Balisage: The Markup Conference C.M. Sperberg-McQueen, chair XML is everywhere. It is created, gathered, manipulated, queried, browsed, read, and modified. XML systems need user interfaces to do all of these things. How can we make user interfaces for XML that are powerful, simple to use, quick to develop, and easy to maintain? How are we building user interfaces today? How can we build them tomorrow? Are we using XML to drive our user interfaces? How? This one-day symposium is devoted to the theory and practice of user interfaces for XML: the current state of implementations, practical case studies, challenges for users, and the outlook for the future development of the technology. Topics include: Editors customized for specific purposes or users User interfaces for creation, management, and use of XML documents Uses of XForms Making tools for creation of XML textual documents Using general-purpose user-interface libraries to build XML interfaces Looking at XML, especially looking at masses of XML documents XML, XSLT, and XQuery in the browser Case studies of development and use of specialized user interfaces Details: http://www.balisage.net/XML-Interfaces/ information about Balisage: The Markup Conference: http://www.balisage.net/ Schedule: 19 April 2013 - Submissions due 21 May 2013 - Speakers notified 12 July 2013 - Final papers due 5 August 2013 - Pre-conference Symposium on XForms 6-9 August 2013 - Balisage: The Markup Conference Questions: symposium chair: C.M. Sperberg-McQueen conference and symposium organizers: if you don't get a response within 3 business days please re-send your message or call +1 301 315 9631 ====================================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2013 mailto:info@balisage.net August 6-9, 2013 http://www.balisage.net Preconference Symposium August 5, 2012 ====================================================================== --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:52:47 +0000 From: "HASTAC" Subject: Keynotes Announced for HASTAC 2013 - Register today! HASTAC 2013: THE STORM OF PROGRESS -- APRIL 25-28 -- TORONTO ==================================================== We are excited to announce four stellar keynote speakers [4] for *HASTAC 2013: The Storm of Progress*!  * *Paola Antonelli*, Director of Research and Development and Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York * *Cathy N. Davidson*, Co-founder of HASTAC; Co-Director of the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge, Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English, and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University * *Kia Ng 黃嘉聰*, Senior Lecturer in Computing & Music and Director and Co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Research in Music (ICSRiM) at the University of Leeds * *Joseph Tabbi*, Professor of American Literature and Electronic Literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a leading authority on the effects of new technologies on contemporary fiction The keynote speakers cover a wide range of areas of expertise, from design, to music, to science and technology, to literature. The inclusive nature of these selections reflects the HASTAC community - a network of more than 10,000 individuals motivated by the conviction that the digital era provides rich opportunities for collaborative, networked research that extends across traditional disciplines, across the boundaries of academe and community, across the "two cultures" of humanism and technology, and across social strata and national borders. Full bios for the keynote speakers: hastac2013.org/keynote-speakers [5] York University will host “The Storm of Progress: New Horizons, New Narratives, New Codes,” in Toronto, Canada, April 25-28, 2013. Registration is open, and early-bird rates are available through March 1.  Learn more: hastac2013.org [6] [...] --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:50:16 +0100 From: Marijana Tomić Subject: Conference and School on Records, Archives and Memory Studies Dear all, I would like to announce Conference and School on Records, Archives and Memory Studies Zadar, Croatia, 6 to 10 May, 2013 http://ozk.unizd.hr/rams/ The Conference and School is targeted primarily at doctoral students in library and information sciences and cultural heritage studies in general, and archival studies, preservation and conservation studies in particular. It is also targeted at those students in the final years of their graduate studies, as well as young practitioners in the fields. We encourage post-doctoral students and faculty members to take part in the school too. Registration is opened at: http://ozk.unizd.hr/rams/?page_id=35 Registration fee: doctoral and graduate students 100 EU, others 200 EU. The closing date for registration is 22th of April 2013 Questions should be directed to: Secretary to the Conference and School Research Assistant Marijana Tomić, rams.zadar@gmail.com Organizers: UNIVERSITY OF ZADAR, CROATIA DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES Director of the Conference and School Professor Mirna Willer, PhD with co-organizers: UCLA, LOS ANGELES, USA DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION STUDIES, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION & INFORMATION STUDIES Director, Center for Information as Evidence Professor Anne J. Gilliland, PhD KARL-FRANZENS-UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ, AUSTRIA VESTIGIA - MANUSCRIPT RESEARCH CENTRE Director of Vestigia Professor Erich Renhart, PhD ICARUS - INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR ARCHIVAL RESEARCH, VIENNA, AUSTRIA Dr. Thomas Aigner, MAS, President UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB, FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, HISTORY DEPARTMENT, CROATIA Director of the PhD Programme Medieval Studies Professor Neven Budak, PhD -- *RAMS - Conference and School on Records, Archives and Memory Studies* Zadar, Croatia, 6 to 10 May 3013 Department of Library and Information Sciences of the University of Zadar rams.zadar@gmail.com http://ozk.unizd.hr/rams/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 00F8B2CD4; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:49:29 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEAC32CB2; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:49:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9C5002CAE; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:49:26 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130221074926.9C5002CAE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:49:26 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.800 stop calling it 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. 800. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Patrick Durusau (49) Subject: Re: 26.797 Stop Calling It 'Digital Humanities' [2] From: Norman Gray (22) Subject: Re: 26.797 Stop Calling It 'Digital Humanities' [3] From: Patricia Galloway (13) Subject: Subject: Stop Calling It 'Digital Humanities" --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 06:38:51 -0500 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 26.797 Stop Calling It 'Digital Humanities' In-Reply-To: <20130220064818.361C5F86@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, On 02/20/2013 01:48 AM, Willard McCarty wrote: > > I have a suggestion for a new title to William Pannapacker's "Stop > Calling It 'Digital Humanities And 9 other strategies to help liberal > arts colleges join the movement", Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 Feb, > http://chronicle.com/article/Stop-Calling-It-Digital/137325/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en. > My new title is, "Stop thinking of it as support for the humanities, > start thinking of it as disciplined ways of doing research". The word > "support" is, as we say in polite company when wishing to dispatch > something or someone to the underworld, unfortunate. Except for Pannapacker's preference for "digital liberal arts (DLA)" over digital humanities (DH), the rest of his "...some good points" share a common theme. The theme of practicing humanities/liberal arts while using digital tools. What better way to promote the use of digital tools than having a positive impact on the day to day concerns of academics? Seeing the difference made in practice from digital tools will lead some, not all, to want to know more about such tools and the underpinnings that make them effective. The same can be said of academics who use libraries. A small percentage ever wonders about theories of classification and other topics that make their use of the library more effective. That doesn't diminish the usefulness of libraries or their theoretical underpinnings. As for your questions: > How do > we gain the respect of others? How do we show ourselves to be worth > the candle in a time when there's not enough candle wax? We won't gain respect or prove our usefulness by refusing to participate in answering the concerns of others. Say a colleague wants to use a wiki to promote collaboration in a writing class and you can help. Discussion doesn't have to begin with intertextuality in digital media. Your colleague probably has a more immediate concern. Or to put it another way, respect is something that is earned, not demanded. Hope you are having a great week! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) 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: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:36:06 +0000 From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 26.797 Stop Calling It 'Digital Humanities' In-Reply-To: <20130220064818.361C5F86@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, hello. The following remark is almost completely tangential to your main point, but nonetheless, I'll correct a possible misunderstanding. On 2013 Feb 20, at 06:48, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Big collaborative teams are not for everyone nor the way to do every kind of > research with computing. Laboratory instruments are for the individual > researcher as well as for the big project. Specifically: > The emphasis on size, larger > the better, is not only macho and even then untrue, Interestingly, in the larger collaborations (300--3000 authors), papers are written collectively. For a larger paper, there will be an overall architect of the paper whose role is to shepherd the authors, plural, of the various sections, who will in turn shepherd their groups. A smaller paper may be primarily written by only a few people, and though the collaboration members will know who that is, and will all be expected to approve the paper (typically by silence), in neither case is the architect or author detectable from the author list, which is included in its entirety, in strict alphabetical order, on every 'collaboration paper'. There's not a lot of room for machismo in that setup. It occurs to me that if there's machismo visible in these communities, it's in the overweening ego of the (non-collaboration) single-author paper. But that's not an entirely serious point. > but more importantly > it obscures what is actually going on where the intellectual rubber > meets the road of data. That's true, and is the price one pays for working in an area where the only way of investigating certain foundational questions is participation in such massive engineering problems. It's not a way of working which any area should aspire to unless there is no cheaper way of getting the answers, and unless there is whole-discipline agreement, disciplined by funders, on what the central questions are. Back to your regularly scheduled programming... Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:52:41 -0600 From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Subject: Stop Calling It 'Digital Humanities" In-Reply-To: On 2/20/2013 5:00 AM, humanist-request@lists.digitalhumanities.org wrote: > Subject: Stop Calling It 'Digital Humanities" In the bad old days, the saving of the "Humanities Computing" pursuit in the US was the emergence of the microcomputer, which meant that even if your chair didn't want to spring for any computing, you could still do work. True, we had to use overlays to compute big matrices, but we could do it. Instead of big labs, there were networks of likeminded people releasing (and supporting) purpose-built software. I'm with Willard: let us choose the people we want to work with; if that means supercomputer centers, fine; but if it doesn't, fine too. There's always a Beowulf cluster for big matrices.... Pat Galloway University of Texas Austin _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 72A822CDE; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:50:13 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D0522CC3; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:50:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9838E2CBD; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:50:10 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130221075010.9838E2CBD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:50:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.801 ethics and responsibility in ICT? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 801. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:08:54 -0000 From: Bernd Carsten STAHL Subject: Call for contributions: Ethics and responsibility in ICT research and innovation Greetings [And apologies for multiple postings] Are you interested in questions of ethics and responsibility in research and innovation in ICT? Do you have experience of projects or technologies that raised interesting or challenging questions of responsibility? Are you doing research on novel technologies that are likely to have interesting or controversial social consequences? The UK EPSRC funded project on a “Framework for Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT” (www.responsible-innovation.org.uk) is inviting you to submit case studies and other short documents (less than 2000 words) to share your experience of ethics and responsibility in ICT with the communities of ICT researchers and other stakeholders. Areas of interest include: • Case studies – discussion of actual projects • Ethical issues – debates around a particular ethical issue • Technologies – thoughts on specific technologies • Solutions – actual or proposed resolution to dilemmas • Concepts – opinions related to the broader topic All submissions must be original contributions based on real experience and events. They may involve original research but may also be based on previous work. They should be anonymised where appropriate. The authors are responsible for ensuring the truthfulness of the entries. Examples of case studies from the first call and other examples of relevant entries can be found at: http://torrii.responsible-innovation.org.uk/ All submissions will undergo peer review. The best 25 entries will receive a prize of £500 each. Submission deadline 19 April 2012 Why should I submit? If you are interested in the potential social consequences of ICT and critical reflection of how research outputs may impact broader society, then there are several good reasons to submit an article: • Authors of contributions that meet set criteria (see Evaluation section below) will see their article published to the website. They can opt to become an Associate of Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT and be listed on the website. • The Observatory is part of an EPSRC-funded project and the submissions will undergo stringent peer review and scored. Successful entries therefore may be seen as peer reviewed publications. • The best 25 submissions will receive £500 each. Each author can submit as many articles as they wish and receive up to 2 awards. • All submission authors will be asked to contribute to the peer review of other submissions. This will provide you with an opportunity to view a wide range of material that focuses on the broader societal implications of ICT research. • Students are also encouraged to submit articles following the same principles. There will be a separate ranking for student contributions where the 10 best entries will receive £100 each. I am interested. What do I need to do next? We invite you to have a look at the more detailed call describing the required content and submission and review process. This is available on the project website www.responsible-innovation.org.uk The full call is available here: http://responsible-innovation.org.uk/frriict/call-for-contributions/ How do I submit? Please submit using the Easy Chair website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rriict2013 More detail on submission type Key dates Launch: 15h February 2013 Latest submission date:19th April 2013 Further dates are available in the full call. If you have queries regarding the submission process please contact: Dr Grace Eden, Computer Science, University of Oxford, grace.eden@cs.ox.ac.uk Professor Bernd Carsten Stahl, De Montfort University, bstahl@dmu.ac.uk Dr. Marina Jirotka Computer Science, University of Oxford, marina.jirotka@cs.ox.ac.uk kind regards, Marina, Grace and Bernd _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E5D212CE9; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:50:51 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDBF82CE8; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:50:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0EF092CE7; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:50:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130221075048.0EF092CE7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:50:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.802 MP3 tagging software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 802. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:15:09 +0000 From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 26.796 MP3 tagging software? In-Reply-To: <20130220062936.DF9822CCE@digitalhumanities.org> John, hello. On 2013 Feb 20, at 06:29, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > I'm looking for freeware (or very cheapware) MP3 metadata tagging > software that will allow my students to tag their MP3 recorded sound FX > files with more than the normal Artist/Title/Genre type tags. I need > keywords so that, once they upload them to our server, I can easily sort > them into different types of sounds. This is for building a library of > found sounds that can be used to create soundscapes. So, if anyone has > experience with that sort of thing, I'd certainly appreciate any tips as > well. There is a circumscribed list of tags permissible in the ID3 header which sits at the top of an MP3 file (see section 4 of http://id3.org/id3v2.3.0 ). These include artist/title/genre and a fairly random collection of other bits of information. Some of these are designed to be keyword-value extensible, such as TXXX or COMM, and that's where you could add your extra metadata. I'm afraid I've no experience of tag editors beyond command-line ones, and not all of those allow you to add arbitrary fields such as TXXX or COMM fields. Also, I'm not sure how you'd search these, since you'd need software which knew that there was important metadata in these tags. However the ID3 header would be suitable core technology, and ID3 headers are not hard to read, in software terms. ---- As it happens... I do have some experience of messing about with MP3 files, though. I've been working on a side project for a while, to support the tagging of (instants within) audio recordings of lectures. See . I don't think that's completely ready for a public release, but it is already robust enough for, and is in, daily use, and if anyone is interested to play with it, do let me know. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 108532CFA; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:51:33 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CB292CF5; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:51:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D7CB22CF4; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:51:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130221075130.D7CB22CF4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:51:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.803 studentships at the Open University X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 803. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:22:36 +0000 From: Francesca Benatti Subject: Two PhD Studentships in Digital Humanities at The Open University The Open University, The British Library, The National Library of Scotland and The National Library of Wales are offering* *two PhD studentships, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), for research based on the collections of one or more of the library partners. Studentship 1 is in History (Digital Heritage/Crowdsourced Data) http://www3.open.ac.uk/employment/job-details.asp?id=6754&ref=ext , with a particular interest in evaluating or utilising crowdsourced historical data for historical research. Studentship 2 is in English (E-Manuscripts/E-Archives) http://www3.open.ac.uk/employment/job-details.asp?id=6755&ref=ext , with a particular emphasis in utilising born-digital e-manuscripts/e-archives for literary research. For further particulars, application forms and terms and conditions, please visit http://www3.open.ac.uk/employment/job-details.asp?id=6754&ref=ext (History) http://www3.open.ac.uk/employment/job-details.asp?id=6755&ref=ext (English) . The closing date for applications is *31 March 2013*. Francesca Benatti, Research Associate in Digital Humanities http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/digital-humanities/index.shtml _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7494B2CFB; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:56:09 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 369772CDA; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:56:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 243332CC2; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:56:06 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130221075606.243332CC2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:56:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.804 events: MLA; Nijmegen Spring 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. 804. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Marten_Düring (93) Subject: Get going: The Nijmegen Spring School in eHumanities 3 – 5 April 2013 [2] From: "Matthew K. Gold" (20) Subject: CFP: DH From the Ground Up (MLA 2014; Deadline 3/15/12) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:46:00 +0100 From: Marten_Düring Subject: Get going: The Nijmegen Spring School in eHumanities 3 – 5 April 2013 Dear all, this workshop might be of interest to members of this list: Get going: The Nijmegen Spring School in eHumanities 3– 5 April 2013 Generously funded by the ALLC - The European Association for Digital Humanities and with support from Radboud University Nijmegen// /With additional support from FWO - Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen and Universiteit Antwerp// Jump-start your Python, R and Gephi skills This intensive three-day workshop will equip both junior and senior scholars with the ability and skills to “go digital”. The goal of this workshop is to offer its participants the skills to understand the potential of selected tools in Digital Humanities (DH), to consider their application within the realms of their own field and, eventually, to be able to start their own eHumanities projects. The workshop will consist of three modules: Programming in Python, Statistics in R and Network Analysis with Gephi. These modules will be designed to build upon each other, thereby putting newly acquired skills to practical use immediately. We also want to ensure a productive exchange between participants as well as the instructors and, as such, the development of long-lasting networks. In keeping with ALLCÂ’s principal interests, the workshop has a firm emphasis on the computational analysis of textual data, be they literary or linguistic. To ensure the broad coverage of relevant techniques for the workshop, we have selected three generic research tools which are currently widely applied within the eHumanities. The programming language Python is widely used within many scientific domains nowadays and the language is readily accessible to scholars from the Humanities. Python is an excellent choice for dealing with (linguistic as well as literary) textual data, which is so typical of the Humanities. Workshop participants will be thoroughly introduced to the language and be taught to program basic algorithmic procedures. Because of the workshopÂ’s emphasis on textual data, special attention will be paid to linguistic applications of Python, e.g. Pattern. Finally, participants will be familiarized with key skills in independent troubleshooting. Deplored by many DH scholars, most humanities curricula today fail to offer a decent training in statistics. At the same time, a majority of DH applications make use of quantitative tools in one way or the other. We seek to provide our participants with hands-on experience with a common statistical tool, R, with a specific emphasis on the practical implementation of statistics and potential pitfalls. The statistical software package R is widely used in the scientific processing and visualisation of textual data. Network visualizations can be counted among the most prominent and influential forms of data visualization today. However, the processes of data modelling, its visualization and the interpretation of the results often remain a “black box”. The module on Gephi will introduce the key steps in the systematization of relational data, its collection from non-standardized records such as historical sources or works of fiction, the potential and perils of network visualizations and computation and finally the identification of relevant patterns and their significance for the overall research question. Programme We are very happy to have brought together a team of instructors who are both experts in their field and great teachers: Day 1: Programming in Python and basic Natural Language Processing tools (Instructors: Folgert Karsdorp, Meertens Institut Amsterdam and Maarten van Gompel, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Day 2: Basic statistics in R (Instructor: Peter Hendrix, University of Tübingen) Day 3: Data modelling and network visualizations in Gephi (Instructor: Clément Levallois, University of Rotterdam) The workshop seeks to provide as much practical skills and knowledge in as little time as possible. Each module will have the same basic structure: After an introduction to the respective method and the targets for the day, the participants will solve pre-defined tasks. The workshop embraces the concept of trial and error and learning based on one’s own accomplishments rather than passive information reception. Registration Participants are expected to pay a fee of EUR 60 and to make arrangements for their travel and accommodation. Thanks to the EADH (ex ALLC) funding we have received we are able to offer free lunch on all three days as well as a farewell dinner. In addition, we can offer 2 bursaries for students/participants who have no other source of funding. In order to register, please email Mike Kestemont at mike.kestemont@gmail.com or Marten Düring at md@martenduering.com by March 15th. Applicants are asked to include a short CV, a statement of their previous experience with the above mentioned tools and their research goals. Previous experience in either programming, statistics or data visualization is not required. For further information of eHumanities research at Radboud University Nijmegen and (coming soon) on the workshop, please visit http://www.ru.nl/ehumanities Best, Mike and Marten -- Dr Marten Düring Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Personal website http://martenduering.com Historical Network Research http://historicalnetworkresearch.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:04:31 -0500 From: "Matthew K. Gold" Subject: CFP: DH From the Ground Up (MLA 2014; Deadline 3/15/12) Call for Papers: DH From the Ground Up The Discussion Group on Computer Studies of Languages and Literature will host a showcase session at the 2014 Modern Language Association Convention in Chicago to highlight innovative work by undergraduate and graduate students in the digital humanities. This session aims to demonstrate how students, at different levels and from a range of institutions, are expanding their research horizons by engaging in digital projects. Submissions might address any aspect of student work on DH projects, related course work, digital theses, and more. Each accepted panelist will have a workstation at which to demonstrate and discuss their project. We welcome proposals that include a collaborator or advisor. Please email 150-word abstracts to the group’s chair, Amy Earhart (aearhart@tamu.edu), by March 15, 2013. CFP online: http://computerstudies.commons.mla.org/2013/02/20/cfpmla14/ Conference information: http://www.mla.org/convention Best, Matt -- Matthew K. Gold, Ph.D. http://mkgold.net | @mkgold _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AED532CBD; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:49:14 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1FC82CC3; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:49:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 88A8C2CAE; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:49:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130222074909.88A8C2CAE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:49:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.805 MP3 tagging software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 805. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:57:55 +1300 From: John Egenes Subject: Re: 26.802 MP3 tagging software In-Reply-To: <20130221075048.0EF092CE7@digitalhumanities.org> Hello, Norman. Thanks very much for this. It's far too complicated for my first year students, but I will have a look through it all. I've D/L'ed GNU M4, and your software, and Racket, and will figure out how to configure them. I'm running both a PC (Win 7) and Mac (Mtn Lion), but will probably stick with the Mac, since that's what our student labs have. It does look as though it might have a lot of useful things in it. It might take me awhile to fumble through it all, but I really appreciate your pointing me to it. I'll be sure to send you any feedback I might come up with. Thanks again. I'll probably figure out how to stick with just the ID3 header fields for my students' tags. I don't want to scare 'em away, their first year in music technology. best, john > John, hello. > > On 2013 Feb 20, at 06:29, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > >> >I'm looking for freeware (or very cheapware) MP3 metadata tagging >> >software that will allow my students to tag their MP3 recorded sound FX >> >files with more than the normal Artist/Title/Genre type tags. I need >> >keywords so that, once they upload them to our server, I can easily sort >> >them into different types of sounds. This is for building a library of >> >found sounds that can be used to create soundscapes. So, if anyone has >> >experience with that sort of thing, I'd certainly appreciate any tips as >> >well. > There is a circumscribed list of tags permissible in the ID3 header which sits at the top of an MP3 file (see section 4 ofhttp://id3.org/id3v2.3.0 ). These include artist/title/genre and a fairly random collection of other bits of information. Some of these are designed to be keyword-value extensible, such as TXXX or COMM, and that's where you could add your extra metadata. > > I'm afraid I've no experience of tag editors beyond command-line ones, and not all of those allow you to add arbitrary fields such as TXXX or COMM fields. Also, I'm not sure how you'd search these, since you'd need software which knew that there was important metadata in these tags. However the ID3 header would be suitable core technology, and ID3 headers are not hard to read, in software terms. > > ---- > > As it happens... > > I do have some experience of messing about with MP3 files, though. I've been working on a side project for a while, to support the tagging of (instants within) audio recordings of lectures. See. I don't think that's completely ready for a public release, but it is already robust enough for, and is in, daily use, and if anyone is interested to play with it, do let me know. > > Best wishes, > > Norman > > -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and > Astronomy, University of Glasgow, 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 390DC2CE9; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:50:11 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB0E2CD9; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:50:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 158F62CD4; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:50:07 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130222075008.158F62CD4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:50:07 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.806 contacts for surveys? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 806. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:32:58 +0000 From: "James O'Sullivan" Subject: DH Survey Groups Dear all, I am currently in the process of putting together contact lists for a number of different surveys which will be used across a number of Digital Humanities projects in which I am currently involved. The focus and methodology of the surveys vary across different aspects of the Digital Humanities, but in no instances are any specific expertise required. I'd like to invite DH researchers and practitioners to express an interest in taking part in these surveys. There will be no major time commitment, just a few boxes to tick and fields to populate. Any willing participants from any aspect of our community would be welcome, and greatly appreciated. Please contact me at josullivan.c@gmail.com if interested. My affiliation is to University College Cork, where I am working towards a PhD in Digital Arts and Humanities under Dr Orla Murphy and Professor Graham Allen. All data will remain anonymous and be treated with the strictest confidentiality. Sincerest thanks to you all. James -- *James O'Sullivan * @jamescosullivan http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan ** Web: josullivan.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan http://twitter.com/#%21/jamescosullivan LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan http://www.linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan Facebook: http://facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan http://www.facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan New Binary Press: http://newbinarypress.com/Bookstore.html OpenDAHT: http://opendaht.org/ Submit to *The Weary Blues*: http://thewearyblues.org/submit.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D9A322CF3; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:52:05 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C46092CEB; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:52:04 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A14032CE2; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:52:03 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130222075203.A14032CE2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:52:03 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.807 events: summer school on historical sources; DH conference in Japan X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 807. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Deirdre Byrne (17) Subject: CENDARI Summer School: Historical Sources & Transnational Approaches to European History [2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (105) Subject: JADH 2013 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:02:21 +0000 From: Deirdre Byrne Subject: CENDARI Summer School: Historical Sources & Transnational Approaches to European History Dear All, This Summer School may be of interest to members of this list: The CENDARI (Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure) project, in collaboration with the COST Action: IS 1005, 'Medioevo Europeo: Medieval Studies and Technological Resources', will host the first of three annual CENDARI Summer Schools in Florence, Italy from the 22nd to the 26th July 2013. The Summer School, entitled Historical Sources & Transnational Approaches to European History, will invite participants to address specifically how CENDARI aims to resolve the difficulties of historical research through the application of digital technologies and methods. For more information and to apply before the 15th April 2013, please visit http://www.cendari.eu/news-events/summer-school-2013/. Sessions will apply the concept of 'transnational moments' to examine ways in which historical research is complicated by the nature of material records of the past. The Summer School will provide a context for the various collections-level challenges to transnational history, such as how to identify sources that have become 'hidden' or lost through accidents of history. Researchers will examine the linguistic, quantitative and methodological challenges facing them today. The five-day programme, which is currently being finalised, will be a combination of expert speakers, hands-on sessions and collaborative design workshops. All attendees at the Summer School will be invited to present their own research questions and will learn about the digital methods and tools that can be applied. Participants will present their own work and receive feedback from peers; attend seminars by leading authorities in transnational modern and medieval European history, as well as in Digital Humanities; deepen their understanding of the impact of the material record on the practice of history; gain familiarity with powerful new tools in research-oriented information technology. Applications are invited from historians and collections experts working within the CENDARI case study areas of the First World War and Medieval European Culture, as well as researchers working in the digital humanities who wish to sharpen their understanding of these vital research questions. A number of bursaries, varying in value, funded by the CENDARI project and by the COST Action: IS1005, are available for participants. For more information on the CENDARI project, financed by the EU's Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7), please visit www.cendari.eu. For more information on the COST Action IS 1005, please visit www.medioevoeuropeo.eu http://www.medioevoeuropeo.eu . With best regards, Deirdre Byrne CENDARI Project Officer Trinity Long Room Hub Trinity College Dublin Ireland Tel: +353-18964225 www.cendari.eu http://www.cendari.eu/ www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub http://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:58:46 +0000 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: JADH 2013 "Transcending Borders" The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities is pleased to announce its third annual conference, to be held at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, September 19-21, 2013. http://www.jadh.org/JADH2013 The conference will feature posters, papers and panels. We invite proposals on all aspects of digital humanities globally, and especially encourage papers treating topics that deal with practices that aim to go beyond borders, for example, between academic fields, media, languages, cultures, and so on, as related to the field of digital humanities. In this decade, as digitization of cultural resources makes it easier to access diverse cultural manifestations via the Internet, various barriers have been overcome. However, other types of barriers have been revealed by the new environment which needs to be addressed. Therefore, one of the aims of JADH2013 is to raise awareness regarding the efforts of humanities researchers so that we may provide new support for various approaches toward transcending borders in the field of digital humanities. Proposals may deal with the following aspects of digital humanities: Research issues, including data mining, information design and modeling, software studies, and humanities research enabled through the digital medium; computer-based research and computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship. Some examples might include text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning, and endangered languages; the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theater, new media and related areas; the creation and curation of humanities digital resources; the role of digital humanities in academic curricula; The range of topics covered by digital humanities can also be consulted in the journal LLC: the Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Oxford University Press. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 7 May 2013. Presenters will be notified of acceptance on 30 May 2013. Abstracts should be of approximately 500 words in length in English, and should clearly state: 1. The type of presentation (poster, short paper, long paper or panel) 2. Title 3. A list of keywords (up to five) 4. The name, status and affiliation of the presenter (s) 5. A contact email address 6. A postal address 7. A biography of no more than 100 words Please send abstracts to conf2013 [ at ] jadh.org http://jadh.org/ by 7 May 2013. Type of proposals: 1. Poster presentations Poster presentations may include work-in-progress on any of the topics described above as well as demonstrations of computer technology, software and digital projects. A separate poster session will open the conference, during which time presenters should be on-hand to explain their work, share their ideas with other delegates, and answer questions. Posters will also be on displayed at various times during the conference, and presenters are encouraged to provide material and handouts with more detailed information and URLs. 2. Short papers Short papers are allocated 10 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions) and are suitable for describing work-in-progress and reporting on shorter experiments and software and tools in early stages of development. 3. Long papers Long papers are allocated 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for questions) and are intended for presenting substantial unpublished research and reporting on significant new digital resources or methodologies. 4. Panels Panels (90 minutes) are comprised of either: (a) Three long papers on a joint theme. All abstracts should be submitted together with a statement, of approximately 500 words, outlining the session topic and its relevance to current directions in the digital humanities; or (b) A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organize should submit a 500-words outline of the topic session and its relevance to current directions in the digital humanities as well as an indication from all speakers of their willingness to participate. Contact: Please direct enquires about any aspect of the conference to: conf2013 [ at ] jadh.org http://jadh.org/ Program Committee: Hiroyuki Akama (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Paul Arthur (Australian National University, Australia) Neil Fraistat (University of Maryland, USA) Shoichiro Hara (Kyoto University, Japan), Chair Jieh Hsiang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Mitsuyuki Inaba (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Jan Christoph Meister (University of Hamburg, Germany) Charles Muller (University of Tokyo, Japan) Hajime Murai (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Maki Miyake (Osaka University, Japan) Kiyonori Nagasaki (International Institute for Digital Humanities, Japan) John Nerbonne (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Espen Ore (University of Oslo, Norway) Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta, Canada) Susan Schreibman (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Masahiro Shimoda (University of Tokyo, Japan) Raymond Siemens (University of Victoria, Canada) Keiko Suzuki (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Takafumi Suzuki (Toyo University, Japan) Tomoji Tabata (Osaka University, Japan) Norihiko Uda (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Christian Wittern (Kyoto University, Japan) Taizo Yamada (National Institute for the Humanities, Japan) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5BD5B2CF5; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:52:41 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 758582CD9; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:52:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 347C62CC3; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:52:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130222075238.347C62CC3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:52:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.808 pubs: OpenEdition Books X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 808. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:07:27 +0100 From: Marin Dacos Subject: OpenEdition Books! OpenEdition Books! http://www.openedition.org/11942?lang=en We did it! After Revues.org (1999), Calenda (2000) and Hypothèses (2008), OpenEdition’s fourth platform appeared Wednesday 20th February 2013. OpenEdition Books http://books.openedition.org/ is the final addition to our comprehensive series of publishing platforms for the humanities and social sciences. The new service is the book distribution platform on the OpenEdition portal, a non-profit-making initiative whose aim is to develop Open Access to research results in the humanities, social sciences and beyond. The service is not an ideological gesture. It is a genuine academic program, in which ideas are seen as seeds that require constant cross-fertilisation to attain their full potential. OpenEdition is run by the Centre for Open Electronic Publishing, the Université d’Aix-Marseille, the EHESS and the Université d’Avignon, and financed by the French national research agency within the framework of their Facilities of Excellence program. OpenEdition Books began with over 350 books, a figure that soon grew to 1000. The platform was constructed in partnership with prestigious publishers in the domain of academic publishing: institutional publishing bodies such as the Collège de France, Éditions de l’EHESS, Openbooks Publishers (Cambridge), CEU Press (Budapest and New York), Presses universitaires de Liège and the École française de Rome (Italy), as well as great many French university presses from Provence to Brittany. The platform’s publishing consortium already has thirty members, with new partners joining every week from the French-, Spanish-, English-, Portuguese-, German-, and Italian-speaking worlds and beyond. All it then takes is a little time to digitise the books and publish them online to millions of OpenEdition readers. Like our member-publishers, we realised it wasn't possible to develop Open Access without finding ways of financing the publishing work required, a task that has never been more indispensable. To do this we invented the Freemium model, composed of an alliance between researchers, publishers and libraries within the framework of a commercial offer proposing value added services to libraries as part of a transaction for financing Open Access publishing. This will become relevant in June of this year when we activate the sales functions of OpenEdition Books. Member-publishers agree to publish over 50% of their books on Open Access Freemium. It is these books that are already available for consultation today. Due to their publishers’ commitments, they will permanently remain on Open Access. It is our belief that electronic publishing can work without compromising quality, by encouraging our academic ecosystem to traverse the new frontier that is Open Access for all. As we know, your appetite for knowledge is insatiable. That is why we intend to expand OpenEdition Books with 2000 further books each year. Our readership’s keen and sustained interest in our platforms confirms the absolute necessity to feed our minds and encourages us in our mission to distribute and promote research produced in universities and laboratories. We are proud and pleased to be able to contribute in our own way to this undertaking. To whet your appetite, here is a highly personal selection: - La ciudad de los cholos. http://books.openedition.org/ifea/810 Mestizajey colonialidad en Bolivia, siglos XIX y XX, Ximena Soruco Sologuren - Past in the making. http://books.openedition.org/ceup/1571 Historical revisionism in Central Europe after 1989, Michal Kopecek - La grande peste en Espagne musulmane au XIV http://books.openedition.org/ifpo/1563 e http://books.openedition.org/ifpo/1563 siècle http://books.openedition.org/ifpo/1563 . Le récit d’un contemporain de la pandémie du XIVesiècle, Aḥmad bin ‘Alī bin Muḥammad Ibn Ḫātima[Abū Ǧa‘far Ibn Ḫātima al-Anṣārī], Suzanne Gigandet (éd.) To join the OpenEdition Books adventure, write to contact@openedition.org http://www.openedition.org/contact@openedition.org -- Marin Dacos - http://www.openedition.org Director - Centre for Open Electronic Publishing ** OpenEdition is now a Facility of Excellence http://www.openedition.org/10221?lang=en * *(Equipex) ** ** New email : marin.dacos@openedition.org ** CNRS - EHESS - Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) - Université d'Avignon 3, place Victor Hugo, Case n°86, 13331 Marseille Cedex 3 - France Tél : 04 13 55 03 40 Tél. direct : 04 13 55 03 39 Fax : 04 13 55 03 41 Skype : marin.dacos - Gmail video chat : marin.dacos@gmail.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/#!/marindacos _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4079D2CD4; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:00:45 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 497442C98; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:00:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8273E2C97; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:00:42 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130223080042.8273E2C97@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:00:42 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.809 MP3 tagging software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 809. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:56:19 -0600 From: "William J. Moner" Subject: MP3 Tagging Software John, For personal use, I've had success with Media Monkey. Nice interface for working with the ID3 tags. http://www.mediamonkey.com/information/free/ William ------------------------- William J. Moner || Assistant Instructor, Radio-Television-Film, UT Austin (Digital Media) PhD Student, Media Studies, University of Texas at Austin wjmoner@gmail.com || 512.666.4865 || @williamj _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B626F2CE7; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:01:29 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C06EF2CD8; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:01:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E71132CB2; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:01:26 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130223080126.E71132CB2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:01:26 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.810 PhD studentship at De Montfort X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 810. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:22:17 -0000 From: Bernd Carsten STAHL Subject: PhD Studentship - Responsible Research and Innovation De Montfort University -Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility Faculty of Technology Starting April 2013 / July 2013 A PhD research studentship covering stipend (£13,770 p.a.) and tuition fee costs within the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility (CCSR), (Faculty of Technology) working with an internationally recognised research team is available to suitably qualified UK or EU students. The project will be in the area of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) theory and practice. It will be located in the context of the EU FP7 research project GREAT (Governance of REsponsible innovATion) which started in February 2013. For initial information on the GREAT project, check the project website: http://www.great-project.eu/ www.great-project.eu. The studentship furthermore builds on earlier work undertaken in the area, including previous and current EU (ETICA, http://www.etica-project.eu/ www.etica-project.eu; CONSDIER, http://www.consider-project.eu/ www.consider-project.eu) and current UK funded projects (FRRIICT, http://www.responsible-innovation.org.uk/ www.responsible-innovation.org.uk) conducted within the CCSR. These projects have identified emerging technologies, their ethical issues, and methods for fostering good, ethical governance and practice in research and innovation. These research activities feed into the broader field of RRI. The studentship will contribute to this debate. Areas this PhD studentship might explore include the following: · Critical review of current theories and practices of RRI · Applicability of RRI methods or procedures between different fields · Shortcomings and limitations of discourses around RRI · Methods for evaluation of RRI activities and initiatives · Methods for implementing and disseminating RRI The project can build on the findings of the GREAT ETICA, CONSIDER and FRRIICT projects. In addition to the projects already mentioned, the CCSR will lead a work packages in another recently awarded European networking project on RRI (RESPONSIBILITY) which will run in parallel to the GREAT project. The successful applicant will therefore be able to access current discussions and contribute immediately to European policy formulation. Since 2008 the CCSR has led successful research application worth more than £3 million in research funding and been involved in projects worth another £3 million. All of the funded projects feed directly into research and policy discussions on RRI in ICT. The Centre boasts an active research agenda and a significant number of postgraduate students, with opportunities for the successful student to become involved in a supportive, enthusiastic, and collegial atmosphere aimed at fostering the highest quality of research and significant impact of research output. For a more detailed description of the studentship project please visit our web site ( http://www.dmu.ac.uk/ccsr www.dmu.ac.uk/ccsr) or contact Prof. Bernd Stahl on +44 116 207 8252 or email bstahl@dmu.ac.uk This research opportunity builds on our excellent achievements in the past and looking forward to REF2014 and beyond. It will develop the university’s research capacity into new and evolving areas of study, enhancing DMU’s national and international research partnerships. Applications are invited from UK or EU students with a good first degree (First, 2:1 or equivalent) in a relevant subject. Doctoral scholarships are available for up to three years full-time study starting April 2013 and provide a bursary of £13,770 pa in addition to university tuition fees. To download an application pack, please visit the http://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/graduate-school/phd-scholarships.aspx Graduate School Office website. Completed applications should be returned to researchstudents@dmu.ac.uk via the Apply button below. Please quote ref: DMU Research Scholarships 2013 TECH FO1 Closing Date: 15 March 2013 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 098C42CF5; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:02:08 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FB502CEB; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:02:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6E2912CE9; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:02:06 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130223080206.6E2912CE9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:02:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.811 new project: Lincoln Logarithms X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 811. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:32:24 -0500 From: Brian Croxall Subject: Emory's Digital Scholarship Commons Launches a New Project: Lincoln Logarithms Hi all, We wanted to let you know that a new DiSC project has just launched. You can find it at http://disc.library.emory.edu/lincoln/. Lincoln Logarithms: Finding Meaning in Sermons uses digital tools to analyze 57 sermons delivered after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. We wondered if using digital tools to analyze a digitized collection elegiac sermons might uncover patterns or new insights about his memorialization, and this project is an exploration of what such tools can and cannot show us. Lincoln Logarithms is a partnership between DiSC and Emory's Lewis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections, which had previously digitized the sermons that are in the Pitts Theology Library's collections. The work on the project was carried out by the DiSC graduate fellows—Sarita Alami, Moya Bailey, and Katie Rawson—and by the Beck Center's Sara Palmer. While the Lincoln Logarithms project was planned to launch around the Academy Awards where the film Lincoln, directed by Steven Spielberg, is up for twelve awards. However, this work seems even more timely given the unfortunate comments made by Emory President James Wagner, regarding the Three-Fifths Compromise ( http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_MAGAZINE/issues/2013/winter/register/president.html), further illuminating the need for a continued engagement with the past and illuminating the possibilities digital tools provide for a robust engagement. Please explore the work that's been done and share it widely with friends and colleagues. Best, Brian Croxall -- Brian Croxall, PhD | Digital Humanities Strategist | Lecturer of English | Emory 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1BEA82CF0; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:04:28 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 030312CD9; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:04:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9E1082CD8; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:04:25 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130223080425.9E1082CD8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:04:25 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.812 events: labs of art; Web as lab; invisible Australians X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 812. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Seth Denbo (41) Subject: Digital History Seminar, Tuesday 26 February, Tim Sherratt, 'Exposing the archives of White Australia' [2] From: Office Dupre (35) Subject: Laboratories of Art, March 7/8 2013 MPIWG Berlin [3] From: Erik Cambria (18) Subject: THE WEB AS A LABORATORY --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:08:46 +0000 From: Seth Denbo Subject: Digital History Seminar, Tuesday 26 February, Tim Sherratt, 'Exposing the archives of White Australia' Digital History Seminar, Institute for Historical Research http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/321 | #dhist Tuesday 26 February 2013 5:15 pm (GMT), Bedford Room G37, Senate House, Ground floor. All seminars are streamed live on historyspot.org.uk. Tim Sherratt, ‘Exposing the archives of White Australia’ With the passing of the Immigration Restriction Act in 1901, the new Australian nation put in place a framework to protect its racial purity – what was to become known as the White Australia Policy. While the outlines of this policy are well known, what is less well-recognised is the White Australia Policy was a massive bureaucratic exercise. The Invisible Australians project (invisibleaustralians.org) is using a variety of digital technologies to explore and analyse the archives generated by the administration of the White Australia Policy. Many thousands of people sought to build lives and families within this discriminatory regime. Invisible Australians aims to recover their personal stories, while also documenting the workings of the bureaucracy itself. How can we re-use archival data to build new forms of access? How can we track the flow of power through surviving bureaucratic traces? How can we construct an online research project without any funding or institutional support? This presentation will introduce Invisible Australians and reflect on how the digital realm enlarges our scope both for understanding and for action. *Dr Tim Sherratt* (@wragge) is a freelance digital historian, web developer and cultural data hacker who has been developing online resources relating to archives, museums and history since 1993. He has written on weather, progress and the atomic age, and developed resources including Bright Sparcs, Mapping our Anzacs and QueryPic. He was a Harold White Fellow at the National Library of Australia in 2012 and is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Digital Design and Media Arts Research Cluster at the University of Canberra. Tim is one of the organisers of THATCamp Canberra and a member of the interim committee of the Australasian Association for the Digital Humanities. He blogs at discontents.com.au. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "IHR Digital HIstory Seminar Announce" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ihr-digital-history-seminar-announce+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:56:13 +0100 From: Office Dupre Subject: Laboratories of Art, March 7/8 2013 MPIWG Berlin Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce our upcoming conference: Laboratories of Art, March 7/8 2013 Main Conference Room, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstr. 22, 14195 Berlin Organisers: Sven Dupré Max Planck Research Group Director, MPIWG/Freie Universität Berlin Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk Kunstpalast Museum Düsseldorf Common components of art and alchemy were materials, instruments, apparatus as well as processes and experiments. Laboratories of Art investigates ways in which artists' workshops could be said to be sites of alchemy. Exploring the relationship between art, knowledge, and technology, speakers discuss various visual and decorative arts: glassmaking, metallurgy, sculpture, goldsmithing, ceramics, and painting. Participants: Marco Beretta, Università di Bologna Andrea Bernardoni, Institute and Museum of the History of Science (Museo Galileo) David Brafman, Getty Institute Marjolijn Bol, University of Amsterdam Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge Henrike Haug, Technische Universität Berlin Mathew C. Hunter, McGill University Stephen Johnston, MHS, University of OxfordDidier Kahn, CNRS Fanny Kieffer, Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours Ursula Klein, MPIWG/University Konstanz Matteo Martelli, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin William Newman, University of Indiana Sylvie Neven, University of Liege, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Lawrence Principe, Johns Hopkins University Anke Timmermann, Medizinsiche Universität Wien Morgan Wesley, Sotheby’s Institute of Art/University of Oxford Steve Wharton, University of Sussex Alan Williams, Conservation Dept.,The Wallace Collection, London. Would you be so kind as to circulate this information? Observers are welcome but space is limited, to register please email officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de Best regards Gina Grzimek Sekretariat Dupré Max Planck Research Group Art and Knowledge in Premodern Europe Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Boltzmannstraße 22 14195 BERLIN --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 07:01:14 +0000 From: Erik Cambria Subject: THE WEB AS A LABORATORY Below is the abstract of the insightful talk that Prof Bebo White, Departmental Associate (Emeritus) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Web pioneer in the US, will be delivering as WWW13 MABSDA (http://sentic.net/mabsda) keynote speech. Don't miss it! THE WEB AS A LABORATORY Insights from Web Science and Big Data Analysis have led many researchers to the conclusion that the Web not only represents an almost unlimited data store but also a remarkable multi-disciplinary laboratory environment. A new challenge is how to best leverage the potential of this experimental space. What are the procedures for defining, implementing and evaluating “Web-scale” experiments? What are acceptable measures of robustness and repeatability? What are the opportunities for experimental collaboration? What disciplines are likely to benefit from this new research model? This talk will likely have more questions than answers, but should provide fertile ground for ongoing discussion. Best Regards, WWW MABSDA Organizers _______________________________ Erik Cambria, PhD 康文涵 Research Scientist Temasek Laboratories Cognitive Science Programme National University of Singapore 28 Medical Drive, 117456, Singapore Web: http://sentic.net Email: cambria@nus.edu.sg Twitter: http://twitter.com/senticnet Facebook: http://facebook.com/senticnet _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 88F6C2CC9; Sun, 24 Feb 2013 10:36:21 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F1DD2C91; Sun, 24 Feb 2013 10:36:18 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5001910CD; Sun, 24 Feb 2013 10:36:17 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130224093617.5001910CD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 10:36:17 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.813 Lausanne-Venice research centre X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 813. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:34:28 +0100 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: A common DH research center between Lausanne (EPFL) and Venice (Italy) Congratulations to the team of the DH Lab (Prof. Frédéric Kaplan, EPFL, Lausanne, CH). A contract was signed today between the «city of the doges», Venice, and the EPFL (Swiss polytechnical school) to open a common research DH center in Venice (University Cà Foscari). It is called «Joint Research Center for Digital Humanities and Future Cities in Venice». Other developments are scheduled in Switzerland, in Bern and Lausanne. http://www.romandie.com/news/n/Contrat_signe_entre_l_EPFL_et_l_Universite_Ca_Foscari_de_Venise29230220131627.asp? 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 07:54:19 +0000 From: "Conf@qqml.net" Subject: Plenary Speakers and Workshops: 5th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, 4 - 7 June 2013, "La Sapienza" University, Rome Italy Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2013) 4 - 7 June 2013, “La Sapienza” University, Rome Italy New Abstract submission deadline: 28 February 2013, http://www.isast.org It is our honour to announce the Plenary Speakers of the 5th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2013), 4 - 7 June 2013, “La Sapienza” University, Rome Italy. Workshops Impact evaluation workshop / Organized by Mr. Markku A. Laitinen, Planning Officer, The National Library of Finland and Ms. Anna Niemelä, Service Coordinator, The National Library of Finland The libraries have a long tradition in collecting statistical data and other evidence - user survey data etc. - about their operations. In practice, the utilization of data collected may not be as versatile as possible. However, the evidence of effectiveness and impact of library services may be of crucial importance for libraries to survive in the current economic atmosphere. Hence, we invite library experts around the world to unite their forces to find new good practices to show impact and value of libraries! In the workshop, we seek together answers to following questions: - To which quarter do you prove impact and value of your library? - How do you show that services provided by your library give additional value to your customers/target group? - What kind of information or data is necessary to collect in order to show the impact and benefits of your library? The workshop is carried out in 3 sessions with same content during the conference Information Grounds: A field method and design workshop for supporting how people experience everyday information in informal social settings / Organized Dr. Karen E. Fisher, Professor, University of Washington Information School, USA Information Grounds are informal social settings where people create, remix, and share everyday information all while attending to another activity—cafes and pubs, hair and tattoo salons, grocery stores, football games, waiting rooms, parks, libraries and book stores, public transport, the beach… online settings too, including Warcraft, Etsy, Pinterest and more. Fisher (writing as Pettigrew, 1999, p. 811), defined information grounds as synergistic “environment(s) temporarily created when people come together for a singular purpose but from whose behavior emerges a social atmosphere that fosters the spontaneous and serendipitous sharing of information,” and later developed propositions and a typology (Fisher, Landry & Naumer, 2007; Counts & Fisher, 2010; pie.uw.edu). In this all-day, two part-workshop, participants will (a) learn the information ground “people-place-information” conceptual framework and basic field methods for studying information grounds, (b) conduct fieldwork in Rome, and (c) analyze their observations using a design thinking approach that considers how their information ground might be served and utilized by tweaking people, place, information factors via applications, services and policy. Implications for how libraries can be promoted as information grounds are a key highlight. Note: this workshop is a blast—very conceptual, but practical and hands-on: bring your walking shoes, sun block, note pad/sketch book, digital camera and Euros for espresso and biscotti. Counts, S., & Fisher, K. E. (2010). Mobile Social Networking as Information Ground: A Case Study. Library & Information Science Research, 32.2, 98-115. Fisher, K. E., Landry, C. F., & Naumer,, C. M. (2007). Social spaces, casual interactions, meaningful exchanges: An information ground typology based on the college student experience. Information Research, 12.2. Plenary Speeches Looking Out and Looking In - The Universe of InformationLynne Marie Rudasill Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Member of the IFLA Governing Board We are all aware of the fact that the forces of globalization are not just felt in the spheres of economics, politics, and sociology. Library and information science is also facing the challenges brought on by vast technological changes that are having an increasingly foundational impact upon the field. The concepts of interdisciplinarity, problem-solving, and big data are explored here in an effort to understand the intricacies of measurement in a rapidly changing field, the tools that can be provided to our institutions and, most importantly, to our users. Beginning with a look at a galaxy of clickstream data that provides a striking example of interdisciplinarity, we can explore the information universe where competing methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative, demand our attention and resources. We will also try to see the expanding edges of our universe to understand where we might be going next. Lynne Marie Rudasill is Associate Professor and Global Studies Librarian at the University Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is fully embedded in the Center for Global Studies, a Title VI National Resource Center supported by the U.S. Department of Education, and holds the unique distinction of being the first professional full-time digital librarian in the emerging field of global studies. Lynne provides library instruction, reference services, and collection management support in the fields of global studies, European Union studies, political science and United Nations documents. Like most professional university librarians, Lynne regularly offers subject-area training and instruction for students, faculty, K-12 teachers, and specialized audiences, such as the military. In her capacity as Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, Lynne has taught graduate courses at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science including, “Information, Libraries, and Society” and “Social Science Research Methods and Resources”. GSLIS is the top-ranked library school in the nation, and the University Library is the largest public university research library in the United States. With her colleague, Barbara Ford, Director of the Mortenson Center for International Librarianship, Lynne currently teaches an undergraduate global studies course “The Power of Information in Development,” which provides a multidisciplinary and information-intensive approach to the study of the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. Lynne’s scholarly research focuses on access to information, especially access by users to information on digital platforms and access by scholars to fugitive literature. She isauthor of numerous journal articles, book chapters, reference works, conference presentations, and edited books, the most recent of which is Open Access and Digital Libraries: Social Science Libraries in Action (2013), co-edited with Maria E. Dorta-Duque of the Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales (ISRI) in Cuba. This volume isthe first fully bilingual publication in the IFLA “greenback” series. Lynne isa member inlong standing of the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL). She was awarded the ACRL Law and Political Science Section’s Marta Lange/CQ Press Award in 2009 for her contributions to that group. She has served as the Chair of the Social Science Libraries Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and currently is a member of the IFLA Governing Board and Professional Committee as Chair of Division 1, Library Types. In her teaching, research and her professional service, Lynne emphasizes the importance of multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship to help solve the problems of a population of over 7 billion people inhabiting the same planet. Collaboration—the most wicked enabler to fabulously successful researchDr. Karen E. Fisher University of Washington Information School Collaboration signals bringing together people whose assets—professional skills and expertise, social capital, work styles, personalities, and more work in harmony towards achieving a common goal. A complex notion, collaboration ranges in degree of formality, whether required or voluntary, and extent and type of participation. Most research, like other human endeavors, comprises some element of collaboration. Yet stories approach urban myth of collaborations that were hard to create, wasted time, damaged relations, and left unfinished business leading to nowhere. However, collaboration can go remarkably well, showing the power of many, the creation of gold from dust. Two such examples are shared—macro and micro—that have several commonalities and yet vary widely in team size, budget, resources, and genesis. The U.S. Impact Study (2010-12) of how people use computers and the Internet in public libraries led by Fisher, Crandall and Becker was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Institute of Museum & Library Services. In addition to the PIs, assistants and consultants, the study comprised an expert committee and partnered with about 500 libraries. Mixed-methods—an unprecedented web survey (continuing today), telephone survey and case studies—were used to study 50,000 people. The second study, InfoMe, is an ethnographic-design study that brings together public libraries, community-based organizations, corporate agencies and university researchers to understand how ethnic minority youth seek information and use technology on behalf of other people, especially older family members, and how this information mediary phenomenon can be supported through information technology, services and policy. This study—being exploratory, qualitative and design-focused but also involving survey techniques and community training workshops is vastly smaller in nature and entirely dependent on collaboration for success with its myriad partners. Funded by Microsoft and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, InfoMe led from the U.S. Impact Study that showed 63% of people used library technology on behalf of another person in the past 12 months, which has strong implications for how we design information systems, support information literacy, and determine impact. Together these two studies illustrate how collaboration can elevate the doing of research, turning every moment into a state of flow and igniting research programs with long-reaching effects. Dr. Karen E. Fisher is a Professor in the University of Washington Information School and Adjunct Professor of Communication. She teaches and conducts research on how people experience information as part of everyday life, with emphasis on the interpersonal aspects of information behavior, the role of informal social settings or “information grounds” in information flow, as well as the broad impacts of information and communication technologies. Her current work supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services and Microsoft asks how ethnic minority youth seek information and use technology on behalf of other people, especially older family members, and how this phenomenon can be supported through information technology, services and policy. A second current area involves online dating as an information problem, the development of instrumental ties, and relevance to other dyadic relationships—business, creative—especially long-term. Dr. Fisher’s 2009-2011 work addressed the multiplex value of public libraries in communities across the United States. In this mixed methods study (with Crandall, Becker, et al.,) of 50,000 people conducted for the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a key finding is that 63% of people use library technology on behalf of another person, which has strong implications for how we design information systems, support information literacy, and determine impact. Co-author of Theory in Motion: Using theories of information behavior to design applications, policy and services (in progress, with S. Erdelez), Digital Inclusion: Measuring the Impact of Information and Community Technology (2009, with M. Crandall), Theories of Information Behavior (2005, with S. Erdelez & L. McKechnie), and several monographs about community services in public libraries, her supporters include the National Science Foundation, Microsoft Research, the United Way of America, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Recipient of the 2005 and 2008 ALA Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research, Dr. Fisher has been recognized for her research by the Hawaii Int'l Conference on System Sciences, American Society for Information Science & Technology, and the Association for Library and Information Science Education. An alum of the University of Western Ontario (PhD & MLIS) and Memorial University of Newfoundland (BA), she held a postdoc at the University of Michigan, and was a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research, and a NORSLIS Visiting Professor at Oslo University College, Norway. She serves on the international program committees for ISIC: The Information Behavior Conference and i3: Information: Interactions and Impact; and was co-program chair of the 2011 iSchool Conference. A past member of ASIST’s Board of Directors, Prof. Fisher was inducted to the ASIST SIG USE Academy of Fellows in 2009. To learn more, visit infome.uw.edu and tascha.uw.edu/usimpact. The only Newfoundlander in Seattle, Karen lives in Seattle’s Fremont houseboat community and can be found biking the Burke-Gilman Trail when she’s not at hot yoga, belly dancing at the Visionary Dance Studio or contemplating moving to Tuscany. New Abstract submission deadline: 28 February 2013. Indicative themes are in http://www.isast.org http://www.isast.org/ Special Sessions – Workshops You may send proposals for Special Sessions (4-6 papers) or Workshops (more than 2 sessions) including the title and a brief description at: Conf@qqml.net You may also send Abstracts/Papers to be included in the following sessions, to new sessions or as contributed papers at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractregistration.html Contributions may be realized through one of the following ways a. structured abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) and presentation; b. full papers (not exceeding 7,000 words); c. posters (not exceeding 2,500 words); d. visual presentations (Pecha kucha). All abstracts will be published in the Conference Book of Abstracts and in the website of the Conference. The papers of the conference will be published in the e-journal QQML after the permission of the author(s). Student submissions. Professors and Supervisors are encouraged to organize conference sessions of Postgraduate theses and dissertations. Please direct any questions regarding the QQML 2013 Conference and Student Research Presentations to the secretariat of the conference at: Conf@qqml.net On behalf of the Conference CommitteeDr. Anthi Katsirikou, Conference Co-Chair University of Piraeus Library Director Head, European Documentation Center Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information Professionals anthi@asmda.com Professor Carla Basili, Local Co-Chair EnIL - The European network on Information Literacy, co-ordinator Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Istituto di Ricerca sull'Impresa e lo Sviluppo sede di Roma via dei Taurini, 19 - 00185 Roma, Italy _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4A08C2CAC; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:13:41 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DDB12C8D; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:13:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DC51DF99; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:13:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130225091338.DC51DF99@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:13:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.815 reminder: professorship at Western Sydney X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 815. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:14:35 +1100 From: Craig Bellamy Subject: Professor in Digital Humanities, UWS (Australia) University of Western Sydney, Australia Applications are invited for the continuing position of Professor (Academic Level E) from scholars with outstanding teaching and research strengths in Digital Humanities. The position will be responsible for providing academic leadership and for developing research and teaching programs in the Digital Humanities. As the Professor in Digital Humanities, you will be responsible for leading and developing the new Digital Humanities Research Group (DHRG). You will have a PhD and a demonstrable record of excellent teaching and high quality international publications in the area of Digital Humanities, and success in obtaining competitive research funding and delivery on the projects. You will bring with you management and leadership skills, and experience in generating and managing large collaborative and interdisciplinary projects. You will be responsible for the DHRG’s intra- and inter-institutional relations, and for the development of both a strategic and 3-year operational plan for the Research Group The School of Humanities and Communication Arts brings together scholars with interdisciplinary research interests in the following fields: advertising, anthropology, Asian studies, cultural studies, graphic design, history, international relations, journalism, linguistics and modern languages, literature and literary studies, media and visual studies, media production, music recording and performance, music therapy, philosophy, photography, political and social theory, religious studies, and web design. Their research intersects with the focal areas of a range of University Research Institutes and Centres: The Institute for Culture and Society, The MARCS Institute, The Religion and Society Research Centre, and the Writing and Society Research Centre. In the area of Digital Humanities, the School will be working in very close collaboration with the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics and with the eResearch team. In addition to researchers from the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, the Digital Humanities Research Group is expected to incorporate researchers from the technology disciplines, primarily, from the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics and to develop close links with the UWS eResearch Team. The School operates in a multi-campus environment and the successful applicant is expected to teach on all campuses on which the School operates in face-to-face teaching delivery and/or through blended learning technologies. This position will be located at the Parramatta campus. Remuneration Package:Academic Level E AUD$189,215 p.a (comprising salary AUD$160,629, 17% Superannuation and Leave Loading) Position Enquiries:Professor Peter Hutchings, (61 2) 9772 6167; p.hutchings@uws.edu.au Closing Date: 13 March 2013 How to apply: Please visit the UWS website http://careers.uws.edu.au/Current-Vacancies for full details on this position and how to apply. UWS values workplace diversity. -- Dr Craig Bellamy Research Fellow ___________________________ Computing and Information Systems The University of Melbourne Parkville, Melbourne, Australia ___________________________ w: craigbellamy.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 94EB22CD6; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:13:59 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E7042CB2; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:13:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7A0E22C9C; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:13:56 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130225091356.7A0E22C9C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:13:56 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.816 events: semantic web X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 816. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:57:47 +0000 From: Bertram_Fronhöfer Subject: ICCL Summer School 2013 ICCL Summer School 2013 As in the past summer schools at the Technische Universität Dresden, people from distinct, but communicating communities will gather in an informal and friendly atmosphere. This two-week event is aimed at graduate students, researchers and practitioners. The topic of this year's summer school is Semantic Web - Ontology Languages and Their Use The summer school is devoted to the Semantic Web, a very dynamic and current area of research and application which aims at making information on the World Wide Web fit for intelligent systems applications. One of the key ideas of the Semantic Web approach is to make use of methods from knowledge representation and of AI research in general in order to obtain seamless integration of information from diverse resources, interoperability of tools, enhance search functionalities, and the like. Central for this development is the design of knowledge representation languages for building so-called ontologies, which serve as a kind of metadata to describe the semantics or meaning of data on the Web. Of primary importance are ontology languages and related recommended standards by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), as well as methods and algorithm for their processing. The Semantic Web is now an advanced interdisciplinary field having its home in Computer Science. Third party funding for more than a decade, in particular from the European Union, has led to significant progress. Systems like Apple's Siri or IBM's Watson, adaptions of Semantic-Web-based technologies for e.g. schema.org, Facebook's Open Graph or Google's Knowledge Graph bring these technologies to widespread use and application. Through so-called Linked Data, high volumes of Semantic-Web-processable data is already available on the Web. The ICCL Summer School 2013 will introduce to Semantic Web Ontology Languages and some of their application areas, and highlight related research problems. Registration: If you want to attend the summer school, we would like you to register via the Online Registration Form preferably by April 11, 2013. This deadline is obligatory for all who want to apply for a grant. After April 11, 2013, registration will be possible as long as there are vacant places. (Since we intend to restrict participation to about 60 people, in case of excessive demand, we will have to close the registration to the summer school.) Please register at the latest by July 1, 2013, because - apart from the mentioned overall restriction of participation - we would need an early estimate of the number of participants. People applying until April 11, 2013, and applying for a grant will be informed about respective decisions on grants by end of April 2013. After April 11, 2013 applications for grants cannot be considered any more. An on-site check-in is on Sunday, August 18, 2013, at 4 - 7 pm in room E001 of the Computer Science building. It continues on Monday, August 19, 2013, 8 - 10 am. Fees: (A) We ask for a participation fee of 250 EUR for participants from the university sector (students, university employees, etc) (B) We ask for a participation fee of 1000 Euro for participants from industry. Please pay this summer school fee in cash at the day of your arrival. If belonging to the university sector you have to provide some respective evidence when paying the fees at the check-in (e.g. student card, web page at a university, etc). Grants: A limited number of grants for students and university employees will be available, which includes a waiver of the participation fee. Please indicate in your application, if the only possibility for you to participate is via a grant. Applications for grants must include an estimate of travel costs. (Such info shall be mentioned in the respective parts of the online registration form). Please consult our web pages for further details. http://www.computational-logic.org/content/events/iccl-ss-2013/index.php?id=24 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DEEB72CB9; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:03:54 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD2982C9B; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:03:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 94A542C9B; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:03:51 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130225100351.94A542C9B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:03:51 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.817 events: an intellectual history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 817. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:45:07 +0000 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: CeRch seminar: Digital recovery and intellectual history: the case of James Mill and Robert Fenn Centre for e-Research Seminar: Digital recovery and intellectual history: the case of James Mill and Robert Fenn Kristopher Grint, University of Sussex 26 February 2013, 6.15pm Anatomy Museum Space, Strand Campus Directions: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/atm/location.aspx Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is requested: www.eventbrite.com/event/5177044680 Abstract My seminar proposal focuses on the methodology and findings of my recent DPhil thesis on the intellectual history of James Mill (1776-1836), the Scottish philosopher and journalist, most famous as a disciple of the Utilitarian Jeremy Bentham and the father of John Stuart Mill. But my research for this thesis began in earnest with a focus on an altogether different man, Robert Fenn, a Canadian professor of political science, who spent the majority of his academic career engrossed in the transcription of a corpus of MillÂ’s manuscripts, known as the common place books. These books – five thick ledger volumes of tiny, scrawled writing collated by Mill over a period of about 15 years – were painstakingly recreated by Fenn on his 1980s-era Apple IIe. After completing his efforts, in 1994, he tragically died before finding a publisher, his work assumed lost. I intend to cover three topics in this seminar. First, the story of my search and recovery of FennÂ’s work, the technical challenges it produced, and its transformation into a searchable electronic resource which was published in 2010. Second, how an accessible transcript of the common place books has initiated a radical transformation in my understanding of several key areas of MillÂ’s thought. MillÂ’s politics, ideas about educational reform, and his religious belief all come to life through a study of his manuscript writings, which were composed away from the difficult and at times hostile atmosphere of early nineteenth-century Britain. A common theme running through my thesis is that Mill practiced the art of ‘dissimulationÂ’ – he never said publicly exactly what he thought in private. Finally, and most importantly, I want to address how advances in digital research techniques, even rather basic ones such as manuscript digitisation, impact upon, and have the potential to improve, a field such as intellectual history. Intellectual history – very broadly the study of the history of ideas – is at its foundation a discipline fascinated with texts and contexts. It therefore appears ripe for a digital revolution in approach, since so much detail about a text can be extracted by technical advances. But what do such advances mean for the exploration of contexts? Is there a danger here of separating text from its all-important contextual background? And are intellectual historians even willing to accept such radical changes to their practices? Biography Kris Grint holds degrees in history from the University of Manchester and KingÂ’s College London, and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Sussex. He is a member of the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History and works on several of its digitisation initiatives. Broadly interested in the history of political and religious thought in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries, his current research focuses on the Utilitarian philosopher James Mill (1773-1836). In 2010, Grint published online, in collaboration with the London Library, MillÂ’s common place books, an extensive archive of manuscript material that aims to reinvigorate debates about his legacy. The seminar will be followed by wine and nibbles. -- --------------------------------- Dr. Stuart Dunn Lecturer Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Email: stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk Tel. +44 (0)20 7848 2709 Fax. +44 (0)20 7848 2980 Blog: http://stuartdunn.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 430162CDE; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:54:48 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5337F2CC7; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:54:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D16D62CC3; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:54:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130225115445.D16D62CC3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:54:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.818 events: New Scholars in Digital Humanities lecture X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 818. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:39:56 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Dr Øyvind Eide on maps and texts "The area told as a story. An inquiry into the relationship between verbal and map-based expressions of geographical information" Dr ؘyvind Eide Friday, 1 March, 17.00-19.00, Anatomy Lecture Theatre, 6th floor, King's Building, Strand, London In the Department of Digital Humanities' New Scholars lecture series and the Arts and Humanities Research Institute's Interdisciplinary Seminar, King's College London (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/eventrecords/eide.aspx). > Abstract > In the struggle every creator of expressions goes through, > the restrictions of the media being used are there, to be obeyed or > to be questioned. In this paper I will show how maps and verbal texts > are different media, and how these differences have consequences not > only for how things are said, but also for what can be said at all > using these two media. I will present a series of modelling > experiments in which this is studied in detail. Based on the results > from these experiments, an inventory of types of information that are > incompatible will be presented. Further, it will be shown how the > findings from the experiments are in line with traditional as well as > recent views in the area of interart and intermedia studies, which > indicates that they may be applicable to most if not all texts. The > paper will be concluded by a discussion of how the understanding of > these differences may be brought forward by future research. A reception will follow. All are welcome. -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 418312CD6; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:20:50 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41B152CC7; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:20:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F0B142C96; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:20:46 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130225142046.F0B142C96@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:20:46 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.819 correction: New Scholars lecture X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 819. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:02:09 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: correction: Øyvind Eide's New Scholars lecture Apologies to all: Dr ؘyvind Eide's New Scholars lecture, announced in Humanist 26.818, will start at 6 pm this Friday, not 5. 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,T_FRT_PROFILE2 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0BAFB2CCC; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:17:48 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DEDCEA8; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:17:48 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4D8D7EC7; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:17:46 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130226061746.4D8D7EC7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:17:46 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.820 PhD studentships in CS at Trinity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 820. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:05:56 +0000 From: Alexander O'Connor Subject: Job opportunity: PhD Positions at Trinity College Dublin in Computer Science http://kdeg.cs.tcd.ie/phd-studentships-22-posts PhD Studentships - 22 Posts Post Status: 3 year PhD Studentships Department: Centre for Next Generation Localisation Laboratory, Trinity College Dublin Benefits: Payment of tax free stipend and academic fees Closing date for applications: 28th February 2013 General enquires concerning these posts can be addressed to Dominic.Jones@scss.tcd.ie Summary: The Centre for Next Generation Localisation seeks to revolutionise the way people interact with content, systems and each other to achieve unprecedented levels of content access, process efficiency and user empowerment. Breakthroughs in the creation, processing, unification and integration of multilingual, multi-modal and multimedia content are needed to meet the needs of an increasingly mobile and multilingual society across global markets. CNGL will enable content to be created, discovered, translated and personalised, so as to efficiently and effectively deliver natural and engaging web-mediated interactions between users, organisations and communities regardless of language, device and preferences of the user. CNGL is internationally renown for its strong, strategic mix of leading researchers in language, adaptive content, interaction and knowledge engineering technologies and its tight engagement with innovation-driven companies that work with content at a global level. CNGL has recently received further multi-million funding from Science Foundation Ireland. As a result Trinity College Dublin (TCD) is now offering 22 new PhD studentships in the areas of: • Text Analytics for managing large scale multilingual corpora. • Content-aware multilingual Search and Discovery technologies • Adaptive context-aware search • Intelligent slicing and adaptation of content • Social-aware, affective content adaptation • Constructing affective dialogue solutions • Interoperability and analytics for intelligent content processing chains Requirements: The successful candidate will have an excellent academic record (first class or II.1 primary degree or a postgraduate qualification, e.g. M.Sc.) in Computer Science, or a related discipline. They will be highly motivated, with strong written and oral communication skills and a demonstrated proficiency in software development. They must be eager to work in and learn from multi-disciplinary and multi-organisation teams. They should have English language certification if English is not their first language, the requirement being: IELTS: 7.0+, TOEFL iBT: 100+, TOEFL pBT: 600+, CEF: C1+, or equivalent. Application Procedure: For further information and informal contact, please refer to the PhD topic details. Please directly contact the relevant supervisor, depending upon the position you're interested in, via email including: • A targeted cover letter (600-1000 words) expressing your suitability for a position • A complete CV • Please also copy Dominic Jones - Dominic.Jones@scss.tcd.ie Applicants may then be invited to apply via the TCD graduate studies admission system. Further Information: Centre for Next Generation Localisation CNGL is a €50M Academia-Industry partnership based in Ireland. It is unique internationally in addressing the integrated research and development of novel content, knowledge and language processing technologies for the global, multi-lingual web content and services supply chain.  It is made up of over 100 researchers in labs integrated across Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Dublin City University (DCU), University College Dublin (UCD), University of Limerick (UL), as well as ten industrial partners, including SMEs, NGOs and multinationals such as Microsoft, Symantec, Intel and Welocalize. In addition to central funding from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), CNGL has a wide portfolio of European FP7 projects and commercial projects. It therefore offers unique opportunities for international and industrial research collaboration at the highest level in areas of language technology, multi-lingual web and adaptive, personalised content. CNGL provides a world class collaborative research and innovation environment. It provides: world-class PhD supervision by integrated teams of leading academics; an experienced and supportive lab community of postdoctoral researchers and research programmers; excellent collaboration and computing facilities; wide ranging skills training opportunities; a dedicated management and administration team and an active commercialisation development pipeline. Trinity College Dublin Founded in 1592, Trinity College Dublin is the oldest university in Ireland and one of the older universities of Western Europe. On today’s campus, state-of-the-art libraries, laboratories and IT facilities, stand alongside historic buildings on a city-centre 47-acre campus. Based in the heart of Dublin, TCD offers an exceptional working and social environment that attracts students and researchers from around the world. TCD’s research impact is currently ranked 44th in the World by the Times Higher Education Ranking of World Universities and 10th in Europe by the Leiden University Ranking of World Universities based on research performance. As Ireland’s premier university, the pursuit of excellence through research and scholarship is at the core of a Trinity education. TCD has an outstanding record of publications in high-impact journals, and a track record in winning research funding which is among the best in the country. Equal Opportunities Policy Trinity College Dublin is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to the employment policies, procedures and practices which do not discriminate on grounds such as gender, marital status, family status, age, disability, race, religious belief, sexual orientation or membership of the travelling community. See also: https://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/Research2012.pdf -- Dr. Alexander O'Connor Knowledge & Data Engineering Group Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Alex.OConnor@scss.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A2B252CE7; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:19:09 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E968F85; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:19:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9BF49ED8; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:19:06 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130226061906.9BF49ED8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:19:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.821 events: markup; summer school; Early Modern studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 821. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Tommie Usdin (37) Subject: Balisage 2013 Papers due in 3 weeks [2] From: Elisabeth Burr (26) Subject: "Culture & Technology" - European Summer School in Digital Humanities: 2013 dates [3] From: Owen Williams (16) Subject: Early Modern Digital Agendas institute deadline next Monday! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:41:30 -0500 From: Tommie Usdin Subject: Balisage 2013 Papers due in 3 weeks REMINDER: Submissions to Balisage 2013 are due on March 15 Balisage is where people interested in descriptive markup meet each year in August for informed technical discussion, occasionally impassioned debate, good coffee, and the incomparable ambience of one of North America's greatest cities, Montreal. We welcome anyone interested in discussing the use of descriptive markup to build strong, lasting information systems. Practitioner or theorist, tool-builder or tool-user, student or lecturer -- you are invited to submit a paper proposal for Balisage 2013. As always, papers at Balisage can address any aspect of the use of markup and markup languages to represent information and build information systems. Possible topics include but are not limited to: * XML and related technologies * Non-XML markup languages * Big Data and XML * Implementation experience with XML parsing, XSLT processors, XQuery processors, XML databases, XProc integrations, or any markup-related technology * Semantics, overlap, and other complex fundamental issues for markup languages * Case studies of markup design and deployment * Quality of information in markup systems * JSON and XML * Efficiency of Markup Software * Markup systems in and for the mobile web * The future of XML and of descriptive markup in general * Interesting applications of markup How: * Submit full papers in XML to * See the Instructions for Authors (http://www.balisage.net/authorinstructions.html) and Tag Set and Submission Guidelines (http://www.balisage.net/tagset.html) for details. * Apply to the Peer Review panel (http://www.balisage.net/peer/ReviewAppForm.html) Schedule: 15 March 2013 - Peer review applications due 19 April 2013 - Paper submissions due 19 April 2013 - Applications due for student support awards due 21 May 2013 - Speakers notified 12 July 2013 - Final papers due 5 August 2013 - Pre-conference Symposium on XForms 6-9 August 2013 - Balisage: The Markup Conference Help us make Balisage your favorite XML Conference. See you in Montreal! -- The Balisage 2013 Conference Committee ====================================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2013 mailto:info@balisage.net August 6-9, 2013 http://www.balisage.net Preconference XForms Symposium August 5, 2013 ====================================================================== --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:16:03 +0100 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: "Culture & Technology" - European Summer School in Digital Humanities: 2013 dates Dates have now been set for the next European Summer School in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology": 22nd of July to 02nd of August 2013 More information will be available shortly at: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ Best, 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 ---------- Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft - Direktorin - 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: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:42:50 +0000 From: Owen Williams Subject: Early Modern Digital Agendas institute deadline next Monday! Are you a scholar of early modern English, or do you facilitate projects that involve Renaissance English literature? Do you want to learn more about current work in digital humanities or need to consider your next steps in developing your approach? In July 2013, the Folger Institute will offer “Early Modern Digital Agendas http://emdigitalagendas.folger.edu/ ” under the direction of Jonathan Hope, Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Strathclyde. It is an NEH-funded, three-week institute that will explore the robust set of digital tools with period-specific challenges and limitations that early modern English literary scholars now have at hand. “Early Modern Digital Agendas” will create a forum in which twenty faculty, graduate student, and alt-ac participants can historicize, theorize, and critically evaluate current and future digital approaches to early modern literary studies—from EEBO-TCP to advanced corpus linguistics, semantic searching, and visualization theory—with discussion growing out of, and feeding back into, their own projects (current and envisaged). With the guidance of expert visiting faculty, attention will be paid to the ways new technologies are shaping the very nature of early modern research and the means by which humanists interpret texts, teach students, and present their findings to others. This institute is supported by an Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Office of Digital Humanities. Eligibility: Faculty, advanced graduate students, and non-teaching staff (including librarians, administrators, and other alt-ac people) are welcome to apply. Applicants need not be U.S. citizens. All admitted participants will receive a stipend of $2,625. All applications must be submitted by Monday, 4 March 2013. Please visit http://emdigitalagendas.folger.edu/ for more information. Questions? Please contact institute@folger.edu. Best, Owen Williams, Ph.D. Assistant Director The Folger Institute Folger Shakespeare Library 201 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-1094 202 675 0352 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0F0CB2CF2; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:19:47 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EA8F2CEB; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:19:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 630752CD9; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:19:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130226061945.630752CD9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:19:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.822 named-entity recognition 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. 822. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:01:56 +0100 From: Seth van Hooland Subject: Tool for Named-Entity Recognition Dear colleagues, You want to automate the discovery of people, place names and events within a large corpus of unstructured documents ? Then you might want to use the Named-Entity Recognition (NER) extension for OpenRefine that has been developed by Multimedia Lab (ELIS — Ghent University / iMinds) and MasTIC (Université Libre de Bruxelles). On http://freeyourmetadata.org/named-entity-extraction/, you will find all the information necessary to start experimenting with NER on your own. The extension was developed specifically in the context of a research paper, entitled "Named-Entity Recognition: A Gateway Drug for Cultural Heritage Collections to the Linked Data Cloud?". A preprint of this paper can be found on http://freeyourmetadata.org/publications/named-entity-recognition.pdf. The paper also aims to foster a discussion within the Digital Humanities community regarding the quality of concepts described in knowledge bases (e.g. Freebase versus DBPedia) and the current struggle between schemes (e.g. schema.org versus Open Graph protocol). We will be presenting our work in North and Latin America in March (Boston), April (New York and Philadelphia), May (Quito) and June (New York and Montreal) so if you're located in one of those cities/areas and interested in collaborating or hosting a workshop on this topic, don't hesitate to get in touch. Kind regards, Seth van Hooland Président du Master en Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (MaSTIC) Université Libre de Bruxelles Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 123 | 1050 Bruxelles http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/ http://twitter.com/#!/sethvanhooland http://mastic.ulb.ac.be 0032 2 650 4765 Office: DC11.102 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AD7AD2CDA; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:22:28 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B86D82CE3; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:22:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D0ED3ED8; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:22:25 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130226062225.D0ED3ED8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:22:25 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.823 language in the struggle to understand? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 823. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:14:08 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: language in the struggle to understand Many years ago, at a university far, far away, when "multimedia" was first a popular term, the architects of learning decided to advance students' education by democratizing what was then high-tech (videocassette recorders, audio tape recorders etc). Large amounts of such equipment were purchased and students allowed to check it out of the library like a book. Assemblies of equipment were called "self-paced learning units". The idea was that students would be creative, make educationally valuable tapes and educate each other with them. (At this university there were no grades; at the end of term everyone evaluated everyone else. It was a very democratic place, on the surface.) Perhaps great videos of high educational value were made. Anyhow, one day a student came up to me in the graphic arts studio where I was working, wide-eyed in wonderment, holding a codex book. She said in awe, "You know, the book was the first self-paced learning unit!" This morning, in a bulletin published by dissenters at another university even further away, a university official defending a new programme that is giving away today's high-tech was quoted as saying, defensively, that "students will still attend class 'for high value-added interactive and collaborative face-to-face learning'. Collaboratively paced, no doubt. What was once and now is going on? In my experience people who feel very insecure when speaking in public or to an educated audience often resort to complicated, polysyllabic, jargon-ridden language. People from insecure disciplines also. Is that it? Or is it the case that the new stuff in its newness is neither one old thing or another but somewhere in between, forcing us to fumble for words to describe it, to think abstractly and clumsily about function, and so turn our fumblings back on familiar objects? 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 54015F96; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:50:33 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0000EDB; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:50:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 965D3ED1; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:50:28 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130227065028.965D3ED1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:50:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.824 language in the struggle to understand X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 824. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Unsworth (64) Subject: Re: 26.823 language in the struggle to understand? [2] From: James Rovira (44) Subject: Re: 26.823 language in the struggle to understand? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:59:26 -0500 From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 26.823 language in the struggle to understand? In-Reply-To: <20130226062225.D0ED3ED8@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, It would be interesting to discuss online learning in the Humanist drawing room, and I hope we do: there's a certain urgency to the topic, given our collective identity as digital humanists. The historical parallels with media services (still with us, by the way) are instructive. But the provocation you provide is off-kilter toward the end, I think. "In person" is not the only equivalence for "interpersonal." If this is about teaching, it's worth noting that our students interact interpersonally in and through a variety of media all day long, and they would be surprised to learn that the only way to learn was to meat (so to speak). John On Feb 26, 2013, at 1:22 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 823. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:14:08 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: language in the struggle to understand > > Many years ago, at a university far, far away, when "multimedia" was > first a popular term, the architects of learning decided to advance > students' education by democratizing what was then high-tech > (videocassette recorders, audio tape recorders etc). Large amounts of > such equipment were purchased and students allowed to check it out of > the library like a book. Assemblies of equipment were called "self-paced > learning units". The idea was that students would be creative, make > educationally valuable tapes and educate each other with them. (At this > university there were no grades; at the end of term everyone evaluated > everyone else. It was a very democratic place, on the surface.) Perhaps > great videos of high educational value were made. Anyhow, one day a > student came up to me in the graphic arts studio where I was working, > wide-eyed in wonderment, holding a codex book. She said in awe, "You > know, the book was the first self-paced learning unit!" > > This morning, in a bulletin published by dissenters at another > university even further away, a university official defending a new > programme that is giving away today's high-tech was quoted as saying, > defensively, that "students will still attend class 'for high > value-added interactive and collaborative face-to-face learning'. > Collaboratively paced, no doubt. > > What was once and now is going on? In my experience people who feel very > insecure when speaking in public or to an educated audience often resort > to complicated, polysyllabic, jargon-ridden language. People from > insecure disciplines also. Is that it? Or is it the case that the new > stuff in its newness is neither one old thing or another but somewhere > in between, forcing us to fumble for words to describe it, to think > abstractly and clumsily about function, and so turn our fumblings back > on familiar objects? > > 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, > University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews > (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); > www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:55:44 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: 26.823 language in the struggle to understand? In-Reply-To: <20130226062225.D0ED3ED8@digitalhumanities.org> Williard -- Great questions, once again. I think your examples are of eduspeak and businesspeak entering the academy, both of which are generally foreign to most academic disciplines so are identified as trite nonsense by those who don't regularly use it. The student holding a codex may just have been impressed with the antiquity of the book, if it really was a hand-written manuscript bound in covers that was some centuries old. Calling a book as self-paced learning unit is, on the one hand, a very silly thing to say, but in the context of this eduspeak going around it at least may be verging on profundity: some people really do use silly jargon to describe very old practices, mainly so that salespeople can sell equipment to college administrators who think the key to better education is better technology, not better teachers. The person quoted below is just repeated the sales jargon for the equipment he's buying or from his admissions department. Perhaps the systemic problem here is what admissions people have to say to parents to sell the school. You can't show a parent a good teacher and have the parent understand just how good that teacher is. You can show a parent an iPad and neat toys in the classroom, though. Jim _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 466BA2CDC; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:51:35 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A9A2C96; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:51:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B979AF85; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:51:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130227065130.B979AF85@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:51:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.825 survey: art, media, 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. 825. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:40:29 +0000 From: "James O'Sullivan" Subject: VERY quick survey Dear all, Please find attached a link to a very brief survey that might be of interest to those of you working in digital art, new media and visualisation. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9DFVP8N I would greatly appreciate if people could take the time to complete this short survey. All the very best, James -- *James O'Sullivan * @jamescosullivan http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan ** Web: josullivan.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan http://twitter.com/#%21/jamescosullivan LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan http://www.linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan Facebook: http://facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan http://www.facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan New Binary Press: http://newbinarypress.com/Bookstore.html OpenDAHT: http://opendaht.org/ Submit to *The Weary Blues*: http://thewearyblues.org/submit.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 178992CE2; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:59:23 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 554742CD1; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:59:20 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 716E62CCA; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:59:18 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130227065918.716E62CCA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:59:18 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.826 events: many and various X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 826. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (14) Subject: Event: Contemporary Fiction, Gaming Culture [2] From: Simon Mahony (40) Subject: Digital Classicist seminars 2013 CFP [3] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (23) Subject: New Directions in Digital Scholarship at Yale [4] From: Office Dupre (76) Subject: Laboratories of Art, March 7/8 2013 [5] From: Leif Isaksen (69) Subject: Late Call for Extended Abstracts, ACM WebSci '13 [6] From: "Conf@qqml.org" (77) Subject: Pleanary Speakers and Workshops: 5th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, 4 - 7 June 2013, "La Sapienza" University, Rome Italy --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:05:58 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Event: Contemporary Fiction, Gaming Culture The Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar is holding a panel on 'Gaming Culture' on 16 March. Details available here: http://events.sas.ac.uk/ies/seminars/332/Contemporary+Fiction+Research+Seminar 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:06:43 +0000 From: Simon Mahony Subject: Digital Classicist seminars 2013 CFP The annual Digital Classicist London seminar series on the subject of research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital component will run again in Summer 2013. We warmly welcome contributions from students as well as from established researchers, and practitioners. Themes could include digital text, linguistics technology, imaging and visualization, linked data, open access, geographic analysis, serious gaming and any other digital or quantitative methods. While we welcome high-quality application papers discussing individual projects, the series also hopes to accommodate broader theoretical consideration of the use of digital technology in Classical studies. The content should be of interest both to classicists, ancient historians or archaeologists, and to information specialists or digital humanists, and have an academic research agenda relevant to at least one of those fields. The seminars will run on Friday afternoons (16:30-18:00) from June to mid-August in Senate House, London, hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies. There is a budget to assist with travel to London (usually from within the UK, but we have occasionally been able to assist international presenters to attend, so please enquire). To submit a paper for consideration for the Digital Classicist London Seminars, please email an abstract of 300-500 words to gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk, by midnight UTC on April 7th, 2013. More information will be found at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013.html -- Simon Mahony Teaching Fellow Programme Director MA/MSc Digital Humanities[1] UCL Centre for Digital Humanities[2] Department of Information Studies University College London Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT Tel: 020 7679 0092 Fax: 020 7383 0557 s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/simon-mahony/ [1] www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/courses/mamsc [2] www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:14:27 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: New Directions in Digital Scholarship at Yale New Directions in Digital Scholarship Yale University Library Friday, 1 March 2013 http://digitalscholarship.commons.yale.edu/ Introducing world leaders in humanities scholarship to the Yale community Presenting innovative work in the field of digital scholarship Encouraging critical reflection and debate on emerging trends in humanities scholarship Exploring the implications of computing and communication technology for fundamental research and pedagogy in higher education In the humanities and the social sciences, technology is radically transforming scholarly practice. In light of these developments, scholars are posing new questions as technology continues to alter the horizons of research, knowledge dissemination, public engagement and teaching in unanticipated and sometimes disruptive ways. This forum will examine how scholarship and its supporting institutions might face the upcoming opportunities and challenges of an open, digital and networked environment. On Friday, 1 March, in the Lecture Hall of the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University, three world leaders in digital scholarship will explore the implications of computing and communications technology for the humanities and social sciences. Together with members of the university community, they will inaugurate a conversation on the new directions for digital scholarship and the transformative, dynamic and innovative role Yale might assume in this rapidly changing scholarly landscape. Yale University Librarian Susan Gibbons will introduce the forum, and a number of innovative, digital scholarship projects from across the university will be featured. Keynote Speakers include: David Germano, Professor of Religious Studies and Director of SHANTI, University of Virginia; Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing, University of Victoria; and Claire Warwick, Professor of Digital Humanities, University College London. Respondents include: Michael Dula, Chief Technology Officer, Yale University Library; Ken Panko, Manager of Digital Humanities and Instructional Technology, Yale University; and Laura Wexler, Professor of American Studies & Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Yale University. ---- 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 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:37:33 +0100 From: Office Dupre Subject: Laboratories of Art, March 7/8 2013 Dear Colleagues, For your information, here is the program of our upcoming conference: Laboratories of Art, March 7/8 2013 Main Conference Room, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstr. 22, 14195 Berlin Organisers: Sven Dupré Max Planck Research Group Director, MPIWG/Freie Universität Berlin Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk Kunstpalast Museum Düsseldorf Common components of art and alchemy were materials, instruments, apparatus as well as processes and experiments. Laboratories of Art investigates ways in which artists' workshops could be said to be sites of alchemy. Exploring the relationship between art, knowledge, and technology, speakers discuss various visual and decorative arts: glassmaking, metallurgy, sculpture, goldsmithing, ceramics, and painting. Thursday, March 7 09:15 – 09:30 Sven Dupré Introduction 09:30 – 10:30 Session I Chair: Sven Dupré Matteo Martelli, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Alchemy as the Art of Dyeing Commentator: Lawrence Principe 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee 11:00 – 12:00 Session II Chair: Jennifer Rampling Sylvie Neven, University of Liege, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Transmission of Alchemical and Artistic Practices and Materials in Medieval and premodern Recipe Books Commentator: Marjolijn Bol 12:00 – 13:00 Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge Alchemy and Vernacular Colour Coding Commentator: David Brafman 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 15:00 Session III Chair: William Newman Andrea Bernardoni, Institute and Museum of the History of Science (Museo Galileo) Chemical Technology and Epistemological Debate in the Works of the Italian Renaissance Engineers Commentator: Stephen Johnston 15:00 – 15:30 Coffee 15:30 – 16:30 Session IV Chair: Anke Timmermann Fanny Kieffer, Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours The Laboratories of Art and Alchemy at the Uffizi Gallery in the Renaissance Florence: Some Material Aspects Commentator: Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk 16:30 – 17:30 Marco Beretta, Università di Bologna Material and Temporal Powers at the Casino San Marco (1574-1621) Commentator, Didier Kahn ******************** Friday, March 8 09:30 – 10:30 Session I Chair: David Brafman Alan Williams, Conservation Dept.,The Wallace Collection, London. Chemical Knowledge and the Armourers’ Art Commentator: Jennifer Rampling 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee 11:00 – 12:00 Session II Chair: Stephen Johnston Henrike Haug, Technische Universität Berlin Disturbing Nature. Artificial Interventions in the Natural Form of Things Commentator: William Newman 12:00 – 13:00 Steve Wharton, University of Sussex Art and Alchemy, Cipriano Piccolpasso and the Transmutation of Matter Commentator: Anke Timmermann 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 15:00 Session III Chair: Sven Dupré Morgan Wesley, Sotheby’s Institute of Art/University of Oxford Refutata per Ignem: Evidence for the Use of Fire Analysis in the Laboratory Practices of John Dwight and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Commentator: Ursula Klein 15:00 – 15:30 Coffee 15:30 – 16:30 Session IV Chair: Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk Lawrence Principe, Johns Hopkins University Goldsmiths and Chymists: The Activity of Artisans within Alchemical Circles Commentator: Sven Dupré 16:30 – 17:30 Matthew C. Hunter, McGill University Joshua Reynolds’s ‘Nice Chymistry’, Commentator: Spike Bucklow ******************** If you would like more information please see the events page of the MPIWG: http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/news/index.html and the web page of the workshop: http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/workshops/en/Dupre_LabArt_Conference.html Observers are welcome but space is limited, to register please email officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de Best regards Gina Grzimek Sekretariat Dupré Max Planck Research Group Art and Knowledge in Premodern Europe Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Boltzmannstraße 22 14195 BERLIN --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:31:07 +0000 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: Late Call for Extended Abstracts, ACM WebSci '13 In-Reply-To: There is growing interest in Digital Humanities within the Web Science research community, which is reflected in the CFEA below. Hope to see some of you there! All the best Leif ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Hugh Davis > Date: Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:22 PM > Subject: Late Call for Extended Abstracts, ACM WebSci '13 > To: Hugh Davis 5th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci ’13) May 2-4, 2014. Paris, France http://www.websci13.org http://www.websci13.org/ Deadline for abstracts: March 16, 2013 LATE CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS Social Science/Digital Humanities and Late-Breaking Research You still have time to submit an extended abstract for Web Science 2014. Essential Information: Extended abstracts should describe either (1) thought-provoking ideas with the potential for interesting discussions at the conference, or (2) works-in-progress for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting feedback on early-stage work, or fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. We particularly seek extended abstracts from the full range of disciplines involved in Web Science research. Archival publication is optional. (If accepted you can choose whether to have the paper appear in the proceedings) The conference separates mode of presentation from mode of publication. (The committee will recommend the appropriate presentation mode for each paper) Extended abstracts can be up to 6 pages, and should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG abstract template (extended abstract format) here The full call is at http://www.websci13.org/late-call/ ==================================================== Web Science is the emergent science of the people, organizations, applications, and policies that shape and are shaped by the Web, the largest informational artifact constructed by humans in history. Web Science embraces the study of the Web as a vast universal information network of people and communities. As such, Web Science includes the study of social networks whose work, expression, and play take place on the Web. The social sciences and computational sciences meet in Web Science and complement one another: Studying human behavior and social interaction contributes to our understanding of the Web, while Web data is transforming how social science is conducted. The Web presents us with a great opportunity as well as an obligation: If we are to ensure the Web benefits humanity we must do our best to understand it. The Web Science conference is inherently interdisciplinary, as it attempts to integrate computer and information sciences, communication, linguistics, sociology, psychology, economics, law, political science, philosophy, digital humanities, and other disciplines in pursuit of an understanding of the Web. This conference is unique in the manner in which it brings these disciplines together in creative and critical dialogue, and we invite papers from all the above disciplines, and in particular those that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. Deadlines * March 16th 2013: Submissions of extended abstracts due * April 9th 2013: Notification of acceptance * May 2-4, 2013: Web Science 2013, Paris, France General Chairs Hugh Davis, University of Southampton, UK Harry Halpin, W3C/IRI, France Alex “Sandy” Pentland, MIT, USA Program Chairs Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, Inc. USA Website: http://www.websci13.org http://www.websci13.org/ --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:07:54 +0000 From: "Conf@qqml.org" Subject: Pleanary Speakers and Workshops: 5th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, 4 - 7 June 2013, "La Sapienza" University, Rome Italy In-Reply-To: New Abstract submission deadline: 28 February 2013, http://www.isast.org It is our honour to announce the Plenary Speakers of the 5th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2013), 4 - 7 June 2013, “La Sapienza” University, Rome Italy. Workshops NEW LibQUAL+™ in Europe: A Five Year Review of Results and Trends: Identifying Our Customers’ Needs and Expectations: A Data Driven Approach and Analysis Through the Use of LibQUAL+™ / Organized by Michael Maciel, Texas A&M University Libraries, USA The purpose of this workshop will be to demonstrate how effectively and efficiently libraries can identify their user’s needs and expectations. Results from the past five years of European libraries that participated in LibQUAL+™ will be used throughout the program as examples. LibQUAL+™, a user-centered survey and program, enables library users to speak directly about the quality of service they want to receive, access to information they require and the learning spaces they need your library facilities to provide. These insights in turn can be used by libraries to help craft their mission statements, development and market the services they provide and ultimately make very strong cases for funding. There will be four parts to the presentation. First, the current economic and technological challenges that libraries face will be discussed. The question of learning how to keep up with technology, as well as the constant struggle to balance services and information resources will be addressed. An overview of the LiQUAL+® program, its resources will be presented. Further, it will be shown how from the very beginning, through the LibQUAL+ registration process, the program helps libraries understand the depths and facets of its customers. The workshop will emphasize how effectively LibQUAL+™ can be used to identify and address economic and technological challenges. Second, the presentation will, using an actual example, demonstrate how to prepare for the implementation and administration of the LibQUAL+™ survey while it is live. Topics such as marketing the survey to ensure successful participation, the review and response to data while the survey is live and understanding the wide inventory of methods available to review your final results will be covered. Third, methods, analyses and presentation of LibQUAL+ survey results will be discussed. This QQML presentation will demonstrate these methods using aggregated data from European libraries that participated in the LibQUAL+ between the five years of 2008 through 2012. The review will include comparisons of results by user groups, results by category, usage analysis, and a trends analysis over the past 5 years. Fourth, this presentation will discuss the distribution and marketing of the survey results to the libraries’ internal customers (e.g. service departments, acquisitions and cataloging departments, and information technology departments), its external customers (e.g. colleges, schools, departments and student groups), and to the institution’s administration. The presentation will conclude by once again addressing the myriad of challenges a library faces, the solutions that LibQUAL+™ can provide and, finally, the need for an ongoing commitment to assessing user needs and expectations. __________________ Impact evaluation workshop / Organized by Mr. Markku A. Laitinen, Planning Officer, The National Library of Finland and Ms. Anna Niemelä, Service Coordinator, The National Library of Finland The libraries have a long tradition in collecting statistical data and other evidence - user survey data etc. - about their operations. In practice, the utilization of data collected may not be as versatile as possible. However, the evidence of effectiveness and impact of library services may be of crucial importance for libraries to survive in the current economic atmosphere. Hence, we invite library experts around the world to unite their forces to find new good practices to show impact and value of libraries! In the workshop, we seek together answers to following questions: - To which quarter do you prove impact and value of your library? - How do you show that services provided by your library give additional value to your customers/target group? - What kind of information or data is necessary to collect in order to show the impact and benefits of your library? The workshop is carried out in 3 sessions with same content during the conference ___________________________ Information Grounds: A field method and design workshop for supporting how people experience everyday information in informal social settings / Organized Dr. Karen E. Fisher, Professor, University of Washington Information School, USA Information Grounds are informal social settings where people create, remix, and share everyday information all while attending to another activity—cafes and pubs, hair and tattoo salons, grocery stores, football games, waiting rooms, parks, libraries and book stores, public transport, the beach… online settings too, including Warcraft, Etsy, Pinterest and more. Fisher (writing as Pettigrew, 1999, p. 811), defined information grounds as synergistic “environment(s) temporarily created when people come together for a singular purpose but from whose behavior emerges a social atmosphere that fosters the spontaneous and serendipitous sharing of information,” and later developed propositions and a typology (Fisher, Landry & Naumer, 2007; Counts & Fisher, 2010; pie.uw.edu). In this all-day, two part-workshop, participants will (a) learn the information ground “people-place-information” conceptual framework and basic field methods for studying information grounds, (b) conduct fieldwork in Rome, and (c) analyze their observations using a design thinking approach that considers how their information ground might be served and utilized by tweaking people, place, information factors via applications, services and policy. Implications for how libraries can be promoted as information grounds are a key highlight. Note: this workshop is a blast—very conceptual, but practical and hands-on: bring your walking shoes, sun block, note pad/sketch book, digital camera and Euros for espresso and biscotti. Counts, S., & Fisher, K. E. (2010). Mobile Social Networking as Information Ground: A Case Study. Library & Information Science Research, 32.2, 98-115. Fisher, K. E., Landry, C. F., & Naumer,, C. M. (2007). Social spaces, casual interactions, meaningful exchanges: An information ground typology based on the college student experience. Information Research, 12.2. _________________ Plenary Speeches NEW Libraries and public perceptions: A comparative analysis of the European press. Methodological insights Prof. Anna Galluzzi Senate Library in Rome. Over the last years there has been much research and discussion about the future of libraries, particularly public libraries, in relation with the state of society and welfare. The economic crisis has exacerbated the situation of libraries in terms of budget cuts and their usefulness in the digital age has been put in doubt. In these difficult times, many methods have been applied to prove the social and economic impact of libraries. An alternative method to measure the relevance and the public perception of libraries could come from the analysis of newspapers, considering that they still are an important means in building public opinion. In this speech the methodology and the first findings of an ongoing research on this topic will be presented. The research is based upon a comparative textual analysis of 8 newspapers of national interest coming from 4 different European countries (UK, Italy, France and Spain) and concerns the quantity and quality of articles on libraries published since 2008 on. Brief cv. In 1997 Anna Galluzzi graduated at University of Tuscia in Viterbo in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Specialization for Archivists and Librarians; then she gained a Degree in Library and Information Science at the University of Rome “La Sapienza and a PhD in Library Science at the University of Udine in 2008. Since 2003 she has been working as Parliamentary Administrator and Librarian at the Senate Library in Rome. She was contract professor in Library and Information Science and Library Management at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, as well as teacher in professional classes and speaker at many national and international conferences. In addition to numerous articles and papers, she is the author of the following books: 1. La valutazione delle biblioteche pubbliche. Dati e metodologie delle indagini in Italia. Firenze, Olschki, 1999; 2. Biblioteche e cooperazione. Modelli, strumenti, esperienze in Italia. Milano: Editrice Bibliografica, 2004 3. Biblioteche per la città. Nuove prospettive di un servizio pubblico. Roma: Carocci, 2009. In English she has published: 1. (2009) New public libraries in Italy: trends and issues. International Information and Library Review, 41, 52-59 2. (2010) Parliamentary libraries: an uncertain future? Library Trends, 58 (4), 549-560, available on:https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/16680/58.4.galluzzi.pdf?sequence=2. 3. (2011) Cities as long tails of the physical world: a challenge for public libraries, Library management, 32 (4/5), 319-335 (Highly Commended Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2012. __________________ Looking Out and Looking In - The Universe of Information Lynne Marie Rudasill Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Member of the IFLA Governing Board We are all aware of the fact that the forces of globalization are not just felt in the spheres of economics, politics, and sociology. Library and information science is also facing the challenges brought on by vast technological changes that are having an increasingly foundational impact upon the field. The concepts of interdisciplinarity, problem-solving, and big data are explored here in an effort to understand the intricacies of measurement in a rapidly changing field, the tools that can be provided to our institutions and, most importantly, to our users. Beginning with a look at a galaxy of clickstream data that provides a striking example of interdisciplinarity, we can explore the information universe where competing methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative, demand our attention and resources. We will also try to see the expanding edges of our universe to understand where we might be going next. Lynne Marie Rudasill is Associate Professor and Global Studies Librarian at the University Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is fully embedded in the Center for Global Studies, a Title VI National Resource Center supported by the U.S. Department of Education, and holds the unique distinction of being the first professional full-time digital librarian in the emerging field of global studies. Lynne provides library instruction, reference services, and collection management support in the fields of global studies, European Union studies, political science and United Nations documents. Like most professional university librarians, Lynne regularly offers subject-area training and instruction for students, faculty, K-12 teachers, and specialized audiences, such as the military. In her capacity as Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, Lynne has taught graduate courses at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science including, “Information, Libraries, and Society” and “Social Science Research Methods and Resources”. GSLIS is the top-ranked library school in the nation, and the University Library is the largest public university research library in the United States. With her colleague, Barbara Ford, Director of the Mortenson Center for International Librarianship, Lynne currently teaches an undergraduate global studies course “The Power of Information in Development,” which provides a multidisciplinary and information-intensive approach to the study of the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. Lynne’s scholarly research focuses on access to information, especially access by users to information on digital platforms and access by scholars to fugitive literature. She isauthor of numerous journal articles, book chapters, reference works, conference presentations, and edited books, the most recent of which is Open Access and Digital Libraries: Social Science Libraries in Action (2013), co-edited with Maria E. Dorta-Duque of the Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales (ISRI) in Cuba. This volume isthe first fully bilingual publication in the IFLA “greenback” series. Lynne isa member inlong standing of the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL). She was awarded the ACRL Law and Political Science Section’s Marta Lange/CQ Press Award in 2009 for her contributions to that group. She has served as the Chair of the Social Science Libraries Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and currently is a member of the IFLA Governing Board and Professional Committee as Chair of Division 1, Library Types. In her teaching, research and her professional service, Lynne emphasizes the importance of multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship to help solve the problems of a population of over 7 billion people inhabiting the same planet. ___________ Collaboration—the most wicked enabler to fabulously successful research Dr. Karen E. Fisher University of Washington Information School Collaboration signals bringing together people whose assets—professional skills and expertise, social capital, work styles, personalities, and more work in harmony towards achieving a common goal. A complex notion, collaboration ranges in degree of formality, whether required or voluntary, and extent and type of participation. Most research, like other human endeavors, comprises some element of collaboration. Yet stories approach urban myth of collaborations that were hard to create, wasted time, damaged relations, and left unfinished business leading to nowhere. However, collaboration can go remarkably well, showing the power of many, the creation of gold from dust. Two such examples are shared—macro and micro—that have several commonalities and yet vary widely in team size, budget, resources, and genesis. The U.S. Impact Study (2010-12) of how people use computers and the Internet in public libraries led by Fisher, Crandall and Becker was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Institute of Museum & Library Services. In addition to the PIs, assistants and consultants, the study comprised an expert committee and partnered with about 500 libraries. Mixed-methods—an unprecedented web survey (continuing today), telephone survey and case studies—were used to study 50,000 people. The second study, InfoMe, is an ethnographic-design study that brings together public libraries, community-based organizations, corporate agencies and university researchers to understand how ethnic minority youth seek information and use technology on behalf of other people, especially older family members, and how this information mediary phenomenon can be supported through information technology, services and policy. This study—being exploratory, qualitative and design-focused but also involving survey techniques and community training workshops is vastly smaller in nature and entirely dependent on collaboration for success with its myriad partners. Funded by Microsoft and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, InfoMe led from the U.S. Impact Study that showed 63% of people used library technology on behalf of another person in the past 12 months, which has strong implications for how we design information systems, support information literacy, and determine impact. Together these two studies illustrate how collaboration can elevate the doing of research, turning every moment into a state of flow and igniting research programs with long-reaching effects. Dr. Karen E. Fisher is a Professor in the University of Washington Information School and Adjunct Professor of Communication. She teaches and conducts research on how people experience information as part of everyday life, with emphasis on the interpersonal aspects of information behavior, the role of informal social settings or “information grounds” in information flow, as well as the broad impacts of information and communication technologies. Her current work supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services and Microsoft asks how ethnic minority youth seek information and use technology on behalf of other people, especially older family members, and how this phenomenon can be supported through information technology, services and policy. A second current area involves online dating as an information problem, the development of instrumental ties, and relevance to other dyadic relationships—business, creative—especially long-term. Dr. Fisher’s 2009-2011 work addressed the multiplex value of public libraries in communities across the United States. In this mixed methods study (with Crandall, Becker, et al.,) of 50,000 people conducted for the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a key finding is that 63% of people use library technology on behalf of another person, which has strong implications for how we design information systems, support information literacy, and determine impact. Co-author of Theory in Motion: Using theories of information behavior to design applications, policy and services (in progress, with S. Erdelez), Digital Inclusion: Measuring the Impact of Information and Community Technology (2009, with M. Crandall), Theories of Information Behavior (2005, with S. Erdelez & L. McKechnie), and several monographs about community services in public libraries, her supporters include the National Science Foundation, Microsoft Research, the United Way of America, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Recipient of the 2005 and 2008 ALA Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research, Dr. Fisher has been recognized for her research by the Hawaii Int'l Conference on System Sciences, American Society for Information Science & Technology, and the Association for Library and Information Science Education. An alum of the University of Western Ontario (PhD & MLIS) and Memorial University of Newfoundland (BA), she held a postdoc at the University of Michigan, and was a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research, and a NORSLIS Visiting Professor at Oslo University College, Norway. She serves on the international program committees for ISIC: The Information Behavior Conference and i3: Information: Interactions and Impact; and was co-program chair of the 2011 iSchool Conference. A past member of ASIST’s Board of Directors, Prof. Fisher was inducted to the ASIST SIG USE Academy of Fellows in 2009. To learn more, visit infome.uw.edu and tascha.uw.edu/usimpact. The only Newfoundlander in Seattle, Karen lives in Seattle’s Fremont houseboat community and can be found biking the Burke-Gilman Trail when she’s not at hot yoga, belly dancing at the Visionary Dance Studio or contemplating moving to Tuscany. ____________________ New Abstract submission deadline: 28 February 2013. 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Please direct any questions regarding the QQML 2013 Conference and Student Research Presentations to the secretariat of the conference at: secretariat@isast.org On behalf of the Conference Committee Dr. Anthi Katsirikou, Conference Co-Chair University of Piraeus Library Director Head, European Documentation Center Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information Professionals anthi@asmda.com Professor Carla Basili, Local Co-Chair EnIL - The European network on Information Literacy, co-ordinator Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Istituto di Ricerca sull'Impresa e lo Sviluppo sede di Roma via dei Taurini, 19 - 00185 Roma, Italy If you don't like to receive messages regarding the QQML2013 Conference, please click here: Unsubscribe _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A53942CE2; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:28:01 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E205F2C96; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:27:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E96FA114D; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:27:56 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130228062756.E96FA114D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:27:56 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.827 eBook platforms? database? Arabic OCR? Leeuwenhoek & Swift? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 827. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Catalina Macias (36) Subject: Question for the list! [2] From: "Mylonas, Elli" (14) Subject: Arabic OCR [3] From: Michelle Laughran (10) Subject: eBook platforms & publishers [4] From: Donald Weinshank (27) Subject: Leeuwenhoek and Swift --submission --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:28:11 +0100 From: Catalina Macias Subject: Question for the list! Hello! I’m currently a Master Student in History and Culture of Alimentation, working on a project related with medieval cooking books of the 14th century. With the aim to identify and classify all the information contained in one particular book I have divided it in three big groups – so three main “tables”-: ingredients and its properties (name, color, image, origin…), recipes and its techniques (dietetic values, number and names of ingredients…), and menus and its contents (number of courses, number of recipes, religious values…). These tables are dependent on each other because, for example, the information of the ingredients will be used to complete the one of the recipes, and the latter for the menus. With this in mind I would like to create a database that allows me to use this information in a way where I would be able to accomplish the following purposes: 1. Find the way to actually make possible these connections between these three tables by integrating in the second group parts of the first one, and this one on the third one, and the other way around. 2. Having an interface practically enough to be filled and appropriate to answer questions like: in which percentage an x ingredient is used, which combinations of ingredients are more common, which preparations are more related with fasting periods… 3. Filling the database online so that, once it’s complete, it will be available for further researches on the topic for example with statistics purposes. Eventually I would like to amplify the use of this database by introducing different texts and thus, create a cookbooks’ historical database research tool. I would appreciate if you have any ideas on which program or software I could use. I’ve been working with Filemaker Pro but the type of connections I can make between the information is not appropriate for what I need. I would like to avoid having to build a custom application with MySQL but existing cataloging software such as Omeka.org or Collectiveaccess.org is too much tailored to describe objects and software for digital editions does not allow me to create and manage the three tables I have in mind. Any input would be very appreciated! Catalina --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:05:29 -0500 From: "Mylonas, Elli" Subject: Arabic OCR Dear readers of Humanist - has anyone among you had experience with OCR for Arabic texts? We are carrying out an initial trial with ABBYY Finereader, but the results aren't great at first glance. Perhaps there are ways to tweak the software? or there are better packages? the pages are typeset pages of a journal from the 1950s. thank you, --elli [Elli Mylonas Senior Digital Humanities Librarian and Center for Digital Scholarship University Library Brown University library.brown.edu/cds] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:54:56 +0000 From: Michelle Laughran Subject: eBook platforms & publishers Howdy all! I am writing because, after some looking, I am rather surprised at the current relative lack of scholarship on the composition and literary theory of serious eBooks, precisely when they ironically seem to be significantly peaking as a medium... (Indeed, the scholarship's heyday seems to have been in the 1990s back with the advent of hyperlinking!) I am investigating this because I am interested in producing a serious History monograph for a scholarly publisher directly in eBook format, which would fully take advantage of the possibilities for interactivity that are offered now by eBooks and tablet apps (something along the lines of Pushpop's "Al Gore's 'Our Choice'"). Unfortunately, Pushpop was bought by Facebook for its own projects so it apparently won't be producing other similar eBooks soon. My question is if any of the Digital Humanities readers know of scholarly publishers interested in serious digital publications... In addition, while I am looking for such a publisher, can anyone recommend a software platform I might use to get started on such a "manuscript" (since I don't know much about coding at this point) ?? Thanks a million for help with this project!! Very best wishes, Michelle Michelle Laughran, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair of History, Saint Joseph's College of Maine --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:34:28 -0500 From: Donald Weinshank Subject: Leeuwenhoek and Swift --submission Leeuwenhoek and Swift This is a wholly unsupported conjecture about the connection between Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and Jonathan Swift. (A quick search of HUMANIST archives turned up nothing about either man. I apologize if I missed something.) Leewenhoek (9 October 24, 1632 – August 26, 1723) is remembered for his microscopes dating from somewhere around the 1660’s. ( http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/museum/leeuwenhoek.html). Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745), is the great satirist remembered for Gulliver’s Travels, “A Modest Proposal” ( https://www.google.com/search?q=jonathan+swift+a+modest+proposal&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a) and much else. He is also credited with this delicious bit of poetry. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Spencer.Rugaber/poems/bugs.txt Big bugs have little bugs Jonathan Swift Big bugs have little bugs Upon their backs to bite them. Little bugs have littler bugs. And so, ad infinitum. Am I overreaching to see a connection? __________________________________________ Dr. Don Weinshank Professor Emeritus Comp. Sci. & Eng. 1520 Sherwood Ave., East Lansing MI 48823-1885 Ph. 517.337.1545 <517.337.1545> FAX 517.337.1665 <517.337.1665> weinshan@cse.msu.edu http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weinshan http://www.cse.msu.edu/%7Eweinshan Anybody who is not paranoid about PHISHing is crazy. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 92CC32CE9; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:28:56 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 600042CCF; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:28:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2E3D22C96; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:28:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130228062852.2E3D22C96@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:28:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.828 job at Cambridge University Library X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 828. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:13:29 +0000 From: Grant Young Subject: job at Cambridge University Library (Medieval Manuscripts Specialist) The following post may be of interest to some on this list: Medieval Manuscripts Specialist (Special Collections Division) see http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Vacancies/#665 The successful candidate will lead the development of high quality reader-focussed services to support scholarship on the manuscripts, promoting them to the research community at local, national and international level. He/she with deal with all aspects of the care and administration of medieval manuscripts and will be outward-looking in developing innovative digital services alongside traditional methods to support the University in its teaching, learning and research and to make the medieval manuscripts accessible to the widest possible audience. He/she will have the necessary skills and enthusiasm to exploit the opportunities created by the Cambridge Digital Library (http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk) and to take a leading part in planning and implementing a new online catalogue of medieval manuscripts. Applications close 18 March. -- Grant Young Head of Content Programme, Digital Services, Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. e: gy219@cam.ac.uk t: +44 (0) 12237 65576 m: +44 (0) 787 9116710 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A00A32CE9; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:31:23 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09B7810FE; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:31:21 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6E02D114D; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:31:19 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130228063119.6E02D114D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:31:19 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.829 events: THATCamp London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 829. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:20:39 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: THAT Camp London You are invited to THATCamp London 2013 http://london2013.thatcamp.org/ Date: Sunday 14th April Cost: free This one-day event is held at the British Library with the support of Wikimedia UK. It is free and open to all – whatever your background or level of knowledge and skill. The unconference coincides with the GLAM-WIKI conference, which runs on Friday 12th and Saturday 13th April. We’re hoping for THATCamp London 2013 to see lots of exciting thoughts and creations around free-licensing and open access as a result of the preceding two days of activity. ----- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AE5B6EE4; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:37:02 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0BE4E85; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:36:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 967B2DBD; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:36:56 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130301063656.967B2DBD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:36:56 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.830 eBook platforms X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 830. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Laudun (38) Subject: Re: 26.827 eBook platforms? [2] From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" (11) Subject: Re: 26.827 eBook platforms? database? Arabic OCR? Leeuwenhoek & Swift? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 06:57:01 -0600 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: 26.827 eBook platforms? Dear Michelle, Many readers of this list will, like me, probably want to know what you mean by your use of "serious" in various contexts > serious eBooks > serious History monograph > serious digital publications as it may very well prove an important qualifier. As to software ... for simple eBook production, Scrivener (originally Mac only, but now also available for Windows, I believe) is quite capable not only of producing complex documents -- it is used by novelists, scholars, and journalists alike -- but also of producing fairly clean eBooks. I believe Apple's Pages now also exports to epub format, as does, of course, its recently released iBook Author. The ePub format is a great place to start, because you can always roll up your sleeves later in the production process and work with the code itself. best, john laudun -- John Laudun Department of English University of Louisiana – Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 337-482-5493 laudun@louisiana.edu http://johnlaudun.org/ On 2013 Feb 28, at 12:27 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Howdy all! > > I am writing because, after some looking, I am rather surprised at the current relative lack of scholarship on the composition and literary theory of serious eBooks, precisely when they ironically seem to be significantly peaking as a medium... (Indeed, the scholarship's heyday seems to have been in the 1990s back with the advent of hyperlinking!) > > I am investigating this because I am interested in producing a serious History monograph for a scholarly publisher directly in eBook format, which would fully take advantage of the possibilities for interactivity that are offered now by eBooks and tablet apps (something along the lines of Pushpop's "Al Gore's 'Our Choice'"). > > Unfortunately, Pushpop was bought by Facebook for its own projects so it apparently won't be producing other similar eBooks soon. My question is if any of the Digital Humanities readers know of scholarly publishers interested in serious digital publications... In addition, while I am looking for such a publisher, can anyone recommend a software platform I might use to get started on such a "manuscript" (since I don't know much about coding at this point) ?? > > Thanks a million for help with this project!! > Very best wishes, > Michelle > Michelle Laughran, Ph.D., > Associate Professor and Chair of History, > Saint Joseph's College of Maine --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:09:17 -0800 From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" Subject: Re: 26.827 eBook platforms? database? Arabic OCR? Leeuwenhoek & Swift? In-Reply-To: <20130228062756.E96FA114D@digitalhumanities.org> Dr. Scott Nokes created Witan Publishing for scholarly ebooks: http://www.witanpublishing.com/ In terms of software, the tools closest to what companies like The Voyager Company were producing in the 1990s is Apple's free iBook Publisher. There are, however, some caveats. While the tool is fairly simple to learn, the books can only be read on an iPad. If you propose to sell the books you can only sell them through Apple. iBooks publisher does make it fairly easy to incorporate rich media and interaction, but was primarily envisioned as a way to produce textbooks. Other alternatives in terms of file format are numerous, but I would likely look to ePub as the best option for someone without ready access to a robust budget and a creative team. It is practical, but the options of robust interactivity beyond rich media become limited. Once interactivity and rich media enters the picture, it gets much trickier and typically involves hand-coding XML, and creating a stand-alone app, like some of the recent apps on The Book of Kells, or David Sibley's Birds. Lisa _______________________ http://about.me/lisaspangenberg _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6A72DF83; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:38:04 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2155710FE; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:38:02 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A8A7DEE4; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:38:00 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130301063800.A8A7DEE4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:38:00 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.831 Arabic document analysis X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 831. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:48:04 +0100 From: Torsten Schassan Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.827 eBook platforms? database? Arabic OCR? Leeuwenhoek & Swift? In-Reply-To: <20130228062756.E96FA114D@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Elli, may I point you to Volker Märgner, TU Braunschweig, who has dealt with Ancient Arabic Document Analysis: http://www.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de/ifn/sp/maergner/ Maybe he can help you with your typeset pages as well. Best, Torsten > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:05:29 -0500 > From: "Mylonas, Elli" > Subject: Arabic OCR > > Dear readers of Humanist - > > has anyone among you had experience with OCR for Arabic texts? We are > carrying out an initial trial with ABBYY Finereader, but the results > aren't great at first glance. Perhaps there are ways to tweak the > software? or there are better packages? > > the pages are typeset pages of a journal from the 1950s. -- Torsten Schassan Digitale Editionen Abteilung Handschriften und Sondersammlungen Herzog August Bibliothek, Postfach 1364, D-38299 Wolfenbuettel Tel.: +49-5331-808-130 (Fax -165), schassan {at} hab.de Handschriftendatenbank: http://diglib.hab.de/?db=mss _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7C9372C9C; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:39:18 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95A9CF86; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:39:17 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 54874E85; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:39:16 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130301063916.54874E85@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:39:16 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.832 why the asterisks? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 832. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:48:01 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: rampant asteriskism A question, perhaps a matter of a viral stylistic perversion, perhaps a merely technological change. Within the last month or so I have noticed that some messages to Humanist come adorned with asterisks, often suggesting that a tag for emphasis is intended but used so often that only annoyance results. I delete them but would rather not have this work to do. Hoping for their sudden disappearance is likely to be in vain, but an explanation would provide at least temporary comfort. 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URI_NOVOWEL autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7441D2C9C; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:41:11 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606D3E85; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:41:09 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E592CE85; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:41:06 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130301064106.E592CE85@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:41:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.833 medieval cooking books X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 833. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Patrick Durusau (65) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.827 medieval cooking books [2] From: Tom Salyers (53) Subject: Re: 26.827 eBook platforms? database? Arabic OCR? Leeuwenhoek & Swift? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:29:24 -0500 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.827 medieval cooking books In-Reply-To: <20130228062756.E96FA114D@digitalhumanities.org> On 02/28/2013 01:27 AM, Catalina Macias wrote : > > Hello! > > I'€™m currently a Master Student in History and Culture of Alimentation, > working on a project related with medieval cooking books of the 14th > century. With the aim to identify and classify all the information contained > in one particular book I have divided it in three big groups – so three > main “tables”-: ingredients and its properties (name, color, image, > origin…), recipes and its techniques (dietetic values, number and names of > ingredients…), and menus and its contents (number of courses, number of > recipes, religious values…). These tables are dependent on each other > because, for example, the information of the ingredients will be used to > complete the one of the recipes, and the latter for the menus. With this in > mind I would like to create a database that allows me to use this > information in a way where I would be able to accomplish the following > purposes: > > 1. Find the way to actually make possible these connections between these > three tables by integrating in the second group parts of the first one, and > this one on the third one, and the other way around. > > 2. Having an interface practically enough to be filled and appropriate to > answer questions like: in which percentage an x ingredient is used, which > combinations of ingredients are more common, which preparations are more > related with fasting periods… > > 3. Filling the database online so that, once it’s complete, it will be > available for further researches on the topic for example with statistics > purposes. > > Eventually I would like to amplify the use of this database by introducing > different texts and thus, create a cookbooks’ historical database research > tool. From your description of the relationships you want to create, a graph database might be the best fit as you explore the text. The deeper you get into the text, the more exceptions you are likely to have to any initial data modeling assumptions. Graphs databases have fewer difficulties with that issue. Depending on the complexity of your analysis, Neo4j, http://www.neo4j.org, has a query language, interface and active user community concerned with visualization. (in addition to having an community (read "free") version.) There are other graph databases and in the long run, if you do incorporate other texts and therefore other perspectives, you may want to think about topic maps. Topic maps don't require normalization to a single perspective but can enable each perspective to be mapped to others. But that is a step beyond your exploring of this text and a graph database does not impede your migration to a topic map at some later date. I recently started baking, after years as a spectator to cooking so am interested in any bread recipes your research uncovers! Best of luck with your project! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) 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: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:03:33 +0000 From: Tom Salyers Subject: Re: 26.827 eBook platforms? database? Arabic OCR? Leeuwenhoek & Swift? In-Reply-To: <20130228062756.E96FA114D@digitalhumanities.org> Hi, Catalina. To answer your last question first: you're almost certainly going to have to do some sort of custom application in a relational DB like MySQL, especially if you want to make it widely available online later. MySQL is pretty much ubiquitous, and is a standard feature of just about any web hosting company you can think of. On to the specific database stuff, but keep in mind that it's been a while since I did any serious database work, so my advice may not be the best: > 1. Find the way to actually make possible these connections between these > three tables by integrating in the second group parts of the first one, > and > this one on the third one, and the other way around. What you've got there is what's called a many-to-many relationship between these tables--for example, a recipe can have multiple ingredients, and an individual ingredient can appear in multiple recipes. (The canonical example for this is books and authors; one book can have several authors, and an author can write several books.) Many-to-many relationships are a little awkward to implement in a relational database, and the usual workaround is to create a third intermediate, or "junction", table between the two where each row is a unique combination of, say, a given recipe ID and ingredient ID. It sounds more complicated than it actually is but it solves a lot of structural problems, and it can be made easier with a schema designer like the ones at http://www.dbschemaeditor.com/OnlineDB.aspx or http://dbdsgnr.appspot.com/app# (both of which will conveniently export to MySQL). > 2. Having an interface practically enough to be filled and appropriate to > answer questions like: in which percentage an x ingredient is used, which > combinations of ingredients are more common, which preparations are more > related with fasting periods… The interface will of course depend on which front end you choose (for instance, PHP), but what you're describing can be accomplished with the right SQL reporting. Again, though, it's been a while since I've done this sort of thing, so I'll defer to my betters here. > 3. Filling the database online so that, once it’s complete, it will be > available for further researches on the topic for example with statistics > purposes. This should be fairly easy, especially if you stick with MySQL. You may even want to go one step farther and let users download the database setup files themselves so they can work with the data locally, as the WordHoard project did (http://wordhoard.northwestern.edu/userman/index.html). I hope all this helps you at least a bit. Let me know if you have any questions or need some more information. Good luck! -- Tom Salyers _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7AA3B2CED; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:41:40 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFF582CE0; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:41:37 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A94DA2CDB; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:41:35 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130301064135.A94DA2CDB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:41:35 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.834 a listing of jobs X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 834. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:26:46 +0100 From: "Center for Comparative Studies" Subject: CIP-ICT PSP 2013 jobs Some job advertisements for Slovenia, France, Turkey and Italy, mostly connected to CIP-ICT PSP-2013 European project, can be found at the "Lavoro&Ricerca" page of the Master "Informatica del testo-Edizione elettronica" site: http://tdtc.bytenet.it/infotext/comunicati.asp?gru=6. [This site would appear to have collected notifications of jobs in or related to digital humanities up to 28/2. It would be good to know if the activity will continue. --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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1AE892CF3; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:42:19 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34A3BEA8; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:42:18 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 978A2E85; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:42:15 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130301064215.978A2E85@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:42:15 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.835 WWO free during March X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 835. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:06:44 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: WWO free for Women's History Month I'm happy to announce that once again Women Writers Online will be free and open to the public for the month of March, in celebration of Women's History Month. Please come visit us at: http://www.wwp.brown.edu Browse and enjoy! best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Brown University Library _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1619A2CF4; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:43:14 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB0642C9C; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:43:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D96532C9C; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:43:10 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130301064310.D96532C9C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:43:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.836 events: computational linguistics for literature; sound X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 836. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: whitney trettien (111) Subject: CFP: Pro-vocare, a new digital collection of sonically- inspiring projects [2] From: Anna Kazantseva (28) Subject: deadline extension: Second Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:09:55 -0500 From: whitney trettien Subject: CFP: Pro-vocare, a new digital collection of sonically-inspiring projects Call for Provocations Pro-vocare: Sound Ideas a new digital collection of sonically-inspiring projects http://sites.fhi.duke.edu/soundbox/2013/02/28/call-for-provocations-pro-vocare-a-new-collection-sonically-inspiring-projects/ Deadline for Proposals: April 1, 2013 Over the next year, Soundbox http://sites.fhi.duke.edu/soundbox will stage a series of provocations – from the Latin pro-vocare, "to call forth" -- that confront the current sound of knowledge. Collectively, these provocations will showcase some of the most innovative uses of sound in scholarly settings, both creative and critical. Documentation of these collected works will be published on the web as a multimodal open-access book. This resource aims to provoke more noisy t(h)inkering within the fields of sound studies, digital humanities, and the audio arts and sciences writ large. Toward that end, the Soundbox project solicits proposals for "provocations." These can take a variety of forms, including but not limited to: -- events or experiments, staged at any location, both online and off -- ongoing installations produced collaboratively with institutions such as museums or libraries -- a tool or plug-in, either real or speculative -- experimental new ways of using existing tools -- a digital essay, produced by an individual or collaboratively -- a creation produced over virtual networks -- soundscapes and other sonic productions Provocations will be related through their commitment to engaging with sonic materials in a way that offers new insight into the intersection of sound and knowledge-making. Selections will not be based around a particular historical period, culture, methodology, or set of aesthetic objects, but rather will be connected through an ethos of play, experimentation, and social interaction. In other words, their aggregated value lies less in what they say together, and more in how they say it. For instance, though they operate on different timescales, and within different spaces, an exhibit and a digital essay are both suitable mediums for investigating sound in public spaces, whether a small institutional hallway or the crowded space of one’s screen. Likewise, an annotated diagram for an imaginary machine can map out new relationships to sound as productively as an actual digital tool. In all cases, this collection gathers these disparate forms and formats together as witness to and inspiration for other scholars who wish to amplify their research. What is Soundbox’s role? Soundbox can provide logistical, institutional and, in many cases, financial support for staging provocations. We are also open to proposals that need collaborators, in which the Soundbox team takes a more integral part in planning and implementation. Our primary role, though, will be as curators of the final web-based collection. We will provide the necessary tools to help you document your provocation and will edit and organize the collection’s critical apparatus. We will also ensure the long-term preservation of the materials included in the digital collection. Eligibility: Anyone with an interest in sound, especially as it pertains to digital environments, is welcome to submit a proposal for a provocation. This includes artists, scholars, librarians, museum professionals, audio engineers and musicians. We especially welcome projects and collaborators whose work would not fit into a traditional academic or print publication. Application Process: To submit a proposal for a provocation, please provide us with a description of your proposed project. Be sure to include: -- a statement outlining your plans and ideas for incorporating sound; i.e., how does your project provoke new insights into the intersection of -- sound and scholarship? -- a project timeline -- any relevant details regarding the staging of the provocation (location, if it’s an event; duration, if it’s an installation; length, if it’s a composition) -- resources you may need -- a brief biography of all participants Soundbox has some limited funds available to help with costs related to staging a provocation (supplies, renting space, honoraria, travel). These funds are open to negotiation, and will be discussed on a project-by-project basis. If you anticipate needing financial support for your provocation, please include a budget detailing what you’ll need money for, how much, and why. Note that provocations will be evaluated on their intellectual merit, not the extent of their financial needs. We have not set a minimum or maximum length for proposals but suggest around 2-3 pages. Please append any other materials (sketches, URLs, etc.) that you think may help us evaluate the scope and significance of your project. Use it to start a conversation with us. Send all materials as an attachment to soundboxproject@gmail.com by April 1st. Authors of successful proposals will be notified by April 10th. We encourage you to get in touch with any questions at any point in the application process: soundboxproject@gmail.com. ------------------ What is Soundbox? http://sites.fhi.duke.edu/soundbox Soundbox is a collaborative project by three doctoral students at Duke University that aims to enhance the practice of using sound in scholarly productions. This two-year enterprise is funded by a generous grant from the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. The project is inspired by two needs, one theoretical and the other practical. In practical terms, the interdisciplinary field of sound studies has flourished apace with the digital turn, yet sound still remains absent in many publications dedicated to its study. Even digital sound studies publications tend to be text-centric as scholars struggle to find the right players and tools for their projects. We expect that a technological innovation, however minor, will improve the prospects of using audio to augment and produce scholarship. As an intellectual endeavor, this project puts pressure on the conventions of academic argumentation as well as genres of web-based writing. What if it were possible to make arguments about sound using sound itself? Soundbox envisions possibilities to play with and experience sound in a way that enables a critical and creative engagement with multimedia. Thus, while this project will make it possible technically for scholars to argue with sound, it also thinks outside the (sound)box, pursuing experimental interventions that exceed the limits of argumentation as a mode. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:03:51 -0500 From: Anna Kazantseva Subject: deadline extension: Second Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature **************************************************************** Deadline extended until March 4, 2013 **************************************************************** Second Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature Co-located with NAACL-HLT 2013 June 13 or 14, 2013, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Submission deadline: March 4, 2013 Final Call for Papers (Apologies for multiple postings) The amount of literary material available on-line keeps growing rapidly: there are machine-readable texts from libraries, collections and e-book stores, as well as "live" literature such as e-zines, blogs or self-published e-books. We need tools to help navigate, visualize and better appreciate the high volume of available literature. We invite papers on applying state-of-the art NLP methods to literary data. What characteristics of literature make it special? Is it, indeed, a unique type of language data? How should we adapt our tools to find meaning in literary text? What lessons from automatic processing of literature could apply to other types of data? Position papers are welcome, too. Topics of interest (suitably related topics are welcome): - the needs of the readers and how those needs translate into meaningful NLP tasks; - searching for literature; - recommendation systems for literature; - computational modelling of narratives, computational narratology; - summarization of literature; - finding similar books; - differences between literature and other genres as relevant to computational linguistics; - discourse structure in literature; - emotion analysis for literature; - profiling and authorship attribution; - identification and analysis of literature genres; - building and analyzing social networks of characters; - generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry All information, including our excellent program committee, announcements and updates, sits at: https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2013/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,FSL_HAS_TINYURL autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8310D2CFC; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:58:21 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5A90EE4; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:58:19 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9D9ACED1; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:58:17 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130301065817.9D9ACED1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:58:17 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.837 brain to brain: rats now, ourselves & our machines tomorrow? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 837. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 06:49:45 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: brain to brain: rats now, ourselves & our machines tomorrow? See Clive Cookson, "Telepathic rats team up across continents", Financial Times, 28 February, http://tinyurl.com/bcx6dc5. 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EFB462CFE; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:13:48 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3535B2D00; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:13:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8E15F2CF0; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:13:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130302091345.8E15F2CF0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:13:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.838 why the ********* X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 838. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Conal Tuohy (49) Subject: Re: 26.832 why the asterisks? [2] From: Joris van Zundert (74) Subject: Re: 26.832 why the asterisks? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:31:52 +1000 From: Conal Tuohy Subject: Re: 26.832 why the asterisks? In-Reply-To: <20130301063916.54874E85@digitalhumanities.org> On 01/03/13 16:39, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 832. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:48:01 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: rampant asteriskism > > > A question, perhaps a matter of a viral stylistic perversion, perhaps a > merely technological change. Within the last month or so I have noticed > that some messages to Humanist come adorned with asterisks, often > suggesting that a tag for emphasis is intended but used so often that > only annoyance results. I delete them but would rather not have this > work to do. Hoping for their sudden disappearance is likely to be in > vain, but an explanation would provide at least temporary comfort. Any > ideas? > > Yours, > WM Dear Willard You are probably going to get a truckload of responses. There is a long-standing convention of using asterisks as a kind of markup to encode emphasis inside plain text, not unlike the use of > to indicate quotation. I would guess the convention originally arose on Usenet or on bulletin boards, but in any case it's certainly hallowed by ancient tradition, dating back at least for decades. Over time it's been picked up by any number of wiki syntaxes including MediaWiki and lightweight markup languages such as RestructuredText and Markdown. It's interpreted as markup by some email and chat clients, too, including Microsoft Word. I really couldn't say if last month's anomaly is due mainly to one particular cause, but if the convention is still spreading into new niches, it may just be the transformation of quantity into quality. *Regards* Conal -- Conal Tuohy HuNI http://huni.net.au/ Technical Coordinator http://apidictor.huni.net.au/trac/wiki/ConalSpace Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative http://versi.edu.au/about-us/versi-team#Con Skype: conal.tuohy Twitter: @conal_tuohy Mobile: +61-466324297 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 09:49:42 +0100 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: 26.832 why the asterisks? In-Reply-To: <20130301063916.54874E85@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, I'm a frantic over user of *s and .s. I apologize immediately because I *know* it's *highly* annoying. Like putting! exclamation! marks! EVERYWHERE. Or like SHOUTING in *all* caps. Another seriously. annoying. problem. is using the period between words to stress (has the effect of stop motion 'listening' to the text). I have annoyed thousands no doubt with my bloody use of the.. The .. is somewhere between full stop and ellipsis. That pause and expectation feeling exists, and it's not a ; –we miss a glyph for it. Anyway, more to the point: I'm using *emphasis* in plain text if there's no bold. My use is to put in bold the most important pointers in the text (important dates, absolute bottom line requirements etc.). There is some evidence (in Dutch research in any case) that this supports readers in efficiently mining the information from text. Beschränkung, meister etc. I would advice to that as well. Sometimes I just use it to annoy people –I know, it's mean, totally uncalled for. Usually I give James Cummings the occasional emoticon to grind his teeth over ;-) All the best -- Joris -- Drs. Joris J. van Zundert *Researcher & Developer Digital and Computational Humanities * Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands *Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences * www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/vanzundert/ ------- *Jack Sparrow: I thought you were supposed to keep to the code. Mr. Gibbs: We figured they were more actual guidelines. * _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BB6002D14; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:14:13 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA1E82D0C; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:14:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 024292D08; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:14:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130302091410.024292D08@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:14:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.839 eBook platforms; Arabic document analysis X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 839. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Mehdy Sedaghat Payam (27) Subject: Re: 26.831 Arabic document analysis [2] From: David Berry (34) Subject: 26.830 eBook platforms --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 21:24:31 +1300 From: Mehdy Sedaghat Payam Subject: Re: 26.831 Arabic document analysis In-Reply-To: <20130301063800.A8A7DEE4@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Eli, I am Iranian and since we use a different language with the same script. I can read Arabic script and understand basic Arabic. Let me know if there is anything that I can help with. Kind regards, Mehdy On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 831. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:05:29 -0500 > > From: "Mylonas, Elli" > > Subject: Arabic OCR > > > > Dear readers of Humanist - > > > > has anyone among you had experience with OCR for Arabic texts? We are > > carrying out an initial trial with ABBYY Finereader, but the results > > aren't great at first glance. Perhaps there are ways to tweak the > > software? or there are better packages? > > > > the pages are typeset pages of a journal from the 1950s. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 11:50:14 +0000 From: David Berry Subject: 26.830 eBook platforms In-Reply-To: <20130301063800.A8A7DEE4@digitalhumanities.org> Hi You should definitely take a look at the Booktype software which is an extremely capable collaborative book-writing platform. The advantages are that you not only don't need to know anything about coding, but further that you can concentrate on what is most important in writing a book, that is, write. This software is also used for the creation of 'booksprints' and handles all the complexity and then the production of pdf, ePub, mobi, etc. automatically. http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/booktype/ You can read about booksprints here: http://www.booksprints.net/about/ http://www.booksprints.net Best David On 2013 Feb 28, at 12:27 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Howdy all! > > I am writing because, after some looking, I am rather surprised at the current relative lack of scholarship on the composition and literary theory of serious eBooks, precisely when they ironically seem to be significantly peaking as a medium... (Indeed, the scholarship's heyday seems to have been in the 1990s back with the advent of hyperlinking!) > > I am investigating this because I am interested in producing a serious History monograph for a scholarly publisher directly in eBook format, which would fully take advantage of the possibilities for interactivity that are offered now by eBooks and tablet apps (something along the lines of Pushpop's "Al Gore's 'Our Choice'"). > > Unfortunately, Pushpop was bought by Facebook for its own projects so it apparently won't be producing other similar eBooks soon. My question is if any of the Digital Humanities readers know of scholarly publishers interested in serious digital publications... In addition, while I am looking for such a publisher, can anyone recommend a software platform I might use to get started on such a "manuscript" (since I don't know much about coding at this point) ?? > > Thanks a million for help with this project!! > Very best wishes, > Michelle > Michelle Laughran, Ph.D., > Associate Professor and Chair of History, > Saint Joseph's College of Maine --- Dr. David M. Berry Department of Political and Cultural Studies Swansea University Singleton Campus Swansea SA2 8PP Tel: 01792 602633 http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/ArtsHumanities/berryd/ Room: Room JC015, James Callaghan Building _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0B9B72D19; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:14:54 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D2732D0E; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:14:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 607FA2D0D; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:14:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130302091452.607FA2D0D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:14:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.840 job at Clemson 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. 840. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 22:18:48 +0000 From: C Cooper Subject: Position: Head of Digital Scholarship (US, Clemson, SC) Clemson University Libraries seeks an innovative and motivated professional to work with a vibrant library faculty and staff to envision and implement a digital scholarship initiative that creatively engages all members of the campus community. The Head of Digital Scholarship, reporting to the Head of the Office of Library Technology, will play a key leadership role in shaping the creation, delivery, and preservation of original digital scholarship produced at Clemson University, with specific responsibilities for scholarly communications, rights management, and digital production. The incumbent will advocate for digital scholarship initiatives at Clemson, such as open-access publishing and the institutional repository. The Head of Digital Scholarship will raise awareness at Clemson University about the emerging trends in scholarly communications and their impact on the University, and serve as a resource on intellectual property concerns. The incumbent will also supervise the production of unique digital material and metadata at Clemson's Digital Imaging Lab. This is a 12-month tenure-track position with faculty rank and status. Please see http://www.clemson.edu/library/lib_overview/jobs/fac/head-digi-scholarship-clemson for the full position description, qualifications, and application process. The application deadline for this position has been extended to April 7, 2013. Applications received by this deadline (including those of previous applicants) will receive first consideration. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ C. Camille Cooper Search Committee member for the Head of Digital Scholarship & Associate Librarian Digital Humanities, English, Performing Arts, & the RCID Program R. M. Cooper Library Clemson University Clemson SC 29634 cooper2@clemson.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C26072D16; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:16:11 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D56DB2D18; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:16:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4421C2D13; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:16:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130302091609.4421C2D13@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:16:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.841 events: Cities and Film X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 841. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 10:00:41 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Digital Humanities Seminar: Professor Richard Koeck 5 March 6.15pm *Event reminder* 6.15pm Tuesday 5 March 2013 Anatomy Museum, Strand Campus Cities and Film: A Shared Space Professor Richard Koeck University of Liverpool Biography Richard Koeck is a Professor and Chair in Architecture and the Visual Arts and Director of the Centre for Architecture and the Visual Arts (CAVA), University of Liverpool/UK. His professional experience lies in architecture and filmmaking; both fields in which he worked internationally for many years. His inter and cross-disciplinary work frequently blurs the boundaries between practice and research and considers architectural/urban space in relation to time-based media, such as moving images and film. Richard won numerous national research grants that were dedicated to the study of cities, film and digital media. He is co-editor of several books, including 'Cities in Film: Architecture, Urban Space and the Moving Image' (2008) and 'The City and the Moving Image' (2010), and author of numerous articles and book chapters. He is author of the monograph 'Cine|Scapes: Cinematic Spaces in Architecture and Cities' (Routlege, 2012). Abstract Richard Koeck will be taking about his recent research brought together in his book Cine-Scapes (2012), where he explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. While an impressive amount of research has been done with regards to the way in which architecture is portrayed in film, this talk aims to offers a somewhat usual perspective. There is little doubt that film can'reflect' a postmodern condition, however, what this book demonstrates is that the postmodern, architectural condition in which we live is in fundamental terms filmic. What happens if we begin to see the city as a place for an embodied visual consumption; a visual apparatus or, perhaps, a system that is based on movement, light and the body, and which we can explore in kinematic, kinetic, and kinaesthetic ways? How can we define a filmic significance and properties of architecture and urban environments? The seminar will be followed by wine and nibbles ---------------------------------------------------------- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4C64B2D1F; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:16:54 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 705892D03; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:16:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B4E882CF9; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:16:51 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130302091651.B4E882CF9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:16:51 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.842 pubs: semantic web; open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 842. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alexander Hay (13) Subject: The future of the Semantic Web: cultural heritage and privacy [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (13) Subject: Open Access --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:45:36 +0000 From: Alexander Hay Subject: The future of the Semantic Web: cultural heritage and privacy This article begins with an exploration of what the SW can bring cultural studies, before proceeding to issues of data protection and finance. http://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2013-02-27-future-semantic-web-cultural-heritage-and-privacy Feedback much appreciated. - Alexander -- Alexander Hay Policy & Communications Consultant Electronics & Computer Science Faculty of Physical & Applied Sciences Building 32 Room 4067 University of Southampton --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 16:26:18 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Open Access Further to the recent discussion on current open access policies being adopted by university funding and research councils, it may be of interest to note that Research Councils UK is issuing a revised version of its guidance on open access publication on 6 March and that there will be an opportunity to make comments, which members of Humanist may wish to take advantage of: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/news/2013news/Pages/130228.aspx 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 278282D0E; Sun, 3 Mar 2013 12:27:03 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC7D2CFC; Sun, 3 Mar 2013 12:27:01 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6F5222CD4; Sun, 3 Mar 2013 12:26:59 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130303112659.6F5222CD4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 12:26:59 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.843 the turn turn? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 843. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 10:50:08 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the turn turn For reasons (I assure you) having to do with computing I have found myself wondering about the outbreak of turns. The OED considers Jonathan Swift's usage in A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners: By a Person of Quality (1709), "This is not to be accomplished...but by introducing Religion as much as possible to be the Turn and Fashion of the Age", meaning "That to which (the age or time) is disposed", to be rare. It seems to me to fit our habit of reference to "the linguistic turn", "the spatial turn", ad nauseam, rather well. I wonder first when this habit began with reference to disciplinary inclinations and whether anyone has done the homework and written about it. The phrase "the linguistic turn" was still new enough in 1961 that Richard Rorty, in "Recent Metaphilosophy", Review of Metaphysics 15.2: 304, puts the phrase in scare-quotes. (Rorty cites Edward W. Hall's Philosophical Systems: A Categorical Analysis (1960) but as far as I can tell imports it from elsewhere.) Rorty's The Linguistic Turn (1967) seems to have marked its emergence into common usage. Google's n-gram viewer has it starting its steep ascent ca 1980 -- and shows it beginning to descend in 2003. Timothy Williamson's "Past the Linguistic Turn", published in Brian Leiter's The Future for Philosophy in 2004, suggests the same. "The spatial turn" begins its steep rise ca 1986-7. What other turns are there? Is this a case of linguistic contagion? By all this turning will we (with apologies to Elder Joseph) in any sense "come 'round right"? What does the metaphor itself suggest is going on? 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 67A922D14; Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:28:23 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 672782CF3; Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:28:19 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 47B182D08; Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:28:17 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130304092817.47B182D08@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:28:17 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.844 the turn turnings X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 844. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Mark Davies (19) Subject: RE: 26.843 the turn turn? [2] From: Alan Corre (2) Subject: The turn, turn [3] From: "Dr. Robert Delius Royar PhD" (4) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.843 the turn turn? [4] From: Manfred Thaller (61) Subject: Re: 26.843 the turn turn? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 14:03:41 +0000 From: Mark Davies Subject: RE: 26.843 the turn turn? In-Reply-To: <20130303112659.6F5222CD4@digitalhumanities.org> >> "The spatial turn" begins its steep rise ca 1986-7. What other turns are >> there? ... What does the metaphor itself suggest is going on? See the different adjectives (by decade) occurring with "turn" since the early 1800s: http://googlebooks.byu.edu/?c=us&q=21436904 Also, adjectives with "turn" that are more common recently (left) than in the 1800s (right): http://googlebooks.byu.edu/?c=us&q=21436930 Remember that with the standard Google Books interface, all that one can do is look at the frequency of a given word (e.g. "turn"), which is not very insightful. With the Advanced/BYU interface for the Google Books n-grams (http://googlebooks.byu.edu), you can actually see *which collocates* are occurring with a given word and also compare between two different time periods directly (see http://googlebooks.byu.edu/compare-googleBooks.asp). This provides much more insightful analyses than with the simplistic, standard Google Books interface (http://books.google.com/ngrams), as in this case with "turn". I'll be discussing this much more at the April 2013 workshop at U Indiana: "What Can We Do With 500 Billion Words?": http://mypage.iu.edu/~meldye/workshop/schedule.html Best, Mark Davies ============================================ Mark Davies Professor of Linguistics / Brigham Young University http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu/ ** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases ** ** Historical linguistics // Language variation ** ** English, Spanish, and Portuguese ** --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 08:54:11 -0600 (CST) From: Alan Corre Subject: The turn, turn Pete Seeger is well known for the hit song "Turn, Turn". The lyrics are all taken from the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes, chapter three, with the sole exception of the words "turn, turn" which were added by Pete. Accordingly the Byrds, who recorded in 1965, hold the record for a number one hit with the oldest lyrics. King Solomon must be happy. Alan Corré --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 10:39:41 -0500 From: "Dr. Robert Delius Royar PhD" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.843 the turn turn? In-Reply-To: <20130303112659.6F5222CD4@digitalhumanities.org> Perhaps the turn is simply a trope (or some other form of tortuous metaphor)? -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar PhD, Associate Professor of English Morehead State University r.royar@moreheadstate.edu --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:26:42 +0100 From: Manfred Thaller Subject: Re: 26.843 the turn turn? In-Reply-To: <20130303112659.6F5222CD4@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, there even seems to be multiple turns. For me as a historian the "iconic turn", describing the idea, that visual sources (aka: pictures) could be changed from illustrations to primary sources of historical reasoning, is a memory of the seventies - and the first o fall "turns". Ngram nicely confirms, that this turn got somehow forgotten in the eighties, but had a spectacular revival with the internet making images available as they are now, describing a completely different "turn" nowadays. Kind regards, Manfred Am 03.03.2013 12:26, schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 843. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 10:50:08 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: the turn turn > > For reasons (I assure you) having to do with computing I have found > myself wondering about the outbreak of turns. The OED considers Jonathan > Swift's usage in A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the > Reformation of Manners: By a Person of Quality (1709), "This is not to > be accomplished...but by introducing Religion as much as possible to be > the Turn and Fashion of the Age", meaning "That to which (the age or > time) is disposed", to be rare. It seems to me to fit our habit of > reference to "the linguistic turn", "the spatial turn", ad nauseam, > rather well. I wonder first when this habit began with reference to > disciplinary inclinations and whether anyone has done the homework and > written about it. > > The phrase "the linguistic turn" was still new enough in 1961 that > Richard Rorty, in "Recent Metaphilosophy", Review of Metaphysics 15.2: > 304, puts the phrase in scare-quotes. (Rorty cites Edward W. Hall's > Philosophical Systems: A Categorical Analysis (1960) but as far as I can > tell imports it from elsewhere.) Rorty's The Linguistic Turn (1967) > seems to have marked its emergence into common usage. Google's n-gram > viewer has it starting its steep ascent ca 1980 -- and shows it > beginning to descend in 2003. Timothy Williamson's "Past the Linguistic > Turn", published in Brian Leiter's The Future for Philosophy in 2004, > suggests the same. > > "The spatial turn" begins its steep rise ca 1986-7. What other turns are > there? Is this a case of linguistic contagion? By all this turning will we > (with apologies to Elder Joseph) in any sense "come 'round right"? > What does the metaphor itself suggest is going on? > > Yours, > WM -- Prof. Dr. Manfred Thaller Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung, Universität zu Köln Humanities Computer Science, University at Cologne Postadresse / Mailing address: Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D 50923 Köln Besuchsadresse / Visiting address: Kerpener Str. 30, Eingang Weyertal, II. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 01:08:11 +0000 From: Katherine Walter Subject: centerNet invites centers to join In-Reply-To: CALLING ALL DH CENTERS! Now in its initial year as a constituent organization of ADHO, centerNet is launching its first drive for paid membership. Please join our international group of founding centers and become a member now! centerNet was founded to address the particular needs of centers as such, rather than those of individual practitioners. Who is eligible for membership? If you think your center is a digital humanities center, in whole or in part, then we'd be glad to have you join centerNet. We leave the definition of "digital humanities" up to you, but we intend to be inclusive, and we know that there will be cross-over into the social sciences, media studies, digital arts and other related areas. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 21:04:55 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Digital Humanities Post-doctoral Fellowship The Michael Ridley Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities, 2013 - 2015 We are writing with news of (i) an opportunity for someone to join the digital humanities group at the University of Guelph as a post-doctoral scholar http://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/ridley-postdoc The successful applicant is expected to pursue the research project submitted in their application, and to help promote the digital humanities at Guelph. Specifically, their duties will include 1) conducting original research; 2) creating and organizing a digital humanities speakers' series that would run over the course of the academic year; 3) acting as a consultant for University faculty and graduate students interested in developing expertise in the digital humanities; 4) teaching one course in the digital humanities, either at the senior undergraduate or graduate level; 5) providing consultation and guidance on digital humanities technology and/or space in the McLaughlin Library ; 6) providing guidance and training in the application of digital technologies in the analysis of library collections. Application Criteria The successful applicant will have demonstrated experience and expertise in humanities computing (broadly understood), and will have completed a PhD within the last five years. The successful candidate will be cross-appointed between the College of Arts and the unit that best reflects his/her home discipline. The position will begin on August 1st, 2013. Applicants must have a PhD in hand at the time of application. They must submit ALL of the following by the postmark deadline (March 31st, 2013): • an application letter (1,500 words or less) outlining the candidate’s experience in digital humanities and the research project they propose to undertake while at Guelph, • a current CV; • a graduate transcript, • two confidential letters of recommendation sent directly to us before the deadline. • Electronic applications are welcome, provided that original hard copies of the transcripts and reference letters are submitted by mail by the postmark deadline (March 31, 2013). Criteria for selection are the quality and originality of the proposed research and its relevance to the digital humanities, the candidate’s fit with the mandate to promote the digital humanities at Guelph, and the candidate’s record of scholarly achievement. The selection committee will include representatives from the College of Arts and the University of Guelph Library. The University of Guelph http://www.uoguelph.ca http://www.uoguelph.ca/ is located less than an hour from Toronto’s international airport, in the heart of Canada’s ‘technology triangle' and a short distance from the Shaw Festival http://www.shawfest.com http://www.shawfest.com/ , the Stratford Festival http://www.stratfordfestival.ca, Niagara Falls and other attractions. Enquiries and applications should be sent to: Dr. Donald Bruce, Dean, College of Arts, MacKinnon 0005, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1 don.bruce@uoguelph.ca Kris Inwood and Graeme Morton _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6995D2D6C; Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:31:15 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7FE72D18; Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:31:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8BDC42D14; Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:31:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130304093109.8BDC42D14@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:31:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.847 events: the Information Society 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. 847. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 02:37:12 +0000 (GMT) From: David Brown Subject: Call for Papers: International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2013)! CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************************** International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2013) 24-26 June, 2013 University of Toronto, Hart House, Toronto, Canada www.i-society.eu ********************************************************************************* The i-Society is a global knowledge-enriched collaborative effort that has its roots from both academia and industry. The conference covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to information society, which includes technical and non-technical research areas. The mission of i-Society 2013 conference is to provide opportunities for collaboration of professionals and researchers to share existing and generate new knowledge in the field of information society. The conference encapsulates the concept of interdisciplinary science that studies the societal and technological dimensions of knowledge evolution in digital society. The i-Society bridges the gap between academia and industry with regards to research collaboration and awareness of current development in secure information management in the digital society. The topics in i-Society 2013 include but are not confined to the following areas: *New enabling technologies - Internet technologies - Wireless applications - Mobile Applications - Multimedia Applications - Protocols and Standards - Ubiquitous Computing - Virtual Reality - Human Computer Interaction - Geographic information systems - e-Manufacturing *Intelligent data management - Intelligent Agents - Intelligent Systems - Intelligent Organisations - Content Development - Data Mining - e-Publishing and Digital Libraries - Information Search and Retrieval - Knowledge Management - e-Intelligence - Knowledge networks *Secure Technologies - Internet security - Web services and performance - Secure transactions - Cryptography - Payment systems - Secure Protocols - e-Privacy - e-Trust - e-Risk - Cyber law - Forensics - Information assurance - Mobile social networks - Peer-to-peer social networks - Sensor networks and social sensing *e-Learning - Collaborative Learning - Curriculum Content Design and Development - Delivery Systems and Environments - Educational Systems Design - e-Learning Organisational Issues - Evaluation and Assessment - Virtual Learning Environments and Issues - Web-based Learning Communities - e-Learning Tools - e-Education *e-Society - Global Trends - Social Inclusion - Intellectual Property Rights - Social Infonomics - Computer-Mediated Communication - Social and Organisational Aspects - Globalisation and developmental IT - Social Software *e-Health - Data Security Issues - e-Health Policy and Practice - e-Healthcare Strategies and Provision - Medical Research Ethics - Patient Privacy and Confidentiality - e-Medicine *e-Governance - Democracy and the Citizen - e-Administration - Policy Issues - Virtual Communities *e-Business - Digital Economies - Knowledge economy - eProcurement - National and International Economies - e-Business Ontologies and Models - Digital Goods and Services - e-Commerce Application Fields - e-Commerce Economics - e-Commerce Services - Electronic Service Delivery - e-Marketing - Online Auctions and Technologies - Virtual Organisations - Teleworking - Applied e-Business - Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) *e-Art - Legal Issues - Patents - Enabling technologies and tools *e-Science - Natural sciences in digital society - Biometrics - Bioinformatics - Collaborative research *Industrial developments - Trends in learning - Applied research - Cutting-edge technologies * Research in progress - Ongoing research from undergraduates, graduates/postgraduates and professionals Important Dates: Paper Submission Date: Extended March 10, 2013 Short Paper (Extended Abstract or Work in Progress): Extended March 01, 2013 Notification of Paper Acceptance /Rejection: Extended March 30, 2013 Notification of Short Paper (Extended Abstract/Work in Progress) Acceptance /Rejection: March 20, 2013 Camera Ready Paper and Short Paper Due: Extended April 20, 2013 Workshop/Tutorial Proposal Submission: Extended March 15, 2013 Notification of Workshop/Tutorial Acceptance: Extended March 25, 2013 Special Track Proposal Submission: Extended March 01, 2013 Notification of Special Track Acceptance/Rejection: Extended March 20, 2013 Poster/Demo Proposal Submission: March 31, 2013 Notification of Poster/Demo Acceptance: April 10, 2013 Participant(s) Registration (Open): January 01, 2013 to June 23, 2013 Early Bird Attendee Registration Deadline (Authors and Participants): January 01, 2013 to March 31, 2013 Late Bird Attendee Registration Deadline (Authors only): April 01, 2013 to May 18, 2013 Conference Dates: June 24-26, 2013 For more details, please visit www.i-society.eu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5B1872D78; 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 14:07:35 +0000 From: Christian Fuchs Subject: MA in Social Media @ University of Westminster MA in Social Media, University of Westminster Dear colleagues, The University of Westminster has announced a new MA in Social Media that is now open for application. The goal is that students acquire skills and knowledge for being critical and reflective social media experts in research and working life. If you know students or others, who are interested in social media or such a degree, then it were great if you could forward them the announcement. http://www.westminster.ac.uk/courses/subjects/journalism-and-mass-communication/postgraduate-courses/full-time/p09fpsom-social-media-ma https://www.facebook.com/MASocialMedia If they have further questions, they can contact either me or my fellow Course Leader, Prof. Graham Meikle (g.meikle@westminster.ac.uk). Best, Christian Fuchs -- Christian Fuchs Professor of Social Media University of Westminster Communication and Media Research Institute c.fuchs@westminster.ac.uk Tel +44 (0) 20 7911 5000-7380 http://fuchs.uti.at _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4CC3E2D08; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 07:27:08 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11C622CD8; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 07:27:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F378A2CD6; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 07:27:04 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130305062704.F378A2CD6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 07:27:04 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.849 the turn turnings X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 849. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 13:28:03 +0100 From: "Anna-K. Mayer" Subject: Re: 26.843 the turn turn? In-Reply-To: <20130303112659.6F5222CD4@digitalhumanities.org> Hello Willard You might want to consider counting in the visual turn. I'm not sure about the date range: mid 90s perhaps?, although there obviously are clear antecedents in anthropology, history of art, educationism (amongst other things). Otto Neurath reportedly called the 20th century the century of the eye. If so we'd probably agree that the century did not come into its own until its last decade! I wonder where one would situate Raphael Samuel's Theatres of Memory in the history of the visual turn. These are mere jottings, apologies - I am (alas) preoccupied with other, more boring issues. Best wishes as always, Anna On 3 March 2013 12:26, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 843. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 10:50:08 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: the turn turn > > For reasons (I assure you) having to do with computing I have found > myself wondering about the outbreak of turns. The OED considers Jonathan > Swift's usage in A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the > Reformation of Manners: By a Person of Quality (1709), "This is not to > be accomplished...but by introducing Religion as much as possible to be > the Turn and Fashion of the Age", meaning "That to which (the age or > time) is disposed", to be rare. It seems to me to fit our habit of > reference to "the linguistic turn", "the spatial turn", ad nauseam, > rather well. I wonder first when this habit began with reference to > disciplinary inclinations and whether anyone has done the homework and > written about it. > > The phrase "the linguistic turn" was still new enough in 1961 that > Richard Rorty, in "Recent Metaphilosophy", Review of Metaphysics 15.2: > 304, puts the phrase in scare-quotes. (Rorty cites Edward W. Hall's > Philosophical Systems: A Categorical Analysis (1960) but as far as I can > tell imports it from elsewhere.) Rorty's The Linguistic Turn (1967) > seems to have marked its emergence into common usage. Google's n-gram > viewer has it starting its steep ascent ca 1980 -- and shows it > beginning to descend in 2003. Timothy Williamson's "Past the Linguistic > Turn", published in Brian Leiter's The Future for Philosophy in 2004, > suggests the same. > > "The spatial turn" begins its steep rise ca 1986-7. What other turns are > there? Is this a case of linguistic contagion? By all this turning will we > (with apologies to Elder Joseph) in any sense "come 'round right"? > What does the metaphor itself suggest is going on? > > 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, > University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews > (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); > 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8E7322D19; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 07:28:07 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C04592D08; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 07:28:06 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3D25A2CE8; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 07:28:04 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130305062804.3D25A2CE8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 07:28:04 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.850 uses of RDF? 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. 850. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 11:25:38 -0700 From: John Simpson Subject: Looking for RDF Based Humanities Projects/Tools Hello Humanists, As part of my work with the INKE project I am looking to assemble a list of important/representative projects and tools relevant to the humanities that make use of RDF. Projects looked at so far include: Europeana: A Contextual Launch Pad for Cultural Information InPho (The Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project) Linked Jazz LORE: A Linked Data Platform for Scholarly Annotation of Literary Resources NINES and COLLEX Out of the Trenches Textual Communities Pelagios Tools looked at so far include: CWRC-Writer Pundit SharedCanvas Scalar Yuma Rhizomer Again, I'm looking for any humanities relevant tools that use or incorporate RDF that are not already on either of these lists. Thank you for any help that you think you can provide. =) -John _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,T_FRT_PROFILE2 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E2E732D1F; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 07:31:43 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C282D19; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 07:31:41 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0AF832CE5; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 07:31:39 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130305063140.0AF832CE5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 07:31:39 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.851 jobs: lectureship at Leuven; software developer at Worms X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 851. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Marc Wilhelm Küster (74) Subject: Re: XML-Print: Release of version 1.0 [2] From: Andrew Prescott (63) Subject: Computer Science for Digital Humanities, Leuven --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 19:20:03 +0100 From: Marc Wilhelm Küster Subject: Re: XML-Print: Release of version 1.0 In-Reply-To: Dear Colleagues, to further strengthen the XML-Print and TextGrid teams in Worms (Germany) we search as soon as possible an additional software developer. This is a fixed-term position until 31.05.2014. XML-Print develops an XML-based typesetting setting for complex tasks such as critical editions. A successful candiate should have good expertise in a functional programming language, ideally F#, and XML-related standards. You can find more details under http://www.fh-worms.de/fileadmin/medien/personal/Stellenangebote/Stelle_ZTT_2013.pdf Best regards, Marc Links: Project homepage: http://www.xmlprint.eu Source code: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xml-print/ Installers for Windows, Mac and Linux: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xml-print/files/ 2012/9/13 Marc Wilhelm Küster > Dear Colleagues, > > given that this announcement was as far as I see not yet circulated on > the list, could you please use the following slightly updated version > instead? Thanks! > > Best regards, > > Marc Küster > > ********** > > Dear Colleagues, > > as pre-announced at DH 2012 we've officially released XML-Print 1.0 > this week, an open source XML formatter designated especially for the > needs of the Digital Humanties. > > XML-Print allows the end user to directly interact with semantically > annotated data. It consists of two independent, but well-integrated > components, an Eclipse-based front-end that enables the user to map > their semantic structures to typesetting styles, and the typesetting > engine proper that produces the PDF based on this mapping. Both > components build as much as possible on existing standards such as > XML, XSL-T and XSL-FO and extend those only where absolutely > necessary, e.g. for the handling of critical apparatuses. > > XML-Print is a DFG-supported joint project of the FH Worms (Prof. Marc > W. Küster) and the University of Trier (Prof. Claudine Moulin, Dr. > Thomas Burch) in collaboration wiht the TU Darmstadt (Prof. Andrea > Rapp). It is released under the Eclipse Public Licence (EPL) for the > front-end and the Affero General Public Licence (APGL) for the > typesetting engine. The project is currently roughly half-way through > its intended duration. In its final incarnation the PDF that is > produced will satisfy the full set of requirements for the typesetting > of (amongst others) critical editions including critical apparatuses, > multicolumn synoptic texts and bidirectional text. At this stage it > can already handle basic formatting as well as multiple apparatuses, > albeit still with some restrictions and rough edges. It is work in > progress with new releases coming out regularly. > > If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via our > website http://www.xmlprint.eu or directly to print@uni-trier.de. Any > and all feedback is welcome. Moreover, if you know some people you > think could benefit from XML-Print, please feel free to spread the > news amongst your peers. > > Best regards, > > Marc > > Links: > Project homepage: http://www.xmlprint.eu > Source code: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xml-print/ > Installers for Windows, Mac and Linux: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/xml-print/files/ > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 20:29:21 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Computer Science for Digital Humanities, Leuven In-Reply-To: 24 2003 Academic Position in Computer Science for Digital Humanities (Ref. ZAP-2013-87) Occupation : Full-time Place : Leuven Apply before : June 30, 2013 24 2003 Academic Position in Computer Science for Digital Humanities KU Leuven invites applications for a full-time tenured academic position in Computer Science for Digital Humanities at the Department of Computer Science. We are looking for a dynamic and motivated individual (m/f) with an excellent research record in related areas. Duties Research We are looking for a candidate with expertise in applications of computer science in digital humanities. A successful candidate will already have obtained excellent research results in the area of applying computer science techniques in research applications in the digital humanities. For the applied computer science techniques, examples could be data mining, or archiving or disclosure of information from large e-archives, or human-computer interaction, or visualisation techniques, or e-learning. Concerning the applications domains, examples could be the Arts, or the Social or Instructional Sciences. Research experience with the application of multiple techniques from computer Science and/or with multiple application domains in the Humanities or Behavioral Sciences are considered are a strong added value of the application. Teaching The selected applicant will take on teaching responsibilities in various study programs, in particular for courses on basic computer science techniques for students in the humanities. Apart from this, the applicant will also be asked to teach an advanced course on applications, related to his/her research, in digital humanities. Possibly, the accepted applicant can be asked to teach courses in the Master/Bachelor Computer Science and/or the Master/Bachelor in (Applied) Informatics. Together with an existing team, the successful applicant will further develop courses related to digital humanities. The applicant needs to engage in setting up an interdisciplinary cooperation, both in teaching and in research, on digital humanities. Requirements Interested candidates should hold a Ph.D. or doctoral degree in computer science or informatics. or candidates should be holder of a Ph.D. in digital humanities or in the humanities, with a topic which is very closely related to computer science, informatics or the informatics-technical aspects of digital humanities. In the latter case, an additional degree in a related subject - especially in computer science or informatics - has significant added value. Qualified candidates are expected to have an excellent research record and very good teaching and training skills, in order to contribute to the research output of the Department of Computer Science and to the quality of its educational programs. The high quality of the candidate's research should be evidenced by publications in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences. International research experience is highly appreciated. An important criterion in the selection will be whether the candidate can link his/her research to one of the research units in the Department of Computer Science. If you do not speak Dutch, you will be expected to learn the language within three years of your appointment. The required proficiency level will depend on the duties assigned to you. Dutch language courses are offered at KU Leuven. Proficiency in the English language is also required. Offer The full-time position can be offered in one of the academic levels (full professor, professor, associate professor, assistant professor), depending on the qualifications of the candidate. Interested? For more information please contact Prof. dr. ir. Ronald Cools, tel.: +3216327562, mail: ronald.cools@cs.kuleuven.be.For problems with online applying, please contact Mrs. Katoe Buyle, tel.: +3216328324, mail: katoe.buyle@kuleuven.be. You can apply for this job no later than June 30, 2013 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 70B822CF9; Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:52:33 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D48B92CEB; Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:52:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A36BD2CE2; Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:52:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130306085230.A36BD2CE2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:52:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.852 uses of RDF X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 852. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Conal Tuohy (35) Subject: Re: 26.850 uses of RDF? [2] From: Leif Isaksen (64) Subject: Re: 26.850 uses of RDF? [3] From: Anna Jordanous (203) Subject: Re: Looking for RDF Based Humanities Projects/Tools [4] From: James Smith (53) Subject: Re: 26.850 uses of RDF? [5] From: John Simpson (199) Subject: Re: Looking for RDF Based Humanities Projects/Tools --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:53:23 +1000 From: Conal Tuohy Subject: Re: 26.850 uses of RDF? In-Reply-To: <20130305062804.3D25A2CE8@digitalhumanities.org> The Humanities Networked Infrastructure project (HuNI, pronounced "honey") is a humanities project to build a virtual laboratory based on a linked data platform. See http://www.huni.net.au/ for the official website, or http://apidictor.huni.net.au/ for the project wiki. The LORE tool, incidentally, is one of the tools being integrated into the virtual laboratory. John Simpson wrote: > As part of my work with the INKE project I am looking to assemble a list of important/representative projects and tools relevant to the humanities that make use of RDF. > > Projects looked at so far include: > Europeana: A Contextual Launch Pad for Cultural Information > InPho (The Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project) > Linked Jazz > LORE: A Linked Data Platform for Scholarly Annotation of Literary Resources > NINES and COLLEX > Out of the Trenches > Textual Communities > Pelagios > > Tools looked at so far include: > CWRC-Writer > Pundit > SharedCanvas > Scalar > Yuma > Rhizomer -- Conal Tuohy HuNI http://huni.net.au/ Technical Coordinator http://apidictor.huni.net.au/trac/wiki/ConalSpace Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative http://versi.edu.au/about-us/versi-team#Con Skype: conal.tuohy Twitter: @conal_tuohy Mobile: +61-466324297 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 09:01:53 +0000 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: Re: 26.850 uses of RDF? In-Reply-To: <20130305062804.3D25A2CE8@digitalhumanities.org> Hi John If Archaeology and Cultural Heritage are relevant to your interests then there's a fairly thorough (if slightly dated) overview of this sector in the literature review of my thesis. http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/206421/ I'd also be glad to hear your final results. Sounds like an interesting study All the best Leif --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 11:20:19 +0000 From: Anna Jordanous Subject: Re: Looking for RDF Based Humanities Projects/Tools In-Reply-To: Hello John, The Sharing Ancient Wisdoms project uses RDF and an ontology based on FRBRoo to make statements about ancient manuscripts that contain collections of wise sayings. We encode RDF statements in TEI markup using and also generate some RDF triples from the markup automatically, then extract the RDF statements and store them in a triplestore. More information at http://www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk/about/semantic-web/ or in our publications (see http://www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk/about/publications-and-presentations/) In terms of tools, we have so far used (as well as the sesame workbench for queries): RelFinder, RDFGravity, Rhizomer and Protege plugins. We have also looked at Welkin, RDF Browser, Sig.ma and some other tools from this list: http://www.mkbergman.com/sweet-tools-simple-list/ We are currently exploring the use of the Digital Humanities Solution pack by Islandora for document editing, linking and repository storage, developed for the Editing Modernism in Canada project, which uses SharedCanvas, CWRC-writer and RDF in the form of OAC annotations. So far it is looking quite promising as an environment for editing texts and adding RDF links. Let me know if you'd like any more details - and please do share your list with us as it grows, this list could be a very useful resource to consult. Great idea, good luck with it. Regards, Anna Jordanous -- Anna Jordanous Research Associate Centre for e-Research Department of Digital Humanities King's College London t: +44 (0)20 7848 1988 e: annajordanous@kcl.ac.uk w: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/people/jordanous/ http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/people/jordanous/index.aspx --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 08:55:07 -0500 From: James Smith Subject: Re: 26.850 uses of RDF? In-Reply-To: <20130305062804.3D25A2CE8@digitalhumanities.org> John, I would include any of the projects associated with the Open Annotation effort. See http://openannotation.org/ for more detailed information on that effort. I would quibble on Shared Canvas being a tool. Shared Canvas is a data model that can be used to represent the components and representations of a physical object. We're using it here at MITH to build a facsimile edition of several works as part of the Shelley-Godwin Archive project (http://shelleygodwinarchive.org/), but without using any of the implementations available on the Shared Canvas website because we had to extend the data model slightly to handle some issues with handwritten text. We will be releasing code over the next several months. However, any Shared Canvas viewer will be able to render our editions even if some features are missing. -- Jim MITH, Software Architect --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 10:19:47 -0700 From: John Simpson Subject: Re: Looking for RDF Based Humanities Projects/Tools In-Reply-To: <5135D4F3.4070303@kcl.ac.uk> Thank you for flagging both your project and the tools used, Anna. I am always surprised at where the CWRC-writer turns up (especially since I am involved in the ongoing development of its OAC/RDF functionality)! -John _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 92FE32D1A; Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:56:43 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 807722D17; Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:56:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 52CAD2D02; Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:56:41 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130306085641.52CAD2D02@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:56:41 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.853 events: academic blog training; MLA Spanish session X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 853. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Marin Dacos (46) Subject: Hypotheses (free) training session in London, friday 8th March [2] From: Alex Saum-Pascual (15) Subject: MLA14:Call for Special Session (Spanish) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 17:36:44 +0100 From: Marin Dacos Subject: Hypotheses (free) training session in London, friday 8th March Hypotheses training session in London, Friday 8th March http://oep.hypotheses.org/1156 Dear colleagues, OpenEdition (http://www.openedition.org/) and the King’s College London (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/index.aspx) hold a training session in London this friday 8th March for those who already have an academic blog and for researchers who wish to join Hypotheses. During one day, participants learn how to set up and customize their academic blog. Furthermore, the session gets onto scientific blog stakes and gives an overview of the practices in this domain, illustrated with several exemples. This training session is free of charge. Schedule: OpenEdition and Hypotheses overviews- Opening a blog, first settings Blog’s editorial objects Publishing simple content Advanced settings Publishing complex content (insertion of objects) This Training session will take place between 10am and 5pm. Organizers: OpenEdition and King’s College London Trainer: Mélodie Faury, PhD in Information and Communication Sciences; author of Infuse! http://infusoir.hypotheses.org/ . Registration contact: Martin Clavey: hypotheses@openedition.org Address: Seminar room, second floor, King’s College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL URL : http://oep.hypotheses.org/1156 Best regards, Marin -- Marin Dacos - http://www.openedition.org Director - Centre for Open Electronic Publishing ** OpenEdition is now a Facility of Excellence http://www.openedition.org/10221?lang=en (Equipex) ** ** New email : marin.dacos@openedition.org ** CNRS - EHESS - Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) - Université d'Avignon 3, place Victor Hugo, Case n°86, 13331 Marseille Cedex 3 - France Tél : 04 13 55 03 40 Tél. direct : 04 13 55 03 39 Fax : 04 13 55 03 41 Skype : marin.dacos - Gmail video chat : marin.dacos@gmail.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/#!/marindacos --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 17:37:22 +0000 From: Alex Saum-Pascual Subject: MLA14:Call for Special Session (Spanish) Dear Colleagues: I am sending this message because you might be interested in submitting a proposal to the special session below, part of MLA14. WE HAVE EXTENDED THE DEADLINE TILL MARCH 15. Please forward this message to anyone who might be interested! --¡Gracias! New Digital Vanguards in Spanish Literature Special Session Papers exploring the relationship between new media technologies and recent experimental changes in Spanish-language literature (aesthetics, themes, means of distribution, hybrid genres, mutli-platform, etc) from a transatlantic perspective. 250-500-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Alexandra Saum-Pascual (saum-pascual@berkeley.edu). Alexandra Saum-Pascual Assistant Professor Department of Spanish and Portuguese 5224 Dwinelle Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-2590 saum-pascual@berkeley.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4D74B2D76; Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:57:43 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2309F2D65; Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:57:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 38F622D1A; Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:57:40 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130306085740.38F622D1A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:57:40 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.854 pubs: medicine, graphic-novel style; open access for historians X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 854. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (16) Subject: Open Access for Historians [2] From: John Simpson (7) Subject: Medical Journal Publishes Article in Graphic Novel Style --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 11:28:26 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Open Access for Historians The following summarises the recent debate on Open Access among the historical community in Britain and summarises the debate at the meeting organised at the Institute of Historical Research and Royal Historical Society on 1 March (and is also of interest as an exemplary use of Storify): http://storify.com/ihr_history/open-access-for-historians-1 There is also a very thoughtful blog post on the day by Adam Crymble: http://adamcrymble.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/open-access-and-uks-scholarly-society.html Adam's criticisms of learned societies for their dependence on journal income to support their wider range of activities presumably apply beyond History. Our own Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing is of course also beholden to journal subscription income from Literary and Linguistic Computing, but I haven't so far seen any discussion of how a move towards open access publishing will affect ALLC. 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 09:53:50 -0700 From: John Simpson Subject: Medical Journal Publishes Article in Graphic Novel Style *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1362502621_2013-03-05_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_17550.1.2.tiff Hello Humanists, While not a strictly digital event per se it is certainly new media and thus will touch on most of our work and interests. Annals of Internal Medicine has just published an article in the style of a graphic novel. You can see the article directly at http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1656688 and the editor's explanation at http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleID=1656415 . Does anyone knows of any other graphic novel format articles in traditional journals? Do such things exist in the humanities? -John _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C5DBF2D76; Thu, 7 Mar 2013 07:25:58 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C61EC2CDA; Thu, 7 Mar 2013 07:25:57 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 563242CCB; Thu, 7 Mar 2013 07:25:55 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130307062555.563242CCB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 07:25:55 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.855 uses of RDF X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 855. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 14:16:09 +0000 From: Stefan Gradmann Subject: RE: 26.852 uses of RDF In-Reply-To: <20130306085230.A36BD2CE2@digitalhumanities.org> Hi John, one of the projects to be mentioned in this context certainly is DM2E (Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana, http://dm2e.eu) which is built around the RDF based Europeana Data Model (EDM) and in its WP 3 explores the ways scholars might make use of EDM and the related manuscript resources in terms of collaborative scholarly efforts. Pundit is used and further developed in this context, too, and we have good ties with Shared Canvas. Best -- Stefan ____________________________________ prof. dr. Stefan Gradmann KU Leuven Directeur Universiteitsbibliotheek Gewoon hoogleraar Faculteit Letteren Mgr. Ladeuzeplein 21 | Bus 5591 BE-3000 Leuven Tel: +32 16 3 24600 Mobiel: +49 170 8352623 Email: stefan.gradmann@kuleuven.be ____________________________________ Je est un autre. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Brown (114) Subject: Postdocs in audio archives in Canada [2] From: Christa Williford (10) Subject: CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellowships in Data Curation for Medieval Studies [3] From: Ray Siemens (45) Subject: Funded PhD studentship --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 10:35:01 -0500 From: Susan Brown Subject: Postdocs in audio archives in Canada Call for Applications (2 POST-DOCTORAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR ORAL HISTORIANS/DIGITAL HUMANISTS IN CANADA) (1) Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Oral History and Digital Technology Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling The Canada Research Chair in Oral History announces a one-year opportunity to work as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Concordia University’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling during 2013-14. This opportunity is aimed at researchers who have experience with software programming and digital applications. The successful applicant will work on the continued development of the Stories Matter database tool, and is expected to publish on the work undertaken. The researcher is expected to be in residence. Applicants must be a citizen or permanent resident of Canada (by application deadline). The Project Stories Matter is open-source database software developed by the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University. The software facilitates the archiving of digital audio and video materials, enabling historians to annotate, analyze and evaluate materials in their collections. The online capability of Stories Matter (http://storytelling.concordia.ca/storiesmatter/ ) also facilitates collaboration and sharing of these materials. In this current phase of development, the aims of the project are to improve this software by eliminating any remaining bugs, enhance the software by improving the existing search tools, and develop a new geo-locating plugin that will allow users to embed geo-locating metadata into the database, and export geo-locating information in formats that will complimentary to the development of mobile applications and GIS. Job Description As well as conducting their own research, the Post-Doctoral Fellow will be expected to be the primary programmer of the Stories Matter software and be responsible for coordinating its further development. It will be a 50/50 arrangement. The Fellow will develop programming related to the software including training workshops, and undertake scholarly presentations and publications related to this work. The appointment will be made for one year and is non-renewable. The stipend provided is $38, 000, the same rate as SSHRC. Application Deadline: March 15, 2013Period of residence: One year. Stipend: $38, 000 Must have submitted their PhD dissertation by the time of application. Application Instructions: 1. CV including cover letter. 2. A writing Sample. 3. A one page detailed description of your proposed research, discussing subject, scope, methodology, and the contribution that this work will make to the field of Oral History and Digital Technologies. 4. Letters of recommendation from three references. These should be addressed to Steven High, Canada Research Chair in Oral History. The letters may be sent as scans attached to e-mails or mailed in paper form in envelopes sealed by the writer. All letters will be confidential. In order to be considered, this letter must be received by March 15, 2013. Electronic Submissions are preferred: steven.high@concordia.ca When submitting electronic files, please name them according to the following format: [your surname] Fellowship Application [your surname] Fellowship Proposal [your surname] Recommendation letter [surname of reference] Paper applications can be mailed to: Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling c/o Steven High. Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd W. Montreal, QC, Canada H3G 1M8 (2) Postdoctoral Fellowship: Discovery and Metadata for Digital Audio Archives Postdoctoral Fellowship in Discovery and Metadata for Digital Audio Archives Department of English, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. The Department of English at Concordia University is accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Discovery and Metadata for Digital Audio Archives to begin August 2013 for the 2013-2014 academic year. The successful applicant would work closely with the multidisciplinary SpokenWeb research team to develop a web-based archive for poetry recordings. The postdoctoral fellowship is intended for recent PhDs in Library and/or Information Studies who are interested in the development of web-based scholarly resources, in particular digital sound archives on the Web. Specifically, we seek an individual with expertise in the creation or management of web-based digital collections and archives, and who has demonstrated experience or expertise in metadata creation and the development of controlled vocabularies or thesauri for non-textual resources. The fellow will explore the advantages and challenges associated with the creation of a specific controlled vocabulary or thesaurus for documentary audio poetry recordings. Along with continuing their own research agenda, the postdoctoral fellow will develop a plan to optimize discovery of audio recordings through browsing and searching of our audio corpus, with a view to creating a vocabulary that is flexible enough to be usefully deployed for other literary sound recording archives. In the process of developing such a plan, the fellow will be encouraged to explore the advantages and challenges associated with the creation of a specific controlled vocabulary or thesaurus for documentary audio poetry recordings and to explore and suggest alternative or experimental knowledge organization systems or methods of information retrieval which might be applicable to this project. The fellow will ideally have an academic background in English, Canadian or American literature and/or have some exposure to 20th century North American poetry and conventions for describing literary content. Familiarity with issues surrounding digital delivery of archival materials is necessary. Familiarity with audio recordings or audio formats is desirable. The postdoctoral fellow with work with a team of scholars from the disciplines of English, Library, Archival and Information Studies, Computer Science, Design and Computation Arts and Oral History. The stipend for the fellowship will be $35,000.00 (plus benefits) for a 12 month appointment. More information on the Spoken Web project is available at http://spokenweb.concordia.ca/ . Application packages are to be sent electronically and should include include: • A cover letter explaining research agenda and interests• A one-page statement situating individual and ongoing research in relation to the position's proposed research agenda re discovery and metadata for digital audio archives • A curriculum vitae • A list of references with contact information • Letters of recommendation are not requested at this time Send all application materials as a single pdf file by April 15, 2013, via email to Dr. Jason Camlot, Principal Investigator of the SpokenWeb project at jason.camlot@concordia.ca Chaire de recherche du Canada en histoire orale / Canada Research Chair in Oral History Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytellling Departement d'histoire / Department of History Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve Boulevard Ouest Montreal, QC, Canada, H3G 1M8 http://storytelling.concordia.ca/high/ www.lifestoriesmontreal.ca http://storytelling.concordia.ca/oralhistory/ _____________________ Susan Brown sbrown@uoguelph.ca --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 15:47:19 +0000 From: Christa Williford Subject: CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellowships in Data Curation for Medieval Studies The CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Data Curation for Medieval Studies The CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellowship is an expansion of the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Academic Libraries. These five, fully-funded fellowships will provide recent Medieval Studies Ph.D.s with an aptitude for creating digital humanities resources and tools with professional development, education, and training opportunities in data curation for Medieval Studies. Through this program, CLIR seeks to raise awareness and build capacity for sound data management practice throughout the academy. Each fellowship is two year appointment beginning in the summer of 2013, with a $60,000 salary, plus benefits, and a yearly travel and research stipend. Fellows will be placed at five institutions in the United States and Canada. Recent Ph.D.s from any discipline with relevant expertise in Medieval Studies are encouraged to apply, so long as they meet the eligibility criteria for the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Review of applications is already underway but applications will be accepted until all positions are filled. Christa Williford Program Officer Council on Library and Information Resources cwilliford@clir.org http://www.clir.org/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 12:31:03 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Funded PhD studentship > From: Gregory, Ian [mailto:i.gregory@lancaster.ac.uk] European Research Council funded PhD studentship in the Department of History at Lancaster University http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AGC433/phd-studentship/ Applications are invited for a PhD studentship funded by the European Research Council. The successful applicant will join the Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places project, a major research team of historians, geographers and others who are working with large data resources – statistical, textual and geographical – to study the nineteenth and early twentieth century England & Wales. The successful applicant will be able to use these resources and the team’s expertise to conduct an independent and self-contained piece of research. We will work with the student to define a topic within the following broad subject areas: 1. Medical Humanities: We have a large amount of data available on population, mortality, fertility and health. One possible topic would be the decline in mortality in parts of rural England and/or Wales in the nineteenth century focusing on how, when and most importantly why mortality decline occurred in rural areas. Other topics could also be developed in partnership between the student and the project team. 2. Digital History: The team has a large amount of expertise in subjects including text mining of historical sources and historical geographical information systems (HGIS). We would be interested in topics that apply these approaches to the study of nineteenth or twentieth century history. We require someone with a background in historical demography, historical geography, or digital history/history and computing. A knowledge of nineteenth or early twentieth century British history would also be an advantage. Detailed expertise in quantitative methods, text mining or GIS is not required as training can be given. An openness to these methods and a willingness to learn is essential. This studentship is being offered on a +3 basis, so candidates will have achieved a level of research training that will allow them to proceed directly to a PhD, usually because they already hold a Masters qualification. The studentship includes a tax free stipend of a minimum of £13,590p.a. for home students. The deadline for applications is Friday 5th April 2013. Please send a CV and letter of application outlining your suitability for the role and a full CV including educational qualifications to Mrs Ghislaine O’Neill, Postgraduate Administrator, Department of History, Lancaster University, LA1 4YT, UK or G.Oneill@lancaster.ac.uk. Potential applicants are encouraged to make enquiries to Prof. Ian Gregory I.Gregory@lancaster.ac.uk. For more details on the Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places project see: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/spatialhum. For more information on the department and its staff see http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/history _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_DBL_REDIR autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 973072D67; Thu, 7 Mar 2013 07:35:39 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FC892CDA; Thu, 7 Mar 2013 07:35:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6BE3F2CD6; Thu, 7 Mar 2013 07:35:36 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130307063536.6BE3F2CD6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 07:35:36 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.857 events: information society; computer art X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 857. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Centre for e-Research (47) Subject: CeRch seminar: The Gothic and Computer Art (Margaret Boden) - 6.15pm Tue 12th March, KCL, London [2] From: "G.Akmayeva" (146) Subject: Call for Papers: International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2013)! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 15:51:31 +0000 From: Centre for e-Research Subject: CeRch seminar: The Gothic and Computer Art (Margaret Boden) - 6.15pm Tue 12th March, KCL, London Hello all, This Tuesday, 12th March, Margaret Boden will be giving a talk on: The Gothic and Computer Art. Abstract and biography are at the bottom of this email. The seminar takes place at 6.15pm in the Anatomy Museum Space, 6th floor, Strand Campus, King's College, London. Seminar details can also be found here: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2012-13/gothic.aspx We are very pleased to be hosting Professor Boden, who has recently been awarded the 2013 Covey Award for a lifetime's outstanding research in the area of computing and philosophy by the International Association for Computing and Philosophy. http://bit.ly/YXPAyN Directions to the Anatomy Museum: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/atm/location.aspx Please feel free to forward this email onto your own contacts who you think may be interested. Attendance is free, and open to all but registration is requested: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5339466488 The seminar will be followed by wine and nibbles. Hope to see you there, Anna Jordanous (Centre for e-Research) PS Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. *Abstract* At first sight, computer art would seem to be utterly at variance with "the Gothic"--especially given Ruskin's emphasis on the handmade, and his critique of mechanisation in general. However, six of his twelve principles of Gothic art could be satisfied by various types of computer art. (These deal with the properties of the art object.) The other six, which deal with the spirit of art-making, are more problematic. But even they can sometimes be satisfied indirectly. *Biography* Margaret A. Boden OBE ScD FBA is Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex, where she helped develop the world's first academic programme in AI and cognitive science. She holds degrees in medical sciences, philosophy, and psychology (as well as a Cambridge ScD and three honorary doctorates), and integrates these disciplines with AI in her research, which has been translated into twenty languages. Her recent books include The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms; Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science; and Creativity and Art: Three Roads to Surprise. She has two children and four grandchildren, and lives in Brighton. -- Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 23:51:06 +0000 (GMT) From: "G.Akmayeva" Subject: Call for Papers: International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2013)! CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************************** International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2013) Technical Co-Sponsored by Toronto Section 24-26 June, 2013 University of Toronto, Hart House, Toronto, Canada www.i-society.eu ********************************************************************************* The i-Society is a global knowledge-enriched collaborative effort that has its roots from both academia and industry. The conference covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to information society, which includes technical and non-technical research areas. The mission of i-Society 2013 conference is to provide opportunities for collaboration of professionals and researchers to share existing and generate new knowledge in the field of information society. The conference encapsulates the concept of interdisciplinary science that studies the societal and technological dimensions of knowledge evolution in digital society. The i-Society bridges the gap between academia and industry with regards to research collaboration and awareness of current development in secure information management in the digital society. The topics in i-Society 2013 include but are not confined to the following areas: *New enabling technologies - Internet technologies - Wireless applications - Mobile Applications - Multimedia Applications - Protocols and Standards - Ubiquitous Computing - Virtual Reality - Human Computer Interaction - Geographic information systems - e-Manufacturing *Intelligent data management - Intelligent Agents - Intelligent Systems - Intelligent Organisations - Content Development - Data Mining - e-Publishing and Digital Libraries - Information Search and Retrieval - Knowledge Management - e-Intelligence - Knowledge networks *Secure Technologies - Internet security - Web services and performance - Secure transactions - Cryptography - Payment systems - Secure Protocols - e-Privacy - e-Trust - e-Risk - Cyber law - Forensics - Information assurance - Mobile social networks - Peer-to-peer social networks - Sensor networks and social sensing *e-Learning - Collaborative Learning - Curriculum Content Design and Development - Delivery Systems and Environments - Educational Systems Design - e-Learning Organisational Issues - Evaluation and Assessment - Virtual Learning Environments and Issues - Web-based Learning Communities - e-Learning Tools - e-Education *e-Society - Global Trends - Social Inclusion - Intellectual Property Rights - Social Infonomics - Computer-Mediated Communication - Social and Organisational Aspects - Globalisation and developmental IT - Social Software *e-Health - Data Security Issues - e-Health Policy and Practice - e-Healthcare Strategies and Provision - Medical Research Ethics - Patient Privacy and Confidentiality - e-Medicine *e-Governance - Democracy and the Citizen - e-Administration - Policy Issues - Virtual Communities *e-Business - Digital Economies - Knowledge economy - eProcurement - National and International Economies - e-Business Ontologies and Models - Digital Goods and Services - e-Commerce Application Fields - e-Commerce Economics - e-Commerce Services - Electronic Service Delivery - e-Marketing - Online Auctions and Technologies - Virtual Organisations - Teleworking - Applied e-Business - Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) *e-Art - Legal Issues - Patents - Enabling technologies and tools *e-Science - Natural sciences in digital society - Biometrics - Bioinformatics - Collaborative research *Industrial developments - Trends in learning - Applied research - Cutting-edge technologies * Research in progress - Ongoing research from undergraduates, graduates/postgraduates and professionals Important Dates: Paper Submission Date: Extended March 10, 2013 Short Paper (Extended Abstract or Work in Progress): Extended March 01, 2013 Notification of Paper Acceptance /Rejection: Extended March 30, 2013 Notification of Short Paper (Extended Abstract/Work in Progress) Acceptance /Rejection: March 20, 2013 Camera Ready Paper and Short Paper Due: Extended April 20, 2013 Workshop/Tutorial Proposal Submission: Extended March 15, 2013 Notification of Workshop/Tutorial Acceptance: Extended March 25, 2013 Special Track Proposal Submission: Extended March 01, 2013 Notification of Special Track Acceptance/Rejection: Extended March 20, 2013 Poster/Demo Proposal Submission: March 31, 2013 Notification of Poster/Demo Acceptance: April 10, 2013 Participant(s) Registration (Open): January 01, 2013 to June 23, 2013 Early Bird Attendee Registration Deadline (Authors and Participants): January 01, 2013 to March 31, 2013 Late Bird Attendee Registration Deadline (Authors only): April 01, 2013 to May 18, 2013 Conference Dates: June 24-26, 2013 For more details, please visit www.i-society.eu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 715F72D79; 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Nicholas Ruiz III (25) Subject: Kritikos, V.10: February-2013 [2] From: Zach Coble (42) Subject: CFP: Responding to JLA's DH in Libraries [3] From: Mark Finlayson (67) Subject: CfP: LLC Special Issue on Computational Models of Narrative --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 04:49:45 -0800 (PST) From: Nicholas Ruiz III Subject: Kritikos, V.10: February-2013 Kritikos, V.10: February-2013 http://intertheory.org/kritikos.htm Joycean Eucharistics: Something to Chew On...(r.sharkey)   Kritikos Reviews: http://intertheory.org/reviews.htm Intertheory Press, new books: Order now: Jean Baudrillard: From the Ocean to the Desert - The Poetics of Radicality by Gerry Coulter http://intertheory.org/gerrycoulter.htm "I’m European, I’m condemned to a kind of objective historical nihilism, you are forced to admit to yourself that everything radical you can say or do in this society will only ever be the radicality of this corrupt society." Jean Baudrillard Order now: Integral Reality by Robert Hassan and Nicholas Ruiz III http://intertheory.org/ir.html “I am Saint Blasphemer, and don’t forget it,” Jesus replied with a laugh. Nikos Kazantzakis In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing, about the dark times. Berthold Brecht --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:14:29 -0500 From: Zach Coble Subject: CFP: Responding to JLA's DH in Libraries The editors of dh+lib would like to invite submissions in response to the recent special issue of the Journal of Library Administration. As noted earlier on dh+lib, JLA devoted its first issue of 2013 to DH in libraries. Digital Humanities in Libraries: New Models for Scholarly Engagement features six articles that address both the theoretical and practical aspects of how libraries and librarians can engage in DH work. Micah Vandegrift, Scholarly Communications Librarian at Florida State University and a co-author of one of the issue’s articles, has assembled links to the open access versions of the articles. The issue was guest edited by Barbara Rockenbach, Director of the Humanities and History Libraries at Columbia University, and featured contributions from Chris Alen Sula (“Digital Humanities and Libraries: A Conceptual Model”), Jennifer Vinopal and Monica McCormick (“Supporting Digital Scholarship in Research Libraries: Scalability and Sustainability”), Miriam Posner (“No Half Measures: Overcoming Common Challenges to Doing Digital Humanities in the Library”), Bethany Nowviskie (“Skunks in the Library: A Path to Production for Scholarly R&D”), Micah Vandegrift and Steward Varner (“Evolving in Common: Creating Mutually Supportive Relationships Between Libraries and the Digital Humanities”), and Ben Vershbow (“NYPL Labs: Hacking the Library”). As Rockenbach writes: The authors of these articles come from a range of institutions, medium to large public research universities, large private research institutions and a public library. This diversity of voices illustrates the varied landscape of DH in libraries and the great number of opportunities for supporting this emerging trend in scholarship. The collection moves from the theoretical to the practical. This special issue is an important addition to the conversation about DH and libraries that we hope to develop here at dh+lib. To that end, we are issuing a CFP for: - 500-1500 word posts, to be featured on dh+lib, responding to theoverall issue or particular articles or themes; - proposals to engage the dh+lib community in conversation in response to the issue, in a form or forum of your choosing (moderated Twitter chat, blog roundtable with appointed participants, etc). Please submit a one-paragraph pitch to dhandlib.acrl@gmail.com. Deadline for proposals is March 11, 2013. Accepted submissions will be included in a special series to be published in April. Sincerely, dh+lib Editors Roxanne Shirazi, Sarah Potvin, and Zach Coble dh+lib http://acrl.ala.org/dh/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:03:52 -0500 From: Mark Finlayson Subject: CfP: LLC Special Issue on Computational Models of Narrative Call for Papers =============== Special Issue on Computational Models of Narrative =============== Literary & Linguistic Computing: The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities **Submissions due Friday, September 27, 2013** Edited by: ---------- Mark A. Finlayson, MIT, USA (lead editor) Floris Bex, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Pablo Gervás, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Deniz Yuret, Koc University, Turkey The past fifteen years has seen a resurgence of interest in a formal understanding and computational applications of the phenomenon of narrative. Since 1999 there have been more than forty conferences, workshops, symposia, and other meetings focusing on applying computational and experimental techniques to understanding, using, and generating narrative. Researchers across the humanities, social sciences, cognitive sciences, and computer sciences have turned their attention back to narrative, and are eager to make progress. With this momentum, the coming decade promises dramatic advances in the understanding of narrative. With this growing interest and building momentum in mind, Literary & Linguistic Computing: the Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (LLC) invites submission for a special issue on the topic of “Computational Models of Narrative”. The issue is so named because we believe that a true science of narrative must adhere to the principle espoused by Herbert Simon in his book The Sciences of the Artificial: that without computational modeling, the science of a complex human phenomenon such as narrative will never be successful, and that computational models are the proper lingua franca of the scientific study of narrative. The purview of the issue, then, is more than just the limited body of effort that directly incorporates computer simulation: it also includes work from a cognitive, linguistic, neurobiological, social scientific, and literary point of view. The special issue is open to any work where the researchers have successfully applied their fieldÂ’s unique insights to narrative in a way that is compatible with a computational frame of mind. We seek work whose results are thought out carefully enough, and specified precisely enough, that they could eventually inform computational modeling of narrative. As such, authors should explicitly discuss in their paper how their work could support or inform computational modeling. Full papers should not normally exceed 9,000 words. Shorter articles (containing material of a more general nature) should not exceed 5,000 words and reports on research in progress should not be longer than 3,000 words. Authors should review and conform to the following guidelines: Information for authors: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/litlin/for_authors/index.html Online submissions: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/litlin/for_authors/online_submission.html Self-archiving policy: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/access_purchase/self-archiving_policye.html Authors should submit their papers in .doc format (per LLC preferences) to Mark Finlayson, the lead editor, at markaf@mit.edu by 27th September 2013. After this initial submission the editors will signal any major problems with style or content. Revised versions addressing these concerns will be due as an online submission to the LLC manuscript system on Friday, November 22, 2013. When submitting to the LLC online system, authors should explicitly state in their cover letter to the LLC editor that their paper is part of this thematic issue. Papers will then be peer-reviewed, and final decisions will be issued Friday, February 14, 2014. The final copy, including all style and content corrections indicated by the editors, will be due Friday, March 14, 2014. We expect the issue to appear as either the 2nd or 3rd issue of the 2014 volume. Any questions should be addressed to Mark Finlayson at markaf@mit.edu. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 57F702CE3; Fri, 8 Mar 2013 07:26:52 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58E662D0C; Fri, 8 Mar 2013 07:26:51 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4FDE12CCA; Fri, 8 Mar 2013 07:26:50 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130308062650.4FDE12CCA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 07:26:50 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.859 the turn turn X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 859. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 07:59:01 +0000 From: John Levin Subject: Re: 26.843 the turn turn? In-Reply-To: <20130303112659.6F5222CD4@digitalhumanities.org> On 03/03/2013 11:26, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 843. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 10:50:08 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: the turn turn > > For reasons (I assure you) having to do with computing I have found > myself wondering about the outbreak of turns. The OED considers Jonathan > Swift's usage in A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the > Reformation of Manners: By a Person of Quality (1709), "This is not to > be accomplished...but by introducing Religion as much as possible to be > the Turn and Fashion of the Age", meaning "That to which (the age or > time) is disposed", to be rare. It seems to me to fit our habit of > reference to "the linguistic turn", "the spatial turn", ad nauseam, > rather well. I wonder first when this habit began with reference to > disciplinary inclinations and whether anyone has done the homework and > written about it. > An interesting article criticizing 'turns' is Katrina Navickas' "'Why I am tired of turning’: a theoretical interlude" http://www.historyworkingpapers.org/?page_id=225 My personal feeling is that the current 'spatial turn' is qualitatively different to those preceding because it is fundamentally driven, or enabled, by the new NoGIS / neogeographic technologies, such as Google Maps etc. I'd very much like to read Willard's reasons 'having to do with computing' that led him to ask this question. Regards John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DBBC82D8A; Fri, 8 Mar 2013 07:28:11 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4D192D87; Fri, 8 Mar 2013 07:28:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A56F52D7A; Fri, 8 Mar 2013 07:28:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130308062809.A56F52D7A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 07:28:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.860 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. 860. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 22:44:42 +0000 From: Brendan Dooley Subject: Studentships in Digital Arts and Humanities at University College Cork University College Cork invites applications for studentships within 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. Seehttp://www.ucc.ie/en/cacsss/grads/grep/dah/ for specifics. 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 DooleyProfessor of Renaissance Studies b.dooley at 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 258D02D9E; Fri, 8 Mar 2013 07:29:33 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DC092D9A; Fri, 8 Mar 2013 07:29:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CE7EE2D92; Fri, 8 Mar 2013 07:29:28 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130308062928.CE7EE2D92@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 07:29:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.861 events: TEI; document engineering; reading X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 861. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Tamir Hassan (40) Subject: Document Engineering, Sept 2013 [2] From: Seth Denbo (27) Subject: Digital History Seminar, Tuesday 12 March [3] From: Arianna Ciula (23) Subject: 2013 Text Encoding Initiative conference: online submission --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 14:20:35 +0000 From: Tamir Hassan Subject: Document Engineering, Sept 2013 Invitation to submit papers on the Digital Humanities to ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, Sept 2013 We would like to encourage you and your colleagues to submit a paper to the 13th ACM Document Engineering Symposium (DocEng) which will be held in Florence, Italy Sep 10-13 this year. DocEng provides an annual international forum for presentations and discussions on principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage and maintain documents. It is a nice friendly conference with around 70 attendees preceded by a day of workshops and tutorials. Initially DocEng had a fairly technical focus but in the last few years it has broadened scope to include important application areas including the digital humanities. The idea is not to compete with existing digital humanities publishing venues but rather to provide a quality venue for papers that describe techniques and applications of document processing within the digital humanities. Please think about submitting a paper to DocEng. More information including the CFP is available at http://www.doceng2013.org Best regards Kim Marriott (Program Chair) and Simone Marinai (Symposium Chair) ===================== Important dates • Workshop and tutorial proposals due: Friday, March 15, 2013 • Full papers: • abstracts due: Sunday, March 31, 2013 • papers due: Sunday, April 7, 2013 • acceptance notice: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 • Short papers: • abstracts due: Sunday, May 19, 2013 • papers due: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 • acceptance notice: Friday, June 14, 2013 Thanks and best regards, Tamir Hassan tamir@tamirhassan.com www.tamirhassan.com Senior Researcher, Zukunftskolleg and InfoVis Group University of Konstanz, Germany Publicity Chair, ACM DocEng 2013 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 21:40:34 +0000 From: Seth Denbo Subject: Digital History Seminar, Tuesday 12 March Digital History Seminar, Institute for Historical Research Ben Schmidt 'Unintended Consequences: Digital Reading and the Loci of Cultural Change' 5:15PM (GMT), Tuesday 12 March Bedford Room G37, Senate House, Ground floor, and live online at HistorySpot http://historyspot.org.uk http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/321 | follow @ihrdighist on Twitter and the #dhist hashtag Large scale digital reading is, as its critics have noticed, quite poor at telling us about individual intentions. But digital texts do create new fields for investigation of broad cultural trends which—where reasonably good metadata is available—can help historians to describe changes that appear largely driven by disciplinary or geographical structures rather than the choices of an individual author. Ben Schmidt's paper will investigate this in two contexts; in the emergence of a new vocabulary of attention in the twentieth century directly contrary to the ambitions of the psychological establishment; and the particular places authors of historical fiction fail to notice changes in language and culture. Ben Schmidt is a Ph.D. Candidate in American intellectual history at Princeton and the Graduate Fellow at the Cultural Observatory at Harvard. His dissertation studies the emergence of modern conceptions of attention in psychology, advertising, and mass media in the early 20th century century United States. He co-developed Bookworm, a system for visual and statistical exploration of millions of books, newspaper pages, or journal articles, and writes about text analysis and the digital humanities at sappingattention.blogspot.com. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 11:37:58 +0800 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: 2013 Text Encoding Initiative conference: online submission Dear all, This is a reminder that the deadline approaches for proposals to 2013 TEI Conference and Members Meeting, to be held in Rome (Italy), 2-5 October! Proposals can now be submitted online: https://www.conftool.net/tei2013/ If you have already an existing ConfTool account activated for previous TEI conferences you will be able to use the same; otherwise, please register in order to upload your submission. Proposals for papers, posters, and panel sessions as well as for pre-conference workshops and tutorials are due by midnight GMT on 30 March 2013. Authors are encouraged to read the Call for Papers at: http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/call-for-papers/ On behalf of the programme committee, Arianna Ciula 2013 TEI Conference and Members Meeting Programme Committee: Marjorie Burghart Lou Burnard Fabio Ciotti Arianna Ciula (chair) Gianfranco Crupi Sebastian Rahtz _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 040182DAE; Fri, 8 Mar 2013 07:30:17 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E93A62D9E; Fri, 8 Mar 2013 07:30:16 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9EDE02D9E; Fri, 8 Mar 2013 07:30:14 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130308063014.9EDE02D9E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 07:30:14 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.862 pubs: digital edition of Cervantes' La entretenida X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 862. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 09:47:17 +0000 From: kcl - splas Subject: Launch of a new digital edition and translation of Cervantes's La entretenida Launch of a new digital edition and translation of Cervantes’s La entretenida King’s College London is delighted to announce the launch of the digital edition of La entretenida (http://entretenida.outofthewings.org), which takes a bold and innovative approach to the editing of Spanish Golden Age plays. The digital edition—the result of collaboration between John O’Neill, of the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies and a team from the Department of Digital Humanities led by Paul Spence—forms part of a completed doctoral research project entitled 'Cervantes’s La entretenida: Translation, Performance and a Digital Edition', carried out by John O’Neill, under the supervision of Professors Catherine Boyle and Julian Weiss, and nested within Out of the Wings http://www.outofthewings.org/ , a major new resource for Spanish and Spanish-American theatre in translation, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This fully annotated edition also incorporates the first known translation into English, The Diversion, by John O’Neill, which formed the basis of a staged reading, sponsored by the Cultural Office of the Spanish Embassy, in the Old Anatomy Museum at King’s College London in May 2007. The research has involved translation, theatre practice, and scholarship within the fields of textual criticism, bibliography and digital humanities. Reflecting this experience, this edition is aimed at academics, theatre practitioners and translators alike, and seeks to contribute to dismantling the unhelpful boundaries that have sometimes existed between these different groups. This edition offers a new perspective on Cervantes as a playwright by providing three different transcribed views of the Spanish text, together with magnificent images of the first edition held by The Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, and by presenting the text in a way that privileges the verse, thus acknowledging the importance of poetic form in Spanish Golden Age drama. The edition also incorporates various indices that help to contextualize the play, as well as features designed to aid theatre practitioners, such as the Performance Information Menu, which lets one quickly access costume, props and stage furniture requirements for each scene, and the Track Character Menu, which makes it possible to track the speeches and movements of individual characters. John O’Neill commented: ‘Cervantes’s plays have not traditionally been regarded as highly as his prose writings. That, I believe, is partly due to a failure to imagine their performative potential. In order to appreciate the experimental qualities of his theatre we need to see his plays on stage rather than just on the page. This edition seeks to respond to that situation by making the text user-friendly for theatre practitioners and by making La entretenida available to an English-speaking audience for the first time. We hope that the digital model we have designed will help his theatre to come alive.’ Paul Spence added that ‘unlike many digital editions, this edition does not simply aim to transfer a traditional print edition to digital format, but rather explores how digital technology can transform the way that we edit and read classical theatrical texts’. The model for text encoding and representation provided by this digital edition is both expandable and exportable and may be applied to other Early Modern plays in future. For further information, email john.e.oneill@gmail.com Useful references: · La entretenida digital edition http://entretenida.outofthewings.org/ · Out of the Wings project: http://www.outofthewings.org/ · Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American Studies: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/splas/index.aspx · Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/index.aspx · PhD - Digital Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/splas/study/pgr/digsplas.aspx · The Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford: http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk/content/The_Codrington_Library _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2C11E2DB8; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:27:33 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 034352D9C; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:27:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F2D412D9C; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:27:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130309072730.F2D412D9C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:27:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.863 parsing COCOA? the perfect interface? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 863. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Paul Evans (5) Subject: Tools for parsing COCOA/OCP? [2] From: Willard McCarty (33) Subject: the perfect interface --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 10:48:01 -0500 From: Paul Evans Subject: Tools for parsing COCOA/OCP? Is anyone aware of the existence of a software package or library for parsing files containing COCOA markup for the Oxford Concordance Program? Or better yet, transforming COCOA into some form of XML? Thanks, Paul Evans --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 07:19:09 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the perfect interface This is a question possibly more for scholarly users of computing than expert designers, but perhaps the designers here have thought about it. In fact I know someone who has. It is this: what would be the perfect interface? Never mind GUI, perhaps never mind "interface" as we understand this term, i.e. (from the OED), 1. > A surface lying between two portions of matter or space, and forming > their common boundary; 2a. > A means or place of interaction between two systems, organizations, > etc.; a meeting-point or common ground between two parties, systems, > or disciplines; also, interaction, liaison, dialogue.; 2b. > (An) apparatus designed to connect two scientific instruments, > devices, etc., so that they can be operated jointly. It seems to me that the very word is a problem. Can we think beyond it? For 2a, for example, Marshall McLuhan, in Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), says this: "The interface of the Renaissance was the meeting of medieval pluralism and modern homogeneity and mechanism." Someone in Technology Week in 1967 notes that, "The interface across which the engineer-scientist and the biologist can interact is a broad one." In both cases a formidable barrier is erected, though in the latter case it is permeable. Is this what we want for computing. Indeed, is it what we have? 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 87A1D2DBB; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:28:24 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DFAB2CF7; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:28:23 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 841952D9F; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:28:21 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130309072821.841952D9F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:28:21 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.864 postdocs in Editing Modernism (Canada) 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. 864. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 16:03:19 -0500 From: Dean Irvine Subject: EMiC Postdoctoral Fellowships 2013 The Editing Modernism in Canada project, funded by a Strategic Knowledge Cluster grant (2008-15) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, invites applications to its 2013 competition for a postdoctoral fellowship. Our first postdoctoral fellow, Meagan Timney, worked under the supervision of Ray Siemens at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria, and in collaboration with the developers of the Text-Image Linking Environment and the Image Markup Tool, on digital tools for the production of EMiC's digital editions; she now works as an information architect and user-experience designer in San Francisco. Our second postdoctoral fellow, Matt Huculak, worked under the supervision of Dean Irvine at Dalhousie University, and in collaboration with developers at DiscoveryGarden and the Islandora project at the University of Prince Edward Island, on the Modernist Commons; he is currently a postdoc for the Modernist Versions Project at the University of Victoria. Our third postdoctoral fellow, Vanessa Lent, is currently working under the supervision of Paul Hjartarson at the University of Alberta on the Editing the Wilfred Watson Archive project. Or most recent postdoc, Emily Robins Sharpe, is working under the supervision of Susan Brown of the Canadian Writing Research Colaboratory and Alan Filewod of the University of Guelph, and in collaboration with SSHRC postdoc Bart Vautour, on Canada and the Spanish Civil War: A Digital Research Environment; she will be taking up a tenure-stream position as an assistant professor at Keene State College starting this summer. EMiC offers two-year postdoctoral fellowships valued at CAD $31,500 per year to PhD students in the final year of their program and recent graduates who are engaged in research relevant to the project's mandate: to produce critically edited texts by modernist Canadian authors. The awards are tenable at any of the EMiC partner universities and are supervised by, or undertaken in collaboration with, co-applicants or collaborators. Although preference will be given to research projects most directly relevant to the task of producing critically edited texts by modernist Canadian authors, these awards are open to recently graduated postdoctoral scholars engaged in research projects relevant to one or more of the three components of this project: literary modernism, scholarly editing, and the digital humanities. We are especially interested in applicants who plan to work in collaboration with developers, partners, and researchers engaged in EMiC's digital initiatives. Applicants proposing print or electronic editions of modernist texts should indicate whether they have obtained written permission from the estate. EMiC will require proof of that permission before it can release funds to successful applicants. Applicants must not hold a tenure or tenure-track position or other full-time employment. Fellows are expected to engage in full-time postdoctoral research during the term of the award. Applicants should have earned their doctorate no earlier than April 15, 2009 (the date all degree requirements were completed, not the date of graduation) or have completed their doctorate no earlier than April 15, 2006 but have had their career interrupted or delayed by maternity or illness or health-related family responsibilities. Applicants have applied not more than twice previously for the EMiC Postdoctoral Fellowship. The awards are not renewable beyond the second year. EMiC will provide an allocation of $31,500 per year to the partner universities at which successful applicants propose to engage in their research. EMiC co-applicants or collaborators will be responsible for ensuring that those funds are administered in keeping with the guidelines established by their respective universities. In a sponsorship letter the postdoctoral supervisor should clearly indicate the university's willingness to host the EMiC postdoctoral fellow and the arrangements made regarding office space, library access, supplies and teaching that will be made available. Applications must be submitted via the online form available at the project website: http://editingmodernism.ca/funding/postdoctoral-fellows/ Application deadline: Monday, 15 April 2013 Dean IrvineDirector, Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC) Department of English Dalhousie University 6135 University Avenue Halifax, NS B3H 4P9 tel: 902.494.6903 email: dean.irvine@dal.ca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DFF072DC2; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:28:57 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18B4D2DC0; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:28:57 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 25D8F2DBB; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:28:55 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130309072855.25D8F2DBB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:28:55 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.865 call for nominations, ALLC X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 865. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 09:12:04 +0000 From: Melissa Terras Subject: call for nominations to the ALLC Committee ALLC: The European Association for Digital Humanities, 2013 Elections Dear Colleague and Member, I am writing to let you know that the ALLC: EADH elections for 2013 are now under way. You are receiving this email message if you have subscribed to the journal LLC in 2012, and chose either the 'Joint' or 'ALLC: EADH' membership options. This entitles you to make a nomination, to be nominated, and if an election is required, to vote. Nominations are now invited for three committee posts, each to serve a 3-year term. The current members of the executive committee, Chris Meister, Espen Ore and Jan Rybicki are all standing for re-election. All nominations require the support of two joint or ALLC: EADH members - in effect a proposer and seconder - and the written consent of the nominee. Note that self-nomination is excluded by the constitution, and membership must be current. All nominations should be sent to nominations@allc.org Full details of the election process are to be found on the EADH website at www.allc.org. Nominations may be made by email or by post. A copy of the Constitution is also available on the EADH website. The nomination period has now begun and will run to April 20th. If there are more than three nominations for the committee member positions, voting will take place in May. Results will be announced at the association's annual general meeting, which will take place during the DH2013 conference. Nominations are also invited for the role of chair and for the role of treasurer, two of the designated officers of the association. If there is more than one nomination for a given officer's position, then the appointment of a new chair and new treasurer, from among those nominated, will be made by the committee at its July meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska, just prior to the DH2013 conference. Paul Spence, our current treasurer, will not stand for re-election, and, as you almost certainly know, Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen, chair since 2010, passed away in Feb. The chair and the treasurer serve a three-year terms, subject to a single renewal, and their duties are specified in the constitution (http://www.allc.org/about/constitution). Anyone interested in serving in this position is encouraged to send an expression of interest, including a 1-page CV and a 250-word statement of what s/he would hope to accomplish as chair to nominations@allc.org no later than midnight, May 15, 2013 (GMT). Questions about the position may be addressed confidentially to John Nerbonne, j.nerbonne@rug.nl, EADH president. Please exercise your democratic right to make a nomination, to stand for election, and in due course to vote. With best wishes - and I hope to see you at DH2013 John Nerbonne, acting Chair, EADH --John Nerbonne University of Groningen www.let.rug.nl/nerbonne +31 (0)50 363 58 15 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3830C2DD9; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:29:31 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B60E2DCD; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:29:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 234532DC6; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:29:28 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130309072928.234532DC6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:29:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.866 events: French book trade X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 866. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 17:41:56 +0000 From: "Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.)" Subject: The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe (FBTEE) database Dear colleagues, With apologies for the shorter than usual notice, all are warmly invited to the following meeting of the London Digital Humanities Group where the speaker will be Mark Curran (QMUL). Dr Curran will be pre-circulating his new Historical Journal article to those attending so to confirm your place please email me at snd6@le.ac.uk and a copy of the paper will be sent by return. Look forward to seeing you there. Please circulate this notice to other mailing lists and within your departments. Best wishes, Simon London Digital Humanities Group Meeting 19 March 2013 5.15, Room S264, 2nd Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London 'The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe (FBTEE) Database' Dr Mark Curran (QMUL) Dr. Curran will give a short introduction to the AHRC funded resource The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe (FBTEE) database (http://chop.leeds.ac.uk/stn/interface), as well as his (pre-circulated) major new /Historical Journal /article 'Beyond the Forbidden Best-Sellers of pre-Revolutionary France'. Retracing Robert Darnton's steps through the famous Neuchâtel archives he will ask whether non-existent books, never sent to atypical booksellers cause revolutions? This brief primer will set up a broader, inclusive, group discussion of a series of DH questions that have issued from, by are from unique to, the FBTEE database project. These may include: · The sometimes strained relationship between print and digital outputs in DH projects · Trade-offs between scholarly granularity and accessibility · 'Born digital' resources and their relationship to manuscript sources · Future DH pathways in bibliography, bibliometrics and book history Dr Simon Dixon Digital Humanities and Special Collections Manager David Wilson Library University of Leicester University Road Leicester. LE1 7RH T: +44(0)116 252 2056 E: snd6@le.ac.uk W: http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/about/staff/academicliaison/simon-dixon Winner of the 2012 THE Award for Outstanding Library Team Elite Without Being Elitist Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/uniofleicester _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,FSL_HAS_TINYURL autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 998D82DE5; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:30:53 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 005652DD7; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:30:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5D6872DC4; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:30:50 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130309073050.5D6872DC4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:30:50 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.867 crufty! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 867. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 20:26:24 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: OED Word of the Day Interesting choice for the OED's Word of the Day for Mar. 8th, 2013: Your word for today is: crufty, adj. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/267315 crufty, adj. [‘Of software: poorly designed, esp. unnecessarily or unintentionally complex; containing redundant code.’] Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈkrʌfti/, U.S. /ˈkrəfti/ Etymology:Apparently < cruft n.2 + -y suffix1: see discussion at cruft n.2 *Computing* *slang*. Of software: poorly designed, esp. unnecessarily or unintentionally complex; containing redundant code. 1981 *CoEvolution Q.* Spring 29/1 *Crufty*, poorly built, possibly overly complex. ‘This is standard old crufty DEC software.’ 1984 J. Varley in S. Williams *Hugo & Nebula Award Winners from Asimov's Sci. Fiction* (1995) 178 Routines so bletcherous they'd make your skin crawl. Real crufty bagbiters. 2005 C. Stross *Accelerando* vii. 332 There's lots of crufty twentieth-century bugware kicking around under your shiny new singularity. -- 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7295C2DA2; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 08:25:03 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69DBC2D0D; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 08:25:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 70F642D05; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 08:24:58 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130310072458.70F642D05@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 08:24:58 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.868 clay storage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 868. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 12:02:25 +0000 From: David Zeitlyn Subject: Clay as a digital storage medium Dear all as little experiment I have made a digitally encoded clay tablet in the hope it might be readable in six thousand years time http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf2728/Clay/index.html best wishes davidz -- David Zeitlyn, Professor of Social Anthropology (research) Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, 51 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PF, UK http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/about-us/staff/academic/prof-david-zeitlyn/ http://www.mambila.info/ The Virtual Institute of Mambila Studies 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 10A9F2CDD; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 07:39:38 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFF672CB2; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 07:39:37 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 160E52C95; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 07:39:36 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130311063937.160E52C95@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 07:39:36 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.869 clay storage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 869. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Neven Jovanović (55) Subject: Re: 26.868 clay storage [2] From: maurizio lana (20) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.868 clay storage --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:46:13 +0100 From: Neven Jovanović Subject: Re: 26.868 clay storage In-Reply-To: <20130310072458.70F642D05@digitalhumanities.org> Dear David, thank you very much for the contribution. How many tablets would you need to encode e. g. the Iliad or the Bible? Could clay support audio and video? Best, Neven Neven Jovanovic Zagreb, Croatia On 10 March 2013 08:24, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 868. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 12:02:25 +0000 > From: David Zeitlyn > Subject: Clay as a digital storage medium > > Dear all > as little experiment I have made a digitally encoded clay tablet in the > hope it might be readable in six thousand years time > > http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf2728/Clay/index.html > > best wishes > davidz > > -- > David Zeitlyn, > > Professor of Social Anthropology (research) > > Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, > School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, > 51 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PF, UK > http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/about-us/staff/academic/prof-david-zeitlyn/ > http://www.mambila.info/ The Virtual Institute of Mambila Studies > 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/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:19:45 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.868 clay storage In-Reply-To: <20130310072458.70F642D05@digitalhumanities.org> wonderful representation of a myriad of themes. thank you! maurizio -- La Repubblica promuove lo sviluppo della cultura e la ricerca scientifica e tecnica. La Repubblica detta le norme generali sull'istruzione ed istituisce scuole statali per tutti gli ordini e gradi. Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana, art. 9 e 33 ------- il corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw la biblioteca digitale: http://www.digiliblt.unipmn.it/ ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 88E6B2D0F; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 07:40:36 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A333A2D0E; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 07:40:35 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1FEC42CDD; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 07:40:34 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130311064034.1FEC42CDD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 07:40:34 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.870 fellowships in data curation for medieval studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 870. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:47:14 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Fellowships in Data Curation for Medieval Studies Fellowships in Data Curation for Medieval Studies http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/dc-medieval The CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Data Curation for Medieval Studies is an expansion of the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Academic Libraries. These five, fully-funded fellowships will provide recent Ph.D.s with professional development, education, and training opportunities in data curation for Medieval Studies. Through this program, CLIR seeks to raise awareness and build capacity for sound data management practice throughout the academy. Each fellowship is two year appointment, with a $60,000 salary, plus benefits, and a yearly travel and research stipend. Who May Apply Recent Ph.D.s from any discipline with relevant expertise in Medieval Studies are encouraged to apply, so long as they meet the eligibility criteria for the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. 2013 Host Institutions and Position Descriptions Fellows will be placed at five institutions in the United States and Canada: Digital Medieval Manuscripts Fellow, Johns Hopkins University CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship for Data Curation in Medieval Studies, North Carolina State University Digital Medieval Manuscripts Fellow, Stanford University CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship for Data Curation in Medieval Studies, University of Texas at Austin CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship for Data Curation in Medieval Studies, Centre for Medieval Studies and Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto Questions about the application process or the program should be directed to postdoc@clir.org. -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D94DF2DB4; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:51:59 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B13E52D02; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:51:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E73132CCE; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:51:56 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130312065156.E73132CCE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:51:56 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.871 events: software sustainability; medieval texts & mss. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Adam Crymble (32) Subject: Software Sustainability Collaborations Workshop - Oxford [2] From: "Center for Comparative Studies" (35) Subject: Medieval Texts and Manuscripts in the World of Linked Data --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:05:22 +0000 From: Adam Crymble Subject: Software Sustainability Collaborations Workshop - Oxford Software Sustainability Collaborations Workshop 2013 ============================== 21-22 March 2013, Merton College, Oxford The Software Sustainability Institute is running its annual Collaborations Workshop (CW13) at Merton College, Oxford. This workshop brings together researchers, software developers, managers, funders and more to explore ideas in software pertinent to their research and exploit any synergies that may lead to interdisciplinary collaborations. Last year's workshop (CW12), also held in Oxford, was attended by researchers, developers, managers, funders and some independent developers was a great success. An article on the workshop can be found in the Ariadne magazine: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue68/cw12-rpt This workshop will give you an opportunity to meet and network with fellow researchers, learn more about the Software Sustainability Institute and how they may be of help to make you more productive in your research. It will give you an opportunity to network with other researchers and developers that may lead to new collaborations being established. http://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2013-03-07-collaborations-workshop-2013-many-many-reasons-attend Amongst the attendees will be most of the new Institute Fellows: http://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/fellow-profiles. To find out more and register for the Software Sustainability Institute's Collaborations Workshop 2013 please go to: http://www.software.ac.uk/collaborations-workshop-2013-cw13 Places are going fast so please try to register early. Shoaib Sufi shoaib.sufi@software.ac.uk Software Sustainability Institute http://www.software.ac.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:01:08 +0100 From: "Center for Comparative Studies" Subject: Medieval Texts and Manuscripts in the World of Linked Data Workshop COST ACTION IS 1005 Medieval Europe Medieval Texts and Manuscripts in the World of Linked Data University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve April 4-6, 2013 April 4 15h-15h45 Introduction A. Paravicini (SISMEL) : What are the objectives of COST Action IS 1005 ? What do we wait from this Workshop ? P. Bertrand (UCLouvain), Preliminary remarks to the Workshop Medieval texts and manuscripts : data and structures 16h - C. Macé (KuLeuven), Digitization of manuscripts and texts : what is there and what would be needed - an overview from a non-technical perspective. 16h30 - E. Degl’Innocenti (SISMEL-Fundazione E. Franceschini), The SISMEL databases : data and structure April 5 9h30 - C. Masset (IRHT-CNRS, Orléans), The IRHT databases : data and structure 10h - J. Deploige (Prof., UGhent) : Narrative Sources and Diplomata Belgica : data and structure Linked data, Web of Data : knowledge and techniques 11h - S. Gradmann (Prof., KULeuven), Europeana : a pioneering project 14h- R. Wenz (Conservateur des bibliothèques, archiviste-paléographe, responsable du projet data.bnf.fr à la Bibliothèque nationale de France), Web of Data in BnF : linking catalogues in data.bnf.fr 14h45 - [N, from DDH, King’s College], Linked data and Web of data in DDH 16h - J Cojan (INRIA, Wimmics, post-doctorant), DBpedia, une base de donnée pivot pour le Web Sémantique 16h45 - R. Letricot (IRHT-CNRS, Orléans), On the way to Linked Data : the IRHTLab project April 6 10-12h - Round table led by C.I. Ore (Associate Professor, Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier, University of Oslo) : how to prepare a european project around linking medieval texts and manuscripts? Conclusions N. Bériou (IRHT-CNRS, Paris http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1363007221_2013-03-11_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_12118.2.pdf _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D3C3B2DBE; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:54:47 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E7B02CCE; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:54:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 52C152CCE; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:54:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130312065445.52C152CCE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:54:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.872 pubs: Victorian songs; New Media Dynamics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 872. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (114) Subject: A Companion to New Media Dynamics [2] From: Joanna Swafford (35) Subject: Announcing Songs of the Victorians --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:46:43 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: A Companion to New Media Dynamics This is to announce publication of the (*very* expensive) Companion to New Media Dynamics, as below. May your library purchase it! Yours, WM ----- A Companion to New Media Dynamics Ed John Hartley, Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns Wiley-Blackwell http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1444332244,descCd-description.html CONTENTS Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction John Hartley, Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns Part 1 - Approaches and Antecedents 1. Media Studies and New Media Studies Sean Cubitt 2. The Future of Digital Humanities Is a Matter of Words Willard McCarty 3. Media Dynamics and the Lessons of History: The "Gutenberg Parenthesis" as Restoration Topos Thomas Pettitt 4. Literature and Culture in the Age of the New Media: Dynamics of Evolution and Change Peter Swirski 5. The Economics of New Media John Quiggin 6. The End of Audiences? Theoretical Echoes of Reception amidst the Uncertainties of Use Sonia Livingstone and Ranjana Das 7. The Emergence of Next Generation Internet Users William H. Dutton and Grant Blank 8. National Web Studies: The Case of Iran Online Richard Rogers, Esther Weltevrede, Sabine Niederer and Erik Borra Part 2 – Dynamics of Change Agency 9. In the Habitus of the New: Structure, Agency and the Social Media Habitus Zizi Papacharissi and Emily Easton 10. Long Live Wikipedia? Sustainable Volunteerism and the Future of Crowdsourced Knowledge Andrew Lih Mobility 11. Changing Media with Mobiles Gerard Goggin 12. Make Room for the Wii: Game Consoles and the Construction of Space Ben Aslinger Enterprise 13. Improvers, Entertainers, Shockers and Makers Charles Leadbeater 14. The Dynamics of Digital Multisided Media Markets: How Media Organisations Learn from the IT Industries How to Engage with an Active Audience Patrik Wikström Search 15. Search and Networked Attention Alexander Halavais 16. Against Search – Towards a New Computational Logic of Media Accessibility Pelle Snickars Network 17. Evolutionary Dynamics of the Mobile Web Indrek Ibrus 18. Pseudonyms and the Rise of the Real Name Web Bernie Hogan Surveillance 19. New Media and Changing Perceptions of Surveillance Anders Albrechtslund 20. Lessons of the Leak: WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and the Changing Landscape of Media and Politics Christoph Bieber Part 3 – Forms, Platforms and Practices Culture and Identity 21. Cybersexuality and Online Culture Feona Attwood 22. Micro-celebrity and the Branded Self Theresa M. Senft 23. Online Identity Alice E. Marwick 24. Practices of Networked Identity Jan-Hinrik Schmidt Politics, Participation, Citizenship 25. The Internet and the Opening Up of Political Space Stephen Coleman 26. The Internet as a Platform for Civil Disobedience Cherian George 27. Parody, Performativity, and Play: The Reinvigoration of Citizenship through Political Satire Jeffrey P. Jones 28. The Politics of Platforms Tarleton Gillespie 29. From Homepages to Network Profiles: Balancing Personal and Social Identity Axel Bruns Knowledge and New Generations 30. The New Media Toolkit Mark Pesce 31. Materiality, Description and Comparison as Tools for Cultural Difference Analysis Basile Zimmermann 32. Learning from Network Dysfunctionality: Accidents, Enterprise and Small Worlds of Infection Jussi Parikka and Tony D. Sampson 33. Young People Online Lelia Green and Danielle Brady 34. Beyond Generations and New Media Kate Crawford and Penelope Robinson Index -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:03:22 -0400 From: Joanna Swafford Subject: Announcing Songs of the Victorians Today is the pre-release of Songs of the Victorians (http://www.songsofthevictorians.com/), an archive of parlor and art song settings of Victorian poems, and also a scholarly tool to facilitate interdisciplinary music and poetry scholarship. It will contain four songs: Michael William Balfe's "Come into the Garden, Maud" and Sir Arthur Somervell's "Come into the Garden, Maud" (both based on Alfred Lord Tennyson's monodrama,*Maud*), Sir Arthur Sullivan's version of Adelaide Procter's "A Lost Chord," and Caroline Norton's "Juanita," although for this limited release, it only includes "Juanita." The archival portion of this site includes high-resolution images of the first edition printings of each song as well as an audio file, and when the audio file is played each measure is highlighted in time with the music. The scholarly component for each work includes an article-length analysis of the song's interpretation of the poem, with excerpts of relevant phrases to support the argument. Users can click on these excerpts to play them, and the relevant portion of the score pops up and is highlighted in time with the music so that everyone, regardless of their ability to read music, can follow the score and the thread of the argument. Songs of the Victorians will continue adding new songs for the foreseeable future, and it may in a few years be open to accepting submissions from other scholars interested in archivally preserving and analyzing parlor and art song settings of Victorian poems digitally. I have been developing this site with the generous support of a Scholars' Lab Fellowship from the University of Virginia. To learn more about the creation of this site or to receive updates on its development schedule, please visit and subscribe to my development blog, "Anglophile in Academia" (http://anglophileinacademia.blogspot.com/), or email me at jes8zv@virginia.edu if you have any questions or comments. I'd love to hear your feedback and advice! Thanks, Joanna Swafford PhD Candidate, English University of Virginia http://anglophileinacademia.blogspot.com/ @annieswafford _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E40982DCC; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:02:07 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B53BC2DBE; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:02:06 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 575B52DB8; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:02:04 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130312070204.575B52DB8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:02:04 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.873 clay storage and human 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="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. 873. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: David Zeitlyn (26) Subject: Re: 26.868 clay storage [2] From: Willard McCarty (33) Subject: storage, clay storage and memory --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:35:31 +0000 From: David Zeitlyn Subject: Re: 26.868 clay storage Dear all, Neven Jovanovic asks a good question. The answer of course is many, many tablets (and I've not tried to do the sums) for anything nontextual. But in principle sound/visual material could be reproduced via strings of 0,1 codes... and nb in a related post Dan Rutter http://www.dansdata.com/gz094.htm extols the virtue of a way of printing QRcodes which include encode relatively large amounts of data on paper, supported by an open source software project PaperBack http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/ david -- 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://www.mambila.info/ The Virtual Institute of Mambila Studies 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/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 06:50:25 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: storage, clay storage and memory At first David Zeitlyn's backward gesture with neo-Sumerian materials seems like not much, but then one gets to thinking about the less obvious differences between clay and electronic-digital storage. Plato, picking up hints from the Presocratics, is credited with the first and astonishingly, powerfully persistent metaphor for human memory, the wax tablet, in the Theaetetus. Clay would not have worked so well for the purpose. But both clay and wax tablets imply the storehouse and retrieval of fixed items from it. And there, with the inscription and storehouse metaphors, one has the theme from which most variations on the nature of memory have come, up to this day. But computers aren't like that, really, although much effort is spent (as in the machines near and far that I am using now) to make them behave as if the very item once stored away in memory is back on screen -- not (as more accurately) a new item constructed anew for the purpose, but according to the fiction being played out, exactly the same thing. Practical, day-to-day human memory we also want to work like that, and when it doesn't we get upset, or worse. But other rememberings clearly don't work that way, and we'd be considerably poorer, indeed not human any more if they did -- if we didn't forget at all (as with Borges' Funes the Memorious), if we always remembered with the exactitude of our computers when they're working, as we think, properly. So, my question: can we imagine a computing that would work with us to retrieve as we remember? How close are we to this with the Web as a kind of memory? 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 374752DEF; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:30:46 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 898882DE7; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:30:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 093B32DC4; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:30:42 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130313063043.093B32DC4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:30:42 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.874 clay storage and human 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="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. 874. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:33:45 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.873 clay storage and human memory In-Reply-To: <20130312070204.575B52DB8@digitalhumanities.org> Il 12/03/2013 08:02, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > Neven Jovanovic asks a good question. The answer of course is many, many > tablets (and I've not tried to do the sums) for anything nontextual. But > in principle sound/visual material could be reproduced via strings of > 0,1 codes... i think that the very matter is not how many tablets we need to encode the bible, but the concept itself of archiving on clay tablet which immediately starts -as a powerful catalyzer- a series of thoughts about archiving, about the media for archiving, about their virtues and defects, about the time variable, about the resilience, about what will remain of our digital culture after 2000 years, if after 100 years, or 1000, for the humanity will be more interesting and important the iliad or all the zettabytes we produced in the sole year 2013, about ... maurizio -- Un nuovo contratto sociale: abbondanza frugale in una società solidale. Sta a noi volerlo. (Serge Latouche) ------- il corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw la biblioteca digitale: http://www.digiliblt.unipmn.it/ ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università  del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CE38A2DFF; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:33:17 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B7592DEF; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:33:16 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C75212DD3; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:33:14 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130313063314.C75212DD3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:33:14 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.875 events: information society; interpretation; material X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 875. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Brian Rosenblum (45) Subject: Call For Papers - 2013 Digital Humanities Forum: Return to the Material [2] From: Mark Newman (124) Subject: Call for Workshops and Tutorials: International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2013)! [3] From: Brian Croxall (31) Subject: Beyond the Digital: Pattern Recognition and Interpretation. A CFP for MLA 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:36:53 -0500 From: Brian Rosenblum Subject: Call For Papers - 2013 Digital Humanities Forum: Return to the Material The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Kansas is pleased to announce the call for papers for our Fall 2013 Digital Humanities Forum. Please distribute widely, and consider submitting a proposal. --- CALL FOR PAPERS 2013 Digital Humanities Forum: Return to the Material University of Kansas September 12-14, 2013 * Thursday, September 12: Workshops * Friday, September 13: THATCamp Kansas * Saturday, September 14: Return to the Material conference Recently digital humanities discussions have returned to a focus on the material in many senses. Bethany Nowviskie’s talk at MLA 2013—“Resistance in the Materials” —explored various facets of the material aspects of digital humanities, including the role of craft and collaboration, the “increasing casualization of academic labor," and the emergence of digital-to-physical technologies. KU’s 2013 Digital Humanities Forum will explore these and related topics in our program “Return to the Material.” We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers, posters or panel sessions on topics from your own research that focus on the relationship between the digital and the material, such as: * How the digital deforms, reforms, and transforms the material, and vice-versa; * Innovative computational approaches to the close reading of text, map, image or audio; * The implications for humanities scholarship and pedagogy of digital-to-physical conversion tools, wearable computers, and augmented reality technologies (e.g. 3-D printing, electronic textiles, Google Glass) * The future of physical objects and collections in a digital world; * The materiality of music, art, or film in the digital age; * Digital humanities as a key mode of addressing technological change; * The recognition of craft in building, creating and accessing electronic materials; * How the apparent wild experimentation of DH reveals substantial and tangible insights; * and other related topics. Please submit abstracts of 500 words maximum at: https://idrh.ku.edu/dhforum2013 Proposal Deadline: June 1 Notification: June 15 Questions may be directed to the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, idrh@ku.edu Arienne Dwyer & Brian Rosenblum, co-directors --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:39:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Newman Subject: Call for Workshops and Tutorials: International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2013)! CALL FOR WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS ********************************************************************************** International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2013) Technical Co-Sponsored by Toronto Section 24-26 June, 2013 University of Toronto, Hart House, Toronto, Canada www.i-society.eu ********************************************************************************* The i-Society 2013 encourages you to submit workshop/tutorials proposals. Workshop duration can be one day or one and half day. All the accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. You can consider organising a workshop that is related to i-Society 2013 topics. The format of each workshop is to be determined by the organisers, but it is expected that they contain ample time for general discussion. The preference is for one day workshops, but other schedules will also be considered. The topics in i-Society 2013 include but are not confined to the following areas: *New enabling technologies - Internet technologies - Wireless applications - Mobile Applications - Multimedia Applications - Protocols and Standards - Ubiquitous Computing - Virtual Reality - Human Computer Interaction - Geographic information systems - e-Manufacturing *Intelligent data management - Intelligent Agents - Intelligent Systems - Intelligent Organisations - Content Development - Data Mining - e-Publishing and Digital Libraries - Information Search and Retrieval - Knowledge Management - e-Intelligence - Knowledge networks *Secure Technologies - Internet security - Web services and performance - Secure transactions - Cryptography - Payment systems - Secure Protocols - e-Privacy - e-Trust - e-Risk - Cyber law - Forensics - Information assurance - Mobile social networks - Peer-to-peer social networks - Sensor networks and social sensing *e-Learning - Collaborative Learning - Curriculum Content Design and Development - Delivery Systems and Environments - Educational Systems Design - e-Learning Organisational Issues - Evaluation and Assessment - Virtual Learning Environments and Issues - Web-based Learning Communities - e-Learning Tools - e-Education *e-Society - Global Trends - Social Inclusion - Intellectual Property Rights - Social Infonomics - Computer-Mediated Communication - Social and Organisational Aspects - Globalisation and developmental IT - Social Software *e-Health - Data Security Issues - e-Health Policy and Practice - e-Healthcare Strategies and Provision - Medical Research Ethics - Patient Privacy and Confidentiality - e-Medicine *e-Governance - Democracy and the Citizen - e-Administration - Policy Issues - Virtual Communities *e-Business - Digital Economies - Knowledge economy - eProcurement - National and International Economies - e-Business Ontologies and Models - Digital Goods and Services - e-Commerce Application Fields - e-Commerce Economics - e-Commerce Services - Electronic Service Delivery - e-Marketing - Online Auctions and Technologies - Virtual Organisations - Teleworking - Applied e-Business - Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) *e-Art - Legal Issues - Patents - Enabling technologies and tools *e-Science - Natural sciences in digital society - Biometrics - Bioinformatics - Collaborative research *Industrial developments - Trends in learning - Applied research - Cutting-edge technologies Important Dates: *Workshop/Tutorial Proposal Submission: Extended March 15, 2013 *Notification of Workshop/Tutorial Acceptance: Extended March 25, 2013 The workshops proposal should be emailed to workshop@i-society.eu. The tutorial proposal should be emailed to tutorial@i-society.eu For further details please visith www.i-society.eu --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:27:10 -0400 From: Brian Croxall Subject: Beyond the Digital: Pattern Recognition and Interpretation. A CFP for MLA 2014 Friends, Please share this CFP widely with colleagues and students. It's a late CFP (mea culpa), and so the ACH, from which the call comes will benefit from its amplification. ------- Recent MLA Conventions have featured many sessions about the digital humanities, considering their impact on methodology, pedagogy, bibliography, race, and the profession itself. What is sometimes forgotten, however, is that the output of digital analysis is not itself the goal; rather, it is a means to an end, and that end is the interpretation of a text or corpus (understood widely). This session seeks to re-establish this understanding and conversation, defamiliarizing the conversation about the digital and making it re-familiar to the larger body of MLA participants. This panel will presentations that offer interpretations of texts, language, literature and/or literary history that definitely began with a digital approach. Crucially, however, we will ask presenters to speak not about their methods but instead about their interpretation, results, and conclusions. Speakers will give brief talks (5-7 minutes, depending on number of participants). Speakers will also be invited to write brief blog posts to be shared on their own websites as well as that of the Association for Computers and Humanities (ACH) about their methods and approaches. These posts will be shared at the session but will not form the subject of the conversation. Send 300-word abstracts and bio to brian.croxall@emory.edu by 27 March 2013 at 12pm EST. N.B. All panelists will need to be MLA members (or have their membership waived) by April 7th. I am organizing this session on behalf of the ACH. Since the ACH is an allied organization of the MLA, this session is guaranteed for the 2014 MLA. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F08AB2D65; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:40:42 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28CE9E4A; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:40:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 978BFE4A; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:40:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130314074038.978BFE4A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:40:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.876 medicine, graphic-novel style; clay storage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 876. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Dr. Robert Delius Royar PhD" (5) Subject: Re: 26.874 clay storage and human memory [2] From: John Simpson (5) Subject: Re: 26.854 pubs: medicine, graphic-novel style; open access for historians --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:12:20 -0400 From: "Dr. Robert Delius Royar PhD" Subject: Re: 26.874 clay storage and human memory In-Reply-To: <20130313063043.093B32DC4@digitalhumanities.org> An encoding system will be most useful and decodable if it is designed for the medium on which it is encoded and when that medium is designed to work efficiently with a specific decoding device. A medium has longevity if the conditions under which it is stored are unlikely to degrade the medium. How long would clay survive exposed to the humidity of a temperate climate? Using binary encoding facilitates reading the information if the decoder can only process single bits at a time in a serial fashion. If the decoder is a more sophisticated pattern-recognition device, then converting the letter 'A' to 0000000001000001 is inefficient. -- Robert Delius Royar Department of English Morehead State University r.royar@moreheadstate.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:54:34 -0600 From: John Simpson Subject: Re: 26.854 pubs: medicine, graphic-novel style; open access for historians In-Reply-To: <20130306085740.38F622D1A@digitalhumanities.org> For anyone who was interested in the "medicine, graphic-novel style" post from last week, I received two responses. Both were sent directly to me and so not available on the list: Vittorio Frigerio flagged Curreri and Palumbo's "L'elmo e la rivolta" (in Italian): http://www.comma22.com/index.php/catalogo/prodotto/id/168 Geoffrey Rockwell flagged Mechaemia (A journal on Japanese visual culture): http://mechademia.org/ It would seem that it really is a rare sort of thing to do or else not really of interest to the media savvy Humanist membership. I'm going to believe that it is rare. =) -John _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D9D8A2DD9; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:41:33 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A909C2D65; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:41:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6FEE6E89; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:41:29 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130314074129.6FEE6E89@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:41:29 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.877 uses of RDF: thanks, and a list 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. 877. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:43:56 -0600 From: John Simpson Subject: Re: 26.855 uses of RDF In-Reply-To: <20130307062555.563242CCB@digitalhumanities.org> For anyone following the RDF thread from last week, I'd like to do two things: 1. Send out a general thanks to those who shared RDF tools or projects or comments that were not already on the list. So, "Thank You!" to: Anna Gerber, Dean Irvine, Anna Jordanous, Jim Smith, Leif Isaksen, Conal Tuohy, Joris Pekel, and Stefan Gradmann. 2. Share the full list of tools here so that others don't have to piece the list together. Here are the new tools/projects that were shared: AustESE HuNI Modernist Commons MITH Video Annotation Tool Sharing Ancient Wisdoms Project RelFinder RDFGravity Welkin RDF Browser Sig.ma Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana -John _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EDD5B2DF8; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:43:04 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42EBA2DEE; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:43:02 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B82AA2DC0; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:43:00 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130314074300.B82AA2DC0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:43:00 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.878 events: political language; digital curation curriculum X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 878. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (52) Subject: Political Language Conference, London, 26 March [2] From: Shawn Day (49) Subject: "Framing the Digital Curation Curriculum" International Conference --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 06:41:07 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Political Language Conference, London, 26 March > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Fletcher [mailto:Christopher.Fletcher@univ-paris1.fr] > Sent: 11 March 2013 16:04 > To: christopher.fletcher@univ-paris1.fr > Subject: Political Language Conference, London, 26 March > > Dear all, > > Apologies for the round-robin email. > > I was hoping to draw your attention, and that of your postgraduate > students, to a one-day event at Queen Mary, University of London on > Tuesday, 26 March: > > "Political Language: The Study of Terminology as a Tool in Political > and Social History" > > As the title suggests, the theme is the study of terminology as a > means to answer questions in political and social history. In > particular, a number of the participants will be discussing computer > tools to aid in semantic research in medieval Latin and vernacular > languages, whilst others approach political language through more > traditional methods, or use a mix of both. > > There is no conference fee, but we would appreciate it if those who > would like to attend would contact us in advance > (christopher.fletcher@univ-paris1.fr). > > The programme is attached. Please do circulate to interested parties. > > All the best, > > Chris > > -------- > > Dr Christopher Fletcher > ERC Project "Signs and States" > Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale, Paris I Institut des Traditions Textuelles 7, rue Guy Moquet, BP 8 94801 Villejuif Cedex France > > http://univ-paris1.academia.edu/christopherfletcher > > Richard II: Manhood, Youth, and Politics 1377-99 is available now in paperback through all good bookshops, or direct from Oxford University Press at: > http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199595716.do > -- > Ce message a ete verifie par MailScanner pour des virus ou des polluriels et rien de suspect n'a ete trouve. *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1363157221_2013-03-13_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_12714.2.pdf --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:02:17 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: "Framing the Digital Curation Curriculum" International Conference Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe (DigCurV) Project presents Framing the digital curation curriculum International Conference 6-7 May 2013 Sala Verde Banca CR Firenze Via De' Pucci 11 Florence, Italy http://www.digcur-education.org/International-Conference Spaces are limited so be sure to register soon at: http://digcurvcurriculum.eventbrite.it Contact: conference@digcur-education.org The recently closed call for contributions has been a success! Sixteen papers and fourteen posters have been selected. The conference programme is now even richer and includes keynote lectures, presentations of the DigCurV results, talks and posters around the topics of the conference. A special session will be dedicated to the Curate! The Digital Curator Game, that has already excited many digital curation practitioners. Check out the programme here: http://www.digcur-education.org/eng/International-Conference/Programme The objective of the conference is to promote discussion and consensus building amongst stakeholders about the main criteria and requirements necessary to develop training courses for professionals in digital curation in the cultural heritage sector. Results from projects and initiatives actively involved in education, training and professional development in the field of digital curation and digital preservation will be presented and discussed. The audience will include policy makers, educators, representatives from institutions involved in vocational training in digital curation, and representatives from professional associations in the cultural heritage and digital libraries sectors. The conference is supported by: • APARSEN (Alliance Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe Network) • EUDAT (European Data Infrastructure) • DCP (Digital Preservation Coalition) • OPOE (Digital Preservation Outreach Education) • DPTP (The Digital Preservation Training Programme) • OPF (Open Planets Foundation) • nestor Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/digcurv Join us on LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Digital-Curator-Vocational-Education-Europe-4037886 Follow us on Twitter and use the hashtag #digcurv2013: https://twitter.com/DigCurV -- Vicky Garnett Research Assistant Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe (DigCurV) Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) Trinity Long Room Hub Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland Phone: +353 01 896 4470 E-mail: vicky.garnett@tcd.ie www.digcur-education.org www.dariah.eu http://dh.tcd.ie/dh _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1052D2E59; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:44:46 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 164542E00; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:44:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 39E6F2DF8; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:44:42 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130314074442.39E6F2DF8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:44:42 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.879 pubs: Scholarly Editing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 879. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:46:16 -0500 From: Amanda Gailey Subject: New Issue of Scholarly Editing; Call for Articles and Proposals for Editions We are pleased to announce the publication of *Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing* (vol. 34, 2013), now in its second issue as an online publication at www.scholarlyediting.org. *Scholarly Editing* publishes peer-reviewed editions of primary source materials of cultural significance while continuing the decades-long tradition of publishing articles and reviews about editing that defined its print predecessor, *Documentary Editing*. This year's issue includes editions and essays by contributors from several countries, tackling materials that span centuries. We are pleased not only to present editors with a rigorously peer-reviewed publication platform, but also to share fascinating documents from cultural history with the reading public. All of this material is available freely online and is completely open-access. Please see below for our call for editions and articles for next year's issue, as well as the full table of contents for the 2013 issue. Amanda Gailey and Andrew Jewell Editors, *Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for DocumentaryEditing* INVITING EDITION PROPOSALS AND ARTICLES FOR THE 2014 ISSUE OF SCHOLARLY EDITING *Scholarly Editing* invites proposals for the 2014 issue. Many scholars have discovered fascinating texts that deserve to be edited thoughtfully and imaginatively, and we offer a venue to turn these discoveries into sustainable, peer-reviewed publications that will enrich the digital record of our cultural heritage. If you are interested in editing a small-scale digital edition, we want to hear from you. Proposals for the 2014 issue are due by April 22, 2013. Please see details for submitting a proposal at www.scholarlyediting.org/se.about.html. We also welcome submissions of articles discussing any aspect of the theory or practice of editing, print or digital. Articles must be submitted by August 5, 2013, to be considered for the 2014 issue. Please see details at www.scholarlyediting.org/se.about.html. * * CONTENTS FOR VOLUME 34, 2013 "Introduction to Volume 34 of *Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing"* by Amanda Gailey (University of Nebraska–Lincoln) and Andrew Jewell (University of Nebraska–Lincoln) Editions A Poem's Flight: Reprints of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Sunset Wings" in the American Newspaper Press, edited by Marianne Van Remoortel (University of Ghent) The Trinity Seven Planets, edited by Alpo Honkapohja (University of Zurich) "Will not these days be by thy poets sung": Poems of the *Anglo-African* and *National Anti-Slavery Standard*, 1863–1864, edited by Elizabeth Lorang (University of Nebraska–Lincoln) and R. J. Weir (University of Cambridge) Essays "The 'Documentary Democracy' of the Writings of John Dickinson, Then and Now" by Jane E. Calvert (University of Kentucky) "Medievalists and the Scholarly Digital Edition" by Dot Porter (University of Pennsylvania) "The Iceman Cometh?: On Intellectual Access to Documents" (Presidential Address, Association for Documentary Editing Annual Meeting, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2012) by Carol DeBoer-Langworthy (Brown University) Reviews *The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 9: Poems. A Variorum Edition*. Historical introduction, textual introduction, and headnotes by Albert J. Von Frank. Text established by Albert J. Von Frank and Thomas Wortham. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. Reviewed by Helen R. Deese *The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman, Volume 1: My People Need Me*, June 1918–March 1936. Edited by Walter Earl Fluker, Kai Jackson Issa, Quinton H. Dixie, Peter Eisenstadt, and Catherine Tumber. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009 and *The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman, Volume 2: Christian, Who Calls Me a Christian?* April 1936–August 1943. Edited by Walter Earl Fluker, Kai Jackson Issa, Quinton H. Dixie, Peter Eisenstadt, and Catherine Tumber. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2011. Reviewed by Sarah Azaransky (University of San Diego) Recent Editions by W. Bland Whitley (Princeton University) -- Amanda Gailey Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska 202 Andrews Hall Lincoln, NE 68588 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A96A02E4C; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:21:28 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E6D62D9F; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:21:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DF2352DB4; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:21:25 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130315072125.DF2352DB4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:21:25 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.880 clay storage 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. 880. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:30:36 +0000 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: 26.876 medicine, graphic-novel style; clay storage In-Reply-To: <20130314074038.978BFE4A@digitalhumanities.org> On 14 Mar 2013, at 07:40, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:12:20 -0400 > From: "Dr. Robert Delius Royar PhD" > Subject: Re: 26.874 clay storage and human memory > In-Reply-To: <20130313063043.093B32DC4@digitalhumanities.org> > ... > A medium has longevity if the conditions under which it is stored are unlikely to degrade the medium. How long would clay survive exposed to the humidity of a temperate climate? > ... > -- > Robert Delius Royar Department of English > Morehead State University r.royar@moreheadstate.edu Yes. And it's perhaps worth remembering that the Sumerians used clay as a medium because of affordances that had nothing to do with longevity: they used to leave the tablets unfired, then soak and re-use them when the stored information was no longer needed. For the most part, the tablets that have survived are simply those that - for one reason or another - failed to be recycled. It's pure serendipity that environmental conditions preserved them for so long. Daniel Allington Centre for Language and Communication The Open University -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7EA372E70; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:24:24 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C6362E33; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:24:23 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A260A2DD7; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:24:21 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130315072421.A260A2DD7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:24:21 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.881 events: summer school; diplomatics; online conference X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 881. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (12) Subject: TCC 2013 Online Conference, Apr 16-18 [2] From: Georg Vogeler (17) Subject: Digital Diplomatics 2013 - deadline extended [3] From: James Cummings (27) Subject: Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2013: Registration Open! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:19:03 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: TCC 2013 Online Conference, Apr 16-18 Aloha: The 18th Annual TCC 2013 Worldwide Online Conference is open for registration. Join us for 100 live presentations over three days about emerging technologies, collaboration, online learning, web 2.0 and social media for teaching and learning. http://www.tcconlineconference.org To peek at the presentation descriptions and schedule of sessions being finalized, see: https://tcc2013program.wikispaces.com We look forward to your participation in TCC 2013. Cheers, - Bert Kimura for the TCC 2013 Conference Team --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:07:44 +0100 From: Georg Vogeler Subject: Digital Diplomatics 2013 - deadline extended Dear list members, if you considered to present a paper at the Digital Diplomatics conference in November (14th-16th) this year, please note, that we extended the deadline for proposals to April 15th. You can find the details fot the call at http://www.cei.lmu.de/digdipl13/call-for-papers We're looking forward to them. Best regards from the program committee Georg Vogeler -- 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 fÃŒr 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 Research (ICARus) http://www.icar-us.eu --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:24:23 +0000 From: James Cummings Subject: Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2013: Registration Open! Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2013 Registration is open! http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/ The Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School (DHOXSS) is an annual training event taking place this year on 8 - 12 July 2013 at the University of Oxford for researchers, project managers, research assistants, and students of Digital Humanities. DHOXSS delegates are introduced to a range of topics including the creation, management, analysis, modelling, visualization, or publication of digital data for the humanities. Each delegate follows one of our 5-day workshops and supplements this with guest lectures by experts in their fields. There are a variety of evening events including a peer-reviewed poster session to give delegates a chance to demonstrate their work to the other delegates and speakers. The Thursday evening sees an elegant drinks reception and three-course banquet at the historic Queen's College Oxford. DHOXSS is a collaboration for Digital.Humanities@Oxford between the University of Oxford's IT Services, the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC), the Bodleian Libraries, and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. Questions: email courses@it.ox.ac.uk for answers. James Cummings Director of DHOXSS -- Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk Academic IT Services, University of Oxford _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E00002D82; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 08:54:54 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17F032CE9; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 08:54:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C192D2CB2; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 08:54:51 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130316075451.C192D2CB2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 08:54:51 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.882 clay storage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 882. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:18:00 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: clay storage In-Reply-To: <20130315072125.DF2352DB4@digitalhumanities.org> The clay tablets: There is the matter of the encoding survival as pointed out. Does the example also raise the importance of "reading" the encoded information? Is a community of readers and a tradition of learning also necessary for the successful transmission? Francois Lachance Scholar-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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 23A442D94; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 08:58:17 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D90CC2D0E; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 08:58:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F403E2D04; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 08:58:13 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130316075813.F403E2D04@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 08:58:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.883 jobs at Amsterdam and SUNY Institute; studentships at Science Museum 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. 883. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Boon Tim (51) Subject: Advance Notice: Collaborative Doctoral Studentships available at Science Museum Group [2] From: "Bod, Rens" (12) Subject: Assistant Professor position at ILLC Amsterdam, including Digital Humanities [3] From: "steve@sunyit.edu" (18) Subject: Assistant Professor of Digital Media Design & Humanities | Position Announcement --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:07:24 -0000 From: Boon Tim Subject: Advance Notice: Collaborative Doctoral Studentships available at Science Museum Group Advance Notice: Collaborative Doctoral Studentships available at Science Museum Group The AHRC has awarded the Science Museum Group eight collaborative doctoral studentships to start this autumn. In late spring, with our university partners, we will be looking for excellent students with relevant Masters degrees to apply for these places. At present, university partners, working with professional staff at the museums in our group, are submitting proposals for projects to be conducted on a wide range of fascinating topics related to the museums' concerns. Please note that it is an intrinsic aspect of these collaborative projects that students, as in a conventional doctorate, determine the route across the terrain described in outline in the proposals. In addition to this, they gain all the benefits and academic stimulation of working in world-leading museums, including opportunities to work on unexplored collections, and communicating their work to wide audiences. The Science Museum Group is Britain's premier museum organisation in the fields of science, technology, engineering, medicine and media. It is comprised of the Science Museum (London), Museum of Science and Industry (Manchester), National Media Museum (Bradford), National Railway Museum (York) and NRM branch Locomotion (Shildon). SMG holds collections, carefully acquired since the 19th century, of international significance. Its permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions represent the history, present and future of its subjects. The museums' professional staff lecture and publish their academic work widely in museology and history. In recent years, the museums have hosted AHRC projects under the Science in Culture, Connected Communities, and Beyond Text themes. If you would like to register your interest in these places, please e-mail research@sciencemuseum.ac.uk so that we can contact you as soon as the places can be advertised. Tim Dr Tim Boon, Head of Research & Public History, The Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD Tel: 020 7942 4207 / Fax: 020 7942 4103 / Mobile: 07949 517 646 Skype: tim.boon.scm E-mail: tim.boon@sciencemuseum.ac.uk Web: www.sciencemuseum.org.uk Keep up with stories from our collections; read our Blog http://sciencemuseumdiscovery.com/blogs/collections/ Co-editor of the new book Material Culture & Electronic Sound This e-mail and attachments are intended for the named addressee only and are confidential. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the sender immediately, delete the message from your computer system and destroy any copies. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not reflect the views of the Science Museum Group. This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:10:16 +0000 From: "Bod, Rens" Subject: Assistant Professor position at ILLC Amsterdam, including Digital Humanities The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam has a vacancy for an Assistant Professor in any of the research fields of the ILLC, including Digital Humanities. For more information, see http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/werken-bij-de-uva/vacatures/item/13-052.html Closing date: April 1st 2013 ---- Prof dr Rens Bod, VICI Laureate Chair of Computational Humanities Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam Visiting Address: Science Park 105, Room F.204, Amsterdam, NL Postal Address: P.O. Box 94242, 1090 GE Amsterdam, NL phone: +31 20 5256086 or +31 20 5256051 homepage: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~rens/ weblog: http://devergetenwetenschappen.blogspot.com/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:43:37 +0000 From: "steve@sunyit.edu" Subject: Assistant Professor of Digital Media Design & Humanities | Position Announcement Greetings: I would like to draw your attention to a just-advertised position for an Assistant Professor of Digital Media Design and Humanities at the SUNY Institute of Technology. I believe that some PhD students in your program may be a good fit for this position. The position announcement is available at http://j.mp/sunyit-digital-humanities-position. If anyone has questions about SUNYIT, our department or this position, either of the co-chairs would be glad to communicate with them by email: Steve Schneider, Coordinator, Communication & Information Design Program steve@sunyit.edu Daryl Lee, Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Studies Program daryl.lee@sunyit.edu Many thanks, //steve. Steven M. Schneider | http://www.sunyit.edu/~steve Professor, Communications & Humanities Department SUNY Institute of Technology _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C93312DAE; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:00:48 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78BA62D82; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:00:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D00AA2D16; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:00:44 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130316080044.D00AA2D16@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:00:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.884 events: public-private initiatives; French book trade X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 884. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.)" (41) Subject: London Digital Humanities Group meeting, Tuesday 19 March: The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe (FBTEE) database [2] From: "Bod, Rens" (15) Subject: Workshop Public-Private Initiatives in Digital Humanities, NIAS, Netherlands, 21 & 22 March --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:50:02 +0000 From: "Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.)" Subject: London Digital Humanities Group meeting, Tuesday 19 March: The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe (FBTEE) database A reminder that our next meeting will be on Tuesday at Senate House. All are welcome. Marc Curran will be pre-circulating his new Historical Journal article to those attending so to confirm your place please email me at snd6@le.ac.uk and a copy of the paper will be sent by return. London Digital Humanities Group Meeting 19 March 2013 5.15, Room S264, 2nd Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London 'The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe (FBTEE) Database' Dr Mark Curran (QMUL) Dr. Curran will give a short introduction to the AHRC funded resource The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe (FBTEE) database (http://chop.leeds.ac.uk/stn/interface), as well as his (pre-circulated) major new /Historical Journal /article 'Beyond the Forbidden Best-Sellers of pre-Revolutionary France'. Retracing Robert Darnton's steps through the famous Neuchâtel archives he will ask whether non-existent books, never sent to atypical booksellers cause revolutions? This brief primer will set up a broader, inclusive, group discussion of a series of DH questions that have issued from, by are from unique to, the FBTEE database project. These may include: · The sometimes strained relationship between print and digital outputs in DH projects · Trade-offs between scholarly granularity and accessibility · 'Born digital' resources and their relationship to manuscript sources · Future DH pathways in bibliography, bibliometrics and book history Dr Simon Dixon Digital Humanities and Special Collections Manager David Wilson Library University of Leicester University Road Leicester. LE1 7RH T: +44(0)116 252 2056 E: snd6@le.ac.uk W: http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/about/staff/academicliaison/simon-dixon Winner of the 2012 THE Award for Outstanding Library Team Elite Without Being Elitist Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/uniofleicester --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:03:21 +0000 From: "Bod, Rens" Subject: Workshop Public-Private Initiatives in Digital Humanities, NIAS, Netherlands, 21 & 22 March Dear all, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies will host a workshop on Public-Private Initiatives in Digital Humanities on 21 and 22 March, co-organized by the University of Amsterdam, Free University and the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. For more information, see http://cdh.uva.nl/news-and-events/events/content/workshops/2013/03/nias.html --Prof dr Rens Bod, VICI Laureate Chair of Computational Humanities Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam Visiting Address: Science Park 105, Room F.204, Amsterdam, NL Postal Address: P.O. Box 94242, 1090 GE Amsterdam, NL phone: +31 20 5256086 or +31 20 5256051 homepage: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~rens/ weblog: http://devergetenwetenschappen.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E7D752D79; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:06:31 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF482CC9; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:06:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 59DBF2C8E; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:06:28 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130317090628.59DBF2C8E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:06:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.885 ACH microgrants! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 885. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 22:22:58 -0400 From: Susan Brown Subject: ACH microgrants call The Executive Council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities is delighted to announce its second round of Microgrants. We invite proposals that will advance the goals and mission of the ACH, to support computer-assisted research, teaching, and software and content development in humanistic disciplines. Projects should be modest and designed to be accomplished within roughly six months. Examples of possible projects, meant to inspire rather than limit: • a mobile app for the DH conference • a framework for sharing DH syllabi • enhancements to DH Questions & Answers • initiatives that enhance the redesigned ACH Website • activities that add functionality/features to the online journal Digital Humanities Quarterly • new content, such as podcasts • making old content, such as DHQ content or ACH-related history, accessible in new forms or amenable to visualization or analytics. Proposals may be for projects in a range of forms including, but not limited to, apps, plugins, and tools. ACH is particularly interested in proposals that focus on enhanced communications with ACH members and our mentoring and advocacy initiatives. Proposals should seek to draw in the community, expand the existing community, or link to other initiatives. Graduate students and early stage researchers are encouraged to apply. Last year’s microgrant projects can be found here: http://ach.org/ach-announces-microgrants-winners. Quinn Dombrowski’s project is on hold pending changes to DH Questions and Answers. Amanda Visconti’s visualizations of DHQ content can be found here: http://digitalliterature.net/viewDHQ/. The DH jobs list created by Matt Burton and Dave Lester is here: http://jobs.lofhm.org/about/. The full text of the call is here: http://ach.org/ach-microgrants-2013-microsteps-advance-digital-humanities Please send proposals or queries to microgrants@ach.org by 15 April 2013. Susan Brown, for the Microgrants group: Jarom McDonald, Lisa Spiro, and Vika Zafrin sbrown[AT]uoguelph[dot]ca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 913FF2D9C; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:08:29 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 772F62C8A; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:08:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 272F82CDB; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:08:27 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130317090827.272F82CDB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:08:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.886 pubs: D-Lib for March/April X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 886. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:38:42 +0000 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The March/April 2013 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. Greetings: The March/April 2013 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains six articles and reports on the 'First iPres Workshop on Practical Emulation Tools and Strategies', and 'Semantic Search: Magnet for the Needle in the Search Haystack; Report on the 2012 Joint NKOS/CENDI Workshop'. The 'In Brief' column presents three short pieces and excerpts from recent press releases. In addition you will find news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in the 'Clips and Pointers' column. This month, D-Lib features the The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project, which has been published online by the UCLA Library and Livingstone Online. The articles include: Adding Value to Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Institutional Repositories By Joachim Schopfel, Charles de Gaulle University Lille 3 Using Wikipedia to Enhance the Visibility of Digitized Archival Assets By Michael Szajewski, Ball State University The Digital-Surrogate Seal of Approval: a Consumer-oriented Standard By James A. Jacobs, University of California San Diego and James R. Jacobs, Stanford University A Mobile Interface for DSpace By Elias Tzoc, Miami University Libraries Automating Library Stock Ordering from Reading Lists By J. P. Knight, G. P. Brewerton and J. L. Cooper, Loughborough University Library What do Librarians Need to Know About MOOCs? By Forrest Wright, Thomson Reuters The reports are: Report on the First iPres Workshop on Practical Emulation Tools and Strategies By Dirk von Suchodoletz and Klaus Rechert, Institute for Computer Science, Freiburg University; Mark Guttenbrunner, Secure Business Austria Semantic Search: Magnet for the Needle in the Search Haystack; Report on the 2012 Joint NKOS/CENDI Workshop By Marcia Lei Zeng, Kent State University and Gail Hodge, Information International Associates D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the March/April 2013 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D69122DAB; Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:49:18 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8F062DBE; Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:49:17 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1E0242D93; Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:49:16 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130318084916.1E0242D93@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:49:16 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.887 events: records, archives and memory studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 887. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:30:15 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Conference and School on Records, Archives and Memory Studies > Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:12:46 +0100 > From: Marijana Tomić‡ Dear all, I am sending you the second information on Conference and School on Records, Archives and Memory Studies Zadar, Croatia, 6 to 10 May, 2013, http://ozk.unizd.hr/rams/ with a kind request to send the information to other possibly interested colleagues: The Conference and School is targeted primarily at doctoral students in library and information sciences and cultural heritage studies in general, and archival studies, preservation and conservation studies in particular. It is also targeted at those students in the final years of their graduate studies, as well as young practitioners in the fields. We encourage post-doctoral students and faculty members to take part in the school too. Registration is opened at: http://ozk.unizd.hr/rams/?page_id=35 Registration fee: doctoral and graduate students 100 EU, others 200 EU. The closing date for registration is 22th of April 2013 Questions should be directed to: Secretary to the Conference and School Research Assistant Marijana Tomić‡, rams.zadar@gmail.com Organizers: UNIVERSITY OF ZADAR, CROATIA DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES Director of the Conference and School Professor Mirna Willer, PhD with co-organizers: UCLA, LOS ANGELES, USA DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION STUDIES, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION & INFORMATION STUDIES Director, Center for Information as Evidence Professor Anne J. Gilliland, PhD KARL-FRANZENS-UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ, AUSTRIA VESTIGIA - MANUSCRIPT RESEARCH CENTRE Director of Vestigia Professor Erich Renhart, PhD ICARUS - INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR ARCHIVAL RESEARCH, VIENNA, AUSTRIA Dr. Thomas Aigner, MAS, President UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB, FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, HISTORY DEPARTMENT, CROATIA Director of the PhD Programme Medieval Studies Professor Neven Budak, PhD -- *RAMS - Conference and School on Records, Archives and Memory Studies* Zadar, Croatia, 6 to 10 May 3013 Department of Library and Information Sciences of the University of Zadar rams.zadar@gmail.com http://ozk.unizd.hr/rams/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8B2BE2E4C; Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:22:04 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AA012DAB; Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:22:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 082802D93; Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:22:01 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130318122202.082802D93@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:22:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.888 postdoc at NCSU X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 888. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:10:35 +0000 From: David M Rieder Subject: Mellon/CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship in Medieval Studies and Digital Humanities Dear All, I'm forwarding this announcement on behalf of Tim Stinson, a colleague of mine at NC State. His email is tlstinso@ncsu.edu. North Carolina State University has been awarded a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship for Data Curation in Medieval Studies. The full job description is pasted below and may also be viewed at http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/ncsu2013. More information on the program may be viewed at http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/dc-medieval. Those interested in applying are welcome to contact Prof. Timothy Stinson with any questions at tlstinso@ncsu.edu. --- Desired Skills & Expertise Familiarity with or interest in learning HTML, XML, and WordPress. Strong organizational and communication skills to coordinate with project partners across campus and at other institutions. Ability to make effective use of social media for public outreach. Programming skills and/or familiarity with metadata standards desirable but not required. Fellow's Role The Fellow will serve as a liaison between academic departments, faculty researchers, and the Digital Libraries Initiatives (DLI) Department on NCSU?s campus. The fellow will have the opportunity to work on four NCSU-based projects involving data curation in medieval studies: the Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA); the Manuscript DNA project; the Siege of Jerusalem Electronic Archive (SJEA); and the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive (PPEA). The fellow will also serve as a liaison between NCSU and partners at other universities engaged in related research projects, including the Advanced Research Consortium (ARC), a meta-federation comprising MESA, the Renaissance English Knowledgebase (REKn), 18thConnect, the Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES), and Modernist Networks (ModNets). The fellow will have the opportunity to conduct original research on data curation strategies and will be encouraged to participate actively in the larger community of CLIR postdoctoral fellows, including the cohort of fellows in the Data Curation in Medieval Studies Fellowship program. A strong emphasis will be placed not only on the ways that the Fellow can contribute to our institution, but to the professional development of the Fellow in the fields of medieval studies and library science. Duties and Responsibilities Study data curation strategies in use on other campuses and in other fields, including the sciences, and develop a set of recommendations for best practices for the curation of humanities data. This work will be done in consultation with the online DH Curation Guide and will form the basis of contributing new resources and information to that guide. Seek solutions for linking humanities data and datasets to related scholarship in new forms of interactive publications; the Fellow will be encouraged to consult and seek partnerships with relevant initiatives such as Anvil Academic and Open Humanities Press as well as with ARC partners, including JSTOR, ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) and Project MUSE Present original research at professional conferences as appropriate Collaborate with software developers on the creation, modification, and augmentation of tools related to digital projects in the field (e.g., development of the Collex browser for MESA, enhancements to the fuzzy search capabilities built into SJEA and MESA to accommodate non-standardized medieval spelling practices) Conduct user testing of software and web portals using the NCSU Libraries? Usability Research Lab Use social media for public outreach related to NCSU Libraries, the Data Curation Fellowship program, and medieval studies projects on which the fellow is working Participate in the organization of workshops and symposia, including digital public humanities events and meetings of the Advanced Research Consortium held on NCSU's campus Local Guidance and Professional Development Support As a member of the Digital Libraries Initiatives (DLI) Department the Fellow would be a member of a 14-person team that works in the areas of data curation, digital repositories, web and mobile applications, digital media, data visualization, and geospatial data. The Fellow would participate in departmental teams and meetings, and would have the opportunity to collaborate with staff that have a variety of technical and domain-specific skill sets. The Fellow would have access to technology support and consultation services from DLI staff members as well as from the Information Technology Department, which maintains the Libraries? technical infrastructure. The Fellow would work closely with Professor Timothy Stinson in the Department of English on the four interdisciplinary projects listed above, as well as with Professor James Knowles of English, the project manager for PPEA. Cumulatively, these projects include a wide variety of data related to medieval studies, including large genomic datasets from the Manuscript DNA project, XML-encoded transcriptions and descriptions of manuscripts, images of manuscripts from SJEA and PPEA, and tens of thousands of RDF metadata records from MESA. The Fellow would be encouraged to be part of the intellectual life of the English department, including speakers series, symposia, and workshops, and would be offered the option of teaching one or more medieval studies courses in the department during his or her tenure. The Fellow will also be joining a vibrant community of medievalists spanning the closely linked campuses of NCSU, UNC Chapel Hill, and Duke University. Opportunities include participating in the Triangle Medieval Studies Seminar, the UNC Medieval & Early Modern Lecture Series, the Duke Medieval & Renaissance Lecture Series, colloquia at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and special events at the nearby National Humanities Center. -- David M. Rieder, PhD Associate Professor of English Faculty member, CRDM Box 8105 / Tompkins Hall 232A Raleigh, NC 27695-8105 http://www4.ncsu.edu/~dmrieder dmrieder@ncsu.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5B1A82E70; Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:23:15 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2942B2DCA; Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:23:13 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3078C2DC6; Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:23:11 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130318122311.3078C2DC6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:23:11 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.889 events: cfp for Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities (ACRH-3) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 889. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:35:15 +0000 From: Passarotti Marco Carlo Subject: ACRH-3: First Call for Papers ---- Third Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities (ACRH-3) ---- -- In memory of father Roberto Busa (1913-2011) -- The third edition of the Workshop on "Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities" (ACRH-3) will be held on December 12, 2013 at the University of Sofia (Bulgaria) (http://www.bultreebank.org/ACRH-3/). Submissions are invited for oral presentations and posters (with or without demonstrations) featuring high quality and previously unpublished research on the topics described below. Contributions should focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Proceedings will be published in time for the workshop. The full proceedings of the previous two editions of ACRH are respectively available at www.jlcl.org (ACRH-1) and at http://alfclul.clul.ul.pt/crpc/acrh2/ACRH-2_FINAL.pdf (ACRH-2). The workshop will be co-located with the Twelfth International Workshop on "Treebanks and Linguistic Theories" (TLT-12), which will be held on December 13-14, 2013 (http://www.bultreebank.org/TLT12/). This edition of ACRH will be dedicated to the memory of father Roberto Busa, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth (November 28, 1913). ACRH-3 will devote one special session to father Busa. This section will feature one introduction and one invited talk, which will be given by the recipient of the 2013 Busa Award, Prof. Willard McCarty (King's College, London, UK). MOTIVATION AND AIMS Research in the Humanities is predominantly text-based. For centuries scholars have studied documents such as historical manuscripts, literary works, legal contracts, diaries of important personalities, old tax records etc. Manual analysis of such documents is still the dominant research paradigm in the Humanities. However, with the advent of the digital age this is increasingly complemented by approaches that utilise digital resources. More and more corpora are made available in digital form (theatrical plays, contemporary novels, critical literature, literary reviews etc.). This has a potentially profound impact on how research is conducted in the Humanities. Digitised sources can be searched more easily than traditional, paper-based sources, allowing scholars to analyse texts quicker and more systematically. Moreover, digital data can also be (semi-)automatically mined: important facts, trends and interdependencies can be detected, complex statistics can be calculated and the results can be visualised and presented to the scholars, who can then delve further into the data for verification and deeper analysis. Digitisation encourages empirical research, opening the road for completely new research paradigms that exploit `big data' for humanities research. This has also given rise to Digital Humanities (or E-Humanities) as a new research area. Digitisation is only a first step, however. In their raw form, electronic corpora are of limited use to humanities researchers. The true potential of such resources is only unlocked if corpora are enriched with different layers of linguistic annotation (ranging from morphology to semantics). While corpus annotation can build on a long tradition in (corpus) linguistics and computational linguistics, corpus and computational linguistics on the one side and the Humanities on the other side have grown apart over the past decades. The ACRH workshop aims at building a tighter collaboration between people working in various areas of the Humanities (such as literature, philology, history etc.) and the research community involved in developing, using and making accessible annotated corpora. We believe that such a collaboration is now needed because, while annotating a corpus from scratch still remains a labor-intensive and time-consuming task, today this is simplified by intensively exploiting prior experience in the field. Actually, such a interplay is still quite far from being achieved, as a gap still holds between computational linguists (who sometimes do not involve humanists in developing and exploiting annotated corpora for the Humanities) and humanists (who sometimes just ignore that such corpora do exist and that automatic methods and standards to build them are today available). Although many corpora that play a relevant role for research in Humanities are today available in digital format, only a few of them are linguistically tagged, while most still lack linguistic tagging at all. Over the past few years a number of historical annotated corpora have been started, among which are treebanks for Middle, Early Modern and Old English, Early New High German, Medieval Portuguese, Ugaritic, Latin, Ancient Greek and several translations of the New Testament into Indo-European languages. The experience of these ever-growing set of projects can provide many suggestions on the methodology as well as on the practice of interaction between literary studies, philology and corpus linguistics. TOPICS To overcome the above mentioned issues, ACRH-3 aims at covering a wide range of topics related to the annotation of corpora for research in the Humanities. The topics to be addressed in the workshop include (but are not limited to) the following:- specific issues related to the annotation of corpora for research in the Humanities - annotated corpora as a basis for research in the Humanities - diachronic, historical and literary annotated corpora - use of annotated corpora for stylometrics and authorship attribution - philological issues, like different readings, textual variants, apparatus, non-standard orthography and spelling variation - annotation principles and schemes of corpora for research in the Humanities - adaptation of NLP tools for older language varieties - integration of annotated corpora for the Humanities into language resources infrastructures - tools for building and accessing annotated corpora for the Humanities - examples of fruitful collaboration between Computational Linguistics and Humanities in building and exploiting annotated corpora INVITED SPEAKER: Willard McCarty (King's College, London, UK) IMPORTANT DATES Deadlines: always midnight, UTC ('Coordinated Universal Time'), ignoring DST ('Daylight Saving Time'): - Deadline for paper submission: September 15, 2013 - Notification of acceptance: October 18, 2013 - Final version of paper: November 17, 2013 - Workshop: December 12, 2013 INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION We invite to submit full papers describing original, unpublished research related to the topics of the workshop. Papers should not exceed 12 pages. The language of the workshop is English. All papers must be submitted in well-checked English. Papers should be submitted in PDF format only. Submissions have to be made via the EasyChair page of the workshop at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acrh3. Please, first register at EasyChair if you do not have an EasyChair account. The style guidelines follow the specifications required by TLT. They can be found here: http://www.bultreebank.org/ACRH-3/StyleGuidelines.html. Please, note that as reviewing will be double-blind, the papers should not include the authors' names and affiliations or any references to web-sites, project names etc. revealing the authors' identity. Furthermore, any self-reference should be avoided. For instance, instead of "We previously showed (Brown, 2001)...", use citations such as "Brown previously showed (Brown, 2001)...". Each submitted paper will be reviewed by three members of the program committee. Submitted papers can be for oral or poster presentations (with or without demo). There is no difference between the different kinds of presentation both in terms of reviewing process and publication in the proceedings (the limit of 12 pages holds for both oral and poster presentations). ORAL PRESENTATION The oral presentations at the workshop will be 30 minutes long (25 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussion). PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS - Francesco Mambrini (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin, Germany) - Marco Passarotti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy) - Caroline Sporleder (University of Trier, Germany) PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS - Stefanie Dipper (Germany) - Voula Giouli (Greece) - Iris Hendrickx (Portugal) - Erhard Hinrichs (Germany) - Cerstin Mahlow (Switzerland) - Alexander Mehler (Germany) - Jirí Mírovský (Czech Republic) - Christian-Emil Smith Ore (Norway) - Michael Piotrowski (Germany) - Paul Rayson (UK) - Martin Reynaert (The Netherlands) - Jeff Rydberg Cox (USA) - Kiril Simov (Bulgaria) - Stefan Sinclair (Canada) - Mark Steedman (UK) - Frank Van Eynde (Belgium) - Martin Wynne (UK) LOCAL ORGANIZATION - Petya Osenova (University of Sofia, Bulgaria) - Kiril Simov (IICT-BAS) - Stanislava Kancheva (University of Sofia, Bulgaria) - Georgi Georgiev (Ontotext) - Borislav Popov (Ontotext) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4F89B2EFC; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:11:50 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B7F8759; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:11:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 25D70759; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:11:48 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130319081148.25D70759@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:11:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.890 the turn turn 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. 890. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:31:03 -0400 (EDT) From: drwender@aol.com Subject: Re: 26.859 the turn turn In-Reply-To: <8CFF2470DEF607D-228C-241B6@webmail-m131.sysops.aol.com> > ... I wonder first when this habit began with reference to > disciplinary inclinations and whether anyone has done the homework and > written about it. I guess 'turn' was coming up as alternative to hitherto 'paradigm shift', abundantly used in the 1970's. Maybe the success of the new term was based on the feeling that in humanities 'paradigm' might be too euphemistic? 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dean Rehberger (23) Subject: Re: Day of DH 2013 [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (18) Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 21 March 2013 [3] From: Chris.Bissell (46) Subject: DTMD 2013: An interdisciplinary workshop on Information: Space, Time, and Identity [4] From: Julie Hipperson (20) Subject: HumSci Workshop --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:23:29 -0400 From: Dean Rehberger Subject: Re: Day of DH 2013 In-Reply-To: <20130318122311.3078C2DC6@digitalhumanities.org> Invitation to Participate in Day of DH 2013 Hosted this year by Michigan State University’s MATRIX: The Center for the Digital Humanities & Social Sciences, a Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (Day of DH) is an open community publication project that brings together scholars interested in the digital humanities from around the world to document what they do on one day. This year, Day of DH will take place on April 8th. An initiative of CenterNet, the goal of the project is to create a web site that weaves together a picture of the participant’s activities on the day which answers the question, “Just what do digital humanists really do?” Participants document their day through photographs and text, all of which is published on a community online platform (which, for this year, lives at dayofdh2013.matrix.msu.edu). Both during and after the day, people are encouraged to read and comment on their fellow participant’s posts. Eventually, all the data will be grouped together, undergo some light semantic editing, and released for others to study. We hope that, beyond the original online publication, the raw data will be of use to those interested in further visualization or digital community ethnographic research. Anyone who considers themselves as being part of the Digital Humanities community (by any definition) is invited to participate, write, share, and comment. To find out more or sign up, head on over to http://dayofdh2013.matrix.msu.edu -- Best, Dean _____________________________ Dean Rehberger Director, Matrix Associate Professor, WRAC Adjunct Professor, History Adjunct Curator, MSU Museum Matrix, Michigan State University 409 Natural Science Building East Lansing MI 48824-1120 Direct: 517.353.4969 Main: 517.355.9300 Fax (517)-355-8363 http://www.rehberger.us dean.rehberger@matrix.msu.edu aim: deanreh "Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." Twain --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:55:44 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 21 March 2013 In-Reply-To: <20130318122311.3078C2DC6@digitalhumanities.org> Professor Anna Reading, the new Head of the Department of Creative Media and Cultural Industries at King's College London, will be talking to the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship in the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, on Thursday 21 March at 5.30pm in Room 234, Senate House, University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU. Professor Reading's title is: From Holy Book to Face Book: the iPhone, iMemory and the Connective Text How is the manuscript and the printed book changing through the use of the iphone, the ibook and Facebook? This seminar addresses how mobile, social and connective media are transforming the cultural memory of the text within scholarship. The combination of globalisation and digitisation means that texts are now read, written, analysed and produced within what might be understood as ‘a globital memory field’: within this texts are mobilised and secured as dynamic assemblages rather than discrete entities. This has significant implications for scholarship in terms of the methods used to analyse texts. The seminar provides a conceptual model for how within scholarship there are now six dynamics of analysis that scholars need to be aware of in approaching the connective text. This promises to be a fascinating talk, so I hope as many as possible will come along. Admission is free, all are welcome and there is a glass of wine afterwards. Andrew Prescott 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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:34:58 +0000 From: Chris.Bissell Subject: DTMD 2013: An interdisciplinary workshop on Information: Space, Time, and Identity In-Reply-To: <60667691F130CD418BD0D4FC512EF91217A9ED527D@SALCEYCMS1.open.ac.uk> Dear colleague, There is just one week left to register for DTMD 2013: An interdisciplinary workshop on Information: Space, Time, and Identity April 8th – 10th in Milton Keynes An outline of the programme is given below*, and abstracts of all the talks are now available for download from the workshop website – see http://www.dtmd.org.uk/programme/Abstracts * Make sure you read to the bottom of the programme: don’t miss Luciano Floridi’s keynote talk and the Panel Session on Wednesday morning. Please register using the link at http://www.dtmd.org.uk/registration before 22nd March Regards, Magnus Ramage and David Chapman on behalf of the Programme Committee Outline programme Session 1: Information and Space (Mon 8 April, 10:30-13:00) Keynote: Holger Schnädelbach, University of Nottingham, UK: Adaptive Architecture Ambjörn Naeve & Carl Smith, KTH, Sweden and London Metropolitan University: Spacification: How to design and construct spaces that can enhance artistic experiences Caitlin Bentley Royal Holloway University of London: Information as evidence: The quest for development aid results Claudia Jacques, University of Plymouth, UK: Space-Time Aesthetics in the Meta-Environment: A Cybersemiotics Analysis Derek Jones, The Open University, UK: Where is information? Session 2: Information and Time (Mon 8 April, 14:00-17:30) Keynote: John Monk, The Open University, UK: What is time for? Gabriela Besler and Jolanta Szulc, University of Silesia, Poland: Time as a constitutive element of information expressed in signs Jan Sliwa, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland: Trying to know everything – truth as a moving target Robin Laney, The Open University, UK: Difference as Meaning in Musical Narratives David Chapman,The Open University, UK: Information is Provisional Informal evening discussions (Monday evening) Session 3: Information and Identity (Tues 9 April, 09:00-13:00) Keynote: Liesbet van Zoonen, Loughborough University, UK and Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands: Identification, information and narrative Michael Thompson, University of North Texas, USA The Antinomy of Identity: Personal Identity and Time in Modern Philosophy Robert Hunter, Northumbria University, UK How digital discourse has affected individuals ability to mould their identity and relationship to information online. Jan Sliwa, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland: Living in parallel worlds – two Polish nations Paul Adams, Alcatel-Lucent, UK: Identity Shift: Where Identity Meets Technology in the Networked-Community Age Karen Kear, Frances Chetwynd & Helen Jefferis, The Open University, UK: “To give a better understanding of who I am”: the role of personal profiles in online learning. Robin Smith, University Hospitals of Leicester,UK: Everything Must Go: Data Brokers and the Explosion of the Information Crime Economy’ Session 4: What is information? (Tues 9 April, 14:00-17:30) Keynote: Pedro C. Marijuán, Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud (I+CS), Zaragoza, Spain: On being informational: caught into the communication flows Barbara Osimani Università degli studi di Camerino UNICAM, Italy: Code or cause? Genetic information as influence João Alvaro Carvalho, Universidade do Minho, Portugal: Asking the right question: What is information? OR What is it that you are calling information? Marek Hetmański, Marie Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland: Informational aspects of metaphors Marcin J. Schroeder Akita International University, Akita, Japan Ontological Study of Information: Identity and State Robert B. Lisek, Institute for Research in Science and Art, Poland: Presence and future of information space Informal evening activities (Tues 9 April, 18:00-19:30) Including a discussion of information and art through Second Life Session 5: Synthesis and Art (Wed 10 April, 09:30-11:00) Keynote: Carson Grubaugh Information Artist, New York, USA: The Art of Information Session 6: Plenary and Panel (Wed 10 April, 11:30-13:00) Keynote: Luciano Floridi, University of Hertfordshire and St Cross College, University of Oxford, UK The Maker’s Information Panel Discussion exploring an interdisciplinary understanding of information, with the keynote speakers and delegates. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:05:15 +0000 From: Julie Hipperson Subject: HumSci Workshop In-Reply-To: <60667691F130CD418BD0D4FC512EF91217A9ED527D@SALCEYCMS1.open.ac.uk> HumSci Workshop for PhDs and ECRs - Tuesday 28th and Wednesday 29th May 2013. Is it possible to think about the connections between the sciences and humanities which goes beyond science communication (ie how can the ‘soft skills’ of the humanities be used to communicate the ‘hard results’ of science) or the History of Science, and which doesn’t get distracted by ‘The Two Cultures' discussion? The idea of the HumSci workshop, funded by the AHRC, is to promote genuine reciprocity between the two disciplines by bringing together PhD students and Early Career Researchers from both the sciences and the humanities to think through issues of method, creativity and uncertainty in research, as well as publishing and communication. Led by expert panels, talking through the similarities and differences in the disciplines will help us critically reflect on the practices of our own discipline, as well as creating fresh research agendas. Have a look at the provisional programme to get more of an idea of how this discussion will be structured, and please pass these details on to anyone you think might be interested. Workshop Website: http://humsciworkshop.wordpress.comQueries to:humsciworkshop@gmail.com or to Julie Hipperson j.hipperson11@imperial.ac.uk Deadline for applications: (Midnight) Friday 5th April 2013 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B6FCE3120; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:26:41 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0D192EFF; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:26:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B61AF2EFC; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:26:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130319082638.B61AF2EFC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:26:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.892 pubs: 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. 892. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:36:06 +0000 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Digital Curation Bibliography, 2012 Supplement Digital Scholarship has released the Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works, 2012 Supplement, which presents over 130 English-language articles, books, and technical reports published in 2012 that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. This selective bibliography covers digital curation and preservation copyright issues, digital formats (e.g., media, e-journals, research data), metadata, models and policies, national and international efforts, projects and institutional implementations, research studies, services, strategies, and digital repository concerns. http://digital-scholarship.org/dcbw/s1/dcbw-s1.htm It is a supplement to the Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works, which covers over 650 works published from 2000 through 2011. http://digital-scholarship.org/dcbw/dcb.htm The bibliography includes links to freely available versions of included works. If such versions are unavailable, italicized links to the publishers' descriptions are provided. The bibliography is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen) this message: http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/dcb-s1-pr.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://digital-scholarship.org/cwbprofile.htm http://digital-scholarship.org/about/overview.htm _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F090B2DE9; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:30:33 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF3052DDC; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:30:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 085602CF7; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:30:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130320063031.085602CF7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:30:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.893 the turn turn X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 893. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:39:25 -0500 From: Douglas Knox Subject: Re: 26.890 the turn turn In-Reply-To: <20130319081148.25D70759@digitalhumanities.org> > > > > ... I wonder first when this habit began with reference to > > disciplinary inclinations and whether anyone has done the homework and > > written about it. > > I guess 'turn' was coming up as alternative to hitherto 'paradigm > shift', abundantly used in the 1970's. Maybe the success of the > new term was based on the feeling that in humanities 'paradigm' > might be too euphemistic? > "Paradigm shift" we owe of course to Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). Dr. Wender may be right about the adoption of terms in the humanities, but Willard's citation of Rorty in 1961 suggests an interesting parallelism in which "turn" might not have started as a turn away from paradigm shifts. In Humanist 26.844 Mark Davies offered links to some fascinating historical comparisons of adjectives that precede the word "turn," particularly this table, showing bigrams that occur more frequently in recent decades than in the early nineteenth century: http://googlebooks.byu.edu/?c=us&q=21436930 The 83rd bigram in that list, "Copernican turn," resonates with Kuhn's paradigm shifts and suggests that the some of the work to be done, if it hasn't been done already somewhere, might involve looking at how the historiography of science relates to disciplinary self-understanding in the humanities. There must be something at stake in the fact that a turn is not a revolution, though "Copernican revolution" is a more common bigram in English. Do all recent turns in the humanities necessarily cross disciplines, rather than describe developments internal to disciplines? A linguistic turn wouldn't seem to have much to offer linguists, nor a spatial turn much for geographers. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9D6DB3120; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:30:56 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 815722DE9; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:30:55 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 771712DED; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:30:53 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130320063053.771712DED@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:30:53 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.894 the Medical Heritage 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. 894. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:29:55 -0400 From: "Clutterbuck, Hanna" Subject: The Medical Heritage Library Welcomes New Content Contributors! Good morning! The Medical Heritage Library (www.medicalheritage.org; MHL) is pleased to announce two new content contributors: the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group at the School of History, Queen Mary University of London, and the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University. Please read on for excerpts from the blog posts announcing the new contributors, co-authored by Hanna Clutterbuck (MHL); Alan Yabsley (HMBRG); and Chris Palazzolo (Emory). The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group was established in 1990 as the Wellcome Trust’s History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group. In October 2010 it moved to the School of History, Queen Mary University of London, where it is supported by a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award to Professor Tilli Tansey. In developing and strengthening links between members of the biomedical research community and medical historians, the Group played – and continues to play – a prominent role in promoting and facilitating the study of the history of twentieth-century medicine and medical science by encouraging the creation and deposit of material sources for use by present and future historians. Items the Group has contributed to MHL include 45 Witness Seminars, at which 20th century medical figures were invited to discuss and comment on significant discoveries or events in recent medical history. The latest of these, ‘Palliative Medicine in the UK c.1970–2010’, has just been published. Also covered are topics as diverse as the discovery of monoclonal antibodies, obstetric ultrasound and Rhesus factor; the development of specialties such as medical physics, intensive care and clinical pharmacology, and advances in asthma, psychopharmacology, cancer treatment and haemophilia. Participants have included Nobel Laureates, scientists and clinicians, in addition to technicians, funders, journalists and patients. Furthermore, the ‘Today’s Neuroscience, Tomorrow’s History’ oral history series, which features video recordings with prominent neuroscientists talking about their lives and work, has also been donated to MHL. The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University is pleased to contribute digitized versions of over 180 titles selected from our Historical Collection to the MHL. Many scholars find these additions valuable for learning and research. Individual volumes in DiscoverE will include a link to these volumes. Our collection contains classics of medicine such as a 1785 edition of William Buchan’s "Domestic Medicine," Richard Bright’s three-volume work "Reports of Medical Cases," an 1835 edition of the "Works" of John Hunter, an 1848 edition of John Eberle’s work on "Diseases of Children," volumes from the 3rd edition and 4th edition (corrected) of Benjamin Bell’s "A System of Surgery," and the first volume of a 1751 edition of Herman Boerhaave’s "Praelectiones academicae in proprias Institutiones rei medicae." The collection also includes 18th and 19th century works on pathology, human anatomy, surgery and midwifery. Lesser-known authors are also represented in the collection, including works on 19th century medical photography by George Henry Fox and L.B.V. Wooley, and publications on alternative medical practices, including homeopathy, hydropathy, the movement cure, and phrenology. The collection also includes works published in the U.S. South, such as the 1844 edition of Simon B. Abbott’s "The Southern botanic physician," and Georgia author Seaborn Freeman Salter’s 1883 version of "Principles and practice of American medicine and surgery." Many thanks to the Digital Curation Center at Woodruff Library for digitizing these materials and uploading them to the Internet Archive. Particular thanks goes to Bonnie Jean Woolger, who handled the digitization and processing of the digital files and to Matt Miller, at Health Sciences, who assessed and prepared the collection for digitization. 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. 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, the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Lamar Soutter Library, the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library at the University of California, San Francisco, Brandeis University, and the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto. Thank you! -Hanna Clutterbuck ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Processing Assistant, Center for the History of Medicine, 617-432-7393 Project Coordinator, Medical Heritage Library (http://www.medicalheritage.org/) Hanna_Clutterbuck@hms.harvard.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 52FC239D3; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:33:47 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B2EF2E6F; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:33:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1AC112DE7; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:33:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130320063345.1AC112DE7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:33:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.895 events: unbinding; sacred text; heritage informatics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 895. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Francesca Benatti (26) Subject: CFP: Digital Media and Sacred Text [2] From: Claire Clivaz (12) Subject: Lausanne (CH): Humanities Unbound, 1-2 octobre 2013, call for papers [3] From: Ray Siemens (17) Subject: MSU 2013 Cultural Heritage Informatics Fieldschool --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:52:46 +0000 From: Francesca Benatti Subject: CFP: Digital Media and Sacred Text CFP: Digital Media and Sacred Text 17 June 2013, 10:00 - 17:00 The Open University Camden Centre, London This one-day conference will bring together academics interested in the study of digital sacred text from a wide range of religious traditions, including sociologists, ethnographers, media scholars, computer scientists, digital humanists and theologians. We also welcome religious practitioners and publishers engaged in creating digital sacred texts. Possible topics include: - How can digital media affect the relationship between a religious reader and their sacred text? - Does digitisation influence the interpretation of a text? - What norms are emerging to guide the use of digital sacred texts, and how are those norms being negotiated? - How can digital sacred texts be designed to meet the needs of religious readers? - What challenges does the process of digitizing sacred text raise for religious communities? If you would like to present a paper at this event, please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words by April 15th to Tim Hutchings (tim.hutchings@open.ac.uk). Thanks to generous funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, we are able to offer a small number of bursaries to cover travel expenses for PhD students. http://www.mediatingreligion.org/events/digital-media-and-sacred-text --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:35:01 +0100 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Lausanne (CH): Humanities Unbound, 1-2 octobre 2013, call for papers Dear all, The DHLab (EPFL) and the new LADHUL (Laboratory of Digital Humanities Lausanne) are proud to announce a first common meeting on the 1-2 october 2013: «Humanities Unbound. When cultures are reconfigured out of the book (image, sound, text)». «Les humanités délivrées. Cultures parlées, visuelles, écrites, réinventées hors du livre». A call for papers is open until the 15 of May. All languages are welcome, even if English and French are preferred. Are invited notably: Julianne Nyhan (UCL, Londres): «Oral History, Hidden Histories and the emergence of the Digital Humanities 1945-1980» Geoffrey C. Bowker (Santa Clara, USA) : «Memory Practices in the Sciences and Digital Humanities» A public round-table will focus on «Musical creation, copyright and virtual diffusion». Complete argument and call for papers here (in French): http://dhlausanne.ch/colloque-1-2-octobre-2013-les-humanites-delivrees-humanities-unbound/ Claire Clivaz, Frédéric Kaplan, Dominique Vinck and the Interface Sciences-Societé (Marc Audétat) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 01:06:59 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: MSU 2013 Cultural Heritage Informatics Fieldschool The 2013 Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) Fieldschool http://chi.anthropology.msu.edu/fieldschool/ The 2013 Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) Fieldschool introduces students to the tools and methods required to creatively apply information and computing technologies to cultural heritage materials and questions. The CHl Fieldschool is a unique experience in which students come together for 5 weeks to collaboratively work on cultural heritage informatics projects. In the process they learn to envision and build applications and digital user experiences for cultural heritage – exploring skills such as programming, web design & development, user experience design, project management, digital storytelling, etc. Build soundly on the principle of “building as a way of knowing,” the CHI Fieldschool embraces the idea that students develop a better understanding of cultural heritage informatics by actually building tools, applications, and digital user experiences. 2013 Fieldschool Theme: Each year, the CHI Fieldschool has a theme which guides and informs all work and projects undertaken by students. This year’s theme is “Visualization: Time, Space, and Data.” The CHI Fieldschool is offered through the MSU Department of Anthropology as ANP491 (6 Credits) DIRECTOR & CONTACT: ETHAN WATRALL (WATRALL@MSU.EDU) INFO & APPLY: CHI.ANTHROPOLOGY.MSU.EDU/FIELDSCHOOL DATES: MAY 27-JULY 3 NB - Interested graduate students from CIC Schools may wish to investigate participating through the CIC Traveling Scholars Program, which lets graduate students enroll on their home CIC campus while participating in a class on another CIC campus. For information, see: http://www.cic.net/projects/shared-courses/traveling-scholar-program/introduction -- Assistant Professor, Anthropology Associate Director, MATRIX (matrix.msu.edu http://matrix.msu.edu ) Director, Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative (chi.anthropology.msu.edu) http://chi.anthropology.msu.edu Michigan State University @captain_primate http://www.twitter.com/captain_primate _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D2C482DAB; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:36:01 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F76C2CF2; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:36:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CCE292CDB; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:35:57 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130321063557.CCE292CDB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:35:57 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.896 jobs at Virginia, Wilfred Laurier X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 896. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Johnson, Eric (ej9k)" (16) Subject: Head of Graduate Programs position at the Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia [2] From: Jeremy hunsinger (52) Subject: Assistant Professor Positions in Communication Studies at Laurier --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:06:21 +0000 From: "Johnson, Eric (ej9k)" Subject: Head of Graduate Programs position at the Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Are you our new Head of Graduate Programs? We are delighted to announce an exciting job opportunity here at the Scholars’ Lab (http://www.scholarslab.org/) as the Head of Graduate Programs, which includes both the Praxis Program (http://praxis.scholarslab.org/) and the Graduate Fellows in Digital Humanities program (http://www.scholarslab.org/graduate-fellowships/). Read on for more details! HEAD OF GRADUATE PROGRAMS The University of Virginia Library seeks an experienced, versatile digital scholar and administrator to lead programs for graduate students in our internationally recognized Scholars’ Lab, home of the Praxis Program and a vibrant community of Graduate Fellows in Digital Humanities. The ideal candidate will have: deep familiarity with humanities scholarship and digital methods at the graduate level; an interest in experimental approaches to analysis, authoring, and publication; experience in teaching and administrative roles in higher education; and a commitment to the training of emerging scholars and alternative academic humanities professionals. Reporting to Bethany Nowviskie, the Director of Digital Research and Scholarship for UVa Library, the Head of Scholars’ Lab Graduate Programs joins an accomplished and forward-looking digital scholarship team, and is eligible for the self-directed research time that all of our staff members are granted for professional engagement and to pursue their own, often collaborative, R&D projects. Primary Responsibilities Mentoring, managing day-to-day operations, and coordinating staff support for both team-based and individual graduate fellowship programs at U.Va. Library. Developing intellectual programming in the digital humanities for the Scholars’ Lab and building community among emerging scholars at U.Va. Fostering collaboration on humanities training and research support with internal and external partners, including the Praxis Network (http://praxis-network.org/). Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Working knowledge of digital humanities technologies and directions. Strong interest in mentoring junior scholars from project conceptualization to published outcomes. Excellent communications skills, including the ability to present complex technical information to a generalist audience and a clear understanding of humanities perspectives and needs. Previous experience in higher education administration and experience in scholarly research, writing, and digital project development preferred. Education Graduate study (PhD preferred) in a field related to humanities scholarship or humanistic aspects of information science. Experience 4 to 7 years, with demonstrated ability as an instructor, mentor, writer, and researcher. Familiarity with development and delivery techniques for digital humanities content and software. Project management or supervisory experience highly desirable. Salary and Benefits Salary is commensurate with experience, and expected to range between approximately $65K and $75K per annum. Excellent benefits, including paid leave, TIAA/CREF and other retirement plans, along with generous funding for travel and professional development. For full details, and to apply for the position, please see the official posting at http://jobs.virginia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=69950. (If you need to search the Jobs@UVa portal at http://jobs.virginia.edu/, the posting number is 0611761). The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer strongly committed to achieving excellence through cultural diversity. The University actively encourages applications and nominations from members of underrepresented groups. Don’t miss a chance to work with our wonderful students and incredible Scholars’ Lab team! --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:24:23 +0000 From: Jeremy hunsinger Subject: Assistant Professor Positions in Communication Studies at Laurier In-Reply-To: <9563_1363814040_514A2698_9563_208_1_5149EDE90200002F000818C6@gwvia03.wlu.ca> The Department of Communication Studies, Wilfred Laurier University, invites applications for: 1. a tenure-track appointment at the Assistant Professor level commencing July 1, 2013, subject to budgetary approval. We are seeking a communication studies scholar in critical media studies whose teaching and research address media and communication in a global context. The preferred candidate will have a strong research record, as evidenced by publication in peer reviewed sources, and a demonstrated record of excellence in teaching, especially at the undergraduate level. The teaching workload norm at the University is four one-term courses. Ability and willingness to teach undergraduate and graduate research methods would be an asset. Interested candidates should forward a letter of application, curriculum vitae, up to two selected publications, and a teaching dossier. The teaching dossier should include copies of course evaluations, selected course outlines and a two page reflection on teaching and the applicant's teaching experience. Candidates should also provide contact information for three referees. 2. a 12-month limited term appointment beginning July 1, 2013, subject to budgetary approval. The successful candidate will be expected to teach two or more of the following courses: CS310 Globalization and Communication; CS341 Critical Advertising Studies; CS350 Political Economy of Communication and Culture; as well as a 400-level (fourth year) course in their area(s) of expertise. The normal teaching workload of a Limited-Term Appointment is five one-term courses. Applicants must submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, sample syllabi, and the names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses of three academic references. All applicants must have a completed PhD in Communication Studies or a cognate discipline by the time of the appointment. All application materials should be sent to: Dr. Penelope Ironstone, Chair, Department of Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3C5. Questions can be directed to pironstone@wlu.ca. The deadline for receipt of all materials is April 30, 2013. Hard copies of application materials are required. Wilfrid Laurier University is committed to employment equity and values diversity. We welcome applications from qualified women and men, including persons of all genders and sexual orientations, persons with disabilities, Aboriginal persons, and persons of a visible minority. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Members of the designated groups must self-identify to be considered for employment equity. Candidates may self-identify, in confidence, to the Dean of Arts, Dr. Michael Carroll (mcarroll@wlu.ca). Further information on the equity policy can be found at: https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2465&p=10545. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9E4B32DC1; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:38:37 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E32F2D19; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:38:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 521F62CF2; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:38:33 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130321063833.521F62CF2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:38:33 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.897 events: language annotation; TEI; human rules X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 897. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stefanie Dipper (192) Subject: 2nd Call for Papers: ACL 2013 workshop LAW VII and ID [2] From: François Lévy (8) Subject: Call for Papers for 'Human-Rules' [3] From: Arianna Ciula (39) Subject: 2013 TEI conference: remainder and keynotes --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:37:44 +0100 (CET) From: Stefanie Dipper Subject: 2nd Call for Papers: ACL 2013 workshop LAW VII and ID The 7th Linguistic Annotation Workshop & Interoperability with Discourse (LAW VII and ID) Sponsored by the ACL Special Interest Group on Annotation (SIGANN) Held in Conjunction with the 51st Annual Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (ACL'13) Sofia, Bulgaria August 8-9 2013 http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/law7-id Important dates --------------- 26 Apr 2013: Submission deadline 24 May 2013: Notification of Acceptance 7 June 2013: Camera-ready paper due 8-9 August 2013: Workshop in Sofia, Bulgaria Workshop overview ----------------- Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of supervised methods for statistical natural language processing. It also provides valuable data for evaluation of both rule-based and supervised systems and can help formalize and study linguistic phenomena. The LAW provides a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, etc. This year, a significant part of the workshop will focus on the special theme of Interoperability with Discourse. Submissions ----------- We welcome submissions of long (8 pages) and short (4 pages) papers, posters, and demonstrations, relating to any aspect of linguistic annotation, including: (a) Annotation procedures: * Innovative automated and manual strategies for annotation * Machine learning and knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus annotation * Creation, maintenance, and interactive exploration of annotation structures and annotated data (b) Annotation evaluation: * Inter-annotator agreement and other evaluation metrics and strategies * Qualitative evaluation of linguistic representation (c) Annotation access and use: * Representation formats/structures for merged annotations of different phenomena, and means to explore/manipulate them * Linguistic considerations for merging annotations of distinct phenomena (d) Annotation guidelines and standards: * Best practices for annotation procedures and/or development and documentation of annotation schemes * Interoperability of annotation formats and/or frameworks among different systems as well as different tasks, frameworks, modalities, and languages (e) Annotation software and frameworks: * Development, evaluation and/or innovative use of annotation software frameworks (f) Annotation schemes: * New and innovative annotation schemes * Comparison of annotation schemes Workshop Theme -------------- We encourage submission of papers relating to this year's theme, Interoperability with Discourse. We are particularly interested in the comparison and interoperability of different models and techniques used for and in conjunction with discourse annotation, focusing on any of the following goals: (a) Creation of new insights within the field of discourse (by juxtaposing two or more points of view as reflected by different annotation schemes or annotation techniques). (b) Fostering interoperability between pragmatic and semantic phenomena in discourse, ranging from functional categories (e.g. methods, results, hypotheses,etc.) to traditional discourse relations (connectives, anaphora, metonymies, etc.) (c) Connecting syntactic, semantic and pragmatic layers of annotation. (d) Working towards a framework, representation standards, tools and methods that will allow the integration and co-existence of current and future discourse-related annotation schemes. Workshop Challenge ------------------ This year's workshop continues the tradition of the LAW Challenge, established last year, which provides funding for travel etc. to the individual or team that best meets a set of criteria. This year, the judges will give special consideration to papers closely related to the workshop theme, i.e., (1) integrating functional discourse annotation from one or more corpora with other types of annotation; and (2) demonstrating how interoperability can increase the understanding of the discourse. However, all papers addressing annotation interoperability or integration will be considered. For further information, please visit http://nactem.ac.uk/law7-id/. Submission Information ---------------------- The papers should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest for the workshop. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop, and will be published in the workshop proceedings. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the workshop must not be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Submissions must be in PDF and formatted using the ACL 2013 style files, available at http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/law7-id/. The maximum length is eight (8) pages of content for long papers or four (4) pages of content for short papers, posters, and demonstrations, plus up to two (2) pages of references. Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not include the authors' names and affiliations, and self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." should be replaced with citations such as "Smith (1991) previously showed ...". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Authors of papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information on the START online submission page. Authors of accepted papers must notify the program chairs within 10 days of acceptance if the paper is withdrawn for any reason. Submission site: https://www.softconf.com/acl2013/LAWVII-ID/. Submission deadline: 26 April 2013, 23:59 GMT. Papers submitted after the deadline will not be reviewed. Workshop Chairs --------------- Stefanie Dipper, Ruhr-University Bochum Maria Liakata, University of Warwick/European Bioinformatics Institute Cambridge Antonio Pareja-Lora, SIC & ILSA, UCM / ATLAS, UNED Organizing Committee -------------------- Sophia Ananiadou (University of Manchester) Cathy Blake (University of Illinois) Alex Chengyu Fang (City University of Hong Kong) Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Nancy Ide (Vassar College) Piroska Lendvai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Maria Liakata (University of Warwick/European Bioinformatics Institute Cambridge) Adam Meyers (New York University) Anika Oellrich (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) Antonio Pareja-Lora (SIC & ILSA, UCM / ATLAS, UNED) Massimo Poesio (University of Trento) Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies) Sampo Pyysalo (University of Manchester) Caroline Sporleder (Trier University) Manfred Stede (Potsdam University) Simone Teufel (University of Cambridge) Anita de Waard (Elsevier Labs) Fei Xia (University of Washington) Nianwen Xue (Brandeis University) Programme Committee ------------------- Sophia Ananiadou (University of Manchester) Colin Batchelor (Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing) Cathy Blake (University of Illinois) Johan Bos (University of Groningen) Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC/CNR) Steve Cassidy (Macquarie University) Christian Chiarcos (University of Frankfurt) Christopher Cieri (LDC/University of Pennsylvania) Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (University of Colorado School of Medicine) Nigel Collier (EMBL-EBI and National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Stefanie Dipper (Ruhr-University Bochum) Tomaz Erjavec (Josef Stefan Institute) Alex Chengyu Fang (City University of Hong Kong) Vanessa (Wei) Feng (University of Toronto) Karen Fort (Loria, Équipe Sémagramme) Yufan Guo (University of Cambridge) Udo Hahn (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto) Eduard Hovy (Carnegie Mellon University) Chu-Ren Huang (Hong Kong Polytechnic) Nancy Ide (Vassar College) Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) Jin-Dong Kim (University of Tokyo) Valia Kordoni (University of Berlin) Piroska Lendvai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Maria Liakata (University of Warwick and EMBL-EBI) Annie Louis (Univerity of Pennsylvania) Adam Meyers (New York University) Roser Morante (University of Antwerp) Raheel Nawaz (University of Manchester) Anika Oellrich (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) Martha Palmer (University of Colorado) Antonio Pareja-Lora (SIC & ILSA, UCM / ATLAS, UNED) Massimo Poesio (University of Trento) Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies) Rashmi Prasad (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Sampo Pyysalo (University of Manchester) Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (University of Zurich and EMBL-EBI) Agnes Sandor (Xerox Labs) Hagit Shatkay (University of Delaware) Caroline Sporleder (Trier University) Manfred Stede (Potsdam University) Simone Teufel (University of Cambridge) Paul Thompson (University of Manchester) Katrin Tomanek (University Dordrecht) Anita de Waard (Elsevier Labs) Stephen Wan (CSIRO) Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh) Fei Xia (University of Washington) Nianwen Xue (Brandeis University) Heike Zinsmeister (University of Stuttgart) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:33:51 +0000 From: François Lévy Subject: Call for Papers for 'Human-Rules' RuleML 2012 Special Track on "Translating between Human Language and Formal Rules: Business, Law, and Government" Over the last decade there has been enormous growth in unstructured and semi-structured textual material distributed on the web, for instance legal sources. Yet a substantial knowledge-acquisition bottleneck remains in using Human Language Technologies (HLT) to translate from this material to machine-readable, knowledge-based semantic representations. The 'Hu man-Rules' Special Track of RuleML 2013 has its focus on these issues, providing a forum for current work and a venue for the exchange of ideas. For details, important dates, and submission information please go to the link. Note the deadline for submissions is early April, 2013. http://wiki.ruleml.org/index.php/Human-Rules Best François Lévy, Pr LIPN Univ. Paris 13, France --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:50:44 +0800 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: 2013 TEI conference: remainder and keynotes Dear all, This is a reminder that the deadline approaches for proposals to 2013 TEI Conference and Members Meeting, to be held in Rome (Italy), 2-5 October! Proposals for papers, posters, and panel sessions as well as for pre-conference workshops and tutorials are due by midnight GMT on ***30 March 2013***. Proposals can be submitted online: https://www.conftool.net/tei2013/ If you have already an existing ConfTool account activated for previous TEI conferences you will be able to use the same (update your areas of expertise please!); otherwise, please register in order to upload your submission. Authors are encouraged to read the Call for Papers at: http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/call-for-papers/ This year conference theme focuses on the concept of linked text encoding to encourage reflections on the semantics of the TEI conceptual model but also to contextualise the TEI within a framework of interconnected digital resources. The opening keynote speaker will be Allen Renear, professor and interim Dean at GSLIS (the Graduate Schools of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, USA - http://www.lis.illinois.edu/people/faculty/renear) where he teaches courses and leads research in information modelling, data curation, and digital publishing. Our other keynote will be given by Marie-Luce Demonet, professor of French Renaissance literature and head of CESR (Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, University of Tours, France - http://umr6576.cesr.univ-tours.fr/equipes/page_personnelle.php?id=61) who will bring the perspective of a literary scholar to the use of TEI. Best regards, On behalf of the programme committee, Arianna Ciula 2013 TEI Conference and Members Meeting Programme Committee: Marjorie Burghart Lou Burnard Fabio Ciotti Arianna Ciula (chair) Gianfranco Crupi Sebastian Rahtz _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CC6832E33; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:38:54 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAB342DB1; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:38:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D2A312DD3; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:38:51 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130321063851.D2A312DD3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:38:51 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.898 the Praxis Network X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 898. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:37:23 -0400 From: Katina Rogers Subject: Announcing the Praxis Network Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to announce the launch of the Praxis Network (http://praxis-network.org), a new partnership of graduate and undergraduate programs that emphasize innovative models of methodological training and collaborative research. Part of the Scholarly Communication Institute’s current work on rethinking graduate education (http://uvasci.org/current-work/), the Praxis Network provides a closer look at selected programs that have taken unusual and effective approaches to core humanistic methods, while also addressing how best to equip budding scholar-practitioners for a range of careers. The goals of each unique program are student-focused, digitally-inflected, interdisciplinary, and frequently oriented around collaborative projects. The Praxis Network features graduate programs at the University of Virginia, Michigan State University, CUNY Graduate Center, University College London, and Duke University, as well as undergraduate programs at Hope College and Brock University. The website, which is the first product of the partnership, takes the important step of sharing information about the commonalities and unique properties of these programs that are making effective interventions in the traditional models of humanities pedagogy and research. We hope you enjoy exploring the site. Best regards, Katina Rogers -- Katina Rogers, Ph.D. Senior Research Specialist Scholarly Communication Institute 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 427A22D88; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:19:27 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A8F2CCE; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:19:24 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 817272CCB; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:19:22 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130322061922.817272CCB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:19:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.899 open access? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 899. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:51:27 +0100 From: Marin Dacos Subject: Who is afraid of open access ? Dear colleagues, The French newspaper Le Monde has published a public statement, signed by sixty members of the academic community (Presidents of universities, Librarians, Journals, publishers and researchers) under the title "Who is afraid of open access ?". The original paper is here : http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2013/03/15/qui-a-peur-de-l-open-acces_1848930_1650684.html More than 1500 people already signed this statement, calling for open access as fast as possible and asking for HSS taking leadership in this direction. It is now available in English : http://iloveopenaccess.org/arguments-for-open-access/ You can sign it : http://iloveopenaccess.org/?page_id=329 Best regards, Marin Dacos Director - OpenEdition Arguments for Open Access to Research Results *This text was first published on 15 March 2013 in Le Monde by sixty professionals belonging to the community of higher education and research: university presidents, directors of several Maisons des Sciences de l’Homme, publishers, representatives of journals, representatives of university libraries, professors and researchers. The call is open to everyone: engineers, scholars, students, information professionals, librarians, journalists, etc.* In July 2012, the European Commission issued a recommendation on Open Access (i.e. free for the readers) publication of the results of publicly funded scientific research. The Commission believes that such a measure is necessary to increase the visibility of European research before 2020, by gradually suppressing the barriers between readers and scientific papers, after a possible embargo period from six to twelve months. Latin America has been benefiting from this approach for ten years after the development of powerful platforms for Open Access journals. Scielo and Redalyc, which together host almost 2000 journals, have considerably increased their visibility thanks to their Open Access policy: the Brazilian portalScielo http://www.scielo.org/ now has more traffic than the US-based JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/ . Such examples show that Open Access changes the balance of power in a world dominated by groups which hold thousands of (mostly English-language) journals: it paves the way to what could be called a real “bibliodiversity”, since it enables the emergence of a plurality of viewpoints, modes of publication, scientific paradigms, and languages. Some French editors of journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) have expressed their concern with regard to this recommendation, which they saw as a threat to a vulnerable business model. However, a thorough assessment of the sector would be required to provide a true cost-benefit analysis: one should shed light on its funding sources and modes, both direct and indirect, public and private, and determine the roles the various actors play in this field, pinpointing the added value brought about by each of them. To be afraid of Open Access is, in our eyes, to commit oneself to a narrow – and in fact erroneous – vision of the future. If the HSS were set aside in a specific “reservation” today, they would become isolated and would ultimately become extinct. On the contrary, we think that the HSS can be at the forefront of this opening movement, precisely because there is an increasing social demand for their research results (we estimate the overall traffic on Cairn, OpenEdition, Erudit and Persée to be around 10 million visits per month!). The fears voiced by our friends and colleagues are largely groundless in this respect. Not only is the share of sales made outside of higher education and research institutions very small in the business models of HSS journals, which remain mostly directly or indirectly funded by public money, but there exist new business models capable of reinforcing the position of publishers without having the authors pay, as is demonstrated by the success of the Freemium programme developed by OpenEdition, a French initiative. Solutions to finance a high-quality open digital publication system are being invented and have started to prove their efficiency http://www.doaj.org/ , as in the cases of Scielo http://www.scielo.org/ , the Public Library of Science (PLOS http://www.plos.org/ ), Redalyc http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/ or OpenEdition http://www.openedition.org/ . It would be a disaster if the HSS were kept aside from this powerful and innovative movement which is bound to reshape our scientific landscape. Far from backing off, they must be among the leading disciplines in this movement, as they are in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries. The resistance to this evolution advocated by some of our colleagues seems to be a short-term strategy neglecting the potential benefits for science and education, as well as the democratisation of access to knowledge it will enable. According to us, this is not only an economic and commercial problem. Although the existence of an Elsevier-Springer-Wiley oligopoly exerts heavy pressure on university budgets and although the funding system of academic publishing should be rethought, generalised Open Access is first and foremost a matter of scientific policy. Knowledge cannot be treated as a commodity and its dissemination is more than ever a vital concern in our societies: we can work towards a revolutionary democratisation of access to research results. Knowledge behind barriers, which only the happy few working in the richest universities can access, is barren knowledge. It is confiscated, though produced thanks to public funding. In this debate, higher education and research institutions have akey role to play. The diffusion of knowledge and research results, their spreading among an audience as large as possible, is one of the missions of these institutions. Therefore a relevant scientific policy has to build public digital infrastructures, but also needs to support innovative publishing policies aimed at fostering cross-disciplinary exchanges, new forms of writing, multilingualism and the broadest diffusion. Who is afraid of Open Access? Private access policies hinder the dissemination of ideas and is ill-suited to the new paradigms introduced by digital media. It is high time that we considered the Web as a unique opportunity in terms of innovation, the diffusion of knowledge and the emergence of new ideas. We are not afraid of Open Access. To take knowledge out of silos and beyond the boundaries of academic campuses is to open knowledge to everyone, acknowledge that it has a pivotal role to play in our societies and open up perspectives for collective growth. Do not be afraid of Open Access! It is now possible to establish a new scientific, publishing and business contract between researchers, publishers, libraries and readers in order to enter for good a society of shared, democratic knowledge. *Sign it!* http://iloveopenaccess.org/sign-it/ -- Marin Dacos - http://www.openedition.org Director - Centre for Open Electronic Publishing ** OpenEdition is now a Facility of Excellence http://www.openedition.org/10221?lang=en * *(Equipex) ** ** New email : marin.dacos@openedition.org ** CNRS - EHESS - Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) - Université d'Avignon 3, place Victor Hugo, Case n°86, 13331 Marseille Cedex 3 - France Tél : 04 13 55 03 40 Tél. direct : 04 13 55 03 39 Fax : 04 13 55 03 41 Skype : marin.dacos - Gmail video chat : marin.dacos@gmail.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/#!/marindacos _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CD0362DD9; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:20:02 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFC4D2DC1; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:20:01 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B15202D8A; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:19:59 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130322061959.B15202D8A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:19:59 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.900 events: crowdsourcing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 900. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:15:11 +0000 From: Kathryn Eccles Subject: Crowdsourcing in the Arts and Humanities - one day conference in Oxford Dear all, There are still places available for the following event: Digital Impacts: Crowdsourcing in the Arts and Humanities Tuesday 9 April 2013, 10.00-17.00 Location: Ship Street Centre, Jesus College, Oxford Registration: You can register here. There is a registration fee of £20 to cover lunch and refreshments. About the workshop: This one-day workshop will showcase digital crowdsourcing projects in the Arts and Humanities, and discuss the impact of such initiatives. 'Impact' is a broad term, which encompasses issues connected to community, digital curation, public engagement and knowledge exchange. Key questions will include: * What does impact mean in this environment? * What types of impacts can be achieved by crowdsourcing initiatives? * How can crowdsourced resources balance quality control and peer review? * What are the impacts of devolving key processes away from core teams and institutions to public participants? * What impacts do crowdsourcing initiatives have on participants and to what extent is it possible to influence this? Speakers: Dr Laura Carletti (Tate Art Maps, University of Nottingham), Dr Tim Causer (Transcribe Bentham, UCL), Dr Stuart Dunn (King's College, London), Dr Kathryn Eccles (OII, Convenor), Andrew Greg (Your Paintings, Public Catalogue Foundation), Kimberly Kowal (Georeferencer, British Library), Kate Lindsay (University of Oxford), Dr Chris Lintott (Zooniverse, University of Oxford), Mia Ridge (Open University), Alice Warley (Your Paintings, Public Catalogue Foundation). Full details available here: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/?id=573 Please share with any interested colleagues. We look forward to seeing you in Oxford. Dr Kathryn Eccles Research Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St Giles Oxford OX1 3JS Telephone (+44 (0) 1865 287210 Fax (+44 (0) 1865 287 211 http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=138 http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=100 Twitter: @KathrynEccles Please note I work on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AA7852DDC; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:21:13 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CAA02DC4; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:21:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 89FA32CFA; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:21:11 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130322062111.89FA32CFA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:21:11 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.901 on computation and palaeography X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 901. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:26:55 +0000 From: Peter Stokes Subject: Computation and Palaeography: Potentials and Limits A report on 'Computation and Palaeography: Potentials and Limits' presents the results of a Perspectives Workshop hosted by Schloss Dagstuhl (Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik), which brought together a group of palaeographers and experts in computer vision. The workshop focussed on 'big questions', many of which apply to Digital Humanities generally, such as subjectivity in research, the interaction between computer scientists and humanities scholars, the problem of the 'black box', and the need for clear communication across highly specialised disciplines (including the importance of the 'middle person' or analyst who can translate between the two). This report is a summary of the workshop itself; a much fuller treatment of this material is also well underway and will be published shortly. T. Hassner, M. Rehbein, P.A. Stokes and L. Wolf (eds), 'Computation and Palaeography: Potentials and Limits (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 12382)', Dagstuhl Reports 2:9 (2012): 184–199. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.4230/DagRep.2.9.184 Table of Contents: - Executive Summary Overview of Talks: - Three Pattern-Recognition Approaches to the Automatic Identification of the Writers of Ancient Documents (Dimitris Arabadjis and Micalis Panagopoulos) - Multi-Source and Multi-View 3D Data Exploration (Matthieu Exbrayat) - Computerized Paleography of Hebrew Writing from the First Temple Period (Shira Faigenbaum) - Modern Technologies for Manuscript Research (Melanie Gau and Robert Slabatnig) - Experiments in the Digital Humanities (R. Manmatha) - Challenges in Palaeography for which Computer Sciences Might Offer Some Solutions (Wendy Scase) - Bringing the Digital to Palaeography: Some Background and Challenges (Peter A. Stokes) - The Graphem Research Project (Dominique Stutzmann) - The Ongoing Effort to Reconstruct the Cairo Genizah (Lior Wolf) Reports from Working Groups: - Acquisition of Images (Dimitris Arabadjis, Shira Faigenbaum, Robert Sablatnig, and Timothy Stinson) - Tools (Nachum Dershowitz, Matthieu Exbrayat, Eyal Ofek, Micalis Panagopoulos, and Ségolène Tarte) - Content and Context (Melanie Gau, R. Manmatha, Ophir Münz-Manor, Wendy Scase, and Dominique Stutzmann) - Challenges and Limitations (Dimitris Arabadjis, Melanie Gau, and Ségolène Tarte) - Relevance to Society (Wendy Scase, Eyal Ofek, and Ophir Münz-Manor) Open Problems (Tal Hassner, Malte Rehbein, Peter A. Stokes and Lior Wolf) Participants: - Dimitris Arabadjisb=, National TU – Athens, GR - Nachum Dershowitz, Tel Aviv University, IL - Matthieu Exbrayat, Université d’Orleans, FR - Shira Faigenbaum, Tel Aviv University, IL - Melanie Gau, TU Wien, AT - Tal Hassner, Open University – Israel, IL [Workshop co-organiser] - R. Manmatha, University of Massachusets – Amherst, US - Ophir Münz-Manor, The Open University of Israel – Raanan, IL - Eyal Ofek, Microsoft Res. – Redmond, US - Micalis Panagopoulos, Ionian University – Corfu, GR - Robert Sablatnig, TU Wien, AT - Wendy Scase, University of Birmingham, GB - Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State Univ., US - Peter A. Stokes, King’s College London, GB [Workshop co-organiser] - Dominique Stutzmann, CNRS – Paris, FR - Ségolène Tarte, University of Oxford, GB - Lior Wolf Tel Aviv, University, IL [Workshop co-organiser] -- Dr Peter Stokes Senior Lecturer Department of Digital Humanities King's College London Room 218, 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk http://digipal.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 29E432DDC; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:59:08 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 210FA2CEA; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:59:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 93B782CEA; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:59:04 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130322085904.93B782CEA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:59:04 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.902 ADSEC 1950 report? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 902. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:46:36 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: an old document online? Dear colleagues, I am looking for the report of the so-called Valley Committee (named after George E. Valley, Jr), The "Progress Report of the Air Defense Systems Engineering Committee", published in 1950 (http://www.ll.mit.edu/about/History/origins.html). Does anyone know how I might get my eyes on a copy of it? Preferably in digital form, of course. 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DE86E39E2; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:39:13 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F00A93120; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:39:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3A8E32DD9; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:39:10 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130323073910.3A8E32DD9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:39:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.903 open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 903. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:50:45 +0000 From: "James O'Sullivan" Subject: Re: 26.899 open access? In-Reply-To: <20130322061922.817272CCB@digitalhumanities.org> I fully support initiatives that promote open access, and have myself released a number of open source projects (OpenDAHT.org, JDCES.org, DigitalPoe.org etc etc etc). And of course I have signed this petition. The problem to my mind, however, is that open access and open source are fine in theory, but the fact is that many people only throw the terms around without actually following up with appropriate actions. People like to put themselves forward as being disciples of an open access philosophy, but they tend not follow this up. This stems, I think, from a number of things: 1. Many people who champion open access have not actually had something to release as open access. It's all well and good to state that you would make your intellectual property open access, but when a scholarly pursuit / project / development does come to fruition, many people, unfortunately, change their mind on open access when faced with the actual products of their labours. Excuse the poor analogy, but it reminds me of Lord of the Rings. After the arduous journey, lots of people do eventually conclude: "It's mine, why shouldn't I hold onto it?" 2. Academic culture is not conducive to open access. I've had papers accepted to peer-reviewed journals that are not open access. What do I do? I'm a PhD candidate, and if I am to have any sort of a career as a scholar going forward, I need to build up some publications in the well-respected journals in my field - such publications are the currency of our profession. So when I get offered publication, how can I turn it down? A few years from now I doubt that any interview panel would look favourably upon my lack of representation in these journals. They may well be impressed by the fact that I took a stand in the name of open access, but they are unlikely to hire me. 3. Wider cultural forces also play their part -- commerce particularly. Whatever about knowledge creation, development can be an expensive business. My research is generously supported by the HEA, and I have a lot of institutional support, and therefore, yes, any knowledge that I create, indeed my thesis, by right should belong to the public. However, I have a number of ongoing scholarly projects that fall outside my core PhD research, and thus do not enjoy institutional support of a financial nature. I am funding these myself (not ideal when your income is a PhD stipend), and while I have managed to keep them all open access thus far, it is expensive to do so, almost prohibitively so. Hybrid models have their limitations, and for many people, open access simply isn't feasible from an economic sense. I may want to give something away for free, but the tools and resources required for production need to be free as well, and they aren't, not by any means. Saying this, if we are to change things then we need to start somewhere, so it's great to see new initiatives of this nature. You have my support! On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 899. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:51:27 +0100 > From: Marin Dacos > Subject: Who is afraid of open access ? > > > Dear colleagues, > > The French newspaper Le Monde has published a public statement, signed by > sixty members of the academic community (Presidents of universities, > Librarians, Journals, publishers and researchers) under the title "Who is > afraid of open access ?". The original paper is here : > > http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2013/03/15/qui-a-peur-de-l-open-acces_1848930_1650684.html > > More than 1500 people already signed this statement, calling for open > access as fast as possible and asking for HSS taking leadership in this > direction. It is now available in English : > http://iloveopenaccess.org/arguments-for-open-access/ > > You can sign it : http://iloveopenaccess.org/?page_id=329 > > Best regards, > Marin Dacos > Director - OpenEdition > > Arguments for Open Access to Research Results > > *This text was first published on 15 March 2013 in Le > Monde< > http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2013/03/15/qui-a-peur-de-l-open-acces_1848930_1650684.html > > > by sixty professionals belonging to the community of higher education and > research: university presidents, directors of several Maisons des Sciences > de l’Homme, publishers, representatives of journals, representatives of > university libraries, professors and researchers. The call is open to > everyone: engineers, scholars, students, information professionals, > librarians, journalists, etc.* > > In July 2012, the European Commission issued a > recommendation < > http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/era-communication-towards-better-access-to-scientific-information_fr.pdf > > > on Open Access (i.e. free for the readers) publication of the results of > publicly funded scientific research. The Commission believes that such a > measure is necessary to increase the visibility of European research before > 2020, by gradually suppressing the barriers between readers and scientific > papers, after a possible embargo period from six to twelve months. Latin > America has been benefiting from this approach for ten years after the > development of powerful platforms for Open Access journals. Scielo and > Redalyc, which together host almost 2000 journals, have considerably > increased their visibility thanks to their Open Access policy: the > Brazilian portalScielo http://www.scielo.org/ now has more traffic than > the US-based JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/ . Such examples show that Open > Access changes the balance of power in a world dominated by groups which > hold thousands of (mostly English-language) journals: it paves the way to > what could be called a real “bibliodiversity”, since it enables the > emergence of a plurality of viewpoints, modes of publication, scientific > paradigms, and languages. > > Some French editors of journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) > have expressed their concern with regard to this recommendation, which they > saw as a threat to a vulnerable business model. However, a thorough > assessment of the sector would be required to provide a true cost-benefit > analysis: one should shed light on its funding sources and modes, both > direct and indirect, public and private, and determine the roles the > various actors play in this field, pinpointing the added value brought > about by each of them. > > To be afraid of Open Access is, in our eyes, to commit oneself to a narrow > – and in fact erroneous – vision of the future. If the HSS were set aside > in a specific “reservation” today, they would become isolated and would > ultimately become extinct. On the contrary, we think that the HSS can be at > the forefront of this opening movement, precisely because there is an > increasing social demand for their research results (we estimate the > overall traffic on Cairn, OpenEdition, Erudit and Persée to be around 10 > million visits per month!). The fears voiced by our friends and colleagues > are largely groundless in this respect. Not only is the share of sales made > outside of higher education and research institutions very small in the > business models of HSS journals, which remain mostly directly or indirectly > funded by public money, but there exist new business models capable of > reinforcing the position of publishers without having the authors pay, as > is demonstrated by the success of the Freemium programme developed by > OpenEdition, a French initiative. Solutions to finance a high-quality open > digital publication system are being invented and have started to prove > their efficiency http://www.doaj.org/ , as in the cases of > Scielo http://www.scielo.org/ , > the Public Library of Science (PLOS http://www.plos.org/ ), > Redalyc http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/ > or OpenEdition http://www.openedition.org/ . It would be a disaster if > the HSS were kept aside from this powerful and innovative movement which is > bound to reshape our scientific landscape. Far from backing off, they must > be among the leading disciplines in this movement, as they are in the > Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries. The resistance to this > evolution advocated by some of our colleagues seems to be a short-term > strategy neglecting the potential benefits for science and education, as > well as the democratisation of access to knowledge it will enable. > > According to us, this is not only an economic and commercial problem. > Although the existence of an Elsevier-Springer-Wiley > oligopoly< > http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2013/02/28/a-qui-appartient-le-savoir_1840797_1650684.html > > > exerts heavy pressure on university budgets and although the funding > system of > academic publishing should be rethought, generalised Open Access is first > and foremost a matter of scientific policy< > http://couperin.sciencesconf.org/>. > Knowledge cannot be treated as a commodity and its dissemination is more > than ever a vital concern in our societies: we can work towards a > revolutionary democratisation of access to research results. Knowledge > behind barriers, which only the happy few working in the richest > universities can access, is barren knowledge. It is confiscated, though > produced thanks to public funding. In this debate, higher education and > research institutions have akey role to > play< > http://alasource.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/03/01/a-qui-appartient-le-savoir-la-version-longue/ > >. > The diffusion of knowledge and research results, their spreading among an > audience as large as possible, is one of the missions of these > institutions. Therefore a relevant scientific policy has to build public > digital infrastructures, but also needs to support innovative publishing > policies aimed at fostering cross-disciplinary exchanges, new forms of > writing, multilingualism and the broadest diffusion. > > Who is afraid of Open Access? Private access policies hinder the > dissemination of ideas and is ill-suited to the new paradigms introduced by > digital media. It is high time that we considered the Web as a unique > opportunity in terms of innovation, the diffusion of knowledge and the > emergence of new ideas. > > We are not afraid of Open Access. To take knowledge out of silos and beyond > the boundaries of academic campuses is to open knowledge to everyone, > acknowledge that it has a pivotal role to play in our societies and open up > perspectives for collective growth. > > Do not be afraid of Open Access! It is now possible to establish a new > scientific, publishing and business contract between researchers, > publishers, libraries and readers in order to enter for good a society of > shared, democratic knowledge. > *Sign it!* http://iloveopenaccess.org/sign-it/ > > -- > Marin Dacos - http://www.openedition.org > Director - Centre for Open Electronic Publishing > > ** OpenEdition is now a Facility of > Excellence http://www.openedition.org/10221?lang=en > * *(Equipex) ** > ** New email : marin.dacos@openedition.org ** > > CNRS - EHESS - Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) - Université d'Avignon > 3, place Victor Hugo, Case n°86, 13331 Marseille Cedex 3 - France > Tél : 04 13 55 03 40 Tél. direct : 04 13 55 03 39 Fax : 04 13 55 03 41 > Skype : marin.dacos - Gmail video chat : marin.dacos@gmail.com > Twitter : http://twitter.com/#!/marindacos > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: > http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php -- *James O'Sullivan * @jamescosullivan http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan ** Web: josullivan.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan Facebook: http://facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan New Binary Press: http://newbinarypress.com/Bookstore.html OpenDAHT: http://opendaht.org/ Submit to *The Weary Blues*: http://thewearyblues.org/submit.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AE88939F0; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:39:33 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D176D39E9; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:39:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 348C339E9; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:39:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130323073930.348C339E9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:39:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.904 postdoc at Bowdoin X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 904. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 07:29:33 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: postdoc at Bowdoin College > From: Pamela Fletcher Bowdoin College, in support of its Digital and Computational Studies Initiative, invites applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow position in the humanities starting Fall 2013. The appointment will be for two years with the possibility of renewal for one additional year. The ideal candidate could come from any humanities discipline but must have a commitment to using digital and/or computational methodologies in their scholarship or artistic creation, and instruction. Responsibilities will include (1) assisting in the creation of new courses that introduce students to multi-disciplinary approaches to digital and computational studies, (2) offering courses in his or her own discipline or area of specialization, and (3) helping to craft and launch the new program in digital and computational studies. For more information see: http://www.bowdoin.edu/academic-affairs/curriculum-teaching/recruit/humanities-postdoc.shtml Bowdoin College accepts only electronic submissions. Applications should consist of a completed application profile, cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement of research and/or professional activity plans, statement on teaching philosophy, and the names of three references who have agreed to provide letters of recommendation. Please visit https://careers.bowdoin.edu to apply. Review of applications will begin Monday, April 8, 2013, and will continue until the position is filled. Pamela M. Fletcher Associate Professor of Art History Bowdoin College Brunswick, Maine 04011 (207) 798-7158 pfletche@bowdoin.edu -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4943E39F7; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:40:02 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 764DE39F2; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:40:01 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7431039F2; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:39:59 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130323073959.7431039F2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:39:59 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.905 pubs: LLC 28.1 (April 2013) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 905. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:13:59 +0000 From: "oxfordjournals-mailer@alerts.stanford.edu" Subject: Lit Linguist Computing Table of Contents for Special Issue 'Dialectometry': April 2013; Vol. 28, No. 1 Literary and Linguistic Computing Table of Contents Alert Special Issue "Dialectometry" Vol. 28, No. 1 April 2013 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Editorials ----------------------------------------------------------------- In Memoriam Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen (1957–2013) Lit Linguist Computing 2013 28: 1 Dialectometry++ John Nerbonne and William A. Kretzschmar, Jr Lit Linguist Computing 2013 28: 2-12 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ----------------------------------------------------------------- Defining dialect regions with interpretations: Advancing the multidimensional scaling approach Sheila Embleton, Dorin Uritescu, and Eric S. Wheeler Lit Linguist Computing 2013 28: 13-22 ‘DiaTech’: A new tool for dialectology Gotzon Aurrekoetxea, Karmele Fernandez-Aguirre, Jesús Rubio, Borja Ruiz, and Jon Sánchez Lit Linguist Computing 2013 28: 23-30 Analyzing phonetic variation in the traditional English dialects: Simultaneously clustering dialects and phonetic features Martijn Wieling, Robert G. Shackleton, Jr., and John Nerbonne Lit Linguist Computing 2013 28: 31-41 Variation of verbal constructions in Estonian dialects Kristel Uiboaed, Cornelius Hasselblatt, Liina Lindström, Kadri Muischnek, and John Nerbonne Lit Linguist Computing 2013 28: 42-62 Lexical meaning and spatial distribution. Evidence from geostatistical dialectometry Simon Pickl Lit Linguist Computing 2013 28: 63-81 A statistical comparison of regional phonetic and lexical variation in American English Jack Grieve Lit Linguist Computing 2013 28: 82-107 Detecting structures in linguistic maps—Fuzzy clustering for pattern recognition in geostatistical dialectometry Simon Pröll Lit Linguist Computing 2013 28: 108-118 Linguistic advergence and divergence in north-western Catalan: A dialectometric investigation of dialect leveling and border effects Esteve Valls, Martijn Wieling, and John Nerbonne Lit Linguist Computing 2013 28: 119-146 Dynamic cartography with diachronic data: Dialectal stratigraphy Maria-Pilar Perea Lit Linguist Computing 2013 28: 147-156 Synchronic patterns of Tuscan phonetic variation and diachronic change: Evidence from a dialectometric study Simonetta Montemagni, Martijn Wieling, Bob de Jonge, and John Nerbonne Lit Linguist Computing 2013 28: 157-172 Scaled measurement of geographic and social speech data William A. Kretzschmar, Jr, Brendan A. Kretzschmar, and Irene M. Brockman Lit Linguist Computing 2013 28: 173-187 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3500239F6; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:40:41 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27AC039ED; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:40:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5225A39E8; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:40:39 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130323074039.5225A39E8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:40:39 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.906 DH in Times of India; early modern scientific & medical travel X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 906. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (20) Subject: Digital Humanities mention in Times of India [2] From: Anna Marie Roos (11) Subject: Website: early modern scientific and medical travel --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:34:42 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Digital Humanities mention in Times of India *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1363956121_2013-03-22_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_21534.2.pdf 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 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh digitalriffs.blogspot.com http://digitalriffs.blogspot.com +44 (0)20 7848 2651 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Humanities-go-hi-tech-at-JU-from-new-session/articleshow/19119231.cms Humanities go hi-tech at JU from new session KOLKATA: If you believed that technology was meant only for engineering and science students, think again. Jadavpur University (JU) has come up with a grand plan to teach digital humanities at the postgraduate level from the coming academic session. Emboldened by an experiment that the university started in 2003, university authorities feel that specializing in humanities streams on the strength of the written word alone leaves students half- baked. The school of cultural texts and records that has been working on digital research on literature for the past 10 years has convinced the UGC that a postgraduate course in digital humanities, which is considered one of the most advanced streams of studies in the world today, should also be introduced at JU. If things go according to plans, the course will be introduced in the new academic session in July. Eminent professor of English of the university, Sukanta Chaudhuri, who has been helping the institution in teaching and research after his retirement, has been instrumental in convincing the UGC to bring the course to the university. At present, digital humanities is taught at University of Chicago, King's College, London, Trinity College, Dublin and Australian University of Technology. "In India, the concept is yet to take off. This is the first time that any university in India is taking up the study of digital humanities," Chaudhuri said. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:11:42 +0000 From: Anna Marie Roos Subject: Website: early modern scientific and medical travel In 1663, Martin Lister left his parents' house in Burwell, Lincolnshire to study medicine in Montpellier. Whilst in France for the next three years, he kept a journal in an almanac entitled Every Man’s Companion: Or, An useful Pocket-Book (MS Lister 19, Bodleian Library, Oxford). The pocket book demonstrates the intellectual development of a significant seventeenth-century physician and naturalist, and is a vivid, firsthand account of medical education and natural philosophy in the 1660s. It is also a detailed representation of the grand tour of a gentleman. As the account of Lister's journey is so detailed, his grand tour and memoirs have been recreated as an interactive website using maps, images, and texts, providing a virtual introduction to early modern medical education and natural history. The website, authored by Dr Anna Marie Roos, and funded by the British Academy, resides courtesy of 'Cultures of Knowledge' on the University of Oxford's server: http://listerstravels.modhist.ox.ac.uk/ We hope that you enjoy it. Best wishes, Anna Marie Roos, Ph.D., F.L.S. Senior Lecturer, History, University of Lincoln Associate Faculty, History, University of Oxford Email: anna.roos@history.ox.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D933A2D8B; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:32:13 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB082D13; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:32:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BFA402D08; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:32:10 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130324093210.BFA402D08@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:32:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.907 open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0049662474587414253==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============0049662474587414253== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 907. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 09:18:44 -0400 From: Jean-Claude Guédon Subject: Re: 26.903 open access I would like to respond to point 2 below. 1. It is difficult to assert that academic culture is not conducive to open access. The examples of universities such as Harvard where faculty vote in favour of a self-imposed mandate to deposit their publications points in a different direction. 2. Most journals, indeed, are not in open access, but many toll-gated journals accept authors depositing their articles in suitable repositories. The Sherpa/Romeo list (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/) is useful to see what your targeted journal permits if your article is accepted in it. 3. For the more difficult cases where the journal is toll-gated and refuses any public deposit either forever, or for a long period of time, it is still possible to deposit the article in a suitable black archive. In such a case, only the metadata is exposed publicly, and a clickable button allows sending a quick request to the author for the equivalent of an offprint. So, there is no need to turn down the opportunity of publishing in a prestigious, but stingy, journal as there are ways around such obstacles. Jean-Claude Guédon Le samedi 23 mars 2013 à 08:39 +0100, Humanist Discussion Group a écrit : > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 903. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:50:45 +0000 > From: "James O'Sullivan" > Subject: Re: 26.899 open access? > In-Reply-To: <20130322061922.817272CCB@digitalhumanities.org> > > > I fully support initiatives that promote open access, and have myself > released a number of open source projects (OpenDAHT.org, JDCES.org, > DigitalPoe.org etc etc etc). And of course I have signed this petition. > > The problem to my mind, however, is that open access and open source are > fine in theory, but the fact is that many people only throw the terms > around without actually following up with appropriate actions. People like > to put themselves forward as being disciples of an open access philosophy, > but they tend not follow this up. This stems, I think, from a number of > things: > > 1. Many people who champion open access have not actually had something to > release as open access. It's all well and good to state that you would make > your intellectual property open access, but when a scholarly pursuit / > project / development does come to fruition, many people, unfortunately, > change their mind on open access when faced with the actual products of > their labours. Excuse the poor analogy, but it reminds me of Lord of the > Rings. After the arduous journey, lots of people do eventually conclude: > "It's mine, why shouldn't I hold onto it?" > > 2. Academic culture is not conducive to open access. I've had papers > accepted to peer-reviewed journals that are not open access. What do I do? > I'm a PhD candidate, and if I am to have any sort of a career as a scholar > going forward, I need to build up some publications in the well-respected > journals in my field - such publications are the currency of our > profession. So when I get offered publication, how can I turn it down? A > few years from now I doubt that any interview panel would look favourably > upon my lack of representation in these journals. They may well be > impressed by the fact that I took a stand in the name of open access, but > they are unlikely to hire me. > > 3. Wider cultural forces also play their part -- commerce particularly. > Whatever about knowledge creation, development can be an expensive > business. My research is generously supported by the HEA, and I have a lot > of institutional support, and therefore, yes, any knowledge that I create, > indeed my thesis, by right should belong to the public. However, I have a > number of ongoing scholarly projects that fall outside my core PhD > research, and thus do not enjoy institutional support of a financial > nature. I am funding these myself (not ideal when your income is a PhD > stipend), and while I have managed to keep them all open access thus far, > it is expensive to do so, almost prohibitively so. Hybrid models have their > limitations, and for many people, open access simply isn't feasible from an > economic sense. I may want to give something away for free, but the tools > and resources required for production need to be free as well, and they > aren't, not by any means. > > Saying this, if we are to change things then we need to start somewhere, so > it's great to see new initiatives of this nature. You have my support! > Jean-Claude Guédon Professeur titulaire Littérature comparée Université de Montréal --===============0049662474587414253== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php --===============0049662474587414253==-- Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 66A5C3120; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:33:09 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E3222DD3; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:33:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 40EB32DD3; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:33:07 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130324093307.40EB32DD3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:33:07 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.908 Turing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 908. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:37:15 +0000 (GMT) From: S Barry Cooper Subject: Turing's Universal machine In-Reply-To: <20130323074039.5225A39E8@digitalhumanities.org> "Alan Turing: The First Digital Humanist?": http://hastac.org/forums/alan-turing-first-digital-humanist If you'd like to do something to raise the profile of the 'humanist' dimension of mathematics, logic and computer science in the UK, please visit the "Top British Innovations" webpage: http://www.topbritishinnovations.org/PastInnovations/UniversalMachine.aspx and vote accordingly. The vote has just one day to run, with result announced on the 25th March. It is supported by the Royal Society, Science Museum, Royal Academy of Engineering, amongst others. Many thanks for your help! __________________________________________________________________________ Prof S Barry Cooper Tel: UK: (0113) 343 5165, Int: +44 113 343 5165 School of Mathematics Fax: UK: (0113) 343 5090, Int: +44 113 3435090 University of Leeds Email: pmt6sbc@leeds.ac.uk, Mobile: 07590602104 Leeds LS2 9JT Home tel: (0113) 278 2586, Int: +44 113 2782586 U.K. WWW: http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/~pmt6sbc _________________ The ALAN TURING YEAR http://www.turingcentenary.eu and its new journal COMPUTABILITY http://www.computability.de/journal _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AC2DB2E4C; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:27:47 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 204F42DEE; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:27:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 926962DA2; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:27:44 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130325062744.926962DA2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:27:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.909 open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 909. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:17:01 +0000 From: John Levin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.903 open access In-Reply-To: <20130323073910.3A8E32DD9@digitalhumanities.org> On 23/03/2013 07:39, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 903. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:50:45 +0000 > From: "James O'Sullivan" > Subject: Re: 26.899 open access? > In-Reply-To: <20130322061922.817272CCB@digitalhumanities.org> > I'd like to pick up on the first point: > > 1. Many people who champion open access have not actually had something to > release as open access. It's all well and good to state that you would make > your intellectual property open access, but when a scholarly pursuit / > project / development does come to fruition, many people, unfortunately, > change their mind on open access when faced with the actual products of > their labours. Excuse the poor analogy, but it reminds me of Lord of the > Rings. After the arduous journey, lots of people do eventually conclude: > "It's mine, why shouldn't I hold onto it?" > I disagree with this in four ways. Firstly, I can't think of any champion, academic or otherwise, of open access that doesn't have something to release on such terms, or hasn't done so already. Secondly, open licenses are fairly often chosen by people with something to release: Flikr is a fine example of this on a grand scale, not least because they make it quite easy to chose creative commons licenses. For academia, my impression (not done a survey, nor know of one) is that CC licenses are very popular for individual academics' blogs. Thirdly, and again Flickr is a good example, people often have something to release. That's not just testimony to the way digital photography has taken off; it's also about how people think about what they are producing and how they want to share. A photo on flickr becomes part of something larger. My photos of plaques are of little interest alone, but in the context of openplaques.org they become more useful, gain context, etc. In the academic context, I feel that many academics aren't aware of what they have produced, and the value of it and its re-use: think course bibliographies, or data sets, not just finished articles and perfected books. This is all useful material were it shared. In the case of data, I think it essential that it be freely released, for otherwise how can we check the work based upon it? Finally, the question "It's mine, why shouldn't I hold onto it?" applies even more to those publishing with journals that demand copyright being alienated without payment as a condition of publication. John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A2D2D30A9; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:28:33 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E73C12E75; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:28:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A12282E59; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:28:29 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130325062829.A12282E59@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:28:29 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.910 pubs: Dissertation Reviews; Journal of Scholarly Publishing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 910. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: UTP Journals (82) Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing 44. 3 April, 2013 [2] From: "L.A. Rocha" (35) Subject: Dissertation Reviews now accepting new dissertations --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:44:27 +0000 From: UTP Journals Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing 44. 3 April, 2013 Now available online… Journal of Scholarly Publishing Volume 44, Number 3 / April 2013 http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/x6u603441807/ This issue contains: A Three-Decade History of the Duration of Peer Review R. Lee Lyman Review time is the duration between submission of a manuscript for possible publication and the author's receipt of notification of the editor's decision. There are two key questions about the peer-review process: (1) Has average review time changed over the past several decades? and (2) Has the adoption of online submission reduced average review time? A sample of 170 manuscripts submitted to a variety of journals from 1980 through 2012 indicates (1) no statistically significant difference between average review time for manuscripts submitted to behavioural science journals (mean=14.8 weeks) and average review time for manuscripts submitted to natural history journals (mean=15.2 weeks); (2) a statistically significant decrease from 1980 to 2012 in average review time irrespective of form of submission (i.e., paper or electronic); and (3) manuscripts submitted in paper form (1980–2009) had an average review time five weeks longer than that of manuscripts submitted online or electronically (2004–2012). http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/m652x27055h232l1/?p=c3e3e4eb2fe740e3a12ec191004c6bbf&pi=0 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44.3.001 Disruptive Technological History: Papermaking to Digital Printing Jocelyn Hargrave Disruptive technologies have been crucial to the shaping of publishing history. Paradoxically, while each of the technologies—specifically, the evolution of papermaking in Europe starting in the late thirteenth century, Gutenberg's printing press and type-casting from metal in the fifteenth century, lithographic offset printing in the twentieth century, and digital printing in the twenty-first century—has, on its own, been indeed revolutionary in nature, together they have served their role in the evolution of the publishing industry. Simply put, the present publishing industry would not be where it is without them. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/m0652rr06376wl94/?p=c3e3e4eb2fe740e3a12ec191004c6bbf&pi=1 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44.3.002 Through Clio's Lens: Exploring Disciplinary, Intellectual, and Historical Orientations in the History of Photography Anne L. Buchanan, Jean-Pierre V. M. Hérubel This conceptually driven exploratory discussion of history of photography serves to capture and situate the use of photography and photographic evidence in history journals. Since its invention in 1839 in Europe, photography has evolved to assume its near hegemonic ubiquity throughout the world, permeating media in general. Gaining insight into the history of photography as a disciplinary formation and specialization addresses disciplinary issues beyond the confines of art history, of which photography has been identified traditionally as a sub-field. To identify global and overarching characteristics of the literature, Historical Abstracts was consulted in order to collect and classify articles in the years 1961–1970, 1971–1980, 1981–1990, 1991–2000, and 2001–2010. Further analysis of the data revealed major characteristics of history of photography that appeared in a spectrum of journals beyond the purview of art history journals. Selected subjects were used to further articulate the complex nature of the history of photography, bringing into focus general disciplinary and intellectual currents animating these findings. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/m778617h01116154/?p=c3e3e4eb2fe740e3a12ec191004c6bbf&pi=2 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44.3.003 The Barriers to Producing High Quality Library and Information Science Research in Developing Countries: The Case of Pakistan Kanwal Ameen It is generally recognized that in many developing countries, for a variety of reasons, research output in most disciplines lags behind that in the developed nations. Among the reasons is a range of factors that may hinder good-quality research outputs. This paper focuses on the matter of research quality in library and information science (LIS) in Pakistan as a case study. To test the types of barriers that the researcher believes hinder the production of quality research in Pakistan, a web-based survey was conducted using a questionnaire consisting of structured and open-ended questions. The questionnaire was based on a set of barriers to quality research production, which were identified from the literature. The respondents were asked to indicate their views on the impact of these barriers on the production of quality research. The data was analysed using SPSS. The findings reveal that the lack of critical thinking, a poor research culture, lack of encouragement of research, and inadequate imparting of research skills in LIS education are the most significant barriers. The study suggests that determining the order in which to tackle these barriers will facilitate the production of high-quality research in countries like Pakistan. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/m518200j156r362m/?p=c3e3e4eb2fe740e3a12ec191004c6bbf&pi=3 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44.3.004 Source References and the Scientist's Mind-Map: Harvard vs. Vancouver Style Marcus Clauss, Dennis W. H. Müller, Daryl Codron As a scientist develops, a referencing system (linking results/hypotheses to sources) evolves in the mind. This mind-map is an essential working tool that uses indexing features—such as author names—as reference points. The Harvard style (HS), in which citations in the text are made of names and years of publication and the references are listed in alphabetical order, actively helps to establish this mind-map. In our view, the Vancouver style (VS), in which citations in the text are numbers and the references are listed in order of appearance within the text, does not enhance the formation of a mind-map in a similar way and makes detections of incongruity between the reader's mind-map and the text more difficult. In an ideal academic world, HS would be used because of these two effects: constant education of and easy quality control by the scientific reader. Although VS reduces printing space and allows easier reading for less academically trained readers, scientific readers may find this style difficult when trying to check and verify sources. For reviewers, who cannot opt not to make such checks, VS is even more tedious. We advocate that journals using VS in print should use HS for the reviewing process; further, in the final printed version, the references should be numbered and listed alphabetically rather than according to the order in which they are cited. Especially for maturing scientists, reading texts with HS referencing is essential. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/m1356443077m1767/?p=c3e3e4eb2fe740e3a12ec191004c6bbf&pi=4 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44.3.005 A Short Note on Pointless Reference Formatting Philippe C. Baveye In the last few years, several authors have opined that the multitude of reference styles used in scholarly journals is entirely pointless. In this brief note, a back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that this profusion of styles leads to significant waste of researchers' time and financial resources, all of which could be spent on far more meaningful pursuits. A simple solution is for all journals to adopt a single reference format. This could happen relatively easily, it is argued, if major funding agencies decided to back the idea. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/m1574l76k3106822/?p=c3e3e4eb2fe740e3a12ec191004c6bbf&pi=5 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44.3.006 Death of a Small Journal? Stephen K. Donovan What is the little journal to do in this era of impact factors, burgeoning lists of international publications available in both hard copy and online, and academic effort being increasingly focused on attaining the highest profile for an individual's home institution? It seems that viable models are get big, if you can, or stay small and serve a specialist/regional audience. The middle ground of a moderate profile journal that does not appear on the right citation indices appears to be a recipe for extinction. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/m077205332721503/?p=c3e3e4eb2fe740e3a12ec191004c6bbf&pi=6 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44.3.007 Something Wiki This Way Comes William W. Savage, Jr. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/m0712502020041tu/?p=c3e3e4eb2fe740e3a12ec191004c6bbf&pi=7 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44.3.008 Book Reviews Helen Sword, Stylish Academic Writing, reviewed by Stephen K. Donovan Leo Mallette and Clare Berger, Writing for Conferences: A Handbook for Graduate Students and Faculty, reviewed by Steven E. Gump http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/8r8812hk96m64j30/?p=c3e3e4eb2fe740e3a12ec191004c6bbf&pi=8 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44.3.299 PDA and the University Press Joseph J. Esposito, Kizer Walker, Terry Ehling http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/qu6222038j265865/?p=c3e3e4eb2fe740e3a12ec191004c6bbf&pi=9 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44.3.011 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. The journal has also examined the future of scholarly publishing, scholarship on the web, digitalization, copyrights, editorial policies, computer applications, marketing and pricing models. Call for Papers Journal of Scholarly Publishing targets the unique issues facing the scholarly publishing industry today. It is the indispensable resource for academics and publishers that addresses the new challenges resulting from changes in technology, funding and innovations in publishing. In serving the wide-ranging interests of the international academic publishing community, JSP provides a balanced look at the issues and concerns, from solutions to everyday publishing problems to commentary on the philosophical questions at large. JSP welcomes cutting-edge articles and essays for consideration which address issues surrounding the publishing world in a time of great change. 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Editor-in-Chief: Thomas Mullaney (Associate Professor in History, Stanford University) Managing Editor: Leon Rocha (Research Fellow, University of Cambridge) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A7A1B2E70; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:20:50 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A74D12CE8; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:20:48 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F1FC62CE8; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:20:46 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130326062046.F1FC62CE8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:20:46 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.911 open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 911. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:31:58 +0000 From: "James O'Sullivan" Subject: Re: 26.909 open access In-Reply-To: <20130325062744.926962DA2@digitalhumanities.org> I don't think it's quite accurate to say that most academics have released something as open access -- I think of numerous tools, major and minor, that might well be free, but aren't open source. The scale of that which is being licensed is also of importance, I think. Licensing one's blog or Flickr account under CC licenses is indeed important (and something I've done myself), but there is a significant difference between licensing blog posts and photos and licensing a major scholarly project. Again, the more effort people put in, the less eager I see them being when it comes to releasing work as open source. I think we need to clarify what we mean by "open access". When I say that a significant number of academics aren't releasing things as open access, I don't simply mean "freely". To my mind, open access means truly open in the open source sense of the word. In other words, the data / results aren't simply released, the source code (in the case of software) and all of the constituent elements of a piece of scholarship are made available. For example, many people use the No-Derivs aspect of the CC on their blogs/Flickr. That's not open - it's just free. This issue applies very much to software development, I think. Make a list of all the scholarly tools that you use -- how many of them are open? ie. How many of them have their source code readily available on the Web? A great many of them are indeed open - but a significant portion are not. On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 909. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:17:01 +0000 > From: John Levin > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.903 open access > In-Reply-To: <20130323073910.3A8E32DD9@digitalhumanities.org> > > On 23/03/2013 07:39, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 903. > > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > > > > > Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:50:45 +0000 > > From: "James O'Sullivan" > > Subject: Re: 26.899 open access? > > In-Reply-To: <20130322061922.817272CCB@digitalhumanities.org> > > > > I'd like to pick up on the first point: > > > > > 1. Many people who champion open access have not actually had something > to > > release as open access. It's all well and good to state that you would > make > > your intellectual property open access, but when a scholarly pursuit / > > project / development does come to fruition, many people, unfortunately, > > change their mind on open access when faced with the actual products of > > their labours. Excuse the poor analogy, but it reminds me of Lord of the > > Rings. After the arduous journey, lots of people do eventually conclude: > > "It's mine, why shouldn't I hold onto it?" > > > > I disagree with this in four ways. > > Firstly, I can't think of any champion, academic or otherwise, of open > access that doesn't have something to release on such terms, or hasn't > done so already. > > Secondly, open licenses are fairly often chosen by people with something > to release: Flikr is a fine example of this on a grand scale, not least > because they make it quite easy to chose creative commons licenses. For > academia, my impression (not done a survey, nor know of one) is that CC > licenses are very popular for individual academics' blogs. > > Thirdly, and again Flickr is a good example, people often have something > to release. That's not just testimony to the way digital photography has > taken off; it's also about how people think about what they are > producing and how they want to share. A photo on flickr becomes part of > something larger. My photos of plaques are of little interest alone, but > in the context of openplaques.org they become more useful, gain context, > etc. > > In the academic context, I feel that many academics aren't aware of what > they have produced, and the value of it and its re-use: think course > bibliographies, or data sets, not just finished articles and perfected > books. This is all useful material were it shared. In the case of data, > I think it essential that it be freely released, for otherwise how can > we check the work based upon it? > > Finally, the question "It's mine, why shouldn't I hold onto it?" applies > even more to those publishing with journals that demand copyright being > alienated without payment as a condition of publication. > > John > > -- > John Levin > http://www.anterotesis.com > http://twitter.com/anterotesis > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: > http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php > -- *James O'Sullivan * @jamescosullivan http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan ** Web: josullivan.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan http://twitter.com/#%21/jamescosullivan LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan http://www.linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan Facebook: http://facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan http://www.facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan New Binary Press: http://newbinarypress.com/Bookstore.html OpenDAHT: http://opendaht.org/ Submit to *The Weary Blues*: http://thewearyblues.org/submit.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DD34A3120; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:21:47 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 395D02E75; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:21:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 977DD2E70; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:21:42 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130326062142.977DD2E70@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:21:42 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.912 Turing's universal machine wins 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. 912. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:03:01 +0000 (GMT) From: S Barry Cooper Subject: Turing's Universal machine narrowly wins Innovation vote Very many thanks to all who voted for Turing's Universal machine as "the most important UK innovation of the last 100 years". Over 50,000 votes were cast, and Turing narrowly won (over 86 other great innovations, not to mention the many thousands of BMC Mini fans) - see: http://www.topbritishinnovations.org/PastInnovations.aspx Our 3390 ATY subscribers must have made a big impact. The closing stages of the voting were very exciting, with the Innovation webpage barely coping with the thousands of late votes, and the result in doubt right up until the midnight close. Though such public votes are of mixed value! this one must have done something worthwhile to make Turing and the science more widely known and appreciated. It was great to get so many interesting and encouraging messages - and, as always, further news related to Alan Turing's continuing legacy. __________________________________________________________________________ ALAN TURING YEAR http://www.turingcentenary.eu Email: pmt6sbc@leeds.ac.uk Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Alan-Turing-Year/199853901070 and http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Alan-Turing-Year/100000473465821 Twitter: http://twitter.com/AlanTuringYear __________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,T_FRT_STOCK2 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 102F039EE; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:22:50 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD0673125; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:22:48 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 670212F02; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:22:46 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130326062246.670212F02@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:22:46 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.913 events: science & technology; textual editing; prosopography X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 913. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jon Agar (2) Subject: cfp: Science and Technology in Contemporary British History, 10-13 July 2013 [2] From: Will Hanley (71) Subject: CFP *Prosop: a social networking tool for the past* [3] From: Maurizio Lana (26) Subject: summer school: Digital tools for printed critical editions --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:37:35 +0000 From: Jon Agar Subject: cfp: Science and Technology in Contemporary British History, 10-13 July 2013 NB: note deadline: 28 July 2013== Science and Technology in Contemporary British History CALL FOR PAPERS: ICBH Summer Conference 10-13 July 2013, King’s College London Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, rapid developments in science and technology have affected all aspects of contemporary Britain. This conference seeks to examine this change historically, from the macro to the micro dimensions. The conference will consider various perspectives, including those of defence, business, government and society. We are keen to explore the political, economic, military, social, legal and cultural effects of scientific and technological change, as well as the processes of innovation and development. We will consider these in an international as well as a domestic context – for example, have British companies, governments and state agencies predominantly followed external trends in science and technology? Or have they tended to pioneer novel solutions? To what extent can questions of science and technology inform our understanding of traditional themes in contemporary British history such as “relative decline” or the “two cultures”? How has defence spending on science and technology been part of Cold War and post-Cold War politics? Many UK institutions and ways of life have undergone radical changes due to scientific and technical advances. New industries have been created, old ones have disappeared; new perceptions of science have shaped popular culture; the digital revolution has changed how organisations operate and how individuals communicate. British life – from education, to leisure, to religion, to how we conduct politics – has had to contend with the increasing prominence of the scientific worldview and the technological society. New case studies and perspectives are invited in order to reconsider the diversity and complexity of these changes. We hope this conference will generate fresh discussion and a new appreciation of the significance of scientific and technical transformation as it has taken place in modern Britain. We wish to attract historians working in a wide range of fields. Conference organisers: Dr Michael Kandiah (michael.andiah@kcl.ac.uk), Dr Virginia Preston (virginia.preston@kcl.ac.uk) and Peter Sutton (peter.sutton@kcl.ac.uk), all of ICBH. To propose a paper, please send a short synopsis (up to 300 words) of your paper with your contact details to icbhconference@gmail.com by 28 March 2013. Possible areas for papers include (but are not limited to) the following: Invention and innovation The politics of production Policy formation The natural sciences Medicine & health The material environment Computing and communications Modernisation and rationalisation Work and working practices Banking and the Stock Exchange Politics in the age of the Internet Gender and ethnicity Cultural change Governing and governance Climate change and biodiversity Institutions, industries and businesses Defence procurement The conduct of diplomacy Copyright, patents and intellectual property Scientific and technological education and training Schools and universities – from the BBC Micro to the world-wide web Defence industries, eg aerospace, shipbuilding, satellites & space Surveillance – military and non-military Travel Crime and policing --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:21:00 +0100 From: Will Hanley Subject: CFP *Prosop: a social networking tool for the past* *Prosop: a social networking tool for the past* *Call for participants* *Database development workshop* Historians and other scholars with large databases of historical person data are invited to workshops to test and populate Prosop, a project funded by the Office of Digital Humanities http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The first of these workshops will be held at Brown University (Providence, RI) on May 17-18, 2013, with the generous support of Middle East Studies http://www.middleeastbrown.org/ at Brown. The second will take place at Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL) in August 2013. *What is Prosop?* Prosop is a collaborative database of details about individuals in the past. Although it maps networks and discovers connections, it is not just facebook for dead people. In particular, it aims to: - manage diverse types of data from different historical settings, - aggregate of large quantities of person data, - accommodate uncertain and conflicting information, and - facilitate data-driven study of historical systems of description and classification. For more detailed information, visit our website at prosop.org *What kinds of data do we seek?* We’re looking for information about relatively large sets of relatively ordinary people from the past. Typically, this information is extracted from archival records used by microhistorians. For example, the database contains the name, age, address, and physical description of 700 criminal court defendants from 1880s Egypt. Prosop is meant to work for all kinds of historical person data, and we are especially interested in data in unusual formats (linguistic, topical, or otherwise) that will help us to develop the flexibility of the system. Also, we are looking for participants who are willing to share their data with the community of researchers using Prosop. *What will happen at the workshops?* Each participant will have time to present his or her data, describing its characteristics and the ways it might interact with other person data. All of the data will be uploaded to Prosop by the time of the workshop, and participants will discuss issues of categorization and comparison that arise. We will work to find ways to link data and to make the system more usable. The workshop will provide a chance for historians and developers to communicate. *What’s in it for participants?* Workshop participants will contribute to the design of a tool that will enable new research into global social history, and will have early access to its results. They should gain new perspectives on their own data and its place in the global history of person information. Their experience and input will help to refine the system towards its aim, which is to encompass all categories of historical person data. Participant costs will be covered by the organizers. *How to apply?* Send a letter of application to *prosopworkshop at gmail dot com*. The letter should include a general description of the data which you wish to contribute to the project. Where possible, please specify: - the number of persons in the database - the categories of information recorded about each person (e.g. name, age, birthplace, occupation) - the geographical and chronological range of the persons represented - the type of sources from which the information is drawn (language, archives, genres). Please also include a C.V. *What is the deadline for applications?* The deadline for applications for the first workshop is *April **8**, 2013*. All applications will also be considered for the second workshop, for which a second call for participants will be circulated. *Are there other ways to participate?* Prosop is an ongoing project. In addition to future workshops already in the works, we are looking for beta testers. If you are not able to join this workshop, but might want to be involved in the future, please get in touch via our website http://prosop.org/ and join our mailing list . --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:46:31 +0000 From: Maurizio Lana Subject: summer school: Digital tools for printed critical editions “Digital tools for printed critical editions”, June 13-14 2013, Vercelli. Summer school organized within the project "digilibLT-digital library of late latin texts" (http://www.digiliblt.unipmn.it), supported by AIUCD - Associazione per l'Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale and by EADH - European Association for Digital Humanities (previously ALLC Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing) It is our pleasure to announce the Summer School on “Digital tools for printed critical editions”, which will be held at the Department of Humanities, Università del Piemonte Orientale, in Vercelli (Italy) on 13-14 June 2013. Scientific committee: Raffaella Tabacco, Maurizio Lana, Andrea Balbo, Ermanno Malaspina. Organization: Maurizio Lana The Summer School is aimed at an international audience, therefore the courses will be held in English. The School will be inaugurated by a group of philologists who will be discussing the state of the art of philological studies and the still open questions in the field of classical and medieval philology, and digital philology: Raffaella Tabacco, Francesco Stella and Roberto Rosselli del Turco. Three half-day sessions will follow, in which three invited scholars will present their programs and tools: - Wilhelm Ott, author of TUSTEP - Tübingen System of Text Processing tools; - Guido Milanese, who will illustrate the use of LaTeX and its scripts for critical editions; - Stefan Hagel, author of CTE- Classical Text Editor. The invited scholars will be present during the whole course to foster a constructive debate between students and researchers on textual and philological issues related to digital tools and their use. Program: June 13 9-12,30 – Opening session on topics and issues in classical, medieval, digital philology: Raffaella Tabacco, Francesco Stella, Roberto Rosselli del Turco; 14,30-18 – Wilhelm Ott on the use of TUSTEP June 14 9-12,30 – Guido Milanese on the use of LaTeX and its scripts 14,30-17,30 – Stefan Hagel on CTE and its use 17,30-18 – Final greetings, where a certificate of attendance will be given to participants. The school offers places for participants and for listeners. Participants will have access to a PC on which they will be able to use the software programs presented by the invited scholars and will receive a certificate of attendance. The number of participants is limited to 17. Those who want to attend the Summer School as participants should send their application to progetto@digiliblt.unipmn.it together with a brief but complete description of the reasons for attending the course (max. 750 words, 12pt.) by April 30 2013. Applications will be examined by the Scientific Committee and the best 17 applicants will be selected. Listeners will not be provided with a PC but will attend the lectures delivered by the invited speakers. The number of listeners is limited to 18. Those who want to take part in the Summer School as ‘listeners’ should write to progetto@digiliblt.unipmn.it specifying their full name, affiliation and email address. Listeners will be selected on a first come first served basis. Fees Attendance to the Summer School does not require the payment of fees, thanks to funds generously given by Regione Piemonte to the project digilibLT-digital library of late Latin texts, and in consideration of the difficult economic situation and of the travel + accommodation expenses paid by each participant. Maps and accommodation Maps and information for accommodation at agreed price (50€ single en-suite room, B&B) will be sent to admitted participants and listeners. For those who want to come to Vercelli by plane the nearest airports are Torino Caselle and Milano Malpensa, the latter offering easier connections to Vercelli (bus shuttle Malpensa-Novara; train Novara-Vercelli). For assistance to flyers write to: m.lana@lett.unipmn.it. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1771D2E8A; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:13:10 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC08C2DE7; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:13:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2C98B2DD9; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:13:07 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130327061307.2C98B2DD9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:13:07 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.914 open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 914. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Daniel Allington (17) Subject: Re: 26.911 open access [2] From: Patrick Sahle (42) Subject: Re: 26.903 open access [3] From: Jean-Claude Guédon (299) Subject: Re: 26.911 open access --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:44:04 +0000 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: 26.911 open access In-Reply-To: <20130326062046.F1FC62CE8@digitalhumanities.org> > Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:31:58 +0000 > From: "James O'Sullivan" > Subject: Re: 26.909 open access > In-Reply-To: <20130325062744.926962DA2@digitalhumanities.org> > ...To my mind, open access means truly open in the > open source sense of the word. In other words, the data / results aren't > simply released, the source code (in the case of software) and all of the > constituent elements of a piece of scholarship are made available. For > example, many people use the No-Derivs aspect of the CC on their > blogs/Flickr. That's not open - it's just free... James That distinction has existed since before the term 'open source'. Interestingly, in those days, 'free' was used with the meaning that you are attributing to 'open': the Free Software Foundation was devoted to promoting software you could re-write and re-distribute, not software you didn't have to pay for. In fact, the FSF explicitly permitted paid-for software to be called 'free' provided that the source code was available to the purchaser, and that the terms under which it was licensed permitted him or her to adapt it and re-release it under an equivalent licence. That was the origin of the GNU General Public Licence, which as you know gave us the Linux kernel - to the open source movement what Emacs and TeX were to its predecessor. Despite being a committed Emacs user, I'm not convinced that a free or open source approach makes sense for every software project, nor that there are useful equivalents for every other area of human endeavour. Neither is Donald Knuth, the creator of TeX. It's important to consider things on a case-by-case basis. Creators of all kinds may have very good reasons for wanting to restrict the proliferation of derivative works. 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). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:39:59 +0100 From: Patrick Sahle Subject: Re: 26.903 open access In-Reply-To: <20130323073910.3A8E32DD9@digitalhumanities.org> Am 23.03.2013 08:39, schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > 2. Academic culture is not conducive to open access. I've had papers > accepted to peer-reviewed journals that are not open access. What do I do? > I'm a PhD candidate, and if I am to have any sort of a career as a scholar > going forward, I need to build up some publications in the well-respected > journals in my field - such publications are the currency of our > profession. So when I get offered publication, how can I turn it down? A > few years from now I doubt that any interview panel would look favourably > upon my lack of representation in these journals. They may well be > impressed by the fact that I took a stand in the name of open access, but > they are unlikely to hire me. Is this based on personal empiric evidence? Well, it cannot be. I hear this argument quite often and it bothers me. Because I read some allegations in it. People who will decide on whether to hire you are not stupid. They know about the reality of peer-reviewing: that it is often fake, often driven by who knows who, who likes who, or by other social, political or psychological factors. Nobody is hired for having dull articles in peer-reviewed journals. People are hired for having created the impression that they are creative, intelligent, effective and that they will fit to the requirements of a certain position. It's more likely to leave that impression with a thoughtful blog or an innovative article in a not-peer-reviewed journal than with a mediocre article in a peer-reviewed journal. And its more likely to leave a mark in the community with articles that are more widely perceived through open access. Best, Patrick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Book(s) out now: Patrick Sahle, Digitale Editionsformen - http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften/s7-9-digitale-editionsformen A) Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/ (Mitarbeiter) B) DARIAH-DE (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) http://de.dariah.eu/ (Mitarbeiter) C) Humanities Computer Science, University of Cologne http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de/ (Mitarbeiter) D) Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik http://www.i-d-e.de (Mitglied) Post: Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung, Universität zu Köln, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D-50923 Köln Büro: Universitätsstr. 22, Dachgeschoss links Telefon: +49 - (0)221 - 470 1750 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Zur Person: http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ahz26 http://www.uni-koeln.de/%7Eahz26 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:58:53 -0400 From: Jean-Claude Guédon Subject: Re: 26.911 open access In-Reply-To: <20130323073910.3A8E32DD9@digitalhumanities.org> To clarify what is meant by open access in the context of research, there is no better source than Peter Suber's book called "Open Access" and published last year by MIT Press. Jean-Claude Guédon Jean-Claude Guédon Professeur titulaire Littérature comparée Université de Montréal _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 72A0739D8; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:13:53 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8324D2DEE; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:13:52 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 966F22DE9; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:13:50 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130327061350.966F22DE9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:13:50 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.915 call for applications: ADHO publications liaison X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 915. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:18:39 -0400 From: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Subject: Call for applications, ADHO publications liaison The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites applications for the position of publications liaison, a volunteer position to help increase the visibility of the association's journals and other publications. ADHO publications are primarily owned by its constituent organizations; these publications include: - *LLC. The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities* (a print journal whose ownership resides with ALLC/EADH); - *Digital Humanities Quarterly* (an online journal whose ownership resides with ACH); - *Digital Studies/Le champ numérique* (an online journal whose ownership resides with CSDH/SCHN); - *DH Commons* (an online publication whose ownership resides with centerNet); - *Humanist* (an online discussion group); - *Digital Humanities Questions and Answers* (a community-based Q&A board whose ownership resides with ACH and ProfHacker); and - *Topics in the Digital Humanities* (a monograph series); More information about ADHO publications may be found at http://adho.org/publications. The ADHO publications liaison would work with publishers and indexing services to ensure that ADHO publications are properly indexed, advise on metadata best practices, and recommend other discovery strategies. Appointment will be made by the ADHO Steering Committee upon recommendation from the ADHO Publications Committee. The publications liaison will begin a three-year term of appointment following the Digital Humanities conference in July 2013. Applications, including a current CV and a brief statement outlining a proposed plan for increasing ADHO publications' visibility, should be sent to: Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Chair, ADHO Publications Committee: kfitz47@gmail.com. The deadline for receipt of applications is 15 April 2013. -- Kathleen Fitzpatrick // Director of Scholarly Communication Modern Language Association // mla.org // @kfitz _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4F47539D8; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:15:11 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 428232F02; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:15:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1A2132DE7; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:15:08 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130327061509.1A2132DE7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:15:08 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.916 scholarships for Digital Preservation Training Programme X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 916. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:00:05 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Scholarships for DPTP, May 2013 > From: William Kilbride > > Subject: Scholarships for DPTP, May 2013 > Date: 26 March 2013 13:43:49 GMT Dear all, I’m pleased to offer members three fully funded scholarships to attend the Digital Preservation Training Programme at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 20th–22nd May 2013. The Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) is designed for all those working in institutional information management who are grappling with fundamental issues of digital preservation. It provides the skills and knowledge necessary for institutions to combine organisational and technological perspectives and devise an appropriate response to the challenges that digital preservation needs present. DPTP is operated and organised by the University of London Computer Centre with contributions from invited experts. It is supported by the Digital Preservation Coalition which originally helped to establish the course in 2005. Attendance at the Digital Preservation Training Programme costs £650 per person (excluding VAT). However, the Digital Preservation Coalition is pleased to offer three full scholarships which meet the costs of the course. Applications are welcomed from DPC members and associates. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, course materials, access to online resources, lunch and refreshments. Travel, accommodation and subsistence are not funded. This is the tenth time the DPC has offered scholarships to attend the course. Successful applicants will be asked to help promote the course and the work of the coalition. The DPC has supported a total of forty six scholarships to attend this course. Applications are due by 1200 on 3rd May. For more details see: http://www.dpconline.org/training/leadership-programme William -- Dr William Kilbride FSA Executive Director Digital Preservation Coalition @WilliamKilbride 44 (0)141 330 4522 http://www.dpconline.org/ william@dpconline.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BD7E42E59; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:16:37 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB5B02CC6; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:16:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 58EE02CB2; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:16:35 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130327061635.58EE02CB2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:16:35 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.917 events: Text, Speech, Dialogue X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 917. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:51:17 +0000 From: TSD 2013 Subject: TSD 2013 - Last Call for Papers TSD 2013 - LAST CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************** Sixteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2013) Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic, 1-5 September 2013 http://www.tsdconference.org TSD NEWS The TSD conference fee was significantly reduced. It is organized in parallel with SPECOM. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Ron Cole Hynek Hermansky Torbjorn Lager Ralf Steinberger Victor Zakharov ABOUT CONFERENCE The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno. This year the conference is organized in parallel with the 15th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM). The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). Venue: Plzen (Pilsen), angelo Hotel (city center), Czech Republic TSD SERIES TSD series have evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries) Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling) Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution) Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing) Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection) Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies) Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues) Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling) OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the event will be English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. [...] ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: Ms Anna Habernalova, TSD 2013 Conference Secretary E-mail: tsd2013@tsdconference.org Phone: +420 722 375 005 Fax: +420 377 632 402 - Please, mark the faxed material with capitals 'TSD' on top. TSD 2013 conference web site: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2013 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5F12339D8; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:17:33 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 615C82DD9; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:17:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 65D352DD7; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:17:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130327061730.65D352DD7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:17:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.918 MPhil at Trinity Dublin X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 918. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:04:23 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Applications now open for MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture, TCD - Deadline extended ***Deadline now extended to 30th April 2013**** Applications are now being accepted for an MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland’s oldest University. Digital Humanities is an emerging and dynamic field of study that seeks to apply innovative technologies and methods to the study of the age-old disciplines of the humanities. This Masters is for students from any area of the humanities (including languages, literature, history, art history, linguistics, drama, film, and music) or Computer Science who would like to learn how technology mediates our study of these fields, as well as how technology is changing the way we create new artistic and scholarly works. Students will be exposed to a wide variety of theories, tools, and methods, from digital scholarly editing to datamining, and from visualisations to XML. Some modules will be theory-based (such as Theory and Practice of Digital Humanities’ and ‘Cyberculture’), others will be hands-on and have, in addition to theory, a lab component (including Digital Scholarly Editing’ and ‘Web Technologies’) The MPhil can be completed in one year full time or two years part time. Taught modules include ‘Theory and Practice of Digital Humanities’, ‘Cyberculture’, ‘Web Technologies,’ ‘Digital Scholarly Editing’ Corpus Linguistics, ‘From Metadata to Linked Data’, ‘Visualising the Past’. In the second semester students will have the opportunity to participate in a practical internship at a cultural institution, with an ongoing digital humanities project, or with a digital library initiative. This MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture is in its second year. It builds on TCD’s four-hundred-year-old tradition of scholarship as one of the great universities of the world. TCD provides a liberal environment where independence of thought is highly valued and where staff and students are nurtured as individuals and are encouraged to achieve their full potential. The MPhil in DHC has qualified for Skills Conversion Funding sponsored by the Higher Education Authority under the National Development Plan. Under this scheme EU students fees were set at €2750 for both full and part time options for the 2012-13 academic year. For full details on the course (including how to apply), please see https://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digital-humanities/index.php -- Vicky Garnett Research Assistant Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe (DigCurV) Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) Trinity Long Room Hub Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland Phone: +353 01 896 4470 E-mail: vicky.garnett@tcd.ie www.digcur-education.org http://www.digcur-education.org/ www.dariah.eu http://www.dariah.eu/ http://dh.tcd.ie/dh _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1D2F52DD0; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:23:34 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C32B72CC3; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:23:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CE1CD2CC6; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:23:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130328062330.CE1CD2CC6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:23:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.919 open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 919. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Daniel Allington (23) Subject: Re: 26.914 open access [2] From: "James O'Sullivan" (216) Subject: Re: 26.914 open access --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:15:27 +0000 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: 26.914 open access In-Reply-To: <20130327061307.2C98B2DD9@digitalhumanities.org> > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:39:59 +0100 > From: Patrick Sahle > Subject: Re: 26.903 open access > In-Reply-To: <20130323073910.3A8E32DD9@digitalhumanities.org> > > allegations in it. People who will decide on whether to hire you are not > stupid. They know about the reality of peer-reviewing: that it is often > fake, often driven by who knows who, who likes who, or by other social, > political or psychological factors. Nobody is hired for having dull > articles in peer-reviewed journals. People are hired for having created > the impression that they are creative, intelligent, effective and that > they will fit to the requirements of a certain position. It's more > likely to leave that impression with a thoughtful blog or an innovative > article in a not-peer-reviewed journal than with a mediocre article in a > peer-reviewed journal. I've been quibbling with James over the meaning of 'free' and the desirability of openness as an end in itself, but I must stick up for him here. In the national context with which I am familiar (which is, I think, the one in which James is hoping to find work), people are hired (at least as far as research is concerned) for having published articles - dull or otherwise - in the right peer-reviewed journals and monographs - dull or otherwise - in the right publishers' lists as well (let's not forget it) as for having received external research grants. Non peer-reviewed articles count for virtually nothing, and a blog for even less. Being creative, intelligent, etc may count for something but only in choosing between people who've ticked the right boxes in terms of publications (and, ideally, pulled in some grant income as well). People on hiring committees behave this not because they are stupid but because they are given very clear instructions not to do otherwise. And that is not an allegation: it's what the committee members say. They say it to unsuccessful applicants and they say it to their colleagues. I've heard it any number of times in both capacities. Perhaps things are different in Germany. 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: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:59:56 +0000 From: "James O'Sullivan" Subject: Re: 26.914 open access In-Reply-To: <20130327061307.2C98B2DD9@digitalhumanities.org> I'd have to agree with Daniel, when he says that "creators of all kinds may have very good reasons for wanting to restrict the proliferation of derivative works." Indeed, as Daniel points out, open access isn't always feasible for a project. This was my initial point - that while open access is all well and good in principle, the reality is such that many creators, as Daniel says, have reasons why they don't want / can't release products as open source. Economic reasons, to my mind, are at the fore of this list. But I suppose that that could well be debated. I have to disagree with Patrick. From what I have seen as a researcher, peer-reviewed publications are at the cornerstone of employability. Patrick is of course right when he says that people "are hired for having created the impression that they are creative, intelligent, effective and that they will fit to the requirements of a certain position", but to say that this impression is more likely to be achieved through "a thoughtful blog or an innovative article in a not-peer-reviewed journal than with a mediocre article in a peer-reviewed journal" isn't quite accurate. Peer-review is at the heart of scholarship - it's the process that we depend upon for validation of your work as scholars. Something that isn't peer-reviewed may well be scholarship, but it is not validated scholarship. Patrick is right of course when he points to the failings in the peer-review process. Many of our field's biggest conferences, for examples, aren't blind, or you see the same band of colleagues appearing again and again. Names carry more weight than content, for sure. At DH this year, I had a proposal rejected, and of my reviewers, all but one admitted to not being familiar with the topic. So I had 4/5 reviewers considering a proposal on a topic that they admittedly had no familiarity with. This same proposal has recently secured acceptance to a journal of significant standing (with minor revisions). So yes, the peer-review process isn't without fault. BUT, we need peer-review if we, as a community of scholars, are to at least attempt to validate each other's work; if we are to strive towards a model of scholarship based on some sense of objectivity. Venues that don't offer peer-review do not satisfy this critical scholarly requirement, and thus, I genuinely think that employers don't place as much weight in them. They want to see a track record of community-validated scholarship, and only peer reviewed journals can provide that, and many of the journals that carry the most prestige are still not open access. There is no doubt in my mind that a good article in an OUP journal is far more use to my resume than an amazing article posted on my blog. And of course, then there is the book. Since starting my PhD I am yet to find a book, outside of Siemens and Schreibman, that I require that is open access. Not only are most books not open access, they are extraordinarily expensive. But saying this, I know that if I am ever in the position to have a book published, I will grasp at the opportunity with both hands, knowing that it will add another dimension to my CV. Unfortunately, my commitment to open access will, again, *have *to take a back seat. It's easy for tenured professors to talk about open access -- it's another for younger scholars who have yet to secure a long-term position. For us, it's all about our resume as scholars. -- *James O'Sullivan * @jamescosullivan http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan ** Web: josullivan.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan Facebook: http://facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan New Binary Press: http://newbinarypress.com/Bookstore.html OpenDAHT: http://opendaht.org/ Submit to *The Weary Blues*: http://thewearyblues.org/submit.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2092A39D8; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:24:02 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 457782D7B; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:24:01 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6AD3E2D19; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:23:59 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130328062359.6AD3E2D19@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:23:59 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.920 how to start & sustain a centre? 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. 920. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:11:09 +0000 From: Lynne Siemens Subject: Looking for resources on how to start and sustain a DH centre? Building on recent posts and discussions coming from those interested in starting a DH Centre, CentreNet has started a new Initiative: Starting and Sustaining a DH Center (http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/resources-for-starting-and-sustaining-dh-centers/). This page has links to talks, articles, books and DH centre proposals and models. To supplement this page, we have also started a listserv. You can subscribe at http://lists.lists.digitalhumanities.org/mailman/listinfo/dhcenterstartup or contact me at siemensl@uvic.ca. I am also putting in a call for other resources to supplement this page. If you have proposals, talks, articles and other resources that talk about strategies, partnership models and other information needed to start a centre, please direct them my way. Cheers Lynne -- Lynne Siemens Assistant Professor Graduate Advisor, Master of Arts in Community Development School of Public Administration University of Victoria Telephone: (250) 721-8069 Email: siemensl@uvic.ca webpage: lynnesiemens.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7B39D2D19; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:27:59 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4839F2D16; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:27:57 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A4A7B2D16; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:27:54 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130328062754.A4A7B2D16@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:27:54 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.921 events: many & various X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 921. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (30) Subject: Urban Prototyping Festival [2] From: kcl - digitalhumanities (28) Subject: CFP: Digital Heritage 2013: Interfaces with the Past [3] From: "Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.)" (20) Subject: Digital Humanities Seminar: Dr Orietta Da Rold, 'Digital Encounters and Cultural Exchanges: Medieval Manuscripts Online' [4] From: Peter Shillingsburg (15) Subject: The Fate of the Page in Digital Environments [5] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (25) Subject: Workshops in Scholarly Annotation and Commentary [6] From: ACM MEDES (111) Subject: cfp: Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems [7] From: "Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.)" (35) Subject: Next LDHG meeting / UCL DH month [8] From: "Conf@isast.co" (27) Subject: Reminder, Early bird registration and Paper submission deadline extension --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:12:07 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Urban Prototyping Festival Urban Prototyping Festival - London 2013. Hosted by Sustainable Society Network+ and NEMODE Network+ Do you want to change the world through digital technologies and great design in the urban environment? Always wanted to hack big data? Want a chance to showcase your great idea in front of London's top tech community? Are you looking to connect your great ideas with the potential for follow-on funding? Then if so, join us at UP London! We have great awards, exclusive workshops, mentors and unique opportunities to network with some of the top tech, design and architecture communities in the UK with the opportunity to receive up to £100,000 (100% fEC) of awards. We also have a great speaker series with some great debates organised between leaders in the fields of design, architecture, technology and user-led design. Get involved! The Urban Prototyping Festival, held between the 8th April and 26th June 2013, will be hosting over 300 developers, architects, designers, artists and technology specialists investigating the role of digital technologies in creating smart sustainable cities. How to participate; Want to build a great physical prototype? Join through our open call: http://uplondon.net/call-to-action/ and submit by April 21st! Want to hack big data? Register our hackathon between 19th and 21st April: http://uplondonhackathon.eventbrite.co.uk/ Want to listen to great debates and inspiration talks? Register for our speaker series: http://uplondon.net/schedule/ Please feel free to pass this on to anyone you feel may be interested Any questions? Mail us at: info@london.urbanprototyping.org, or sustainable.society@imperial.ac.uk 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:18:14 +0000 From: kcl - digitalhumanities Subject: CFP: Digital Heritage 2013: Interfaces with the Past Digital Heritage 2013: Interfaces with the Past Saturday 6 July 2013, Centre for Digital Heritage, University of York Centre for Digital Heritage inaugural conference Speakers will include Graeme Earl (University of Southampton), Douglas Pritchard (Director of Operations, Cyark Europe), and Professor Andrew Prescott (King's College, London and theme leader for the AHRC Digital Transformations programme). The Call for Papers is now open until midnight on 2 April 2013. Contributions are invited for papers on all aspects of digital heritage, with a focus on interfaces with the past: audio, visual, spatial, or textual. We welcome proposals for 15-minute presentations, posters, and practical demonstrations. Speakers should email a 200-word abstract to cdh-2013@york.ac.uk with an indication of their preferred format. Speakers will be notified if their paper has been accepted by 19 April 2013. Registration will be available from this web page from mid April 2013. Twitter: @CDHYork #CDH2013 Web: http://www.york.ac.uk/digital-heritage/events/cdh-2013/ Email: cdh-2013@york.ac.uk Conference Organising Committee: Paul Bryan, English Heritage Helen Goodchild, Dept of Archaeology Ollie Jones, Dept of Theatre, Film and Television Gavin Kearney, Dept of Theatre, Film and Television Mariana Lopez, Dept of Theatre, Film and Television Philip Morris, Humanities Research Centre Damian Murphy, Dept of Electronics Julian Richards, Dept of Archaeology, Chair Holly Wright, Dept of Archaeology ---------------------------------------------------------- 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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:15:27 +0000 From: "Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.)" Subject: Digital Humanities Seminar: Dr Orietta Da Rold, 'Digital Encounters and Cultural Exchanges: Medieval Manuscripts Online' 'Digital Encounters and Cultural Exchanges: Medieval Manuscripts Online' Dr Orietta Da Rold (School of English) Leicester Digital Humanities Seminars 3 May 2013, 1-2pm Woodhouse Room, 4th Floor, Charles Wilson Building In the first of our new series of Digital Humanities seminars Dr Orietta Da Rold will talk about JISC funded 'Manuscripts Online: Written Culture from 1000 to 1500' project. This paper will look at some current issues in the digital humanities and present the Project 'Manuscripts Online'. The project was inspired by methodologies relating to data mining, data clustering, federated searching which are intertwined with detailed studies of medieval manuscripts, artefacts and texts. The project was founded by JISC, and is of relevance to researchers in the fields of language, literature and history. The project has the ultimate aim to study the written culture of medieval Britain between 1000 and 1500 by pulling together and providing access to written and early printed primary sources in this period for larger data analysis and interpretation. http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/services/digital-humanities/workshops-and-events-1/dr-orietta-da-rold-manuscripts-online Dr Simon Dixon Digital Humanities and Special Collections Manager David Wilson Library University of Leicester University Road Leicester. LE1 7RH T: +44(0)116 252 2056 E: snd6@le.ac.uk W: http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/about/staff/academicliaison/simon-dixon Winner of the 2012 THE Award for Outstanding Library Team Elite Without Being Elitist Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/uniofleicester --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:21:49 +0000 From: Peter Shillingsburg Subject: The Fate of the Page in Digital Environments You are invited to a Day Conference The Fate of the Page in Digital Environments With Morris Eaves, U of Rochester; Patricia Fumerton, U of California, Santa Barbara; Laura Estill, U of Victoria, BC; and James Knapp, Loyola U Chicago. Please indicate your intention to participate by April 15 by sending email to Peter Shillingsburg at pshillingsburg@luc.edu (the caterers need to know) April 20: 9:30 to 4:30 at Loyola University Chicago Cuneo Rm 2 For schedule and further information see attached poster and visit http://www.ctsdh.luc.edu/conferences For directions Building 18 on map at http://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/lsc.pdf *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1364405821_2013-03-27_peter.shillingsburg@gmail.com_10312.2.pdf --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:30:25 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Workshops in Scholarly Annotation and Commentary Workshops in Scholarly Annotation and Commentary Workshops in Scholarly Annotation and Commentary Third Workshop: "Annotating in the Digital Age" 15 April 2013: Room G26, Ground Floor Senate House http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/study-training/research-training-summer-schools/scholarly-annotation-and-commentary While the editing proper of texts – the establishment of a critically emended, reliable and authoritative text on scholarly principles – has been subject to much theoretical and methodological debate from the end of the nineteenth century to the present, the principles and practice of annotation and commentary have received little serious consideration. This series seeks to refine methods and strategies for the creation of commentary and annotation, the aim being to bring together scholars, users and practitioners in the field to open the debate towards redefining standards and disseminating “best practice”, and to explore innovative approaches to annotation (e.g., crowd sourcing models for digital projects). Each session features short presentations by three or four experts, followed by questions and observations from the audience. They will debate whether the digital medium alters the nature of annotation and commentary, discuss whether annotations will remain the privileged domain of the academic editor and scholar, and consider the different dynamic existing between main text and annotation in digital editions. 2.00-2.40pm Elena Anastasaki (Tübingen): “A Multi-Level Approach to Annotating Literature in the Digital Era” 2.40-3.20pm Rupert Gatti (Cambridge/Open Book Publishers): "Allowing Reader Commentary and Dialogue within a Digital Textbook: A Case Study" 3.20-3.40pm Coffee break 3.40-4.20pm Lanval Monrouzeau (IRI, Centre Pompidou, Paris): "Introduction to the Digital Studies Group and its Work on Indexation" Ariane Mayer (IRI, Centre Pompidou, Paris): "The Impact of the Digital Medium on Literary Annotation" 4.20-5.00pm Edward Vanhoutte (Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, Ghent): “Whose Annotation Is It Anyway?” The series is led and organized by Dr Iman Javadi of the Institute of English Studies. Workshops are free to attend and open to anyone with an interest in the subject. To register, please email IESEvents@sas.ac.uk ----- 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 --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:20:47 +0000 From: ACM MEDES Subject: cfp: Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems CALL FOR PAPERS *************** International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2013) http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/13/ October 29-31, 2013 Abbey of Neumunster, Luxembourg Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet, the rapid growth and exponential use of digital medias leads to the emergence of virtual environments namely digital ecosystems composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. The digital ecosystem exhibits self-organizing environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying resources mainly comprehend data management, innovative services, computational intelligence and self-organizing platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems and their characteristics, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. The conference seeks related original research papers, industrial papers and proposals for demonstrations. Topics ------- In this call, we solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and application oriented on the following themes (but not limited to): - Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure - Green computing - Emergent Intelligence - Services - Trust, Security & Privacy - Data & Knowledge Management - Web and Standards - Human-Computer Interaction - Networks and Protocols - Open Source - Miscellaneous Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- - Submission Date: June 1st, 2013 - Preliminary Notification of Acceptance: September 1st, 2013 - Rebuttal Deadline: September 4th, 2013 - Final Notification of Acceptance: September 5th, 2012 - Camera Ready: September 20th, 2013 - Conference Dates: October 29-31, 2013 Call For Demonstration: Proposals Submission Deadline: July 1st, 2013 Call for Call for Special Track Proposals: Proposals Submission Deadline: April 15, 2013 Special issues and Journal Publication --------------------------------------- Extended versions of selected papers will be published in several peer reviewed journals. The list of journals will be announced later. General Chairs --------------- Latif Ladid,University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Peter A. Bruck, Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria Dr. Antonio Montes, Centro de Tecnologia da Informação Renato Archer, Brazil Program Chairs -------------- Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France Local Organizing Chair ------------------------------- Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Ingrid Zantis, Zantis-Consulting, Luxembourg Jean-Paul Hengen, ICT Sector Development, Luxembourg International Program Committee -------------------------------- (See website of the conference) --[7]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:40:58 +0000 From: "Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.)" Subject: Next LDHG meeting / UCL DH month Dear colleagues, Some dates for your April diaries. The next London London Digital Humanities Group meeting will be held in Room S264, Senate House on 30 April, starting at 5.15 as usual. The speakers will be Terese Bird, Tania Rowlett and Simon Gunn from the University of Leicester, who will talk about and demonstrate the JISC-Funded Manufacturing Pasts project (http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/manufacturingpasts). This interactive session will include an opportunity to test drive the exciting new OERs created by the project, so those attending are encouraged to bring along their mobile devices. Full details will be circulated after the Easter break. To register go to http://goo.gl/O4lzX. I have also received details of the following events organised by the Centre for Digital Humanities at UCL. All are welcome to attend - please address any queries to Sarah Davenport at UCL. Happy Easter! Best wishes, Simon Dear All, April is DH Month at UCL! We have lined up a series of talks. All are welcome (registration is required) and there will be a drinks reception in the Arts and Humanities Common Room following each talk. Friday 12th April, 5.30pm, G31 Foster Court "Contexts, Toward Building the Social Edition", Ray Siemens, University of Victoria (Canada) http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/5947849177 Tuesday 16th April, 5.30pm, G31 Foster Court "The Gates of Hell: History and Definition of Digital | Humanities | Computing", Edward Vanhoutte, Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies, Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/5948154089 Thursday 18th April, 5.30pm, G31 Foster Court "Exploring Enlightenment: Text Mining the 18th-Century Republic of Letters", Glenn Roe,Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/5948268431 Wednesday 24th April, 5.30pm, G31 Foster Court "Public support for the UK Digital Humanities: looking back and forwards", David Robey, Oxford e-Research Centre http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/5948356695 Kind regards, Sarah Sarah Davenport Centre Co-ordinator Centre for Digital Humanities Department of Information Studies University College London Gower Street, WC1E 6BT email: s.davenport@ucl.ac.uk tel: 020 7679 7204 web: www.ucl.ac.uk/dh http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh blog: www.ucl.ac.uk/dh-blog http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh-blog twitter: @UCLDH --[8]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 02:17:40 +0000 From: "Conf@isast.co" Subject: Reminder, Early bird registration and Paper submission deadline extension Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference 4 - 7 June 2013 “La Sapienza” University, Rome Italy, http://www.isast.org http://www.isast.org/ Dear Colleagues and Friends, Following many requests we have extended the Paper submission deadline to 15 April 2013, for the 5th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2013). The early bird registration deadline is 31 March 2013. Information regarding the 5th QQML 2013: * To give a presentation (oral or poster) only an abstract accepted is compulsory. * We already have received a quite large number of interesting papers from 57 countries and interesting special sessions and workshops are organised (see at http://www.isast.org/sessionsworkshops.html ). * As the QQML2013 participants, along with the conference presentations and events you can attend the Workshops and the Special Sessions of the Conference * A selection of the papers presented will appear in QQML Journal and in other International Journals. * The 2012 Volume of the QQML Journal (378 pages)is available on-line at http://www.qqml.net/journal_issues.html * A special visit to the Vatican Museum and Capella Sistina is organized More information from the Conference Secretariat at: secretar@isast.org On behalf of the Conference Committee, Dr. Anthi Katsirikou, Conference Co-Chair University of Piraeus Library Director Head, European Documentation Center Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information Professionals anthi@asmda.com Professor Carla Basili, Local Co-Chair EnIL - The European network on Information Literacy, co-ordinator Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Istituto di Ricerca sull'Impresa e lo Sviluppo sede di Roma via dei Taurini, 19 - 00185 Roma, Italy If you don't like to receive messages regarding the QQML2013 Conference, please click here: Unsubscribe _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 03AA42DB4; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:21:50 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 583182D65; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:21:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DB9482D17; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:21:46 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130329082146.DB9482D17@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:21:46 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.922 open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 922. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Levin (30) Subject: Re: 26.911 open access [2] From: Marin Dacos (73) Subject: French scholars say 'oui' to open access [3] From: "Holly C. Shulman" (181) Subject: Re: 26.914 open access [4] From: "Lele, Amod" (18) Subject: Re: 26.919 open access --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:51:55 +0000 From: John Levin Subject: Re: 26.911 open access In-Reply-To: <20130326062046.F1FC62CE8@digitalhumanities.org> On 26/03/2013 06:20, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 911. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:31:58 +0000 > From: "James O'Sullivan" > Subject: Re: 26.909 open access > In-Reply-To: <20130325062744.926962DA2@digitalhumanities.org> > > > I don't think it's quite accurate to say that most academics have released > something as open access -- I think of numerous tools, major and minor, > that might well be free, but aren't open source. Which is not what I said, nor what you originally charged. You stated that "Many people who champion open access have not actually had something to release as open access." My response was: "I can't think of any champion, academic or otherwise, of openaccess that doesn't have something to release on such terms, or hasn't done so already." It is about what advocates for open access do, not for all academia. John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:08:03 +0100 From: Marin Dacos Subject: French scholars say 'oui' to open access In-Reply-To: <20130326062046.F1FC62CE8@digitalhumanities.org> Dear all, Times Higher Education has published an article titled "French scholars say ‘oui’ to open access". Here it is. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/french-scholars-say-oui-to-open-access/2002825.article We have organized two days ago an open access meeting in Paris Sorbonne. The auditorium was full of scholars, journals directors, librarians. For those who can read French, a journalist has reported this public session : http://speakingofscience.docteo.net/2013/03/27/open-access-en-shs-lintendance-suivra/I would like to point out the 2 minutes speach of Pierre Mounier, deputy director of OpenEdition, explaining why open access is so important for him, "the last roman", because he was a latinist, considered as an endangered species. You can listen his improvised talk during the discussion : https://soundcloud.com/speaking-of-science/pierre-mounier-cleo-message-open-accessWhat message wants humanist give to the world? Are we the last Mohican, or have we a project for the future? Thanks, Pierre, for such sincerity and clear view of the future! Best regards, Marin Dacos http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/french-scholars-say-oui-to-open-access/2002825.articleFrench scholars say ‘oui’ to open access 28 MARCH 2013 | BY PAUL JUMP http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/paul-jump/1074.bio Senior humanities and social science academics come out in support of move to ‘take knowledge out of silos’ [image: Padlock and chain] Sixty senior figures from the humanities and social sciences in France have published a statement in national newspaper *Le Monde* in support of open access. The signatories, who include university presidents, librarians and journal editors, warn that if the humanities and social sciences were to opt out of wider moves towards open access they “would become isolated and ultimately extinct”. The statement, titled “Who Is Afraid of Open Access?”, was published on 15 March and has received more than 2,000 endorsements on a dedicated website, I love open access http://iloveopenaccess.org/ . Its publication follows a statement in February by representatives of more than 120 journals and 50 publishers - specialising in French humanities and social sciences - which expressed concern that the European Commission’s open-access policy for its Horizon 2020 funding period would stifle subscription income, leading to “the disappearance of the vast majority of journals published in French”. The publishers’ statement added that the French government had given assurances that it did not feel in “any way bound” to adopt the maximum 12-month “green” embargo length advocated by the Commission. The academics’ riposte in *Le Monde* describes the publishers’ fears as “largely groundless”, noting that a “thorough assessment of the sector would be required to provide a true cost-benefit analysis” of open access. It says open access has the potential to “take knowledge out of silos” and allow it to play its “pivotal role” in the “collective growth” of society. The statement also highlights the success of open access in Latin America, which it says demonstrates its potential to break the dominance of English-language journals, enabling a “plurality of viewpoints, modes of publication, scientific paradigms, and languages”. To fear open access is “to commit oneself to a narrow - and, in fact, erroneous - vision of the future”, it says. “The humanities and social sciences can be at the forefront of this opening movement precisely because there is an increasing social demand for their research results.” paul.jump@tsleducation.com PRINT HEADLINE: Article originally published as: *French say ‘oui’ to open access* (28 March 2013 -- Marin Dacos - http://www.openedition.org Director - Centre for Open Electronic Publishing ** OpenEdition is now a Facility of Excellence http://www.openedition.org/10221?lang=en * *(Equipex) ** ** New email : marin.dacos@openedition.org ** CNRS - EHESS - Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) - Université d'Avignon 3, place Victor Hugo, Case n°86, 13331 Marseille Cedex 3 - France Tél : 04 13 55 03 40 Tél. direct : 04 13 55 03 39 Fax : 04 13 55 03 41 Skype : marin.dacos - Gmail video chat : marin.dacos@gmail.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/#!/marindacos --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:28:04 -0400 From: "Holly C. Shulman" Subject: Re: 26.914 open access In-Reply-To: <20130327061307.2C98B2DD9@digitalhumanities.org> RE: Online Access. There needs to be some discussion of economic viability and the financial pressures that are assaulting University education and research in today's political environment. But beyond that, I simply want to point out that there are times when a reviewer of a submitted article for a peer-reviewed journal makes good, thoughtful, helpful comments. I don't think peer review is simply a barrier nor do I think it is simply a manifestation of an old-boys (and girls) club. It can be that. But it can also be a step toward refining an article that is very helpful to the writer. My evidence, I admit, is my own experience, so it is small and anecdotal, but I have a hunch that this can be true for everyone. (I also have had comments that are silly or ignorant or biased, I admit). I think we demean ourselves and our fields if we see open access as a work around old-fashioned, boring, scholarship. Holly Shulman -- Holly C. Shulman Editor, Dolley Madison Digital Edition Founding Director, Documents Compass Research Professor, Department of History University of Virginia 434-243-8881 hcs8n@virginia.edu --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:13:50 +0000 From: "Lele, Amod" Subject: Re: 26.919 open access In-Reply-To: <20130328062330.CE1CD2CC6@digitalhumanities.org> I would concur with Daniel and James. I personally find blogging a more rewarding venue for humanistic scholarship than academic journals, and I love that I can make it completely open-access. But I only started my blog when I knew I was *leaving* the academic job market. It's good to have ideals for what academia and scholarship should be, and to work to make that vision come about. But we should never confuse our vision of what should be with our perception of what really is. I would love to live in a world where nobody is hired for having a pile of dull articles hidden away in dusty journals that nobody reads. But I don't. -- Amod Lele, PhD Educational Technologist Boston University Office: 617-358-6909 Mobile: 617-645-9857 lele@bu.edu Blog: loveofallwisdom.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A9C4039EA; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:22:16 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAA702DCC; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:22:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 259802DB4; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:22:13 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130329082213.259802DB4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:22:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.923 job at the ANU 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. 923. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:27:32 +1100 From: Katherine Bode Subject: Position: Lecturer in Digital Humanities at Australian National University Lecturer in Digital Humanities The ANU is building research strength, and new and exciting undergraduate and graduate teaching programs, in the emerging field of digital humanities. This position will add to the interdisciplinary strengths of the Digital Humanities Hub. We are looking for a dynamic and highly motivated academic committed to excellence in teaching, research and project management in the emerging field of digital humanities. You will contribute to and provide academic leadership in digital humanities research. You will have a PhD in a relevant field, an outstanding record of academic publications and demonstrated ability to work across disciplines in digital humanities projects. Experience in digital projects in non-academic institutions such as libraries, archives and museums, will be an added advantage. Applications from suitably qualified women and indigenous people will be particularly welcome. Enquiries for this position and further information relating to the Digital Humanities Hub please contact the Head, Dr Katherine Bode: T: 02 6125 7426, E: katherine.bode@anu.edu.au or visit our website: http://dhh.anu.edu.au http://dhh.anu.edu.au/ /. For full position description and selection criteria see: http://jobs.anu.edu.au/PositionDetail.aspx?p=3326 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 111C62E6F; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:41:30 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04F182DCF; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:41:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 38E062C9B; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:41:28 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130330084128.38E062C9B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:41:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.924 open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 924. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:30:43 +0000 From: "Zafrin, Vika" Subject: Re: 26.919 open access In-Reply-To: <20130328062330.CE1CD2CC6@digitalhumanities.org> I've been following with interest discussions in the open access thread, and I'm seeing a couple of troubling trends. So here are a few thoughts from a digital humanist turned librarian who spends her days discussing open access with her institution's faculty, staff, and administration, and with anyone else who will listen. 1. Open access is not incompatible with peer review. There are peer reviewed journals that are toll, and ones that are open. There are NON-peer-reviewed journals that are toll, and ones that are open. Peer review is not without its problems, as has been pointed out; but "open access" and "peer reviewed" are not mutually exclusive by a long stretch. Last fall I had a bizarre, if heartening, conversation with the person at my university who oversees the tenure and promotion processes. I asked her if there was a chance we could get her office to make a formal, written announcement saying that open access works will be considered in P&T cases when they have been properly vetted by the scholarly community. She looked at me uncomprehendingly. "But we already do that," she said. We do! And it's great! But we need to say it explicitly, so that faculty hear it and stop fearing open access as a career-damaging practice. Not all institutions give OA works due consideration. That's a shame, but it's also changing as people become better informed about the relationship (only incidental) between OA and peer review. 2. Open access does NOT mean that derivative works are permitted. Many open access works have Creative Commons licenses attached to them. Authors can specify that they permit no derivative works to be created. This will deter a great most, though not all, derivative works. That's ok: toll access doesn't entirely prevent plagiarism, either. At least, as Peter Suber points out, OA makes plagiarism easier to detect. 3. James said: "There is no doubt in my mind that a good article in an OUP journal is far more use to my resume than an amazing article posted on my blog." Absolutely. Did you know OUP practices open access? It's green OA. Any LLC article can be distributed, in its final-author's-manuscript form, two years after it was published. That's also OA. Is open access unproblematic in academe, particularly in the humanities? No. But let's not confuse the above issues. Vika Zafrin Institutional Repository Librarian Boston University +1 617.358.6370 | http://open.bu.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 942503125; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:42:15 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E5E2EFE; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:42:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E010C2DD3; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:42:12 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130330084212.E010C2DD3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:42:12 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.925 a dirty historical dataset? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 925. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:32:00 +0100 From: Seth van Hooland Subject: dirty historical datasets Dear all, I'm currently preparing a lesson on the topic of data quality for http://programminghistorian.org/ in order to demonstrate how historians can use data profiling techniques to diagnose and enhance the quality of source materials. If you are aware of a particularly interesting historical dataset which could be used as a case-study for this lesson, please get in touch. Two conditions: 1) the bigger the dataset, the better and 2) the dataset should be made available through the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ license. A concrete example: by using faceting and clustering techniques, researchers interested in the analyzing the different ships described in the http://www.slavevoyages.org database can cluster together the same realities which are interpreted as different due to spelling or character encoding differences. The screenshot available on http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/clusters.jpg illustrates this approach. Kind regards, Seth van Hooland Président du Master en Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (MaSTIC) Université Libre de Bruxelles Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 123 | 1050 Bruxelles http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/ http://twitter.com/#!/sethvanhooland http://mastic.ulb.ac.be 0032 2 650 4765 Office: DC11.102 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 260F639E9; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:43:49 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 346F530A9; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:43:48 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 94EE62C9E; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:43:46 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130330084346.94EE62C9E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:43:46 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.926 job: ADHO publications liaison X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 926. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:13:49 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: call for applications: ADHO publications liaison In-Reply-To: > From: Kathleen Fitzpatrick > Subject: Call for applications, ADHO publications liaison The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites applications for the position of publications liaison, a volunteer position to help increase the visibility of the association's journals and other publications. ADHO publications are primarily owned by its constituent organizations; these publications include: - *LLC. The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities* (a print journal whose ownership resides with ALLC/EADH); - *Digital Humanities Quarterly* (an online journal whose ownership resides with ACH); - *Digital Studies/Le champ numérique* (an online journal whose ownership resides with CSDH/SCHN); - *DH Commons* (an online publication whose ownership resides with centerNet); - *Humanist* (an online discussion group); - *Digital Humanities Questions and Answers* (a community-based Q&A board whose ownership resides with ACH and ProfHacker); and - *Topics in the Digital Humanities* (a monograph series); More information about ADHO publications may be found at http://adho.org/publications. The ADHO publications liaison would work with publishers and indexing services to ensure that ADHO publications are properly indexed, advise on metadata best practices, and recommend other discovery strategies. Appointment will be made by the ADHO Steering Committee upon recommendation from the ADHO Publications Committee. The publications liaison will begin a three-year term of appointment following the Digital Humanities conference in July 2013. Applications, including a current CV and a brief statement outlining a proposed plan for increasing ADHO publications' visibility, should be sent to: Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Chair, ADHO Publications Committee: kfitz47@gmail.com. The deadline for receipt of applications is 15 April 2013. -- Kathleen Fitzpatrick // Director of Scholarly Communication Modern Language Association // mla.org http://mla.org // @kfitz _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1329939E8; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:44:29 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAA9039E9; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:44:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F15CA2E6F; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:44:27 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130330084427.F15CA2E6F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:44:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.927 events: smart cities; 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. 927. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: close and remote (35) Subject: Smart City Talks - the politics of smart technology in the city [2] From: Arianna Ciula (9) Subject: 2013 TEI Conference and Members Meeting: deadline extension --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:45:20 +0000 From: close and remote Subject: Smart City Talks - the politics of smart technology in the city In-Reply-To: We would like to invite you to a series of free public talks looking at the creative uses, and politics of, smart technology to be held at Deptford Lounge, Deptford and Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London. A summary of each talk is below and more information can be found at www.closeandremote.net/smart-city-talks The talks are free, but tickets are limited so booking is required - details at above link If you would like to join our mailing list, please click here SMART CITY TALK 18 April 2013, 18.30-20.00 Deptford Lounge, 9 Giffen Street, London, SE8 4RJ Dr Matthew Fuller (academic) Emilie Giles (artist and technologist) Ajit Joakar (futuretext) Christian Nold (artist) Smart Cities use new technologies and networked infrastructures to theoretically improve economic, political, social and cultural development. The talk will look at the ‘internet of things’ and the politics of data sensing. SOUND CITY TALK 25 April 2013, 16.00-18.00 Goldsmiths College, Lewisham Way, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW Dr John Levack Drever (sound artist and academic) Peter Cusack (sound artist) Francesca Panetta (audio producer and sound artist) This talk looks at the locative and cognitive potential of sound and how sound shapes our experience of the environment. Will smart technologies silence the city as they take over from ‘analogue’ machinery? Are we silencing our environment by plugging into our ipods or are we creating our own soundscape to navigate by? What are the politics of noise? SECURE CITY TALK 9 May 2013, 18.30-20.00 Deptford Lounge, 9 Giffen Street, London, SE8 4RJ David Matthews (author) Kasper de Graaf (CEO of Images) Claire Fox (Institute of Ideas) Dr David Barnard-Wills (academic and writer) This talk will look at the use of surveillance and data gathering both in the city and the datasphere; how the monitored and ‘listened in’ space is growing daily; predictive policing; CCTV and crime prevention/detection; the use of data profiling by the state and business; and how the city space is designed to influence behaviour. SOCIAL CITY TALK 16 May 2013, 18.30-20.00 Deptford Lounge, 9 Giffen Street, London, SE8 4RJ Graham Harwood (artist) Nigel Tyrell (Love Clean Streets and Lewisham Borough Council) Dr Jennifer Gabrys (academic and researcher) Olivia Solon (Associate Editor of Wired.co.uk http://wired.co.uk/ ) This talk will look at the use of social media in the city space – how social media both mobilises and monitors an individuals actions. It will investigate data as capital (social, economic and cultural); the notion of the internet as a ‘walled garden’; and the use of data profiling by social media companies such as Facebook to predict and influence users behaviour outside of its construct. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 10:11:10 +0800 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: 2013 TEI Conference and Members Meeting: deadline extension In-Reply-To: * Dear all, The programme committee for the 2013 TEI Conference and Members Meeting has decided to extend our deadline for proposals by one week. The NEW DEADLINE for paper, poster, panel sessions, workshops and tutorials is 11:59pm GMT on Sunday, April 7th. On behalf of the Programme Committee, Arianna Ciula (chair)* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D5D1539EE; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:45:58 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D782939E9; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:45:57 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 359B82C9E; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:45:56 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130330084556.359B82C9E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:45:56 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 26.928 pubs: intermediality in comparative cultural studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 928. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:21:00 -0400 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: new book re digital humanities Digital Humanities and the Study of Intermediality in Comparative Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue Scholarly Publishing Services, 2013. ISBN: 9781626710023 375 pages, bibliography, index. Contents Introduction to Digital Humanities and the Study of Intermediality in Comparative Cultural Studies Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Literary Studies from Hermeneutics to Media Culture Studies Siegfried J. Schmidt (Inter)mediality and the Study of Literature Werner Wolf Discourses and Models of Intermediality Jens Schröter Intermediality and Aesthetic Theory in Shklovsky's and Adorno's Thought Oleg Gelikman Intermediality, Translation, Comparative Literature, and World Literature Erin Schlumpf Making Sense of the Digital as Embodied Experience Asunción López-Varela Azcárate and Serge Bouchardon Metaphysics of Electronic Being Michał Ostrowicki (aka Sidey Myoo) Video Games as Equipment for Living Jeroen Bourgonjon Dialogue between Meaning Systems in Intermedial Texts Cristina Peñamarín Intermediality and Human vs. Machine Translation Harry J. Huang Intermediality, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy Kris Rutten and Ronald Soetaert Race and Gender Representations in Advertising in Cable Cartoon Programming Debra L. Merskin An Intermedial Reading of Paley's Sita Sings the Blues Ipshita Chanda Aesthetics, Nationalism, and the Image of Woman in Modern Indian Art Kedar Vishwanathan Towards a Multimodal Analysis of da Rimini's Dollspace Maya Zalbidea Paniagua Intermedial Representations in Asian Macbeth-s I-Chun Wang Innovation and Multimedia in the Poetry of cummings and Mayakovsky Svetlana Nikitina Intermediality, Rewriting Histories, and Identities in French Rap Isabelle Marc Martínez Intermediality as Cultural Literacy and Teaching the Graphic Novel Geert Vandermeersche Comics and the Graphic Novel in Spain and Iberian Galicia Antonio J. Gil González Qu(e)erying Comic Book Culture and Representations of Sexuality in Wonder Woman Brian Mitchell Peters Digital Media, 419, and the Politics of the Global Network Paul Benzon Media Icons of War and the Instrumentalization of Images in US-American Media Reinhold Viehoff Political Deliberation and E-Participation in Policy-Making Rebecca J. Romsdahl Digital Humanities in Developed and Emerging Markets Verena Laschinger Intermediality, Architecture, and the Politics of Urbanity Virgilio Tortosa Garrigós Intersubjectivity and Intermediality in the Work of Serra Rocío von Jungenfeld Digital Humanities and a Case Study of (Inter)medial Participation Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Bibliography for Work in Intermediality and Digital Humanities Geert Vandermeersche, Joachim Vlieghe, and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 216F42CF7; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 10:23:35 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49C8C2CED; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 10:23:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4EFA52CD0; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 10:23:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130401082332.4EFA52CD0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 10:23:32 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.929 open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4011719433247018796==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============4011719433247018796== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 929. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 10:39:33 -0400 From: Jean-Claude Guédon Subject: Re: 26.924 open access Let me clarify a few things about open access. OUP is classified as a "yellow" publisher by the Sherpa/Romeo database (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/). This means that an author can self-archive a pre-print (i.e. pre-refereed) version of his/her text) immediately. Opening up access after two years is not real open access; it is a moving wall limiting access to protect (so the publishers say, although the evidence is not clear, to say the least) the financial viability of journals. Not only is open access compatible with peer review; it relies on it, just as toll access. Changing the mode of access to publications has nothing to do with peer review. Incidentally, the more than 8,800 journals listed in the Directory of open access journals (http://www.doaj.org) can be listed there only if they practise peer review. In the natural sciences, journals are evaluated through their impact factor, not by their OA or non-OA status. In passing, this is not a very smart approach (the IF is not a reliable index of journal quality), and, furthermore, it has nothing to do with Open Access. Quite a few OA journals benefit from a high IF, for example the Public Library of Science publications. In HSS journals, reputation is constructed in a more impressionistic manner, and OA journals, alas, suffer from being young: it is hard to establish a strong reputation rapidly. But judging article quality by the journals they go into is unreliable at best, lazy at worst. Quality of articles should be established at the article, not journal, level. Otherwise, we fall into a logo game and marketing strategies, neither of which have much to do with scholarship quality. The issue of derivatives is very different from Open Access except insofar as it intersects the issue of reuse in further research. Open access advocates carefully distinguish gratis OA from libre OA. The former only provides ocular contact with the documents; it does not allow for reuse (for example in the classroom). Libre OA, on the other hand, allows (legitimate) reuse of documents. If I want to send an article I like to several colleagues, libre OA allows me to do so. I f I want my students to read an article, I can distribute the libre OA article without restrictions. Etc. This is the reason why most OA advocates recommend a CC-by licence (attribution only under Creative Commons licence) as scholars do not care whether their articles are sold or not by others; they only want maximum exposure to the world. Plagiarism is yet another thing that does not have anything to do with Open Access. Digital documents are patently easier to cut and paste than printed ones, but the result is also patently easier to identify, as Peter Suber and myself have pointed out on many occasions. Plagiarism has to be revisited because of digitization, not because of Open Access, and digitization is probably making plagiarism riskier than print. A Ph. D. thesis sitting in paper on an obscure shelf in one library is a lot easier to plagiarize than a digitized thesis, especially if the plagiarized text is not itself digitized. Jean-Claude Guédon Le samedi 30 mars 2013 à 09:41 +0100, Humanist Discussion Group a écrit : > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 924. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:30:43 +0000 > From: "Zafrin, Vika" > Subject: Re: 26.919 open access > In-Reply-To: <20130328062330.CE1CD2CC6@digitalhumanities.org> > > I've been following with interest discussions in the open access thread, > and I'm seeing a couple of troubling trends. So here are a few thoughts > from a digital humanist turned librarian who spends her days discussing > open access with her institution's faculty, staff, and administration, and > with anyone else who will listen. > > 1. Open access is not incompatible with peer review. There are peer > reviewed journals that are toll, and ones that are open. There are > NON-peer-reviewed journals that are toll, and ones that are open. Peer > review is not without its problems, as has been pointed out; but "open > access" and "peer reviewed" are not mutually exclusive by a long stretch. > > Last fall I had a bizarre, if heartening, conversation with the person at > my university who oversees the tenure and promotion processes. I asked her > if there was a chance we could get her office to make a formal, written > announcement saying that open access works will be considered in P&T cases > when they have been properly vetted by the scholarly community. She looked > at me uncomprehendingly. "But we already do that," she said. We do! And > it's great! But we need to say it explicitly, so that faculty hear it and > stop fearing open access as a career-damaging practice. > > Not all institutions give OA works due consideration. That's a shame, but > it's also changing as people become better informed about the relationship > (only incidental) between OA and peer review. > > 2. Open access does NOT mean that derivative works are permitted. Many > open access works have Creative Commons licenses attached to them. Authors > can specify that they permit no derivative works to be created. This will > deter a great most, though not all, derivative works. That's ok: toll > access doesn't entirely prevent plagiarism, either. At least, as Peter > Suber points out, OA makes plagiarism easier to detect. > > 3. James said: "There is no doubt in my mind that a good article in an OUP > journal is far more use to my resume than an amazing article posted on my > blog." Absolutely. Did you know OUP practices open access? It's green OA. > Any LLC article can be distributed, in its final-author's-manuscript form, > two years after it was published. That's also OA. > > Is open access unproblematic in academe, particularly in the humanities? > No. But let's not confuse the above issues. > > Vika Zafrin > Institutional Repository Librarian > Boston University > +1 617.358.6370 | http://open.bu.edu/ -- Jean-Claude Guédon Professeur titulaire Littérature comparée Université de Montréal --===============4011719433247018796== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php --===============4011719433247018796==-- Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_DBL_REDIR autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3B8162EFC; Tue, 2 Apr 2013 08:24:50 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF1382D96; Tue, 2 Apr 2013 08:24:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C0FF82CFD; Tue, 2 Apr 2013 08:24:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130402062446.C0FF82CFD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 08:24:46 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.930 open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 930. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Rice Curt (151) Subject: Re: 26.929 open access [2] From: "Holly C. Shulman" (177) Subject: Re: 26.929 open access --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 10:12:57 +0000 From: Rice Curt Subject: Re: 26.929 open access In-Reply-To: <20130401082332.4EFA52CD0@digitalhumanities.org> I read with interest the postings on open access, as it's a topic and think and write about quite a bit myself. There is one sense in which open access is relevant for the discussion of plagiarism, namely with the issue of self-plagiarism. When we publish in toll access journals and sign over the copyright to our articles, we give up ownership to what we've written. In the natural sciences, where multiple publications might emerge from one set of experiments, it's easy to imagine a "methods" section that is relevant for multiple publications and that one would like to re-cycle. But when the researcher no longer owns the material, that kind of recycling also becomes plagiarism. If the publications were in OA journals, this particular kind of plagiarism would be technically not plagiarism, i.e. it would disappear. Of course, we've seen cases of this closer to the humanities, too. I elaborate on my thoughts on this topic in "Whaddaya mean plagiarism? I wrote it myself! How open access can eliminate self-plagiarism" at http://bit.ly/QGKmad Curt Rice University of Tromsø --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 09:37:26 -0400 From: "Holly C. Shulman" Subject: Re: 26.929 open access In-Reply-To: <20130401082332.4EFA52CD0@digitalhumanities.org> With thanks for such wonderful and detailed explanations. My next question is the financial structure of OA. Were a history journal to shift to OA, for example, from where would the money to pay staff etc, readers, and on and on come from? What models are already out there for financial recuperation? In addition, if there is, for example, contemporary institutional or foundation support, should we consider this a potentially permanent arrangement, or not, as institutional funding waxes and wanes and priorities change both in universities and among foundations. Holly Shulman On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 929. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 10:39:33 -0400 > From: Jean-Claude Guédon > Subject: Re: 26.924 open access > > > Let me clarify a few things about open access. > > OUP is classified as a "yellow" publisher by the Sherpa/Romeo database > (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/). This means that an author can > self-archive a pre-print (i.e. pre-refereed) version of his/her text) > immediately. > > Opening up access after two years is not real open access; it is a > moving wall limiting access to protect (so the publishers say, although > the evidence is not clear, to say the least) the financial viability of > journals. > > Not only is open access compatible with peer review; it relies on it, > just as toll access. Changing the mode of access to publications has > nothing to do with peer review. Incidentally, the more than 8,800 > journals listed in the Directory of open access journals > (http://www.doaj.org) can be listed there only if they practise peer > review. > > In the natural sciences, journals are evaluated through their impact > factor, not by their OA or non-OA status. In passing, this is not a very > smart approach (the IF is not a reliable index of journal quality), and, > furthermore, it has nothing to do with Open Access. Quite a few OA > journals benefit from a high IF, for example the Public Library of > Science publications. > > In HSS journals, reputation is constructed in a more impressionistic > manner, and OA journals, alas, suffer from being young: it is hard to > establish a strong reputation rapidly. But judging article quality by > the journals they go into is unreliable at best, lazy at worst. Quality > of articles should be established at the article, not journal, level. > Otherwise, we fall into a logo game and marketing strategies, neither of > which have much to do with scholarship quality. > > The issue of derivatives is very different from Open Access except > insofar as it intersects the issue of reuse in further research. Open > access advocates carefully distinguish gratis OA from libre OA. The > former only provides ocular contact with the documents; it does not > allow for reuse (for example in the classroom). Libre OA, on the other > hand, allows (legitimate) reuse of documents. If I want to send an > article I like to several colleagues, libre OA allows me to do so. I f I > want my students to read an article, I can distribute the libre OA > article without restrictions. Etc. This is the reason why most OA > advocates recommend a CC-by licence (attribution only under Creative > Commons licence) as scholars do not care whether their articles are sold > or not by others; they only want maximum exposure to the world. > > Plagiarism is yet another thing that does not have anything to do with > Open Access. Digital documents are patently easier to cut and paste than > printed ones, but the result is also patently easier to identify, as > Peter Suber and myself have pointed out on many occasions. Plagiarism > has to be revisited because of digitization, not because of Open Access, > and digitization is probably making plagiarism riskier than print. A Ph. > D. thesis sitting in paper on an obscure shelf in one library is a lot > easier to plagiarize than a digitized thesis, especially if the > plagiarized text is not itself digitized. > > Jean-Claude Guédon > > > -- > > Jean-Claude Guédon > Professeur titulaire > Littérature comparée > Université de Montréal -- Holly C. Shulman Editor, Dolley Madison Digital Edition Founding Director, Documents Compass Research Professor, Department of History University of Virginia 434-243-8881 hcs8n@virginia.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 81DD83125; Tue, 2 Apr 2013 08:26:56 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95BC02D96; Tue, 2 Apr 2013 08:26:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4A6502D1E; Tue, 2 Apr 2013 08:26:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130402062653.4A6502D1E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 08:26:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.931 jobs at Western Sydney X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 931. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 02:51:02 +0000 From: Willard Mccarty Subject: ICS Senior Research Fellows - 3 positions In-Reply-To: SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWS (3 positions) Institute for Culture and Society University of Western Sydney Ref 198/13 Closing Date: 21 April 2013 Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your research career? Would you like to join a team of vibrant, internationally acclaimed research leaders in our quest to address the multidimensional social and cultural challenges we face in the world today and in the future? As a leading research institute, the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney investigates transformations in culture and society in the context of contemporary global change. We champion inter-disciplinary, engaged and collaborative research in the Humanities and Social Sciences for a digital age. Details about our research program can be found on our website, www.uws.edu.au/ics http://www.uws.edu.au/ics We seek to appoint three Senior Research Fellowships in Cultural and Social Research. Applications are sought from forward thinking researchers with great interpersonal skills, clear leadership potential and outstanding track records of research, scholarship and service in at least one of the following areas: · Cultural and Social Statistical Analysis · Cultural and Social Environmental Research · Digital Cultural and Social Research You are entrepreneurial, collaborative and passionate about your research with a desire to excel and lead. Ideally, you will have broad interdisciplinary expertise in cultural and social research, and be prepared to contribute to the strategic development of the Institute’s overall research program. Your interest in the role of knowledge practices in contemporary social and cultural change and your experience in Asia-related research activity would be a distinct advantage. The positions are full time, ongoing appointments and will be based at our Parramatta campus. To apply for this position you must have completed a PhD qualification in a relevant discipline; and are required to submit a research and scholarly activity plan. Remuneration Package: Academic Level C $123,713 to $141,913 p.a. (comprising Salary $104,645 to $120,200 p.a., 17% Superannuation, and Leave Loading) Position Enquiries: Professor Ien Ang, email i.ang@uws.edu.au To view the position description or to apply, please see the University of Western Sydney current vacancies listing. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D986B39E0; Tue, 2 Apr 2013 08:28:30 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0940D2E76; Tue, 2 Apr 2013 08:28:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 234A72CFD; Tue, 2 Apr 2013 08:28:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130402062828.234A72CFD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 08:28:28 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.932 events: DH2013; Culture & Technology 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. 932. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Katherine Walter (16) Subject: Digital Humanities 2013 registration open [2] From: Elisabeth Burr (79) Subject: ESU DH "Culture & Technology", 22 July - 2 August 2013 University of Leipzig --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 15:48:02 +0000 From: Katherine Walter Subject: Digital Humanities 2013 registration open Registration for the Digital Humanities 2013 conference is open! The Alliance for Digital Humanities Organizations and its constituent organization annually sponsors the DH conference. This year's conference at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), which is located on the Great Plains of the United States. Lincoln, Nebraska is a capitol city with a population of 258,000 people. Designated a Tree City USA, Lincoln is also a US Refugee Resettlement Community. The University enrolls over 24,000 students and is home to the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. The conference dates are: July 15-16 Pre-conference tutorials and workshops July 16, 5:30 p.m. Opening Keynote Address by David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States July 17-19 Conference proper July 20 Social Program Further details about the conference and a connection to registration is located at http://dh2013.unl.edu. We look forward seeing everyone this summer! Katherine L. Walter and Kenneth Price Co-Directors, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska-Lincoln 319 Love Library Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 USA http://cdrh.unl.edu dh2013@unl.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 02:31:30 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: ESU DH "Culture & Technology", 22 July - 2 August 2013 University of Leipzig "Culture & Technology" - European Summer School in Digital Humanities , 22 July - 2 August 2013 University of Leipzig - http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ We are happy to announce that the phase of application for a place at the European Summer School in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology” has now started. The Summer School is directed at 60 participants from all over Europe and beyond. The Summer School wants to bring together (doctoral) students, young scholars and academics from the Arts and Humanities, Library Sciences, Engineering and Computer Sciences as equal partners to an interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge and experience in a multilingual and multicultural context and thus create the conditions for future project-based cooperations and network-building across the borders of disciplines, countries and cultures. The Summer School aims to provide a stimulating environment for discussing, learning and advancing knowledge and skills in the methods and technologies which play a central role in Humanities Computing and determine more and more the work done in 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 11 whole days. The intensive programme consists of workshops, public lectures, regular project presentations, a poster session and a panel discussion. The workshop programme is composed of the following 7 thematic strands: * Computing Methods applied to DH: TEI-XML Markup and CSS/XSLT Rendering * Query in Text Corpora * Stylometry: Computer-Assisted Analysis of Literary Texts * Digital Editions * Art History: Research and Teaching going Digital * Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of multimodal human-human / human-machine communication / interaction * Large Project Planning, Funding, and Management Each workshop consists of a total of 15 sessions or 30 week-hours. The number of participants in each workshop is limited to 12. 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 with good arguments what they hope to learn from the summer school. Applications are considered on a rolling basis. The selection of participants is made by the Scientific Committee together with the experts who lead the workshops. 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6820739DC; Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:19:56 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B7782C88; Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:19:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D52FF2C86; Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:19:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130403051952.D52FF2C86@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:19:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.933 open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 933. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Marin Dacos (218) Subject: Re: 26.930 open access [2] From: Norman Gray (18) Subject: Re: 26.930 open access [3] From: "Zafrin, Vika" (136) Subject: Re: 26.930 open access --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 09:17:59 +0200 From: Marin Dacos Subject: Re: 26.930 open access In-Reply-To: <20130402062446.C0FF82CFD@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Holly Shulman, There a lot of different business models for open access journals. You will find more informations in the Open Access Directory created by Peter Suber, one of the most respected specialist in these matters. There are pages about different models there : http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page In few words, I would say that there are three main models : - "pay to say", i.e. author pays, i.e. "article processing charges", which are often between 1000$ to 5000$. I am reluctant concerning this mode, because there are a lot of drawbacks : the publisher was paid to create scarcity, but with APC, the more he publishes, the more he earns. Moreover : rich will have more publishing opportunities, without relation with the quality of the research. There are poor scholars everywhere in the World, even in Europe, and new ideas often come from the fringes, which are poorer and less integrated in the scholarly system (do you remember Philippe Ariès, which was a "sunday scholar", because he was not a professionnal scholar during more than 20 years?). Please note that Bernard Rentier proposes to create a Three-Digit Moratorium for APC : http://recteur.blogs.ulg.ac.be/?p=880 - direct fundings : considering that research is publicly funded by salaries and facilities, we could consider that the end and the result of the process could be funded by regional, national or international infrastructures. Give a look to Redalyc and Scielo, for example. But there are thousands of journals which are made by scholars in OA. There are also journals funded by private funds, such as foundations. See for exampleSAPIENS Surveys and Perspectives Integrating Environment and Society http://sapiens.revues.org/ and Facts reports < http://factsreports.revues.org/>, Field ACTions Science Reports. - freemium : in OpenEdition Freemium, the texts are free to read, the services are paid. This idea is not new, it is the business model of a lot of online services, such as dropbox or Skype, it is also the business model of the New York Times, and also of MOOCs, massive open online courses : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course If you want to have a better idea of the diversity of open access journals, the DOAJ (Directory of open access journals) is the best place to discover them : http://www.doaj.org/ There won't be only one model. We hope that new models will emerge and create an innovative and flexible publishing ecosystem. Best regards, Marin Dacos -- Marin Dacos - http://www.openedition.org Director - Centre for Open Electronic Publishing ** OpenEdition is now a Facility of Excellence http://www.openedition.org/10221?lang=en * *(Equipex) ** ** New email : marin.dacos@openedition.org ** CNRS - EHESS - Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) - Université d'Avignon 3, place Victor Hugo, Case n°86, 13331 Marseille Cedex 3 - France Tél : 04 13 55 03 40 Tél. direct : 04 13 55 03 39 Fax : 04 13 55 03 41 Skype : marin.dacos - Gmail video chat : marin.dacos@gmail.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/#!/marindacos --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 11:32:08 +0100 From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 26.930 open access In-Reply-To: <20130402062446.C0FF82CFD@digitalhumanities.org> Greetings. > Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 10:12:57 +0000 > From: Rice Curt ...wrote > I read with interest the postings on open access, as it's a topic and think and write about quite a bit myself. There is one sense in which open access is relevant for the discussion of plagiarism, namely with the issue of self-plagiarism. When we publish in toll access journals and sign over the copyright to our articles, we give up ownership to what we've written. In the natural sciences, where multiple publications might emerge from one set of experiments, it's easy to imagine a "methods" section that is relevant for multiple publications and that one would like to re-cycle. An interesting question. The problem is framed in a rather different way in the physical sciences. The (near) duplication of a methods section would be dealt with in a couple of different ways. If the section would be extensive and cover multiple papers, it might be published separately in a 'methods paper' which is self-cited by the papers which depend on it. If the section was cut-and-pasted from previous papers, or nearly so, then a referee might simply regard that as article structure, rather than being part of the creative contribution of the paper. They might, I suppose, suggest that it be replaced by a reference to an earlier paper, but that would be on grounds of concision rather than self-plagiarism. The manifestation of self-plagiarism in the physical sciences -- in the sense of being the analogous academic vice -- is 'salami-slicing': taking a piece of work and writing it up in as many papers as possible, each of which has just enough content to have a referee deem it novel (it's not unusual for folk to report intermediate results in papers, so there's a continuum here). I remember talking to someone at a conference who was extolling (unfortunately not _completely_ facetiously) the idea of the 'least publishable unit', and while that's extreme, there is a sense in which 'one idea per paper' is some sort of a norm. > But when the researcher no longer owns the material, that kind of recycling also becomes plagiarism. If the publications were in OA journals, this particular kind of plagiarism would be technically not plagiarism, i.e. it would disappear. I think that's optimistic. If Google can index everything then yes, blatant self-plagiarism would be easiER to detect (the publishers have some support for this with CrossCheck http://www.crossref.org/crosscheck/index.html , but Google might be better at it), but still hard. I recently rejected a paper which, amongst other vices, looked to be self-plagiarised, but which, searching specifically for a match, did not show up in CrossCheck. That absence was because it wasn't self-plagiarised as such, but instead egregiously 'groupwise salami-sliced' (!? in the sense that I suspect it was the product of a close group eking out some work ('salami-buffet'?)). As Jean-Claude Guédon stressed, OA is not at all incompatible with peer review, and similarly it isn't incompatible with self-plagiarism or other academic vices. For what it's worth, the preprints which appear in arXiv.org are, in the main, the post-refereeing manuscripts placed there _on acceptance_, that is, in their final form, _before_ they appear in the journal. Any journal in these areas which didn't do this would fold. Some journals allow submission from arXiv, in the sense that an author publishes the article on arXiv, and sends the journal the public ID. I doubt this is a stable situation long-term, but it's been working like this for a couple of decades. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 13:55:46 +0000 From: "Zafrin, Vika" Subject: Re: 26.930 open access In-Reply-To: <20130402062446.C0FF82CFD@digitalhumanities.org> Holly, On the subject of the economics of open access, I can recommend Peter Suber's book _Open Access_ (which has a chapter on economics) as well as these resources: - SPARC page on OA income models: http://www.arl.org/sparc/publisher/incomemodels/ - JISC report "Economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models: Exploring the costs and benefits": http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2009/economicpublishingmodelsfin alreport.aspx Regards, Vika Zafrin Institutional Repository Librarian Boston University +1 617.358.6370 | http://open.bu.edu/ >--[2]--------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- > Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 09:37:26 -0400 > From: "Holly C. Shulman" > Subject: Re: 26.929 open access > In-Reply-To: <20130401082332.4EFA52CD0@digitalhumanities.org> > > >With thanks for such wonderful and detailed explanations. My next >question >is the financial structure of OA. Were a history journal to shift to OA, >for example, from where would the money to pay staff etc, readers, and on >and on come from? What models are already out there for financial >recuperation? In addition, if there is, for example, contemporary >institutional or foundation support, should we consider this a potentially >permanent arrangement, or not, as institutional funding waxes and wanes >and >priorities change both in universities and among foundations. > >Holly Shulman _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_RHS_DOB autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9299339F2; Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:20:22 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EED4F39E0; Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:20:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 161F539DC; Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:20:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130403052021.161F539DC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:20:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.934 volunteers for open-source indexing? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 934. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 11:24:11 -0500 From: Ben Brumfield Subject: Call for Participation: Open Source Indexing The Challenge Historic documents often contain handwriting, old fonts, or other text formats that OCR software can't handle. We need humans--from volunteers to paid staff--to read the document images and transcribe what they see into databases which can be searched, analyzed, crawled, and used by researchers. Until now those efforts have required organizations either to outsource indexing to external partners or to cobble together their own off-line or on-site systems. Our goal is to build a tool that can be used by libraries, archives, museums, historical sites, genealogy and heritage societies to run their own indexing projects, under their own control. The Invitation We'd like to invite scholars, libraries, archives, and museums; historical, genealogy, and heritage societies to participate in the project. Right now we need advice and examples of indexing projects that real organizations would like to run. This would allow us to work with an eye on real data outside the UK parish registers and English census records which have been driving our development up to the present. What we need from you Project definitions including: * Sample image files (around 5 per project in the format you'd use for access copies), * A maximal spec for the data you'd like to collect, * A minimal set of required fields you need, and * A description of the material and goals of the project. In addition to example indexing project definitions, we need: * Funding to continue development. Our top priority is building a tool for our funders' indexing projects at FreeREG and FreeCEN. Building features outside of the needs common to those projects will require more funds. * Code contributions and help with design and programming. * Publicity and endorsement to spread the word about Open Source Indexing. The Tool We're basing our online indexing tool on Scribe, a tool developed by the Citizen Science Alliance from their Old Weather project and deployed by the Bodleian Library for What's the score at the Bodleian. More recently, Scribe has been customized by New York Public Library Labs for their Ensemble database of the performing arts. We're augmenting the Scribe transcription system by adding a database that allows users to search and view records created by the indexing tool. We're also adding support for and offline/legacy transcripts imported via CSV files. Improvements to the data-entry UI and a system for reporting on indexing activity and managing volunteers will round out the effort. (See the data flow diagram.) The entire system will be released under an Apache license. (In fact, the source code under development already is.) Read more details at http://opensourceindexing.org/ To get involved or find out more, contact: Ben Brumfield benwbrum@gmail.com http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5C5E939F4; Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:21:09 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F4DD39F2; Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:21:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5340B2CA6; Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:21:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130403052106.5340B2CA6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:21:06 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.935 job at Maryland X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 935. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 13:55:05 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: job at Maryland BITCURATOR COMMUNITY LEAD (position # 117047) The BitCurator project (www.bitcurator.net), a joint research initiative of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is seeking a Community Lead to build an active user community for our project, promote and evangelize our work (through both site visits and social media), and provide expert support to our users. The position will be based at MITH, an established digital humanities center whose location just outside of Washington DC will afford the Community Lead easy access to the area’s diverse cultural heritage community. The Community Lead will be responsible for representing the BitCurator project in public contexts; conducting site visits to work with the partner institutions represented on our Professional Experts Panel and Development Advisory Group; promoting BitCurator through social media, online community-building, and at conferences; gathering and analyzing user feedback in conjunction with our developers; creating and maintaining documentation; and working with the project team to develop a long-term sustainability plan for BitCurator’s deliverables. We are seeking a candidate who has been involved with successful information science, archives, and/or digital humanities projects, and can work collaboratively with archivists, librarians, researchers, and programmers. Candidates should be prepared to demonstrate their strengths as organizers and communicators, and should possess significant personal initiative and responsibility. In addition, a strong candidate for this position should have: * Demonstrated experience in working in Linux environments (particularly Ubuntu 12.04): familiarity with GUI and command-line tools, disk formats, disk mounting and imaging tools. * Familiarity with library and archives metadata standards. * General knowledge of XML and XML parsing software. * Familiarity with virtualization tools (VirtualBox, VMWare, etc). * Demonstrated experience in compiling and using open source software, and use of online repositories (including GitHub). * User needs analysis skills. * Ability to use and maintain WordPress and MediaWiki sites. A bachelor’s degree is required; MA, MLS, or Ph.D. are preferred. Prior knowledge of digital forensics software and a background in archives are both desirable. Jointly supported by the University of Maryland’s College of Arts and Humanities and the University of Maryland Libraries, MITH engages in collaborative, interdisciplinary work at the intersection of technology and humanistic inquiry. Housed in a newly renovated 4200 square foot space, MITH specializes in text and image analytics for cultural heritage collections, data curation, digital preservation, linked data applications, and scholarly communication. MITH was recently selected as a host institution for the National Digital Stewardship Residency program, and the Community Lead will also enjoy interaction with a Born-Digital Working Group jointly sponsored by MITH and the University Libraries. The Community Lead is a full-time Faculty Research Assistant position at the University of Maryland, funded for a period of twelve (12) months beginning October 1, 2013. Salary is $60,000. The University also offers a competitive benefits package. To apply, submit your letter of interest, CV, and complete contact information for three references online at https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/17167. Inquiries should be directed to Matthew Kirschenbaum (mgk@umd.edu). Review of applications will continue on a rolling basis until the position is filled. For best consideration, apply by May 1st. The University of Maryland, College Park, actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity, and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, marital status, genetic information, political affiliation, and gender identity or expression. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://mkirschenbaum.net and @mkirschenbaum on Twitter Track Changes tumblr: http://trackchangesbook.tumblr.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D64D039F9; Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:21:29 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC98439F8; Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:21:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7BA4239F4; Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:21:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130403052127.7BA4239F4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:21:27 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.936 event: sacred text X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 936. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 21:44:40 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Digital Media and Sacred Text Digital Media and Sacred Text 17 June 2013, 10:00 - 17:00 The Open University Camden Centre, London This one-day conference will bring together academics interested in the study of digital sacred text from a wide range of religious traditions, including sociologists, ethnographers, media scholars, computer scientists, digital humanists and theologians. We also welcome religious practitioners and publishers engaged in creating digital sacred texts. Possible topics include: - How can digital media affect the relationship between a religious reader and their sacred text? - Does digitisation influence the interpretation of a text? - Can digitisation impact structures of religious authority? - What norms are emerging to guide the use of digital sacred texts, and how are those norms being negotiated? - How can digital sacred texts be designed to meet the needs of religious readers? - What challenges does the process of digitizing sacred text raise for religious communities? If you would like to present a paper at this event, please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words by April 15th to Tim Hutchings (tim.hutchings@open.ac.uk). Thanks to generous funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, we are able to offer a small number of bursaries to cover travel expenses for PhD students. More information at: http://www.mediatingreligion.org/events/digital-media-and-sacred-text _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5591D3A07; Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:22:00 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DC9939ED; Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:21:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 222702EFE; Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:21:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130403052157.222702EFE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:21:57 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.937 pubs: U.S. National Digital 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. 937. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 06:08:53 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: U.S. National Digital Library The National Digital Public Library Is Launched! New York Review of Books, APRIL 25, 2013 Robert Darnton The Digital Public Library of America, to be launched on April 18, is a project to make the holdings of AmericaÂ’s research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans—and eventually to everyone in the world—online and free of charge. How is that possible? In order to answer that question, I would like to describe the first steps and immediate future of the DPLA. But before going into detail, I think it important to stand back and take a broad view of how such an ambitious undertaking fits into the development of what we commonly call an information society. [...] Thanks to the Internet and a pervasive if imperfect system of education, we now can realize the dream of Jefferson and Franklin. We have the technological and economic resources to make all the collections of all our libraries accessible to all our fellow citizens—and to everyone everywhere with access to the World Wide Web. That is the mission of the DPLA. [...] [for the remainder, seehttp://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/apr/25/national-digital-public-library-launched/] -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DB0802DD7; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 07:24:02 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 249D12CDE; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 07:24:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B8EE62CDE; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 07:23:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130404052359.B8EE62CDE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 07:23:59 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.938 open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 938. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 11:43:11 -0400 From: "Holly C. Shulman" Subject: Re: 26.933 open access In-Reply-To: <20130403051952.D52FF2C86@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Mr. Dacos, Some thoughts in response to your interesting email (and with thanks to you for taking the time to do so). Pleases read below. On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 933. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Marin Dacos > (218) > Subject: Re: 26.930 open access > > [2] From: Norman Gray > (18) > Subject: Re: 26.930 open access > > [3] From: "Zafrin, Vika" > (136) > Subject: Re: 26.930 open access > > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 09:17:59 +0200 > From: Marin Dacos > Subject: Re: 26.930 open access > In-Reply-To: <20130402062446.C0FF82CFD@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear Holly Shulman, > > There a lot of different business models for open access journals. > > You will find more informations in the Open Access Directory created by > Peter Suber, one of the most respected specialist in these matters. There > are pages about different models there : > http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page > > In few words, I would say that there are three main models : > - "pay to say", i.e. author pays, i.e. "article processing charges", which > are often between 1000$ to 5000$. I am reluctant concerning this mode, > because there are a lot of drawbacks : the publisher was paid to create > scarcity, but with APC, the more he publishes, the more he earns. Moreover > : rich will have more publishing opportunities, without relation with the > quality of the research. There are poor scholars everywhere in the World, > even in Europe, and new ideas often come from the fringes, which are poorer > and less integrated in the scholarly system (do you remember Philippe > Ariès, which was a "sunday scholar", because he was not a professionnal > scholar during more than 20 years?). Please note that Bernard Rentier > proposes to create a Three-Digit Moratorium for APC : > http://recteur.blogs.ulg.ac.be/?p=880 > PAY TO SAY: I have a great deal of trouble with this model, which I have heard discussed a fair amount. It assumes that someone, somewhere, will pay, and do so according to merit (at least to the extent that peer review reflects merit). But the world we live in is one of growing disparities between rich and poor on every level. Let's start with rich universities. Will they pay? Will they equally pay along the lines of rank, from adjunct to graduate student to assistant to star chaired full? Then there are the poorer colleges, universities and community colleges. Will they have the funds to pay at all? Then there are scholars who either are independent or work for institutions that today are hard pressed financially, such as historic houses and small museums, or young scholars trying to break in. From my perspective, $1,000 can be a great deal of money just to cross a threshold to be considered -- and I am assuming the article still has to go through peer review. If it is simply pay to play, then that raises a whole new bunch of questions about what constitutes published scholarship, it's meaning and it's weight. In addition, NONE of this pays for the costs of a journal producing an essay beyond pdf. Does PAY TO SAY imply a simple pdf model, or some sort of e-book publication model, where online publication become simply a delivery mechanism and not an opportunity for interactive querying? Moreover, your examples come from Europe, not the United States. It is my impression that while the US economy is probably in better shape than much of (albeit not all of) Europe, the political philosophy that currently dominates our budget discourse discourages federal money from supporting scholarship, especially in such abstract areas as the humanities, where there is no clear product that will help every day problems such as medicine or urban planning. Of course I remember Aries, and I am old enough to personally remember much of the period during which he was writing. Whatever I feel about his background in action francais, which may be forgiving, it does not alter the difference in political culture between now and then. After all, there was a time when the United States Government created the National Endowment for the Humanities, which is now being nickled and dimed and I'm sure worries about its very existence. (If you will excuse me, there is something that to me is slightly Orwellian about "pay to say", but maybe that's simply me.) > > - direct fundings : considering that research is publicly funded by > salaries and facilities, we could consider that the end and the result of > the process could be funded by regional, national or international > infrastructures. Give a look to Redalyc and Scielo, for example. But there > are thousands of journals which are made by scholars in OA. There are also > journals funded by private funds, such as foundations. See for > exampleSAPIENS Surveys and Perspectives Integrating Environment and Society > http://sapiens.revues.org/ and Facts reports < > http://factsreports.revues.org/>, Field ACTions Science Reports. > DIRECT FUNDING: This simply picks up from above. I am an American and a scholar of American History, and so will confine myself to what goes on in the United States. When I began working in the area of digital publishing there was University financial support. Today there it is largely gone. So have faculty positions disappeared. So may NHPRC or NEH. Rice University tried to start an OA publishing house -- and it failed. The University of Virginia Press is often criticized for costing money to purchase products, but it also has a staff to pay that perform a whole range of functions. Do I want that kind of staff to help my project moved past the pdf or self-made (aren't a great techie) stage to where other historians can think about electronic archives and products without becoming deeply enmeshed in problems of language and tagging and markup and so on. If we limit digital historians to those with technical background and who enjoy the process, then professional recognition or not, this line will create a barrier, and on one side of that barrier there will be some very smart historians who have tons to say that we, as academics, need to hear, both as articles and books. As time goes on, of course a certain amount of this will be simply a matter of means of delivelry, but we're not there yet as nook does not use the same eproduction system as does kindle, etc. etc., and in which every press has to upload its own materials to Amazon to get it listed there, which in itself takes work, which means time and money. In my world, there are not only government funders (now threatened) but foundations. But foundations are subject to trends and whims. As I understand the philanthropic world in the United States today, to get something done most museums or hospitals or whatever are increasingly searching for individuals who are very wealthy and who would make a big commitment from both sides of the grave. So we ask the superwealthy to make up for the problems of federal poverty imposed by ideological commitments and perpetuate the problems of the distribution of wealth, at least in the Unite States. Note that we are even having trouble maintaining public schools. If you've missed this, go to the NY Times. > > - freemium : in OpenEdition Freemium, the texts are free to read, the > services are paid. This idea is not new, it is the business model of a lot > of online services, such as dropbox or Skype, it is also the business model > of the New York Times, and also of MOOCs, massive open online courses : > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course > FREMIUM: Here in fact someone is paying. But skype exists within the universe of for-profit business. The New York Times is fremium in the most limited of ways: you can get ten articles in a month and then you have to pay. With the collapse of advertising, ESPECIALLY the collapse of classified ads in newspapers, the problems of running newspapers has skyrocketed, and certainly does not offer a vision for the future of scholarly publications. When did you last purchase a paper copy of the NYTimes. It costs $2.50. I have no idea what the cost structure of the NYTimes is, but I would go toe to toe on this with you as the Times spends a great deal of money on improving its online reporting, and that may bring in readers, it may make readers prefer digital to print, but it costs. And what about journals. A fremium for the American Historical Review? One copy free per year but you have to pay for the other 3? What about the relationship between how professional organizations get financial support and their journals. How many people payed to belong to the AHA in order to get the AHR? I won't go on. I've probably bored the whole readership of this thread to death. But as far as I can see, NOTHING IS FREE. And scholarship, at least in the Humanities, at least in the United States, is not very highly valued. We have a crisis here over the cost of post-secondary education. We could, of course, turn every course into a MOOC and only hire graduate students (the few left) and adjuncts and put a life term on a MOOC of s ay ten years so that we can get our money's worth out of it (even if it is outdated by 7 or 8 years on). I sure hope that is not the future of my grandchildren's education! I am betting on the people of New York City, where they live, to make sure it doesn't happen, but then most of the IT and scholarly types I know there work for a living in which the company or institution gets paid for its product. Holly C. Shulman -- Holly C. Shulman Editor, Dolley Madison Digital Edition Founding Director, Documents Compass Research Professor, Department of History University of Virginia 434-243-8881 hcs8n@virginia.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BDA092DEE; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 07:25:24 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA82E2CE3; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 07:25:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 60F262CDE; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 07:25:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130404052522.60F262CDE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 07:25:22 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.939 events: THATCamp IMMERSe X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 939. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 21:10:23 +0000 From: Lauren Burr Subject: CFP: THATCamp IMMERSe, Kitchener-Waterloo ON, July 12-14 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION THATCamp IMMERSe July 12-14, 2013 Kitchener-Waterloo, ON Announcing THATCamp IMMERSe! On the weekend of July 12th, we’ll gather in Kitchener-Waterloo to discuss, create, debate, design, and play games! THATCamp IMMERSe is an unconference hosted by the University of Waterloo Games Institute, in partnership with the IMMERSe Research Network for Video Game Immersion. THATCamp IMMERSe was founded as a way to bring together game studies and digital humanities theorists and practitioners, game developers and designers, games enthusiasts and advocates, and humanities instructors and scholars interested in games, pedagogy, and player experience. This THATCamp is organized by Lauren Burr, Neil Randall, and the graduate students of The Games Institute. What is THATCamp? Short for “The Humanities and Technology Camp,” THATCamp http://thatcamp.org/about/ is a user-generated “unconference” on digital humanities. THATCamp was originally the brainchild of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, where the first THATCamp was held in 2008. Since then, more than sixty THATCamps have convened across the US and internationally. What is an “unconference”? According to Wikipedia, an unconference is “a conference where the content of the sessions is created and managed by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of the event, rather than by one or more organizers in advance of the event.” Participants in an unconference are expected to share their knowledge and actively collaborate with fellow participants rather than simply attend or read a paper. Unconferences strive to avoid pomp and hierarchy; as a result, they’re generally more comfortable and free-flowing than a typical academic gathering. A frequent THATCamp attendee summed up the difference between a THATCamp and a regular academic conference this way: “[THATCamps] give all the good of traditional conferences and nix the endless PowerPoint presentations, sage-on-stage moments, and insane costs.” Who should attend THATCamp IMMERSe? Anyone with energy and an interest in games, technology, and the humanities. We invite games scholars, students, developers, designers, and enthusiasts interested in the confluence of games and the (digital) humanities to join us. What will happen at THATCamp? Our THATCamp will feature workshops and sessions. Workshops are pre-planned, and feature informal and fun instruction in a particular skill or topic in the broad fields of game design and game studies. Sessions are looser, participant-generated gatherings, which will be collaboratively scheduled the first morning of our THATCamp. At THATCamp IMMERSe, sessions may range from software demos to game jams to training sessions to discussions of research findings. What’s my role as a Camper? Using our THATCamp blog, propose a session before we meet in person. Alternatively, bring a session idea and propose it to the group during our scheduling session. Once you’re at THATCamp, you may also find people with similar interests to team up with for a joint session. If you would like to lead a workshop, see our call for workshop leaders. If you would like to contribute something to our public games showcase, see our call for games. Where is all of this taking place? We’ve booked a different venue for each day of THATCamp IMMERSe. On July 12th, workshops will be held at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in UpTown Waterloo. On July 13th, unconference sessions will be held at Kitchener City Hall. And on July 14th, a public showcase and gaming event, as well as a private THATCamp Design Lab, will be held at THEMUSEUM in downtown Kitchener. This arrangement gives campers a chance to see more of what both “Uptown” Waterloo and downtown Kitchener have to offer, and to partake in fun gaming and social events sponsored by The Games Institute. How do I sign up? Visit our THATCamp site’s registration page and fill out a short application. Registration will begin on APRIL 1st. It will remain open until JUNE 15th, or until all available spots are full. Please note that we can accommodate no more than 100 people, so sign up as soon as possible to reserve yourself a spot! How much? THATCamp IMMERSe is FREE to all attendees! THATCamps are cheap or free on purpose. Our THATCamp has been generously sponsored by The Games Institute, IMMERSe, the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Kitchener City Hall, and THEMUSEUM, and so we’ll be able to provide coffee, snacks and swag, along with three state-of-the-art venues, at no cost to our participants. Contact: For more information, visit our website at http://immerse2013.thatcamp.org/ or send us an email at thatcampimmerse@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter for regular updates! Please feel free to distribute widely! Cheers, Lauren Burr, M.A. Ph.D. Candidate, English, University of Waterloo The Games Institute & Critical Media Lab, University of Waterloo Hypertext and Hypermedia Lab, Carleton 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 11DC72E75; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 07:25:47 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39A142E33; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 07:25:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8090B2DE7; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 07:25:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130404052544.8090B2DE7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 07:25:44 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.940 pubs: online mss. X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 940. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 12:51:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Mss In-Reply-To: <20130403052157.222702EFE@digitalhumanities.org> Perhaps of interest to some persons here : "Lancement de la Bibliothèque virtuelle des manuscrits médiévaux (BVMM)" le 03 Avril 2013 http://www.enssib.fr/breves/2013/04/03/lancement-de-la-bibliotheque-virtuelle-des-manuscrits-medievaux-bvmm "Des milliers de manuscrits médiévaux consultables gratuitement en ligne" le 02/04/2013 http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre/des-milliers-de-manuscrits-medievaux-consultables-gratuitement-en-ligne_1236791.html#xtor=AL-839 "Le CNRS lance une bibliothèque virtuelle de manuscrits médiévaux" le 03 avril 2013 http://www.livreshebdo.fr/actualites/bibliotheques/actualites/le-cnrs-lance-une-bibliotheque-virtuelle-de-manuscrits-medievaux/10391.aspx - Laval Hunsucker   Breukelen, Nederland _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C60DA2DE7; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 07:49:29 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD5032CF3; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 07:49:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E35D32CE3; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 07:49:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130404054926.E35D32CE3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 07:49:26 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.941 indigenous knowledge? social character? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 941. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 06:44:05 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: indigenous knowledge? In "Project Whirlwind: An Unorthodox Development Project", describing the history of the Cold War defense computer that led to SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment), Thomas Smith notes that, > the rapidity with which events moved in the pioneering > days of the computer suggests that the exogeneity of fundamental > scientific research and understanding may be less significant in the > 20th century than the fusion of science with technology that has come > to be known as the R & D process. (Technology and Culture 17.3, July 1976, p. 463) For the digital humanities is the same true more recently, substituting "scholarly" and "humanities" for "scientific" and "science", respectively, in the above? Is there an indigenous understanding of scholarly research emerging from the direct engagement of computing and the humanities in project work? Smith then goes on to say, > This observation in no way denigrates > the special contributions and creativity of any of the heroic > pioneers in computer history, but it may help to place them more > usefully in the context of the distinctively social enterprise called > R & D that caused the digital computer to evolve so swiftly. Is digital humanities is a "distinctly social enterprise"? I wonder if as the locus of research moves from the mind of the researcher into the world where others can participate directly, in real time, in its development, collaboration becomes not simply possible but more desirable -- not just because the talents of others are needed but because it is somehow an inherently social activity? 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9234E2D1B; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 07:33:47 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC922CCC; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 07:33:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BCAAF2CD0; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 07:33:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130405053343.BCAAF2CD0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 07:33:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.942 open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 942. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Marin Dacos (101) Subject: Re: 26.938 open access [2] From: Jean-Claude Guédon (279) Subject: Re: 26.938 open access --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 09:16:27 +0200 From: Marin Dacos Subject: Re: 26.938 open access In-Reply-To: <20130404052359.B8EE62CDE@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Holly Shulman, Thank you for your very interesting answers. I hope I won't bother the list with my answers. If so, we could continue the discussion off the list. But I think that this question is crucial for the future of arts, humanities and social sciences. The cheapest system is the "green" road, that means that scholars deposit their articles in dedicated repositories, such as HAL in France. Some universities are mandating this to all their scholars. Cf. ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies. http://roarmap.eprints.org/ This road is very efficient but I won't develop this part, considering that the green road is there to move forward, in the direction of "gold" open access, that means online open access journals. You are totally correct saying that the publishing skills are very important and add value. I don't believe in a system where self publishing would be the common rule. Digital humanities does not mean that everybody will have to encode their articles in TEI or to provide a layout, install a CMS and run a web server... Not at all! It would be a mistake. We have to build digital infrastructures (other call this cyber infrastructure http://www.acls.org/programs/Default.aspx?id=644 ) and to provide a large range of features, providing a high level, sophisticated and efficient digital publication system. To publish an article or a book costs money, either on paper or digitally. In late 1990's, I thought to digital publishing would cost less money that paper publishing . After 14 years of building a platform dedicated to digital publishing http://www.openedition.org , I know that digital publishing is not less expansive than traditional printing... but is far more efficient when dealing with the question of audience, visibility, and usages of the scholarly publications. Now, let me give more precise informations about freemium, which is, to my mind, a very interesting solution. The example of the New York Times may not be a good example, because they have decided to impose a limit in reading the number of articles during a month. The "perfect" freemium model should provide a fully featured solution, that means that the "free" should not be a preview of the content, it should BE the content. In OpenEdition Freemium http://www.openedition.org/8873?lang=en , we have searched to find the good balance between openess of the content and monetization of... the content. That could lead to an apory or a squaring the circle. Should we give the consonant for free and display the vowels only to people who pay? That would be a false open access! So, we have decided to put the value where it is : - the content is free, without any limit. That means that articles in HTML are free. Example : http://cybergeo.revues.org/25760?lang=en - services are paid. We are providing PDF and Epub formats only to subscribers, but also unlimited alerts about our contents, sophisticated usage statistics, hotline for libraries, training sessions and representation in the user's committee of OpenEdition. We will improve these premium features in the future. The objective is to ask to libraries to spend 1 dollar to openness instead of gated contents. When they spend this dollar, they spend it for themselves and for the whole humanity, because they pay for open access, not only for their own interest. Doing so, they invest in a worldwide digital library that has no name today, but who changes something in circulation of knowledge. You already know that libraries budgets are threatened, but stay very high. That means that there is money somewhere that could be spent with more efficiency. See http://svpow.com/2012/01/13/the-obscene-profits-of-commercial-scholarly-publishers/ A lot of researchs prove that openess is also good for the authors, because they are far more cited and read. Most of these studies, to my knowledge, focus on non HSS disciplines, or only in English speaking publications. I have some materials showing that in French HSS, when a journals move from gated access to open access, the visibility is increased by at least 1.28 and can reach 5.47 (means : the average number of articles accessed/downloaded). On the opposite, Peter Suber shows that the previous model has dramatic drawbacks. Just considering the number of journals accessible in libraries (in 2008) shows that Harvard had access to 98 900 journals and Yale to "only" 73 900. That means inequality between the richest universities. In India, the wealthiest library (Indian Institute of Science) had only access to 10 600 journals. Of course, a lot of universities do not have access to so many journals. And, of course, all the people outside universities have NO ACCESS to these journals, except to 8800 journals listed in the DOAJ, which are totally open. That means the teachers of the public schools (if US State think that knowledge is expansive and cuts the education budgets, he should try ignorance, it is far less expansive), the journalists, historic houses, small museums, young scholars, and everybody in the world that could be interested in any topic. We have to find a sustainable solution in order to provide access to the knowledge to everybody, considering all the variations of sources of income. If we have in common the objective to find a solution to this question, we have done half the way. Then, we can work together to invent the future of scholarly publication. The freemium is the solution I believe in, but we could find other fair and efficient solutions (you are right about "pay to say" or APC model, and when you think that APC are "Orwellian" you are probably right). The future is not written, but different models will probably emerge, not only one. Best regards, Marin Dacos -- Marin Dacos - http://www.openedition.org Director - Centre for Open Electronic Publishing ** OpenEdition is now a Facility of Excellence http://www.openedition.org/10221?lang=en * *(Equipex) ** ** New email : marin.dacos@openedition.org ** CNRS - EHESS - Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) - Université d'Avignon 3, place Victor Hugo, Case n°86, 13331 Marseille Cedex 3 - France Tél : 04 13 55 03 40 Tél. direct : 04 13 55 03 39 Fax : 04 13 55 03 41 Skype : marin.dacos - Gmail video chat : marin.dacos@gmail.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/#!/marindacos --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:14:41 -0400 From: Jean-Claude Guédon Subject: Re: 26.938 open access In-Reply-To: <20130404052359.B8EE62CDE@digitalhumanities.org> Let me try to contribute to the interesting discussion below. Le jeudi 04 avril 2013 à 07:23 +0200, Humanist Discussion Group a écrit : > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 938. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > [snip] > > > > PAY TO SAY: I have a great deal of trouble with this model, which I have > heard discussed a fair amount. It assumes that someone, somewhere, will > pay, and do so according to merit (at least to the extent that peer review > reflects merit). But the world we live in is one of growing disparities > between rich and poor on every level. Let's start with rich universities. > Will they pay? Will they equally pay along the lines of rank, from adjunct > to graduate student to assistant to star chaired full? Then there are the > poorer colleges, universities and community colleges. Will they have the > funds to pay at all? Then there are scholars who either are independent or > work for institutions that today are hard pressed financially, such as > historic houses and small museums, or young scholars trying to break in. > From my perspective, $1,000 can be a great deal of money just to cross a > threshold to be considered -- and I am assuming the article still has to go > through peer review. If it is simply pay to play, then that raises a whole > new bunch of questions about what constitutes published scholarship, it's > meaning and it's weight. In addition, NONE of this pays for the costs of a > journal producing an essay beyond pdf. Does PAY TO SAY imply a simple pdf > model, or some sort of e-book publication model, where online publication > become simply a delivery mechanism and not an opportunity for interactive > querying? Moreover, your examples come from Europe, not the United > States. It is my impression that while the US economy is probably in > better shape than much of (albeit not all of) Europe, the political > philosophy that currently dominates our budget discourse discourages > federal money from supporting scholarship, especially in such abstract > areas as the humanities, where there is no clear product that will help > every day problems such as medicine or urban planning. Of course I remember > Aries, and I am old enough to personally remember much of the period during > which he was writing. Whatever I feel about his background in action > francais, which may be forgiving, it does not alter the difference in > political culture between now and then. After all, there was a time when > the United States Government created the National Endowment for the > Humanities, which is now being nickled and dimed and I'm sure worries about > its very existence. (If you will excuse me, there is something that to me > is slightly Orwellian about "pay to say", but maybe that's simply me.) I essentially agree with what is above, and I would assume that Marin Dacos does too. Two little points , however: 1. Ariès' position in the French political spectrum has little to do, if anything, with the point made by Marin Dacos. 2. Marin Dacos' examples, unsurprisingly, come from the area he knows best, and it is true that Europe is different from the US in many respects. However, when it comes to the role of the State (or national government) in research, it must be remembered that even the US is spending a sum that peaked at 150 billion dollars in 2010. It is true that these levels of support wax and wane, but so does everything else. And one can be sure that, even in the US, basic research may undergo certain degrees of decline, but it will never disappear. After all, governments all over the world have supported research, both basic and applied, since at least the 17th century (in an institutionalized manner) and even before (in a more ad hoc manner). it should also be remembered that "American exceptionalism" does extend to its collective mind set: the US is truly different from most parts of the world (witness the current debates in the US about health and weapons: they leave many of us outside totally bemused and scratching our heads in amazement). In this regard, Europe is a lot closer to the rest of the whole world than the US, so that the global reference point cannot and should not be the US, unless we accept (which I would not) that the US is the flag bearer of humanity's progress... The US, in many ways, is an extraordinary country, in all the meanings of the word. The problem identified above lies with the status of research in the humanities, but this has more to do with the shifting role of the humanities in our societies than with the role of governments in supporting the kind of R&D that private capital will *never* support. In this regard, I would suggest re-reading the book my regretted colleague, Bill Readings, "The University in Ruins" where he does a rather intriguing analysis of the fate of the humanities in a university driven by corporate values and managed through the empty category of "excellence" (on excellence, his chapter 2 is stellar). [snip] > > > > DIRECT FUNDING: This simply picks up from above. I am an American and a > scholar of American History, and so will confine myself to what goes on in > the United States. When I began working in the area of digital publishing > there was University financial support. Today there it is largely gone. > So have faculty positions disappeared. So may NHPRC or NEH. Rice > University tried to start an OA publishing house -- and it failed. The > University of Virginia Press is often criticized for costing money to > purchase products, but it also has a staff to pay that perform a whole > range of functions. Do I want that kind of staff to help my project moved > past the pdf or self-made (aren't a great techie) stage to where other > historians can think about electronic archives and products without > becoming deeply enmeshed in problems of language and tagging and markup and > so on. If we limit digital historians to those with technical background > and who enjoy the process, then professional recognition or not, this line > will create a barrier, and on one side of that barrier there will be some > very smart historians who have tons to say that we, as academics, need to > hear, both as articles and books. As time goes on, of course a certain > amount of this will be simply a matter of means of delivelry, but we're not > there yet as nook does not use the same eproduction system as does kindle, > etc. etc., and in which every press has to upload its own materials to > Amazon to get it listed there, which in itself takes work, which means time > and money. In my world, there are not only government funders (now > threatened) but foundations. But foundations are subject to trends and > whims. As I understand the philanthropic world in the United States today, > to get something done most museums or hospitals or whatever are > increasingly searching for individuals who are very wealthy and who would > make a big commitment from both sides of the grave. So we ask the > superwealthy to make up for the problems of federal poverty imposed by > ideological commitments and perpetuate the problems of the distribution of > wealth, at least in the Unite States. Note that we are even having trouble > maintaining public schools. If you've missed this, go to the NY Times. One of the great lesson of history (and I believe we three are trained historians) is that nothing ever remains stable. Continuity and change is the daily bread of the historian. So, worrying about change is not of the essence. What is of the essence is how to position oneself to adapt to inevitable change. What is said above is all true, and I was particularly touched by the issue of a barrier (or divide) between digital-savvy scholars and the rest. My impression is that it is unavoidable. The younger equivalents of Dan Cohen (of Zotero fame, but not uniquely) are gradually taking over while an older, print-wedded, generation is slowly fading away (or do they just smell that way..., just like old fishermen? :-) ). It is also true that the very nature of digital documents is still being fathomed, and the pdf texts are nothing more, as Gregory Crane would put it, than digital incunabula. However, we should leave these issues as important, but related and second-order issues. Let us first find some good ways to ensure the basic shift to the digital world, including, of course, financial means, but let us do it without blocking the future. In this regard, pdf files are not a good choice because extracting ourselves from that format in the next couple of decades is going to be extremely costly. Learning, therefore, how to produce well designed, XML-based, documents will certainly be helpful. From there, we can produce just about anything, including the horrific pdf's without being made prisoners of these incunabular form. This also means identifying points of financial support that could provide important digital infrastructures for everyone. For example, Marin Dacos" platform relies on an important piece of software, Lodel, that, so far as I understand, allows moving relatively gracefully from a word processing file such as word to an XML document. Revues.org uses this platform, but many other groups could use it as well. Except that to do so, resources are needed to tweak the software further, make it easier to use, and document it fully in the major languages of the world. This is a project a foundation could support for, say, three years. Make the result a modular part of the Open Journal System which focuses much more on the actual transactions affecting the course of a submitted manuscript in the editorial structure of a journal, and you are getting close to the idea of a "journal in a box", meaning a set of integrated software to help any group to start a journal in a professional and orderly fashion. Such a project would be a wonderful project for Ubuntu and the associated foundation. They could offer a distribution of Ubuntu (a Linux distribution) dedicated to journal publishing. This would have the added advantage of the convergence of projects such as Revues.org, OJS and Ubuntu. At this stage, leave the door open for the further extensions in the area of data. In this fashion, any group in the world could rely on these tools to develop their journals. At the same time, the presence of such tools, as they would need to evolve, would assemble communities similar to various free software communities (Linux, Apache, Mozilla, etc.). Little by little, various organizational layers would appear, helping individual groups of scholars to start and build a journal, including its reputation. new solutions to publishing would also emerge from within the "affordance" spectrum of these technologies, etc. etc. I could go on and on, but I think the point is clear. All this demonstrates that the US academic situation may not be the best vantage point to study digital publishing and OA issues, even though many of the best experiments in OA publishing are emerging from within the US, but generally in outlying sites (e.g. PLoS despite my reservations about the author-pay model, or O'Reilly's recent venture where the basic fee is $100.00 for lifelong access to publishing an article per year). Some of these explorations will fail, others won't, but that too is part of history's unfolding. > > > > > - freemium : in OpenEdition Freemium, the texts are free to read, the > > services are paid. This idea is not new, it is the business model of a lot > > of online services, such as dropbox or Skype, it is also the business model > > of the New York Times, and also of MOOCs, massive open online courses : > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course > > > > FREMIUM: Here in fact someone is paying. But skype exists within the > universe of for-profit business. The New York Times is fremium in the most > limited of ways: you can get ten articles in a month and then you have to > pay. With the collapse of advertising, ESPECIALLY the collapse of > classified ads in newspapers, the problems of running newspapers has > skyrocketed, and certainly does not offer a vision for the future of > scholarly publications. When did you last purchase a paper copy of the > NYTimes. It costs $2.50. I have no idea what the cost structure of the > NYTimes is, but I would go toe to toe on this with you as the Times spends > a great deal of money on improving its online reporting, and that may bring > in readers, it may make readers prefer digital to print, but it costs. And > what about journals. A fremium for the American Historical Review? One > copy free per year but you have to pay for the other 3? What about the > relationship between how professional organizations get financial support > and their journals. How many people payed to belong to the AHA in order to > get the AHR? Someone is always paying, be it a government, users, or an institution (university presses used to be subsidized by universities, at least in the Johns Hopkins model, precisely because no one wanted to print and publish the kinds of works that scholars produce: these have little commercial appeal in most cases). So, meeting with a business plan that looks more familiar does not really constitute a solid argument: publishing always costs something and there is always some form of financial plan, except that it may not look like a business plan. It is important to remember that, again, and even in the US, research is supported in large part by public money. That kind of research has no business plan. In fact, basic research, in terms of business plans, is not sustainable. But, for something that is patently unsustainable, it is remarkably viable: ever since the Royal Society and the Royal French Academy, research has been steadily supported in an unsustainable way by governments. Of course, it fluctuates, but it never disappears! Publishing the results of research is an unavoidable and integral part of the research cycle. The cost of publishing compared to the cost of research (less publishing) is very small, of the order of 1 or 2% (including the enormous profits of commercial publishing houses). From that point on, it becomes difficult to see why publishing should be so radically separated from the rest of the research cycle. In France, right now, mathematicians are experimenting with an evaluation process tacked on open access repositories (http://episciences.org. That could be one solution. In the US a similar project works on top of ArXiv. Michael Kurtz, from Harvard, has allowed me to quote him as follows: "I thought I would point out that myADS-arXiv is essentially an OA journal built on top of a disciplinary repository. We have been calling it an " fully customized (to each individual user), open access virtual journal covering the most important papers of the past week in physics and astronomy" (http://labs.adsabs.harvard.edu/ui/abs/2006ASPC..351..653K) since we began it almost a decade ago. (labs.adsabs.harvard.edu/ui/abs/2003AAS...203.2005K is the version for the journals, the OA arXiv version came out the next year). About half of working astronomers subscribe to myADS. To show you how it works, here is the link to my myADS page: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/myADS/cache/267336764_PRE.html The panels are all queries on the ADS database, with the ones on top (citations, favorite authors, and two most recent) showing articles which appeared in arXiv during the past week. It is updated each Friday. The bottom panels use download and citation statistics to recommend popular articles. Clearly a similar service could be built on top of PLoSONE instead of arXiv, as you suggest." Similar systems could be organized in the humanities, of course. One good place to start would be, if they agreed, with JSTOR (and if JSTOR put all of its book reviews in OA, what a boon this would be to all of us. > > I won't go on. I've probably bored the whole readership of this thread to > death. But as far as I can see, NOTHING IS FREE. And scholarship, at least > in the Humanities, at least in the United States, is not very highly > valued. We have a crisis here over the cost of post-secondary education. > We could, of course, turn every course into a MOOC and only hire graduate > students (the few left) and adjuncts and put a life term on a MOOC of s ay > ten years so that we can get our money's worth out of it (even if it is > outdated by 7 or 8 years on). I sure hope that is not the future of my > grandchildren's education! I am betting on the people of New York City, > where they live, to make sure it doesn't happen, but then most of the IT > and scholarly types I know there work for a living in which the company or > institution gets paid for its product. > > Holly C. Shulman Neither do I want to go on forever, but, even in the US, there is room for truly innovative thinking. Everyone agrees that there is no free lunch, but thinking about business models only in terms congruent with the present, familiar, business scene severely constrains our thinking. This is all the truer when we are dealing with activities and institutions that are not part of the free-enterprise world. To put it the other way around, the free-enterprise mentality, while expanding, has not yet conquered everything, including universities; neither is it a good idea to imagine that it should, as some MOOC advocates dream about. Again, reading Bill Readings' book might be a good starting point to engage in a really useful conversation. But developing my own ideas contra excellence would take us too far afield. Thank you, Holly, for your thoughtful forms of push back. Jean-Claude Guédon Professeur titulaire Littérature comparée Université de Montréal _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 125DE2DB1; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 07:35:49 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0FD42CF0; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 07:35:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E6FA12CD1; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 07:35:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130405053545.E6FA12CD1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 07:35:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.943 events: 3D data preservation; info literacy X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 943. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (28) Subject: Preserving 3D Data - Edinburgh 1st May [2] From: "Conf@isast.co" (35) Subject: Call-for-Abstracts/ Papers, Information Literacy in the curriculum across Disciplines --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 20:05:55 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Preserving 3D Data - Edinburgh 1st May > From: William Kilbride > > Subject: Preserving 3D Data - Edinburgh 1st May > Date: 3 April 2013 11:49:00 BST The Digital Preservation Coalition and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland invite you to join them at a workshop to explore the preservation of 3d laser scan data: Edinburgh 1st May 2013 http://www.dpconline.org/events/details/58-3d-laser-scanning?xref=63 Current best practice guidance for the long term preservation of 3D laser scan data, in particular the required metadata is found to be onerous by data creators. This workshop will bring together leading practitioners from the archaeological community, alongside leading data archivists and software suppliers in the UK and Ireland to work towards agreeing a new metadata standard to facilitate preservation. This event will allow for communication between archivists, creators and purveyors of software and hardware for laser scanning, as well as equipment manufacturers. The aim is to ensure that the export of metadata is much simpler and more convenient for users. Who should come? We want to ensure that we bring together knowledgeable and engaged practitioners at this event to inform our ambitions of a new standard. We’d very much like to benefit from your experience in this area and hope that you and your colleagues can make it. This meeting will be of interest to: * Records managers and information officers in organisation that rely on long-lived 3d data gathered in the field * Risk managers, executives and chief information officers in architecture, engineering and heritage management * Collections managers, librarians, curators and archivists in all institutions charged with managing complex research data * Tools developers and policy makers in digital preservation and 3d modelling * Innovators and researchers in field recording and computer visualisation * Vendors and providers of services for 3d modelling, digital preservation and heritage management * Innovators, vendors and commentators on 3d modelling, computer visualisation and digital preservation * Analysts seeking to develop tools and approaches for managing and exploiting complex 3d models How to register? This event will be free of charge but numbers will be strictly limited to 30 places and made available on a first-come, first served basis. DPC members will have a period of priority registration: http://www.dpconline.org/events/details/58-3d-laser-scanning?xref=63 -- Dr William Kilbride FSA Executive Director Digital Preservation Coalition @WilliamKilbride 44 (0)141 330 4522 http://www.dpconline.org/ william@dpconline.org The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. The contents of this e-mail must not be disclosed or copied without the sender's consent and does not constitute legal advice. We cannot accept any responsibility for viruses, so please scan all attachments. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the DPC. Registered Office, Innovation Centre, University Way, York Science Park, Heslington, YORK YO10 5DG Registered in England No: 4492292 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 22:27:31 +0000 From: "Conf@isast.co" Subject: Call-for-Abstracts/ Papers, Information Literacy in the curriculum across Disciplines Call-for-Abstracts/ Papers Information Literacy in the curriculum across Disciplines Special Session in the 5th QQML Conference, June 4-7, 2013, Rome, Italy- http://www.isast.org http://www.isast.org/ SESSION ORGANIZERS Anthi Katsirikou, University of Piraeus Library, Greece- anthi@asmda.com Ageliki Oikonomou, University of Piraeus Library, Greece- oikoang@yahoo.gr Konstantinos Kyprianos, University of Piraeus Library, Greece-k.kyprianos@gmail.com Background ---------- A vast amount of models and terminology has been developed globally by libraries and other organizations and associations to define the skills that must someone have in order to be information literate. In the era of information plethora and digital technology, the information literacy skills are becoming more and more necessary. Universities worldwide and especially academic libraries have early realized the importance of information literacy and they started to provide tools and programs to their students. These tools and programs were aiming to help students to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate and use effectively the information needed. Besides, this is the definition of information literacy according to ALA. Nowadays, information comes in many formats and forms and its validity and its quality is not always guaranteed. Students must develop new cognitive skills in order to use this information succinctly and efficiently. Additionally, the specialization in disciplines made prerequisite the information literacy to interfere with the curriculum. In these lines of thoughts, many universities and institutions around the world are starting to endorse information literacy into the curriculum. Nowadays, many universities and institutions around the world are endorsing the information literacy into the curriculum. The purpose of this session is to present innovative proposals, applications and syllabus regarding the subject information literacy that run into the disciplines in regional and international level and the benefits of such a venture. Topics of interest [*] Case studies and best practices [*] Creative instruction of information literacy skills [*] Critical thinking [*] Information literacy across the disciplines [*] Information literacy in the curriculum [*] Innovative programs [*] Policies and models [*] Teaching information literacy across disciplines [*] Teaching information literacy in academic libraries Important Dates --------------- - Abstract/ Paper submission due: April 15, 2013 - Author notification: April 20, 2013 - Conference: 4- 7 June, 2013 Abstract/ Paper submission to k.kyprianos@gmail.com For detailed submission and Information for Authors, please visit: http://www.isast.org http://www.isast.org/ Accepted papers will be published in the e-QQML Journal. http://www.qqml.net http://www.qqml.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 850512E89; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 07:36:34 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 976962CF0; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 07:36:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BA1952DD0; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 07:36:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130405053631.BA1952DD0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 07:36:31 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.944 new tool for image annotation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 944. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 02:57:23 +0100 From: "James O'Sullivan" Subject: Digitate: New Application for Annotating Images Digitate is a free application designed for use on the iOS platform, specifically on iPad devices. The application allows scholars and enthusiasts with an interest in the visual and material elements of a cultural artefact to make notes and annotations directly on an image of such an artefact. For example, a literary scholar might use it to annotate the material or bibliographic elements of a rare text or first edition, while an art historian might do the same on an image of a painting. Available for download at: http://digitate.org -- *James O'Sullivan * @jamescosullivan http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan ** Web: josullivan.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan http://twitter.com/#%21/jamescosullivan LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan http://www.linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan Facebook: http://facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan http://www.facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan New Binary Press: http://newbinarypress.com/Bookstore.html OpenDAHT: http://opendaht.org/ Submit to *The Weary Blues*: http://thewearyblues.org/submit.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 602692CE3; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:37:42 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A822ED1; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:37:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 764B92C95; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:37:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130406073739.764B92C95@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:37:39 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.945 plans for image 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="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. 945. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 12:48:58 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: 26.944 new tool for image annotation In-Reply-To: <20130405053631.BA1952DD0@digitalhumanities.org> Dear James, Thank you for creating and publishing a nice, easy, and intuitive tool. Looking at it popped two questions for me: - Do you have plans for any API development/documentation? This would be a great help for those wanting to use your tools as a gate way service to other systems, and would open up possibilities for annotation exchange etc. greatly. - The video is very much end user oriented. That's fine, but it made me wonder if you do intend also to have a features list and tech spec or some such for those not inclined to teach themselves by video scrubbing? All the best -- Joris On Friday, April 5, 2013, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 944. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 02:57:23 +0100 > From: "James O'Sullivan" > Subject: Digitate: New Application for Annotating Images > > > Digitate is a free application designed for use on the iOS platform, > specifically on iPad devices. The application allows scholars and > enthusiasts with an interest in the visual and material elements of a > cultural artefact to make notes and annotations directly on an image of > such an artefact. > > For example, a literary scholar might use it to annotate the material or > bibliographic elements of a rare text or first edition, while an art > historian might do the same on an image of a painting. > > Available for download at: http://digitate.org > > -- > *James O'Sullivan * > @jamescosullivan http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan ** > Web: josullivan.org > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan > http://twitter.com/#%21/jamescosullivan > LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan > http://www.linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan > Facebook: http://facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan > http://www.facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan > > New Binary Press: http://newbinarypress.com/Bookstore.html > OpenDAHT: http://opendaht.org/ > Submit to *The Weary Blues*: http://thewearyblues.org/submit.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CDBBB2CE5; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:46:00 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 910712CAF; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:45:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BCE2C2CAC; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:45:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130406074557.BCE2C2CAC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:45:57 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.946 postdocs at MPI Berlin; EngD studentship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 946. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Daniel Cox (31) Subject: Funded EngD with Sony R&D [2] From: Jochen Schneider (33) Subject: MPIWG Berlin: 3 postdoctoral fellowships for up to three months --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 09:07:07 +0000 From: Daniel Cox Subject: Funded EngD with Sony R&D Applications are invited for an Engineering Doctorate (EngD) in the Centre for Digital Entertainment (CDE) http://digital-entertainment.org, a collaboration between the University of Bath and Bournemouth University, with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Research and Development (SCEE R&D) http://develop.scee.net/ Programme This is a 4 year programme which embeds a Research Engineer (RE) in a company, who, supported by an academic supervisor, will work on projects of immediate industrial relevance. 75% of the RE's time will be spent in industry. These projects will form the basis of a Doctoral submission by portfolio thesis for the award of an Engineering Doctorate in Digital Media. Research Area SCEE R&D are technical experts on topics relating to any of the PlayStation platforms. The group is unique in that we report directly to both SCEE Central as well as the Tokyo-based SCEI R&D Organisation that designs PlayStation hardware. We do not create games ourselves; however, we supply the raw technical materials that game developers need to create games - providing high quality technical support, creating specialist tools and utilities, and developing showcase products that highlight the capabilities of the PlayStation® . This project offers the opportunity to conduct applied research into game content production aimed at improving efficiencies in games development. This could involve, for example: * Augmenting existing procedural, modeling and texturing approaches * Developing entirely new content creation methods and tools We are open to discussing other project ideas in related areas with candidates who have specific interests. Package If successful you will receive a generous package which pays your tuition fees and provides a tax free annual stipend of at least £15,266. There is also dedicated funding for resources and conference attendance. Qualifications Applicants should hold a first degree, or equivalent, of at least an Upper Second (2.1) in a relevant subject, such as, but not limited to, Computer Science, Maths, Physics, Software Engineering, Animation. Knowledge of some aspects of 3D modelling and an interest in video games development an advantage. Applicants will need a good knowledge of C/C++/C# Eligibility Applicants must be 'ordinarily resident' in the UK or EU. Please see http://digital-entertainment.org/info-applicants.html for more details. To apply Please contact Daniel Cox dcox@bournemouth.ac.uk to register interest and use the online form accessible at http://digital-entertainment.org/info-applicants.html We recommend you read this page carefully. Questions Please contact CDE@cs.bath.ac.uk with any additional queries. Daniel Cox Research Project Manager The Centre for Digital Entertainment The Media School W309 Weymouth House 01202 966775 dcox@bournemouth.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 17:15:41 +0200 From: Jochen Schneider Subject: MPIWG Berlin: 3 postdoctoral fellowships for up to three months The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Max Planck Research Group Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe; Director: Prof. Dr. Sven Dupré) announces three postdoctoral fellowships for up to three months between January 1 and December 31, 2014. Outstanding junior and senior scholars (including those on sabbatical leave from their home institutions) are invited to apply. Candidates should hold a doctorate in the history of science and technology, the history of art and art technology or related field (junior scholars should have a dissertation topic relevant to the history of science) at the time of application and show evidence of scholarly promise in the form of publications and other achievements. Research projects should address the history of knowledge and art up to the eighteenth century (with a preference for the period between 1350 and 1750), and may concern any geographical area within Europe, and any object of the visual and decorative arts. Also welcome are projects falling within the scope of the history of optics, colour and perspective, the history of alchemy, or the history of collecting, but those relevant to the writing of an epistemic history of art will receive preference. Visiting fellows are expected to take part in the scientific life of the Institute, to advance their own research project, and to actively contribute to the project of the Max Planck Research Group Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe. The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science is an international and interdisciplinary research institute (http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/index.html). The colloquium language is English; it is expected that candidates will be able to present their own work and discuss that of others fluently in that language. Fellowships are endowed with a monthly stipend between 2.100 € and 2.500 € (fellows from abroad) or between 1.468 € and 1.621 € (fellows from Germany), whereas senior scholars receive an honorary commensurate with experience. The Max Planck Research Group Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe is also accepting proposals for non-funded Visiting Fellowships from one month to a year. These are normally open to junior and senior post-docs who have external funding. For projects highly relevant to the research platform of this Max Planck Research Group, Sven Dupré will support a limited number of applications for funding at organizations such as Fulbright, DAAD, and the Humboldt Society. Candidates of all nationalities are encouraged to apply; applications from women are especially welcome. The Max Planck Society is committed to promoting handicapped individuals and encourages them to apply. Candidates are requested to submit a curriculum vitae (including list of publications), a research proposal on a topic related to the project (750 words maximum), one sample of writing (i.e. article or book chapter), and names and addresses of two referees (including email) who have already been contacted by the applicant to assure their willingness to submit letters of recommendation if requested, to: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Max Planck Research Group Dupré – Postdocs 2014 Boltzmannstr. 22 14195 Berlin Germany (Electronic submission is also possible: officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de) by June 30, 2013. Successful candidates will be notified before August 19, 2013. For questions concerning the Max Planck Research Group on Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe, please see http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/MRGdupre or contact Sven Dupré (officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de); for administrative questions concerning the position and the Institute, please contact Claudia Paaß (paass@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de), Head of Administration, or Jochen Schneider (jsr@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de), Research 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CA8B62D67; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:46:37 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B3622CDB; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:46:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AE84A2CB5; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:46:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130406074635.AE84A2CB5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:46:35 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.947 Open Philology Project X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 947. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 08:47:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Open Philology Project Quite possibly I've missed something, but I ( to my surprise ) don't recall seeing here any mention as yet of the following : http://sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates/2013/04/04/the-open-philology-project-and-humboldt-chair-of-digital-humanities-at-leipzig/   - Laval Hunsucker   Breukelen, Nederland _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E65B22CC8; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:52:29 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F0F2CB5; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:52:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2E4612CB2; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:52:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130406075227.2E4612CB2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:52:27 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.948 events: THATCamp Kentucky; Digging into 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. 948. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Lee Skallerup Bessette (10) Subject: Introducing THATCamp Kentucky [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (15) Subject: Digging into Data --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 12:15:32 -0400 From: Lee Skallerup Bessette Subject: Introducing THATCamp Kentucky I know that almost everyone on this listserv is familiar with THATCamps. I am spearheading on that is going to be taking place at the University of Kentucky on June 1-2, 2013. It is the first one ever to be held in the Bluegrass State. Our website is http://kentucky2013.thatcamp.org/ and registration is now open! Please spread the word and I hope to see some of you there. Lexington in June is lovely! If you have any questions, you can contact me at THATCampky@gmail.com. Lee Skallerup Bessette, PhD Morehead State University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 23:49:36 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Digging into Data Dear all, I am sure that you are aware of the third round of the Digging into Data challenge which is currently under way. The deadline for the competition is 15 May, so if you are interested in developing an application, now is probably the time to be thinking about it! Details are available here: http://www.diggingintodata.org/Default.aspx All the best 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 88C2C2D7B; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:53:06 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 847712CAF; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:53:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F32622CF9; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:53:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130406075303.F32622CF9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:53:03 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.949 submissions on ethics & responsibility in ICT? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 949. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 17:02:02 +0100 From: Bernd Carsten STAHL Subject: Reminder: 2 weeks left to submit contributions on ethics and responsibility in ICT research and innovation and win £500 Greetings and apologies for multiple postings Are you interested in questions of ethics and responsibility in research and innovation in ICT? Do you have experience of projects or technologies that raised interesting or challenging questions of responsibility? Are you doing research on novel technologies that are likely to have interesting or controversial social consequences? The UK EPSRC funded project on a "Framework for Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT" (www.responsible-innovation.org.uk) is inviting you to submit case studies and other short documents (less than 2000 words) to share your experience of ethics and responsibility in ICT with the communities of ICT researchers and other stakeholders. Areas of interest include: . Case studies - discussion of actual projects . Ethical issues - debates around a particular ethical issue . Technologies - thoughts on specific technologies . Solutions - actual or proposed resolution to dilemmas . Concepts - opinions related to the broader topic All submissions must be original contributions based on real experience and events. They may involve original research but may also be based on previous work. They should be anonymised where appropriate. The authors are responsible for ensuring the truthfulness of the entries. Examples of case studies from the first call and other examples of relevant entries can be found at: http://torrii.responsible-innovation.org.uk/ All submissions will undergo peer review. The best 25 entries will receive a prize of £500 each. Submission deadline 19 April 2012 Why should I submit? If you are interested in the potential social consequences of ICT and critical reflection of how research outputs may impact broader society, then there are several good reasons to submit an article: . Authors of contributions that meet set criteria (see Evaluation section below) will see their article published to the website. They can opt to become an Associate of Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT and be listed on the website. . The Observatory is part of an EPSRC-funded project and the submissions will undergo stringent peer review and scored. Successful entries therefore may be seen as peer reviewed publications. . The best 25 submissions will receive £500 each. Each author can submit as many articles as they wish and receive up to 2 awards. . All submission authors will be asked to contribute to the peer review of other submissions. This will provide you with an opportunity to view a wide range of material that focuses on the broader societal implications of ICT research. . Students are also encouraged to submit articles following the same principles. There will be a separate ranking for student contributions where the 10 best entries will receive £100 each. I am interested. What do I need to do next? We invite you to have a look at the more detailed call describing the required content and submission and review process. This is available on the project website www.responsible-innovation.org.uk The full call is available here: http://responsible-innovation.org.uk/frriict/call-for-contributions/ How do I submit? Please submit using the Easy Chair website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rriict2013 More detail on submission type Key dates Launch: 15h February 2013 Latest submission date:19th April 2013 Further dates are available in the full call. If you have queries regarding the submission process please contact: Dr Grace Eden, Computer Science, University of Oxford, grace.eden@cs.ox.ac.uk Professor Bernd Carsten Stahl, De Montfort University, bstahl@dmu.ac.uk Dr. Marina Jirotka Computer Science, University of Oxford, marina.jirotka@cs.ox.ac.uk kind regards, Marina, Grace and Bernd _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 42BBB2CF9; Sun, 7 Apr 2013 09:31:45 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B8122CCE; Sun, 7 Apr 2013 09:31:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D81C62CE3; Sun, 7 Apr 2013 09:31:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130407073141.D81C62CE3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 09:31:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.950 open evaluation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 950. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:34:03 +0200 From: Curt Rice Subject: Open evaluation: a new approach to peer review I'm enjoying the discussion of various aspects of open access publishing. Personally, my interest in this discussion is in part to think about how this paradigm shift creates the opportunity for improving other aspects of the publishing process, e.g. problems with peer review. I recently read a fascinating article about Open Evaluation, which is a creative reconceptualization of the publishing process. The journal Frontiers in computational neuroscience (a must read for humanists everywhere!) published a special issue with 18 articles, each taking up different aspects of how the publishing process could be better. It's a fascinating piece of work. I wrote a short summary of the proposals for those who might be interested: http://curt-rice.com/2012/12/17/open-evaluation-11-sure-steps-and-2-maybes-towards-a-new-approach-to-peer-review/ Curt Prof. Curt Rice, PhD
, @curtrice, blog Pro Rector for Research & Development University of Tromsø +47 4641 4635 Recent op-eds & interviews _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,T_FRT_PROFILE2 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 16CA12D1E; Sun, 7 Apr 2013 09:32:25 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3B222CE5; Sun, 7 Apr 2013 09:32:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DA5642CFD; Sun, 7 Apr 2013 09:32:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130407073221.DA5642CFD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 09:32:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.951 job at Leuven X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 951. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 16:42:40 +0200 From: danny de schreye Subject: Academic Position in Computer Science for Digital Humanities In-Reply-To: <515FD1DA.2080305@mccarty.org.uk> Academic Position in Computer Science for Digital Humanities (Ref. ZAP-2013-87) Occupation : Full-time Place : Leuven Apply before : June 30, 2013 http://icts.kuleuven.be/apps/jobsite/vacatures/52409066?lang=en KU Leuven invites applications for a full-time tenured academic position in Computer Science for Digital Humanities at the Department of Computer Science. We are looking for a dynamic and motivated individual (m/f) with an excellent research record in related areas. Duties: Research We are looking for a candidate with expertise in applications of computer science in digital humanities. A successful candidate will already have obtained excellent research results in the area of applying computer science techniques in research applications in the digital humanities. For the applied computer science techniques, examples could be data mining, or archiving or disclosure of information from large e-archives, or human-computer interaction, or visualisation techniques, or e-learning. Concerning the applications domains, examples could be the Arts, or the Social or Instructional Sciences. Research experience with the application of multiple techniques from computer Science and/or with multiple application domains in the Humanities or Behavioral Sciences are considered are a strong added value of the application. Teaching The selected applicant will take on teaching responsibilities in various study programs, in particular for courses on basic computer science techniques for students in the humanities. Apart from this, the applicant will also be asked to teach an advanced course on applications, related to his/her research, in digital humanities. Possibly, the accepted applicant can be asked to teach courses in the Master/Bachelor Computer Science and/or the Master/Bachelor in (Applied) Informatics. Together with an existing team, the successful applicant will further develop courses related to digital humanities. The applicant needs to engage in setting up an interdisciplinary cooperation, both in teaching and in research, on digital humanities. Requirements Interested candidates should hold a Ph.D. or doctoral degree in computer science or informatics or candidates should be holder of a Ph.D. in digital humanities or in the humanities, with a topic which is very closely related to computer science, informatics or the informatics-technical aspects of digital humanities. In the latter case, an additional degree in a related subject - especially in computer science or informatics - has significant added value. Qualified candidates are expected to have an excellent research record and very good teaching and training skills, in order to contribute to the research output of the Department of Computer Science and to the quality of its educational programs. The high quality of the candidate's research should be evidenced by publications in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences. International research experience is highly appreciated. An important criterion in the selection will be whether the candidate can link his/her research to one of the research units in the Department of Computer Science. If you do not speak Dutch, you will be expected to learn the language within three years of your appointment. The required proficiency level will depend on the duties assigned to you. Dutch language courses are offered at KU Leuven. Proficiency in the English language is also required. Offer The full-time position can be offered in one of the academic levels (full professor, professor, associate professor, assistant professor), depending on the qualifications of the candidate. Interested? For more information please contact Prof. dr. ir. Ronald Cools, tel.:+3216327562, mail: ronald.cools@cs.kuleuven.be. For problems with online applying, please contact Mrs. Katoe Buyle, tel.: +3216328324, mail: katoe.buyle@kuleuven.be. You can apply for this job no later than June 30, 2013 via the online application tool https://webwsp.aps.kuleuven.be/sap%28bD1ubCZjPTIwMCZkPW1pbg==%29/public/bsp/sap/z_sollicitat/main.htm?vacnr=52406540&taal=E&type=ZAP Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 628792D92; Mon, 8 Apr 2013 07:13:38 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53F4B2D8A; Mon, 8 Apr 2013 07:13:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BF66C2D89; Mon, 8 Apr 2013 07:13:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130408051335.BF66C2D89@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 07:13:35 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.952 plans for an image 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="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. 952. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 17:11:30 +0100 From: "James O'Sullivan" Subject: Re: 26.945 plans for image annotation tool? In-Reply-To: <20130406073739.764B92C95@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Joris, Currently no on both counts, but I'm hoping to expand the project if it gathers come momentum going forward. Currently the whole thing is just a side project of mine, so I'm working on it with limited time/resources. Sincerest thanks for suggestions - will add to the to-do list. Best regards, James On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 945. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 12:48:58 +0200 > From: Joris van Zundert > Subject: Re: 26.944 new tool for image annotation > In-Reply-To: <20130405053631.BA1952DD0@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear James, > > Thank you for creating and publishing a nice, easy, and intuitive tool. > Looking at it popped two questions for me: > > - Do you have plans for any API development/documentation? This would be a > great help for those wanting to use your tools as a gate way service to > other systems, and would open up possibilities for annotation exchange etc. > greatly. > > - The video is very much end user oriented. That's fine, but it made me > wonder if you do intend also to have a features list and tech spec or some > such for those not inclined to teach themselves by video scrubbing? > > All the best > -- Joris > > On Friday, April 5, 2013, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 944. > > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > > > > > Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 02:57:23 +0100 > > From: "James O'Sullivan" > > Subject: Digitate: New Application for Annotating Images > > > > > > Digitate is a free application designed for use on the iOS platform, > > specifically on iPad devices. The application allows scholars and > > enthusiasts with an interest in the visual and material elements of a > > cultural artefact to make notes and annotations directly on an image of > > such an artefact. > > > > For example, a literary scholar might use it to annotate the material or > > bibliographic elements of a rare text or first edition, while an art > > historian might do the same on an image of a painting. > > > > Available for download at: http://digitate.org > > > > -- > > *James O'Sullivan * > > @jamescosullivan http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan ** > > Web: josullivan.org > > > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan > > http://twitter.com/#%21/jamescosullivan > > LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan > > Facebook: http://facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan > > http://www.facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan > > > > New Binary Press: http://newbinarypress.com/Bookstore.html > > OpenDAHT: http://opendaht.org/ > > Submit to *The Weary Blues*: http://thewearyblues.org/submit.html -- *James O'Sullivan * @jamescosullivan http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan ** Web: josullivan.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan http://twitter.com/#%21/jamescosullivan LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan http://www.linkedin.com/in/jameschristopherosullivan Facebook: http://facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan http://www.facebook.com/jameschristopherosullivan New Binary Press: http://newbinarypress.com/Bookstore.html OpenDAHT: http://opendaht.org/ Submit to *The Weary Blues*: http://thewearyblues.org/submit.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 995D92DB5; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 07:14:38 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 720832D81; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 07:14:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F0FDE2CB4; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 07:14:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130409051434.F0FDE2CB4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 07:14:34 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.953 jobs: RA at King's; professorship at Cologne X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 953. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Bradley, John" (15) Subject: Social Network Analyst Research Associate needed [2] From: Franz Fischer (17) Subject: DH post in Cologne --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 14:48:40 +0000 From: "Bradley, John" Subject: Social Network Analyst Research Associate needed King's College London's Department of Digital Humanities is looking for a highly motivated and sophisticated individual to work on the Leverhulme funding project entitled 'The transformation of Gaelic Scotland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries'. The project is a partnership between DDH and historians at the University of Glasgow, and aims to explore the application of Social Network Analysis (SNA) against a database of medieval Scottish people created by the People of Medieval Scotland (PoMS) project (http://www.poms.ac.uk). This contains thousands of individual interactions in different contexts and geographic locations and it is expected that SNA techniques when applied to this data will reveal changing patterns and intensities in social relationships. The work will include: · Exploring different SNA methodologies to discover techniques that will facilitate an historical analysis of the people represented by the PoMS database. · Exploring how SNA approaches can be merged with geographical analysis techniques. · Investigating SNA approaches to the PoMS data and making this available to the public by extending PoMS's existing web application. · Writing an academic paper that describes the insights that were gained out of the above work. The successful candidate will work with the project team and bring expertise on a range of SNA techniques to facilitate the exploration of this dataset. They will have a solid knowledge and experience in SNA approaches to structured data about persons and will be highly engaged in exploring its potential. The closing date for receipt of applications is 28 April 2013. The post is a fixed term contract for 15 months, and the salary is within the Grade 6 scale, currently £31,331 to £37,382, per annum plus £2,323 per annum London Allowance. If interested, please see URL http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=13033 John Bradley Senior Lecturer Department of the Digital Humanities School of Arts and Humanities King's College London +44 (0)20 7848 2680 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:51:50 +0200 From: Franz Fischer Subject: DH post in Cologne Dear humanists, The Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) at the University of Cologne invites applications for a W1 Professorship in Digital Humanities. For further information see: http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/node/512 Best, Franz -- 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/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 452782D8D; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 07:17:06 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 425302CB4; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 07:17:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EBEA5114D; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 07:17:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130409051702.EBEA5114D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 07:17:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.954 events: Web as literature; editing; tools, people, history; markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 954. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Inge Moris (12) Subject: Reminder: Uitnodiging: colloquium Itinera Nova | Tools, people & history [2] From: Peter Robinson (48) Subject: CFP: Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing Conference, Saskatoon July 11-13 [3] From: Joris Pekel (37) Subject: DM2E Presents The Web as Literature, 10th June 2013, British Library [4] From: Tommie Usdin (24) Subject: Balisage Conference Student Support Awards --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 08:37:20 +0000 From: Inge Moris Subject: Reminder: Uitnodiging: colloquium Itinera Nova | Tools, people & history Beste Deze week biedt de laatste kans om u in te schrijven voor het colloquium Itinera Nova | Tools, People & History op 25 en 26 april. Meer info op www.leuven.be/archief http://www.leuven.be/archief en in bijgevoegde pdf. Een kleine wijziging in het programma: Tim Bisschops kan helaas niet aanwezig zijn op 26 april, maar hij wordt vervangen door twee van zijn collega's, Inneke Baatsen en Julie De Groot, die beiden ook een uitgebreid onderzoek voerden op basis van de Antwerpse schepenregisters. Graag tot op het colloquium! Met vriendelijke groeten Het Itinera Nova team *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1365410521_2013-04-08_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_5344.1.2.pjpeg http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1365410521_2013-04-08_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_5344.2.pdf --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 13:21:47 +0000 From: Peter Robinson Subject: CFP: Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing Conference, Saskatoon July 11-13 Proposals are invited for the Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing conference, to be held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, from 11-13 July 2013. This conference comes at a critical inflection point in the transformation of scholarly editing caused by the two massive shifts of the digital revolution: the movement of all data into digital form and the creation of new modes of collaboration. For the first: the creation of massive amounts of data in digital form has already transformed the basic materials of scholarly editing, while digital tools offer new methods for exploration and publication. For the second: where scholarly editing in the past has been typically the work of a single dedicated scholar, the development of social media opens up the possibilities of collaborative work across whole communities. These changes affect every aspect of scholarly editing. This conference will explore the theoretical, practical, and social implications of these changes. Proposers accepted from this open call will join some thirty invited conference participants, drawn from scholarly editing, digital humanities, and the 'citizen scholar' movement. Confirmed participants are Barbara Bordalejo, Susan Brown, Ben Brumfield, Gabriel Egan, Paul Eggert, Paul Flemons, Alex Gil, James Ginther, Tuomas Heikkilä, Fotis Jannidis, Laura Mandell, Murray McGillivray, Brent Nelson, Catherine Nygren, Dan O'Donnell, Roger Osbourne, Wendy Phillips-Rodriguez, Elena Pierazzo, Ken Price, Peter Robinson, Geoffrey Rockwell, Peter Shillingsburg, Ray Siemens, Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Joshua Sosin, Melissa Terras, Edward Vanhoutte, and Joris van Zundert (to be confirmed: Hans Gabler and Jerome McGann). The conference will be preceded by a one-day workshop on collaborative editing systems. Proposals should focus on some aspect of contemporary digital scholarly editing. We welcome descriptions of current projects, theoretical or speculative discussions, bibliographic work, or any aspect of scholarly digital editing. Papers considering scholarly editing in a communal, collaborative context are particularly encouraged. Proposals will be accepted under two strands: one for students of graduate and doctoral programs, one for all others. We particularly welcome proposals from the GO::DH (Global Outlook::Digital Humanities) community, addressing digital scholarly editing in a global context. We will able to offer financial support for accepted proposals, if needed, in the form of bursaries and/or funding for all travel and other costs, and will give preference in allocating funding to proposers from circumstances where support is rarely or never available. As well as a 500 word abstract, proposers should submit a cover letter explaining their interest in the conference theme, why they want to attend and indicate what level of support (if any) they might need to come to the conference. Proposal submission will close on 26 April; successful proposers will be notified by 10 May 2013. The call is at https://ocs.usask.ca/conf/index.php/sdse/sdse13/schedConf/cfp.; the conference website is at https://ocs.usask.ca/conf/index.php/sdse/sdse13. On behalf of the conference organizing committee: Barbara Bordalejo, Susan Brown, Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Murray McGillivray, Brent Nelson, Dan O'Donnell, Peter Robinson, Geoffrey Rockwell, Ray Siemens --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 16:13:02 +0200 From: Joris Pekel Subject: DM2E Presents The Web as Literature, 10th June 2013, British Library Dear All, We would like to invite you to the *Web as Literature* http://webasliterature.org , a one day event of talks and workshops exploring Linked Open Data and its revolutionary potential for the humanities brought to you by the DM2E project http://dm2e.eu and Judaica Europeana . Taking place on *10th June 2013* and hosted by the *British Library* the event will bring together leading digital humanists and cultural heritage professionals and will feature a keynote from *Ted Nelson* the inventor of hypertext. Attendance is free, but places are limited. Sign-up here http://webasliterature.org/ to guarantee yourself a place. The programme will include: - *A keynote by the inventor of hypertext, Ted Nelson* - A dedicated Digital Humanities panel on modelling the humanities with Professor Stefan Gradmann (KU Leuven), Dr Tobias Blanke (Kings College London) and Dominic Oldman (Research Space, British Museum) - The European Digital Library and Linked Open Data with a presentation from Antoine Isaac - Hands-on workshops with DM2E’s flagship tool, Pundit , for semantically annotating and linking texts and images More information on the event can be found here http://webasliterature.org and please email sam.leon@okfn.org if you have any further questions. All the best, Joris Pekel -- Joris Pekel Community Coordinator Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/ http://twitter.com/jpekel --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 12:20:28 -0400 From: Tommie Usdin Subject: Balisage Conference Student Support Awards BALISAGE 2013 STUDENT SUPPORT AWARDS Students! An inexpensive way to attend a most excellent technical conference! Balisage is the premier international conference on markup languages, technologies, theories, and practice. It is held annually during late summer in Montréal, QC. (But don't take our word for it, try Googling it: http://www.google.com/search?q=markup%20conference.) Support for attending Balisage 2013 will be available for some full-time students in the field of markup technologies and related disciplines including Computer Science, Library and Information Science, and Digital Humanities. Thanks to our sponsors, award winners will receive substantial support: * Reimbursement for travel to and from Montréal * Accommodations at the Hotel Europa, the conference venue, for the duration * Full conference registration, including breakfast and lunch To be eligible, you must be currently enrolled full time in an academic degree program, as documented in your CV. And you must have a demonstrable interest in and commitment to our field. In order to qualify, please submit an application that includes the following: * Application Letter. Tell us, in a page or two, why you want to come to Balisage, and how attending Balisage will help you. Describe your academic research program, professional interest in the field, perspective on important issues (addressed and not adequately addressed by the community and in the industry), or anything else you feel will recommend you and your work to the conference committee and Balisage community at large. * Academic CV, listing any of the following: relevant course work, research projects (with links where applicable), published papers, conferences attended, professional employment and activity, blogging, etc. * Letter(s) of recommendation (at least one) by professionals (academic or not) who know your work and can speak to your engagement with markup technologies. * Permission to publicize, at the conference and in connection with it, your name and participation, in announcements and related materials such as the program. Part of the reason for Balisage is to develop professional contacts among the attendees. You want to know us, and we want to know you. * Optional: a paper submission for the conference. (See the Call for Participation at http://www.balisage.net/Call4Participation.html.) Papers submitted in connection with an application for student support will not guarantee you win support, nor will papers submitted by applicants necessarily be accepted for the program. But a paper submission, even if not accepted for the program, will strengthen your application. Application materials will be accepted in plain text, HTML, or PDF and are due on April 19, 2013 (the same day Balisage paper submissions are due). Please send applications to info@balisage.net, with the subject line "Student award application". Be sure you include contact information. Awards will be offered at the discretion of the conference committee. Find out more about the Balisage series of conferences at http://www.balisage.net. Then come to Montréal to experience the cutting edge of this fascinating field at the crossroads of technology, textual studies, database theory, and philosophy. "There is nothing so practical as a good theory" ====================================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2013 mailto:info@balisage.net August 6-9, 2013 http://www.balisage.net Preconference Symposium August 5, 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5D9F22CA6; Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:26:07 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E60512C95; Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:26:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1D5C0E4A; Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:26:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130411052604.1D5C0E4A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:26:04 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.955 jobs: developer at King's; postdocs at Guelph, Michigan State X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 955. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Vetch, Paul" (12) Subject: OCVE-Chopin / PRoMS Research Developer post at KCL [2] From: Lauren Coats (14) Subject: MSU Image Informatics Postdoc [3] From: Susan Brown (8) Subject: Postdoc at Guelph --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 11:09:44 +0000 From: "Vetch, Paul" Subject: OCVE-Chopin / PRoMS Research Developer post at KCL King's College London's Department of Digital Humanities is looking for a new member of its Research & Development team to work on the Online Chopin Variorum Edition and the Production and Reading of Music Sources projects. We need a capable developer with front end development skills, and ideally too an interest in data visualisation. http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AGH420/research-developer-proms-and-ocve/ (closing date 24th April) (Look out for a further opportunity this week for a web frontend developer / designer) Paul -------------------------------- Paul Vetch Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL tel. +44 (0) 20 7848 1040 mob. +44 (0) 7713 087 446 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 14:49:25 -0500 From: Lauren Coats Subject: MSU Image Informatics Postdoc The Institute for Cyber Enabled Research (iCER) at the Michigan State University, in collaboration with the University Libraries, University Archives, Research and Graduate Studies and Information Technology Services, is offering a two-year CLIR/DLF Data Curation Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Fellow will be based organizationally with the Institute for Cyber Enabled Research and will focus on the area of image/video data analysis and curation within the Image Informatics group of iCER and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. More information: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/msu2013 -- laurencoats editor, /archive journal / assistant professor | department of english | allen 260 louisiana state university | baton rouge, la 70803 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:29:51 -0400 From: Susan Brown Subject: Postdoc at Guelph The Michael Ridley Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities, 2013 - 2015 This is a two-year postdoctoral fellowship, named in honour of the former chief librarian and chief information officer of the University of Guelph, Michael Ridley, who did much to promote the digital humanities at the University of Guelph. As co-sponsors of this Fellowship, the College of Arts and the University Library seek a recent PhD with experience in digital applications in humanities research. This fellowship will be awarded for the period August 1st, 2013 – July 31, 2015. It is valued at $38,000 per year, with a research allowance of $5,000. Postdoctoral fellows will also receive office space, access to the services of the University of Guelph, and administrative and research assistance as needed. There will also be the opportunity to teach one course per year with additional remuneration. The successful applicant is expected to pursue the research project submitted in their application, and to help promote the digital humanities at Guelph. Specifically, their duties will include 1) conducting original research; 2) creating and organizing a digital humanities speakers’ series that would run over the course of the academic year; 3) acting as a consultant for University faculty and graduate students interested in developing expertise in the digital humanities; 4) teaching one course in the digital humanities, either at the senior undergraduate or graduate level; 5) providing consultation and guidance on digital humanities technology and/or space in the McLaughlin Library ; 6) providing guidance and training in the application of digital technologies in the analysis of library collections. Full details at http://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/ridley-postdoc Applications are due by April 25, 2013. Susan Brown University of Guelph susan.brown@uoguelph.ca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AE6412D00; Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:27:41 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DD702CD2; Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:27:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6C2B42CA6; Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:27:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130411052738.6C2B42CA6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:27:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.956 ESF Humanities update X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 956. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:42:14 +0000 From: European Science Foundation Subject: ESF Humanities Update - April 2013 ESF HUMANITIES UPDATE APRIL 2013 Publication of Science Policy Briefing "Cultural Literacy in Europe Today" The Science Policy Briefing is an outcome of the ESF-COST project set up in 2009 with the aim of exploring the specificity, reach and contribution of Literary and Cultural Studies (LCS) research. In the last decades of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, the contribution made to European science, society and intellectual cultures by work produced by scholars trained in literary studies increased significantly and witnessed radical changes. Designating this research field as ‘literary and cultural studies’, or LCS, gives it a name and an identity. The SPB focuses on its broad societal resonance, highlighting the relevance of LCS research to policy-makers and to society in general. It argues that LCS research makes a key contribution to analysing European identities and cultures and has a significant role to play in enhancing the essential responses to a range of broader issues facing Europe today. The document concludes with a set of specific recommendations to stakeholders on ways forward. Download the SPB [***] 2013 Call for ESF Exploratory Workshops proposals The Call is open to proposals across all scientific domains. The focus of the scheme is to foster meetings that aim to open up new directions in research or to explore emerging research fields with potential impact on new developments in science. Proposals should also demonstrate the potential for initiating follow-up actions. Proposals will be evaluated on the potential to create breakthroughs and form the basis for new areas of research and/or innovative applications, or the changing of paradigms. ESF Exploratory Workshops awards are intended for small, interactive and output-oriented discussion meetings of minimum 15, maximum 30 participants and up to a maximum value of 15000 EUR. Awards are for workshops to be held in the calendar year 2014 (1 February - 31 December). Deadline for receipt of proposals: 18 April 2013 (16:00 CET). Full details at http://www.esf.org/workshops. [***] Publication of strategic workshop report “The Good, the Bad & the Ugly” The substance of the presentations and discussions at the workshop ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Understanding collaboration between the social sciences and the life sciences’, hosted by Professor Nikolas Rose at King’s College, London, are captured in a Strategic Workshop Report, drafted by Des Fitzgerald and published in February 2013. The report highlights the need for some very pragmatic forms of institutional support if such experiments in interdisciplinarity are to flourish. But it also suggests that, if the right conditions are provided, we can begin to overcome the perceived divide between ‘the social’ and ‘the biological’ that has inhibited the emergence of a genuinely human science. The report concludes with a number of practical recommendations, addressed to researchers, research administrators, funders and policy makers, that would help enable and improve collaboration between social scientists and life scientists in the interests of reaching a deeper understanding of human and social phenomena. Download the report [***] Euroscience Open Call The European Young Researchers’ Award (EYRA) 2013 The Award is granted to researchers demonstrating outstanding research performance and leadership and is dedicated to PhD candidates only. The Award is granted each year but the prize-giving-ceremony is held every two years at the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) where the two recipients will present their work. The Award consists of a Certificate and a grant to cover travel and accommodation for the stay in the ESOF city. Deadline for submission: 30 April 2013 More information: http://www.euroscience.org/eyra-2013.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EB0532D96; Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:32:16 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DF842CEB; Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:32:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7FEF2EC1; Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:32:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130411053213.7FEF2EC1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:32:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.957 events: ESF workshops; culture; industrial landscapes; values X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 957. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.)" (20) Subject: London Digital Humanities Group Meeting, 30 April: Manufacturing Pasts [2] From: Domenico Fiormonte (18) Subject: Seminar: "The Humanities & Humanistic Values in Society and Business", Rome 23-24 May 2013 [3] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (131) Subject: cfp: International Conference on Culture and Computing [4] From: Arianna Ciula (7) Subject: ESF 2013 Call for Exploratory Workshop proposals --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 15:56:31 +0100 From: "Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.)" Subject: London Digital Humanities Group Meeting, 30 April: Manufacturing Pasts London Digital Humanities Group Seminar Series, 30 April 2013 5.15, Room S264, 2nd Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU 'Manufacturing Pasts: Digitising the Industrial Landscape in Twentieth-Century Britain' Terese Bird (Learning Technology), Simon Gunn (Urban History) and Tania Rowlett (University Library), University of Leicester This seminar introduces a new JISC project based at the University of Leicester which has produced resources on twentieth-century Leicester as a case-study in industrial history. The resources relate to four themes: de-industrialization, conservation and regeneration, the life of the factory and the factory community. Making available photographs, maps, newspaper materials and other sources in digital form, the project aims to open up the exploration of these aspects of the history of industrial landscapes to students, historians and a wider public. In this seminar we will outline the historical rationale for the project and the techniques involved in realising it. There will be opportunities both to engage directly with the materials online and to participate in a larger discussion about the value and uses of this kind of project in digital humanities. To register attendance go to http://goo.gl/2V7cH To find out more about the Manufacturing Pasts project visit http://www.le.ac.uk/manufacturing pasts Dr Simon Dixon Digital Humanities and Special Collections Manager David Wilson Library University of Leicester University Road Leicester. LE1 7RH T: +44(0)116 252 2056 E: snd6@le.ac.uk W: http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/about/staff/academicliaison/simon-dixon Winner of the 2012 THE Award for Outstanding Library Team Elite Without Being Elitist Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/uniofleicester --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 23:15:40 +0200 From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Seminar: "The Humanities & Humanistic Values in Society and Business", Rome 23-24 May 2013 "The Humanities & Humanistic Values in Society and Business" 23 & 24 MAY 2013 A two-day seminar in Rome at The Royal Netherlands Institute and The Danish Academy. It is time to create economic and social capital through dialogue and synergy between society, business and the humanities – time to rethink, reform, re-engage and re-empower the humanities. The seminar aims at fostering a constructive and forward-looking debate about how humanists and business people can collaborate to unfold the human resources of the job market, add value and create responsible growth and innovation. We invite you to join the discussion with humanists, economists and successful managers (CSR, HR) from The Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, The United States, Great Britain, Switzerland and Japan addressing the challenges, opportunities and future of the Humanities. KEYNOTE SPEAKER is the prominent and ambitious British philosopher and art historian: JOHN ARMSTRONG. http://humanitiesinsocietyandbusiness.blogspot.it/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 02:06:20 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: cfp: International Conference on Culture and Computing Call for Papers The International Conference on Culture and Computing (Culture and Computing 2013) Date: September 16-18, 2013 Venue: Nakagawa Hall, Suzaku Campus, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan http://www.media.ritsumei.ac.jp/culture2013/ Culture and Computing is a new research area which aims to overcome different cultural issues in international communities using information and communication technologies (ICT). There are various research directions in the relations between culture and computing: to archive cultural heritages via ICT (cf. digital archives), to empower humanities researches via ICT (cf. digital humanities), to create art and expressions via ICT (cf. media art), to realize a culturally situated agent (cf. cultural agent), to support multi-language, multi-cultural societies via ICT (cf. intercultural collaboration), and to understand new cultures born in the Internet and Web (cf. net culture). The International Conference on Culture and Computing provides an opportunity to share research issues and discuss the future of culture and computing, which has been held in cultural cities including Kyoto, Japan (2010, 2011) and Hangzhou, China (2012). The fourth conference (Culture and Computing 2013) will be back to Kyoto, the cultural heart of Japan, organized with an exhibition on the integration of state of the art cultural computing technologies and Japanese traditional culture, along with a number of co-located events. To understand the proceedings at the previous conferences, please visit below. http://www.astem.or.jp/virtual-lab/culture/conference Papers are solicited on any aspect on the intersection of culture and computing, but all papers are expected to be suitable for a multidisciplinary audience. We have Main Track and Special Track sessions. The Main Track will present a collection of academic research results. Examples of suitable paper topics for the Main Track include: - Archiving cultural heritages - Information environments for humanity studies - Art and design by information technologies - Digital storytelling - Intercultural communication and collaboration - Culturally situated agents and simulations - Game and culture - Analysis of new culture in the Internet and Web - Culture and brain science - VR (virtual reality) application for culture - Digital libraries for cultural materials - Sound archiving of intangible cultural properties The Special Tracks are collections of short papers, and are organized for the purpose of encouraging discussions in hot areas. We have Special Tracks for "Digital Humanities" and "Culture based Media Art & Music" at this conference. Please visit the following page for the paper topics of the Special Tracks: http://www.media.ritsumei.ac.jp/culture2013/special_paper.html * Paper/Poster Submission Submitted papers/posters must report original work that has not been previously published. There are two types of presentations (oral and poster) for each track. For oral presentation in the Main Track, a full paper with a limit of six (6) pages should be submitted, and for oral presentation in the Special Tracks, a short paper with a limit of two (2) pages should be submitted by the paper submission deadline. For poster presentation in all tracks, a poster paper with a limit of two (2) pages should be submitted by the poster submission deadline. Papers/posters should follow the formatting instructions for publishing with IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting All submitted papers/posters will be reviewed by three distinguished researchers in the area of culture and computing. Accepted papers/posters will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society and will be included in the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL). - Paper Main Track papers (full papers) and Special Track papers (short papers) should be submitted electronically with an abstract (150 words) via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=culture2013 Submissions (PDF) must be written in English and must not exceed 6 pages for Main Track and 2 pages for Special Track in Conference Publishing Services (CPS)'s Standard template: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/ templates.html (Please choose the US letter type for the paper template) - Poster Posters (Main Track and Special Track) should be submitted electronically via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=culture2013 Submissions (PDF) must be written in English and must not exceed 2 pages in Conference Publishing Services (CPS)'s Standard template: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/ templates.html (Please choose the US letter type for the paper template) * Important Dates - Main Track Papers: Abstracts and papers due: April 19th, 2013 (extended) Author notification: May 22nd, 2013 Camera ready due: June 20th, 2013 Posters: Posters due: April 19th, 2013 Author notification: May 22nd, 2013 Camera ready due: June 20th, 2013 - Special Track Papers: Abstracts and papers due: April 19th, 2013 (extended) Author notification: May 22nd, 2013 Camera ready due: June 20th, 2013 Posters: Posters due: April 19th, 2013 Author notification: May 22nd, 2013 Camera ready due: June 20th, 2013 * Contact Please direct any inquiries about the conference to: info@img.is.ritsumei.ac.jp [...] ================================================= 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 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:54:31 +0800 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: ESF 2013 Call for Exploratory Workshop proposals Dear all, The ESF 2013 Call for Exploratory Workshop proposals has been open for a while; Deadline on 18 April 2013 (16:00 CET). See http://www.esf.org/coordinating-research/exploratory-workshops.htmlfor further details. Best, Arianna _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 599452CF3; Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:13:28 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B0F82CE7; Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:13:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BA378ECE; Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:13:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130413071324.BA378ECE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:13:24 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.958 crowdsourcing projects? a summer of code? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 958. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Adam Crymble (37) Subject: Zooniverse call for proposals for crowdsourcing projects [2] From: James Smith (9) Subject: Google Summer of Code - summer opportunity for students --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:47:34 +0100 From: Adam Crymble Subject: Zooniverse call for proposals for crowdsourcing projects The makers of Galaxy Zoo and Old Weather are looking for the latest project to crowdsource and they've got money and expertise to take your idea and make it happen. I've got nothing to do personally with the project but I thought it'd be of interest to some members of the list. The full CFP is below. Good luck! Adam Crymble PhD Student, Historty & Digital Humanities King's College London adam.crymble@gmail.com http://blog.zooniverse.org/2011/07/07/open-call-for-proposals/ *Brief version : This call for proposals http://www.citizensciencealliance.org means we’ll be producing many more cool projects – click http://www.citizensciencealliance.org/proposals.html if you’re a researcher and would like yours to be one of them. * http://blogs.zooniverse.org/files/2009/12/ZooniverseRise.png Zooniverse Longer version : The Zooniverse http://www.zooniverse.org was born from the conviction that the sheer enthusiasm of our original Galaxy Zoovolunteers could make a significant difference in other fields too. A few years and many projects on, I’m more convinced than ever that that’s true, and it’s time to step up a gear. Until now, we’ve typically only been able to develop projects that came with their own funding for development. We’re grateful for their support, but I’ve always been worried that we were turning away some really amazing projects, and putting the Zooniverse out of reach of more junior researchers who are often on the front line of dealing with the flood of data threatening to engulf scientists. Thanks to amazing support from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation http://www.sloan.org we’re expanding our team http://www.zooniverse.org/jobs and can now support a proper call for proposals. So if you’re a researcher – in any field – who would benefit from assistance of tens of thousands of people, it might be easier than you think. Just click here . --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:50:37 -0400 From: James Smith Subject: Google Summer of Code - summer opportunity for students Each summer for the last few years, Google has run a global program offering student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects. MITH is fortunate to have been selected as one of 177 mentoring organizations for the 2013 Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Our participation in GSoC is part of our digital humanities outreach efforts. We are looking for ways to involve students in our work outside the classroom. GSoC focuses on the making of things that is a fundamental part of the digital humanities. The hack instead of the yack. We want to show students that there's more to digital humanities than the classroom, and that there's more to computing than just algorithms and data structures. We have a page of ideas at http://mith.umd.edu/gsoc2013/, but we encourage students to discover what they will find most interesting to work on in the broad areas of web development, linked open data, and the humanities. Our GSoC homepage is http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/umd_mith. Students should discuss project ideas with mentoring organizations as soon as possible. Project proposals are due between 22 April and 3 May. -- Jim Smith Software Architect, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5FBFC2D8F; Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:13:47 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C29E2CF6; Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:13:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EB6852D00; Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:13:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130413071343.EB6852D00@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:13:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.959 bindings and boundaries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 959. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:35:07 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Bindings and Boundaries Yesterday evening I attended an event under the auspices of Spur (a festival of politics, art and ideas). A few hundred of us gathered at the Toronto Reference Library to hear a discussion about the future of the book. The panel featured Paul Holdengräber (LIVE at the New York Public Library) and Hugh McGuire (LibriVox and PressBooks) in a discussion moderated by Sarah Fulford (Toronto Life). http://spurfestival.ca/toronto/2013/future-of-the-book/ Sarah launched us on our speculations with a question about bindings: the physicality of the book and its impact on the reading experience. It was an auspicious beginning. And soon the conversation turned to other forms of bondage – being spellbound by deep reading. I think that general consensus was that regardless of platform or embodiment that the artefact of the book may take there are many distractions to reading that is concentrated and sustained. We all appreciated Hugh’s story of reading over the course of several weeks, while engaged in a daily commute, the whole of Tolstoy’s _War and Peace_ on an electronic device and missing his stop often during that time. Inspired by the discussion, I mused a while longer in a blog entry on the various etymologies of the word reading (in few different languages). http://berneval.blogspot.ca/2009/08/out-bound.html And smiled at the paradox of bindings setting us free (as if reading were a type of willing enslavement and manumission was promised at the end) and wondered about how the metaphorics could be extended beyond the codex. I entertained the idea that with electronic texts, the game becomes one of intersecting at the boundaries, keeping the play in bounds. That is in the circle of awareness, within the attention. Or caching for some future reader. You have often drawn our attention to the fungibility of the electronic artefact. Could it be that the reading of a traditional codex is about liberating the semiotic material to inhabit for a while a construct in the mind? And that the electronic book is about capture and release – in a sense the reader must supplement the containment in order to enjoy the pleasure of the text? _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_DBL_REDIR autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7CE562CF6; Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:18:07 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EB632CE7; Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:18:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4AD3AECE; Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:18:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130413071805.4AD3AECE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:18:05 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.960 jobs: digital scholar at the Five Colleges; research developer at King's X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 960. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Spence, Paul" (18) Subject: Research Developer (City Witness and Schenker Documents Online) [2] From: Alan Boyd (35) Subject: Five Colleges of Ohio Mellon Digital Scholar position --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:48:23 +0000 From: "Spence, Paul" Subject: Research Developer (City Witness and Schenker Documents Online) Job Posting: Research Developer (City Witness and Schenker Documents Online) [Please feel free to pass this message on to any suitable candidates] The Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London is looking for a technically imaginative and creative research developer to work on two exciting projects: City Witness (which will create an interactive digital atlas of Swansea and 3D visualisations based on eleven witness testimonies describing the hanging of the Welshman William 'Cragh' in the late 13th century) and the well-established Schenker Documents Online project, which is publishing the writings of the twentieth century's leading theorist of tonal music (see http://www.schenkerdocumentsonline.org). Technical curiosity and interest in any or all of linked data, web-based visualisation, or web mapping would be a real advantage. Every research project within the department is characterised by innovation, and the successful candidate will be expected to develop technically imaginative, creative, and elegant solutions whilst at the same time sustaining an awareness of best practices and standards compliance. Full details at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=13047 The closing date for receipt of applications is 1 May 2013 ---------------------------------------- Paul Spence Senior Lecturer Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL paul.spence@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/research/index.aspx Twitter: @dhpaulspence (English)/@hdpaulspence (castellano) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:24:01 -0400 From: Alan Boyd Subject: Five Colleges of Ohio Mellon Digital Scholar position The Five Colleges of Ohio seeks applications for a three year, full time position of Digital Scholar. Supported by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Digital Scholar will work to enable the Five Colleges' transition to digital scholarship and continue the process of integrating digital collections into the curriculum and faculty research agendas. The home-base office for the position could be at any of the consortial colleges. The Digital Scholar will: • Foster the conceptualization, design, development, and assessment of scholarly digital projects; • Serve as a liaison to faculty, educating them about the wide range of options offered by the libraries and collaborating with them on the use of digital collections and projects in the curriculum; • Train and coordinate training opportunities for staff to increase their understanding and awareness of the emerging field of digital scholarship; • Engage Five College faculty and students, as appropriate, in collaborative scholarship and the creation of knowledge using digital collections and emerging analytical tools; regular travel to consortial sites, ensuring that all five campuses receive the support Required Qualifications include a graduate degree in a liberal arts discipline; both a demonstrated effectiveness in a training or teaching environment and a sophisticated understanding of digital projects, metadata standards, digital publishing, and scholarly communications; familiarity with digital repositories and experience with XML, XSL, and/or XSLT; conversant knowledge of a variety of digital methodologies, such as text-mining, geographic information systems, or data visualization, or other modes of digital scholarship. For more information or to apply to this position see http://bit.ly/oh5scholar Review of applications will begin on May 1, 2013 and continue until the position is filled. Alan Boyd Associate Director of Libraries Oberlin College Library 148 W. College St. Oberlin, OH 44074-1532440-775-5015440-775-6586 (fax)alan.boyd@oberlin.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9954B2D73; Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:20:28 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 825F52CEB; Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:20:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D18C22CE7; Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:20:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130413072024.D18C22CE7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:20:24 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.961 events: book history; scholarly editing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 961. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ben Brumfield (52) Subject: CfP: Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing (11-13 July at U. Sask.) [2] From: Laura Perrings (12) Subject: Book History Workshop Announcement Texas A&M University --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:11:17 -0500 From: Ben Brumfield Subject: CfP: Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing (11-13 July at U. Sask.) Call for Proposals Proposals are invited for the Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing conference, to be held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, from 11-13 July 2013. This conference comes at a critical inflection point in the transformation of scholarly editing caused by the two massive shifts of the digital revolution: the movement of all data into digital form and the creation of new modes of collaboration. For the first: the creation of massive amounts of data in digital form has already transformed the basic materials of scholarly editing, while digital tools offer new methods for exploration and publication. For the second: where scholarly editing in the past has been typically the work of a single dedicated scholar, the development of social media opens up the possibilities of collaborative work across whole communities. These changes affect every aspect of scholarly editing. This conference will explore the theoretical, practical, and social implications of these changes. Proposers accepted from this open call will join some thirty invited conference participants, drawn from scholarly editing, digital humanities, and the 'citizen scholar' movement. Confirmed participants are Barbara Bordalejo, Susan Brown, Ben Brumfield, Gabriel Egan, Paul Eggert, Paul Flemons, Alex Gil, James Ginther, Tuomas Heikkilä, Fotis Jannidis, Laura Mandell, Murray McGillivray, Brent Nelson, Catherine Nygren, Dan O'Donnell, Roger Osbourne, Wendy Phillips-Rodriguez, Elena Pierazzo, Ken Price, Peter Robinson, Geoffrey Rockwell, Peter Shillingsburg, Ray Siemens, Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Joshua Sosin, Melissa Terras, Edward Vanhoutte, and Joris van Zundert (to be confirmed: Hans Gabler and Jerome McGann). The conference will be preceded by a one-day workshop, focussing on collaborative editing systems. Proposals should focus on some aspect of contemporary digital scholarly editing. We welcome descriptions of current projects, theoretical or speculative discussions, bibliographic work, or any aspect of scholarly digital editing. Papers considering scholarly editing in a communal, collaborative context are particularly encouraged. Proposals will be accepted under two strands: one for students of graduate and doctoral programs, one for all others. We particularly welcome proposals from the GO::DH (Global Outlook::Digital Humanities) community, addressing digital scholarly editing in a global context. We will able to offer financial support for accepted proposals, if needed, in the form of bursaries and/or funding for all travel and other costs, and will give preference in allocating funding to proposers from circumstances where support is rarely available (if at all). As well as a 500 word abstract, proposers should submit a cover letter explaining their interest in the conference theme, why they want to attend and indicate what level of support (if any) they might need to come to the conference. Proposal submission will close on 26 April; successful proposers will be notified by 10 May 2013. For more information, see the website at https://ocs.usask.ca/conf/index.php/sdse/sdse13 Ben Brumfield http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:24:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Laura Perrings Subject: Book History Workshop Announcement Texas A&M University Registration Open for Texas A&M Book History Workshop in May Positions remain open for the twelfth annual Book History Workshop at Texas A&M, scheduled for May 19-24, 2013. The available slots will be offered with the same $100 tuition discount which was offered for early enrollment. The five-day workshop, which takes place in Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, provides an intensive, hands-on introduction to the history of books and printing. The active projects of the Workshop place an emphasis on handpress-era printing and its allied technologies – typecasting, papermaking, bookbinding, and illustration. The Workshop provides the rare opportunity not only to discuss book history with experts, but to participate in the activities essential to early book production: students will cast type in a hand mould, couche sheets of paper, and cut relief illustrations. Students will also set and correct lines of type, then impose them on the bed of the Library’s period-accurate common press, producing an eighteenth-century pamphlet facsimile in three work-and-turn octavo formes. The activities of the week are incorporated into the finished project as it is bound in wrappers of handmade paper, featuring printers’ devices cut by each member of the Workshop. The Workshop has traditionally attracted scholars, librarians, archivists, students, teachers, and collectors, as well as those pursuing personal interests in book history. Three graduate credit hours are available to students through the Workshop’s partnership with the Department of Library and Information Sciences at the University of North Texas. To register, find out more, or see photographs from previous Workshops, please go to: http://cushing.library.tamu.edu/events/book-history-workshop , or contact Todd Samuelson at todd.samuelson tamu edu ____ Laura Perrings Kelsey Fellow Cushing Memorial Library & Archives Texas A&M 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B31C12DBB; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:00:53 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A2952CE2; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:00:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3E2A92CED; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:00:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130415050051.3E2A92CED@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:00:51 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.962 software for Latin metrics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 962. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:03:19 +0200 From: "Center for Comparative Studies" Subject: Pede certo: software for metrical analysis of Latin poetry The interface 'Pede certo: metrica latina digitale', developed in the framework of the Firb project 'Textual transmission of the Latin Fathers between Classical and Medieval word' under the responsibility of Emanuela Colombi (Università  di Udine - emanuela.colombi@uniud.it) and Luca Mondin (Università  di Venezia - mondin@unive.it), is now freely consultable online at A Round Table to present the software will be held on April 24 in Venice (program at www.pedecerto.eu). Francesco Stella _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0BC942DC6; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:04:38 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C652DCD; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:04:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4EB602D92; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:04:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130415050436.4EB602D92@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:04:36 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.963 events: summer school; corpora & dictionaries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 963. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Center for Comparative Studies" (13) Subject: Connecting Textual Corpora and Dictionaries - Kraków [2] From: Frank Veltman (97) Subject: ESSLLI 2014 Call for Proposals --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:11:48 +0200 From: "Center for Comparative Studies" Subject: Connecting Textual Corpora and Dictionaries - Kraków Connecting Textual Corpora and Dictionaries 25-26 April 2013, Kraków (Poland) One of the numerous objectives of COST Action 1005 "Medioevo Europeo" is the development of the Virtual Centre of Medieval Studies (VCMS) which shall integrate hitherto dissipate databases, textual collections, and dictionaries into a mature tool for carrying out research on Middle Ages. This goal, however, can only be achieved with reflection on the existing tools, practices, and users' needs. These are the crucial questions which we want to address with our workshop which focuses on the corpus-dictionary interface. The meeting will start with a short presentation of the digital projects that are being carried out in the Institute of Polish Language in Kraków (Polish Academy of Sciences) which hosts the workshop. The first working session (State of Art: Good (and Bad) Practices, Formats, APIs, Interfaces) will comprise brief "state of art" reports dealing with the existing tools of the lexicographical and textual research. It will provide us with a deepened insight into the technical issues of the prospective tools' integration and will contribute to the description of good and bad practices of dictionary and corpora linking. Each participant will try to describe the databases according to the strict protocol which includes their chronological and geographical scope, search and browsing capabilities, interface type, file formats, encoding standards, licensing model, and web APIs. The second working session (Corpora Use in Lexicographic Practice) provides real-world scenarios of the use of corpora-dictionary interface. Practising lexicographers will demonstrate how corpora facilitate everyday dictionary writing processes and how text collections can be exploited in order to enrich the lexicon. The contributions gathered in this section shall help to precise what are the features of the prospective VCMS that would satisfy the lexicographers' community, and what are the interlinking models that would match its needs. The last two sections (Mature Projects: Goals, Tools, Challenges and Emerging Projects: Perspectives and Challenges) of the workshop will group demonstrations, mock-ups, and practical learning sessions. Creators of mature projects and research infrastructures will share their experience in what concerns the syntactic and semantic interoperability of their services. They will also offer other participants a short training. Those, in turn, whose projects are only in the construction or planning phase, will demonstrate their scientific goals, and the problems they encounter in assuring high data linking profile. Local Organizer Institute of Polish Language Polish Academy of Sciences al. Mickiewicza 31 31-120 Kraków http://scriptores.pl/workshop http://scriptores.pl/workshop/schedule/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:11:14 +0000 From: Frank Veltman Subject: ESSLLI 2014 Call for Proposals Call for Course and Workshop Proposals ESSLLI 2014 26th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information Tuebingen, Germany August 11-22, 2014 www.esslli2014.de ------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES =============== 15 June 2013: Proposal submission deadline 15 September 2013: Notification 1 June 2014: Course material due TOPICS AND FORMAT ================= Proposals for courses and workshops at ESSLLI'2014 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 program 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. They are intended to introduce a research field to students, young researchers, and other non-specialists, and to foster a sound understanding of its basic methods and techniques. Such courses should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop some comfort and competence in the topic considered. Introductory courses in a cross-disciplinary area may presuppose general knowledge of the related disciplines. * ADVANCED COURSES * Advanced courses are targeted primarily to graduate students who wish to acquire a level of comfort and understanding in the current research of a field. * WORKSHOPS * Workshops focus on specialized, usually topics of current interest. Workshops organizers are responsible for soliciting papers and selecting the workshop program. They are also responsible for publishing proceedings if they decide to have proceedings. PROPOSAL GUIDELINES =================== Course and workshop proposals should follow closely the following guidelines to ensure full consideration. Each course may have no more than two instructors, and each workshop no more than two organizers. All instructors and organizers must possess a PhD or equivalent degree by the submission deadline. Course proposals should mention explicitly the intended course category. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the intended level, for example as it relates to standard textbooks and monographs in the area. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. Proposals must be submitted in PDF format via: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2014 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 prerequisites * Appropriate references (e.g. textbooks, monographs, proceedings, surveys) o Practical information: * Relevant preceding meetings and events, if applicable * Potential external funding for participants ------------------------------------------------------------------ =========================== Frank Veltman ILLC University of Amsterdam P.O. Box 94242 1090 GE Amsterdam The Netherlands e-mail: f.veltman@uva.nl homepage: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~veltman/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3370A2D8C; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:18:46 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 480242CD3; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:18:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B63B02CD1; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:18:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130416051842.B63B02CD1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:18:42 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.964 representations of identity? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 964. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:13:27 +0200 From: Bogdan Trifunovic Subject: Survey "Decoding Representations in Identities" Dear colleagues, For the purposes of organization of the seminar "Wikipedia, Church and Academic Research: Three Case Studies of Decoding Representations of Identities" we have prepared a very short survey titled "Decoding Representations of Identities", which is accessible at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/10IraJkMZIKCHpRc0d7ZbUUpOgYUwM5XuVOQphhO5ZDI/viewform The purpose of this survey is to shed light on the current practice in the humanities and Digital Humanities (DH) research regarding the use of electronic, digital and online resources for reflecting representations of identity. The authors of the survey are three PhD students from the Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw http://www.obta.uw.edu.pl: Ines Steger, Julia Lewandowska and Bogdan Trifunović. We plan to analyze data collected through this survey and to present statistical findings at the seminar titled "Wikipedia, Church and Academic Research: Three Case Studies of Decoding Representations of Identities", at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales" on 25th April 2013. The survey is anonymous and by no means we will use any confidential information which could affect privacy of the people taking the survey. Thank you! _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 467992EFC; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:19:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D46C2DBB; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:19:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 46AD92CD3; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:19:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130416051956.46AD92CD3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:19:56 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.965 internships at the National Maritime Museum (London) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 965. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:29:47 +0100 From: Heloise Finch-Boyer Subject: REMINDER: history of science & technology internships closing date 22/4/2013 The National Maritime Museum UK is accepting 2013-14 applications for paid interns in the history of science and technology. Deadline Monday 22nd April. www.rmg.co.uk/researchers/fellowships-and-internships/intern-programme The Museum created this intern programme to further develop its research activity in the vital fields of time, navigation, astronomy, cartography and nautical technology. Our collections in this area are world-class and we need to ensure they are well researched so that the Museum can make them accessible to a wide range of audiences. Research at the National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory is not just for those considering a career in museums or galleries. The Museum’s collections offer rich sources for a wide range of subjects – not only maritime history and history of astronomy, but also the wider history of science and technology, economic and business history, the history of production and consumption, imperial history and exploration. For those considering further research at university, they offer the chance to try out a subject or an approach. The main emphasis will be on the collections, and although this will include work on archive material, the primary focus will be on the use of artifacts for research. Interns will be supervised by an appropriate member of the curatorial team: Heloise Finch-Boyer (Curator of History of Science and Technology, including oceanography and modern navigation), Richard Dunn (Senior Curator, History of Navigation), Rebekah Higgitt (Curator of History of Science and Technology, including astronomy), Gillian Hutchinson (Curator of Cartography) and Rory McEvoy (Curator of Horology). The Museum is keen to encourage interdisciplinary and contextual studies. There may also be scope to work with the Exhibition, Digital Media and Education departments on methods of using the results of research to interpret objects for different groups of visitors, including virtual visitors using the website. Others will prefer to use the research for a university dissertation, an article or a seminar paper. Duration and payment Internships will last for 1–2 months, agreed in advance, depending on the scope and level of the proposed project. It will be possible to divide a longer internship into two periods, by agreement with Museum staff, and university tutors if applicable. In 2012–13 the bursary offered was £1500 per month, intended to cover living expenses and travel to and from the museum. There will also be a limited amount of additional money for exceptional travel expenses essential to the research and agreed in advance. Applications for the 2013–14 scheme are now open. The closing date is Monday 22 April 2013 and the internship may be taken between June 2013 and April 2014. Who can apply? All postgraduate students Final year undergraduates who wish to use research on the Museum’s collections for a dissertation or long essay. Applicants can also apply for an internship in between courses, for example, between undergraduate and postgraduate study, or to try out a subject which they may wish to propose for an MPhil or PhD. How to apply Applications should include: A curriculum vitae, giving contact details, educational qualifications, and the names of two referees who know your work. An outline of no more than 500 words of the proposed research topic. An indication of the output you would hope to achieve from your research, for example article, seminar paper, blog post, online resource or other outcome. Please send your application by email to: hfinch-boyer@rmg.co.uk. Expectations Museum staff will expect the intern to: Undertake research leading to an agreed piece of work, such as an article or note for a journal, a post on one of the Museum’s blogs, a paper for a staff seminar, entries for the online catalogue, a talk for visitors, text or object labels for an exhibition, and/or part of a postgraduate dissertation. For details of previous project themes, titles and outputs see: RMG History of Science internships: 2004–2012. Go through the staff security vetting procedure Be in attendance at the museum during normal working hours, unless there has been prior agreement that the research topic requires work in other collections or libraries Report absence through illness the same day and provide a doctor’s certificate if away for more than 7 days Successfully complete any courses, such as object handling, necessary for safe working Complete a brief evaluation report at the end of the internship. For further information contact: hfinch-boyer@rmg.co.uk. Dr Heloise Finch-Boyer Curator of Science & Technology National Maritime Museum | Royal Observatory Greenwich | The Queen's House direct +44 (0) 208 312 6617 Greenwich, London SE10 9NF _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B7611311B; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:20:36 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3CAE2D92; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:20:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2F9C42D8B; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:20:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130416052034.2F9C42D8B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:20:34 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.966 ALLC Elections 2013 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 966. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:44:48 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Reminder: ALLC (EADH) elections - closing date for nominations 20th April ALLC Elections 2013 Nominations are now invited for three committee posts, each to serve a 3-year term. The current members of the executive committee, Espen Ore and Jan Rybicki, are standing for re-election. All nominations require the support of two joint or ALLC: EADH members - in effect a proposer and seconder - and the written consent of the nominee. Note that self-nomination is excluded by the constitution, and membership must be current. All nominations should be sent to nominations[at]allc.org Full details of the election process are to be found on the EADH website at www.allc.org. Nominations may be made by email or by post. A copy of the Constitution is also available on the EADH website. The nomination period has now begun and will run to April 20th. If there are more than three nominations for the committee member positions, voting will take place in May. Results will be announced at the association's annual general meeting, which will take place during the DH2013 conference. Nominations are also invited for the role of chair and for the role of treasurer, two of the designated officers of the association. If there is more than one nomination for a given officer's position, then the appointment of a new chair and new treasurer, from among those nominated, will be made by the committee at its July meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska, just prior to the DH2013 conference. Paul Spence, our current treasurer, will not stand for re-election, and, as you almost certainly know, Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen, chair since 2010, passed away in Feb. The chair and the treasurer serve a three-year terms, subject to a single renewal, and their duties are specified in the constitution (http://www.allc.org/about/constitution). Anyone interested in serving in this position is encouraged to send an expression of interest, including a 1-page CV and a 250-word statement of what s/he would hope to accomplish as chair to nominations[at]allc.org no later than midnight, May 15, 2013 (GMT). Questions about the position may be addressed confidentially to John Nerbonne, j.nerbonne[at]rug.nl, EADH president. ----------------- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DEA052DBB; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:23:26 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 815632CD4; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:23:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 881DE2CD3; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:23:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130416052323.881DE2CD3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:23:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.967 events: history & philosophy of computing; digital libraries; magazines & digital archives X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 967. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Maarten Bullynck (65) Subject: 2nd CfP Conf. Hist. & Phil. of Computing (28-31 October 2013, Paris) [2] From: Natalia Ermolaev (34) Subject: CFP: Remediating the Avant-Garde: Magazines and Digital Archives, Princeton (October 25-26, 2013) [3] From: "J. Stephen Downie" (38) Subject: Registration Now Open: ACM/IEEE 2013 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 05:21:07 -0700 From: Maarten Bullynck Subject: 2nd CfP Conf. Hist. & Phil. of Computing (28-31 October 2013, Paris) Dear Colleagues, Please find below the second call for papers of the Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC 2013) that will take place from the 28th to the 31st of October 2013 at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. Please note also that the deadline for submissions has been extended to May 15th 2013! best regards, Maarten Bullynck (Dept. of Mathematics and History of Science, Paris 8) ************************************************************************************************* 2nd CfP Conf. History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC 2013, 28-31 October, Paris) ************************************************************************************************* SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS, 2nd International CONFERENCE on the HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF COMPUTING (HaPoC 2013) Extended Submission Deadline: 15th May 2013 ! 28th - 31st October 2013 Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. with a special session on "Computing and the Arts" at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs http://hapoc2013.sciencesconf.org The 2nd International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC 2013) will take place from the 28th to the 31st of October 2013 at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris (France). The birth of the computing and its sciences has often been the topic of philosophical and historical reflection. The HaPoC-conferences have decided to bring together the historical and the philosophical viewpoints. They want to create an environment for a true interdisciplinary convergence around computer science, reenforcing research on the science(s) of computing and its history and stimulating a theoretical dialogue between these domains. To furter this dialogue HaPoC has chosen to have no parallel sessions. Our invited speakers are: Janet Abbate; Bernard Chazelle; S. Barry Cooper; Walter Dean; Nathan Ensmenger; Jean-Yves Girard; Margit Rosen and Franck Varenne. HaPoC 2013 is the follow-up conference to HaPoC 2011 (Gent, Belgium). Please check out the website of HaPoC 2013 for more information on the conference: http://hapoc2013.sciencesconf.org For HaPoC 2013 we welcome contributions from logicians, philosophers and historians of computing as well as from philosophically aware computer scientists and mathematicians. Topics include but are not limited to: 1. Approaches to the notion of computing      a. History and Philosophy of Computability      b. History and Philosophy of Computation      c. History and Philosophy of Programming      d. History and Philosophy of the Computer 2. Applications and uses of Computing      a. History and Epistemology of the use of Computing in the sciences      b. Computing and the Arts : historical and conceptual issues      c. Social, ethical and paedagogical aspects of Computing We cordially invite researchers working in a field relevant to the main topics of the conference to submit a short abstract of approximately 200 words and an extended abstract of at most a 1000 words (references included) to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hapoc2 Abstracts must be written in English and anonymized. Please note that the format of uploaded files must be .pdf or .doc. The submission deadline is: May 15th, 2013 (extended!) Notification of acceptance: July 1st, 2013 Best regards, the organisers, Maarten Bullynck (Paris 8 & SPHERE) Jean-Baptiste Joinet (Lyon 3, IRPhil & CIRPHLES) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:20:03 +0000 From: Natalia Ermolaev Subject: CFP: Remediating the Avant-Garde: Magazines and Digital Archives, Princeton (October 25-26, 2013) Call for Papers Remediating the Avant-Garde: Magazines and Digital Archives Princeton University October 25th-26th, 2013 The Blue Mountain Project at Princeton University invites paper proposals for a two-day conference, to be held in Princeton, New Jersey on October 25th and 26th, 2013. Context of inquiry The aim of our conference is to explore the fertile conceptual and practical ground where traditional area studies, periodical studies, digital humanities, computer science, and library and information science converge. We are interested in how these fields inform each other and challenge us to think and create in new ways, both as builders of digital resources and as scholars and teachers of avant-garde periodicals. The following set of questions will frame the conference discussions: · What intellectual and technological insights emerge when we attempt to represent avant-garde periodicals – their specific aesthetic, material, and social features; format; diverse historical, linguistic and national specificities – in the digital environment? · What are the potentials, and what are the risks, for intellectual engagement with avant-garde periodicals when they are remediated in the digital environment? What positive and/or negative impact can the application of new methods of representation and analysis have on both short-term research and teaching and longer-term understanding of this material? · Can we define a set of priorities, or best practices, for representing avant-garde periodicals in the digital environment? Papers sought We welcome, in particular, papers that touch upon topics such as: - aspects of remediating visual, verbal and musical texts - methods of representation (e.g. bibliographic description and analysis, ontology design, text encoding, linked data, interface) - methods of analysis (e.g. full-text searching, data mining, visualization, GIS, topic modeling) - dynamics of control by reader/user vs. control by system/format - pedagogical practices Conference Outline The conference will comprise three panel discussions, one roundtable discussion, and a workshop. The keynote address will be delivered by Johanna Drucker, Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA, known widely for her work in the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry, fine art, and digital humanities. Submission details Paper proposals (abstract 500 words, plus short author bio) due: May 31, 2013 Acceptance notification: June 15, 2013 Send proposals and inquiries to: Natalia Ermolaev: nataliae@princeton.edu The Blue Mountain Project at Princeton University is the collaborative work of scholars, librarians, curators, and digital humanities researchers to create a freely available electronic repository of art, music, and literary periodicals that both chronicle and embody the emergence of cultural modernity in the West. This conference is being made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information on the Blue Mountain Project, please visit:http://library.princeton.edu/projects/bluemountain ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Natalia Ermolaev Project Manager, Blue Mountain Project nataliae@princeton.edu (609) 258-6243 Marquand Library A63, McCormick Hall Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 http://library.princeton.edu/projects/bluemountain --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:08:57 -0500 From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: Registration Now Open: ACM/IEEE 2013 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) Dear Colleagues Registration is now open for the 2013 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). http://jcdl2013.org/registration Main Early Registration -- Deadline May 27, 2013 * ACM/IEEE/SIG Members - $600 * Non-ACM/IEEE/SIG Members - $750 * ACM/IEEE/SIG Student - $380 * Lifetime Members - $360 * Non-member Student - $450 Main Late/Onsite Registration * ACM/IEEE/SIG Members - $720 * Non-ACM/IEEE/SIG Members - $900 * ACM/IEEE/SIG Student - $475 * Lifetime Members - $475 * Non-member Student - $550 For more information of registration, including information on this years pre- and post-conference workshops and tutorials, please visit http://www.jcdl2013.org/. The JCDL is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical and social issues. This year's conference will be held in Indianapolis, IN from July 22-26. We welcome submissions on the wide range of topics of interest in Digital Libraries worldwide. On behalf of the JCDL 2013 Planning Committee, Best, 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0CF7F3125; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:24:47 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16B762EFE; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:24:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 429F32DCC; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:24:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130416052444.429F32DCC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:24:44 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.968 the 'process turn'? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 968. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:17:15 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the 'process turn'? My resistance has crumbled. I am now quite independently (not) thinking in terms of turns. My question concerns the onset of the 'process turn'. As the older readers of Humanist will remember, Ronald Reagan, when he was relatively young, worked for General Electric as a promo man, specifically as the host of the television program General Electric Theatre from 1954 to 1962. There he made famous the slogan devised by an (unnamed?) colleague in the advertising department, "Progress is our most important product". See, for example, his talk at the 1961 sales meeting of GE, "Frontiers of Progress", http://www.smecc.org/frontiers_of_progress_-_1961_sales_meeting.htm. My question is this. Has anyone studied the public and academic discourses for a turn from talking about products to talking about processes, esp in its relation to computing? I get the *impression* of such a turn, and that we are still thus turned, but has anyone actually studied this? 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8148139D4; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:44:22 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A09902DD0; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:44:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5B78D2DC4; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:44:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130417064420.5B78D2DC4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:44:20 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.969 the 'process turn' 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. 969. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:01:40 -0400 From: Rainer Hilscher Subject: re: the 'process turn'? This "process turn" is well anchored in the study of complex systems in general and complex social system in particular. I don't know of any studies that have looked at public and academic discourses. I would be very surprised, however, if complex systems concepts had not permeated into such discourses and the way we think and articulate our thoughts in general. I think this is a fascinating question how and to what extend complex system concepts have permeated into cultural productions like discourses, movies and literature. Rainer _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,URIBL_GREY autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5777B3A00; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:48:29 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE3C039DC; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:48:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A2BC32DC4; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:48:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130417064826.A2BC32DC4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:48:26 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.970 jobs: postdoc at HASTAC; PhD studentship at Edinburgh/RGS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 970. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Rebekah Higgitt (10) Subject: PhD Studentship - Instruments of Exploration (Edinburgh/RGS) [2] From: "HASTAC" (15) Subject: Postdoctoral position to study HASTAC's network and impact --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:37:07 +0100 From: Rebekah Higgitt Subject: PhD Studentship - Instruments of Exploration (Edinburgh/RGS) Forwarded on behalf of Charles Withers INSTRUMENTS OF EXPLORATION: TECHNOLOGIES OF GEOGRAPHICAL ENQUIRY, c.1860–c.1939 FULLY-FUNDED AHRC PhD STUDENTSHIP Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded PhD, a Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA), supervised jointly by the University of Edinburgh (Geography, School of GeoSciences) and the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). The CDA Studentship is one of three awards made by the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) between the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and the Royal Society of London. The subject of this Studentship is ‘Instruments of Exploration: Technologies of Geographical Enquiry, c.1860–c.1939’. The project will be supervised by Professor Charles W J Withers (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Catherine Souch (RGS-IBG). The studentship, which is funded for three years full time equivalent, will begin in September 2013. THE STUDENTSHIP: The studentship will focus on instruments of geographical exploration and their associated print and manuscript histories. The RGS-IBG holds a uniquely important set of instruments of geographical exploration (and other archival and historical material, including maps and manuscripts). The project aims in general: to examine the RGS-IBG instrument collection in relation to contemporary debates about method, technology, credibility, and trust in geography, exploration, and the field-based empirical sciences; to extend existing collaborative work within the RGS-IBG over the nature and importance of its historical holdings; to address questions about the authority of science, the role of instruments and instrumentation in developing truth claims, and establishing authority through standards and practices of authoritative measurement. There may, in addition, be scope for work in the instrument collections of the Royal Society of London. HOW TO APPLY: Intending applicants should have a good undergraduate degree, or Masters, in geography, history of science, or history, and will need to satisfy AHRC eligibility requirements. Ideally, you will have experience of relevant research methods (advanced research training is a required element of the studentship). Applicants should submit a two-page curriculum vitae, with a brief letter outlining your qualification for the studentship, and the names and contact details of two academic referees to: Professor Charles W J Withers, Geography, School of GeoSciences, Drummond Street, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XP (c.w.j.withers@ed.ac.uk) no later than 8 May 2013. Interviews, which will be held in London, are scheduled to take place on 17 May 2013. For further information regarding the studentship, please contact Professor Charles W J Withers (c.w.j.withers@ed.ac.uk)/ 0131 650 2559. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:23:53 +0000 From: "HASTAC" Subject: Postdoctoral position to study HASTAC's network and impact POSTDOCTORAL POSITION TO STUDY HASTAC'S NETWORK AND IMPACT We're hiring to continue the work begun by postdoctoral fellow David Sparks [4] to better understand our innovative community of educators and learners, to incentivize and support the range of cross-disciplinary researchers who must work together successfully in order to solve society’s biggest problems   Learn more at http://cts.vresp.com/c/?HASTAC/701abcb961/5f8cc84461/45d905df19 - HASTAC 114 S. Buchanan Blvd, Bay 5 Box 90403 Durham, North Carolina 27708-0403 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 512ED39DC; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:53:23 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 827902DBB; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:53:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5C5512DC4; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:53:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130417065319.5C5512DC4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:53:19 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.971 events: CL for literature; education, training and projects; information; libraries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 971. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Mats Dahlström" (116) Subject: CFP - iConference 2014 [2] From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" (27) Subject: REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2013 [3] From: Anna Kazantseva (6) Subject: 1st Call for Participation: Second Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, NAACL 2013 [4] From: Harold Short (19) Subject: Digital Humanities Seminar, University of Western Sydney --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:05:33 +0200 From: "Mats Dahlström" Subject: CFP - iConference 2014 Call for Participation: iConference 2014 Berlin, Germany 4-7 March, 2014 http://iconference.ischools.org/iConference14/2014index/ The ninth annual iConference will take place 4-7 March, 2014, in Berlin, Germany. The four days will include peer-reviewed Papers, Notes, Posters, Workshops and Sessions for Interaction and Engagement. Also included are a Doctoral Student Colloquium and an Early Career Colloquium. Keynote addresses will be given by Tony Hey of Microsoft Research and Melissa Terras of the Department of Information Studies, University College London. Presented by the iSchools organization (www.ischools.org), the iConference is an annual gathering of information scholars and researchers from around the world who share a common concern about critical information issues in contemporary society. All are invited to participate; affiliation with the iSchools is not a prerequisite. iConference 2014 is hosted by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; its program is administered by the Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen. Microsoft Research is a presenting sponsor. The official proceedings will be published in the IDEALS open repository (Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship). IMPORTANT LINKS * Conference: http://iconference.ischools.org/iConference14/2014index/ * Past Proceedings: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/* Facebook: IConference * Twitter: @iConf | #iconf14 SUBMISSION INFORMATION The following is a brief overview; please visit our website for complete submissions guidelines. Authors are discouraged from submitting the same research to different conference submission categories. For example, authors should not submit the same research as a Note and a Poster. Duplicate submissions may not be reviewed or accepted. * PAPERS: We invite papers discussing, analysing, and critiquing theories and concepts, or reporting results of completed original research. Submitted papers should be between 5,000 and 6,000 words (not counting references), and should not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Each will be refereed in a double-blind process. More at http://www.iconference.ischools.org/iConference14/papers/ Submission deadline: 15 August 2013, 23:00 GMT Papers Chairs: Diane Sonnenwald, Professor, UCD School of Information & Library Studies, Dublin; Dietmar Wolfram, Professor, School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. * NOTES: Reports of early and partial results from original research are invited for submission as a Note. Submitted notes should be between 2,000 and 2,500 words (not counting references). Submissions will be refereed in a double-blind process. More at http://www.iconference.ischools.org/iConference14/notes/ Submission deadline: 18 September 2013, 23:00 GMT Notes Chairs: Diane Sonnenwald, Professor, UCD School of Information & Library Studies, Dublin; Dietmar Wolfram, Professor, School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. * POSTERS We welcome submission of Posters presenting new work, preliminary results and designs, or educational projects. Submitted posters should be around 1,500 words (not including references). These posters will undergo a double-blind review. Posters will be published in the proceedings. More at http://www.iconference.ischools.org/iConference14/posters/ Abstract submission deadline: 18 September 2013, 23:00 GMT Posters Chairs: Toine Bogers, Assistant Professor, Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen; Paul D. Clough, Senior Lecturer, Information School of Social Science, University of Sheffield. * WORKSHOPS Workshops can be half- or full day and can focus on any area related to the conference theme (Breaking Down Walls: Culture, Context, Computing) or more broadly to the purview of the iSchools, namely, the relationships among information, people and technology. Please note that workshops should be frhttp://www.iconference.ischools.org/iConference14/workshops/ Submission deadline: 4 September 2013, 23:00 GMT Workshops Chairs: Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research; Soo Young Rieh, Associate Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan. * SESSIONS FOR INTERACTION AND ENGAGEMENT Formerly called Alternative Events, these sessions can include panels, fishbowls, performances, storytelling, roundtable discussions, wildcard sessions, demos/exhibitions, and more. All should be highly participatory, informal, engaging, and pluralistic. More at http://www.iconference.ischools.org/iConference14/sie/ Submission deadline: 4 September 2013, 23:00 GMT Sessions for Interaction and Engagement Chairs: Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research; Soo Young Rieh, Associate Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan. OTHER EVENTS SCHEDULED * DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM The Doctoral Colloquium provides doctoral students the opportunity to present their work to senior faculty and engage with one another in a setting that is relatively informal but that allows for the fullest of intellectual exchanges. Students receive feedback on their dissertation, career paths, and other areas 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. More at http://iconference.ischools.org/iConference14/doctoral/ Application deadline: 26 August 2013, 23:00 GMT Doctoral Colloquium Co-Chairs: Karen E. Fisher, Professor, University of Washington; Jens-Erik Mai, Professor, Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen; Gloria Mack, Professor, University of California, Irvine * 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. More at http://www.iconference.ischools.org/iConference14/jr_faculty/ Early Career Colloquium Chairs: Jeffrey Pomerantz, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Vivien Petras, Professor, Berlin School of Library and Information Science. ADDITIONAL ORGANIZERS Conference Chairs: Michael Seadle, Director of the School and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Berlin; Per Hasle, Rector, Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen. Program Chairs: Jack Andersen, Vice-Rector and Head of Department, Elke Greifeneder, Assistant Professor, and Beth Juncker, Professor, Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen. Proceedings Chair: Maxi Kindling, Lecturer, Berlin School of Library and Information Science [...] More at http://iconference.ischools.org/iConference14/2014index/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:23:07 +0000 From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" Subject: REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2013 Registration is now open for the 2013 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Main Early Registration -- Deadline May 27, 2013 * ACM/IEEE/SIG Members - $600 * Non-ACM/IEEE/SIG Members - $750 * ACM/IEEE/SIG Student - $380 * Lifetime Members - $360 * Non-member Student - $450 Main Late/Onsite Registration * ACM/IEEE/SIG Members - $720 * Non-ACM/IEEE/SIG Members - $900 * ACM/IEEE/SIG Student - $475 * Lifetime Members - $475 * Non-member Student - $550 For more information of registration, including information on this years pre- and post-conference workshops and tutorials, please visit http://www.jcdl2013.org/. The JCDL is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical and social issues. This year's conference will be held in Indianapolis, IN from July 22-26. We welcome submissions on the wide range of topics of interest in Digital Libraries worldwide. On behalf of the JCDL 2013 Planning Committee, Megan Senseney -- Megan Finn Senseney Project Coordinator, Research Services Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel Street Champaign, Illinois 61820 Phone: (217) 244-5574 Email: mfsense2@illinois.edu http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/services/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:06:25 -0400 From: Anna Kazantseva Subject: 1st Call for Participation: Second Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, NAACL 2013 Second Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature at NAACL in Atlanta, Georgia, June 14, 2013 First Call for Participation The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners interested in applying computational linguistics to literature and other rhetorical texts. Because they are not often examined, such data require specialized and sometimes interdisciplinary methods of indexing, discourse analysis, semantics and other language processing tasks. As a form of creative expression, literature demands that processing go beyond key words and phrases to find meaning relevant to readers and information seekers. The workshop will facilitate a discussion on the latest innovations in the application of NLP to these text genres. See https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2013/ for details on CLfL, including the list of accepted papers and a tentative schedule. In addition to six presentations and a poster session, the workshop will feature two invited speakers: Livia Polanyi, Consulting Professor in Linguistics at Stanford University, and Mark Riedl, Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech's School of Interactive Computing. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:14:59 +0000 From: Harold Short Subject: Digital Humanities Seminar, University of Western Sydney Digital Humanities Seminar Education, Training and Large Collaborative Projects in the Digital Humanities Presented by Professor Ray Siemens and Dr Lynne Siemens, University of Victoria, Canada Date: Fri 26 April 2013 Time: 12.00-2.00 (sandwich lunch provided!) Location: Room 5.G.24 Bankstown Campus, University of Western Sydney (UWS Bankstown Campus, Building 5, School of Humanities and Communication Arts) RSVP s.bell@uws.edu.au Digital Humanities is a field of research and teaching that has been growing dramatically around the world, especially over the past 5 years. There is and has been considerable activity of this kind at UWS across a number of Schools and Institutes, and 2013 sees the formal establishment of a Research Group in Digital Humanities at UWS, based in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts. The field has a long tradition in Australia and New Zealand, but recent growth across the region led to the founding in 2011 of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities, with the support of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. This seminar takes advantage of the presence in Sydney of two distinguished visitors from Canada, and marks the first formal event of the new Research Group. Professor Ray Siemens and Dr Lynne Siemens will each make a presentation, followed by questions and discussion. Both speakers have a wealth of experience of digital humanities both in Canada and internationally, so it is anticipated that the discussion will be wide-ranging. Presentations and Biographies Ray Siemens: Education and Training in the Digital Humanities: Converging local initiatives and their international context. This talk considers digital humanities education and training in its many contexts — from local informal interactions to formal, dedicated doctoral programmes. It assesses the developing programmes that range from basic understanding of key concepts to emerging trends in content- and process-modelling, social and public engagement, and large-scale problem-based research. Lynne Siemens: Collaborative Research Projects in the Digital Humanities : Building and sustaining from the local to the international. Researchers are taking increasing advantage of digital resources, tools, and methods to explore new and different kinds of research questions. One result is the emergence of larger and more complex projects requiring different work practices that include collaboration with colleagues locally, nationally and increasingly internationally. This raises questions around the type of processes needed to build and sustain teams and their projects while meeting the many challenges that come with working across disciplines, distance, time and culture/language groups. This talk addresses these questions and suggests best practices for Digital Humanities teams to consider in their collaborations. Ray Siemens is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, in English and Computer Science. He is founding editor of the electronic scholarly journal Early Modern Literary Studies, and his publications include, among others, Blackwell's Companion to Digital Humanities (with Schreibman and Unsworth), Blackwell's Companion to Digital Literary Studies (with Schreibman), A Social Edition of the Devonshire MS, and Literary Studies in the Digital Age (MLA, with Price). He directs the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, and serves as Vice President of the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences for Research Dissemination, recently serving also as Chair of the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations’ Steering Committee. In this latter role he gave considerable support to those involved in establishing the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities. (http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens) Lynne Siemens is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Administration, University of Victoria. Her interests include academic entrepreneurship, collaboration and team work with a focus on understanding methods and processes to facilitate collaborative research across distances, disciplines and organizational boundaries. She has taught workshops in Project Management at University of Victoria’s Digital Humanities Summer Institute and University of Leipzig's European Summer School for Culture and Technology. Dr. Siemens is Principle Investigator of a research team funded by the Canadian Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council to examine the impact of representation from multiple countries, languages and culture groups on research teams with the objective of outlining types of supports and research preparation to ensure effective research results. She also serves as a management advisor for Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE), a Major Collaborative Research Initiative project. Dr. Siemens's role includes supporting the development of governance documents, organizational structure and project management. (http://www.uvic.ca/hsd/publicadmin/aboutUs/home/facultystaff/siemens.php) Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to s.bell@uws.edu.au _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1B7653A01; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:54:11 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0890139E8; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:54:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 592372EFE; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:54:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130417065408.592372EFE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:54:08 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.972 pubs: archives remixed cfp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 972. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:38:32 -0500 From: Lauren Coats Subject: Publishing the Archive CFP In-Reply-To: <516725B5.5070807@lsu.edu> Dear Humanist members, Please consider submitting proposals for a forthcoming issue of /Archive Journal /on "Publishing the Archive" (CFP below and online http://www.archivejournal.net/home/submit-to-archive/ ). best, Lauren -- laurencoats editor, /archive journal / assistant professor | department of english | allen 260 louisiana state university | baton rouge, la 70803 ----- CFP: /Archive Journal /Issue 4 -- "Publishing the Archive" /Archive//Journal /is now accepting project and essay proposals for the "Archives, Remixed" section of its upcoming fourth issue, "Publishing the Archive." This issue will examine how technological developments---from discrete digitization projects and databases to linked data and APIs for extensible machine-readability---are changing how we produce and publish archives and archival research. The overarching question of this issue is: how do new forms of structured data and new modes for exhibiting archival materials constitute something more than straightforward repositories---becoming instead publications in their own right? And, a related question: What theoretical and operational changes occur when we think of archives and collections as data aggregations in need of publishing? In this sense the term "publishing" means "making public," but it also means providing high-quality forms of access (as well as human- and machine-friendly metadata) for using, reusing, and remixing archival data. We invite proposals that investigate the possibilities and limits of "publishing the archive." Projects might include, but are not limited to: ·Development of a specific archive-oriented API along with a narrative account of what the application seeks to achieve. ·Textual and/or multimedia explorations of the challenges and promises of linked data with regard to specific archives, collections, or databases. ·Examinations of the history of archival interoperability (for instance, thinking critically about how the evolution of metadata schemas has led to new archival structures and new ways of linking across archives). ·Analysis, modeling, or development of new modes of presenting archives on the web, including new kinds of searchability, visualizations of data, and capacity for user-driven contributions. ·Analysis, modeling, or development of new tools and platforms for working in archives and collections (e.g., an application that allows scholars to produce research--annotations, essays, or experimentations--in the same space as the cultural artifact). ·Specific discussions not only about what can be published, but about what /should /be published. That is, in an environment where wholesale digital access is possible, do we need specific parameters for authoritative "editions" of the archive? ·Discussions of how to effectively address copyright restrictions preventing archival material from being published. ·Discussions about what happens to analog archives that do not have a digital presence. Or, related to this: what are the effects of the digital surrogate becoming increasingly de rigueur? *Submitting proposals* Anopen access, peer-reviewed journal http://archivejournal.net/journal/home/about/#review , /Archive Journal/ seeks content that speaks to its diverse audience of librarians, scholars, archivists, and technologists. We encourage proposals from humanities and social science researchers, archive developers and directors, and special collections librarians and library technologists. In your 500-1000 word proposal, please include: ·a description of the project's argument and scholarly significance ·the archives, collections, or databases to be addressed in the project ·a description of the project components and format (e.g., traditional text or multimedia essay; a streaming media work; an archival tool, code or API, etc.; interactive visualization, etc.) This issue is being guest edited by Anvil Academic http://anvilacademic.org/ . If you have any questions about your proposal, please feel free to contact Korey Jackson at kjackson@anvilacademic.org . Submit proposals to Fred Moody (fmoody@anvilacademic.org ) by June 3, 2013. Proposals should include a brief (200-word) professional biography and current CV. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5F8703A22; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:09:37 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55DC43A10; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:09:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0A5E13A0F; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:09:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130418050935.0A5E13A0F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:09:34 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.973 the 'process turn' X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 973. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dino Buzzetti (60) Subject: Re: 26.969 the 'process turn' [2] From: drwender@aol.com (45) Subject: Re: 26.969 the 'process turn' --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:32:18 +0200 From: Dino Buzzetti Subject: Re: 26.969 the 'process turn' In-Reply-To: <20130417064420.5B78D2DC4@digitalhumanities.org> As is well known, it was Alfred North Whitehead who, almost a century ago, dealt with the notion of "process" from a theoretical point of view. Recently, there have been attempts to formalize Whitehead's notion of 'process' into the algebraic theory of categories, by Michael Heather and Nick Rossiter http://computing.unn.ac.uk/staff/cgnr1/ . But, I do not know either, whether these attempts had a significant impact on recent public and academic discourse. Whitehead ideas, though, had a considerable influence on philosophy and theology as well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_philosophy , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_theology . -dino buzzetti -- Dino Buzzetti formerly Department of Philosophy University of Bologna currently Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII via san Vitale, 114 I-40125 Bologna BO e-mail: dino.buzzetti@gmail.com buzzetti@fscire.it web: http://antonietta.philo.unibo.it --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:37:11 -0400 (EDT) From: drwender@aol.com Subject: Re: 26.969 the 'process turn' In-Reply-To: <20130417064420.5B78D2DC4@digitalhumanities.org> In a marketing context  I would read Ronald Reagan's slogan as attempt to promote a certain corporate identity in times of futurist expectations, and such attempts are rooted in the prior invention of 'public relations' as communicative strategy. In a broader sense, turns from 'product' to 'process' (and back) seem to be rooted in the Aristotelian terms 'energeua' and 'ergon' (f.e. the theory of language by W.v. Humboldt); in editorial approaches this is mirrored in the opposition of (a) establishing the (virtually) 'best text' or (b) documenting real textual processes as open systems. Most of such controversies, I think, predate the mentioned 'process turn' of the 1960's. Herbert _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 306FC3A29; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:11:27 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFE7E3A22; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:11:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 98B2B3A15; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:11:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130418051123.98B2B3A15@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:11:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.974 events: visual illusions; semantic web X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 974. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jon Agar (36) Subject: cfp: Visual Illusions -- past, present and future use [2] From: Natasha Noy (53) Subject: Call for submissions: Doctoral Consortium at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:50:27 +0000 From: Jon Agar Subject: cfp: Visual Illusions -- past, present and future use Call for papers Visual Illusions – past, present and future use Conference at the Centre for Medical Humanities University of Leicester, UK 7th June 2013 This conference will examine the medical, psychological, historical and religious use of visual illusions, and their influence on the arts and society. Recent findings that visual illusions can alter brain function and pain have led to insights of how they have been used – whether consciously or not – in arts and religion. Examples of how illusions can benefit in further areas are welcomed for this conference. We also welcome proposals for papers which, through general surveys or particular research of individuals or groups, address topics such as • Visual illusions in medical history and in the literature • Neuroscientific insights into the working mechanism of visual illusions • Insights within the therapeutic use of mirror visual feedback • Visual illusions perceived as miracles and the impact on society • The variance in individual susceptibility to illusions from a psychological point of view • Influence of memory on the interpretation of illusion • Cultural impact on perception of illusion in the arts • Real mirror illusion versus virtual reality – the difference in neural processing These topics are for guidance only and we will consider any suggestions that fall within this broad area of visual illusions. Papers relevant to the conference agenda are welcome. These should be sent by the 10th May 2013 preferably to both organisers Professor Steven King (sak28@le.ac.uk) and Annegret Hagenberg (ah413@le.ac.uk). It is our intention with the consent of those contributing such papers to annex these or abstracts thereof to a published report of the conference. Details of the timetable and content of the various sessions will follow before 17th May. Annegret Hagenberg MSc MCSP Fellow of the Centre for Medical Humanities University of Leicester 7 Salisbury Road Leicester LE1 7QR Email: ah413@le.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:49:40 +0000 From: Natasha Noy Subject: Call for submissions: Doctoral Consortium at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013) International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013) Sydney, Australia October 21-25, 2013 Call for Doctoral Consortium Submissions http://iswc2013.semanticweb.org/content/call-doctoral-consortium-submissions ================================================ The ISWC 2013 Doctoral Consortium will take place as part of the 12th International Semantic Web Conference in Sydney, Australia. This forum will provide PhD students an opportunity to share and develop their research ideas in a critical but supportive environment, to get feedback from mentors who are senior members of the Semantic Web research community, to explore issues related to academic and research careers, and ri build relationships with other Semantic Web PhD students from around the world. The Consortium aims to broaden the perspectives and to improve the research and communication skills of these students. The Doctoral Consortium is intended for students who have a specific research proposal and some preliminary results, but who have sufficient time prior to completing their dissertation to benefit from the consortium experience. In the Consortium, the students will present their proposals and get specific feedback and advice on how to improve their research plan. All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will undergo a thorough reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and constructive feedback. The international program committee will select the best submissions for presentation at the Doctoral Consortium and will be published in the conference proceedings. We anticipate that students with accepted submissions at the Doctoral Consortium will receive travel fellowships to offset some of the travel costs. Topics The Consortium has the same scope of technical topics as the main ISWC conference ● Management of Semantic Web data and Linked Data ● Languages, tools, and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data ● Database, IR, NLP and AI technologies for the Semantic Web ● Search, query, integration, and analysis on the Semantic Web ● Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web ● Cleaning, assurance, and provenance of Semantic Web data, services, and processes ● Semantic Web Services ● Semantic Sensor Web ● Semantic technologies for mobile platforms ● Evaluation of semantic web technologies ● Ontology engineering and ontology patterns for the Semantic Web ● Ontology modularity, mapping, merging, and alignment ● Ontology Dynamics ● Social and Emergent Semantics ● Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web ● Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security ● User Interfaces to the Semantic Web ● Interacting with Semantic Web data and Linked Data ● Information visualization of Semantic Web data and Linked Data ● Personalized access to Semantic Web data and applications ● Semantic Web technologies for eGovernment, eEnvironment, eMobility or eHealth ● Semantic Web and Linked Data for Cloud environments Submission Information We ask the PhD students to submit an 8 page description of their PhD research proposal. The proposal text must have at least 8 sections (some can be very short), addressing each of the following questions: 1. Problem Statement: What problem are you trying to solve? 2. Relevancy: Why is the problem relevant? 3. Related Work: How have others attempted to address this problem? 4. Research Questions: What are the research questions that you plan to address? 5. Hypotheses: What hypotheses are related to you research questions? 6. Approach: How are you planning to address your research questions and test your hypotheses? 7. Reflections: Why do you think you will succeed where others failed? 8. Evaluation plan: How will you measure your success - faster/more accurate/less failures/etc.? Submissions must be in pdf and be formatted according to the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Important Dates • Paper Submission: June 8, 2013, 11:59pm Hawaii time • Notifications: July 1, 2013 • Camera-Ready Versions: August 5, 2013 • Doctoral Consortium: October 22, 2013 • Conference: October 21-25, 2013 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A9BAE3A38; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:12:19 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5F543A33; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:12:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EDD7C3A24; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:12:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130418051216.EDD7C3A24@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:12:16 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.975 pubs: Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative 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. 975. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:26:25 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: CFP: Issue 7 of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative CFP: Issue 7 of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative Papers accepted on any theme relating to the TEI Papers due 28 October 2013 http://journal.tei-c.org/journal http://journal.tei-c.org/journal The Editors of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative are delighted to announce a CFP for Issue 7 of the Journal. This is an non-themed issue. We welcome a broad range of articles on any aspect of the TEI. Submissions will be accepted in two categories: research articles of 5,000 to 7,000 words and shorter articles reflecting new tools or services of 2000-4000 words. Both may include images and multimedia content. For further information and submission guidelines please seehttp://journal.tei-c.org/journal/about/submissions http://journal.tei-c.org/journal/about/submissions Closing date for submissions is 28 October 2013. . The Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative is a peer-reviewed open source publication hosted by Revues.org. We would be delighted to answer any questions about this issue. Please direct them to journal@tei-c.org Susan Schreibman Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Long Room Hub Associate Professor in Digital Humanities School of English Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland email: susan.schreibman@tcd.ie phone: +353 1 896 3694 fax: +353 1 671 7114 check out the new MPhil in Digital Humanities at TCD http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digital-humanities/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 951E43A0C; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:38:22 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8423B2CFE; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:38:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6CEE92CFD; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:38:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130419083819.6CEE92CFD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:38:19 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.976 pubs: visualization for history cfp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 976. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:24:09 +0200 From: Enrico Natale Subject: CfP: Showing History. Data visualization between theory and practice Dear all, please find here below a call for paper from the Swiss Association for History and Computing: The visualization of data in the Humanities, after its first rise in the 1960’s along with quantitative history and its subsequent fall in the 1970’s, has undergone a renaissance over the past few years,. While classical, static charts still have a place, new ways of presenting data are increasingly being experimented, such as network visualizations, cartography, lexicometry (e.g. Google Ngrams), or even dynamic multi-medial graphs, to name a few. Various factors accelerate these developments. Easy-to-use visualization softwares together with the increase in computing capacity made once complex quantitative methods and visualization tools available for almost every researcher. Standardized and open data is more and more available and connected. An expanding set of material, including historical sources, is digitized and can be processed by automated methods. Yet, there have only been some light reflections about how these new forms can be used in historical research and what methodological consequences they entail. Researchers face various challenges when using these new visualizations. What is the data that can be shown? What are advantages and drawbacks of the various data sets and tools available? What sources should historians use for producing their own data sets? Are there any best practices for extracting, preparing and presenting quantitative data and its visualization? Beyond these important methodological reflections, historians may want to ask larger questions about the significance of those tools. How do data visualizations relate to the surrounding text? Are they merely a way to illustrate the classical textual narrative, and make it more appealing? Or do they constitute a new form of narration? What is the scientific gain from presenting data visually? What can the researcher reveal that cannot be shown otherwise? How does the comeback of these practices affect the historical sciences more generally? Finally, discussions surrounding data visualization sometimes forget their own historical dimension. Some forms of presenting data, such as maps or timelines, have obviously existed for many centuries. Others can also be traced back at least to the early modern Europe. How and why did these graphical forms appear and evolve? What role did they play for knowledge and science? Are there lessons to be drawn from this history? The next issue of the journal of the Swiss Association for History and Computing, Geschichte und Informatik, will be centered around those questions. The editors would welcome proposals on the following topics: Historical research using data visualization techniques, for example: Cartography (including, but not limited to Geographical Information System) Network analysis and visualization Language analysis, lexicometry Statistical visualizations (line charts, scatter plots, etc) Methodological reflections on data visualization: Data production and preparation Choice of statistical methods (e.g. algorithms) Choice of tools, problems of creating the visualization Presenting the data and visualization Theoretical reflections on the significance of data visualization: Advantages and disadvantages for historical research Influence on research questions Consequences for historical narration History of visual representations: Historical evolution of various forms (maps, timelines, line charts, scatter plots, networks, etc) History of digital forms of visualization Place of data visualizations in the history of science Proposals (abstract of max. 400 words) and a short CV should be submitted by email to info@ahc-ch.ch till the 30st of May 2013. Editors: Nicolas Chachereau (UNIL) , Enrico Natale (infoclio.ch) , Christiane Sibille (dodis.ch) , Patrick Kammerer (UZH) , Manuel Hiestand (UZH) . Enrico Natale infoclio.ch Hirschengraben 11 Postfach 6811 3001 Bern Tel: +41 31 311 75 72 @infoclio Digital Humanities Summer School, University of Bern, 26-29 june 2013. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Mark Hedges (17) Subject: Call for papers: workshop on Big Data and the Humanities @ IEEE Big Data 2013 conference [2] From: maurizio lana (88) Subject: reminder for summer school "digital tools for printed critical editions" [3] From: Van Hulle Dirk (75) Subject: ESTS Conference 2013 in Paris, 20-22 November 2013: call for papers [4] From: Willard McCarty (63) Subject: IEEE Robotics Science Forum: Robotics meets the humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:41:04 +0100 From: Mark Hedges Subject: Call for papers: workshop on Big Data and the Humanities @ IEEE Big Data 2013 conference Call for papers: workshop on Big Data and the Humanities @ IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2013 A workshop on Big Data and the Humanities will be held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2013), which takes place between 6-9 October 2013 in Silicon Valley, California, USA. The workshop will address applications of “big data” in the humanities, arts and culture, the challenges and possibilities that such increased scale brings for scholarship in these areas, and interpretative issues raised by applying such “hard” methods for answering subjective questions in the humanities. Full papers, of up to 9 pages, should be submitted via the conference online submission system. The submission deadline is 30 July 2013. All papers accepted will be included in the proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which will be made available at the conference. For more information, see the workshop website at http://bighumanities.net/, and the main conference website at http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2013/. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:43:25 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: reminder for summer school "digital tools for printed critical editions" dear fellows, just a reminder for the summer school "digital tools for printed critical editions". for those interested, here are the links to the leaflet: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8bvmngaerb0r4x9/leaflet%20summer%20school%20june%202013.digital%20tools.pdf and to the poster: https://www.dropbox.com/s/m08eqjknfexq6uc/poster%20summer%20school%20june%202013.digital%20tools.pdf maurizio lana ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ €œDigital tools for printed critical editions€, June 13-14 2013, Vercelli, Italia. Summer school organized within the project "digilibLT-digital library of late latin texts" (http://www.digiliblt.unipmn.it), supported by AIUCD - Associazione per l'Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale and by EADH - European Association for Digital Humanities (previously ALLC Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing) It is our pleasure to announce the Summer School on “Digital tools for printed critical editions€, which will be held at the Department of Humanities, Università  del Piemonte Orientale, in Vercelli (Italy) on 13-14 June 2013. Scientific committee: Raffaella Tabacco, Maurizio Lana, Andrea Balbo, Ermanno Malaspina. Organization: Maurizio Lana The Summer School is aimed at an international audience, therefore the courses will be held in English. The School will be inaugurated by a group of philologists who will be discussing the state of the art of philological studies and the still open questions in the field of classical and medieval philology, and digital philology: Raffaella Tabacco, Francesco Stella and Roberto Rosselli del Turco. Three half-day sessions will follow, in which three invited scholars will present their programs and tools: - Wilhelm Ott, author of TUSTEP - Tübingen System of Text Processing tools; - Guido Milanese, who will illustrate the use of LaTeX and its scripts for critical editions; - Stefan Hagel, author of CTE- Classical Text Editor. The invited scholars will be present during the whole course to foster a constructive debate between students and researchers on textual and philological issues related to digital tools and their use. Program: June 13 9-12,30 -- Opening session on topics and issues in classical, medieval, digital philology: Raffaella Tabacco, Francesco Stella, Roberto Rosselli del Turco; 14,30-18 -- Wilhelm Ott on the use of TUSTEP June 14 9-12,30 -- Guido Milanese on the use of LaTeX and its scripts 14,30-17,30 -- Stefan Hagel on CTE and its use 17,30-18 -- Final greetings, where a certificate of attendance will be given to participants. The school offers places for participants and for listeners. Participants will have access to a PC on which they will be able to use the software programs presented by the invited scholars and will receive a certificate of attendance. The number of participants is limited to 17. Those who want to attend the Summer School as participants should send their application to progetto@digiliblt.unipmn.it together with a brief but complete description of the reasons for attending the course (max. 750 words, 12pt.) by April 30 2013. Applications will be examined by the Scientific Committee and the best 17 applicants will be selected. Listeners will not be provided with a PC but will attend the lectures delivered by the invited speakers. The number of listeners is limited to 18. Those who want to take part in the Summer School as ‘listeners’ should write to progetto@digiliblt.unipmn.it specifying their full name, affiliation and email address. Listeners will be selected on a first come first served basis. Fees Attendance to the Summer School does not require the payment of fees, thanks to funds generously given by Regione Piemonte to the project digilibLT-digital library of late Latin texts, and in consideration of the difficult economic situation and of the travel + accommodation expenses paid by each participant. Maps and accommodation Maps and information for accommodation at agreed price (50€ single en-suite room, B&B) will be sent to admitted participants and listeners. For those who want to come by plane the nearest airports are Torino Caselle and Milano Malpensa, the latter offering easier connections to Vercelli (bus shuttle Malpensa-Novara; train Novara-Vercelli). For assistance to flyers write to: m.lana@lett.unipmn.it. ------- il corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw la biblioteca digitale: http://www.digiliblt.unipmn.it/ ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università  del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:51:27 +0000 From: Van Hulle Dirk Subject: ESTS Conference 2013 in Paris, 20-22 November 2013: call for papers In-Reply-To: <75793C2AD555DC489477C650084CD1430CFEA8@UNI-EX3.universe.lon.ac.uk> 10th Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS 2013) Variance in textual scholarship and genetic criticism La variance en philologie et en critique génétique 20-22 November 2013 École normale supérieure, Paris Call for papers Deadline for paper proposals: 1 June 2013 The 10th conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship will be organised at the École normale supérieure in Paris by the Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (ITEM, UMR 8132) and the research team “Textes, histoire et monuments, de l’Antiquité au Moyen Âge” (THEMAM, UMR 7041 ARSCAN). Treated either as a deviation to be eliminated or as a creative transformation, variation is central to every form of textual scholarship. It is high time to confront the various conceptions of what constitutes a variation, to see what they have in common and what irreconcilable differences remain – though it would be paradoxical for a conference devoted to variance to aim at absolute uniformity. ESTS conferences are characterised by a combination of formal plenary sessions and traditional paper presentations in panel sessions with three speakers, followed by lively exchange, dialogue and interaction between speakers and audience in many small groups. There will also be an opportunity for poster presentations of current projects. We encourage submissions related to any of the following topics: 1. Confronting methods: the use of “stages of revision” in critique génétique and textual criticism; the questioning of the notion of variant by the genetic approach to modern and contemporary working manuscripts 2. Combining methods: using critique génétique in dealing with ancient and medieval texts? using the philological method in the genetic study of printed editions? 3. Editing variation: scholarly editions in critique génétique and textual criticism 4. Concepts and cases: how to edit avant-textes and texts as processes? 5. Exploring limits: extreme methodologies for extreme variations 6. Digital approaches to the printed text and its manuscripts: rethinking, representing and interpreting variation 7. Philological and genetic approaches to born-digital texts and manuscripts The conference is organised according to a number of thematic sessions. Submissions are welcome on all topics related to the theme of the conference, regardless of linguistic contexts, time periods, geographic areas or types of documents and texts. This includes interdisciplinary perspectives from all branches of scholarly editing, as long as the focus of the proposals is on the guiding principles and practices of editorial scholarship. Graduate students are encouraged to participate. Please submit your proposal before 1 June 2013, by email to ests2013paris@gmail.com. You will be notified by 1 July 2013 whether your proposal has been accepted or not. Proposals for papers Abstracts in English (500 words maximum) are to be submitted to the organising committee, along with the presenter’s name, concise biography, address, telephone, email and institutional affiliation. Speakers will have 20 minutes to deliver their paper, leaving room for a 10-minute discussion. Proposals for panel sessions A typical panel should include 3 (exceptionally 4) speakers and one moderator (session chair). Each session lasts for 1 hour and a half, always allowing 30 minutes for questions and discussion. Proposers should submit the following elements: 1. Session title and introduction (approximately 100 words) 2. Titles of the papers 3. Abstracts for each paper (500 words maximum) 4. A short biography for each participant and for the panel chair (approximately 100 words) 5. Institutional affiliation and address for each participant 6. Audio-visual and other technical requirements Proposals for poster presentations There will be a poster gallery. A poster should be a visual representation and/or a demo of your material. The aim is to present information and initiate informal discussion among delegates. Posters should not exceed 80 cm × 120 cm. If you provide a photograph of yourself and a mobile phone number, other attendees will be able to get in touch with you. Please submit a one-page proposal with an overview of the poster and your contact details. Participation and registration Participants who contribute to the conference through a paper, a panel or a poster session need to pay the conference fee and have to be members in good standing of the European Society for Textual Scholarship for 2013 (except invited speakers). More information about registration and possibilities of accommodation will be published soon on a conference website. For more information about the ESTS, please see http://www.textualscholarship.eu/. Your current membership status is indicated at http://ests.huygensinstituut.nl/. Dixième colloque de la European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS 2013) La variance en philologie et en critique génétique Variance in Textual Scholarship and Genetic Criticism 20-22 novembre 2013 École normale supérieure, Paris Appel à communications Date limite pour les propositions de communication : 1er juin 2013 Le dixième colloque de la European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS) sera organisée à l’École normale supérieure de Paris par l’Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (ITEM, UMR 8132) et l’équipe de recherche « Textes, histoire et monuments, de l’Antiquité au Moyen Âge » (THEMAM, UMR 7041 ARSCAN). Qu’elle soit considérée comme une déviation qu’il convient d’éliminer ou comme une transformation créatrice qu’il convient de valoriser, la variation est au cœur de toutes les sciences du texte. Il est grand temps de confronter les différentes conceptions de la variation, de manière à examiner ce qu’elles ont en commun et quelles différences irréductibles demeurent – sans toutefois viser à l’uniformité, ce qui serait paradoxal pour un colloque consacré à la variance. Les colloques de l’ESTS combinent des conférences plénières et des ateliers où sont présentées trois (ou quatre) communications successives, suivies de libres discussions entre les orateurs et le public. Il est également possible de présenter des posters sur des projets en cours. Des propositions portant sur les sujets suivants sont particulièrement souhaitées. 1. Confronter les méthodes : l’usage des « états de rédaction » dans la critique génétique et dans la critique textuelle ; la remise en cause théorique de la notion de variante par l’approche génétique des manuscrits de travail modernes et contemporains 2. Combiner les méthodes : utiliser la critique génétique pour les textes antiques et médiévaux ? utiliser la méthode philologique pour l’étude génétique des éditions imprimées ? 3. Éditer la variation : éditions génétiques et éditions critiques 4. Théorie et pratique : comment éditer les avant-textes et les textes en tant que processus ? 5. Explorer les limites : des méthodologies extrêmes pour des variations extrêmes 6. Approches numériques du texte imprimé et de ses manuscrits : repenser, représenter et interpréter la variation 7. Approches philologique et génétique du texte et des manuscrits nativement numériques Le colloque comportera plusieurs sessions thématiques. On peut proposer des communications sur tous les sujets touchant au thème principal, quels que soient le contexte linguistique, la période historique, l’ère géographique ou le type de documents et de textes considérés. Les approches interdisciplinaires sont bienvenues, pourvu qu’elles mettent l’accent sur les principes et les pratiques de l’édition savante. Les étudiants de master et de doctorat sont encouragés à participer. Merci d’envoyer vos propositions par courriel, le 1er juin 2013 au plus tard, à l’adresse suivante : ests2013paris@gmail.com. Les acceptations et les refus seront communiqués avant le 1er juillet 2013. Propositions de communications Des résumés en anglais de 500 mots au maximum doivent être soumis au comité d’organisation, avec le nom du communicant et une brève biographie, ainsi que ses adresse, numéro de téléphone, courriel et affiliation institutionnelle. La durée des communications sera de 20 minutes, suivies d’une discussion de 10 minutes. Propositions d’ateliers Les ateliers comportent normalement 3 communicants (exceptionnellement 4) et un modérateur (président de session). Chaque session dure une heure et demie, dont 30 minutes sont réservées aux questions et à la discussion. Pour proposer un atelier, il suffit de soumettre les éléments suivants. 1. Titre de l’atelier et introduction (100 mots environ) 2. Titres des communications 3. Résumé de chaque communication (500 mots au maximum) 4. Une brève biographie de chaque participant et du président de session (100 mots environ) 5. Affiliation institutionnelle et adresse de chaque participant 6. Besoins en équipement audio-visuel Propositions de posters Le colloque comportera une galerie de posters. Les posters doivent consister en une représentation visuelle ou une démonstration. Il s’agit de présenter des informations et de susciter une discussion informelle avec les participants du colloque. La taille des panneaux ne doit pas dépasser 80 × 120 cm. Faire figurer une photographie et un numéro de téléphone portable permettra aux participants de contacter l’auteur du poster. Soumettre une proposition d’une page avec un aperçu du poster et l’adresse de contact. Participation et inscription Les participants, qu’ils présentent une communication, un atelier ou un poster, doivent s’acquitter des frais d’inscription et être membres cotisants de l’ESTS pour l’année 2013 (à l’exception des conférenciers invités). Un site consacré au colloque offrira prochainement plus d’informations concernant l’inscription et les possibilités de logement. Pour plus de précisions sur l’ESTS, consulter le site http://www.textualscholarship.eu/. Pour vérifier votre statut de membre, voir http://ests.huygensinstituut.nl/. *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1366290422_2013-04-18_dirk.vanhulle@ua.ac.be_31187.3.pdf http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1366290422_2013-04-18_dirk.vanhulle@ua.ac.be_31187.2.pdf --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:35:19 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: IEEE Robotics Science Forum: Robotics meets the humanities In-Reply-To: <75793C2AD555DC489477C650084CD1430CFEA8@UNI-EX3.universe.lon.ac.uk> [The following announces a Science Forum in the yearly IEEE robotics conference dedicated to the humanities -- a bold, imaginative and important move from the roboticists that I very much hope we take seriously and pursue energetically. My paper in the Forum is entitled "The uncanny valley goes on and on"; it's basically a commentary on Masahiro Mori's famous paper, "The uncanny valley" (1970), trans. Karl F McDorman and Norri Kageki, recently in IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine for June 2012; see also Kageki's interview with Mori, "An uncanny mind", in that same issue. --WM] 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Karlsruhe, May 6 - 10, 2013 www.icra2013.org/ Science Forum: Robotics Meets the Humanities (www.icra2013.org/?page_id=1272) Robots are machines. It follows that the study of robotics is carried out in the natural sciences in disciplines such as engineering, physics, biology, and medicine. On the other hand, human nature is studied in the humanities in disciplines such as philosophy, history, literature, and the visual and performing arts. Although some disciplines such as mathematics transcend both the natural sciences and the humanities, the divide between robotics and the humanities is huge. Or so it seems. Robotics began as the study of automation and automatic machines. But this is changing. It is now taking on new roles that go well beyond mechanistic automation, impacting directly on people in their everyday lives. Robots perform surgery on people (with a little help from human doctors) and, in the form of adaptive prosthetic devices, robots replace missing limbs in humans. In recent years, research in cognitive robotics seeks not only to replicate human intelligence in robots but also to use these robots as tools to understand cognition in humans. Despite all this, robotics is still perceived to be anchored completely in the natural sciences. This needs to change. While there is still a long way to go before robots become intelligent in the way humans are, the clear goal is that they will be some day. However, we still have not answered the most frequently asked question in science fiction: to what extent can a robot become like a human? Since science fiction has a habit of becoming science fact, this is a crucial question, among other things, because it gives us the opportunity to fantasize about plausible snapshots of the future and what a world, populated by autonomous artificial systems, may look like. The influence of the humanities on the study of robotics is rapidly growing, for the simple reason that robotics is becoming a part of humanity: assisting, interacting,, and enabling people in an increasing number of ways. The humanities are the domain of human nature and the natural sciences are the domain of robotics but the two are not separate. If it is to be effective, robotics must take into account our understanding of humanity. This forum invites distinguished speakers from the humanities to begin a dialogue with the robotics community. The aim is to understand how we can bridge the unnecessary divide between the two communities and to foresee the many beneficial implications if, and when, we succeed in doing so. Yoshihiko Nakamura Department of Mechano-Informatics, The University of Tokyo Giulio Sandini Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Dept., Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6E0AB3A32; Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:40:44 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D8D52DFB; Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:40:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B74282D9E; Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:40:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130420064041.B74282D9E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:40:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.978 geographical ontologies? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 978. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:14:05 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: geographical ontologies dear humanists, as i am new of this themes, i would like your help to discover more than i already know about geographical ontologies (geonames, above all), or about ontologies with a geographical section (DOLCE, DBpedia, ...). a catalog is always a good starting point, i think. thank you in advance maurizio -- dobbiamo provarci, anche noi. è questo il progresso. a forza di tentare, forse alla fine avremo gli organi necessari, per esempio l'organo della dignità, o quello della fraternità... r. gary, le radici del cielo ------- il corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw la biblioteca digitale: http://www.digiliblt.unipmn.it/ ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università  del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 80C9D3A33; Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:42:09 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E30D2E47; Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:42:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 270D72DE2; Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:42:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130420064206.270D72DE2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:42:06 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.979 job at the American Historical Association X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 979. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:01:41 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: job opportunity: American Historical Association EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY TITLE: DIRECTOR OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION AND DIGITAL INITIATIVES, AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION FLSA STATUS: Exempt (reports to Executive Director) LOCATION: Washington, D.C. office, with some travel SUMMARY: The Director of Scholarly Communication and Digital Initiatives will oversee the AHA’s communications with members and other constituencies. This includes print and digital publishing, web design, information management, and membership - all part of a strategy to enable the American Historical Association’s programs and activities to take maximum advantage of the new digital environments in which historians work. The AHA seeks a scholar with the skills and vision to help lead the development of the AHA as the nation’s most important hub for the work of professional historians in the 21st century. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES/ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: · Play leadership role for team developing new research, communication, networking, job market, and other professional tools for historians via a full-service AHA digital environment; · Oversee all communication relating to AHA membership activities, and AHA digital and print publications (not including American Historical Review); · Supervise (directly or indirectly) seven staff members; · Serve as liaison to the business operations of the American Historical Review; oversee AHA relationships with publishers; provide expertise on issues relating to scholarly publishing; · Coordinate the efforts of the AHA’s governing Council and standing committees, including working with the Executive Director to organize Council activities; · Oversee all information technology purchases, maintenance, and staffing/consultant support; · Represent the Association in meetings and activities relevant to areas of responsibility; REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS/KEY ATTRIBUTES: · Doctoral degree in history or related field; · Administrative experience; · Knowledgeable about the wide variety of software and digital tools relevant to the work of historians, with a strategic sense of the ways these can synergize with each other; · Sophisticated understanding of issues relating to continuing evolution of digital communication, publication, and networking environments; · Well organized with the ability to juggle multiple projects and responsibilities · Clear, graceful, and effective written and oral communication skills SALARY/BENEFITS: Salary commensurate with qualifications. Benefits package includes competitive medical and life insurance and a qualified pension plan. DATE POSTED: April 2, 2013. Applications review will begin May 3, 2013, and continue until filled. PREFERRED START DATE: Summer 2013 APPLICATION: Apply at https://secure.interfolio.com/apply/21446 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CE3663A33; Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:15:46 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60EC52CFD; Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:15:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 843E12CFD; Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:15:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130421061541.843E12CFD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:15:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.980 the Rewriting Wikipedia Project X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 980. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:43:43 -0400 From: Alex Gil Subject: Rewriting Wikipedia Project Hi all, Below is the announcement for a really exciting event being advertised on several networks for digital humanists. Feel free to pass it on to your own local networks. We are still searching for translators for some of the major languages. Send me a line if you want more information. The original announcement can be found here: (http://dhpoco.org/2013/03/21/the-global-women-wikipedia-write-in-gwwi/) ---- The Global Women Wikipedia Write-In #GWWI by the Rewriting Wikipedia Project: April 26, 2013, 1-3pm EST Wikipedia Meetup Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/globalwomen On April 26th, the Rewriting Wikipedia Project will host the Global Women Wikipedia Write-In #GWWI. This virtual event is designed to encourage internet users to write entries about women from around the world into Wikipedia and to improve existing entries on these topics. The Rewriting Wikipedia Project is now a working group supported by Global Outlook::Digital Humanities (GO::DH). Why “global women”? If you’ve ever tried doing a Wikipedia search for important women theorists around the world, you might be surprised to note how short the entries are, particularly on their work and their ideas (for example: Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Gayatri Spivak, bell hooks, Gloria Anzaldua, Vandana Shiva, and Sara Ahmed). Many important women of color, such as Oyeronke Oyewumi and Frieda Ekotto, lack entries or stubs in Wikipedia. Additionally, coverage of international events involving women is brief or nonexistent (for example: the 1929 Aba Women’s Riots in Nigeria; Domitila Barrios de Chúngara; and Angkatan Wanita Sedar or “Force of Awakened Women,” an important feminist group in Malaysian history). These gaps in Wikipedia’s knowledge base are striking and important, especially since Wikipedia is now the most commonly referenced encyclopedia globally. These gaps–particularly the gender gap–have been subject to study. According to the Wikimedia Wikipedia’s Editor’s Survey of 2011, “If there is a typical Wikipedia editor, he has a college degree, is 30-years-old, is computer savvy but not necessarily a programmer, doesn’t actually spend much time playing games, and lives in US or Europe.” The Global Women Wikipedia Write-In #GWWI will be the first of a series of events sponsored by the Rewriting Wikipedia Project to address inequalities in Wikipedia. It builds on the success of the #TooFEW Feminists Engage Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon in March. We welcome you to join us virtually on Friday, April 26, 2013 from 1-3PM EST for the Global Women Wikipedia Write-In #GWWI. The Rewriting Wikipedia Project aims to encourage new people to become Wikipedia editors, to provide support for new editors, and to develop best practices for rewriting Wikipedia. During our Global Women Wikipedia Write-in #GWWI, we encourage editors to draw on their knowledge and experience to contribute entries and information on women around the world to Wikipedia. How can you participate? Contribute to the list of Wikipedia entries that we should edit or improve. Add your ideas to the working list here or in the comments below. You can find ‘stub’ articles — those that have been marked as needing further information — by searching various categories. Sign up for a Wikipedia account (we recommend using a pseudonym). Watch this video to learn how to edit Wikipedia. Be sure to set aside some time for this video. It’s an hour long, and we recommend clicking on FLASH – it tends to play better that way. If you don’t have time to do this, join the hashtag on Twitter or our designated chatroom to ask questions or share your experiences. Review our resources for writing Wikipedia entries that stick and our useful links. Don’t want to write? Add images to feminist articles. Here is the image use policy for Wikipedia. Track our work and tweet your own using the Twitter hashtag #GWWI. Join us on Friday, April 26th from 1-3PM EST from your own computer! Expand the Rewriting Wikipedia Project Teachers – Do your students need extra credit? Can Rewriting Wikipedia become a class project? Students – Are you learning about some really cool people in Race and Ethnic Studies/Trans*/Queer/Women’s Studies/Postcolonial Studies who don’t have wiki pages or have pages with incorrect information? You can fix that! Friends – Do you know other folks who should know about our work? Please send this link to activists, faculty or others who might be interested in participating. Everyone is welcome! Organizations – Do you know organizations that have information on different communities, histories, projects that should be added to Wikipedia? Too swamped to edit right now but want to contribute? Add your idea to our list. Additional Resources from the Rewriting Wikipedia Project Wikipedia’s conservative knowledge structure Tips to make entries stick Useful links on research, learning and teaching Wikipedia, and its biases _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A4BE42DE2; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:35:17 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 804BC2D8B; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:35:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4AD962CFD; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:35:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130422053515.4AD962CFD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:35:15 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.981 tagging images? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 981. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:38:45 +0200 From: Hubertus Kohle Subject: artigo Dear all we need taggers to build up massively annotated image databases. See www.artigo.org (there is an english version too) Would you be so kind to spread the note with your students, friends, children and social networks? Thanks! Hubertus Kohle -- Prof.Dr. Hubertus Kohle Institut für Kunstgeschichte LMU München Zentnerstr. 31 80798 München Tel.: 08921805317 Fax: 08921805316 twitter: @hkohle http://www.kunstgeschichte.uni-muenchen.de/personen/professoren_innen/kohle/index.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EB9313A3E; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:35:35 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF5C0311B; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:35:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8EEFB311B; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:35:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130422053532.8EEFB311B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:35:32 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.982 job at Leuven X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 982. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:47:06 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Vacancy Come join us in Leuven: we have an opening for a full-time tenured academic position in Computer Science for Digital Humanities at the Department of Computer Science! Deadline for applications: 30 June 2013 From the official text: We are looking for a candidate with expertise in applications of computer science in digital humanities. A successful candidate will already have obtained excellent research results in the area of applying computer science techniques in research applications in the digital humanities. For the applied computer science techniques, examples could be data mining, or archiving or disclosure of information from large e-archives, or human-computer interaction, or visualisation techniques, or e-learning. Concerning the applications domains, examples could be the Arts, or the Social or Instructional Sciences. Research experience with the application of multiple techniques from computer Science and/or with multiple application domains in the Humanities or Behavioral Sciences are considered are a strong added value of the application. The official announcement can be found at https://icts.kuleuven.be/apps/jobsite/vacatures/52409066?lang=en Feel free to contact me for additional details! --Erik Duval http://erikduval.wordpress.com and @erikduval _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E67552DAE; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:05:55 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B984C2CED; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:05:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DC27F2CEA; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:05:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130423050551.DC27F2CEA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:05:51 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.983 the Chicago Homer? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 983. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:44:51 +0000 From: Martin Mueller Subject: question about Chicago Homer In-Reply-To: As one of the editors of the Chicago Homer (http://www.library.northwestern.edu/homer) I would like to gather some data about its use. It has been up and running unchanged for a decade. It seems to be a fairly popular site: its use figures have gone up over the years from 500,000 hits to over a million hits in 2012, which—I am told—is quite a bit for a single author site with a distinctly philological orientation. From time to time I get emails pointing out this or that error, and as a result hundreds of mistakes have been corrected. The site is showing its age: it's late 20th century Web technology and could do with an update. But before I approach the relevant folks about bringing it up to date or adding new functionalities, it would be good to know how people use it or what they would want from it. If anybody on this list uses it or has practical suggestions about what to do with it, I would be very grateful to hear from them. Martin Mueller _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A76072DBB; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:07:12 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 600E42CF4; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:07:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C25E42D1D; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:07:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130423050709.C25E42D1D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:07:09 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.984 events: prosopography; data collections; biographical writing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 984. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Belinda Michaelides (21) Subject: Workshop: Prosopography and History of Healthcare [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (16) Subject: London Seminar [3] From: Francesca Benatti (30) Subject: Digital Collections in the Humanities seminar, The Open University, 25 April --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:24:28 +0100 From: Belinda Michaelides Subject: Workshop: Prosopography and History of Healthcare Workshop: Prosopography and History of Healthcare Date: 1 June 2013 Venue: Kingston University There is a growing band of historians conducting prosopographical projects on topics relating to healthcare. The subjects of known projects span the centuries and the trades, from early modern to the 20^th century, and include nursing and medicine. This workshop will bring together a group of historians who are actively using prosopography to study a diverse range of topics connected to history of healthcare, ranging from early modern medicine in England and Wales, nursing in Scotland, England and Denmark and Soviet psychiatry. The focus is on method rather than subject and the day is arranged to provide ample time for discussion. If you are already using prosopography as part of your historical research or are considering a prosopographical project and want to meet people with experience in the methodology, please come along and join in the discussions. There is no registration fee but places are limited so book early. Conveners: Sue Hawkins (Centre for the Historical Record, Kingston University); Carmen Mangion (Dept. History, Birkbeck College London; Helen Sweet, Wellcome History of Medicine Unit, Oxford University). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:34:16 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: London Seminar London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship Thursday 25 April at 5.30pm, Room 234, Institute of English Studies, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU Claire Harman, author, ‘Revisiting Syvlia Townsend Warner’ Claire Harman is a professional writer who has published four major literary biographies. Claire’s first biography was of the English novelist and poet Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978), which was published in 1983 and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1990 for ‘a book of value from a writer of growing stature’. In this talk, Claire will talk about her approach to Sylvia Townsend Warner and will consider how the emergence of new digital technologies has changed the way in which biographies are researched and written. Claire is contemplating a project in which an electronic version of her biography will make supplementary materials on Sylvia Townsend Warner available, and will discuss the potential of new forms of publication for changing the ways in which biographies are presented. 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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:37:03 +0100 From: Francesca Benatti Subject: Digital Collections in the Humanities seminar, The Open University, 25 April The Digital Humanities Thematic Research Network at The Open University is pleased to announce the following event in its Digital Humanities in Practice seminar series: Digital Collections in the Humanities Speaker: Prof. Lorna Hughes, National Library of Wales Date: 25 April 2013 Time: 11.00am-1.00pm Venue: Arts Music Studio, Perry D, Milton Keynes, The Open University Digitisation initiatives in libraries, archives, museums and educational institutions have created a 'deluge' of data in the humanities that has transformed the information landscape and the way it is navigated for research and teaching. The use of digital collections for scholarship – using ICT based tools and methods – has been the basis of transformative and innovative research across the disciplines, allowing enhanced access to materials, and supporting new modes of collaboration and communication. This presentation will discuss the research programme in digital collections at the National Library of Wales. This is developing an evidence base for the use, value and impact of the digital collections of Wales, and investigating the relationship between impact and the long terms sustainability of digital collections. A sandwich lunch will be provided. To book a place, please email Heather Scott heather.scott@open.ac.uk by 22 April 2013. For more information on Digital Humanities at The Open University, please go to the Digital Humanities website http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/digital-humanities/ Dr Francesca Benatti Research Associate in Digital Humanities Faculty of Arts The Open 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 58DFB2DFD; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:06:00 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D2592DDE; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:05:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4FB9D2DB8; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:05:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130424050557.4FB9D2DB8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:05:57 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.985 speaker for the Music Library Association? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 985. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:03:42 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Wanted: Speaker for digital scholarship The Music Library Association is seeking a speaker on digital scholarship to participate at its annual conference, February 26-March 2, 2014 in Atlanta, GA. The optimal speaker would be able to provide a perspective of DH in public libraries. If you are interested, please contact Kathleen DeLaurenti at: kathleendelaurenti@gmail.com. Please feel free to pass this on to interested parties (and yes, post at dh+lib). -- Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts blog: http://www.nypl.org/blog/author/44 Twitter: @kos2 Listowner: OPERA-L ; SMT-TALK ; SMT-ANNOUNCE ; SoundForge-users - My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my institutions - _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B86D72E89; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:06:48 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 962002E1B; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:06:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A7C232E1B; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:06:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130424050645.A7C232E1B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:06:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.986 job at the Leibniz Institute in Mainz X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 986. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:50:53 +0200 From: Michael Piotrowski Subject: Job opening: Short-term research stay in digital humanities (Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany) The Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany has an opening for a short-term research stay (6 months, 50%) in the area of controlled vocabularies for historical research. The Leibniz Institute of European History is a renowned independent research institution, which carries out and promotes historical studies on the foundations of Europe in Early Modern and Modern times. It is located in Mainz, Germany. The Institute is also actively working to create the foundations necessary for digitally-enabled research in history and theology. Among other projects, the Institute is a partner in the European DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, http://dariah.eu/) initiative and its German component, DARIAH-DE (http://de.dariah.eu/). In the context of DARIAH-DE, we are offering a six-month research stay, beginning (preferably) in June 2013. We are looking for a highly motivated individual to work in the interdisciplinary field of digital humanities. This position is located in a DARIAH sub-project concerned with the design and development of controlled vocabularies for historical research; in particular, you will be working on a controlled vocabulary for describing historical place types. You will also be involved in the organization of an international expert workshop on this topic. You should either have a background in a computing-related field and an interest in historical research, or a background in a historically-oriented field of humanities with a strong knowledge of computing. This is a 50% position; so it is ideally suited to use the other half of your time to prepare a PhD proposal or grant application in a related area, benefiting from feedback, discussions, and a stimulating research environment. In addition, you will be able to gain international experience in an interdisciplinary research institution. Salary: Payment will be according to the German TV-L EG 13 pay scale. Duration: Fixed-term contract for 6 months. Application deadline: May 7, 2013. Specific Requirements: - The digital humanities are a highly interdisciplinary field, in which people with many different backgrounds are working together, and where there is more than one way to enter this field. Given the aims of this position, we expect that you have knowledge of computing in general and Semantic Web technologies in particular, and an interest in historical research. Preferably, you have some prior experience with controlled vocabularies, ontologies, or thesauri. You have a master's degree or are about to obtain one very soon. Potential backgrounds thus include computer science, computational linguistics, digital humanities, history, historical theology or church history, and library and information science. - You are able to work in a highly interdisciplinary field and cooperate with researchers at the Institute, within DARIAH, and beyond. - You are able to communicate in spoken and written English at a professional level. Knowledge of German is not required, but basic skills may be helpful for day-to-day life. Please send inquiries and application documents (including list of publications, and copies of relevant certificates as a single PDF file) to Dr.-Ing. Michael Piotrowski E-mail: piotrowski@ieg-mainz.de Phone: +49 6131 39-39043 IEG is an equal opportunity/affirmative-action employer. In case of equality of qualification and suitability of applicants, applications by female researchers will be given preferential consideration. We also encourage applications from disabled persons. -- Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) Dr.-Ing. Michael Piotrowski Alte Universitätsstraße 19 55116 Mainz, Germany phone: +49 6131 39-39043 fax: +49 6131 39-35326 e-mail: piotrowski@ieg-mainz.de http://www.ieg-mainz.de/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6BFB6311B; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:07:28 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49A062E59; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:07:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3FE442E89; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:07:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130424050726.3FE442E89@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:07:26 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.987 events: learning from 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. 987. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:45:25 +0100 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: CeRch Seminar, King's College London: "Learning from Games at the Digital Humanities Campsite" CeRch Seminar, King's College London "Learning from Games at the Digital Humanities Campsite" Erik Champion, Aarhus University Tuesday April 30th 2013, 18.15 Anatomy Theatre and Museum Strand Campus, King's College London (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/spaces/anatomy-museum.aspx) Abstract: Some critics may have you believe that computer game studies lack theoretical rigor, that games cannot afford meaningful experiences. I agree with them, sometimes, but I also believe that a richer understanding of computer games is possible, and that this understanding can shed some light on related issues in the wider field of Digital Humanities. My main area of research has been designing and evaluating how contextually appropriate interaction can aid the understanding of cultures distant in time, space, and in understanding to our own. This field is sometimes called Virtual Heritage. In Virtual Heritage, tools of choice are typically virtual reality environments, and the projects are very large in scale, complexity, and cost, while my projects are often prototypes and experimental designs. I have many challenges, for example, morphing technological constraints into cultural affordances, and avoiding possible confusion between artistic artifice and historical accuracy, all the while evaluating intangible concepts in a systematic way without disturbing the participants' sense of immersion. To help me judge the success or failure of these projects I have shaped some working definitions of games, culture, cultural understanding, cultural inhabitation, and place. However, these concepts and definitions are not enough. I also have to now tackle the issues of simulated violence, artificial "other" people, the temptation of entertainment masquerading as education, and the difficulties inherent in virtually evoking a sense of ritual. My lecture, then, is a discussion into how game-based learning, and the study of culture, heritage and history, might meaningfully intersect. Bio Dr Erik Champion is Project Leader of the new Digital Humanities Lab Denmark, led by a consortium of four Danish universities, and he is also a task head for DARIAH.eu http://dariah.eu/ . Until 2012 he was an Associate Professor and the Director of Postgraduate Studies and Research at the Auckland School of Design, Massey University, where he taught critical studies, design history, design research methods, and digital media. An Australian Research Council Scholarship supported his doctoral thesis on cultural learning in virtual environments, and the industry partner was Lonely Planet Publications. His latest publication is the edited collection of chapters for "Game Mod Design Theory and Criticism" published by ETC Press in 2012, he also wrote "Playing with the Past", Springer, 2010. He has written a chapter on virtual heritage and digital history for the upcoming Oxford University Press Handbook of Virtuality, and he has edited or co-edited special issues for /Leonardo Online: Creative Data/, /Games & Culture/, /Techné/, /the International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC): Between Man and Machine/, and /the International Journal of Heritage Studies: Sense of Place/. Past keynotes and invited talks have been for /u21: Interfaces - Digital studies of culture and cultural studies of the digital/, Sweden, 2012; /ESF:/ /Networked Humanities: Art in the Web/, Italy, 2010; /Virtual Systems and Multimedia/ /2007, /Australia; /Digital Applications in Cultural Heritage (DACH) 2007/, Taiwan; /State of Play 2007/, Singapore; and /Cyberarchaeology 2006,/ Spain. -- --------------------------------- Dr. Stuart Dunn Lecturer Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Email: stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk Tel. +44 (0)20 7848 2709 Fax. +44 (0)20 7848 2980 Blog: http://stuartdunn.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 896C92D76; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:47:36 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 494202C91; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:47:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 53E0F2C9E; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:47:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130425054733.53E0F2C9E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:47:33 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.988 an illustration to Gulliver's Travels? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 988. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:13:58 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: an illustration to Gulliver's Travels In Part IV of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, "Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms", occurs this passage: > Being one day abroad with my protector, the sorrel nag, and the > weather exceeding hot, I entreated him to let me bathe in a river > that was near. He consented, and I immediately stripped myself stark > naked, and went down softly into the stream. It happened that a young > female Yahoo... saw the whole proceeding, and inflamed by desire... > came running with all speed, and leaped into the water within five > yards of the place where I bathed.... She embraced me after a most > fulsome manner. I roared as loud as I could.... As a result of this confrontation, some say a "near rape" of Gulliver by the Yahoo (near?), Gulliver can no longer maintain his argument that he is not a Yahoo, and so must leave the company of the creatures of perfect reason and head for home. There he finds himself repelled by human company and beds down with his horses. I am fond of using this passage to illustrate the fear of a resemblance to animals (and so, thanks to Descartes and others, machines) stirred up by earlier European discoveries, e.g. of the Orang-outang. I would very much like to find an illustration of the passage from Gulliver's Travels that does it justice and, unlike David Jones', depicts it in an immediate and obvious way, for use in lectures. But apart from Jones' (http://www.goldmarkart.com/female-yahoo-embraces-gulliver.html), another that depicts the scene prior to Gulliver getting into the stream and has both of them dressed, and another which misses the point by showing Gulliver to be unambiguously disgusted, I have found none. Can anyone help? 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C4A072D7E; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:48:25 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCA542D76; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:48:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9278E2CA5; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:48:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130425054822.9278E2CA5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:48:22 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.989 call for DH Training Network X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 989. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:00:53 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Call for Expressions of Interest: DH Training Network In-Reply-To: [Please recirculate / please excuse x-posting] Dear Colleagues, A number of those in our community will be aware of the emergence of a DH Training Network last summer — organically growing thus far to involve those at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (Victoria, Canada), the Digital Humanities Winter Institute (College Park, Maryland, USA), DH@Leipzig (Germany), DH@Oxford (UK), DH@Switzerland (Bern), MusicDH@EDIROM (Paderborn, Germany), and leading DH training initiatives based at Brown U (Rhode Island, USA), Lancaster U (UK), and the Institut für Dokumentologie ind Editorik (Köln, Germany), among others. This group formed, initially, at DHSI in June 2012, with discussions related to its initial shape and early constituency taking place at DH@Oxford in June 2012, as well as at DH2012 in Hamburg, DH@Leizpig in July 2012, and DHWI in January 2013. This call for expressions of interest in joining this loose, collegial network follows on from those earlier discussions, as the network continues to grow. Initiatives thus far considered among network participants include those as informal as advice and peer support; those as helpful as shared publicity, some degree of curricular and temporal/geographical coordination, and discussion about curricular models and institutional integration; and those as organized as the possibility of a formal summit for DH training initiatives, integration with the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO) as a special interest group, and participation in an international graduate professional certificate program in DH based on the training model shared by DHSI, DHWI, DH@Leipzig, and others whose offerings are institutionally accreditable. If you are interested in being involved in these discussions as the network continues to grow, please share something about yourself and your interests at http://www.regonline.ca/DHTrainingNetworkQ. Looking forward to hearing from you! Ray _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 866C92DF1; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:49:06 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E2122DC4; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:49:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C00E22C9E; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:49:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130425054903.C00E22C9E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:49:03 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.990 grant opportunity: collections & reference sources X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 990. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:57:39 -0400 From: "Sternfeld, Joshua" Subject: NEH Grant Opportunity - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources - July 18 Deadline *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1366833721_2013-04-24_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_17407.2.jpeg [Apologies for cross-posting] The Division of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities will be accepting applications for grants in its Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR) program. These grants support projects to preserve and create intellectual access to such collections as books, journals, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, art, and objects of material culture. Awards also support the creation of reference works, online resources, and research tools of major importance to the humanities. HCRR offers two kinds of awards: 1) Implementation Grants -- $350,000 maximum, for up to three years. Eligible activities include: * arranging and describing archival and manuscript collections; * cataloging collections of printed works, photographs, recorded sound, moving images, art, and material culture; * providing conservation treatment (including deacidification) for collections, leading to enhanced access; * digitizing collections; * preserving and improving access to born-digital sources; * developing databases, virtual collections, or other electronic resources to codify information on a subject or to provide integrated access to selected humanities materials; * creating encyclopedias; * preparing linguistic tools, such as historical and etymological dictionaries, corpora, and reference grammars * developing tools for spatial analysis and representation of humanities data, such as atlases and geographic information systems (GIS); and * designing digital tools to facilitate use of humanities resources. 2) HCRR Foundations Grants -- $40,000 maximum, for up to two years. To help in the formative stages of initiatives to preserve and create access to humanities collections or to produce reference resources, Foundations grants will support planning, assessment, and pilot activities that incorporate expertise from a mix of professional domains. Drawing upon the cooperation of humanities scholars and technical specialists, these projects might encompass efforts to prepare for establishing intellectual control of collections, to develop plans and priorities for digitizing collections, to solidify collaborative frameworks and strategic plans for complex digital reference resources, or to produce preliminary versions of online collections or resources. New guidelines for HCRR have now been posted, along with sample proposal narratives, FAQs, and other resources. The application deadline is July 18, 2013, with projects beginning May 2014. All applications to NEH must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov; see guidelines for details. Prospective applicants seeking further information are encouraged to contact the Division at 202-606-8570 or preservation@neh.gov. Program staff will read draft proposals submitted six weeks before the deadline. Please note that the Division is also currently accepting applications for three other grant categories, all with a deadline of May 1: "Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions," "Research and Development, "and "Education & Training." Details on these programs, as well as on the full slate of funding opportunities in Preservation and Access, can be found on the Division's website http://www.neh.gov/divisions/preservation . To receive the latest updates and news about grant programming, be sure to follow us on Twitter: @NEH_PresAccess! _____________________________________________ The National Endowment for the Humanities is a grant-making agency of the United States (U.S.) federal government that supports projects in the humanities. U.S. nonprofit associations, institutions, and organizations are eligible applicants. NEH's Division of Preservation and Access supports projects that will create, preserve, and make available cultural resources of importance for research, education, and lifelong learning. To learn more about NEH, please visit http://www.neh.gov. Joshua Sternfeld Senior Program Officer Division of Preservation and Access National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20506 202-606-8570 (fax) 202-606-8639 Visit the NEH Website at www.neh.gov http://www.neh.gov/ Follow the Division on Twitter: @NEH_PresAccess _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3DD452DFD; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:51:20 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29ADC2C91; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:51:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 681842CB2; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:51:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130425055117.681842CB2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:51:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.991 events: the industrial landscape; 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. 991. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Tom Brughmans" (11) Subject: Visualisation in the Humanities Vienna [2] From: "Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.)" (22) Subject: Reminder - London Digital Humanities Group Meeting, 30 April: Manufacturing Pasts --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:55:12 +0100 From: "Tom Brughmans" Subject: Visualisation in the Humanities Vienna "Strategies of Visualisation in the Humanities" Some might be interested in the Workshop "Strategies of Visualisation in the Humanities", which will take place on April 26th 2013 at the Institute for Art History of the University of Vienna http://hkf-visuellekulturgeschichte.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/proj_ hkf-visuellekulturgeschichte/Workshops/Programm_Workshop_4.pdf Best, Tom --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:10:19 +0100 From: "Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.)" Subject: Reminder - London Digital Humanities Group Meeting, 30 April: Manufacturing Pasts A reminder that the following seminar is taking place next Thursday. Please forward to any colleagues who may be interested. The meeting will provide an opportunity to test-drive some of the Open Educational Resources created by the project. Wi-fi will be available, so feel free to bring your laptops and mobile devices. London Digital Humanities Group Seminar Series, 30 April 2013 5.15, Room S264, 2nd Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU 'Manufacturing Pasts: Digitising the Industrial Landscape in Twentieth-Century Britain' Terese Bird (Learning Technology), Simon Gunn (Urban History) and Tania Rowlett (University Library), University of Leicester This seminar introduces a new JISC project based at the University of Leicester which has produced resources on twentieth-century Leicester as a case-study in industrial history. The resources relate to four themes: de-industrialization, conservation and regeneration, the life of the factory and the factory community. Making available photographs, maps, newspaper materials and other sources in digital form, the project aims to open up the exploration of these aspects of the history of industrial landscapes to students, historians and a wider public. In this seminar we will outline the historical rationale for the project and the techniques involved in realising it. There will be opportunities both to engage directly with the materials online and to participate in a larger discussion about the value and uses of this kind of project in digital humanities. To register attendance go to http://goo.gl/2V7cH To find out more about the Manufacturing Pasts project visit http://www.le.ac.uk/manufacturingpasts Dr Simon Dixon Digital Humanities and Special Collections Manager David Wilson Library University of Leicester University Road Leicester. LE1 7RH T: +44(0)116 252 2056 E: snd6@le.ac.uk W: http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/about/staff/academicliaison/simon-dixon Winner of the 2012 THE Award for Outstanding Library Team Elite Without Being Elitist Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/uniofleicester _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F21E42E89; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:51:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF3512E4C; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:51:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D51B82DC4; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:51:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130425055157.D51B82DC4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:51:57 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.992 PhD in Digital Arts and Humanities 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. 992. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Brendan Dooley (56) Subject: Call for Candidates: Digital Arts and Humanities PhD Program at University College Cork [2] From: Brendan Dooley (14) Subject: Scholarships in Digital Arts and Humanities PhD Program at University College Cork. --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:26:12 +0100 From: Brendan Dooley Subject: Call for Candidates: Digital Arts and Humanities PhD Program at University College Cork University College Cork invites applications for places in the four-year 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, based on projects developed from proposals which they provide during the application process. Deadline: 1 June 2013 http://www.ucc.ie/en/cacsss/grads/grep/dah/ Subject areas: History, European Languages and Literatures, English, Music, Performing Arts, Art and Art History, Irish Studies, Psychology, Digital Law. 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 has developed a research platform, 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. Currently the program includes a vibrant community of 50 researchers throughout Ireland. 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 Cork, Dublin, 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 is strong in all disciplines of the Humanities, with a particular concentration on Irish and European studies. The Digital Arts and Humanities program currently has 26 students from around the globe, studying topics ranging from Renaissance networking to eighteenth-century country houses, from modern performance art to Irish diaspora music performers in the USA and their stories. For some typical projects see also: www.dahphd.ie contact: Brendan Dooley Professor of Renaissance Studies CACSSS Graduate School University College Cork Cork Ireland Email: b.dooley@ucc.ie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:30:06 +0100 From: Brendan Dooley Subject: Scholarships in Digital Arts and Humanities PhD Program at University College Cork. A limited number of tuition scholarships are available for the PhD program in Digital Arts and Humanities at University College Cork. Deadline for scholarships is 8 May. Program: http://www.ucc.ie/en/cacsss/grads/grep/dah/ Scholarships: http://www.ucc.ie/en/cacsss/grads/funding/cacsssscholarships/ contact: Brendan Dooley Professor of Renaissance Studies CACSSS Graduate School University College Cork Cork Ireland Email: 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 83D592DEF; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:55:34 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 508C52DBC; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:55:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 634622CB2; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:55:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130426055531.634622CB2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:55:31 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.993 job at MITH X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 993. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:00:32 -0400 From: Jennifer Guiliano Subject: Join MITH as a Project Manager! The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland is seeking an experienced project manager who will provide coordination and management for research projects and initiatives in the digital humanities. The Project Manager will work with senior MITH staff to conceptualize, implement, and manage digital humanities research work in a collaborative, team-driven environment. The successful candidate will have experience developing and administering collaborative research projects and events; strong oral and written communications skills; experience writing for, and working with, academic and public audiences; and an interest in digital research methods and tools. The Project Manager will report to the Assistant Director and work in tandem with MITH staff to ensure the success of MITH’s various research projects and initiatives. The Project Manager will manage the execution of projects by assembling and coordinating the work of project staff and partners, tracking project deliverables, monitoring and reporting on progress of projects to all stakeholders, and completing project evaluations and assessment of results. Experience writing grants of $60,000 or more is preferred. Prospective candidates should be familiar with the field of digital humanities, have experience with project management tools (Basecamp, Google Docs, etc.), and have proven experience in coordinating multi-institution deadline-driven research projects. Experience working with software development tools (particularly Git) is a plus. Candidates should be comfortable setting meetings and agendas, establishing benchmarks for success, and negotiating multi-stakeholder dynamics. Jointly supported by the University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities and the University of Maryland Libraries, MITH engages in collaborative, interdisciplinary work at the intersection of technology and humanistic inquiry. MITH specializes in text and image analytics for cultural heritage collections, data curation, digital preservation, linked data applications, and data publishing. DUTIES: Coordinate and implement research and development projects (60%) Elicit well-defined project materials including statements of project scope, goals and deliverables from stakeholders. Facilitate consensus around project processes and implementation strategies Develop and implement project plans. Schedule, and monitor project timelines and milestones using appropriate project management tools. Develop plans for communicating project results and outcomes to academic and public audiences Coordinate and implement public programs (30%) Facilitate the Digital Dialogues Series, including handling organizational and promotional work, processing video and social media, and dealing with speakers Support and coordinate public programs including workshops, symposia, and lecture series as needed. Coordinate all internship and visitor programs Communications and publicity (10%) Assist in the creation of website content for MITH and its research programs Lead all social media outreach and coordination Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Digital Humanities or a Humanities-related field Minimum of two years experience in project management Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Experience managing multi-institutional collaborative research projects Experience and Knowledge of project management including use of project management and social media technologies (Basecamp, Google Docs, WordPress, Twitter, Drupal, etc.) Familiarity with digital humanities trends/developments. Demonstrated initiative and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously Excellent organizational, analytical, time management and communication (oral and written) skills Ability to motivate and manage one’s colleagues and project stakeholders in a team-driven design and development process. Preferred Qualifications: Advanced degree (MA or PhD) in digital humanities or humanities field Successfully awarded grant writing experience over $60,000 Experience with identifying potential partners and funding opportunities to support ongoing research. Knowledge of software development methodologies and their practical application is a plus. The Project Manager is a full-time, 12-month faculty research assistant position renewable annually, contingent on funding. Salary is commensurate with experience, ranging from $55,000 to $65,000. The University also offers a competitive benefits package. To apply, please send: 1) a cover letter outlining your experience in project management, your particular skills in the digital humanities, and statement of your philosophy of managing collaborative research projects; 2) a CV; 3) examples of writing samples (no more than 20 pages), websites, and/or digital projects; and 4) contact information for three professional references to Jennifer Guiliano, Search Chair, via email: guiliano@umd.edu. For best consideration, apply by close of business on May 20, 2013. Position would begin in August/September 2013 dependent on candidate availability. The University of Maryland, College Park, actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity, and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, marital status, genetic information, political affiliation, and gender identity or expression. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8FAC32E8A; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:57:40 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21FB62DBC; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:57:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5F78B2D00; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:57:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130426055737.5F78B2D00@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:57:37 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.994 events: remote sensing; spatial networks; computation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 994. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (17) Subject: Conference: Known Knowns to Unknown Unknowns (K2U2) - Remotely Detecting the Past [2] From: Tom Brughmans (64) Subject: CFP Hestia2: exploring spatial networks through ancient sources [3] From: S B Cooper (129) Subject: CiE 2013 - 2nd Call for Informal Presentations --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:20:12 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Conference: Known Knowns to Unknown Unknowns (K2U2) - Remotely Detecting the Past Known Knowns to Unknown Unknowns (K2U2) Remotely Detecting the Past ArcLand/The Discovery Programme/UCD School of Archaeology/ Dublin City Council Date: Thursday 9th May & Friday 10th May 2013 Time: 9:30-16:30 Both days Venue: Wood Quay Venue, Dublin, Ireland (http://www.woodquayvenue.ie/) Abstract Over the past few years the extent and quality of information available from satellites, airborne laser scanning (LiDAR) and aerial photography has grown exponentially. These techniques, collectively referred to as remote sensing, have had an enormous impact on our ability to reveal past landscapes and disseminate knowledge about those landscapes. The results of this work can be both visually exciting and intellectually engaging. This two day conference brings together a series of speakers to showcase these techniques and the uses to which they can be put. This conference will specifically explore how remotes sensing and its results can be used within the sectors of: * Heritage management and legislation * Education including: secondary, third level and continual development * Community heritage and citizen science The conference runs in conjunction with a public exhibition. Sign up for the event at: http://k2u2arcland.eventbrite.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Rob Sands UCD School of Archaeology web: http://www.ucd.ie/archaeology/staff/robsands/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 05:22:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Brughmans Subject: CFP Hestia2: exploring spatial networks through ancient sources Dear all,   We are delighted to announce the Call For Papers (below) for a one day free seminar organized at The University of Southampton on 18 July 2013 titled ‘Hestia2: Exploring spatial networks through ancient sources’, funded by the AHRC. Hestia2 is a public engagement project that aims to cross boundaries between the academic, commercial and educational sectors. We welcome contributions from all of these sectors, and confirmed presentations include presenters from English Heritage, Ordnance Survey and The University of Texas at Dallas. Please feel free to submit an abstract and share this invitation with others who might be interested. Deadline for abstracts: 13 May.  Best regards,   Tom Brughmans, Elton Barker, Stefan Bouzarovski and Leif Isaksen http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/hestia/ http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/   CALL FOR PAPERS   HESTIA2 Exploring spatial networks through ancient sources   University of Southampton 18th July 2013 Organisers: Elton Barker, Stefan Bouzarovski, Leif Isaksen and Tom Brughmans In collaboration with The Connected Past http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/   A free one-day seminar on spatial network analysis in archaeology, history, classics, teaching and commercial archaeology.   Spatial relationships are everywhere in our sources about the past: from the ancient roads that connect cities, or ancient authors mentioning political alliances between places, to the stratigraphic contexts archaeologists deal with in their fieldwork. However, as datasets about the past become increasingly large, these spatial networks become ever more difficult to disentangle. Network techniques allow us to address such spatial relationships explicitly and directly through network visualisation and analysis. This seminar aims to explore the potential of such innovative techniques for research, public engagement and commercial purposes.   The seminar is part of Hestia2, a public engagement project aimed at introducing a series of conceptual and practical innovations to the spatial reading and visualisation of texts. Following on from the AHRC-funded “Network, Relation, Flow: Imaginations of Space in Herodotus’s Histories” (Hestia: http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/hestia/ ), Hestia2 represents a deliberate shift from experimenting with geospatial analysis of a single text to making Hestia’s outcomes available to new audiences and widely applicable to other texts through a seminar series, online platform, blog and learning materials with the purpose of fostering knowledge exchange between researchers and non-academics, and generating public interest and engagement in this field.   For this first Hestia2 workshop we welcome contributionsaddressing any of (but not restricted to) the following themes: * Spatial network analysis techniques * Spatial networks in archaeology, history and classics * Techniques for the discovery and analysis of networks from textual sources * Exploring spatial relationships in classical and archaeological sources * The use of network visualisations and linked datasets for archaeologists active in the commercial sector and teachers * Applications of network analysis in archaeology, history and classics Please email proposed titles and abstracts (max. 250 words) to: t.brughmans@soton.ac.uk by May 13th 2013. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:51:07 +0000 From: S B Cooper Subject: CiE 2013 - 2nd Call for Informal Presentations 2nd CALL FOR INFORMAL PRESENTATIONS - DEADLINE MAY 31th, 2013: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2013: The Nature of Computation Milan, Italy July 1 - 5, 2013 http://cie2013.disco.unimib.it co-located with Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation 2013 http://ucnc2013.disco.unimib.it -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR INFORMAL PRESENTATIONS TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: Gilles Brassard (Universite de Montreal) and Grzegorz Rozenberg (Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science and University of Colorado at Boulder) PLENARY TALKS: Ulle Endriss (University of Amsterdam) Lance Fortnow (Georgia Institute of Technology) Anna Karlin (University of Washington) Bernard Moret (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) Mariya Soskova (Sofia University) Endre Szemeredi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Rutgers University For submission details, see: http://cie2013.disco.unimib.it/call-for-informal-presentations/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE for Informal Presentations: MAY 31, 2013 Authors will be notified of acceptance, usually within one week of submission. ****Authors of abstracts accepted for presentation are invited to submit a paper extending the abstract to the journal Computability. **** CiE 2013 conference topics include, but not exclusively: * Admissible sets * Algorithms * Analog computation * Artificial intelligence * Automata theory * Bioinformatics * Classical computability and degree structures * Cognitive science and modelling * Complexity classes * Computability theoretic aspects of programs * Computable analysis and real computation * Computable structures and models * Computational and proof complexity * Computational biology * Computational creativity * Computational learning and complexity * Computational linguistics * Concurrency and distributed computation * Constructive mathematics * Cryptographic complexity * Decidability of theories * Derandomization * DNA computing * Domain theory and computability * Dynamical systems and computational models * Effective descriptive set theory * Emerging and Non-standard Models of Computation * Finite model theory * Formal aspects of program analysis * Formal methods * Foundations of computer science * Games * Generalized recursion theory * History of computation * Hybrid systems * Higher type computability * Hypercomputational models * Infinite time Turing machines * Kolmogorov complexity * Lambda and combinatory calculi * L-systems and membrane computation * Machine learning * Mathematical models of emergence * Molecular computation * Morphogenesis and developmental biology * Multi-agent systems * Natural Computation * Neural nets and connectionist models * Philosophy of science and computation * Physics and computability * Probabilistic systems * Process algebras and concurrent systems * Programming language semantics * Proof mining and applications * Proof theory and computability * Proof complexity * Quantum computing and complexity * Randomness * Reducibilities and relative computation * Relativistic computation * Reverse mathematics * Semantics and logic of computation * Swarm intelligence and self-organisation * Type systems and type theory * Uncertain Reasoning * Weak systems of arithmetic and applications We particularly welcome submissions in emergent areas, such as bioinformatics and natural computation. SPECIAL SESSIONS: *Algorithmic Randomness (organizers: Mathieu Hoyrup, Andre Nies) Speakers: Johanna Franklin (University of Connecticut, USA), Noam Greenberg (Victoria University, New Zealand), Joseph S. Miller (University of Wisconsin, USA), Nikolay Vereshchagin (Moscow State University, Russia) * Computational Complexity in the Continuous World (organizers: Akitoshi Kawamura, Robert Rettinger) Speakers: Mark Braverman (Princeton University, USA), Daniel S. Graca (Universidade do Algarve), Joris van der Hoeven (Ecole polytechnique, France), Chee K. Yap (New York University, USA) * Computational Molecular Biology (organizers: Alessandra Carbone, Jens Stoye) Speakers: Sebastian Boecker (University of Jena, Germany), Marilia D. V. Braga (Inmetro, Brazil), Andrea Pagnani (Human Genetics Foundation, Italy), Laxmi Parida (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA) * Computation in Nature (organizers: Mark Daley, Natasha Jonoska) Speakers: Jerome Durand-Lose (Univ. of Orleans, France), Giuditta Franco (Univ. of Verona Italy), Lila Kari (Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada), Darko Stefanovic (Univ. of New Mexico, USA) * Data Streams and Compression (organizers: Paolo Ferragina, Andrew McGregor) Speakers: Graham Cormode (AT&T Labs, USA), Irene Finocchi (University of Rome, Italy), Andrew McGregor (University of Massachusetts, USA), Marinella Sciortino (University of Palermo, Italy). * History of Computation (organizers: Gerard Alberts, Liesbeth De Mol) Speakers: David Alan Grier (George Washington University, USA), Thomas Haigh (University of Wisconsin, USA), Ulf Hashagen (Deutsches Museum, Germany), Matti Tedre (Stockholm University, Sweden). Contact: Paola Bonizzoni - bonizzoni@disco.unimib.it _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, SUBJECT_NEEDS_ENCODING autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 10BC03A00; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:50:08 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D33F239FB; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:50:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F17203120; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:50:04 +0200 (CEST) Subject: 26.995 jobs: at Tbingen, UC Merced From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130427055004.F17203120@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:50:04 +0200 (CEST) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 995. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Kathrin Beck (40) Subject: Job opening: Computational Linguist, Tuebingen, Germany [2] From: Ruth Mostern (20) Subject: Digital Humanities Postdoc at UC Merced --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:04:09 +0200 From: Kathrin Beck Subject: Job opening: Computational Linguist, Tuebingen, Germany Job opening: Computational Linguist, Tuebingen, Germany The Division of Computational Linguistics at the University of Tuebingen, Germany is involved in the construction of research infrastructures for language resources and technology at the local, national, and European levels. See www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/en/ascl/projects.html for more information. For these projects, we are searching for a computational linguist with demonstrated research expertise in one or more of the following areas: web services/applications, standardization and interoperability of language resources, mark-up languages, and metadata standards. Programming experience in Java (or another object-oriented language) and in a scripting language such as Python or Perl are required. Good command of German and good communication skills in English are required. Prior experience in research infrastructure initiatives is desirable. An M.Sc. in Computer Science or a Ph.D. in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, or related field is required. The starting date for this full-time position is July 1, 2013. The initial period of appointment ranges from 1-4 years, with the possibility of renewal subject to follow-up funding. The positions are at the rank of 'Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter'. The salary is determined by the German civil servants standard (Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L) and ranges from 42000-52000 Euro per year, depending on the successful applicant's experience. Applications should include CV, an outline of research experience, as well as names and addresses of references. Applications should be sent by mail or by email to the address below. Applications received by May 31, 2013 will receive full consideration, although interviews may start at any time and will continue until the position has been filled. Disabled applicants will be preferred if they have the same qualifications as non-disabled applicants. The University of Tuebingen strives to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching, and therefore encourages qualified female scientists to apply. Application Deadline: Open until filled. Mailing Address for Applications: Kathrin Beck Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft Wilhelmstr. 19 72074 Tuebingen Germany Email Address for Applications: kathrin.beck@uni-tuebingen.de ----------------- Kathrin Beck Project Administrator D-SPIN & CLARIN-D Dept. of Computational Linguistics University of Tübingen Wilhelmstr. 19/ 2.31 72074 Tübingen Germany Tel.: +49-7071-29-73970 Fax: +49-7071-29-5214 E-Mail: kbeck@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de, kathrin.beck@uni-tuebingen.de --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:26:10 +0000 From: Ruth Mostern Subject: Digital Humanities Postdoc at UC Merced Greetings Humanist Colleagues! If you are a recent Ph.D. or if you communicate with recent Ph.D.s, please take a look at this call for applicants for a postdoc in the Digital Humanities at the UC Merced Center for the Humanities: http://jobs.ucmerced.edu/n/academic/position.jsf?positionId=4587 The Center for Humanities will appoint two Postdoctoral Scholars for two years from the humanities and descriptive social sciences to participate in the Center academic program for 2013-15. Postdoctoral Scholars should have research projects which engage the Center's theme, "The World Upside Down: Topsy-Turvy," and that fall in the areas of Digital Humanities or Public Humanities. During their two-year appointment, they will continue their research programs; participate in the Humanities Center seminar, offering a paper at least once during that time; do one public presentation in an off-campus location; and work with faculty to plan the final conference of the period. It is expected that Scholars will have the opportunity to teach one course each year in an area of their research. Upon final determination of course offerings, the Postdoctoral appointment would be reduced to allow for a teaching appointment. We anticipate that this position will be 83% Postdoctoral Scholar and 17% Lecturer; the combination of both appointments will not exceed 100% time. A full description of the research program and theme can be found on the Center website at http://crha.ucmerced.edu/node/23. Applications are due May 9. Ruth Mostern __________________________________________ Ruth Mostern Associate Professor of History and Founding Faculty World Cultures Graduate Group Chair Spatial Analysis and Research Center (SpARC) Co-Chair School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts University of California, Merced http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/rmostern rmostern@ucmerced.edu 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA 95343 Office: COB 379 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4B3D13A23; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:50:56 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89BB13A07; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:50:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 662D539D3; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:50:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130427055053.662D539D3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:50:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.996 events: London Digital Humanities (correction) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 996. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:57:06 +0100 From: "Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.)" Subject: CORRECTION: London Digital Humanities Group Meeting, 30 April: Manufacturing Pasts Dear colleagues, This is just to confirm that the below meeting takes place on Tuesday of next week and not Thursday. Apologies for any confusion caused by this error, and thanks to James Baker for pointing it out. Best wishes, Simon From: Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.) [mailto:snd6@leicester.ac.uk] Sent: 24 April 2013 21:10 To: digitalhumanitiesgroup@qmul.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F08523A26; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:51:54 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B72A3A01; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:51:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D67A839FB; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:51:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130427055151.D67A839FB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:51:51 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.997 pubs: Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 13 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 997. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:38:26 +0000 From: Ram-Verlag Subject: Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 13, "Issues in Quantitative Linguistics 3" Just published: 2013 Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 13, “Issuess in Quantitative Linguistics 3″ ISBN 978-3-942303-12-5 (400 pages, 20 contributions) dedicated to Karl-Heinz Best on the occasion of his 70th birthday Contents: see *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1366964821_2013-04-26_ram-verlag@t-online.de_32710.2.pdf Edited by: Reinhard Köhler, Gabriel Altmann. Published by: RAM-Verlag. Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 13 is available as: Printed edition: 65.00 EUR plus PP CD-ROM-edition: 30.00 EUR plus PP Internet download (PDF-file): 20.00 EUR If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me. Jutta Richter For: RAM-Verlag RAM-Verlag Jutta Richter-Altmann Medienverlag Stüttinghauser Ringstr. 44 58515 Lüdenscheid Germany Tel.: + 049 (0) 2351 / 973070 Fax: + 049 (0) 2351 / 973071 Mail: RAM-Verlag@t-online.de Web: http://www.ram-verlag.com Steuer-Nr.: 332/5002/0548 MwsT/VAT/TVA/ID no.: DE 125 809 989 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AD0DD3A29; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:52:32 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC0933A15; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:52:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D97D13A00; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:52:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130427055229.D97D13A00@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:52:29 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.998 PhD in Design, Illinois Institute of Design X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 998. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:35:24 -0500 From: Stan Ruecker Subject: PhD in Design at the Institute of Design in Chicago *PhD program announcement* The Institute of Design (ID) at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago is now accepting PhD applications for fall 2013. Formed in 1937 as the New Bauhaus, in 1992 ID became the first design school to offer a PhD in the U.S. Our current program is looking for students with a Masters degree in a related field and a research interest in any of the following areas: communication, interaction, new media, or design methods. A background that includes some combination of design (in any area) and computer programming (on any platform or language) would be a strong asset. Merit scholarships providing tuition remission for in-state, national, and international students are available. A GRE score of min. 310 is required for all applicants, and a TOEFL of min. 100 for students whose first language is not English. The extended deadline for applications is May 25th. For more information, please consult our website at https://www.id.iit.edu/programs-admissions/phd/ Stan Ruecker Associate Professor Co-ordinator, PhD 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4A2532DCC; Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:49:06 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A19572DBC; Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:49:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 647C32CF8; Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:49:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130428104902.647C32CF8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:49:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.999 imagining the new? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 999. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:16:42 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: imagining the new In the Introduction to Electronic Television (Chicago: Goodheart-Willcox, 1936) George H. Eckhardt wrote as follows: > Here is something new. A new science and a new art is springing up, > offering opportunity in many fields. A new form of entertainment in > the home, a new field of study for the radio amateur, and a new field > for the technician and engineer is also born. The veil has been > lifted, and electronic television makes its bow to the public and the > engineer.... (p. v) > It seems best to look upon electronic television as a new art, an art > calling for a new technic all around -- new actors, new directors, > new technical men -- and everything else new. It must not be looked > upon as something that will take the place of anything now extant -- > it is new. New engineers, new research men, a new type of trained > technical men, will be needed. Opportunities of many kinds will come > to the fore. Therefore, instead of thinking that electronic > television will displace this and that, and instead of comparing it > with radio and motion pictures, it is to be regarded as the beginning > of a new, and added, means of education, diversion, and > entertainment; and it is to be looked upon as a wide new field for > employment both in industry and the arts. (p. xiii) Eckhardt refers to "electronic television" to distinguish it from electro-mechanical devices under that name commercially available several years earlier. A survey of the covers of the magazine Radio News, under the editorship of Hugo Gernsback (who coined the term "scientifiction", which became "science fiction", and started the magazine Amazing Stories) shows that a number of new things were being imagined, some of which were later realised, some not. (See www.magazineart.org for these covers.) In particular television was imagined as a one-to-one medium (e.g. April 1924, May 1926), in one case (September 1928) with a mouse-like device to select exhibited goods, in another (June 1927) as something capable of projecting images from a "phonograph record", like a DVD. I find Eckhardt's insistence on the new especially worth thinking about. What would you say is new in his radical sense for the digital machine? And what about the things that didn't happen which were imagined? 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9D2E039D8; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:56:23 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431912E34; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:56:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 30EA22DFD; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:56:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130429045619.30EA22DFD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:56:19 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1000 imagining the new X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 1000. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (87) Subject: Re: 26.999 imagining the new? [2] From: James Rovira (15) Subject: Re: 26.999 imagining the new? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:26:55 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Re: 26.999 imagining the new? In-Reply-To: <20130428104902.647C32CF8@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, Your account of the possibilities imagined for television bring to mind the similar speculations about the use of the telephone quoted by Charles Henry in his 1995 paper 'Dancing to the Telephone: Network Demands and Opportunities' (available at: http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/DL/chuck.html) 'In 1876, in the journal Nature, a new technology called the telephone was described, with some predictions of its future use. Mr. Bell's invention could "at a distance, repeat on one or more pianos the air played by a similar instrument at the point of departure. There is a possibility here...of a curious use of electricity. When we are going to have a dancing party, there will be no need to provide a musician. By paying a subscription to an enterprising individual who will, no doubt, come forward to work this vein, we can have from him a waltz, a quadrille, or a gallop, just as we desire. Simply turn a bell handle, as we do the cock of a water or gas pipe and we shall be supplied with what we want. Perhaps our children may find the thing simple enough" (Aronson, 23)'. Which seems very exotic - but isn't Spotify in essence precisely what is described here? 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 On 28 Apr 2013, at 11:49, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 999. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:16:42 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: imagining the new > > In the Introduction to Electronic Television (Chicago: > Goodheart-Willcox, 1936) George H. Eckhardt wrote as follows: > >> Here is something new. A new science and a new art is springing up, >> offering opportunity in many fields. A new form of entertainment in >> the home, a new field of study for the radio amateur, and a new field >> for the technician and engineer is also born. The veil has been >> lifted, and electronic television makes its bow to the public and the >> engineer.... (p. v) > >> It seems best to look upon electronic television as a new art, an art >> calling for a new technic all around -- new actors, new directors, >> new technical men -- and everything else new. It must not be looked >> upon as something that will take the place of anything now extant -- >> it is new. New engineers, new research men, a new type of trained >> technical men, will be needed. Opportunities of many kinds will come >> to the fore. Therefore, instead of thinking that electronic >> television will displace this and that, and instead of comparing it >> with radio and motion pictures, it is to be regarded as the beginning >> of a new, and added, means of education, diversion, and >> entertainment; and it is to be looked upon as a wide new field for >> employment both in industry and the arts. (p. xiii) > > Eckhardt refers to "electronic television" to distinguish it from > electro-mechanical devices under that name commercially available > several years earlier. A survey of the covers of the magazine Radio > News, under the editorship of Hugo Gernsback (who coined the term > "scientifiction", which became "science fiction", and started the > magazine Amazing Stories) shows that a number of new things were being > imagined, some of which were later realised, some not. (See > www.magazineart.org for these covers.) In particular television was > imagined as a one-to-one medium (e.g. April 1924, May 1926), in one case > (September 1928) with a mouse-like device to select exhibited goods, in > another (June 1927) as something capable of projecting images from a > "phonograph record", like a DVD. > > I find Eckhardt's insistence on the new especially worth thinking about. > What would you say is new in his radical sense for the digital machine? > And what about the things that didn't happen which were imagined? > > 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, > University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews > (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); > www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:42:25 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: 26.999 imagining the new? In-Reply-To: <20130428104902.647C32CF8@digitalhumanities.org> What's interesting to me about Eckhardt's definition of the new is that it even occupies a new space -- it doesn't replace anything that came before it; rather, it exists alongside them. He's thinking specifically of television and its relationship to radio and film, and he is absolutely right. Television didn't replace radio and film, and neither have gone away, not even in forms recognizable to Eckhardt in the 1930s (though new forms have arisen alongside them, such as watching films and listening to radio on our phones and iPads, and being truly new, they don't replace what came before). I think what's most beneficial here is that it might give us ways to think about digital humanities -- we shouldn't think of distant reading as replacing close reading, for example, but as existing alongside it. Distant reading isn't necessarily "new," but it's certainly a more readily accessible practice now. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EFDA33A07; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:57:00 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBEBF2DCD; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:56:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D879439DC; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:56:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130429045658.D879439DC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:56:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1001 jobs in grammar at 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. 1001. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:45:14 +0000 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/ We are looking for research assistants for an externally-funded research project titled "Grammar Engineering and Collaborative Grammar Development". You will be part of a team that develops mechanisms that facilitate collaborative grammar development. An integral part of the project is the development of wide coverage HPSG grammars for Hebrew and Arabic, two genetically related yet significantly different languages. 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 the parallel grammars. We are looking for research assistants who: - have a solid background in computer science, linguistics, or computational linguistics - are familiar with contemporary syntactic theories, ideally HPSG - are creative, innovative and able to work independently - possess excellent communication skills, both oral and written (in English). 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). Applications will be processed immediately; work should ideally start no later than September 2013. _______________________________________________ Iscol mailing list Iscol@cs.haifa.ac.il https://cs.haifa.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/iscol The material posted is under the full responsibility of whoever posted it and under their sole responsibility and liability. The University takes no responsibility whatsoever for any material or other damage, direct or indirect, that may incur from publications in the forum and/or distribution list. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:16:30 +0000 From: Bertram Fronhöfer Subject: European Master's Program in Computational Logic The European Master's Program in Computational Logic We are glad to announce to you the possibility to join our European Master's Program of Computational Logic. This program is offered jointly at the Free-University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy, the Technische Universität Dresden in Germany, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal and the Technische Universität Wien in Austria. Within this program you have the choice to study at two /three of the four European universities. In addition you can do your project work at the National ICT of Australia (NICTA). You will graduate with a MSc in Computer Science and obtain a multiple degree. Information on the universities and the program is provided here: http://www.emcl-study.eu/home.html Language of instruction is English. Tuition fees are 3.000 EUR (for non-European students) and 1.000 (for European students) per year. The ERASMUS-MUNDUS consortium offers tuition fee waivers and small grants (http://www.emcl-study.eu/grants.html). More information on the application procedure is available from: http://www.emcl-study.eu/application.html Application deadline is 31 May, applicants must use our online application system. Do not hesitate to contact us again if you have any further questions. Kind regards -- Steffen Hölldobler Prof. Dr. Steffen Hoelldobler International Center for Computational Logic Technische Universität Dresden 01062 Dresden, Germany phone: [+49](351)46 33 83 40 fax: [+49](351)46 33 83 42 email: sh@iccl.tu-dresden.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5BD992DCA; Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:15:49 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04F832D76; Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:15:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4D0D32D19; Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:15:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130430051546.4D0D32D19@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:15:46 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1003 imagining the new 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. 1003. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:15:33 +0100 From: Tara Mc Pherson Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.1000 imagining the new In-Reply-To: <20130429045619.30EA22DFD@digitalhumanities.org> I like this line of inquiry, both for how it helps us think the 'new' and also for how it reminds us that people shape the course of a technology's development in very real ways. Jeanne Allen has an interesting article, 'The Social Matrix of Television,' in the collection Regarding Television that looks at the potential early uses for TV, including two-way broadcast, etc. It's a sobering read, because she tracks policies that moved TV away from potentiality toward what it became. Also great is Tom Streeter's 'Selling the Air' and the more well-known When Old Technologies Were New by Carolyn Marvin. Tara ----- Original Message ----- From: Humanist Discussion Group Date: Monday, April 29, 2013 5:56 am _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AE4482E6F; Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:16:19 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6C1D2D87; Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:16:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 662802D7C; Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:16:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130430051616.662802D7C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:16:16 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1004 PhD studentships at Milan X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 1004. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:56:37 +0200 From: Giorgio Caviglia Subject: PhD at DensityDesign Lab (Politecnico di Milano) Hi All, I would like to inform you about a PhD research proposal by the DensityDesign Research Lab at the Design Department at Politecnico di Milano, regarding the recent Call for Applications for PhD positions at the Politecnico. Focus of the proposal is “Communication Design and the Computational Turn in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Tools, Methods, Interfaces” and its aim is to investigate the contribution that communication and interface design can bring into the definition of new research methods and practices within the emerging intersections between digital technologies, humanities and social sciences. The PhD student could be part of the DensityDesign Lab in Milan, taking advantage of well established collaborations with researchers and organizations in both humanities and social sciences fields. PhD student positions at Politecnico are salaried positions for up to three years. Deadline for application is May 24 and the PhD programme will start in November, 2013. Here an abstract of the proposal: The rise of social media along with the recent progress in computational tools that can process massive amounts of data, makes possible fundamentally new approaches for the study of human beings, culture and society. Both humanities and social sciences are today presented with new opportunities to study social and cultural processes and dynamics through and on digital media. Besides the study of non­-digital objects and phenomena with the help of computers, there is a continuously expanding space of cultural production and social interaction riddled by machine mediation, which has been, from the beginning, tied to digital schemes and formats. Traditional cultural artifacts like books or movies, ‘native’ digital forms such as software programs, online publications or computer games, contribute to a growing mountain of data begging to be analysed. Within these contexts, the design of visualizations and interfaces to access, observe and explore these new data emerges as a central issue in current research initiatives and agendas. Furthermore, social sciences and humanities provide an almost­perfect context for design (especially communication and interface design) and design thinking to apply and study their situated, interpretative and user­-centered approaches. Stemming from these considerations and looking at design as a valid interlocutor for the definition of new methods and practices for digital research in the humanities and the social sciences, the research aims at defining new design methods and tools based on the study and the exploitation of digital environments and data. A complete description of the research proposal can be found here: http://phd.design.polimi.it/ricerca/temi-di-ricerca-proposti/372-communication-design-and-the-computational-turn-in-the-humanities-and-social-sciences-tools-methods-interfaces The official Politecnico PhD call: http://www.ricerca.polimi.it/index.php?id=4731 More information about the DensityDesign Lab can be found here: http://www.densitydesign.org/ For any further information, please write to info@densitydesign.org Best regards, Giorgio Caviglia Postdoc Research Fellow DensityDesign Research Lab Design Department Politecnico di Milano www.densitydesign.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 053FE2E47; Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:18:37 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9DEF2C86; Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:18:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6DC422C8A; Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:18:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130430051835.6DC422C8A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:18:35 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1005 events: summer school at Oxford; medieval studies at Kalamazoo X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 1005. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dot Porter (49) Subject: Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) Workshop at Kalamazoo [2] From: James Cummings (34) Subject: Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School - Poster Session deadline: 1 May! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:41:51 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) Workshop at Kalamazoo In-Reply-To: The Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) is sponsoring a workshop, led by Dot Porter and Tim Stinson, at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI. The workshop is scheduled for Friday, May 10, 10am, Waldo Library Classroom A. This room is a computer lab. No registration is required, just come if you are interested in learning more about MESA. Wat is MESA? Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MESA is a federated international community of scholars, projects, institutions, and organizations engaged in digital scholarship within the field of medieval studies. MESA seeks both to provide a community for those engaged in digital medieval studies and to meet emerging needs of this community, including making recommendations on technological and scholarly standards for electronic scholarship, the aggregation of data, and the ability to discover and repurpose this data. MESA is also a website, providing a federated search across digital medieval projects and collections. This workshop will focus on the use of the website (which is set to launch publicly in early Summer). In this workshop, we’ll do three things: First, we’ll demonstrate MESA’s functionality and use. This will answer the most basic question: What is MESA, and what can it be used for? This part of the workshop will be useful both for a generally interested audience of scholars, and for individuals and groups who may be interested in having their projects in MESA. Next, we’ll practice using MESA for research purposes. This will be the most hands-on part of the workshop, and we encourage participants to come ready to search, comment, and perhaps even to start to build scholarship in the workshop. Finally, we’ll present background on how federating projects into MESA actually works. This part of the workshop is aimed particularly at individuals and groups who may be interested in having their projects in MESA, although others may be interested to learn about the process. This will involve some technical discussion and in-workshop coding examples. Workshop attendees representing projects are invited to bring project metadata with them, and we will work on extracting the RDF metadata required by MESA during the workshop. If you are interested in having your project used as an in-workshop example, please email dot.porter@gmail.comto express interest. To read more about MESA, please visit our blog:http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/mesa/ -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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/ MESA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedievalElectronicScholarlyAlliance *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:51:04 +0100 From: James Cummings Subject: Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School - Poster Session deadline: 1 May! In-Reply-To: Poster Session abstract deadline approaching: 1 May! http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/#posters === The Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) is a special training event for anyone working in the Digital Humanities. If you are a researcher, project manager, research assistant, or student of the Humanities, this is an opportunity for you to learn about new directions in digital data work and to make contact with others in your field. You will be introduced to topics spanning from creating, managing, analysing, modelling, visualizing, to publication of digital data for the Humanities. This year's Summer School will be held on 8 - 12 July, at the University of Oxford. Places are filling up already, so book your place! Visit http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/ for more information. With the Summer School's customisable schedule, you attend one of our 5-day workshops, and supplement this with booking guest lectures by experts in their fields. There are a variety of evening events including a peer-reviewed poster session to give delegates a chance to demonstrate their work to the other delegates and speakers (apply by 1 May with short abstract!). The Thursday evening sees an elegant drinks reception and three-course banquet at historic Queen's College, Oxford. DHOxSS is a collaboration for Digital.Humanities@Oxford between the University of Oxford's IT Services, the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC), the Bodleian Libraries, and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. If you have questions, then email us at courses@it.ox.ac.uk for answers! -- Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk Academic IT Services, University of Oxford _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9C86139DC; Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:20:21 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 935C82E6F; Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:20:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 008B32C8A; Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:20:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130430052019.008B32C8A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:20:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1006 pubs: quantitative linguistics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 1006. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:57:28 +0000 From: Ram-Verlag Subject: Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 13, "Issues in Quantitative Linguistics 3" Just published: 2013 Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 13, “Issuess in Quantitative Linguistics 3″ ISBN 978-3-942303-12-5 (400 pages, 20 contributions) dedicated to Karl-Heinz Best on the occasion of his 70th birthday Contents: see http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1367227021_2013-04-29_ram-verlag@t-online.de_1163.2.pdf Edited by: Reinhard Köhler, Gabriel Altmann. Published by: RAM-Verlag. Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 13 is available as: Printed edition: 65.00 EUR plus PP CD-ROM-edition: 30.00 EUR plus PP Internet download (PDF-file): 20.00 EUR If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me. Jutta Richter For: RAM-Verlag RAM-Verlag Jutta Richter-Altmann Medienverlag Stüttinghauser Ringstr. 44 58515 Lüdenscheid Germany Tel.: + 049 (0) 2351 / 973070 Fax: + 049 (0) 2351 / 973071 Mail: RAM-Verlag@t-online.de Web: http://www.ram-verlag.com Steuer-Nr.: 332/5002/0548 MwsT/VAT/TVA/ID no.: DE 125 809 989 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 195332C86; Wed, 1 May 2013 06:59:39 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 053FADC1; Wed, 1 May 2013 06:59:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CDE2DD9A; Wed, 1 May 2013 06:59:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130501045935.CDE2DD9A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 06:59:35 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1007 a literary medievalist collaborator? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 1007. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:17:41 +0100 From: Alexander Hay Subject: Looking for a collaborator. (Medieval Literature/Digital Humanities.) In-Reply-To: <20130301064106.E592CE85@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Humanists, I'm looking towards putting together an interactive editon of Lydgate's works, initially via a simple HTML interface. For this, I'd bring my own academic background in digital humanities and reader response theory, but I'd also need a collaborater who knows their Med. Lit backwards. Any takers? In any case, please do reply if you have any further questions. Regards, - Alexander Hay -- Alexander Hay PhD Policy & Communications Consultant Electronics & Computer Science Faculty of Physical & Applied Sciences Building 32 Room 4067 University of Southampton _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, SUBJECT_NEEDS_ENCODING autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3037C2CEA; Wed, 1 May 2013 07:00:34 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A4152CC3; Wed, 1 May 2013 07:00:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B08262C5D; Wed, 1 May 2013 07:00:31 +0200 (CEST) Subject: 26.1008 job in computational linguistics at Tbingen From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130501050031.B08262C5D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 07:00:31 +0200 (CEST) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 1008. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:09:25 +0200 From: Verena Henrich Subject: Job opening: Computational Linguist, Tuebingen, Germany Pending final budgetary approval, the Collaborative Research Center 'Constitution of Meaning' (SFB 833) at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, expects to have an opening in a research project (full-time appointment, Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L) in Computational Linguistics. The project focuses on corpus-based disambiguation of semantic relations in nominal compounds and in referential bridging (Principal Investigator: Erhard Hinrichs; www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~eh). The successful candidate must have demonstrable experience in one or more of the following areas: - lexical semantics and distributional semantics - machine learning for natural language processing Additional requirements: - experience with (object-oriented) programming (e.g. Java, Python, C++, Perl) - (near) native-level command of German - good communication skills in English. The following academic qualification is necessary: an M.Sc. in Computer Science or a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, or a related field. The initial period of appointment for this position is until June 30, 2017. Shorter appointment periods may also be considered. Applications should include CV, an outline of research experience, as well as names and addresses of two referees, and should be sent by mail or by email to the address below. Applications received by May 31, 2013 will receive full consideration, although interviews may start at any time and will continue until the position has been filled. Disabled applicants will be preferred if they have the same qualifications as non-disabled applicants. The University of Tuebingen strives to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching, and therefore encourages qualified female scientists to apply. Application Deadline: Open until filled. Mailing Address for Applications: Verena Henrich Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft Wilhelmstr. 19 Tuebingen 72074 Germany Email Address for Applications: verena.henrich@uni-tuebingen.de Contact Information: Verena Henrich Email: verena.henrich@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C2A692CF8; Wed, 1 May 2013 07:03:05 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B172CDB; Wed, 1 May 2013 07:03:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A4DE8DC1; Wed, 1 May 2013 07:03:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130501050302.A4DE8DC1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 07:03:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1009 events: heritage; standardization & innovation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 1009. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Kai Jakobs (100) Subject: Deadline extended - SIIT 2013 (Standardisation and Innovation in IT [2] From: "Scullard, Susan" (20) Subject: Digital Heritage 2013 Registration --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:47:56 +0200 From: Kai Jakobs Subject: Deadline extended - SIIT 2013 (Standardisation and Innovation in IT Dear all, The submisison deadline for the SIIT 2013 conference has been extended until 15 May. So, if you've got that paper almost ready - this is your chance ...... Cheers, Kai. PS: The web site will soon be updated accordingly. 8th IEEE Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology IEEE SIIT 2013 www.ieee-siit.org 24 - 26 September 2013 European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Sophia-Antipolis, France *******Extended Deadline: 15 May 2013******* Standardisation research is a multi-disciplinary field. Contributing disciplines include, but are by no means limited to, Business Studies, Computer Science, Economics, Information Systems, Management Studies, History, and Social Sciences. While standards and standardisation research is an emerging research area it is of considerable interest and relevance to a large non-academic constituency that includes practitioners from industry, policy makers, users and consumer communities and, last but not least, to those active in or working for, standards setting organisations. Accordingly, the SIIT conferences aim at bringing together representatives of these communities to foster the exchange of insights and views on all issues surrounding ICT standards and standardisation. Topics ------ Theoretical and empirical papers as well as case studies are welcome that shed some light on IT standards, standardisation, and innovation. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - standardisation and innovation - impact of standards - implementation and diffusion of standards - standardisation policies and regulation - competing regional and international regimes - standards and developing countries - intellectual property rights and antitrust law - standards setting processes and organisations - standards cultures - standards education - history of standardisation - corporate standards strategies - Open Source and standards - technology convergence - alternative compatibility strategies and interoperability Important Dates --------------- Submissions due: 15 May 2013 Notification of acceptance: 1 July 2013 Final paper due: 1 August 2013 All information about the conference will be announced at www.IEEE-SIIT.org Paper Submission ---------------- Original (unpublished) papers not exceeding 6,000 words are solicited. They will undergo a double blind peer-review process. Authors may submit more than one paper, but each participant will only be allowed to present one paper during the conference. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, and are planned to be available through IEEE Xplore. Accordingly, the authors must comply with the IEEE policy on copyright and plagiarism including self-plagiarism. Authors of accepted papers will also be asked to sign an IEEE Copyright Form. Outstanding papers will be considered for inclusion in the International Journal on IT Standards and Standardization Research (JITSR). Submissions (in .pdf format) should be made through the EasyChair system at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=siit13. Travel Grants ------------- We expect to be able to offer travel grants for students and for attendees from developing countries. Those who are interested should send an e-mail message to kai.jakobs@cs.rwth-aachen.de. Previous SIIT Conferences ------------------------- 1999 RWTH Aachen University, DE 2001 University of Colorado, Boulder, US 2003 Technical University of Delft, NL 2005 ITU, Geneva, CH 2007 University of Calgary, CA 2009 Kogakuin University, Tokyo, JP 2011 Berlin Institute of Technology, Berlin, DE [...] Kai Jakobs RWTH Aachen University Computer Science Department Informatik 4 (Communication and Distributed Systems) Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany Tel.: +49-241-80-21405 Fax: +49-241-80-22222 Kai.Jakobs@comsys.rwth-aachen.de http://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/team/kai-jakobs/ EURAS - The European Academy for Standardization. http://www.euras.org The International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research. http://www.igi-global.com/ijitsr The 'Advances in Information Technology Standards and Standardization Research' book series. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=37142 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:35:31 +0000 From: "Scullard, Susan" Subject: Digital Heritage 2013 Registration Digital Heritage 2013: Interfaces with the Past Saturday 6 July 2013, Centre for Digital Heritage, University of York Centre for Digital Heritage inaugural conference Speakers will include Graeme Earl (University of Southampton), Douglas Pritchard (Director of Operations, Cyark Europe), and Professor Andrew Prescott (King's College, London and theme leader for the AHRC Digital Transformations programme). Registration is free of change and open NOW until 15 June. Please register early to avoid disappointment as places are limited. The programme is available from http://www.york.ac.uk/digital-heritage/events/cdh-2013/ To register visit http://digitalheritage2013.eventbrite.co.uk/ Twitter: @CDHYork #CDH2013 Email: cdh-2013@york.ac.uk Conference Organising Committee: Paul Bryan, English Heritage Helen Goodchild, Dept of Archaeology Ollie Jones, Dept of Theatre, Film and Television Gavin Kearney, Dept of Theatre, Film and Television Mariana Lopez, Dept of Theatre, Film and Television Philip Morris, Humanities Research Centre Damian Murphy, Dept of Electronics Julian Richards, Dept of Archaeology, Chair Holly Wright, Dept of Archaeology _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B030F3A10; Thu, 2 May 2013 06:44:21 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6113E3A00; Thu, 2 May 2013 06:44:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BD89E5FA; Thu, 2 May 2013 06:44:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130502044418.BD89E5FA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 06:44:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1010 new online course: Deciphering Ancient Texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 1010. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 20:13:50 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Deciphering Ancient Texts in the Digital Age: Voting open for new MOOC course proposal In-Reply-To: Deciphering Ancient Texts in the Digital Age: Voting open for new MOOC course proposal http://groups.google.com/group/2cultures/t/735e4f9e5ce34dee Donelle McKinley > Apr 30 09:30PM -0700 Hi all, Sydney Shep and Thomas Koentges at Wai-te-ata Press, Victoria University of Wellington have proposed a new massive open online course (MOOC) that will teach you: - how to reconstruct ancient texts, - how to describe and date a manuscript, - how to recognise and differentiate different hands and styles, - and how to read those hands Ten MOOC Production Fellowships are on offer and public demand is one criterion for the jury decision. If you, or anyone you know, would be interested in a 15-week open online course on Deciphering Ancient Texts in the Digital Age we encourage you to VOTE and spread the word! To vote and find out more visit: https://moocfellowship.org/submissions/deciphering-ancient-texts-in-the-digital-age Best wishes, Donelle Donelle McKinley School of Information Management & Wai-te-ata Press Research Team Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Rm. 506 Rutherford House, Bunny St. Tel. (+64) 4 463 6597 @donellemckinley www.digitalglam.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 98CB23A24; Thu, 2 May 2013 06:46:48 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 560263A15; Thu, 2 May 2013 06:46:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E0E9A3A09; Thu, 2 May 2013 06:46:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130502044645.E0E9A3A09@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 06:46:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1011 new-old on WWW: CERN's first web page 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="===============7901345292308578615==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============7901345292308578615== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 1011. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 16:28:13 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: first web page now online at http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html is again online the first web page which was hosted by CERN. some of its links too are working. best maurizio ------- il corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw la biblioteca digitale del latino tardo: http://www.digiliblt.unipmn.it/ a day in the life of DH2013: http://dayofdh2013.matrix.msu.edu/digiliblt/ ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università  del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 --===============7901345292308578615== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php --===============7901345292308578615==-- Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 841263A15; Thu, 2 May 2013 06:54:53 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9A076A2; Thu, 2 May 2013 06:54:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7682A5FA; Thu, 2 May 2013 06:54:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130502045448.7682A5FA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 06:54:48 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1012 events: new media; the self; liberation; trust; biomediation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 1012. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Charles Ess (60) Subject: Trust in online environments - interdisciplinary faculty and PhD workshops - University of Oslo [2] From: Charles Ess (64) Subject: Interdisciplinary PhD workshop - Researching the relational/sociable self - Nov. 27-28, 2013 - University of Oslo [3] From: "artur.lugmayr@tut.fi" (283) Subject: CfP :: ACADEMIC MINDTREK CONFERENCE 2013 :: Deadline-10th May 2013 :: 1st-4th October :: Tampere, Finland :: [4] From: kcl - digitalhumanities (61) Subject: BIOMEDIATIONS: ART, LIFE, MEDIA Tuesday 14 May 2013 [5] From: Aurélien_Berra (27) Subject: Conference CFP: "Les humanités délivrées", Lausanne --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 05:09:11 +0000 From: Charles Ess Subject: Trust in online environments - interdisciplinary faculty and PhD workshops - University of Oslo Dear Humanists, Please cross-post and distribute as appropriate: Faculty workshop ­ PhD workshop ­ Public Debate Whom ­ and what ­ can you trust in online / mediated environments? Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Philosophy, Computer Science, Media Studies. September 26-27, 2013: Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. Lecturers / mentors: Dag Elgesem, University of Bergen James Moor, Dartmouth College Judith Simon,University of Vienna &, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Elisabeth Staksrud, University of Oslo Mariarosaria Taddeo, University of Warwick Herman Tavani, Rivier University, New Hampshire John Weckert, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia Background / description: James Moor¹s seminal paper, "What is Computer Ethics?" (1985), inaugurated a new generation of interdisciplinary reflection on how computing technologies evoked distinctive new ethical challenges.  These challenges are often quite novel ­ and their roots in specific technologies thus require equally novel and collaborative reflection across the otherwise diverse disciplines of philosophy, applied ethics, computer science, social science, and so on. Especially over the past decade, increasing attention has been given to questions of trust and privacy in online and mediated environments. These questions are complicated by important differences between face-to-face and online/mediated experiences of trust and privacy - and further complicated by the increasingly important roles of Artificial Agents (AAs) and Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) such as those at work in ³recommendations for you² on commercial websites, web-page ranking algorithms used in popular search engines, and so on. At the same time, AAs and MASs are becoming increasingly autonomous ­ capable of making decisions independently of human control. Such autonomy raises centrally philosophical questions:  Are such AAs and MASs further capable of making autonomous ethical judgments ­ including the specific sort of judgment denoted by phronesis or ³practical wisdom²?  And: how would we know if we can or should trust these agents ­ precisely as they become increasingly indispensible to our lives? Our lecturers / mentors have each undertaken leading work in these domains, both within philosophically-grounded and -oriented reflection (J. Moor, J. Simon, M. Taddeo, H. Tavani) and within the contexts of online and mediated communication environments (D. Elgesem, E. Staksrud, C.Ess). Our faculty and PhD workshops are designed to further important dialogue and debate, and foster current doctoral research in these domains. The public debate will offer highlights of current insights and findings, along with critical discussion of our defining themes and questions. For more details, including registration procedures, please see the workshops / lecture website. Best regards, Charles Ess Associate Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/ University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess@media.uio.no --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 05:39:25 +0000 From: Charles Ess Subject: Interdisciplinary PhD workshop - Researching the relational/sociable self - Nov. 27-28, 2013 - University of Oslo Dear colleagues: Please distribute to potentially interested PhD students. ----- We invite doctoral students from a range of disciplines including media and communication studies, information science, sociology, philosophy, and political science ­ to participate in this interdisciplinary PhD course. Researching the relational/sociable self: Methods, Privacy, Ethics 27. Nov. 2013 09:15 - 28. Nov. 2013 17:00, Room 418, Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo Co-organizers: Charles Ess http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/personer/vit/charlees/index.html (Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo) Stine Lomborg http://mcc.ku.dk/staff/presentation/?id=293359&f=3 (Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication, University of Copenhagen)   Additional lecturers / mentors: Hallvard Fossheim, Director, (Norwegian) National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (NESH) Annette Markham, Visiting Professor, School of Commmunication, Loyola University / Guest Professor, Informatics, Umeå University Espen Ytreberg, Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo Background Especially over the last decade or so, both social science and humanistic research have recognized the emergence of ³the relational self,² as fostered by Internet-facilitated modes and venues of communication ­ most especially social media.  Understanding how far our conceptions of selfhood may be changing in Western societies ­ broadly, from more individual to more relational, and, perhaps, from more rational to more emotive ­ is critical, especially as these changes seem further tied to * changing circumstances of socialization and togetherness in everyday life, and interweaving of different networks of affiliation that is associated with networked media for personal communication (cf. Rainie & Wellman, 2012); * changing methodologies and approaches to research designed to better tease out and explore the multiple dimensions of relationality; * changing sensibilities and expectations regarding privacy and notions of privatlivet and the (proper) boundaries of our intimsfære (intimate sphere), and thereby * possible coherencies and/or conflicts with current research ethics codes and law, e.g., expected changes in EU data privacy protection law that increases individual privacy protections, but may remain silent regarding privacy and other protections for close relationships such as are already encoded, for example in the NESH 2006 guidelines (Norway) as already more relationally oriented. The workshop addresses theories of relational selfhood; research methodologies as retuned to such selfhood; and new research ethics questions evoked by changing senses of selfhood and thus privacy expectations. For more details, including available ECTs and registration procedures, please see the workshop website: Many thanks in advance, Charles Ess Associate Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/ University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess@media.uio.no --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:29:06 +0000 From: "artur.lugmayr@tut.fi" Subject: CfP :: ACADEMIC MINDTREK CONFERENCE 2013 :: Deadline-10th May 2013 :: 1st-4th October :: Tampere, Finland :: ACADEMIC MINDTREK CONFERENCE 2013 ?Making Sense of Converging Media? 1st-4th October, 2013 Tampere, Finland **** Call for Papers, Extended Abstracts, Posters, Demonstration, Workshops, Tutorials http://www.academicmindtrek.org, http://www.mindtrek.org Long and short papers, posters, demonstrations, and extended abstracts due on 10th May 2013 Tutorials and Workshops due on 28th April 2013 In cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGMM, and ACM SIGCHI Contributions will be published in the ACM digital library and selected set of high-level work will be published as book chapters or in journals ============================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, POSTERS, DEMOS, WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS We are pleased to invite you to the Academic MindTrek conference, 1st ? 4th October 2013, which brings together a cross-disciplinary crowd of people to investigate current and emerging topics of media in many facets. The conference explores academically the emerging and frontier-breaking applications of new media in everyday contexts of leisure, business and organizational life. October 2nd will be the main Academic MindTrek day with other sessions on the preceding and following days. Due to increasing popularity of the conference, we are extending the scope of Academic MindTrek 2013! The academic conference features six major themes: * Social Media * Ambient & Ubiquitous Media * Business & Media * Human-Computer Interaction (new track!) * Open Source * Digital Games * ICT & E-Government Why to Participate? The MindTrek Association hosts MindTrek as a yearly conference, where the Academic MindTrek conference has been a part of this unique set of events comprising competitions, world famous keynote speakers, plenary sessions, media festivals, and workshops since 1997. It is a meeting place where researchers, experts and thinkers present results from their latest work regarding the development of Internet, interactive media, and the information society: * Real chance for media enthusiasts to think outside the box * Brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that are involved in the development of media in various fields, ranging from sociology and the economy to technology * The highest ranked papers will be published in academic journals (e.g. in 2012 we published a selected set of articles in ACM Computers in Entertainment, Electronic Markets ? The International Journal on Networked Business, and the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence. * Provides a chance to learn from the vast media genre at large * Allows participants to exchange views with cross-disciplinary experts * Aims to provide insights about the convergence of the various media and the future of media * High-level keynote speakers. A few examples from previous years: Keith Partridge, Tomi T. Ahonen (Consultant), Latif Ladid (IPV6 Forum), Beat Schwegler (Microsoft), Cinzia dal Zotto (Univ. of Neuchatel), Ari Ojansivu (Google), Ramine Darabiha (Rovio), Molly R?nge (Crowdculture), Slava Kozlov (Philips Design), Dave Nielsen (CloudCamp), Janne J?rvinen (F-Secure), Olavi Toivainen (Nokia), Herbert Snorrason (OpenLeaks), Tuija Aalto (YLE), Juha Kaario (Varaani), among many others. Also this year we are preparing a wide set of invited speakers & keynotes. Social Media ?Get social!? Social media and Web 2.0 technologies are applied in ever diverse practices both in private and public communities. Totally new business models are emerging, traditional communication and expression modalities are challenged, and new practices are constructed in the collaborative, interactive media space. Ambient and Ubiquitous Media ?The medium is the message!? ? This conference track focuses on the definition of ambient and ubiquitous media with a cross-disciplinary viewpoint: ambient media between technology, art, and content. The focus of this track is on applications, location based services, ubiquitous computation, augmented reality, theory, art-works, mixed reality concepts, the Web 3.0, and user experiences that make ubiquitous and ambient media tick. Media Business, Media Production and Media Management Media business and media management face the challenges of the emergence of new forms of digital media and focuses on leadership practices, business models and value chains. It discusses competition, patterns of media usage, advertising models, and how traditional media can cope with the challenges coming from digital media focusing on media business and media management issues. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) The wide field of HCI is to discuss issues around human computer interaction modalities, consumer experience, design of computer systems, human aspects, universal media access, ergonomics, communication, novel interaction modalities, privacy, trusted systems, interaction theories, and sociological and psychological factors. This theme of devotes to several of these aspects, and is targeted to the scientific community dealing with several applied and theoretical aspects of HCI and user experience. Open Source The last decade has seen a significant increase in open source initiatives such as open source software, open standards, open content, open media, or even open source hardware. On the one hand, the open movement has created new kinds of opportunities such as new business models and development approaches. On the other hand, it has introduced new kinds of technical and non-technical challenges. Digital Games The culture and business of digital games is becoming increasingly varied. The current trends range from novel interface innovations and digital distribution channels to social game dynamics and player-generated content. The games track is open for theoretical works, empirical case studies and constructive projects. ICT & E-Government In recent years, ICT has played a pivotal role in the development of digital economy. This technology facilitates the rapid accumulation and dissemination of information, group interaction, communication, and collaboration. ICT has become one of the core elements of managerial reform around the world. Since the launch of web 2.0 and emergence of ICT infrastructure, processes and policies many governments and public officials use new online tools to communicate among themselves, and with organizations and citizens. Demonstrations The aim is to gather demonstrations from researchers and professionals from the communities related to the topics of MindTrek. The objective for the demonstrations is to provide a forum for exchanging experiences, practical projects, or media demonstrators. The target audience includes members of the academic community, industry, or laboratories who can demonstrate the results of their research projects with a practical implementation. Special academic sessions (e.g. tutorials, demonstrations, workshops, and multidisciplinary sessions) will be held parallel to the MindTrek business conference. Academic speakers and authors are warmly welcome to register for the business conference tracks as part of the academic conference with our special registration rate. The Academic MindTrek registration includes full service such as coffees, lunches, and social gatherings. The organizing committee invites you to submit original high quality full papers, long or short, addressing the special theme and the topics, for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. Conference Publications The scientific part of the conference is organized in cooperation with ACM SIGMM, and ACM SIGCHI. Conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library, which includes short and long papers, workshop proposals, demonstration proposals, and tutorial proposals. Extended abstracts will be published in the adjunct conference proceedings; however, they will not be published within the ACM Digital Library. Selected high quality papers will be published in international journals, as book chapters, edited books, or via open access journals. There will also be a reward for the overall best paper from the academic conference. All the papers should follow the style guidelines of the conference. Short and Long Paper Proposals All submissions will be peer-reviewed double blinded, therefore please remove any information that could give an indication of the authorship. Short papers should be between 2-4 pages long and the paper presentation will be 15 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion within a session; long papers should be 6-8 pages and will be presented in 20 minutes slots, plus 5 minutes discussion. Workshop Proposals Feel free to suggest workshops which are co-organized with the Academic MindTrek. Workshop proposals should include the organizing committee, a 2 page description of the theme of the workshop, a short CV of organizers, duration, the proceedings publisher, and the schedule. Workshop organizers also have the possibility to add publications to the main conference proceedings. Depending on the attracted number of papers for each workshop, we provide space for either half-day or full-day workshops. Previous examples include e.g. a workshop on eLearning. Nevertheless, feel free to suggestion your own. Demonstrations Proposals Demonstration proposals shall be 2-3 pages and include: a) a description and motivation of the demonstration; b) general architecture of the demonstration; c) description of the main features; d) a brief comparison with other existing related demonstrations; e) audio-visual materials to illustrate the demonstration (if applicable); f) the type of license, and g) the Internet address of the demonstration (if applicable). It is strongly recommended that the authors make the demonstration (or a suitable version or movie) on the Internet during the evaluation. Tutorial Proposals Tutorial proposals should include a 2-page description of the tutorial, intended audience, a short CV, timetable, required equipment, references, and a track record of previous tutorials. The target length of tutorials is 2-4 hours. Previous examples include a tutorial on audio based media. However, feel free to suggest your own. Extended Abstracts Extended abstracts should be between 1-2 pages long and contain 500-800 words. They should describe the research problem, background, research questions, and the contribution to the conference. Extended abstracts will not be published within the ACM digital library. Poster Presentations Posters should be between 2-3 pages long and a poster should be presented during the conference. Attendees have the possibility to exhibit their posters on a A0 poster wall d uring the conference. Submission Deadlines - 10th May 2013: deadline for long papers (6-8 pages), short papers (3-4 pages), extended abstracts (1-2 pages), posters (1-2 pages) and demonstrations (2-3 pages) - 28th April 2013: deadline for tutorial proposals and workshop proposals - 30th June 2013: notification of acceptance/rejection for papers, extended abstracts, posters, and demos, tutorials - 20th July 2013: camera ready papers and copyright forms - 5th August 2013: submission of camera ready papers - 1st-4th October 2013: Academic MindTrek and MindTrek Business Conference Suggested key-dates for workshop organizers - 15th August 2013: deadline for workshop papers - 10th September 2013: deadline for camera-ready papers Conference Themes 1. Social Media - Business models, service models, and policies - Social media in innovation and business - Intra and inter organizational use of social media - Questions related to identity, motivation and values - Blogs, wikis, collaboration and social platform designs in practice - Knowledge management and learning with social media - Experience management with social media - Crowdsourcing, user-created content and social networks - Enterprise 2.0 and social computing in work organizations - Evaluation and research methods of social media - Social media and community design - Benefits and limitations of social media applications 2. Ambient and Ubiquitous Media - between Technology, Services, and Users - Applications and services utilizing ubiquitous and pervasive technology - Ubicom in eLearning, leisure, storytelling, art works, advertising, and mixed reality contexts - Next generation user interfaces, ergonomics, multimodality, and human-computer interaction - Art works for smart public or indoor spaces, mobile phones, museums, or cultural applications - Context awareness, sensor perception, context sensitive Internet, and smart daily objects - Personalization, multimodal interaction, smart user interfaces, and ergonomics - Ambient human computer interaction, experience design, usability, and audience research - Software, hardware, middleware, and technologies for pervasive and ubiquitous - Theoretical methods and algorithms in ubiquitous and ambient systems - Business models, service models, media economics, regulations, x-commerce, and policies - User positioning, location awareness - Augmented reality in ubiquitous applications - Device interoperability, remote user interfaces, inter-device connections 3. Media Business, Media Studies, and Media Management - Media politics: policy, practices, conception, and media regulation - Production technology: processes, and optimization - Business models: value chain/value net, revenue models, and product architecture - Strategic and operational Management of TIME Industries: Technology, Information, Media, Entertainment - Key data analytics: balanced scorecard, competition analysis, performance indicators, social media monitoring, google analytics, ? - Media use: patterns, engagement, and consumer experiences - Customer relationship management: communities & engagement 4. Human-Computer Interaction - User experience and experience design - Interaction design techniques and methods - User interaction and HCI design - Creativity, practices and innovation in HCI - Analysis, theories, and procedures in interaction design - Methods, systems, and toolkits supporting HCI - Human centered computing and understanding interaction - Interactivity methods - Designing for experience and interactivity - Design, evaluation, and implementation of interactive systems - Phenomena surrounding interactivity 5. Open Source - Forms of openness: open source software, open standards, - Open content, open media, open source hardware, and open access - Establishment of an open source community - Practices on developing open source systems - Practices for maintaining a successful project - Open source processes and techniques - Differences on open source and closed source systems - Using open source in commercial context - Challenges of open source development - Teaching open source in academia and industry 6. Digital Games - Theoretical and analytical approaches on games and play - Analysis of player experience - Game design research - Economy and business models in the game industry - Innovation in and around games - Digital distribution of games - Online, mobile and cross-platform games - Social and casual games - Pervasive and ubiquitous games - augmented and altered reality games - Mobile and cross-media games - Gamification, fun ware and playful design - Player-created content 7. ICT & E-Government - M-government - Web 2.0 and e-government social network - E-government obstacles and challenges - E-government project failure - Future of e-government - Improving the public service efficiency and effectiveness - E-government in developing countries - Citizen?s technological limitations - ICT and democracy (e-Democracy agenda at e-government level) - Citizens' education and accessibility to ICT - exploiting the learning and communicative potential of emerging online tools - new media forms (games, blogs, wiki, G3 mobile communications Paper Submission - Please follow the style guidelines on http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates for formatting your paper - Note that since the papers will be published by the ACM digital library all authors need to sign an ACM copyright form. (For further guidelines see: http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html) - Submit papers here: http://www.tut.fi/emmi/Submissions/2013mindtrek/ [...] Further Information http://www.academicmindtrek.org [...] --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 14:32:29 +0000 From: kcl - digitalhumanities Subject: BIOMEDIATIONS: ART, LIFE, MEDIA Tuesday 14 May 2013 BIOMEDIATIONS: ART, LIFE, MEDIA One-day symposium at Goldsmiths, University of London Date: Tuesday 14 May 2013 Venue: New Cross, MRB Screen 1 Symposium description: ‘Life’ signifies many things. To begin with, it is a philosophical abstraction referring to our meaningful existence in the world. But ‘life’ also refers to biological processes taking place at environmental, social and cellular levels, as well as technical experiments with media, computer systems and biological models. Life as such doesn’t therefore exist: it is always mediated by language, culture, technology and biology. It is these multiple mediations of life that form the theme of this symposium Biomediations: Art, Life, Media. The term ‘biomediations’ encapsulates life’s own inherent dynamism that unfolds at environmental, social and cellular level. It also captures the creative, dynamic and evolving nature of media. The symposium will explore this intertwined process, whereby life is always mediated and whereby media themselves are living – i.e. composed of both technological and biological elements, and capable of generating new forms, unprecedented connections and unexpected events. Programme: 10.30-12.30 Professor Joanna Zylinska, Goldsmiths, University of London The aesthetic and ethical imperative of biomediations: opening remarks Professor Sarah Kember, Goldsmiths, University of London iMedia Dr Btihaj Ajana, King’s College London Measuring life: between the ‘who?’ and the ‘what?’ 12.30-1.30 Lunch break 1.30-3.00 Dr Sarah Cook, University of Sunderland Artistic mediations of life: some examples Ben Craggs, Goldsmiths, University of London What does bioart do? From biomedia to biomediation 3.00-3.30 Coffee break 3.30-5.00 Dr Lynn Turner, Goldsmiths, University of London Tympan Alley: posthuman performatives in Dancer in the Dark Professor Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London Privations, secretions 5.15-7.00 Keynote lecture Stelarc (performance artist and Professor at Brunel University) Engineering aliveness and affect in artificial systems: alternate operational architectures 7pm Wine reception The event is free and open to all. This event is organised with the generous support of the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths. It is a satellite event to Transitio_MX05 ‘Biomediations’: Festival of New Media Art and Video in Mexico City (20-29.09.2013). ---------------------------------------------------------- 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 --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 15:26:14 +0000 From: Aurélien_Berra Subject: Conference CFP: "Les humanités délivrées", Lausanne Dear all, Please find below the announcement of a conference on "Les humanités délivrées" ("The Humanities out of/freed from the book") organised in Lausanne by Claire Clivaz, Frédéric Kaplan et Dominique Vinck in October. The call for papers will be open until 15 May. Details are available online at http://calenda.org/244526 . Amitiés, Aurélien Berra --- Le LADHUL (Laboratoire des cultures et humanités digitales de l'Université de Lausanne) et le DHLab (EPFL) organisent un colloque les 1er et 2 octobre prochains à l'Université de Lausanne : « Les humanités délivrées. Cultures parlées, visuelles, écrites, réinventées hors du livre ». Comité scientifique: Aurélien Berra (Paris), Claire Clivaz (Lausanne), Éric Guichard (Paris et Lyon), Frédéric Kaplan (Lausanne), Christian Licoppe (Paris), Claudine Moulin (Trier), Christian Vandendorpe (Ottawa), Dominique Vinck (Lausanne). Conférenciers externes : - Julianne Nyhan (UCL, London) : « Oral History, Hidden Histories and the emergence of the Digital Humanities 1945-1980 » - Geoffrey C. Bowker (Santa Clara, USA) : « Memory Practices in the Sciences and Digital Humanities » - Philippe Martin (Lyon) : « L'histoire, le probabilisme et le digital : réflexions autour de l'exemple d'Alain Corbin » Le mardi soir aura lieu une une table ronde grand public : « Création musicale, droit d’auteur et diffusion virtuelle : quel partage ? », avec des invités impliqués dans la SUISA, le parti Pirate suisse, etc. (org. Marc Audétat, Interface Sciences-Société) L'argumentaire et l'appel à contribution, ouvert jusqu'au 15 mai, se trouvent à l'adresse suivante : http://calenda.org/244526 . Les contributions doivent a priori porter sur les thématiques suivantes : • Les formes culturelles originales ou hybrides en train de se faire - Modes de production, d’agrégation et de circulation - Débordements « du livre » et nouvelles porosités de la catégorie « livre » - Nouvelles identités intermédiaires, construites ou émergentes • Les humanités hors du/des livres et des institutions qui les portent - Prise en compte des cultures hors du livre à travers les siècles - Analyse des pratiques culturelles hors du livre aujourd’hui • Les disciplines académiques confrontées aux littératies plurielles - Ce que les littératies orales, visuelles et la réinvention de l’écriture font aux chercheurs - Défis méthodologiques en sciences humaines et sociales posés par les cultures hors du livre • Les Digital Humanities et les cultures hors du livre _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 987363A37; Fri, 3 May 2013 07:00:31 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2F3E3A17; Fri, 3 May 2013 07:00:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B21803A10; Fri, 3 May 2013 07:00:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130503050028.B21803A10@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 07:00:28 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1013 new forum for collaboration X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 1013. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 06:50:59 +0100 From: "Roisin O'Brien" Subject: New collaboration forum Hi all, I am emailing with regard to a recently established collaboration forum at www.roisinobrien.com. The forum encourages networking of scholars and professionals from any discipline and is a hub for discussion as well as active participation in advertised collaborative projects. Please feel free to circulate this information to anyone within your networks who may be interested in contributing to the development of a team of collaborators or participating in Digital Humanities debates. To join, visit http://roisinobrien.com/?page_id=993#. Please do not hesitate to contact me at roisinaobrien@gmail.com with any further questions. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Maarten Bullynck (52) Subject: Reminder Call for Papers HaPoC 2013 (Deadline May 15) [2] From: "Marten During" (38) Subject: Trier Summer School Social Network Analysis in the Humanities and Social Sciences (in German) [3] From: Aurélien_Berra (41) Subject: ESTS 2013, Paris: editing variation [4] From: Alexander O'Connor (31) Subject: "Talking pictures and seeing texts" -- A seminar on images and texts [5] From: Athanasios Velios (163) Subject: Ligatus Summer School 2013, Uppsala --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 22:32:20 -0700 From: Maarten Bullynck Subject: Reminder Call for Papers HaPoC 2013 (Deadline May 15) Call for Papers Conf. History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC 2013, 28-31 October, Paris) Extended Submission Deadline: 15th May 2013 ! 28th - 31st October 2013 Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. with a special session on "Computing and the Arts" at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs http://hapoc2013.sciencesconf.org The 2nd International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC 2013) will take place from the 28th to the 31st of October 2013 at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris (France). The birth of the computing and its sciences has often been the topic of philosophical and historical reflection. The HaPoC-conferences have decided to bring together the historical and the philosophical viewpoints. They want to create an environment for a true interdisciplinary convergence around computer science, reenforcing research on the science(s) of computing and its history and stimulating a theoretical dialogue between these domains. To furter this dialogue HaPoC has chosen to have no parallel sessions. Our invited speakers are: Janet Abbate; Bernard Chazelle; S. Barry Cooper; Walter Dean; Nathan Ensmenger; Jean-Yves Girard; Margit Rosen and Franck Varenne. HaPoC 2013 is the follow-up conference to HaPoC 2011 (Gent, Belgium). Please check out the website of HaPoC 2013 for more information on the conference: http://hapoc2013.sciencesconf.org For HaPoC 2013 we welcome contributions from logicians, philosophers and historians of computing as well as from philosophically aware computer scientists and mathematicians. Topics include but are not limited to: 1. Approaches to the notion of computing      a. History and Philosophy of Computability      b. History and Philosophy of Computation      c. History and Philosophy of Programming      d. History and Philosophy of the Computer 2. Applications and uses of Computing      a. History and Epistemology of the use of Computing in the sciences      b. Computing and the Arts : historical and conceptual issues      c. Social, ethical and paedagogical aspects of Computing We cordially invite researchers working in a field relevant to the main topics of the conference to submit a short abstract of approximately 200 words and an extended abstract of at most a 1000 words (references included) to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hapoc2 Abstracts must be written in English and anonymized. Please note that the format of uploaded files must be .pdf or .doc. The submission deadline is: May 15th, 2013 (extended!) Notification of acceptance: July 1st, 2013 Best regards, the organisers, Maarten Bullynck (Paris 8 & SPHERE) Jean-Baptiste Joinet (Lyon 3, IRPhil & CIRPHLES) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 13:36:52 +0200 From: "Marten During" Subject: Trier Summer School Social Network Analysis in the Humanities and Social Sciences (in German) Dear all, I am forwarding this on behalf of Michael Kronenwett. I attended this Summer School in 2008 and it is definitely of interest to Digital Humanists with a passive understanding of German. Liebe Listenmitglieder, die Anmeldephase für die 7. Trierer Summer School on Social Network Analysis hat begonnen. Die Trierer Summer School on Social Network Analysis (23.-28. September 2013) bietet im Rahmen eines einwöchigen Intensivangebots eine umfassende Einführung in die theoretischen Konzepte, Methoden und Anwendungen der Sozialen Netzwerkanalyse. Die Veranstaltung richtet sich an NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen und Studierende aller geistes-, kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Fächer, die sich mit der Analyse sozialer Strukturen beschäftigen und Einblick in die Methoden der Sozialen Netzwerkanalyse (SNA) nehmen möchten. Das Angebot auf einem Blick: - eine Woche intensive Einführung in die SNA durch Experten - individuelle Forschungsberatung durch die Dozenten - Einführung in gängige Software zur SNA (Pajek, Gephi, R) - Gastvortrag: Miriam J. Lubbers (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) „The dynamics of personal networks of immigrants over an eight-year period“ - Workshop „Mixed Methods“/„Visual Network Research“ (Net-Map, VennMaker) - Workshop „Data Mining und angewandte Netzwerkanalyse“ - Workshop „Prozessgenerierte Daten und historische Netzwerkanalyse“ - angenehme Lernatmosphäre mit vielen Gelegenheiten für "social networking" - abendliches Rahmenprogramm (gemeinsames Abendessen/Stadtrundgang) Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Summer School Homepage: http://www.summerschool.uni-trier.de/ http://www.summerschool.uni-trier.de Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Michael Kronenwett -- Michael Kronenwett, M.A. Research Cluster Social Networks Forschungscluster "Gesellschaftliche Abhängigkeiten und soziale Netzwerke" University of Trier Phone +49-176-62892495 http://www.vennmaker.com http://www.vennmaker.com/ E-Mail: kronenwe@uni-trier.de -- Dr Marten Düring Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Personal website http://research.martenduering.com/ Historical Network Research --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 17:34:59 +0200 From: Aurélien_Berra Subject: ESTS 2013, Paris: editing variation Dear Humanists, Please find below the call for papers, posters and sessions for the ESTS 2013 conference, "Variance in textual scholarship and genetic criticism". More information is available online at http://www.textualscholarship.eu/conference-2013.html. We will be very happy to welcome you in Paris. Best regards, Aurélien Berra on behalf of the programme committee --- Variance in textual scholarship and genetic criticism. La variance en philologie et en critique génétique 10th Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS 2013) 20-22 November 2013, École normale supérieure, Paris CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for proposals: 1 June 2013 The 10th conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship will be organised at the École normale supérieure in Paris by the Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (ITEM, UMR 8132) and the research team “Textes, histoire et monuments, de l’Antiquité au Moyen Âge” (THEMAM, UMR 7041 ARSCAN). Treated either as a deviation to be eliminated or as a creative transformation, variation is central to every form of textual scholarship. It is high time to confront the various conceptions of what constitutes a variation, to see what they have in common and what irreconcilable differences remain – though it would be paradoxical for a conference devoted to variance to aim at absolute uniformity. ESTS conferences are characterised by a combination of formal plenary sessions and traditional paper presentations in panel sessions with three speakers, followed by lively exchange, dialogue and interaction between speakers and audience in many small groups. There will also be an opportunity for poster presentations of current projects. We encourage submissions related to any of the following topics: 1. Confronting methods: the use of “stages of revision” in critique génétique and textual criticism; the questioning of the notion of variant by the genetic approach to modern and contemporary working manuscripts 2. Combining methods: using critique génétique in dealing with ancient and medieval texts? using the philological method in the genetic study of printed editions? 3. Editing variation: scholarly editions in critique génétique and textual criticism 4. Concepts and cases: how to edit avant-textes and texts as processes? 5. Exploring limits: extreme methodologies for extreme variations 6. Digital approaches to the printed text and its manuscripts: rethinking, representing and interpreting variation 7. Philological and genetic approaches to born-digital texts and manuscripts The conference is organised according to a number of thematic sessions. Submissions are welcome on all topics related to the theme of the conference, regardless of linguistic contexts, time periods, geographic areas or types of documents and texts. This includes interdisciplinary perspectives from all branches of scholarly editing, as long as the focus of the proposals is on the guiding principles and practices of editorial scholarship. Graduate students are encouraged to participate. Please submit your proposal before 1 June 2013, by email to ests2013paris@gmail.com. You will be notified by 1 July 2013 whether your proposal has been accepted or not. * Proposals for papers Abstracts in English (500 words maximum) are to be submitted to the organising committee, along with the presenter’s name, concise biography, address, telephone, email and institutional affiliation. Speakers will have 20 minutes to deliver their paper, leaving room for a 10-minute discussion. * Proposals for panel sessions A typical panel should include 3 (exceptionally 4) speakers and one moderator (session chair). Each session lasts for 1 hour and a half, always allowing 30 minutes for questions and discussion. Proposers should submit the following elements: 1. Session title and introduction (approximately 100 words) 2. Titles of the papers 3. Abstracts for each paper (500 words maximum) 4. A short biography for each participant and for the panel chair (approximately 100 words) 5. Institutional affiliation and address for each participant 6. Audio-visual and other technical requirements * Proposals for poster presentations There will be a poster gallery. A poster should be a visual representation and/or a demo of your material. The aim is to present information and initiate informal discussion among delegates. Posters should not exceed 80 cm × 120 cm. If you provide a photograph of yourself and a mobile phone number, other attendees will be able to get in touch with you. Please submit a one-page proposal with an overview of the poster and your contact details. * Participation and registration Participants who contribute to the conference through a paper, a panel or a poster session need to pay the conference fee and have to be members in good standing of the European Society for Textual Scholarship for 2013 (except invited speakers). Your current membership status is indicated at http://ests.huygensinstituut.nl/. More information about registration and possibilities of accommodation will be published soon on a conference website. For more information about the ESTS, please see http://www.textualscholarship.eu/. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 17:06:44 +0100 From: Alexander O'Connor Subject: "Talking pictures and seeing texts" -- A seminar on images and texts "Talking pictures and seeing texts" ====================== A seminar on images and texts Venue: Maxwell Lecture Theatre, Hamilton Building, Trinity College Dublin Date: Wednesday 8th May, 2013. Time: 2.00-4.30 pm This seminar is first in a series organised by the Intelligent Systems Discipline, SCSS, Trinity College. The intention is to bring together speakers in language, vision and graphics, and knowledge engineering especially ontology, to address key questions in multi-modal communications. This type of communication involves at least two modes of human discourse –images, written word, speech, and other symbol systems. Such an approach is critical for building intelligent systems in the future. Information has traditional been delivered using image and texts, journal papers, especially in life sciences comprise video sequences of animal/plant behaviour, and now newspapers have video clips on their web sites. Written texts have collateral images, audio streams have written transcripts, and streaming texts are now part of visual images displayed on televisual broadcasts. There is a premium on building lexica for natural language processing, extracting ‘meaning’ from texts automatically, and for building lexica for naming images automatically. Patrick Hanks is our first speaker for the day. He is an eminent researcher, author of Lexical Analysis: Norms and Exploitations (2013), and Metaphor, Analogy and Allusive Language: Critical Concepts in Linguistics (2010); he has been the editor-in-chief of some of the dictionaries of names published by the Oxford University Press. The second speaker is a local one, Khurshid Ahmad, Professor of Computer Science at TCD. He will talk about images and collateral texts. His talk will focus on the retrieval of images from image data bases and image streams by using visual cues and with the help of collateral texts. He has worked with forensic scientists, cell biologists and museum curators, on automatically indexing images using learning technologies like neural nets. 2.00pm Patrick Hanks: What should (and should not) be in a lexicon for Natural Language Processing? 2.45-3.15pm Discussion 3.15-4.00 pm Khurshid Ahmad, Talking Pictures and Ontological Indices 4.00-4.30 Discussion and wrap-up Chair: Declan O’Sullivan, Intelligent Systems Discipline, TCD ================================= -- Dr. Alexander O'Connor Knowledge & Data Engineering Group Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Alex.OConnor@scss.tcd.ie --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 16:54:20 +0000 From: Athanasios Velios Subject: Ligatus Summer School 2013, Uppsala Please see the announcement below which might be of interest to your subscribers: Ligatus Summer School 2013, Uppsala The History of European Bookbinding 1450-1830 and Identifying and recording bookbinding structures of the Eastern Mediterranean. http://www.ligatus.org.uk/summerschool 26 – 30 August and 2 – 7 September 2013 University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden The 8th Ligatus Summer School, following the success of the courses in Volos, Patmos, Thessaloniki, Wolfenbüttel, Venice, and Paris is to be held this year at Uppsala University in Sweden, where we have access to its magnificent library. The university was founded in 1477, and it is the oldest university in Sweden, and still dominates the old centre of the city, itself historically an important archiepiscopal see and trading centre. The University Library's collections of early printed books are made up of donations, ‘war booty’ (from the conquests of Gustavus Adolphus in the Thirty Years’ War and including the greater part of Copernicus' own library), purchases and a large collection of Swedish editions, which is particularly comprehensive because of the system of legal deposits that was introduced at the end of the seventeenth century. The library holds a copy of Sweden's oldest printed book, 'Dyalogus Creaturarum Moralizatus', printed in Stockholm in 1483, as well as the first book published in the Swedish language, 'Aff Dyäffwlsens Frästilse' ("On the temptations of the devil"), printed in 1495. There is also a notable collection of school textbooks from the seventeenth century up to the present day. Printed books and manuscripts from the library will be shown in both weeks of the summer school, and additional visits to the libraries of Count Carl Gustaf Wrangel in Skokloster Castle and Charles de Geer at Leufstabruk are planned for the first week. Summer school context: The contribution that bindings can make to our understanding of the history and culture of the book is often neglected, but they can offer insights into the study of readership, the booktrade, and the provenance of books which are often not available elsewhere. In order to realise this potential, it is important to understand not only the history of the craft but also to learn how to record what is seen in a consistent and organised way. Librarians, cataloguers, conservators, book historians and all scholars who work with early books, need therefore to understand the structure and materials of the bindings they encounter in order to be able to record and describe them. Such descriptions of bindings are not only valuable for the management of library collections, pursuing academic research and making informed decisions about conservation, but are also important for digitisation projects, as they can radically enrich the potential of image and text metadata. It is our belief that bindings should be seen as an integral part of the book, without which, our understanding of the history and use of books is often greatly circumscribed. The main purpose of the summer school is to uncover the possibilities latent in the detailed study of bookbinding. While both courses concentrate in particular on the structure and materials of bookbindings, each of the two courses offered in this summer school looks at bindings from different geographical areas and with a different approach. The first course looks at the history of bookbinding as it was carried out in Europe in the period of the hand press (1450-1830), with the opportunity to look at examples from different collections during the afternoons. The second course looks at the development of bookbinding in the eastern Mediterranean and gives theoretical and hands-on training in a) the manufacture of specific aspects of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine bindings and b) the development of methodologies and tools for recording bindings, working with examples from the collections.of the Uppsala University Library. The courses are taught in English and each is open to 12 participants. Although the courses can be attended individually, participants are encouraged to attend both courses in order to get a more complete understanding of the issues discussed, through the comparison of the wide range of bookbindings considered in each week. Since these are not beginner-level courses, the participants are expected to be familiar with bookbinding terminology and have a basic knowledge of the history of book production in the periods under discussion. For the second week participants will need to have familiarity with hand bookbinding and where possible, a basic understanding of the use of databases. Description of courses: Week 1, European Bookbinding 1450-1830 Tutor: Professor N. Pickwoad This course will follow European bookbinding from the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, using the bindings themselves to illustrate the aims and intentions of the binding trade. A large part of the course will be devoted to the identification of both broad and detailed distinctions within the larger groups of plain commercial bindings and the possibilities of identifying the work of different countries, cities, even workshops without reference to finishing tools. The identification and significance of the different materials used in bookbinding will be examined, as well as the classification of bookbindings by structural type, and how these types developed through the three centuries covered by the course. The development of binding decoration will be touched on, but will not form a major part of the discussion. The course consists of ten 90-minute sessions with Powerpoint presentations (over 800 images will be shown). Actual examples of bindings will be shown in the afternoon sessions. Week 2, Identifying and recording bookbinding structures of the eastern Mediterranean Tutors: Dr. G. Boudalis and Dr. A. Velios This six-day course is divided daily into two interconnected morning and afternoon sessions. Dr. Georgios Boudalis, will focus on the major structural and decorative features of the different bookbinding traditions which have developed in the eastern Mediterranean –including the Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, Georgian and Islamic - with special focus on the Byzantine and post-Byzantine bookbindings. The aim is to follow the evolution of these closely related bookbindings and establish their similarities and differences. during lectures, slide-shows and demonstrations of real bookbindings from the collections of the University of Uppsala Library. This part of the course will consist of six 90-minute presentations from Monday to Wednesday, supplemented by practical bookbinding workshop sessions on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Dr. Athanasios Velios will address methodologies and techniques that can be used to record bookbindings. After an introduction on the capacity and scope of each methodology and technique, this section will focus on a) the semantic web and the CIDOC conceptual reference model, b) standardised vocabularies for book descriptions (SKOS), c) the development of database schemas for both the relational and the hierarchical model, d) the advantages of various implementation tools and e) photographic records and workflows for large collection surveys. A section of the course will be devoted to the actual development and use of a sample of a bookbinding glossary, a documentation system for recording binding structures and the actual recording of specific bindings. These sessions will consist of six 90-minute presentations from Monday to Wednesday and hands-on workshops on Thursday and Friday. The courses are supported by Ligatus and the University of the Arts London, with generous help from the Library at Uppsala. The cost of the course for this year is £375 per week for early payments, £425 for payments made after 1 August. This fee excludes travel, accommodation and meals. A number of accommodation options will be provided to the participants. A detailed schedule of the courses will be available very soon. Applications, including a short CV can be submitted online (http://www.ligatus.org.uk/summerschool/). For information about registration please e-mail Karen Di Franco (k.difranco@arts.ac.uk) and give the e-mail subject as: 'Ligatus Summer School'. A reading list will be sent in advance to those who will attend the courses. The deadline for applications is 1 July. About Uppsala: The historic city of Uppsala is just 40 minutes by train from Stockholm and is home to Sweden’s oldest university. The city is divided by the Fyris River into two parts, the historic quarter to the west of the river and the administrative, residential and commercial area to the east. Most of the features of interest are in the western part, dominated by the Cathedral, which is Sweden’s largest church, and with its old streets, river views and parks. Close to the Cathedral is the main university building; built in 1624 it now contains the Museum of Nordic Antiquities, the Victoria Museum of Egyptian Antiquities and the University's cultural history collections. Not far from here is the University Library where the Summer School will take place; built in 1820–41, it is the largest library in Sweden and home to over 5 million volumes and some 60,000 manuscripts. As a thriving university city Uppsala is host to many cultural and social events and will be an interesting destination. http://www.ub.uu.se/en/Collections/Early-imprints/Special-collections/Braniewo/ About Ligatus: Ligatus is a research centre of the University of the Arts London with particular interest in the history of bookbinding, book conservation, archiving and the application of digital technology to the exploration and exploitation of these fields. Ligatus’s main research projects currently include the conservation of the books in the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai and the development of a multi-lingual thesaurus of bookbinding terms. Find out more about Ligatus here: http://www.ligatus.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C79163A40; Fri, 3 May 2013 07:10:13 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B387E3A30; Fri, 3 May 2013 07:10:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3C5FB3A29; Fri, 3 May 2013 07:10:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130503051010.3C5FB3A29@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 07:10:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1015 on paradigmatic changes in literary studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 1015. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 09:00:25 +0200 From: Miran gmail Subject: A paradigm shift in the national literary studies National philologies rarely establish contacts with each other and thus remain without international echo, especially the non dominant ones. For those who would like to deny Domenico Fieromonte's claim for mutual prejudice and ignorance (http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/pipermail/humanist/2013-January/010599.html) and would like to compare their topics, here is a bilingual (Slovene-English) thematic issue of Slavistična revija 2013 (Slovene journal for linguistics and literary studies, 61/1) entitled Slovene Literary Studies Today. The survey includes the most dynamic fields of Slovene literary studies in the recent decades. The connecting thread is the authors' awareness of the paradigmatic changes in the literary studies. The list of fields that determine the academic curricula are: the genres of novel writing, short prose, poetry, drama and theater, and pre-modern literature. The attention of literary studies has shifted from a focus on textual features to the phenomenon of reception and examination of social context and powers literary didactics, children's literature, women's studies, critical editions, and literary criticism. The thematic issue's section on methodology yields a reflection on the possibility of large, collective literary historical enterprises (which can be feasible by abandoning the outdated concept of a synthetic national >>grand narrative<< and replacing it with a listing concept), the article on bibliographic descriptions and empirical research. The first factor which has stimulated the changes in literary studies is the exponential growth of data. The growing production of contemporary literature and a great number of old digitized texts accessible at a click which is no longer manageable using traditional methods are available for re-evaluation. Another change is the contextualization of literary facts. The illusion of autonomous literature that was reproduced in the illusion of autonomous literary scholarship (both were only possible by reducing the interests of literary studies to one component, i.e. the text, and one function of the text--its aesthetic function) has receded, given the need for a more complex understanding of literature. The third change implies the relativization of authoritative, expert views, and preference for empowering each interested and culturally competent individual to take part in shaping the subject matter in the field, e. g. in the framework of Wikipedia and its sister pages Wikibooks, Wikisource, and Wikiversity. The issuse is freely available through the journal's web archive http://www.srl.si/ (Zadnja številka / Current issue). -- miran _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 007733A10; Sat, 4 May 2013 07:36:42 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C40B32DBC; Sat, 4 May 2013 07:36:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DF08C2DBC; Sat, 4 May 2013 07:36:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130504053639.DF08C2DBC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 07:36:39 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1016 call for nominations: DH Commons board X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 1016. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 16:29:36 -0400 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: Call for Nominations centerNet/DH Commons Dear all, The centerNet Executive Committee seeks nominations for Advisory Board members for its new publication, *DHCommons*, which will provide peer review for mid-stage digital projects. *DHCommons* aims to provide a truly global picture of the DH community. To that end, its leadership will be comprised of members from each of centerNet’s regions. The Advisory Board will join Co-Lead-Editor Ryan Cordell, a Co-Lead-Editor from outside North America to be named soon, and Technical Editor Quinn Dombrowski. The Board will be drawn from centerNet's regions and help ensure the global vision of the *DHCommons*journal. To nominate someone to the Advisory Board, please send an email toinfo@dhcommons.org with the nominee’s name and affiliation, as well as a brief nominating statement describing the scholar’s qualifications for the position. Self nominations are permitted. *DHCommons* is intended to address the “evaluation gap” between the Digital Humanities and more traditional disciplinary scholarship. Digital projects can often stretch over many years as a continuum of work—not necessarily building to a finished project in the same way monographs do, though there are significant milestones in a project's life. DH practitioners need concrete ways to certify the value of long-standing, influential, but unfinished projects to colleagues unfamiliar with the contours of DH work. * DHCommons*aims to meet these challenges, pioneering a model of peer review focused on mid-stage digital projects from around the world. With Co-Editors-in-Chief and an international advisory drawn from each of centerNet’s worldwide regions, By reviewing well-developed but unfinished projects, *DHCommons* aims to foster a developmental model that will help DH scholars hone their work while certifying the value of their projects to both the DH field and to their home disciplines. 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/ Twitter: @fraistat _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4118A3A4C; Sat, 4 May 2013 07:37:08 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ED5A3A3B; Sat, 4 May 2013 07:37:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 67BD83A3A; Sat, 4 May 2013 07:37:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130504053705.67BD83A3A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 07:37:05 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1017 CERN's first web page X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 1017. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 04 May 2013 13:45:03 +0900 From: Charles Muller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.1011 new-old on WWW: CERN's first web page In-Reply-To: <20130502044645.E0E9A3A09@digitalhumanities.org> On 2013/05/02 13:46, Maurizio wrote: > at > http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html > is again online the first web page which was hosted by CERN. > some of its links too are working. Interesting. Apparently at this point, HTML pages were not yet required to have or tags? And this still works in present-day browsers... Chuck -- --------------------------- A. Charles Muller Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology Faculty of Letters University of Tokyo 7-3-1 Hongō, Bunkyō-ku Tokyo 113-8654, Japan Office Phone: 03-5841-3735 Web Site: Resources for East Asian Language and Thought http://www.acmuller.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E55923A33; Sat, 4 May 2013 07:38:38 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C2032E1B; Sat, 4 May 2013 07:38:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B5C1B2DE7; Sat, 4 May 2013 07:38:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130504053834.B5C1B2DE7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 07:38:34 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1018 postdoc at Passau X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 1018. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 08:38:51 +0200 From: Malte Rehbein Subject: PostDoc in Digital Humanities at Passau Dear list, I am searching for a postdoctoral research and teaching fellow to join the newly established Digital Humanities team in the beautiful city of Passau (Bavaria, Germany). I am offering a three-years full-time contract (with possible renewal, six years max.) and the possibility to conduct your own research on fundamental methodology of DH. German is not a requirement for international candidates. You are welcome to apply and also to teach in English and contribute to Passau University's growing international programme. Have at look at the job posting for more details (http://www.uni-passau.de/fileadmin/dokumente/beschaeftigte/Stellenangebote/2013_04_Post-doctoral_Prof_Rehbein_engl.pdf) and get in touch with me if you have any questions. Deadline for applications: 20 May. Best regards, Malte -- Prof. Dr. Malte Rehbein Lehrstuhl für Digital Humanities Universität Passau Gottfried-Schäffer-Straߟe 20 / 204 D-94032 Passau fon: +49.851.509.3450 email: malte.rehbein@uni-passau.de web: http://www.uni-passau.de/rehbein _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5116D3A40; Sat, 4 May 2013 07:39:28 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65B7E2DBC; Sat, 4 May 2013 07:39:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2293D2DBC; Sat, 4 May 2013 07:39:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130504053926.2293D2DBC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 07:39:26 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1019 events: infrastructures for 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. 1019. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 08:25:56 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Conference: Building infrastructures for archives in a digital world Dear colleague, We would like to cordially invite you to attend the international conference Building infrastructures for archives in a digital world, organized by the consortium of the EU-funded (within the ICT Policy Support Programme) project APEx. The main aim of this forum is to discuss the major challenges archives face on their path into the digital world. The conference will be held from 26 -28 June 2013 at Trinity College in Dublin (IE). It is free of charge and registration will be opened from 01 - 31 May 2013. Conference language: English For registration and further information on the program please click here: http://www.apex-project.eu/index.php/events/dublin-conference. 3 rolled into one place The APEx conference will not only correspond with the DLM Forum Meeting which will be held from 24-25 June 2013 in Dublin for which further information can be found here: http://www.dlmforum.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=159%3Adlm-forum-members-meeting-dublin-june-25-and-26-2013&catid=16%3Aevents&Itemid=49&lang=en. There ICARUS-Meeting #11 will take place prior to the APEx conference from 25 - 26 June 2013. Detailed information can be found here.(http://icar-us.eu/ai1ec_event/icarus-meeting-11/?instance_id=671) Certainly, this is a unique opportunity to engage into 3 different conferences at the same time, all focusing on related topics and issues within the archival world. We are looking forward to an intensive time full of topics dedicated to the future of archives in the digital world! Gerrit Gerrit de Bruin Project Coordinator Archives Portal Europe network of eXcellence (APEx ) [cid:image002.gif@01CE47DC.FC842920] ........................................................................ Nationaal Archief Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 20 | Den Haag P.O. Box 90520 | 2509 LM | Den Haag ........................................................................ T +31 (0)70 331 5416 M +31 (0) 652 663 235 F + 31 (0)70 331 5499 gerrit.de.bruin@nationaalarchief.nl http://www.nationaalarchief.nl _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 38FA93A4C; Sat, 4 May 2013 07:41:34 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313A03A37; Sat, 4 May 2013 07:41:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 93E5E3A28; Sat, 4 May 2013 07:41:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130504054131.93E5E3A28@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 07:41:31 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1020 pubs: pedagogy cfp; British 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="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. 1020. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Les Harrison (12) Subject: New Digital Series - British Virginia [2] From: "Iantorno, Luke" (19) Subject: CFP: Special Issue of The CEA Critic (Spring 2014): Digital Humanities Pedagogy --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 10:11:37 +0200 From: Les Harrison Subject: New Digital Series - British Virginia I thought this new resource might be of interest to several members of the list: New Digital Resource at Virginia Commonwealth University British Virginia Founding co-general editors Joshua Eckhardt (VCU, English) and Sarah Meacham (VCU, History) launched the scholarly series British Virginia on April 25th with the publication of a sermon preached to the Virginia Company of London on the same date 404 years earlier. British Virginia is a series of scholarly editions of documents touching on the colony. These texts range from the 16th and 17th-century literature of English exploration to the 19th-century writing of loyalists and other Virginians who continued to identify with Great Britain. British Virginia editions appear principally in digital form, freely downloadable. The editorial offices sit appropriately at the research university nearest both the falls of the James River, and the site of the first English college planned for North America, Henricus Colledge. --- Les Harrison Associate Professor Department of English Virginia Commonwealth University 804.827.8428 @LesHarrison_vcu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 20:15:07 +0000 From: "Iantorno, Luke" Subject: CFP: Special Issue of The CEA Critic (Spring 2014): Digital Humanities Pedagogy CFP: Special Issue of The CEA Critic, Spring 2014 Digital Humanities Pedagogy Guest Editors: Leigh Bonds and Luke Iantorno As “digital humanities” becomes more prevalent in English course syllabi, faculty and instructors are seeking new ways to teach undergraduates to consider the decisions editors and other scholars make when transforming cultural, historical, and literary texts into digital form. This special issue of The CEA Criticon digital humanities pedagogy will be a resource for those interested in incorporating DH instruction into their own English classes. We are seeking proposals that move beyond DH theory to the practical application. Proposed articles should address the practical pedagogical approaches that introduce undergraduates to digital humanities: • transcribing, metadata writing, annotating, and basic TEI coding in conjunction with a startup or established digitization project • datamining: creating narratives of digital texts based on searched terms or defining search terms for future researchers • using digital editions to teach students paratextual influence • analyzing and evaluating the vitality of and scholarly rigor within digital editions with ancillary editorial apparatuses versus open-source digital libraries (e.g. Project Gutenburg, Internet Archive, Google Books, Gale databases) • using TEI tags to enhance research skills and develop annotation awareness as both creator and user • writing hyperlinked annotations as a tool to increase scholarship and boost students’ researching skills • collaborating across disciplines to engage the non-humanities major in digital humanities projects The editors are not interested in exploring how new media—or social media—engages the classroom. Proposals for the 3,000-5,000-word articles should not exceed 500 words. Please submit proposals to digitalhumanities@ttu.edu by 15 June 2013. All queries should also be sent to the aforementioned email address. Please consult The CEA Critic site for formatting guidelines: http://www.cea-web.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15&Itemid=30 Luke Iantorno Department of English The Digital Humanities Laboratory, Project Manager Texas Tech University "Revolutions exhibit man acting on a great scale: hence they produce great virtues, and at the same time great vices." -- Helen Maria Williams, 1793. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 510603A49; Sun, 5 May 2013 07:24:13 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CCBD2CF5; Sun, 5 May 2013 07:24:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7EC962CF2; Sun, 5 May 2013 07:24:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130505052408.7EC962CF2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 07:24:08 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1021 CERN's first web page X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 1021. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 22:22:03 -0600 From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.1017 CERN's first web page In-Reply-To: <20130504053705.67BD83A3A@digitalhumanities.org> It is working in quirks mode. But browsers have always tried to render anything with a in them as HTML. That's the big difference between HTML and XML. On 13-05-03 11:37 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 1017. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 04 May 2013 13:45:03 +0900 > From: Charles Muller > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.1011 new-old on WWW: CERN's first web page > In-Reply-To: <20130502044645.E0E9A3A09@digitalhumanities.org> > > On 2013/05/02 13:46, Maurizio wrote: > >> at >> http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html >> is again online the first web page which was hosted by CERN. >> some of its links too are working. > > Interesting. Apparently at this point, HTML pages were not yet required > to have or tags? And this still works in present-day > browsers... > > Chuck > -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6EFCC3A5A; Sun, 5 May 2013 07:24:47 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E7A93A57; Sun, 5 May 2013 07:24:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0FCFD3A4F; Sun, 5 May 2013 07:24:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130505052444.0FCFD3A4F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 07:24:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1022 discussion lists? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="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. 1022. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 17:13:03 +0200 From: Marin Dacos Subject: Discussion lists in Digital Humanities ? Dear all, I am writting the paper summarizing the results of the "Who are you, Digital Humanists?" survey and I would like to complete the information by a list of all the known discussion lists in DH. I would be very happy to get such information from you, particularly coming from non English and non French speaking lists. Best regards, Marin -- Marin Dacos - http://www.openedition.org Director - Centre for Open Electronic Publishing ** OpenEdition is now a Facility of Excellence http://www.openedition.org/10221?lang=en * *(Equipex) ** ** New email : marin.dacos@openedition.org ** CNRS - EHESS - Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) - Université d'Avignon 3, place Victor Hugo, Case n°86, 13331 Marseille Cedex 3 - France Tél : 04 13 55 03 40 Tél. direct : 04 13 55 03 39 Fax : 04 13 55 03 41 Skype : marin.dacos - Gmail video chat : marin.dacos@gmail.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/#!/marindacos _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 29EE53A60; Sun, 5 May 2013 07:25:12 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22B233A5B; Sun, 5 May 2013 07:25:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D6C5B3A50; Sun, 5 May 2013 07:25:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130505052509.D6C5B3A50@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 07:25:09 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1023 British Library Labs competition X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 1023. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 15:53:03 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: British Library Labs competition British Library Labs Competition Live Calling all researchers and developers! Propose an innovative and transformative project that answers a research question using the British Library's digital collections / data and if your idea is chosen, the Labs team will work with you to make it happen and you could win a prize of up to £3,000. From the digitisation of thousands of books, newspapers and manuscripts, the collecting of UK websites, bird sounds or location data for our maps, over the last two decades we’ve been faithfully amassing a vast and wide-ranging digital collection for the nation. What remains elusive however is understanding what researchers need in place in order to unlock the potential for new discoveries within these fascinating and diverse digital collections. The Labs competition is designed to attract scholars, explorers and trailblazers to the Library who see the potential for new and innovative research lurking within these immense digital collections. Through soliciting innovative and transformative projects utilising this content you will be giving us a steer as to the types of platforms, arrangements, services and tools needed to surface it. We’ll even throw the Library’s resources behind you to make your idea a reality. To find out more, visit the competition pages http://labs.bl.uk/Competition+2013 (deadline for submission of ideas is the 26 June 2013), sign up to the wiki, express your interest and participate in one of the related events, virtually (17 May 2013, 1500 GMT), hack event in London on the 28 and 29 May, 2013 or one of our roadshow events, Good luck! Mahendra Mahey BL Labs Project Manager T +44 (0)20 7412 7324 F +44 (0)20 7412 7093 S mr_mahendra_mahey mahendra.mahey@bl.uk @mahendra_mahey 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DCAEF3A54; Sun, 5 May 2013 07:27:13 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 031D02D0C; Sun, 5 May 2013 07:27:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AB3D63A3E; Sun, 5 May 2013 07:27:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130505052708.AB3D63A3E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 07:27:08 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1024 Digital Rachive of Inaugural Lectures at Renaissance & Early Modern Universities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 1024. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 04 May 2013 12:32:11 +0200 From: Marco Forlivesi Subject: DArIL: Digital Archive of Inaugural Lectures at Renaissance and Early Modern Universities Dear colleagues, I would like to present you a recently published digital archive. Its name is DArIL (Digital Archive of Inaugural Lectures at Renaissance and Early Modern Universities) and the Web address of its English version is http://www.daril.eu/index.php?id=4&L=1 . DArIL aims to provide scholars with a free access to a digital collection of searchable descriptions, digital photo-reproductions and encoded editions of inaugural lectures delivered at Renaissance and Early Modern universities. Historical studies have already revealed the complexity of the pathways through which university philosophical culture has taken part in the development of knowledge from the Late Middle Ages to our times. Nonetheless, till now a full class of documents has been considered only erratically: the inaugural lectures (also known as 'paginae') of the single university courses given from the Renaissance to the beginning of the eighteenth century. Scholars of university history know that each of the countless inaugural lectures till extant in archives and libraries is an interesting document, revealing the tenets of university culture in a specific place and time; however, few research campaigns have been conducted on these documents with the aim of improving systematically our understanding of the history of university culture in general, or of specific trends in it. Main obstacles to these enterprises are the large number of extant documents and their dispersion. DArIL aims to facilitate scholars to overcome these difficulties. At present, DArIL's database only comprises 110 documents preserved in a specific archive series in the Archivio Antico of the University of Padua: a series concerning mainly inaugural lectures held by teachers of the 'artistae' chairs at the 'Gymnasium Patavinum' from the second half of the seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth. Notwithstanding, DArIL's infrastructure has been created with a more extensive aim: to permit the archive to include and save metadata, digital photo-reproductions and semi-diplomatic encoded editions of any inaugural lecture produced at any university or college from the beginning of the Renaissance to the years around the end of the eighteenth century, and to make all this freely accessible via Web to the scholarly community. Anyone can submit to DArIL's directors material to be stored in the database, whether photo-reproductions and semidiplomatic encoded transcriptions, simply digital photo-reproductions and semidiplomatic transcriptions, or simply digital photo-reproductions. Both individual scholars and research teams are invited to take part in the expansion of the database; their work will be explicitly recognised and declared in the metadata accompanying each single document. For more information, please refer to the Web page http://www.daril.eu/index.php?id=5&L=1 . For requests and proposals, please contact DArIL's board of directors by writing to direzione@daril.eu . Kind regards, Marco Forlivesi -- Prof. Dr. Marco Forlivesi Università degli Studi "Gabriele d'Annunzio" di Chieti e Pescara Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Quantitative e Filosofico-Educative Via dei Vestini, 31 I-66100 CHIETI CH Email: marco.forlivesi@unich.it http://unich.academia.edu/MarcoForlivesi http://www.storicifilosofia.it/home.asp?go=scheda&id=205 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E67462DE5; Mon, 6 May 2013 07:30:30 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC342D1C; Mon, 6 May 2013 07:30:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B6EC22D19; Mon, 6 May 2013 07:30:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130506053026.B6EC22D19@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 07:30:26 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1025 essay competition: call for abstracts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 1025. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 14:32:06 -0600 From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Global Digital Humanities Essay Competition (Abstracts Due June 30, 2013) **** Please Cross Post **** Hi all, Global Outlook :: Digital Humanities, The University of Lethbridge, and The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations is pleased to announce the first Global Digital Humanities Essay Competition. http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/global-outlookdigital-humanities-global-digital-humanities-essay-prize/ This is an open competition for research papers on the national, regional, or international practice of the Digital Humanities--a broad topic that has been designed to give authors the greatest possible scope. Authors may write on individual projects or problems or broader philosophical, geographical, sociological, political, or other aspects of the practice of Digital Humanities in a global context. Papers discussing the practice of DH by or with marginalised communities or in areas that are currently less well represented by ADHO are particularly welcome. The competition is open to any interested party including students, graduate students, junior faculty, and researchers unaffiliated with a university or research institution. We would like to especially encourage submissions from students, junior and unaffiliated researchers, and authors belonging to marginalised communities or communities currently less well represented by ADHO. The competition is offering a minimum of 4 prizes of $500 (CAD) each. Initial selection (for a prize of $200) is by abstract/proposal. A further $300 will be awarded to the authors of the winning abstracts upon satisfactory completion of a full-length paper based on their original proposal. All submissions will be eligible for review and publication in the ADHO journal, Digital Studies/Le champ numérique (http://digitalstudies.org/). For further information about the competition, please see the competition web page: http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/global-outlookdigital-humanities-global-digital-humanities-essay-prize/. The competition organisers can also be contacted by email at prizes@globaloutlookdh.org The initial deadline (abstracts/proposals) is June 30, 2013. -Daniel Paul O'Donnell -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0C81D2DEE; Mon, 6 May 2013 07:33:04 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4C862D1C; Mon, 6 May 2013 07:33:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6328E2D1C; Mon, 6 May 2013 07:33:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130506053302.6328E2D1C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 07:33:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1026 DigiPal relaunched X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 1026. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 17:28:03 +0000 From: "Brookes, Stewart" Subject: DigiPal (Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography) website relaunched Dear all, With great delight, the DigiPal team at the Department of Digital Humanities (King's College London) announce the launch of the new DigiPal website at http://digipal.eu For those of you who haven't been following our progress, DigiPal is a web-based resource for the delivery of palaeographical content. Although our test case is eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon vernacular script, the underlying DigiPal framework has been designed to work with multiple periods and languages, and we already have Scandinavian and Hebrew projects using our tools, with the intention to extend the framework to further materials, including cuneiform. At present, there are c. 300 high quality images available on our site and we've annotated over 12,000 individual letters. Oh, and thanks to funding from the ERC (EU FP7), everything is available for free ;-) To get you started, here are a couple of serving suggestions: A) For f. 29v of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 173, visit: http://www.digipal.eu/digipal/page/110/ Things you might like to try: 1) Turn annotations On/Off2) Click on a highlighted letter to see our description 3) Click on "Filter annotations" to highlight a particular letter, or series of letters, that we have annotated 4) Click on the "Annotations by allograph" tab. If you click on an allograph, it will take you back to the ms context, with that letter highlighted 5) Click on the "This record has 19 images" to see other folios from this ms. NB: The metadata is very basic at the moment. Eventually, there will be all sorts of information, including Ker, Scragg, Gneuss, Sawyer, etc. numbers. A summary of the content of the manuscript. Information aggregated from other projects who have generously shared their data, e.g. "English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220": http://www.le.ac.uk/english/em1060to1220/mss/EM.CCCC.173.htm B) To see all the manuscripts from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College currently in the DigiPal database, visit: http://www.digipal.eu/digipal/page/?town_or_city=&repository=Corpus+Christi+College&date= NB: Click on the "Images" button on the right to see thumbnail images. With a big thank you to everyone who has helped us to get this far! There's c. 18 months of the project left and *much* more to come still. So, please get in touch with feedback and encouragement ;-) Have fun, Stewart -- Dr Stewart J Brookes Research Associate Department of Digital Humanities King's College London _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D0C5B2EFE; Mon, 6 May 2013 07:35:02 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 914032DEE; Mon, 6 May 2013 07:35:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 450532DEE; Mon, 6 May 2013 07:35:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130506053500.450532DEE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 07:35:00 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1027 events: signs & bodies; sentiment & opinion X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 1027. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Erik Cambria (51) Subject: DEADLINE EXTENSION: KDD13 Workshop on Issues of Sentiment Discovery and Opinion Mining [2] From: federica perazzini (25) Subject: New Humanities Seminar Series: Signs and Bodies between digital and gendering --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 06:19:25 +0000 From: Erik Cambria Subject: DEADLINE EXTENSION: KDD13 Workshop on Issues of Sentiment Discovery and Opinion Mining Submissions are invited to the KDD13 Workshop on Issues of Sentiment Discovery and Opinion Mining (http://sentic.net/wisdom), which aims to explore how the wisdom of the crowds is affecting (and will affect) the evolution of the Web and of businesses gravitating around it. In particular, the ACM KDD workshop explores two different stages of sentiment analysis: the former focusing on the identification of opinionated text over the Web, the latter focusing on the classification of such text either in terms of polarity detection or emotion recognition. Deadline has been extended to 26th May. RATIONALE The exponential growth of the Social Web is virally infecting more and more critical business processes such as customer support and satisfaction, brand and reputation management, product design and marketing. Because of this global trend, web users already evolved from the era of social relationships, in which they began to get connected and started to share contents, to the era of social functionality, in which they started using social networks as the main platform for communication and dissemination of information. Today, web users are going through the era of social colonization, in which every experience on the Web can be social (e.g., Facebook Like button), and are getting ready for the era of social context, in which web contents will be highly targeted and personalized. The final stage of such Social Web evolution is the so called era of social commerce, in which communities will define future products and services. In such context, the research field of sentiment analysis, which has already been rapidly growing in the last decade, is destined to become more and more important for Web and business dynamics. TOPICS The workshop aims to provide an international forum for both researchers and entrepreneurs working in the field of opinion mining to share information on their latest investigations in social information retrieval and their applications in academic research areas and industrial sectors. The broader context of the workshop comprehends AI, Semantic Web, information retrieval, web mining, and natural language processing. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Sentiment identification & classification • Knowledge-based opinion mining • Sentiment summarization & visualization • Entity discovery & extraction • Opinion aggregation • Opinion search & retrieval • Time evolving sentiment analysis • Opinion spam detection • Comparative opinion analysis • Topic detection & trend discovery • Psychological models for sentiment analysis • Multilingual opinion mining • Sentic computing • Big social data analysis • Social ranking • Social network analysis • Influence, trust & privacy analysis • Business intelligence applications TIMEFRAME • May 8th, 2013: Submission deadline • June 8th, 2013: Notification of acceptance • June 18th, 2013: Final manuscripts due • August 12th, 2013: Workshop date PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in KDD WISDOM proceedings. Selected, expanded versions of papers presented at the workshop will be invited to a forthcoming Special Issue of Cognitive Computation on opinion mining and sentiment analysis. INVITED SPEAKER ChengXiang Zhai is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also holds a joint appointment at the Institute for Genomic Biology, Statistics, and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Nanjing University in 1990, and a Ph.D. in Language and Information Technologies from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002. He worked at Clairvoyance Corp. as a Research Scientist and a Senior Research Scientist from 1997 to 2000. His research interests include information retrieval, text mining, natural language processing, machine learning, and bioinformatics. He is an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Information Systems, and Information Processing and Management, and serves on the editorial board of Information Retrieval Journal. He is a program co-chair of ACM CIKM 2004, NAACL HLT 2007, and ACM SIGIR 2009. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, and received the 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the ACM SIGIR 2004 Best Paper Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2008, and an IBM Faculty Award in 2009. ORGANIZERS • Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore (Singapore) • Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA) • Yongzheng Zhang, eBay Research Labs (USA) • Yunqing Xia, Tsinghua University (China) _______________________________ Erik Cambria, PhD 康文涵 Research Scientist Temasek Laboratories Cognitive Science Programme National University of Singapore 5A Engineering Drive 1, Singapore 117411 Skype: senticnet Website: http://sentic.net Email: cambria@nus.edu.sg Twitter: http://twitter.com/senticnet Facebook: http://facebook.com/senticnet --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 12:00:30 +0100 From: federica perazzini Subject: New Humanities Seminar Series: Signs and Bodies between digital and gendering On May 10th, our meeting organized by Prof. Laura Fortini and Prof. Teresa Numerico on "Digital and gendering". *Signs and bodies between digital and gendering* From its origins in the seventies, feminist literary criticism has been dealing with the issue of language gendering, especially the female one, within literary texts written by Italian and foreign authors. Since the nineties, however, the presence of more complex network writing as well as the constitution of the discipline of queer studies seem both to conceal the gendered body, and, at the same time, question the duo Nature/Culture already criticized by Donna Haraway in her *Cyborg Manifesto* . With respect to this horizon, can the literary text still be defined as "located", or unrelated to a gendered body, whatever its gender is? Or maybe one should talk about cases of biological essentialism as many have already observed it? Such questions originate from women writing but regard and affect both women writing, men writing and all the gendered identities it is possible to configure from the concept of desire. In this perspective, the digital world presents itself as the place for the problematization of the issues of literary and linguistic gendering. University of Roma Tre, May 10th , 2013 10:30 am Laura Fortini and Teresa Numerico will discuss it with: Silvia Contarini, *Female de-essentialization and biotechnology of reproduction* Tiziana Terranova, *Digital and Gendering* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CE8C33A4F; Tue, 7 May 2013 07:28:08 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A38B23A28; Tue, 7 May 2013 07:28:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5DEBB2DE5; Tue, 7 May 2013 07:28:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130507052806.5DEBB2DE5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 07:28:06 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1028 [should be 27.001] HAPPY 26th BIRTHDAY HUMANIST! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 1028. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 06:19:32 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Happy 26th birthday! When I was young and lived with a dog I learned that he was living much faster than I was, seven times faster, I was told. I recall also being told about other rates-of-life calculations for other sorts of living creatures. What do we say about digital creatures? Humanist at 26 today, surely a grandparent, would seem ancient among its kind, sitting sagely (I hope) while twitter-children run about at play and young blog-parents smile, or scowl, at all the noise. I began wondering about this on getting up in the quiet of an early morning bank holiday Monday, being reminded of Humanist's birthday by an automatic calendar that also keeps me in the good graces of my mother and other relations by reminding me of their birthdays. I began wondering about noticeable changes in what Humanist circulates. Over the past year I think the clearest change is in the frequency with which jobs pop up: technical positions, usually short-term; the occasional professorship; junior academic positions from time to time; some postdocs; some PhD studentships. From the perspective of someone who has been in the field from before Humanist began, the increase in frequency is quite amazing. Bandwagons rattle by quite often and leave much litter behind, but at a slower rate those who will be determining what digital humanities does and is are settling in and getting started. Humanist itself continues to grow, reaching a population of 2188 subscriptions this morning. Until 2007-8 the number of messages circulated per year varied in a curious sinusoidal pattern, but since then it has been steadily rising (with a very small decline of 5 from 2010-11 to 2011-12. This year the number is already the highest ever by more than 100. Given that there are now many ways to communicate online, to say nothing of mobile telephony, slow and steady growth of this (comparatively) old medium is an encouraging sign. But, I wonder, pondering the paucity of hard questions in the flow of informational and promotional announcements, what (other than the practicalities of elbowing a way into the budget-limited spaces of the academy) are the nomenklatura-to-be thinking about? As someone who edits a journal of interdisciplinary research I am keenly aware both of how necessary and how limiting the division of intellectual concerns into disciplines actually is. On the one hand, it's very difficult to collect enough worthy articles over a year to populate a single issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (URL below); on the other hand, it is not difficult at all to find colleagues who have very good material to populate a thematic issue. Often these thematic issues originate in conferences, symposia and the like; sometimes a guest editor volunteers to find contributions on a topic that particularly interests him or her. My favourite, of which so far there is but one instance under my editorship (but there will be at least two more), is the issue centred on a commissioned essay by a major scholar and populated by commentaries on that essay. This scholar is someone who attracts an interdisciplinary crowd by doing interdisciplinary work. In other words, interdisciplinary research continues to be achieved mostly through collaboration. I call this the Manhattan Project model, after the organization which Robert Oppenheimer achieved. The Manhattan Project is interesting in this regard because of the way its interdisciplinary scope came about and was maintained: at the time, given the historical circumstances, a clear mandate; enormous amounts of money; and a commanding leader, who was able to knock heads together without breaking any of them. Can we in digital humanities get beyond the Manhattan Project model to any considerable degree? To what extent do we have projects populated by real equals, none of whom has had to suppress his or her real interests in order to participate? (Is the word "project" itself a problem here? Does it prejudice discussion by implying that the research undertaken is goal-orientated, and therefore determined by the one who leads, rather than curiosity-motivated?) It would be great to have a taxonomic sketch of the social models emerging from digital humanities practices. Anyhow, happy birthday Humanist! I suppose the above is more of a tough piece of meat or pile of undercooked vegetables than it is a birthday cake. But then we're not old enough to have become so refined as to know how to bake, are we? 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 Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 170913A57; Tue, 7 May 2013 07:39:32 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC8B3A49; Tue, 7 May 2013 07:39:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7609F3A28; Tue, 7 May 2013 07:39:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130507053929.7609F3A28@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 07:39:29 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1029 new on WWW: Tagore variorum, Bichitra X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 1029. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 20:53:41 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Launch of Tagore website Bichitra Begin forwarded message: > From: sukanta chaudhuri > > Subject: Launch of Tagore website Bichitra > Date: 5 May 2013 19:00:30 BST The Tagore Variorum website Bichitra ('the various'), prepared by the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, was launched on 5 May by the President of India and is now open to all at bichitra.jdvu.ac.in http://bichitra.jdvu.ac.in/ (no 'www'). Please do check it out. The site apparatus is in three languages including English. As Tagore wrote in English as well as Bengali, the site structure, attendant programs (search, collation) and part of the contents can be accessed entirely through the English language. We would be grateful for any feedback, especially if pointing out errors. We had concentrated on the Bengali material, which is much more voluminous, central to Tagore's identity, and more challenging in terms of font and bibliography. You may find some loose ends in the English material -- e.g., curious catchwords in sorting. There are also a few refinements in the Bengali material as yet lacking in the English -- e.g., the way the contents of a volume of short poems or essays are presented for access. We hope to fix these problems by the end of the month. We would be happy if you felt that, despite these flaws, Bichitra is notable not only for the amount of material presented but for the way it is processed, and the programs used for the purpose: above all the three-tier collation program 'Prabhed'. Let us know either way -- by mail to me or to the 'Contact Us' address. The video on the making of Bichitra can still be seen at http://youtu.be/GRNT9pf-sWA All good wishes. Sukanta Chaudhuri _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D9F4B3A59; Tue, 7 May 2013 07:43:55 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 373C43A4D; Tue, 7 May 2013 07:43:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 861F73A4C; Tue, 7 May 2013 07:43:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130507054352.861F73A4C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 07:43:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1030 events: literature & moving images; interactive arts; collaborative annotations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 1030. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (43) Subject: Interactive Arts [2] From: Aleš Vaupotič (73) Subject: CFP: Literature and Moving Images - 11th International Comparative Literature Colloquium, Vilenica 2013 [3] From: Francesca Tomasi (56) Subject: DH-CASE 2013. Call for papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 07:58:08 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interactive Arts ACM Multimedia 2013 will host the 10th edition of the Interactive Arts Programme. The associated Multimedia Art exhibition will showcase digital arts installations including mixed-reality art, game-based art, enhanced performances, sound-based installations, tangible interfaces, and those featuring mobile and social media. The exhibition will run throughout the conference with an additional event open to the general public to maximise exposure of the artworks. We welcome two categories of artwork: previously developed installations that rely on advanced multimedia or multimodal technologies, and original creations exploring new concepts and ideas. All artworks are expected to feature significant digital media components or multimodal interfaces. Installations associated to an Art, Entertainment and Culture technical paper are especially welcome. However, selection for the exhibition will be based primarily on artistic merit and the potential to engage the conference audience as well as the general public. Technical demonstrations that only use media content for illustrative purposes without a clear artistic intention should be directed to the respective demo sessions rather than the Multimedia Art exhibition. Applications should include a short (up to 4 pages) description of the artistic brief as well as the technical elements of the installation. Supplementary material (audio, video, exhibitions leaflets and brochures) should be provided when available. Artworks that have not been previously on display are expected to be at an advanced stage of completion by the submission date. Enquiries or requests for clarification should be directed to the Arts, Entertainment and Culture Track Chairs. Selection of artworks will be carried out by the track chairs assisted by local organisers and members of the programme committee. Criteria for selection will include: * Originality of the artistic concept, aesthetic and/or critical quality * Interactivity and/or richness of the media content * Relevance to ACM Multimedia in terms of content and technologies deployed * Robustness and transportability of the installation Important Dates Artworks Submission Deadline: May 15 , 2013 Notification of Acceptance: TBD, 2013 Contact For any questions regarding tutorials please email the Arts Chairs: Antonio Camurri (University of Genova, Italy) antonio.camurri@unige.it Marc Cavazza (Teesside University, UK) m.o.cavazza@tees.ac.uk Online version: http://acmmm13.org/submissions/call-for-artworks/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 13:48:54 +0200 From: Aleš Vaupotič Subject: CFP: Literature and Moving Images - 11th International Comparative Literature Colloquium, Vilenica 2013 Call for papers for the 11th annual International Comparative Literature Colloquium: LITERATURE AND MOVING PICTURES taking place between 12 and 13 September in Koper, Slovenia as a part of the 28th annual Vilenica International Literary Festival Organised by the Slovenian Comparative Literature Association in cooperation with the Slovenian Writers’ Association and the Faculty of Education, University of Primorska. Topics The theme of this year's colloquium is an intersection between literature, film and other new forms of interactive dynamic pictures. It will primarily focus on methodology, namely the connections between various disciplines and fields: literary studies, comparative literature, cinema studies, adaptation studies, and the theory of new media. In the 20thcentury, the con/divergences between literature and film were examined mainly in the domain of semiotics and narratology. Yet it seems that the questions about the nature of semiotic systems, signs, narrative structures and particularly their adaptations or transcoding in various media have not yet been exhausted. Similarly relevant seem to be the issues of pure and hybrid media and correspondingly the questions of the boundaries of particular arts practices, e.g. the cinematic principles within literature and the literary within cinema, or the digital information technologies that use moving pictures, composed of the so-called “word-image-body-movement”. From the perspective of the polysystem theory and empirical studies of literature or adaptation studies, various rivalries and battles for prestige but also syntheses or convergences can be examined within the relations between literature and film, video, interactive art... Related to this is also the concept of authorship and its various functions within arts practices. In the beginning of the 21th century the concept of authorship seems to be undergoing radical transformation, e.g. in the context of cybertext or transmedia adaptation. Thus, numerous questions arise, connected to the relation between copyright and corporate interests as well as various forms of censorship. Another important aspect of these relations between literature, film, video and interactive media concerns the process of transformation of the national identities into transnational or hybrid ones. And finally, all of the abovementioned issues can be observed within the theories and policies of education; the ways in which these present the relationship between word and image frequently reveal social and scientific/academic renderings of the intersections of literature and moving pictures. Proposal Submission Proposals of no more than 250 words should include the title of the presentation and full address and affiliation of the applicant. If your proposal is accepted, you will be asked to send a short curriculum (5 lines) and an abstract of 500-1000 words (in English) to be translated into Slovenian. The language of the colloquium is English. Please email proposals in English by 30 May 2013 to barbara.zorman@pef.upr.si and ales.vaupotic@ ung.si. You will be notified about/of our decision by 30 July. Selected papers will be published (after the review procedure) in the Slovenian Comparative Literature Association journal Primerjalna književnost (Comparative Literature, http://sdpk.si, indexed by A&HCI). Important Dates: Proposal submission: 30 May, 2013Notification of acceptance: 30 July 2013 Conference: 12 and 13 September 2013 Travel and accommodation. The organisers will offer free transport to Koper from the Jožef Pučnik airport in Ljubljana. Accommodation is provided in the Žusterna hotel in Koper; the accommodation costs of the speakers are covered by the organisers. Participants of the colloquium are welcome to attend other festival events during their stay in Koper; local transfers to various festival venues will be provided free of charge. -- doc. dr. Aleš Vaupotič Fakulteta za humanistiko / School of Humanities Raziskovalni center za humanistiko / Research Centre for Humanities Univerza v Novi Gorici / University of Nova Gorica Vipavska 13, SI-5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenija ales.vaupotic@ung.si http://eurolit.org/?q=profile/ales-vaupotic +386 5 3315 269 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 17:51:41 +0200 From: Francesca Tomasi Subject: DH-CASE 2013. Call for papers In-Reply-To: <201305061550.r46FoOgc009326@easychair.org> __________________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers DH-CASE 2013 Workshop: Collaborative Annotations in Shared Environments: metadata, vocabularies and techniques in the Digital Humanities (DH-CASE) Venue: Co-located with DocEng 2013, Florence Date: September 10, 2013 Web page: http://www.cs.unibo.it/dh-case/ 1. Abstract In the last few years, collections of digital text have strongly increased in number, especially in the field of humanities. Digital libraries of full-text documents, including digital editions of literary texts, are emerging as environments for the production, the management and the dissemination of complex annotated corpora. The potential interpretative levels emerging from the analysis of textual phenomena (including bibliographic, linguistic, thematic, structural, rhetorical and prosopographic aspects) converge to produce a stratification of annotations whose complex interactions may give light to new and unexpected potentials for analysis. Yet, each community in the field of humanities (archives, libraries, museums, literary studies, etc.) have developed independent metadata models and annotation techniques for their corpora. In a shared environment, the possibility to annotate different aspects of a text overlaps with metadata models and ontologies used for annotation (i.e. TEI, EAD/EAC, CIDOC-CRM, DC, FRBR, SKOS, etc.) and related values vocabularies (i.e. DDC, Geonames, LC, VIAF, Wordnet, Dbpedia) but also with techniques for producing annotations, both with embedded or stand-off markup methods based on XML or other formal languages possibly even in a linked data perspective (OWL/RDF). The aim of this workshop is to explore the state of art in the field of collaboration in text annotation and to reflect on existing platforms for document sharing and management, methods and techniques for multi-level annotation, metadata and vocabularies for declaring interpretative instances. 2. Topics In detail, the focus of the workshop will be on: - Multi-level annotations in textual corpora - Collaborative platforms for digital text annotation and existent solutions - The metadata dialogue: crosswalk in annotating digital textual resources - Annotation and markup in the humanities: techniques and technologies - Linked data and Cultural Heritage: possibilities and perspectives in the interchange between digital/textual annotated objects - What is a text? The differing interpretations of what constitutes a text within different DH communities - OAC. The Open Annotation Collaboration. Utility and case studies in the DH domain - Archives, Libraries and Museums. The DH role and approach to cultural heritage - Annotation and ownership: Annotation in a cross-community context 3. Submissions Proposal will be submitted via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=dhcase2013. A 400 words abstract needs to be submitted by June 8th, and the deadline for the full paper is set to June 16, 2013. Acceptable submissions are both research papers and demo/projects, and have to be delivered as valid PDF files. All submissions will be reviewed by the program committee and selected external reviewers. Workshop proceedings are planned to be published via the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. Relevant submissions will be considered for a further journal publication. Research papers should be between 6 and 8 pages, whereas documents presenting demos or projects, including tool demonstrations, should not exceed 4 pages. Papers shall follow the ACM template. 4. Relevant Dates - Submission of abstract: June 8, 2013 - Submission of full paper: June 15, 2013 - Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2013 - Submission of camera ready: August 1, 2013 - Workshop: September 10, 2013 - Submission of Selected Paper for Journal: January 10, 2014 - Publication of Selected papers on Journal: by September, 2014 5. Workshop Chairs Francesca Tomasi, University of Bologna, Italy; Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna, Italy 6. Program Committee Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy; Gioele Barabucci, University of Bologna, Italy; John Bradley, King’s College London, UK; Elisabeth Burr, University of Leipzig, Germany; Dino Buzzetti, University of Bologna, Italy; Paolo Ciccarese, Massachusetts General Hospital Biomedical Informatics Core, Boston MA, USA; Fabio Ciotti, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Julia Flanders, Brown University, Providence RI, USA; Claus Huitfeld, University of Bergen, Norway; Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands; Jan Christoph Meister, Institut für Germanistik II, Hamburg, Germany; Silvio Peroni, University of Bologna, Italy Paul Spence, King’s College London, UK; Melissa Terras, University College London, UK; Andreas Witt, Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany. 7. Contacts For any enquiry about the workshop, please contact the chairs: Francesca Tomasi, francesca.tomasi@unibo.it Fabio Vitali, fabio.vitali@unibo.it More details and the programme will be available on the workshop website: http://www.cs.unibo.it/dh-case/ Francesca Tomasi ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Assistant Professor – Digital Humanities Dept. Of Classical Philology and Italian Studies University of Bologna - Alma Mater Studiorum Zamboni 32, 40126 Bologna - ITALY TEL. +39 51 2098539 FAX +39 51 228172 http://www.unibo.it/docenti/francesca.tomasi 5x1000 AI GIOVANI RICERCATORI DELL'UNIVERSITÀ DI BOLOGNA Codice Fiscale: 80007010376 www.unibo.it/Vademecum5permille Questa informativa è inserita in automatico dal sistema al fine esclusivo della realizzazione dei fini istituzionali dell’ente. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EB0DB3A5B; Tue, 7 May 2013 07:45:08 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Received: from s16382816.onlinehome-server.info (s16382816.onlinehome-server.info [127.0.0.1]) by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C07293A50; Tue, 7 May 2013 07:45:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5FCC93A4F; Tue, 7 May 2013 07:45:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130507054506.5FCC93A4F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 07:45:06 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1031 new book series: research in its technological setting X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; 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. 1031. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 09:32:31 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: History and Philosophy of Technoscience -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [SPSP-members] History and Philosophy of Technoscience > Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 14:40:22 +0000 > From: Alfred Nordmann We would like to announce a new series of monographs and collected papers. It explores research practice across the disciplines and throughout history by foregrounding its technological setting: - when the problems to be investigated are themselves the product of science and technology in the modern world, - when technical and predictive control is sought within the technological infrastructure of models, instruments, measurements, computational methods, and media technologies, - when research accomplishments change the world materially more so than our thinking about it. From nanotechnology to the environmental sciences, from alchemy to pharmacy, from solid state physics to human factors research, how are problems defined, what counts as an explanation, how are findings validated, how do values enter in? And most importantly for civic observers of contemporary research: How is robustness and reliability achieved even where we lack theoretical understanding? Clearly, the orientation and interest of this book-series overlaps considerably with that of the SPSP. Members of the editorial board include Hanne Andersen (Aarhus), Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Paris), Martin Carrier (Bielefeld), Graeme Gooday (Leeds), Don Howard (Notre Dame), Ann Johnson (South Carolina), Cyrus Mody (Rice), Maureen OÂ’Malley (Sydney), Roger Strand (Bergen) and Nancy Tuana (Pennsylvania State). For more information write to Alfred Nordmann or Philip Good or see www.pickeringchatto.com/technoscience Looking forward to queries, suggestions, and submissions, Alfred Nordmann (Darmstadt Technical University) and Philip Good (Pickering & Chatto Publishers) pgood@pickeringchatto.co.uk -- Alfred Nordmann * Professor am Institut für Philosophie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schloss, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany, +49(0)6151/162995 * Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, USA * Book series www.pickeringchatto.com/technoscience * Office for Interdisciplinary NanoTechnologyStudies www.nanobuero.de * Genesis and Ontology of Technoscientific Objects www.goto-objects.eu * Interdisziplinärer Studienschwerpunkt www.cisp.tu-darmstadt.de/nag Homepage www.philosophie.tu-darmstadt.de/nordmann _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php